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1. Overestimation of Astrophysical Gamma-Ray Energies during Thunderstorms: Synergy of Galactic and Atmospheric Accelerators

Author

A. Chilingarian and M. Zazyan

Subjects
Galactic cosmic rays, Astrophysics, QB460-466
Abstract

Particle accelerators abound in space plasmas, saturating the cosmos with fully stripped nuclei and gamma rays, with energies surpassing the capabilities of human-made accelerators by orders of magnitude. Upon reaching Earth’s atmosphere, these particles trigger extensive air showers (EASs), generating millions of secondary cosmic rays of lower energies. Free electrons from EASs developing in the atmosphere are seeds for atmospheric electron accelerators. Strong atmospheric electric fields (AEFs) evolving during thunderstorms act as accelerators, amplifying the intensity of electrons many times, significantly enlarging the EAS size (number of electrons). Thus, the energy of the primary cosmic ray recovered by EAS size can be significantly overestimated. Recently discovered by high-altitude EAS arrays, PeVatron candidates (ultra–high-energy (UHE) astrophysical gamma-ray sources) must be carefully examined according to the atmospheric conditions during EAS detection. Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory and High-Altitude Water Cherenkov Observatory arrays are located in regions of frequent thunderstorms, and an AEF’s strength can reach and surpass the critical strength to start relativistic runaway electron avalanches. A few registered UHE gamma rays from stellar sources can be registered at just this time when the AEF highly enhances the EAS size. Thunderstorm ground enhancements are copiously registered at mountain peaks of Eastern Europe, Germany, and Armenia, with energies well above the threshold energy of EAS array scintillators. Thus, the overestimation of the energy of primary particles is not an exotic process but a consequence of already well-established physical phenomena. Consequently, a report on each registered UHE gamma ray should include the recorded time and corresponding weather conditions.

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2024
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2. A Closer Look at the Extended Edge-on Low-surface Brightness Galaxies

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Anna S. Saburova, Damir Gasymov, Evgenii V. Rubtsov, Igor V. Chilingarian, Sviatoslav Borisov, Ivan Gerasimov, Fedor Kolganov, Anastasia V. Kasparova, Roman I. Uklein, Michal Bílek, Kirill A. Grishin, Anatoly Zasov, Mariia Demianenko, Ivan Yu. Katkov, Ana Lalović, and Srdjan Samurović

Subjects
Galaxy evolution, Galaxy rotation, Galaxy formation, Galaxy physics, Astrophysics, QB460-466
Abstract

To understand the origin of extended disks of low-surface brightness (LSB) galaxies, we studied in detail four such systems with large disks seen edge on. Two of them are edge-on giant LSB galaxies (gLSBGs) recently identified by our team. The edge-on orientation of these systems boosts their surface brightnesses that provided an opportunity to characterize stellar populations spectroscopically and yielded the first such measurements for edge-on gLSBGs. We collected deep images of one galaxy using the 1.4 m Milanković Telescope, which we combined with the archival Subaru Hyper Suprime-Cam and DESI Legacy Surveys data available for the three other systems, and measured the structural parameters of the disks. We acquired deep long-slit spectra with the Russian 6 m telescope and the 10 m Keck II telescope and estimated stellar population properties in the high-surface brightness and LSB regions as well as the gas-phase metallicity distribution. The gas metallicity gradients are shallow to flat in the range between 0 and −0.03 dex per exponential disk scale length, which is consistent with the extrapolation of the gradient–scale length relation for smaller disk galaxies. Our estimates of stellar velocity dispersion in the LSB disks as well as the relative thickness of the disks indicate the dynamical overheating. Our observations favor mergers as the essential stage in the formation scenario for massive LSB galaxies.

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2024
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3. Probing the History of the Galaxy Assembly of the Counterrotating Disk Galaxy PGC 66551

Author

Ivan Yu. Katkov, Damir Gasymov, Alexei Yu. Kniazev, Joseph D. Gelfand, Evgenii V. Rubtsov, Igor V. Chilingarian, and Olga K. Sil’chenko

Subjects
Disk galaxies, Galaxy kinematics, Galaxy stellar content, Galaxy accretion, Astrophysics, QB460-466
Abstract

Stellar counterrotation in disk galaxies directly relates to the complex phenomenon of the disk mass assembly believed to be driven by external processes, such as accretion and mergers. The study of such systems makes it possible to reveal the source of external accretion and establish the details of this process. In this paper, we investigate the galaxy PGC 66551 (MaNGA ID 1-179561), which hosts two large-scale counterrotating (CR) stellar disks identified in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey MaNGA data and then confirmed using deep follow-up spectroscopy with the 10 m Southern African Large Telescope. We measured the properties of ionized gas and stellar populations of both CR disks in PGC 66551. We found that the CR disk is compact, contains young stars with subsolar metallicity, and has a stellar mass of 5 × 10 ^9 M _⊙ , which amounts to ≈20% of the galaxy’s total. Surprisingly, the main 8 Gyr old disk has a significantly lower metallicity of −0.8 dex than other CR galaxies. We developed a simple analytic model of the history of the metal enrichment, which we applied to PGC 66551 and constrained the parameters of the galactic outflow wind, and estimated the metallicity of the infalling gas that formed the CR disk to be −0.9... −0.5 dex. Our interpretation prefers a merger with a gas-rich satellite over cold accretion from a cosmic filament as a source of gas, which then formed the CR disk in PGC 66551.

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2024
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4. The Cygnus Loop: Shock Precursors and Electron–Ion Equilibration

Author

John C. Raymond, Ji Yeon Seok, Bon-Chul Koo, Igor V. Chilingarian, Kirill Grishin, Nelson Caldwell, Min Xie, and Robert Fesen

Subjects
Supernova remnants, Interstellar plasma, Astrophysics, QB460-466
Abstract

The outermost edges of some supernova remnants are marked by filaments of pure Balmer line emission produced by nonradiative shock fronts. The H α profiles of these filaments provide the shock speed and electron–proton temperature ratio in the shock. We have used the Hectochelle multiobject spectrograph on the MMT telescope to observe nine positions along the eastern nonradiative filaments of the Cygnus Loop, thereby extending the studies of Medina et al. to lower shock speeds. We complement the spectra with images from 1993 to 2020 to measure proper motions to further constrain the parameters. We also present observations of the photoionization precursor to show that the gas is strongly heated, and that the H α emission from the precursor is dominated by collisional excitation rather than recombination.

Published
2023
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5. Multimessenger Characterization of Markarian 501 during Historically Low X-Ray and γ-Ray Activity

