Searching for Quasi-Periodic Modulations in $\gamma$-ray Active Galactic Nuclei

Autor: Zhang, Pengfei, Yan, Dahai, Zhou, Jianeng, Wang, Jiancheng, Zhang, Li
Rok vydání: 2020
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Druh dokumentu: Working Paper
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ab71fe
Popis: We perform a systematic search of quasi-periodic variabilities in $\gamma$-ray active galactic nuclei (AGNs) in the third \emph{Fermi} Large Area Telescope source catalog (3FGL). We employe two techniques, Lomb-Scargle Periodogram (LSP) and Weighted Wavelet Z-transform (WWZ), to obtain power spectra of $\gamma$-ray light curves covering from 2008 August to 2016 December. The results show that besides several objects that have been reported in previous works, an additional source, the FSRQ PKS 0601-70 has a possible quasi-periodic variability of 450 days in its $\gamma$-ray light curves with the significance of $>3\sigma$. The physical implications of our findings are discussed.
Comment: 7 pages, 4 figures. Accepted for publication in ApJ
Databáze: arXiv