Proposal code

w083

Proposal title

Do All Gamma-Ray Loud AGNs Show the Superluminal Motion?

The

Investigators and their

Affiliations

P.I. Kiyoaki WAJIMA ISAS, Japan
Hideyuki KOBAYASHI ISAS, Japan
Kenta FUJISAWA ISAS, Japan
Hisashi HIRABAYASHI ISAS, Japan
Yoshiharu ASAKI NAO, Japan
Satoru IGUCHI NAO, Japan
Masato TSUBOI Ibaraki University, Japan

Proposal Abstract

We aim to impose restrictions on the condition of the gamma-ray emission mechanism by observing pc-scale jet motion of gamma-ray loud AGNs. It is suggested that external low energy photons reradiate as gamma-rays by the inverse-Compton scattering and the gamma-ray radiation beam is narrower than the synchrotron radiation beam for this model. We show that these conditions is valid for gamma-ray loud AGNs which existing data are available and that it is expected to detect the superluminal motion for all gamma-ray loud AGNs. We propose observations of gamma-ray loud AGNs which do not detect the superluminal motion yet. If we detect the superluminal motion for these sources then it is a evidence supporting the above model.

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