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H. Abe, S. Abe, V. A. Acciari, I. Agudo, T. Aniello, S. Ansoldi, L. A. Antonelli, A. Arbet-Engels, C. Arcaro, M. Artero, K. Asano, D. Baack, A. Babić, A. Baquero, U. Barres de Almeida, J. A. Barrio, I. Batković, J. Baxter, J. Becerra González, W. Bednarek, E. Bernardini, M. Bernardos, A. Berti, J. Besenrieder, W. Bhattacharyya, C. Bigongiari, A. Biland, O. Blanch, G. Bonnoli, Ž. Bošnjak, I. Burelli, G. Busetto, R. Carosi, M. Carretero-Castrillo, A. J. Castro-Tirado, G. Ceribella, Y. Chai, A. Chilingarian, S. Cikota, E. Colombo, J. L. Contreras, J. Cortina, S. Covino, G. D’Amico, V. D’Elia, P. Da Vela, F. Dazzi, A. De Angelis, B. De Lotto, A. Del Popolo, M. Delfino, J. Delgado, C. Delgado Mendez, D. Depaoli, F. Di Pierro, L. Di Venere, E. Do Souto Espiñeira, D. Dominis Prester, A. Donini, D. Dorner, M. Doro, D. Elsaesser, G. Emery, J. Escudero, V. Fallah Ramazani, L. Fariña, A. Fattorini, L. Foffano, L. Font, C. Fruck, S. Fukami, Y. Fukazawa, R. J. García López, M. Garczarczyk, S. Gasparyan, M. Gaug, J. G. Giesbrecht Paiva, N. Giglietto, F. Giordano, P. Gliwny, N. Godinović, R. Grau, D. Green, J. G. Green, D. Hadasch, A. Hahn, T. Hassan, L. Heckmann, J. Herrera, D. Hrupec, M. Hütten, R. Imazawa, T. Inada, R. Iotov, K. Ishio, I. Jiménez Martínez, J. Jormanainen, D. Kerszberg, Y. Kobayashi, H. Kubo, J. Kushida, A. Lamastra, D. Lelas, F. Leone, E. Lindfors, L. Linhoff, S. Lombardi, F. Longo, R. López-Coto, M. López-Moya, A. López-Oramas, S. Loporchio, A. Lorini, E. Lyard, B. Machado de Oliveira Fraga, P. Majumdar, M. Makariev, G. Maneva, N. Mang, M. Manganaro, S. Mangano, K. Mannheim, M. Mariotti, M. Martínez, A. Mas-Aguilar, D. Mazin, S. Menchiari, S. Mender, S. Mićanović, D. Miceli, T. Miener, J. M. Miranda, R. Mirzoyan, E. Molina, H. A. Mondal, A. Moralejo, D. Morcuende, V. Moreno, T. Nakamori, C. Nanci, L. Nava, V. Neustroev, M. Nievas Rosillo, C. Nigro, K. Nilsson, K. Nishijima, T. Njoh Ekoume, K. Noda, S. Nozaki, Y. Ohtani, T. Oka, A. Okumura, J. Otero-Santos, S. Paiano, M. Palatiello, D. Paneque, R. Paoletti, J. M. Paredes, L. Pavletić, M. Persic, M. Pihet, G. Pirola, F. Podobnik, P. G. Prada Moroni, E. Prandini, G. Principe, C. Priyadarshi, W. Rhode, M. Ribó, J. Rico, C. Righi, A. Rugliancich, N. Sahakyan, T. Saito, S. Sakurai, K. Satalecka, F. G. Saturni, B. Schleicher, K. Schmidt, F. Schmuckermaier, J. L. Schubert, T. Schweizer, J. Sitarek, V. Sliusar, D. Sobczynska, A. Spolon, A. Stamerra, J. Strišković, D. Strom, M. Strzys, Y. Suda, T. Surić, H. Tajima, M. Takahashi, R. Takeishi, F. Tavecchio, P. Temnikov, K. Terauchi, T. Terzić, M. Teshima, L. Tosti, S. Truzzi, A. Tutone, S. Ubach, J. van Scherpenberg, M. Vazquez Acosta, S. Ventura, V. Verguilov, I. Viale, C. F. Vigorito, V. Vitale, I. Vovk, R. Walter, M. Will, C. Wunderlich, T. Yamamoto, D. Zarić, The MAGIC Collaboration, M. Cerruti, J. A. Acosta-Pulido, G. Apolonio, R. Bachev, M. Baloković, E. Benítez, I. Björklund, V. Bozhilov, L. F. Brown, A. Bugg, W. Carbonell, M. I. Carnerero, D. Carosati, C. Casadio, W. Chamani, W. P. Chen, R. A. Chigladze, G. Damljanovic, K. Epps, A. Erkenov, M. Feige, J. Finke, A. Fuentes, K. Gazeas, M. Giroletti, T. S. Grishina, A. C. Gupta, M. A. Gurwell,, E. Heidemann, D. Hiriart, W. J. Hou, T. Hovatta, S. Ibryamov, M. D. Joner, S. G. Jorstad, J. Kania, S. Kiehlmann, G. N. Kimeridze, E. N. Kopatskaya, M. Kopp, M. Korte, B. Kotas, S. Koyama, J. A. Kramer, L. Kunkel, S. O. Kurtanidze, O. M. Kurtanidze, A. Lähteenmäki, J. M. López, V. M. Larionov, E. G. Larionova, L. V. Larionova, C. Leto, C. Lorey, R. Mújica, G. M. Madejski, N. Marchili, A. P. Marscher, M. Minev, A. Modaressi, D. A. Morozova, T. Mufakharov, I. Myserlis, A. A. Nikiforova, M. G. Nikolashvili, E. Ovcharov, M. Perri, C. M. Raiteri, A. C. S. Readhead, A. Reimer, D. Reinhart, S. Righini, K. Rosenlehner, A. C. Sadun, S. S. Savchenko, A. Scherbantin, L. Schneider, K. Schoch, D. Seifert, E. Semkov, L. A. Sigua, C. Singh, P. Sola, Y. Sotnikova, M. Spencer, R. Steineke, M. Stojanovic, A. Strigachev, M. Tornikoski, E. Traianou, A. Tramacere, Yu. V. Troitskaya, I. S. Troitskiy, J. B. Trump, A. Tsai, A. Valcheva, A. A. Vasilyev, F. Verrecchia, M. Villata, O. Vince, K. Vrontaki, Z. R. Weaver, E. Zaharieva, and N. Zottmann

Subjects
Active galaxies, BL Lacertae objects, Markarian galaxies, Active galactic nuclei, Blazars, Astrophysics, QB460-466
Abstract

We study the broadband emission of Mrk 501 using multiwavelength observations from 2017 to 2020 performed with a multitude of instruments, involving, among others, MAGIC, Fermi's Large Area Telescope (LAT), NuSTAR, Swift, GASP-WEBT, and the Owens Valley Radio Observatory. Mrk 501 showed an extremely low broadband activity, which may help to unravel its baseline emission. Nonetheless, significant flux variations are detected at all wave bands, with the highest occurring at X-rays and very-high-energy (VHE) γ -rays. A significant correlation (>3 σ ) between X-rays and VHE γ -rays is measured, supporting leptonic scenarios to explain the variable parts of the emission, also during low activity. This is further supported when we extend our data from 2008 to 2020, and identify, for the first time, significant correlations between the Swift X-Ray Telescope and Fermi-LAT. We additionally find correlations between high-energy γ -rays and radio, with the radio lagging by more than 100 days, placing the γ -ray emission zone upstream of the radio-bright regions in the jet. Furthermore, Mrk 501 showed a historically low activity in X-rays and VHE γ -rays from mid-2017 to mid-2019 with a stable VHE flux (>0.2 TeV) of 5% the emission of the Crab Nebula. The broadband spectral energy distribution (SED) of this 2 yr long low state, the potential baseline emission of Mrk 501, can be characterized with one-zone leptonic models, and with (lepto)-hadronic models fulfilling neutrino flux constraints from IceCube. We explore the time evolution of the SED toward the low state, revealing that the stable baseline emission may be ascribed to a standing shock, and the variable emission to an additional expanding or traveling shock.

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2023
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6. New Generation Stellar Spectral Libraries in the Optical and Near-infrared. I. The Recalibrated UVES-POP Library for Stellar Population Synthesis

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Sviatoslav B. Borisov, Igor V. Chilingarian, Evgenii V. Rubtsov, Cédric Ledoux, Claudio Melo, Kirill A. Grishin, Ivan Yu. Katkov, Vladimir S. Goradzhanov, Anton V. Afanasiev, Anastasia V. Kasparova, and Anna S. Saburova

Subjects
Stellar atmospheres, Stellar abundances, Stellar effective temperatures, Stellar populations, Astronomy databases, Star atlases, Astrophysics, QB460-466
Abstract

We present reprocessed flux-calibrated spectra of 406 stars from the UVES-POP stellar library in the wavelength range 320–1025 nm, which can be used for stellar population synthesis. The spectra are provided in the two versions having spectral resolving power R = 20,000 and R = 80,000. Raw spectra from the ESO data archive were re-reduced using the latest version of the UVES data reduction pipeline with some additional algorithms that we developed. The most significant improvements in comparison with the original UVES-POP release are (i) an updated echelle order merging, which eliminates “ripples” present in the published spectra; (ii) a full telluric correction; (iii) merging of nonoverlapping UVES spectral setups taking into account the global continuum shape; (iv) a spectrophotometric correction and absolute flux calibration; and (v) estimates of the interstellar extinction. For 364 stars from our sample, we computed atmospheric parameters T _eff , surface gravity log g , metallicity [Fe/H], and α -element enhancement [ α /Fe] by using a full-spectrum fitting technique based on a grid of synthetic stellar atmospheres and a novel minimization algorithm. We also provide projected rotational velocity $v\sin i$ and radial velocity v _rad estimates. The overall absolute flux uncertainty in the reprocessed data set is better than 2%, with subpercent accuracy for about half of the stars. A comparison of the recalibrated UVES-POP spectra with other spectral libraries shows a very good agreement in flux; at the same time, Gaia DR3 BP/RP spectra are often discrepant with our data, which we attribute to spectrophotometric calibration issues in Gaia DR3.

