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| Paper: |
Statistical Effects of Doppler Beaming and Malmquist Bias on Flux-Limited Samples of Compact Radio Sources |
| Volume: |
144, Radio Emission from Galactic and Extragalactic Compact Sources, IAU Colloquium 164 |
| Page: |
137 |
| Authors: |
Lister, M. L.; Marscher, A. P. |
| Abstract: |
We examine the effects of Doppler beaming on flux-limited samples of compact extragalactic radio sources using Monte Carlo simulations. We incorporate a luminosity function and z-distribution for the parent population, and investigate models in which the unbeamed synchrotron luminosity L of a relativistic jet is related to its bulk Lorentz factor Gamma. The predicted flux density, redshift, monochromatic luminosity, and apparent velocity distributions of our simulated flux-limited samples are compared to the Caltech-Jodrell Bank (CJF) sample of flat-spectrum, radio core-dominated active galactic nuclei (AGNs). We find that a relation between L and Gamma is not needed to reproduce the characteristics of the CJF sample. Introducing a positive correlation between these quantities results in an underabundance of objects with high viewing angles, while a negative correlation gives generally poor fits to the data. |
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