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MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 323, Issue 3, Pages 718-732Publisher
BLACKWELL SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-8711.2001.04287.x
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radiation mechanisms : non-thermal; BL Lacertae objects : general; galaxies : jets; quasars : general
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We present model fits to spectral energy distributions in the optical and near-infrared of >100 flat-spectrum radio quasars from the Parkes Half-Jansky Flat-spectrum Sample. We find that similar to 40 per cent of the sources have power-law spectral energy distributions (SEDs), while a similar number show evidence for two primary components: a blue power law and optical synchrotron emission. The blue power law is similar to the dominant component observed in the spectra of optically selected quasars. There is strong evidence that the synchrotron component has a turnover in the ultraviolet-optical rest frame of the spectrum. In the remaining sources, it is likely that the synchrotron peaks at longer wavelengths. This mixture of two components is supported by optical polarization measurements in a subgroup of the sources. The sources with power-law SEDs show evidence for an excess number of red power-law slopes compared with optically selected quasars. There are additional spectral components in some of the sources, such as dust and the underlying galaxy, which have not been considered here.
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