Vol 23, No 1

Research on a 3.7-year Quasi-periodic Oscillation for FSRQ J0351-1153

Lin Lu, Wei-Lu Zhou, Guang-Yi Luo and Bin Sun

Abstract

From the Owens Valley Radio Observatory 40 m radio telescope, we have collected the light curves of the 15 GHz radio band for FSRQ J0153-1153, spanning from 2009 February to 2018 February. The Lomb–Scargle Periodogram method and the Weighted Wavelet Z-transform method are employed to search for the quasi-periodic oscillation (QPO) signal of these data, and the simulation method for the light curve is utilized to estimate the significance level of this QPO signal; thus through these techniques, the QPO signal of 3.7 ± 0.5 yr with a significance level of 3.68σ is revealed for the first time. It is most likely an explanation for the QPO signal that a binary black hole system gives rise to a Newtonian-driven the precession of jet. Based on this assumption, we find that the mass of the secondary black hole in this system may be larger than the mass of the primary black hole; and we estimate the intrinsic QPO of jet precession and the QPO of companion star orbit.

Keywords

galaxies: active – methods: data analysis – galaxies: jets

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