Jet Formation Mechanism of the Gamma-Ray-emitting Narrow-line Seyfert 1 Galaxies

We use a large sample of gamma-ray narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxies(γ-NLS1 s) to study the jet formation mechanisms. We find that the jet power of γ-NLS1 s is lower than the maximum jet power of the Blandford–Payne(BP) mechanism. At the same time, we find that there is a significant correlation between jet power and accretion disk luminosity. Moreover, the contribution rates of the accretion to the jet power are larger than that of black hole mass to jet power. These results further suggest that the jet of γ NLS1 s is mainly produced by the BP mechanism.

Airflow Analytical Toolkit(AAT):A MATLAB-based analyzer for holistic studies on the dynamic characteristics of airflows

The dynamic characteristics of different airflows on micro-scales have been explored from many perspectives since the late 1970s.On the one hand,most analytical tools and research subjects in previous contributions vary significantly:some only focus on fluctuant velocity features,while others pay attention to directional features.On the other hand,despite the wide variety of existing analytical methods,they are not systematically classified and organized.This paper aims to establish a system including state-of-the-art tools for airflow analysis and to further design a holistic toolkit named Airflow Analytical Toolkit(AAT).The AAT contains two tools,responsible for analyzing the velocity and direction characteristics of airflows,each of which is integrated with multiple analytical modules.To assess the performance of the developed toolkit,we further take typical natural and mechanical winds as cases to show its excellent analytical capability.With the help of this toolkit,the great differences in velocity and directional characteristics among different airflows are identified.The comparative results reveal that not only is the velocity of natural wind more fluctuating than that of mechanical wind,but its incoming flow direction is also more varying.The AAT,serving as a powerful and user-friendly instrument,will hopefully offer great convenience in data analysis and guidance for a deeper understanding of the dynamic characteristics of airflows,and further remedy the gap in airflow analytical tools.

Investigating jet physical properties of Fermi blazars with broad-line emissions

Relativistic outflows often exhibit extreme observational characteristics due to beaming effects, which makes measuring their jet power a challenging task. Although the spectral energy distribution(SED) obtained from multi-wavelength data can constrain the physical parameters of these jets, accurately estimating the Doppler factor remains difficult. To address this challenge, we assemble a comprehensive sample containing available SEDs of synchrotron and inverse Compton(IC) components, monochromatic luminosity, and broad-line region(BLR) emissions. We employ a parabolic equation to fit the synchrotron radiation SEDs,constraining jet physical parameters within the framework of a one-zone leptonic model. Our study delves into the jet properties and Doppler factor estimations, yielding the following key findings:(1) The fitting results of SED data for the entire sample reveal normal distributions of jet physical parameters for two subclasses of blazars.(2) Correlation analysis demonstrates that synchrotron peak luminosity exhibits a proportional relationship with both the radio and the γ-ray luminosities.(3) We introduce a novel method for estimating Doppler factors, which uncovers discrepancies between Doppler factors from this work and others from different techniques.

Estimation of inverse Compton peak frequency for 4FGL Blazars

This study uses a parabolic equation to fit the Inverse Compton (IC) spectral component of 3743 blazars (794 FSRQs,1432 BLLacs,and 1517 BCUs) from the 4FGL-DR3 catalog.Some mutual correlations are investigated,and a Bayesian classification is performed to the IC peak frequencies.Our analyses draw the following conclusions:(1) The Bayesian classification shows two components with a dividing boundary of log(v_(p)^(IC)/Hz)pIC=22.9.Therefore,the 3743 blazars are divided into low IC peak frequency(LCP) blazars and high IC peak frequency (HCP) blazars.(2) A strong linear correlation exists between IC peak frequency(logv_(p)^(IC)) and γ-ray photon spectral index (Γ).The IC peak frequency can be estimated by an empirical relation logv_(p)^(IC)=–4.5·Γ+32.8 for BL Lacs and logv_(p)^(IC)=4.0+31.4pICfor FSRQs,which is consistent with the result by Abdo et al.(3) The ICspectral curvature and IC peak frequency are not as closely related as the synchrotron curvature and the synchrotron peak frequency.(4) An anti-correlation exists between IC peak frequency and IC peak luminosity,implying that as the IC peak frequency in the γ-ray band decreases,the source becomes more luminous.The beaming effect is stronger for the source with a lower IC peak frequency.(5) Positive correlations exist between IC and synchrotron components for both peak frequencies and peak fluxes,but no clear correlation exists between IC curvature and synchrotron curvature.

