Using the database of the University of Michigan Radio Astronomy Observatory （UMRAO） at three radio frequencies （4.8, 8 and 14.5 GHz）, we determined the short-term variability timescales for 166 radio sources. The timescales are 0.15d （2007＋777） to 176.17 d （0528-250） with an average timescale of Atobs = 17.1 4- 16.5 d for the whole sample. The timescales are used to calculate the brightness temperatures, TB. The value of log TB is in the range of log TB = 10.47 to 19.06 K. In addition, we also estimated the boosting factor for the sources. The correlation between the polarization and the Doppler factor is also discussed.
Gamma-ray bursts(GRBs) are divided into two classes according to their durations.We investigate if the softness of bursts plays a role in the conventional classification of the objects.We employ the BATSE(Burst and Transient Source Experiment) catalog and analyze the duration distributions of different groups of GRBs associated with distinct softness.Our analysis reveals that the conventional classification of GRBs with the duration of bursts is influenced by the softness of the objects.There exists a bimodality in the duration distribution of GRBs for each group of bursts and the time position of the dip in the bimodality histogram shifts with the softness parameter.Our findings suggest that the conventional classification scheme should be modified by separating the two well-known populations in different softness groups,which would be more reasonable than doing so with a single sample.According to the relation between the dip position and the softness parameter,we get an empirical function that can roughly set apart the short-hard and long-soft bursts:SP =(0.100 ± 0.028) T-(0.85 0.18) 90,± where SP is the softness parameter adopted in this paper.
费米伽玛射线空间大区域望远镜(Large Area Telescope,LAT),以前称为Gamma ray Large Area Space Telescope(GLAST))比Energetic Gamma Ray Experiment Telescope(EGRET)提高了观测精度,在服役的初始几个月中已经检测到一些具有快速光变伽玛射线源.用LAT观测结果并结合EGRET观测到的伽玛噪Blazar天体的变化时标和伽玛射线光度来估计天体的中心黑洞质量.我们发现中心黑洞质量下限范围为(0.3～24)×107M⊙,并将此结果与其他作者的研究结果进行了比较,发现结果是一致的.我们也给出了18个有已知超光速伽玛噪Blazar天体的洛伦兹因子(Γ)和视角(θ).
