Periodic variability and binary black hole systems in blazars

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2005-06-29

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0506720v1

AIP Conf.Proc.745:487,2005

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

6 pages, 1 figure; contribution to: High Energy Gamma-Ray Astronomy: 2nd International Symposium (Heidelberg, July 2004); AIP

Scientific paper

10.1063/1.1878450

We consider the periodic modulation of emission from jets in blazar-type sources. A differential Doppler boosting origin, associated with the helical motion of a radiating component, is analyzed for different periodic driving sources including orbital motion and jet precession in a binary black hole system (BBHS). We emphasize that for non-ballistic helical motion classical travel time effects can lead to strong shortening effects, such that the observed period may be a factor $\gamma_b^2$ smaller than the underlying driving period, where $\gamma_b$ denotes the bulk Lorentz factor of the jet flow. The relevance of the above noted scenarios is discussed for the BL Lac object AO 0235+16.

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