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X-Ray Properties of Compact Extragalactic Radio Sources

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 August 2017

D. M. Worrall
D. M. Worrall*
Affiliation:
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA, U.S.A.

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A good correlation is known to exist between the X-ray and radio luminosity of flat-spectrum, core-dominated radio sources (e.g., Owen, Helfand and Spangler 1981). Worrall (1987) presents a logarithmic plot of spectral luminosity in the source frame at 2 keV versus that at 5 GHz for a variety of QSOs, Highly Polarized QSOs (HPQs), and BL Lac Objects. Friedmann cosmology with Ho = 100h km s−1 Mpc−1, qo = 0 is assumed. Exclusion of objects which are optically or X-ray selected, or in which the radio emission is not dominated by a flat-spectrum compact core, gives a sub-sample consisting of 50 QSOs, 20 HPQs, and 10 BL Lacs, of which 5,4,3, respectively, are known superluminals. The dispersion of these data about the log-log correlation (assuming a Gaussian distribution), is σobs = 0.44 ± 0.06 (90% confidence errors for one interesting parameter).

Type
Extragalactic
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 129: The Impact of VLBI on Astrophysics and Geophysics , 1988 , pp. 109 - 110
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1988 

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