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2023
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7. Evolution of dwarf early-type galaxies I. Spatially resolved stellar populations and internal kinematics of Virgo cluster dE/dS0 galaxies

Author

Chilingarian, Igor

Subjects
Astrophysics
Abstract

Understanding the origin and evolution of dwarf early-type galaxies remains an important open issue in modern astrophysics. Internal kinematics of a galaxy contains signatures of violent phenomena which may have occurred, e.g. mergers or tidal interactions, while stellar population keeps a fossil record of the star formation history, therefore studying connection between them becomes crucial for understanding galaxy evolution. Here, in the first paper of the series, we present the data on spatially resolved stellar populations and internal kinematics for a large sample of dwarf elliptical (dE) and lenticular (dS0) galaxies in the Virgo cluster. We obtained radial velocities, velocity dispersions, stellar ages and metallicities out to 1--2 half-light radii by re-analysing already published long-slit and integral-field spectroscopic datasets using the {\sc NBursts} full spectral fitting technique. Surprisingly, bright representatives of the dE/dS0 class ($M_B = -18.0 ... -16.0$ mag) look very similar to intermediate-mass and giant lenticulars and ellipticals: (1) their nuclear regions often harbour young metal-rich stellar populations always associated with the drops in the velocity dispersion profiles; (2) metallicity gradients in the main discs/spheroids vary significantly from nearly flat profiles to -0.9 dex $r_e^{-1}$, i.e. somewhat 3 times steeper than for typical bulges; (3) kinematically decoupled cores were discovered in 4 galaxies, including two with very little, if any, large scale rotation. These results suggest similarities in the evolutionary paths of dwarf and giant early-type galaxies and call for reconsidering the role of major mergers in the dE/dS0 evolution., Comment: 22 pages, 3 tables, 29 figures, accepted to MNRAS

Published
2008
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8. Stellar Population Constraints on the Dark Matter Content and Origin of Ultra-Compact Dwarf Galaxies

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Chilingarian, Igor, Cayatte, Veronique, and Bergond, Gilles

Subjects
Astrophysics
Abstract

We analyse intermediate-resolution VLT FLAMES/Giraffe spectra of six ultra-compact dwarf (UCD) galaxies in the Fornax cluster. We obtained velocity dispersions and stellar population properties by full spectral fitting against PEGASE.HR models. Objects span a large range of metallicities (-0.95 to -0.23 dex), 4 of them are older than 8 Gyr. Comparison of the stellar and dynamical masses suggests that UCDs have little dark matter at best. For one object, UCD3, the Salpeter initial mass function (IMF) results in the stellar mass significantly exceeding the dynamical one, whereas for the Kroupa IMF the values coincide. Although, this object may have peculiar dynamics or/and stellar populations, the Kroupa IMF seems more realistic. We find that UCDs lie well above the metallicity-luminosity relation of early-type galaxies. The same behaviour is demonstrated by some of the massive Milky Way globular clusters, known to contain composite stellar populations. Our results support two following UCD formation scenarii: (1) tidal stripping of nucleated dwarf elliptical galaxies; (2) formation of tidal superclusters in galaxy mergers. We also discuss some of the alternative channels of the UCD formation binding them to globular clusters., Comment: accepted to MNRAS, 7 pages, 4 figures, 3 tables

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2008
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9. Kinematics and Stellar Populations of Low-Luminosity Early-Type Galaxies in the Abell 496 Cluster

Author

Chilingarian, Igor, Cayatte, Veronique, Durret, Florence, Adami, Christophe, Balkowski, Chantal, Chemin, Laurent, Lagana, Tatiana, and Prugniel, Philippe

Subjects
Astrophysics
Abstract

The morphology and stellar populations of low-luminosity early-type galaxies in clusters have until now been limited to a few relatively nearby clusters such as Virgo or Fornax. Scenarii for the formation and evolution of dwarf galaxies in clusters are therefore not well constrained. We investigate here the morphology and stellar populations of low-luminosity galaxies in the relaxed cluster Abell 496 (z=0.0330). Deep multiband imaging obtained with the CFHT Megacam allowed us to select a sample of faint galaxies (-18.8

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2008
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10. SDSSJ124155.33+114003.7 -- a Missing Link Between Compact Elliptical and Ultracompact Dwarf Galaxies

Author

Chilingarian, Igor V. and Mamon, Gary A.

Subjects
Astrophysics
Abstract

We report the discovery of a compact object (R_e = 32 pc, M_B = -12.34 mag) at a projected distance of 9 kpc from Messier 59, a giant elliptical in the Virgo cluster. Using HST imaging and SDSS spectroscopy, both available in the Virtual Observatory, we find that this object has a blue core containing one-quarter of the light, and a redder n=1 Sersic envelope, as well as luminosity-weighted age of 9.3 +/- 1.4 Gyr, a metallicity of -0.03 +/- 0.04 dex and a velocity dispersion of 48 +/- 5 km/s. While ultra-compact dwarfs (UCDs) in the face-on view of the Fundamental Plane are found to form a sequence connecting the highest-luminosity globular clusters with the lowest-luminosity dwarf ellipticals, the compact object near M59 lies in between this UCD sequence and the positions of compact ellipticals. Its stellar age, metallicity, and effective surface brightness are similar to low-luminosity ellipticals and lenticulars, suggesting that SDSSJ124155.33+114003.7 is a result of the tidal stripping of such an object., Comment: 5 pages, 4 figures, accepted to MNRAS Letters

Published
2007
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11. Low-Luminosity Early-Type Galaxies in the NGC 128 Group

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Chilingarian, Igor, Sil'chenko, Olga, Afanasiev, Victor, and Prugniel, Philippe

Subjects
Astrophysics
Abstract

We present spatially resolved kinematics and stellar population parameters for three low-luminosity galaxies in the NGC128 group obtained by means of 3D spectroscopy. We briefly discuss their evolutionary scenarii., Comment: 2 pages, 1 figure, submitted to the proceedings of ``Pathways through an eclectic Universe''. The original PDF-version of the poster is attached as well

Published
2007

12. Middleware for Data Visualization in VO-enabled Data Archives

Author

Zolotukhin, Ivan and Chilingarian, Igor

Subjects
Astrophysics
Abstract

We present a middleware for visualization and exploration of complex datasets in a VO framework, that performs interaction between data archives and existing VO client applications using PLASTIC. It comprises: (1) PLASTIC-enabled Java control applet, integrated into archive web-pages and interacting with VO applications; (2) cross-browser compatible JavaScript part managing PLASTIC-aware VO Clients (launch, data manipulation) by means of Java LiveConnect. This (or similar) solution is an essential for the new generation VO-enabled data archives providing access to complex observational and theoretical datasets (3D-spectroscopy, N-body simulations, etc.) through web-interface. Thanks to PLASTIC capabilities it is possible to start all necessary client software with a single-click in the archive query result page in a web-browser. This simplifies the scientific usage of the VO resources and makes it easy even for users with no experience in the VO technologies., Comment: 4 pages, 1 figure, to appear in the proceedings of ADASS-XVII (ASP Conf. Series)

Published
2007

13. Visualization of Complex Observational and Theoretical Datasets in the Virtual Observatory

Author

Chilingarian, Igor and Zolotukhin, Ivan

Subjects
Astrophysics
Abstract

Our presentation is aimed at data centers providing access to complex observational and theoretical data and to the users of these resources. We show how to visualize complex datasets stored in the VO enabled data archives using existing VO client software and PLASTIC, a prototype of an application messaging protocol, for interaction between archive query results and tools. We demonstrate how to display and explore observable IFU datasets, provided within the ASPID-SR archive, using CDS Aladin, ESA VOSpec, and VO-Paris Euro3D Client. In the second part of the paper we show how to use TOPCAT for displaying results of N-body simulations of galaxy mergers available in the HORIZON GalMer database., Comment: 4 pages, 2 figures, to appear in the proceedings of ADASS-XVII (ASP Conf. Series)

Published
2007

14. 3D Spectroscopy in the Virtual Observatory: Current Status

Author

Chilingarian, Igor, Bonnarel, Francois, Louys, Mireille, Zolotukhin, Ivan, Royer, Frederic, Jegouzo, Isabelle, Sidaner, Pierre Le, Fernique, Pierre, and Boch, Thomas

Subjects
Astrophysics
Abstract

Three cornerstones for the 3D data support in the Virtual Observatory are: (1) data model to describe them, (2) data access services providing access to fully-reduced datasets, and (3) client applications which can deal with 3D data. Presently all these components became available in the VO. We demonstrate an application of the IVOA Characterisation data model to description of IFU and Fabry-Perot datasets. Two services providing SSA-like access to 3D-spectral data and Characterisation metadata have been implemented by us: ASPID-SR at SAO RAS for accessing IFU and Fabry-Perot data from the Russian 6-m telescope, and the Giraffe Archive at the VO Paris portal for the VLT FLAMES-Giraffe datasets. We have implemented VO Paris Euro3D Client, handling Euro3D FITS format, that interacts with CDS Aladin and ESA VOSpec using PLASTIC to display spatial and spectral cutouts of 3D datasets. Though the prototype we are presenting is yet rather simple, it demonstrates how 3D spectroscopic data can be fully integrated into the VO infrastructure., Comment: 4 pages, 1 figure. To appear in the proceedings of the ESA Workshop "Astronomical Spectroscopy and the Virtual Observatory" held in Villafranca del Castillo, Spain, in March 2007

