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Red synchrotron jets in Parkes quasars

M.T.Whiting, R.L.Webster and P.J.Francis, 2001; MNRAS 323, 718-732

We present model fits to spectral energy distributions in the optical and NIR of >100 flat-spectrum radio quasars from the Parkes Half-Jansky Flat-spectrum Sample. We find that ~40% of the sources have power-law 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 QSOs. There is strong evidence that the synchrotron component has a turnover in the UV-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 polarisation 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 to 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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