Extremes of the jet-accretion power relation of blazars, as explored by NuSTAR
Date Issued
2016
Author(s)
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Madejski, G. M.
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Stern, D.
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Boggs, S. E.
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Christensen, F. E.
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Craig, W. W.
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Hailey, C. J.
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Harrison, F. A.
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Zhang, W. W.
Abstract
Hard X-ray observations are crucial to study the non-thermal jet emission from high-redshift, powerful blazars. We observed two bright z > 2 flat-spectrum radio quasars (FSRQs) in hard X-rays to explore the details of their relativistic jets and their possible variability. S5 0014+81 (at z = 3.366) and B0222+185 (at z = 2.690) have been observed twice by the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) simultaneously with Swift/X-ray Telescope, showing different variability behaviours. We found that NuSTAR is instrumental to explore the variability of powerful high-redshift blazars, even when no γ-ray emission is detected. The two sources have proven to have respectively the most luminous accretion disc and the most powerful jet among known blazars. Thanks to these properties, they are located at the extreme end of the jet-accretion disc relation previously found for γ-ray detected blazars, to which they are consistent.
Volume
462
Issue
2
Start page
1542
Issn Identifier
0035-8711
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2016MNRAS.462.1542S
Rights
open.access
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