Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
1996-05-27
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
ApJ, accepted for publication, 15 pages, 2 PS Figures, AASTeX, also available at http://www.astro.umd.edu/~hfalcke/publication
Scientific paper
10.1086/177956
We have performed quasi-simultaneous radio flux density measurements at 2.7 and 10 GHz for all PG quasars with radio flux densities between 4-200 mJy. We find that a large fraction of these sources are variable, flat-spectrum quasars. This brings the total fraction of flat-spectrum quasars with a ratio between radio and optical flux of R>10 - a value previously used to define a radio-loud quasar - to 40% in the PG quasar sample. We also find that the median R-parameter of these flat-spectrum quasars is lower than those of steep-spectrum radio-loud quasars. This contradicts the predictions of the unified scheme and the idea that all flat-spectrum, core-dominated quasars are relativistically boosted lobe-dominated quasars. We show that this discrepancy is due to a population of flat-spectrum radio-intermediate quasars with 25
Falcke Heino
Patnaik Alok
Sherwood William
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