Radio and gamma-ray properties of extragalactic jets from the TANAMI sample

ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS(2016)

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The TANAMI program has been observing parsec-scale radio jets of southern (declination south of -30 degrees) gamma-ray bright AGN, simultaneously with Fermi/LAT monitoring of their gamma-ray emission, via high-resolution radio imaging with Very Long Baseline Interferometry techniques. We present the radio and gamma-ray properties of the TANAMI sources based on one year of contemporaneous TANAMI and Fermi/LAT data. A large fraction ( 72%) of the TANAMI sample can be associated with bright gamma-ray sources for this time range. Association rates differ for different optical classes with all BL Lacs, 76% of quasars, and just 17% of galaxies detected by the LAT. Upper limits were established on the gamma-ray flux from TANAMI sources not detected by LAT. This analysis led to the identification of three new Fermi sources whose detection was later confirmed. The gamma-ray and radio luminosities are related by L-gamma proportional to L-r(0.89 +/- 0.04) The brightness temperatures of the radio cores increase with the average gamma-ray luminosity and the presence of brightness temperatures above the inverse Compton limit implies strong Doppler boosting in those sources. The undetected sources have lower gamma/radio luminosity ratios and lower contemporaneous brightness temperatures. Unless the Fermi/LAT-undetected blazars are much gamma-ray-fainter than the Fermi/LAT-detected sources, their gamma-ray luminosity should not be significantly lower than the upper limits calculated here.
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galaxies: active,galaxies: nuclei,galaxies: jets,gamma rays: galaxies,radio continuum: galaxies
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