Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
1999-03-11
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
4 pages, 1 Postscript figure, accepted in 3rd Integral workshop
Scientific paper
The rapid variability of blazars in almost all wavelengths is now well established. Two days of observations were conducted at the Palomar Observatory during the nights of 25 and 26 February 1997 with the 5-meter Hale telescope, in order to search for rapid variability in the near-infrared (NIR) bands J, H, Ks for a selection of eight blazars. With the possible exception of 1156+295 (4C 29.45), no intraday or day-to-day variability was observed during these two nights. However, for these eight blazars, we have measured the NIR luminosities and spectral indices. It has recently been reported that the gamma-ray emission is better correlated with the near-infrared luminosity than with the X-ray luminosity. This correlation is suggested as a general property of blazars because hot dust is the main source of soft photons which are scattered off the relativistic jets of electrons to produce the gamma rays by inverse Compton scattering. We thus used this relationship to estimate the gamma-ray luminosity.
Chapuis C.
Corbel Sephane
Durouchoux Ph.
Gautier Thomas N.
Mahoney William
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