The difference of optical polarization properties between XBLs and RBLs

Citation
Gz. Xie et al., The difference of optical polarization properties between XBLs and RBLs, CHIN PHYS, 10(3), 2001, pp. 240-245
Citations number
38
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
CHINESE PHYSICS
ISSN journal
10091963 → ACNP
Volume
10
Issue
3
Year of publication
2001
Pages
240 - 245
Database
ISI
SICI code
1009-1963(200103)10:3<240:TDOOPP>2.0.ZU;2-2
Abstract
On the basis of the beaming model, we have derived a relation between the o bserved polarization (P-ob) and Doppler-corrected optical magnitude (m(corr )), log P-ob = 0.4(1 - k)m(corr) + C. We tested the correlation between P-o b and m(corr). The main results are as follows: (1) for both high and low s tates, there are strong correlations between P-ob and m(corr) for 29 RBLs w ith well-observed polarization and Doppler factor, where m(corr) = m(ob) (3 + alpha )log delta /0.4, and delta is the optical Doppler factor; (2) no correlation exists between P-ob and the observed optical magnitude, m(ob), for the 29 RBLs in high state, but there is a close correlation for the 29 RBLs in low state; (3) however, there is an obvious anti-correlation betwe en P-ob and m(corr) for 35 XBLs with good simultaneous observation data. Ou r results show that (i) a new difference in polarization is found between R BLs and XBLs; (ii) this difference in polarization between RBLs and XBLs se ems really to be physical differences.