Published
2007

15. Comprehensive Metadata Query Interface for Heterogeneous Data Archives Based on Open Source PostgreSQL ORDBMS

Author

Zolotukhin, Ivan, Samokhvalov, Nikolay, Bonnarel, Francois, and Chilingarian, Igor

Subjects
Astrophysics
Abstract

We use PostgreSQL DBMS for storing XML metadata, described by the IVOA Characterisation Data Model. Initial XML type support in the PostgreSQL has recently been implemented. We make heavy use of this feature in order to provide comprehensive search over Characterisation metadata tree. We built a prototype of the Characterisation metadata query service, implementing two access methods: (1) HTTP-GET/POST based interface implements almost direct translation of the query parameter name into XPath of the data model element in the XML serialisation; (2) Web-Service based interface to receive XQuery which is also directly translated into XPath. This service will be used in the ASPID-SR archive, containing science-ready data obtained with the Russian 6-m telescope., Comment: 3 pages, 1 figure. Proceedings of ADASS-XVI held in Tucson, AZ, USA, Oct.2006. To appear in the ASP Conference Series

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2007

16. ASPID-SR: Prototype of a VO-compliant Science-Ready Data Archive

Author

Chilingarian, Igor, Afanasiev, Victor, Bonnarel, Francois, Dodonov, Serguei, Louys, Mireille, and Zolotukhin, Ivan

Subjects
Astrophysics
Abstract

ASPID stands for the "Archive of Spectral, Photometric, and Interferometric Data". The world largest collection of raw 3D spectroscopic observations of galactic and extragalactic sources is provided. ASPID-SR is a prototype of an archive of heterogeneous science ready data, fed by ASPID, where we try to exploit all the power of the IVOA Characterisation Data Model. Multi-level Characterisation metadata is provided for every dataset. The archive provides powerful metadata query mechanism with access to every data model element, vital for the efficient scientific usage of a complex informational system. We provide a set of access interfaces: SIAP/SSAP, HTTP-based characterisation metadata query, Web-service accepting ADQL/x., Comment: 3 pages, no figures. Proceedings of ADASS-XVI held in Tucson, AZ, USA, Oct.2006. To appear in the ASP Conference Series. Formal presentation of the ASPID-SR archive (http://alcor.sao.ru/php/aspid-sr/)

Published
2007

17. The MAGIC Project: Contributions to ICRC 2007

Author

Albert, J., Aliu, E., Anderhub, H., Antoranz, P., Armada, A., Baixeras, C., Barrio, J. A., Bartko, H., Bastieri, D., Becker, J. K., Bednarek, W., Berger, K., Bigongiari, C., Biland, A., Bock, R. K., Bordas, P., Bosch-Ramon, V., Bretz, T., Britvitch, I., Cabras, G., Camara, M., Carmona, E., Chilingarian, A., Coarasa, J. A., Commichau, S., Contreras, J. L., Cortina, J., Costado, M. T., Curtef, V., Danielyan, V., Dazzi, F., De Angelis, A., Delgado, C., Reyes, R. de los, De Lotto, B., De Maria, M., De Sabata, F., Dorner, D., Doro, M., Errando, M., Fagiolini, M., Ferenc, D., Fernández, E., Firpo, R., Flix, J., Fonseca, M. V., Font, L., Fuchs, M., Galante, N., García-López, R. J., Garczarczyk, M., Gaug, M., Giller, M., Goebel, F., Hakobyan, D., Hayashida, M., Hengstebeck, T., Herrero, A., Höhne, D., Hose, J., Hsu, C. C., Jacon, P., Jogler, T., Kosyra, R., Kranich, D., Kritzer, R., Laille, A., Lindfors, E., Lombardi, S., Longo, F., López, J., López, M., Lorenz, E., Majumdar, P., Maneva, G., Mannheim, K., Mansutti, O., Mariotti, M., Martínez, M., Mazin, D., Merck, C., Meucci, M., Meyer, M., Miranda, J. M., Mirzoyan, R., Mizobuchi, S., Moralejo, A., Nieto, D., Nilsson, K., Ninkovic, J., na-Wilhelmi, E. O, Otte, N., Oya, I., Paneque, D., Paoletti, R., Paredes, J. M., Pasanen, M., Pascoli, D., Pauss, F., Pegna, R., Persic, M., Peruzzo, L., Piccioli, A., Prandini, E., Puchades, N., Raymers, A., Rhode, W., Ribó, M., Rico, J., Rissi, M., Robert, A., Rügamer, S., Saggion, A., Saito, T. Y., Sánchez, A., Sartori, P., Scalzotto, V., Scapin, V., Schmitt, R., Schweizer, T., Shayduk, M., Shinozaki, K., Shore, S. N., Sidro, N., Sillanpää, A., Sobczynska, D., Spanier, F., Stamerra, A., Stark, L. S., Takalo, L., Temnikov, P., Tescaro, D., Teshima, M., Torres, D. F., Turini, N., Vankov, H., Venturini, A., Vitale, V., Wagner, R. M., Wibig, T., Wittek, W., Zandanel, F., Zanin, R., and Zapatero, J.

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Astrophysics
Abstract

The MAGIC Project: Contributions to ICRC 2007, Merida, Mexico. Contents pages for the Contribution on behalf of the MAGIC Collaboration to the 30th ICRC that took place in July 2007 in Merida, Mexico. The contents are in html form with clickable links to the papers that exist on the Astrophysics archive. We hope that this will make it easier to access the output of the conference in a systematic way. Comments on how useful this is/ how it could be improved should be sent to michela.demaria@iuav.it., Comment: HTML file with clickable links to papers

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2007

18. Access to Stellar Population Models in the Virtual Observatory

Author

Chilingarian, Igor

Subjects
Astrophysics
Abstract

A great effort is being made by the international Virtual Observatory community to build tools ready to be used by scientists. Presently, providing access to theoretical spectra in general, and synthetic spectra of galaxies in particular, is a matter of current interest in the Virtual Observatory. Several ways of accessing such spectra are available. We present two of them for accessing PEGASE.HR evolutionary synthesis models: HTTP-access to a limited number of parameters using Simple Spectral Access Protocol (SSAP), and full-featured WEB-service based access using Common Execution Architecture (CEA)., Comment: 2 pages, 1 figure, to appear in the proceedings of IAU Symposium 241 (Stellar Populations as Building Blocks of Galaxies)

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2007
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19. NBursts: Simultaneous Extraction of Internal Kinematics and Parametrized SFH from Integrated Light Spectra

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Chilingarian, Igor, Prugniel, Philippe, Sil'chenko, Olga, and Koleva, Mina

Subjects
Astrophysics
Abstract

We present a novel approach for simultaneous extraction of stellar population parameters and internal kinematics from the spectra integrated along a line of sight. We fit a template spectrum into an observed one in a pixel space using a non-linear $\chi^2$ minimization in the multidimensional parameter space, including characteristics of the line-of-sight velocity distribution (LOSVD) and parametrized star formation history (SFH). Our technique has been applied to IFU and multi-object spectroscopy of low-luminosity early type galaxies., Comment: 2 pages, to appear in the proceedings of IAU Symposium 241 (Stellar Populations as Building Blocks of Galaxies)

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2007
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20. Chemodynamical evolution of interacting galaxies: the GalMer view

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Di Matteo, P., Combes, F., Chilingarian, I., Melchior, A. -L., and Semelin, B.

Subjects
Astrophysics
Abstract

We have undertaken a large set of simulations of galaxy interactions and mergers (GalMer Project) in order to study the physical processes related to galaxy encounters. All morphological types along the Hubble sequence are considered in the initial conditions of the two colliding galaxies, with varying bulge-to-disk ratios and gas mass fractions. Different types of orbits are simulated, direct and retrograde, according to the initial relative energy and impact parameter. The self gravity of stars, gas and dark matter is taken into account through a tree-code algorithm, the gas hydrodynamics through SPH. Star formation is included adopting a density-dependent Schmidt law. This wide library of galaxy interactions and mergers, containing, at present, about 900 simulations of major encounters, represents an unique tool to investigate statistically the chemodynamical evolution of interacting systems. In the following, we present and discuss some results obtained exploring the dataset, together with some future perspectives., Comment: 4 pages, 5 figures. To appear in the proceedings of "SF2A-2007: Semaine de l'Astrophysique Francaise", (J. Bouvier, A. Chalabaev, and C. Charbonnel eds)

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2007

21. Discovery of a new M32-like 'Compact Elliptical' galaxy in the halo of the Abell 496 cD galaxy

Author

Chilingarian, Igor, Cayatte, Veronique, Chemin, Laurent, Durret, Florence, Lagana, Tatiana Ferraz, Adami, Christophe, and Slezak, Eric

