A characteristic optical variability time scale in jetted active galactic nuclei: a large gamma-ray emission sample
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| author | Xiong, Dingrong Sun, Mouyuan Wang, Jun-Xian Fan, Junhui Xue, Yongquan Gu, Minfeng Chen, Liang Chen, Yongyun Ding, Nan Guo, Fei Mao, Jirong Ren, Guowei Xue, Rui Yan, Dahai Yang, Shenbang Zhang, Haiyun Bai, Jinming |
| author_facet | Xiong, Dingrong Sun, Mouyuan Wang, Jun-Xian Fan, Junhui Xue, Yongquan Gu, Minfeng Chen, Liang Chen, Yongyun Ding, Nan Guo, Fei Mao, Jirong Ren, Guowei Xue, Rui Yan, Dahai Yang, Shenbang Zhang, Haiyun Bai, Jinming |
| contents | The variability mechanisms from jetted AGNs are still under debate. Here the damped random walk (DRW) model, implemented through Gaussian Processe (GPs), is used to fit the $ZTF$ long-term optical light curves of 1684 $γ$-ray emission jetted AGNs. This analysis yields one of the largest samples with characteristic optical variability timescales for jetted AGNs. A single DRW model from GPs can fit the optical light curve of most jetted AGNs well/potentially well, while there are still some jetted AGNs whose light curve can not be fitted well by a single DRW model. After the jet power, proxied by gamma-ray luminosity, is introduced as a new parameter, new relationships among intrinsic variability time scales, black hole mass and jet power are discovered for efficient accretion AGNs ($τ^{\rm in} \propto M_{\rm BH}^{0.29^{+0.06}_{-0.06}}P_{\rm jet}^{-0.3^{+0.03}_{-0.03}}$ with scatter of approximately 0.09~dex) and for inefficient accretion AGNs ($τ^{\rm in} \propto M_{\rm BH}^{0.06^{+0.07}_{-0.07}}P_{\rm jet}^{0.37^{+0.11}_{-0.11}}$ with scatter of approximately 0.14~dex), respectively. Our results support that the optical variability of jetted AGNs with efficient accretion may originate within the standard accretion disk at UV emitting radii similar to non-jetted AGNs, and is directly related to the acceleration of shock in the jet and then enhanced through the beaming effect in beamed AGNs. For the jetted AGNs with inefficient accretion, the intrinsic timescale is consistent with the escape timescale of electrons. |
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| spellingShingle | A characteristic optical variability time scale in jetted active galactic nuclei: a large gamma-ray emission sample Xiong, Dingrong Sun, Mouyuan Wang, Jun-Xian Fan, Junhui Xue, Yongquan Gu, Minfeng Chen, Liang Chen, Yongyun Ding, Nan Guo, Fei Mao, Jirong Ren, Guowei Xue, Rui Yan, Dahai Yang, Shenbang Zhang, Haiyun Bai, Jinming Astrophysics of Galaxies High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena The variability mechanisms from jetted AGNs are still under debate. Here the damped random walk (DRW) model, implemented through Gaussian Processe (GPs), is used to fit the $ZTF$ long-term optical light curves of 1684 $γ$-ray emission jetted AGNs. This analysis yields one of the largest samples with characteristic optical variability timescales for jetted AGNs. A single DRW model from GPs can fit the optical light curve of most jetted AGNs well/potentially well, while there are still some jetted AGNs whose light curve can not be fitted well by a single DRW model. After the jet power, proxied by gamma-ray luminosity, is introduced as a new parameter, new relationships among intrinsic variability time scales, black hole mass and jet power are discovered for efficient accretion AGNs ($τ^{\rm in} \propto M_{\rm BH}^{0.29^{+0.06}_{-0.06}}P_{\rm jet}^{-0.3^{+0.03}_{-0.03}}$ with scatter of approximately 0.09~dex) and for inefficient accretion AGNs ($τ^{\rm in} \propto M_{\rm BH}^{0.06^{+0.07}_{-0.07}}P_{\rm jet}^{0.37^{+0.11}_{-0.11}}$ with scatter of approximately 0.14~dex), respectively. Our results support that the optical variability of jetted AGNs with efficient accretion may originate within the standard accretion disk at UV emitting radii similar to non-jetted AGNs, and is directly related to the acceleration of shock in the jet and then enhanced through the beaming effect in beamed AGNs. For the jetted AGNs with inefficient accretion, the intrinsic timescale is consistent with the escape timescale of electrons. |
| title | A characteristic optical variability time scale in jetted active galactic nuclei: a large gamma-ray emission sample |
| topic | Astrophysics of Galaxies High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.15638 |