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A Constraint on the Standard Beaming Model for Superluminal Sources

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 March 2013

A. Ubachukwu
A. Ubachukwu*
Affiliation:
Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Nigeria.
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Abstract

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We have used two subsamples of superluminal quasars to test the relativistic beaming model, and to place useful constraints on the radio source orientation hypothesis and cosmology. Based on the variation of the observed ratio R of the core-to-lobe radio luminosities with proper motion μ for the subsample of lobe-selected quasars, we show that the observed R–μ data can be explained in terms of a bulk relativistic motion with Lorentz factor γ≈4. Also, from the observed proper motion versus redshift (μ–z) plot for this subsample, we show that γ≈4 implies a high density universe with deceleration parameter q0 = 0·5. Furthermore, from the observed (μ–z) plot for the two subsamples taken separately, we show that both γ and μ for the core-selected subsample exceed those of the lobe-selected subsample by a factor of 2 for the q0 = 0·5 world model. This result is demonstrated to be consistent with an orientation-based unified scheme in which lobe-selected quasars lie, on the average, at an angle which is a factor of ∼2–3 larger than that of their core-selected counterparts.

Keywords

quasars: generalcosmology: theory, relativity
Type
Research Article
Information
Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia , Volume 16 , Issue 2 , 1999 , pp. 130 - 133
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of Australia 1999

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