Refining the OJ 287 2022 impact flare arrival epoch
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F67985815%3A_____%2F23%3A00573058" target="_blank" >RIV/67985815:_____/23:00573058 - isvavai.cz</a>
Alternative codes found
RIV/68407700:21230/23:00367117
Result on the web
<a href="https://hdl.handle.net/11104/0343827" target="_blank" >https://hdl.handle.net/11104/0343827</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stad922" target="_blank" >10.1093/mnras/stad922</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Refining the OJ 287 2022 impact flare arrival epoch
Original language description
The bright blazar OJ 287 routinely parades high brightness bremsstrahlung flares, which are explained as being a result of a secondary supermassive black hole (SMBH) impacting the accretion disc of a more massive primary SMBH in a binary system. The accretion disc is not rigid but rather bends in a calculable way due to the tidal influence of the secondary. Next, we refer to this phenomenon as a variable disc level. We begin by showing that these flares occur at times predicted by a simple analytical formula, based on general relativity inspired modified Kepler equation, which explains impact flares since 1888. The 2022 impact flare, namely flare number 26, is rather peculiar as it breaks the typical pattern of two impact flares per 12-yr cycle. This is the third bremsstrahlung flare of the current cycle that follows the already observed 2015 and 2019 impact flares from OJ 287. It turns out that the arrival epoch of flare number 26 is sensitive to the level of primary SMBH's accretion disc relative to its mean level in our model. We incorporate these tidally induced changes in the level of the accretion disc to infer that the thermal flare should have occurred during 2022 July-August, when it was not possible to observe it from the Earth. Thereafter, we explore possible observational evidence for certain pre-flare activity by employing spectral and polarimetric data from our campaigns in 2004/05 and 2021/22. We point out theoretical and observational implications of two observed mini-flares during 2022 January-February.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10308 - Astronomy (including astrophysics,space science)
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2023
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
ISSN
0035-8711
e-ISSN
1365-2966
Volume of the periodical
521
Issue of the periodical within the volume
4
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
13
Pages from-to
6143-6155
UT code for WoS article
000974917400012
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85159855847