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Extremes of the Jet-Accretion Power Relation of Blazars, as Explored by NustarHard X-ray observations are crucial to study the non-thermal jet emission from high-redshift, powerful blazars. We observed two bright z > 2 flat-spectrum radio quasars (FSRQs) in hard X-rays to explore the details of their relativistic jets and their possible variability. S50014+81 (at z = 3.366) and B0222+185 (at z = 2.690) have been observed twice by the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) simultaneously with Swift X-ray Telescope, showing different variability behaviors. We found that NuSTAR is instrumental to explore the variability of powerful high-redshift blazars, even when no gamma-ray emission is detected. The two sources have proven to have respectively the most luminous accretion disc and the most powerful jet among known blazars. Thanks to these properties, they are located at the extreme end of the jet-accretion disc relation previously found for gamma-ray detected blazars, to which they are consistent.
Document ID
20170003477
Acquisition Source
Goddard Space Flight Center
Document Type
Reprint (Version printed in journal)
External Source(s)
Authors
Sbarrato, T.
(Milan Univ. Italy)
Ghisellini, G.
(Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera Merate, Italy)
Tagliaferri, G.
(Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera Merate, Italy)
Perri, M.
(Osservatorio Astronomico Rome, Italy)
Madejski, G. M.
(Stanford Linear Accelerator Center Menlo Park, CA, United States)
Stern, D.
(Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Boggs, S. E.
(California Univ. Berkeley, CA, United States)
Christensen, F. E.
(Technical Univ. of Denmark Lyngby, Denmark)
Craig, W. W.
(Lawrence Livermore National Lab. Livermore, CA, United States)
Zhang, W. W.
(NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD, United States)
Date Acquired
April 14, 2017
Publication Date
July 18, 2016
Publication Information
Publication: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Volume: 462
Issue: 2
ISSN: 0035-8711
e-ISSN: 1365-8711
Subject Category
Astrophysics
Report/Patent Number
GSFC-E-DAA-TN41197
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Other
Keywords
galaxies: active – quasars: general – quasars: individual: B0222

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