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Beaming Effect and Polarization of Blazars

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 May 2016

J. H. Fan
J. H. Fan*
Affiliation:
Center for Astrophysics, Guangzhou University, Guangzhou, China [email protected] CAS-PKU Joint Beijing Astrophysical Center, Beijing, China National Astronomical Observatory, CAS, Beijing, China

Abstract

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Based on the beaming model, a relation between the observed polarization and Doppler factor was obtained for BL Lacertae objects–BLs by Fan et al. (1997). If flat spectral radio quasars—FSRQs fit a similar polarization-Doppler factor relation as BLs, then we can find that the ratio, f, of the de-beamed jet luminosity to the unbeamed luminosity in the source frame in BLs is greater than that in FSRQs. That difference in f is consistent with the result by Fan (2002a), which perhaps accounts for the emission line difference between BLs and FSRQs.

Type
Part 8 Active Galaxies and their Nuclei
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 214: High Energy Processes and Phenomena in Astrophysics , 2003 , pp. 295 - 298
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 2003 

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