Radio core dominance of Fermi/LAT-detected AGNs

We present a sample of 4388 AGNs with available radio core-dominance parameters—defined as the ratio of the core flux densities to the extended ones, R = S_(core)/S_(ext).—which includes 630 Fermi-detected AGNs from the fourth source catalog(4FGL) of the Fermi Large Area Telescope(Fermi/LAT);the rest are non-Fermi-detected AGNs. In our sample, 584 blazars are Fermi-detected and 1310 are not. The sample also contains other subclasses, such as Seyferts, Fanaroff-Riley I/II galaxies, and normal galaxies.We investigate various properties of the Fermi-detected and non-Fermi-detected AGNs by using core-dominance parameters,capitalizing on a previous study which showed that R is a good indicator of beaming. We then calculate radio spectral indices for the whole sample, and adopt γ-ray-photon indices for the Fermi AGNs from the 4FGL catalog to discuss the properties of different subclasses. We obtain a relation between the core-dominance parameters and the radio spectral indices for both Fermi and non-Fermi sources, assuming a two-component model in the radio band. Our previous study ruled out the assumption that the core-dominance parameters and radio spectral indices are quite different for different AGN subclasses. This holds not only for Fermi sources but also for non-Fermi sources. In particular, R is, on average, greater for the former AGNs than for the latter.In this study, we enlarge our sample with available values of R to 4388 AGNs, and the obtained conclusions are consistent with our previous study. We assume that the same two-component model holds for the γ-ray band as for the radio band, and therefore,adopt the same relation between the core-dominance parameters and the γ-ray-photon indices for Fermi AGNs. Our fitting results indicate that the γ-ray emissions of Fermi blazars originate mainly from the jet, and therefore, we conclude that the Fermi blazars are beamed.

Comparison between Fermi detected and non-Fermi detected superluminal sources

Active galactic nuclei（AGNs） have been attracting research attention due to their special observable properties. Specifically,a majority of AGNs are detected by Fermi-LAT missions, but not by Fermi-LAT, which raises the question of weather any differences exist between the two. To answer this issue, we compile a sample of 291 superluminal AGNs（189 FDSs and 102 nonFDSs） from available multi-wavelength radio, optical, and X-ray（or even γ-ray） data and Doppler factors and proper motion（μ）(or apparent velocity(βapp)); calculated the apparent velocity from their proper motion, Lorentz factor（Γ）, viewing angle（?） and co-moving viewing angle(?co) for the sources with available Doppler factor（δ）; and performed some statistical analyses for both types. Our study indicated that（1） in terms of average values, FDSs have higher proper motions（μ）, apparent velocities(βapp),Doppler factor（δ）, Lorentz factor（Γ）, and smaller viewing angle（?）. Nevertheless, there is no clear difference in co-moving viewing angles（?∞）. The results reveal that FDSs show stronger beaming effect than non-FDSs.（2） In terms of correlations:1) both sources show positive, mutually correlated fluxes, which become closer in de-beamed fluxes; 2) with respect to apparent velocities and γ-ray luminosity, there is a tendency for the brighter sources to have higher velocities; 3) with regard to viewing angle and observed γ-ray luminosity, log? =-（0.23 ± 0.04）log Lγ+（11.14 ± 1.93）, while for the co-moving viewing angle and the intrinsic γ-ray luminosity, log?∞=（0.09 ± 0.01）log Lγn-（1.73 ± 0.48）. These correlations show that the luminous γ-ray sources have smaller viewing angles and a larger co-moving viewing angle, which indicate a stronger beaming effect in γ-ray emissions.

Effective spectral index properties for Fermi blazars

Blazars are a special subclass of active galactic nuclei with extreme observation properties. This subclass can be divided into two further subclasses of flat spectrum radio quasars(FSRQs) and BL Lacertae objects(BL Lacs) according to their emission line features. To compare the spectral properties of FSRQs and BL Lacs, the 1.4 GHz radio, optical R-band, 1 keV X-ray, and 1 GeVy-ray flux densities for 1108 Fermi blazars are calculated to discuss the properties of the six effective spectral indices of radio to optical(α_(RO)), radio to X-ray(α_(RX)), radio to y ray(α_(Ry)), optical to X-ray(α_(OX)), optical to y ray(α_(Oy)), and X-ray to y ray(α_(Xy)).The main results are as follows: For the averaged effective spectral indices, α_(OX_> α_(Oy)> α_(Xy)> α_(Ry)> α_(RX)> α_(RO) for samples of whole blazars and BL Lacs; α_(Xy)≈α_(Ry)≈α_(RX) for FSRQs and low-frequency-peaked BL Lacs(LBLs); and α_(OX)≈α_(Oy)≈α_(Xy) for high-synchrotron-frequency-peaked BL Lacs(HBLs). The distributions of the effective spectral indices involving optical emission(α_(RO), α_(OX), and α_(Oy)) for LBLs are different from those for FSRQs, but if the effective spectral index does not involve optical emission(α_(RX), α_(Ry), and α_(Xy)), the distributions for LBLs and FSRQs almost come from the same parent population. X-ray emissions from blazars include both synchrotron and inverse Compton (IC) components; the IC component for FSRQs and LBLs accounts for a larger proportion than that for HBLs; and the radiation mechanism for LBLs is similar to that for FSRQs, but the radiation mechanism for HBLs is different from that for both FSRQs and LBLs in X-ray bands. The tendency of α_(Ry) decreasing from LBLs to HBLs suggests that the synchrotron self-Compton model explains the main process for highly energetic y rays in BL Lacs.