Subjects
Astrophysics
Abstract

Aims: ``Compact ellipticals'' are so rare that a search for M32 analogs is needed to ensure the very existence of this class. Methods: We report here the discovery of A496cE, a M32 twin in the cluster Abell 496, located in the halo of the central cD. Results: Based on CFHT and HST imaging we show that the light profile of A496cE requires a two component fit: a Sersic bulge and an exponential disc. The spectrum of A496cE obtained with the ESO-VLT FLAMES/Giraffe spectrograph can be fit by a stellar synthesis spectrum dominated by old stars, with high values of [Mg/Fe] and velocity dispersion. Conclusions: The capture of A496cE by the cD galaxy and tidal stripping of most of its disc are briefly discussed., Comment: 4 pages, 4 figures, accepted for publication in A&A Letters

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2007
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22. Comparison of different spectral population models

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Koleva, Mina, Prugniel, Philippe, Ocvirk, Pierre, Borgne, Damien Le, Chilingarian, Igor, and Soubiran, Caroline

Subjects
Astrophysics
Abstract

We have compared simple stellar populations (SSPs) generated with different population synthesis tools: BC03, Vazdekis and Pegase.HR and different stellar libraries: ELODIE3.1, SteLib and MILES. We find that BC03/SteLib SSPs are biased toward solar metallicity, however Pegase.HR/ELODIE3.1 and Vazdekis/MILES are extremely consistent. The extensive coverage of the space of atmospheric parameters in the large stellar libraries allows precise synthesis for a large range of ages (0.1 .. 10 Gyr) and metallicities (-2 .. +0.4 dex) limited by the quality of the determination of stellar parameters (like temperature scale of the giants)., Comment: 2 pages; proceedings of IAU Symposium No. 241, "Stellar Populations as Building Blocks of Galaxies", editors A. Vazdekis and R. Peletier

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2007
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23. Kinematics and stellar populations of the dwarf elliptical galaxy IC 3653

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Chilingarian, Igor, Prugniel, Philippe, Sil'chenko, Olga, and Afanasiev, Victor

Subjects
Astrophysics
Abstract

We present the first 3D observations of a diffuse elliptical galaxy (dE). The good quality data (S/N up to 40) reveal the kinematical signature of an embedded stellar disc, reminiscent of what is commonly observed in elliptical galaxies, though similarity of their origins is questionable. Colour map built from HST ACS images confirms the presence of this disc. Its characteristic scale (about 3 arcsec = 250 pc) is about a half of galaxy's effective radius, and its metallicity is 0.1-0.2 dex larger than the underlying population. Fitting the spectra with synthetic single stellar populations (SSP) we found an SSP-equivalent age of 5 Gyr and nearly solar metallicity [Fe/H]=-0.06 dex. We checked that these determinations are consistent with those based on Lick indices, but have smaller error bars. The kinematical discovery of a stellar disc in dE gives additional support to an evolutionary link from dwarf irregular galaxies due to stripping of the gas against the intra-cluster medium., Comment: 15 pages, 10 figures, accepted to MNRAS

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2007
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24. MAGIC upper limits on the very high energy emission from GRBs

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Albert, J., Aliu, E., Anderhub, H., Antoranz, P., Armada, A., Baixeras, C., Barrio, J. A., Bartko, H., Bastieri, D., Becker, J., Bednarek, W., Berger, K., Bigongiari, C., Biland, A., Bock, R. K., Bordas, P., Bosch-Ramon, V., Bretz, T., Britvitch, I., Camara, M., Carmona, E., Chilingarian, A., Ciprini, S., Coarasa, J. A., Commichau, S., Contreras, J. L., Cortina, J., Costado, M. T., Curtef, V., Danielyan, V., Dazzi, F., De Angelis, A., Delgado, C., Reyes, R. de los, De Lotto, B., Domingo-Santamaria, E., Dorner, D., Doro, M., Errando, M., Fagiolini, M., Ferenc, D., Fernandez, E., Firpo, R., Flix, J., Fonseca, M. V., Font, L., Fuchs, M., Galante, N., Garcia-Lopez, R., Garczarczyk, M., Gaug, M., Giller, M., Goebel, F., Hakobyan, D., Hayashida, M., Hengstebeck, T., Herrero, A., Hohne, D., Hose, J., and Hsu, C. C.

Subjects
Astrophysics
Abstract

The fast repositioning system of the MAGIC Telescope has allowed during its first data cycle, between 2005 and the beginning of year 2006, observing nine different GRBs as possible sources of very high energy gammas. These observations were triggered by alerts from Swift, HETE-II, and Integral; they started as fast as possible after the alerts and lasted for several minutes, with an energy threshold varying between 80 and 200 GeV, depending upon the zenith angle of the burst. No evidence for gamma signals was found, and upper limits for the flux were derived for all events, using the standard analysis chain of MAGIC. For the bursts with measured redshift, the upper limits are compatible with a power law extrapolation, when the intrinsic fluxes are evaluated taking into account the attenuation due to the scattering in the Metagalactic Radiation Field (MRF)., Comment: 25 pages, 9 figures, final version accepted by ApJ. Changet title to "MAGIC upped limits on the VERY high energy emission from GRBs", re-organized chapter with description of observation, removed non necessaries figures, added plot of effective area depending on zenith angle, added an appendix explaining the upper limit calculation, added some references

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2006
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25. Formation and Evolution of Dwarf Elliptical Galaxies

Author

Chilingarian, Igor

Subjects
Astrophysics
Abstract

This thesis presents observational studies of evolution of dwarf elliptical galaxies. dE's are numerically dominant population in clusters of galaxies, but their origin and evolution is a matter of debate. Several scenarios of gas removal from dE's exist: galactic winds, ram pressure stripping, gravitaional harassment. We present new method to estimate stellar population parameters and internal kinematics, based on fitting observed spectra in the pixel space by PEGASE.HR synthetic populations. We apply this technique to 3D-spectroscopic observations of dE galaxies in the Virgo cluster and nearby groups and multiobject spectroscopy of several dozens of dE's in the Abell 496 cluster. We present discovery of young nuclei in bright dE galaxies in the Virgo cluster. Based on the analysis of observational data we conclude that: (1) there is an evolutionary connection between dE's and dIrr's, (2) the most probable scenario of gas removal is ram pressure stripping by the intergalactic medium., Comment: Full manuscript of the PhD thesis (revised version). Includes a short abstract in French. 107 pages, 28 figures, 12 tables. Defended on the 23rd of November, 2006 as a bilateral PhD between Moscow State University (Russia) and Universite Claude Bernard Lyon-1 (France). This is an unofficial English version used by referees and French members of the jury. Official version (Russian + French summary) is available at http://www.sai.msu.su/~chil/manuscript_fr.pdf

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2006

26. Study on Cosmic Ray Background Rejection with a 30 m Stand-Alone IACT using Non-parametric Multivariate Methods in a sub-100 GeV Energy Range

Author

Konopelko, A., Chilingarian, A., and Reimers, A.

Subjects
Astrophysics
Abstract

During the last decade ground-based very high-energy gamma-ray astronomy achieved a remarkable advancement in the development of the observational technique for the registration and study of gamma-ray emission above 100 GeV. It is widely believed that the next step in its future development will be the construction of telescopes of substantially larger size than the currently used 10 m class telescopes. This can drastically improve the sensitivity of the ground-based detectors for gamma rays of energy from 10 to 100 GeV. Based on Monte Carlo simulations of the response of a single stand-alone 30 m imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescope (IACT) the maximal rejection power against background cosmic ray showers for low energy gamma-rays was investigated in great detail. An advanced Bayesian multivariate analysis has been applied to the simulated Cherenkov light images of the gamma-ray- and proton-induced air showers. The results obtained here quantitatively testify that the separation between the signal and background images degrades substantially at low energies, and consequently the maximum overall quality factor can only be about 3.1 for gamma rays in the 10-30 GeV energy range. Various selection criteria as well as optimal combinations of the standard image parameters utilized for effective image separation have been also evaluated., Comment: Accepted for publication in the Journal of Physics G

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2006
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27. Young Nuclei in Dwarf Elliptical Galaxies

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Chilingarian, Igor, Sil'chenko, Olga, Afanasiev, Victor, and Prugniel, Philippe

Subjects
Astrophysics
Abstract

We report discovery of young embedded structures in three diffuse elliptical galaxies (dE) in the Virgo cluster: IC 783, IC 3468, and IC 3509. We performed 3D spectroscopic observations of these galaxies using the MPFS spectrograph at the Russian 6-m telescope, and obtained spatially resolved distributions of kinematical and stellar population parameters by fitting high-resolution PEGASE.HR synthetic single stellar populations (SSP) in the pixel space. In all three galaxies, the luminosity weighted age of the nuclei, about 4 Gyr, is considerably younger than population in the outer regions of the galaxies. We discuss two possibilities to acquire the observed structures -- dissipative merger event and different ram pressure stripping efficiency during two consequent crossings of the Virgo cluster centre., Comment: accepted to "Astronomy Letters". Version for astro-ph with colour figures. 14 pages, 3 figures, 2 tables

