VLA Observations of a New Population of Blazars

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2005-09-23

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0509718v1

Astrophys.J.637:183-199,2006

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

26 pages, 33 figures. Accepted for publication in ApJ

Scientific paper

10.1086/498261

We present the first deep VLA radio images of flat-spectrum radio quasars (FSRQ) with multiwavelength emission properties similar to those of BL Lacs with synchrotron X-rays. Our observations of twenty-five of these sources show that their radio morphologies are similar to those of other radio quasars. However, their range of extended powers is more similar to that of BL Lacertae objects (BL Lacs) and extends down to the low values typical of FR I radio galaxies. Five out of our nine lobe-dominated sources have extended radio powers in the range typical of both FR I and FR II radio galaxies, but their extended radio structure is clearly FR II-like. Therefore, we have not yet found a large population of radio quasars hosted by FR Is. Two thirds of our sources have a core-dominated radio morpholgy and thus X-rays likely dominated by the jet. We find that their ratios of radio core to total X-ray luminosity are low and in the regime indicative of synchrotron X-rays. This result shows that also blazars with strong emission lines can produce jets of high-energy synchrotron emission and undermines at least in part the ``blazar sequence'' scenario which advocates that particle Compton cooling by an external radiation field governs the frequency of the synchrotron emission peak.

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