A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal

Locating the gamma-ray emission site in Fermi/LAT blazars - II. Multifrequency correlations




AuthorsV. Ramakrishnan, T. Hovatta, M. Tornikoski, K. Nilsson, E. Lindfors, M. Baloković, A. Lähteenmäki, R. Reinthal, L. Takalo 1Aalto University

PublisherOXFORD UNIV PRESS

Publication year2016

JournalMonthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Journal name in sourceMONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

Journal acronymMON NOT R ASTRON SOC

Volume456

Issue1

First page 171

Last page180

Number of pages10

ISSN0035-8711

DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stv2653

Self-archived copy’s web addresshttps://arxiv.org/abs/1511.02654


Abstract

In an attempt to constrain and understand the emission mechanism of. gamma-rays, we perform a cross-correlation analysis of 15 blazars using light curves inmillimetre, optical and gamma-rays. We use discrete correlation function and consider only correlations significant at the 99 per cent level. A strong correlation was found between 37 and 95 GHz with a near-zero time delay in most of the sources, and similar to 1 month or longer in the rest. A similar result was obtained between the optical and. gamma-ray bands. Of the 15 sources, less than 50 per cent showed a strong correlation between the millimetre and gamma-ray or millimetre and optical bands. The primary reason for the lack of statistically significant correlation is the absence of a major outburst in the millimetre bands of most of the sources during the 2.5 yr time period investigated in our study. This may indicate that only the long-term variations or large flares are correlated between these bands. The variability of the sources at every waveband was also inspected using fractional rms variability (F-var ). The F-var displays an increase with frequency reaching its maximum in the gamma-rays.



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