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2006
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28. Discovery of VHE gamma-ray emission from 1ES1218+30.4

Author

MAGIC collaboration, Albert, J., Aliu, E., Anderhub, H., Antoranz, P., Armada, A., Asensio, M., Baixeras, C., Barrio, J. A., Bartelt, M., Bartko, H., Bastieri, D., Bavikadi, S. R., Bednarek, W., Berger, K., Bigongiari, C., Biland, A., Bisesi, E., Bock, R. K., Bretz, T., Britvitch, I., Camara, M., Chilingarian, A., Ciprini, S., Coarasa, J. A., Commichau, S., Contreras, J. L., Cortina, J., Curtef, V., Danielyan, V., Dazzi, F., De Angelis, A., Reyes, R. de los, De Lotto, B., Domingo-Santamaria, E., Dorner, D., Doro, M., Errando, M., Fagiolini, M., Ferenc, D., Fernandez, E., Firpo, R., Flix, J., Fonseca, M. V., Font, L., Galante, N., Garczarczyk, M., Gaug, M., Giller, M., Goebel, F., Hakobyan, D., Hayashida, M., Hengstebeck, T., Hoehne, D., Hose, J., Jacon, P., Kalekin, O., Kranich, D., Laille, A., Lenisa, T., Liebing, P., and Lindfors, E.

Subjects
Astrophysics
Abstract

The MAGIC collaboration has studied the high peaked BL-Lac object 1ES1218+30.4 at a redshift z = 0.182, using the MAGIC imaging air Cherenkov telescope located on the Canary island of La Palma. A gamma-ray signal was observed with 6.4sigma significance. The differential energy spectrum for an energy threshold of 120GeV can be fitted by a simple power law yielding F_E(E) = (8.1+-2.1)*10^-7 (E/250GeV)^(-3.0+-0.4) TeV^-1 m^-2 s^-1. During the six days of observation in January 2005 no time variability on time scales of days was found within the statistical errors. The observed integral flux above 350GeV is nearly a factor two below the the upper limit reported by the Whipple Collaboration in 2003., Comment: 5 pages, 4 figures, submitted to ApJ

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2006
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29. Validation of stellar population and kinematical analysis of galaxies

Author

Koleva, M., Bavouzet, N., Chilingarian, I., and Prugniel, P.

Subjects
Astrophysics
Abstract

3D spectroscopy produces hundreds of spectra from which maps of the characteristics of stellar populations (age-metallicity) and internal kinematics of galaxies can be derived. We carried on simulations to assess the reliability of inversion methods and to define the requirements for future observations. We quantify the biases and show that to minimize the errors on the kinematics, age and metallicity (in a given observing time) the size of the spatial elements and the spectral dispersion should be chosen to obtain an instrumental velocity dispersion comparable to the physical dispersion., Comment: 5 pages, 3 figures, extended version of a poster proceeding to appear in "Science Perspectives for 3D Spectroscopy", eds. M. Kissler-Patig, M. M. Roth and J. R. Walsh, ESO Astrophysics Symposia. (The two last pages with figures are not in the conference proceedings.)

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2006
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30. Flux upper limit of gamma-ray emission by GRB050713a from MAGIC Telescope observations

Author

Albert, J., Aliu, E., Anderhub, H., Antoranz, P., Armada, A., Asensio, M., Baixeras, C., Barrio, J. A., Bartelt, M., Bartko, H., Bastieri, D., Bavikadi, R., Bednarek, W., Berger, K., Bigongiari, C., Biland, A., Bisesi, E., Bock, R. K., Bretz, T., Britvitch, I., Camara, M., Chilingarian, A., Ciprini, S., Coarasa, J. A., Commichau, S., Contreras, J. L., Cortina, J., Curtef, V., Danielyan, V., Dazzi, F., De Angelis, A., Reyes, R. de los, De Lotto, B., Domingo-Santamaria, E., Dorner, D., Doro, M., Errando, M., Fagiolini, M., Ferenc, D., Fernandez, E., Firpo, R., Flix, J., Fonseca, M. V., Font, L., Galante, N., Garczarczyk, M., Gaug, M., Giller, M., Goebel, F., Hakobyan, D., Hayashida, M., Hengstebeck, T., Hohne, D., Hose, J., Jacon, P., Kalekin, O., Kranich, D., Laille, A., Lenisa, T., Liebing, P., Lindfors, E., Longo, F., Lopez, J., Lopez, M., Lorenz, E., Lucarelli, F., Majumdar, P., Maneva, G., Mannheim, K., Mariotti, M., Martinez, M., Mase, K., Mazin, D., Meucci, M., Meyer, M., Miranda, J. M., Mirzoyan, R., Mizobuchi, S., Moralejo, A., Nilsson, K., Ona-Wilhelmi, E., Orduna, R., Otte, N., Oya, I., Paneque, D., Paoletti, R., Pasanen, M., Pascoli, D., Pauss, F., Pavel, N., Pegna, R., Persic, M., Peruzzo, L., Piccioli, A., Prandini, E., Rico, J., Rhode, W., Riegel, B., Rissi, M., Robert, A., Rugamer, S., Saggion, A., Sanchez, A., Sartori, P., Scalzotto, V., Schmitt, R., Schweizer, T., Shayduk, M., Shinozaki, K., Shore, S., Sidro, N., Sillanpaa, A., Sobczynska, D., Stamerra, A., Stark, L. S., Takalo, L., Temnikov, P., Tescaro, D., Teshima, M., Tonello, N., Torres, A., Torres, D. F., Turini, N., Vankov, H., Vardanyan, A., Vitale, V., Wagner, R. M., Wibig, T., Wittek, W., and Zapatero, J.

Subjects
Astrophysics
Abstract

The long-duration GRB050713a was observed by the MAGIC Telescope, 40 seconds after the burst onset, and followed up for 37 minutes, until twilight. The observation, triggered by a SWIFT alert, covered energies above ~175 GeV. Using standard MAGIC analysis, no evidence for a gamma signal was found. As the redshift of the GRB was not measured directly, the flux upper limit, estimated by MAGIC, is still compatible with the assumption of an unbroken power-law spectrum extending from a few hundred keV to our energy range., Comment: 14 pages, 4 figures, submitted to ApJ

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2006
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31. Internal kinematics and stellar populations of dE galaxies: Clues to their formation/evolution

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Prugniel, Philippe, Chilingarian, Igor, Sil'chenko, Olga, and Afanasiev, Victor

Subjects
Astrophysics
Abstract

What is the origin of the numerous population of diffuse elliptical galaxies (dE) in clusters? These galaxies formed their stars several billion years ago and lost their gas. Though the stellar winds resulting from star formation and the interactions with the environment undoubedtly play a role, their respective role and details of the mechanism of this evolution is still debated. In this presentation we will review the first 3D spectroscopic observations of a handful of dE galaxies. These data reveal complex kinematical structures, with embedded discs and counter rotating cores, and they open extremely promising perspectives for studying the history of the stellar population throughout these various features. The presence of disks, which was already known from detailed image analysis, and of complex kinematics and the new constraints on the stellar population enforce the hypothesis of the evolutionary connection between dEs and disk galaxies., Comment: To be published in the proceedings of IAU Colloquium 198 on a "near-field cosmology with dwarf elliptical galaxies"

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2005
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32. Correlation of the estimated arrival time of the relativistic solar ions at 1 AU and start of ground level enhancement (GLE)

Author

Martirosyan, H. and Chilingarian, A.

