A hydrodynamical model for the FERMI-LAT gamma-ray light curve of Blazar PKS1510-089

TL;DR

This paper develops a hydrodynamical model based on conservation laws to explain the gamma-ray light curve variability of Blazar PKS 1510-089, linking jet physics to observed luminosity changes.

Contribution

It introduces a novel hydrodynamical model that uses conservation laws to interpret gamma-ray variability in Blazar jets, providing physical parameters from observational data.

Findings

Periodic velocity variations explain luminosity fluctuations.

Estimated mass ejection rates of the central engine.

Determined oscillation frequencies of jet flow.

Abstract

A physical description of the formation and propagation of the working surface inside the relativistic jet of the Blazar PKS 1510-089 are used to model its gamma-ray variability light curve using FERMI-LAT data from 2008 to 2012. The physical model is based on conservation laws of mass and momentum at the working surface as explained by Mendoza et al. (2009). The hydrodynamical description of the working surface is parametrised by the initial velocity and mass injection rate at the base of the jet. We show that periodic variations on the injected velocity profiles are able to account for the observed luminosity. With this, we are able to obtain mass ejection rates of the central engine which are injected at the base of the jet, and oscillation frequencies of the flow, amongst other physical parameters.