A study of Intrinsic γ-ray Emission for Fermi/LAT-detected BL Lacs

Abstract

BL Lacs are one subclass of blazars with highly energetic γ-ray emission, which is strongly boosted by a relativistic beaming effect. The latest catalogue of the 10 years of Fermi/LAT data Abdollahi et al. (2020) and the γ-ray Doppler factors in Pei et al. (2020) provide us with a large BL Lac sample to study their jet emission morphologies and intrinsic properties. In this paper, we collected a sample of 294 Fermi BL Lacs and probed the correlations between the γ-ray emissions and luminosity distances. Our analyses give following conclusions: (1) the observed γ-ray emissions are really boosted by the γ-ray Doppler factor, and the intrinsic γ-ray emissions are closely correlated with luminosity distances. (2) the morphology of jet emissions for HBLs may be continuous, while that for IBLs may be the case of a moving sphere in the γ-ray bands.

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