Subjects
Astrophysics
Abstract

We are investigated possible correlations between the calculated arrival times of the first relativistic ions at Earth and GLE start times registered by surface monitors. The analysis is based on the arrival times and energies of the first solar ions, registered by the Solar Isotope Spectrometer (SIS) on board of the ACE satellite, and protons, registered by GOES satellites. We consider both cases when the interplanetary propagation of the first high energy ions is essentially scatter-free and the diffusion of high energy ions during propagation in the interplanetary magnetic field. We extrapolate the time-velocity and time-rigidity relationships to calculate the expected arrival times of the relativistic ions that are energetic enough to enter the atmosphere at the Aragats geographical location and produce secondary fluxes that reach the monitors., Comment: 4 pages, 3 figures, 29th International Cosmic Ray Conference Pune (2005)

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2005

33. Diffuse elliptical galaxies, the first 3D spectroscopic observations

Author

Chilingarian, Igor, Prugniel, Philippe, Silchenko, Olga, and Afanasiev, Victor

Subjects
Astrophysics
Abstract

Diffuse elliptical galaxies (or dwarfs) are the numerically dominant population in clusters like Virgo and Fornax. They carry only a few percent of the baryonic mass but are very sensitive to the environment; so they keep a fossil record of the environmental conditions over the life of the cluster. Recent observations of their kinematics and stellar populations cast new insights to their evolutionary history. The most promising constraints come from integral field spectroscopy. We present for the first time 3D observations of a dwarf elliptical galaxy, IC 3653. These good signal to noise data (S/N=30) obtained with the Russian 6 meters telescope reveal a complex kinematics reminiscent of that commonly observed in elliptical galaxies. The disk-like feature has no morphological counterpart in ACS data. Kinematical evidences for thin stellar disks confirm and enforce the earlier imagery observations and strengthen the connection with disk galaxies. We suggest that dE galaxies formed from small units, developing a disk. This disk was heated or destroyed by the winds induced by the star formation, and the galaxy was later depleted from the remaining gas by ram-pressure stripping when crossing the cluster., Comment: Oral contribution at the JENAM 2004 conference, Granada (8 pages, 3 figures)

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2004

34. Virtual instrumentation to study galaxies

Author

Prugniel, Ph., Chilingarian, I., Flores, H., Guibert, J., Haigron, R., Jegouzo, I., Royer, F., Tajahmady, F., Theureau, G., and Vetois, J.

Subjects
Astrophysics
Abstract

The MIGALE project (http://www.sai.msu.su/migale) provides databases and data analysis tools to study the evolution of galaxies from z=1 to z=0. It develops and maintain a general database, HyperLeda, to give a homogenized parameterization for 3 million objects, and several archives or specialized databases. It also develops tools to analyse on-the-fly data extracted from the database or obtained through the Virtual Observatory (Virtual Instruments). The package made for this project, Pleinpot, is distributed as open source., Comment: SF2A-2004 conference, 4 pages, 1 figure

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2004

35. Determination of the EAS Attenuation Length from Data of the ANI Experiment

Author

Chilingarian, A. A., Gharagyozyan, G. V., Ghazaryan, S. S., Hovsepyan, G. G., Mamidjanyan, E. A., Melkumyan, L. G., and Sokhoyan, S. H.

Subjects
Astrophysics
Abstract

Using the EAS size spectra measured with the MAKET ANI array on Mt. Aragats, Armenia (3200m a.s.l.) in the range of the shower size 10^5 - 10^7 for different angles-of-incidence, the EAS attenuation length has been determined applying different analysis methods. The analysis is based on a data sample of 2.5*10^6 events collected in the period of June, 97 - April, 99. The results are compared with results deduced from data of the EAS TOP and KASCADE experiments., Comment: 9 pages, to appear in the ANI99 workshop proceedings, FZKA report Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, ed. by A.Chilingarian, A.Haungs, H.Rebel and Kh.N.Sanosyan

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2000

36. The Dependence of the Age Parameter from EAS Size and Zenith Angle of Incidence

Author

Chilingarian, A. A., Gharagyozyan, G. V., Ghazaryan, S. S., Hovsepyan, G. G., Mamidjanyan, E. A., Melkumyan, L. G., and Sokhoyan, S. H.

Subjects
Astrophysics
Abstract

The quality of the MAKET-ANI detector installation in view of the uniformity of the registration efficiency is demonstrated. Based on a data sample collected by the MAKET-ANI array in the period of June 1997 - March 1999, the dependencies of the age parameter on the zenith angle and the EAS size (10^5-10^7) are studied. The variation of the age parameter with the shower size can be approximately related to the elongation rate., Comment: 6 pages, to appear in the ANI99 workshop proceedings, FZKA report Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, ed. by A.Chilingarian, A.Haungs, H.Rebel and Kh.N.Sanosyan

