Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2008-11-26
RAA 9 (2009) 85-94
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
corrected typos, modified the captions of figure 10 and figure 11
Scientific paper
10.1088/1674-4527/9/1/007
Detection of Gamma-ray emission from a class of active galactic nuclei (viz blazars), has been one of the important findings from the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory (CGRO). However, their Gamma-ray luminosity function has not been well determined. Few attempts have been made in earlier works, where BL Lacs and Flat Spectrum Radio Quasars (FSRQs) have been considered as a single source class. In this paper we investigated the evolution and Gamma-ray luminosity function of FSRQs and BL Lacs separately. Our investigation indicates no evolution for BL Lacs, however FSRQs show significant evolution. Pure luminosity evolution is assumed for FSRQs and exponential and power law evolution models are examined. Due to the small number of sources, the low luminosity end index of the luminosity function for FSRQs is constrained with upper limit. BL Lac luminosity function shows no signature of break. As a consistency check, the model source distributions deriving from these luminosity functions show no significant departure from the observed source distributions.
Bhattacharya Dipen
Mukherjee Rajesh
Sreekumar Parameswaran
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