Periodic Radio Variability in NRAO 530: Phase Dispersion Minimization Analysis

Autor:	Lu, Jun-Chao, Wang, Jun-Yi, An, Tao, Lin, Ji-Ming, Qiu, Hong-Bing
Rok vydání:	2012
Předmět:	Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Druh dokumentu:	Working Paper
DOI:	10.1088/1674-4527/12/6/004
Popis:	In this paper, a periodicity analysis of the radio light curves of the blazar NRAO 530 at 14.5, 8.0, and 4.8 GHz is presented employing an improved Phase Dispersion Minimization (PDM) technique. The result, which shows two persistent periodic components of $ \sim 6$ and $ \sim 10$ years at all three frequencies, is consistent with the results obtained with the Lomb-Scargle periodogram and weighted wavelet Z-transform algorithms. The reliability of the derived periodicities is confirmed by the Monte Carlo numerical simulations which show a high statistical confidence. (Quasi-)Periodic fluctuations of the radio luminosity of NRAO 530 might be associated with the oscillations of the accretion disk triggered by hydrodynamic instabilities of the accreted flow. \keywords{methods: statistical -- galaxies: active -- galaxies: quasar: individual: NRAO 530} Comment: 8 pages, 5 figures, accepted by RAA
Databáze:	arXiv
Externí odkaz:	http://arxiv.org/abs/1202.3873 Zobrazit plný text záznamu View this record from Arxiv