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dc.contributor.authorKoay, J.
dc.contributor.authorMacquart, Jean-Pierre
dc.contributor.authorJauncey, D.
dc.contributor.authorPursimo, T.
dc.contributor.authorGiroletti, M.
dc.contributor.authorBignall, H.
dc.contributor.authorLovell, J.
dc.contributor.authorRickett, B.
dc.contributor.authorKedziora-Chudczer, L.
dc.contributor.authorOjha, R.
dc.contributor.authorReynolds, C.
dc.date.accessioned2018-02-19T07:59:41Z
dc.date.available2018-02-19T07:59:41Z
dc.date.created2018-02-19T07:13:31Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.identifier.citationKoay, J. and Macquart, J. and Jauncey, D. and Pursimo, T. and Giroletti, M. and Bignall, H. and Lovell, J. et al. 2018. The MASIV Survey - IV. Relationship between intra-day scintillation and intrinsic variability of radio AGNs. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 474 (4): pp. 4396-4411.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/65795
dc.identifier.doi10.1093/mnras/stx3076
dc.description.abstract

We investigate the relationship between 5 GHz interstellar scintillation (ISS) and 15 GHz intrinsic variability of compact, radio-selected active galactic nuclei (AGNs) drawn from the Microarcsecond Scintillation-Induced Variability (MASIV) Survey and the Owens Valley Radio Observatory blazar monitoring program. We discover that the strongest scintillators at 5 GHz (modulation index, m 5 = 0.02) all exhibit strong 15 GHz intrinsic variability (m 15 = 0.1). This relationship can be attributed mainly to the mutual dependence of intrinsic variability and ISS amplitudes on radio core compactness at ~100 µas scales, and to a lesser extent, on their mutual dependences on source flux density, arcsec-scale core dominance and redshift. However, not all sources displaying strong intrinsic variations show high amplitude scintillation, since ISS is also strongly dependent on Galactic line-of-sight scattering properties. This observed relationship between intrinsic variability and ISS highlights the importance of optimizing the observing frequency, cadence, timespan and sky coverage of future radio variability surveys, such that these two effects can be better distinguished to study the underlying physics. For the full MASIV sample, we find that Fermi-detected gamma-ray loud sources exhibit significantly higher 5 GHz ISS amplitudes than gamma-ray quiet sources. This relationship is weaker than the known correlation between gamma-ray loudness and the 15 GHz variability amplitudes, most likely due to jet opacity effects.

dc.publisherOxford University Press
dc.titleThe MASIV Survey - IV. Relationship between intra-day scintillation and intrinsic variability of radio AGNs
dc.typeJournal Article
dcterms.source.volume474
dcterms.source.number4
dcterms.source.startPage4396
dcterms.source.endPage4411
dcterms.source.issn0035-8711
dcterms.source.titleMonthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
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This article has been accepted for publication in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society © 2017 The Author(s). Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society. All rights reserved.

curtin.departmentSchool of Electrical Engineering, Computing and Mathematical Science (EECMS)
curtin.accessStatusOpen access


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