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2000

37. Investigation of the correlation patterns and the Compton dominance variability of Mrk 421 in 2017

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Katsuaki Asano, I. Jiménez, A. Fuentes, C. M. Raiteri, D. Dominis Prester, E. Molina, E. Colombo, Y. V. Troitskaya, Nikola Godinovic, Sidika Merve Colak, Jenni Jormanainen, Yuki Iwamura, Alessandra Lamastra, Lab Saha, Antoniya Valcheva, Sunay Ibryamov, Elena G. Larionova, B. De Lotto, Evgeni Ovcharov, D. Zarić, Kazuma Ishio, David A. Green, M. Villata, D. Horan, Givi N. Kimeridze, Alexander Hahn, S. Nozaki, M. Perri, Michael D. Joner, D. Neise, S. Loporchio, R. J. García López, Marcello Giroletti, Victor A. Acciari, V. Fallah Ramazani, Tomohiko Oka, Daniela Dorner, Narek Sahakyan, J. Kushida, M. Kopp, Lorenzo Bellizzi, Noah Biederbeck, Joseph Moody, M. Gaug, L. Schneider, A. López-Oramas, Daniel Morcuende, N. Rizzi, Jose Luis Contreras, G. Vanzo, Rodolfo Carosi, L. Maraschi, Andrés Baquero, M. I. Carnerero, R. Iotov, Mosè Mariotti, A. Paravac, John Hoang, Ashwani Pandey, Z. R. Weaver, Francesco Longo, F. D'Ammando, S. Paiano, Elina Lindfors, Moritz Hütten, J. Herrera, Koji Noda, Abelardo Moralejo, Laura Eisenberger, E. Moretti, Julian Sitarek, Marcos López-Moya, Wlodek Bednarek, L. Di Venere, Ashot Chilingarian, U. Barres de Almeida, Elisa Bernardini, I. Agudo, M. Feige, R. Z. Ivanidze, O. A. Merkulova, D. Depaoli, M. Spencer, Massimo Persic, J. van Scherpenberg, Pratik Majumdar, L. Kunkel, K. Nishijima, Stefano Ansoldi, Juan Cortina, Kai Phillip Schmidt, A. Berti, Riccardo Paoletti, Saverio Lombardi, Daniel Mazin, M. V. Fonseca, Damir Lelas, R. J. C. Vera, Sanae Inoue, Giacomo D'Amico, Dominik Baack, C. Perennes, A. A. Nikiforova, Yating Chai, Stefan Cikota, G. M. Madejski, A. Arbet Engels, Daniel Kerszberg, Manuel Artero, E. Do Souto Espiñeira, Tomislav Terzić, J. Becerra González, Martin Makariev, R. Mirzoyan, Yoshiki Ohtani, G. A. Borman, Pawel Gliwny, Jose Miguel Miranda, A. De Angelis, Vitaly Neustroev, Wara Chamani, Oscar Blanch, T. S. Grishina, Martin Will, M. Vazquez Acosta, Nicola Giglietto, L. V. Larionova, Lea Heckmann, Francesco Gabriele Saturni, Jorge Otero-Santos, R. A. Chigladze, M. Balbo, N. Marchili, D. Hadasch, P. G. Prada Moroni, A. A. Vasilyev, M. G. Nikolashvili, Jordi Delgado, V. Ramakrishnan, Christian Fruck, G. Busetto, Victoria Moreno, Luca Tosti, A. Rugliancich, C. Nigro, Marina Manganaro, Valeri M. Larionov, M. Balokovic, Manuel Delfino, A. Strigachev, J. M. Paredes, Manash R. Samal, Stefano Covino, I. Vovk, H. C. Lin, Ž. Bošnjak, Stefano Menchiari, Rumen Bachev, Marc Ribó, Dorota Sobczyńska, Carolin Wunderlich, Bernd Schleicher, M. Minev, Antonio Stamerra, Maria-Isabel Bernardos, I. S. Troitskiy, Merja Tornikoski, E. N. Kopatskaya, Shunsuke Sakurai, Camilla Maggio, Chiara Righi, F. Verrecchia, P. Temnikov, S. G. Jorstad, T. Schweizer, Hidetoshi Kubo, Lluis Font, A. Y. Lien, Toshiaki Inada, A. Scherbantin, Lorand A. Sigua, G. Maneva, Stefano Truzzi, B. Machado de Oliveira Fraga, V. Bozhilov, M. Palatiello, Alessandro Marchini, Chaitanya Priyadarshi, Alessia Spolon, Léa Jouvin, Konstancja Satalecka, Tomoki Saito, Giovanni Ceribella, Michele Doro, S. O. Kurtanidze, Carlo Vigorito, Pablo Peñil, D. Strom, Giacomo Bonnoli, Adrian Biland, Ana Babić, Alicia Fattorini, D. Hildebrand, Satoshi Fukami, G. Ferrara, Y. Kajiwara, Matteo Cerruti, P. Da Vela, Vassil Verguilov, Lovro Pavletić, C. Delgado Mendez, Emilia Järvelä, S. Mićanović, Sergey S. Savchenko, Ivica Puljak, M. Noethe, Simone Mender, Francesco Dazzi, V. Vitale, Manuela Mallamaci, Ivana Batković, F. Leone, M. I. Martínez, J. Rico, Alan P. Marscher, C. Lorey, S. Ventura, Tjark Miener, Anne Lähteenmäki, David Paneque, Masahiro Teshima, Jarred Gershon Green, Wrijupan Bhattacharyya, Kari Nilsson, R. Walter, M. Strzys, D. Reinhart, E. Zaharieva, Wen Ping Chen, Vitalii Sliusar, Jürgen Besenrieder, Francesco Giordano, Antonio Tutone, Thomas Bretz, J. Buss, Alok C. Gupta, Simona Righini, O. M. Kurtanidze, Ciro Bigongiari, O. Vince, D. Elsaesser, C. Leto, M. Garczarczyk, Sargis Gasparyan, J. Kania, Dario Hrupec, R. López-Coto, Wolfgang Rhode, I. Snidaric, D. A. Morozova, Vladimir A. Hagen-Thorn, Mitsunari Takahashi, J. A. Acosta-Pulido, E. Prandini, Marie Karjalainen, D. Miceli, Goran Damljanović, Evgeni Semkov, Alice Donini, L. A. Antonelli, J. A. Barrio, Y. Suda, D. Carosati, V. D'Elia, Fabrizio Tavecchio, A. C. Sadun, Tihomir Surić, C. Casadio, Karl Mannheim, Santiago Ubach, Y. Kobayashi, F. Di Pierro, European Commission, European Research Council, Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (España), Generalitat de Catalunya, Federal Ministry of Education and Research (Germany), German Research Foundation, Swiss National Science Foundation, Croatian Science Foundation, Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development (Serbia), Bulgarian National Science Fund, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (US), Acciari, V. A., Ansoldi, S., Antonelli, L. A., Arbet Engels, A., Artero, M., Asano, K., Babi??, A., Baquero, A., Barres de Almeida, U., Barrio, J. A., Batkovi??, I., Becerra Gonz??lez, J., Bednarek, W., Bellizzi, L., Bernardini, E., Bernardos, M., Berti, A., Besenrieder, J., Bhattacharyya, W., Bigongiari, C., Blanch, O., Bo??njak, ??., Busetto, G., Carosi, R., Ceribella, G., Cerruti, M., Chai, Y., Chilingarian, A., Cikota, S., Colak, S. M., Colombo, E., Contreras, J. L., Cortina, J., Covino, S., D???amico, G., D???elia, V., Da Vela, P., Dazzi, F., De Angelis, A., De Lotto, B., Delfino, M., Delgado, J., Delgado Mendez, C., Depaoli, D., Di Pierro, F., Di Venere, L., Do Souto Espi??eira, E., Dominis Prester, D., Donini, A., Doro, M., Fallah Ramazani, V., Fattorini, A., Ferrara, G., Fonseca, M. V., Font, L., Fruck, C., Fukami, S., Garc??a L??pez, R. J., Garczarczyk, M., Gasparyan, S., Gaug, M., Giglietto, N., Giordano, F., Gliwny, P., Godinovi??, N., Green, J. G., Green, D., Hadasch, D., Hahn, A., Heckmann, L., Herrera, J., Hoang, J., Hrupec, D., H??tten, M., Inada, T., Inoue, S., Ishio, K., Iwamura, Y., Jim??nez, I., Jormanainen, J., Jouvin, L., Kajiwara, Y., Karjalainen, M., Kerszberg, D., Kobayashi, Y., Kubo, H., Kushida, J., Lamastra, A., Lelas, D., Leone, F., Lindfors, E., Lombardi, S., Longo, F., L??pez-Coto, R., L??pez-Moya, M., L??pez-Oramas, A., Loporchio, S., Machado de Oliveira Fraga, B., Maggio, C., Majumdar, P., Makariev, M., Mallamaci, M., Maneva, G., Manganaro, M., Maraschi, L., Mariotti, M., Mart??nez, M., Mazin, D., Menchiari, S., Mender, S., Mi??anovi??, S., Miceli, D., Miener, T., Minev, M., Miranda, J. M., Mirzoyan, R., Molina, E., Moralejo, A., Morcuende, D., Moreno, V., Moretti, E., Neustroev, V., Nigro, C., Nilsson, K., Nishijima, K., Noda, K., Nozaki, S., Ohtani, Y., Oka, T., Otero-Santos, J., Paiano, S., Palatiello, M., Paneque, D., Paoletti, R., Paredes, J. M., Pavleti??, L., Pe??il, P., Perennes, C., Persic, M., Prada Moroni, P. G., Prandini, E., Priyadarshi, C., Puljak, I., Rib??, M., Rico, J., Righi, C., Rugliancich, A., Saha, L., Sahakyan, N., Saito, T., Sakurai, S., Satalecka, K., Saturni, F. G., Schmidt, K., Schweizer, T., Sitarek, J., nidari??, I., Sobczynska, D., Spolon, A., Stamerra, A., Strom, D., Strzys, M., Suda, Y., Suri??, T., Takahashi, M., Tavecchio, F., Temnikov, P., Terzi??, T., Teshima, M., Tosti, L., Truzzi, S., Tutone, A., Ubach, S., van Scherpenberg, J., Vanzo, G., Vazquez Acosta, M., Ventura, S., Verguilov, V., Vigorito, C. F., Vitale, V., Vovk, I., Will, M., Wunderlich, C., Zari??, D., Baack, D., Balbo, M., Biederbeck, N., Biland, A., Bretz, T., Buss, J., Dorner, D., Eisenberger, L., Elsaesser, D., Hildebrand, D., Iotov, R., Mannheim, K., Neise, D., Noethe, M., Paravac, A., Rhode, W., Schleicher, B., Sliusar, V., Walter, R., D???ammando, F., Horan, D., Lien, A. Y., Balokovi??, M., Madejski, G. M., Perri, M., Verrecchia, F., Leto, C., L??hteenm??ki, A., Tornikoski, M., Ramakrishnan, V., J??rvel??, E., Vera, R. J. C., Chamani, W., Villata, M., Raiteri, C. M., Gupta, A. C., Pandey, A., Fuentes, A., Agudo, I., Casadio, C., Semkov, E., Ibryamov, S., Marchini, A., Bachev, R., Strigachev, A., Ovcharov, E., Bozhilov, V., Valcheva, A., Zaharieva, E., Damljanovic, G., Vince, O., Larionov, V. M., Borman, G. A., Grishina, T. S., Hagen-Thorn, V. A., Kopatskaya, E. N., Larionova, E. G., Larionova, L. V., Morozova, D. A., Nikiforova, A. A., Savchenko, S. S., Troitskiy, I. S., Troitskaya, Y. V., Vasilyev, A. A., Merkulova, O. A., Chen, W. P., Samal, M., Lin, H. C., Moody, J. W., Sadun, A. C., Jorstad, S. G., Marscher, A. P., Weaver, Z. R., Feige, M., Kania, J., Kopp, M., Kunkel, L., Reinhart, D., Scherbantin, A., Schneider, L., Lorey, C., Acosta-Pulido, J. A., Carnerero, M. I., Carosati, D., Kurtanidze, S. O., Kurtanidze, O. M., Nikolashvili, M. G., Chigladze, R. A., Ivanidze, R. Z., Kimeridze, G. N., Sigua, L. A., Joner, M. D., Spencer, M., Giroletti, M., Marchili, N., Righini, S., Rizzi, N., Bonnoli, G., Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet (LLR), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École polytechnique (X)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3), MAGIC, FACT, Department of Electronics and Nanoengineering, Aalto-yliopisto, and Aalto University

Subjects
electron, PARTICLE-ACCELERATION, ELECTRON ACCELERATION, Radiation mechanisms: non-thermal, RAY, VHE [gamma ray], galaxies: active, BL Lacertae objects: individual: Mrk 421, radiation mechanisms: non-thermal, Electron, Astrophysics, GeV, 01 natural sciences, 7. Clean energy, LARGE-AREA TELESCOPE, law.invention, OBSERVATIONS, law, ultraviolet, optical, MAGIC (telescope), correlation [flux], 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, X-ray: flux, model: leptonic, Physics, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), BL-LACERTAE, individual: Mrk 421 [BL Lacertae objects], flux [X-ray], Gamma ray, flux: correlation, Galaxies: active, non-thermal [radiation mechanisms], Synchrotron, SWIFT OBSERVATIONS, active [galaxies], Spectral energy distribution, Física nuclear, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Lorentz, Flare, LOG-PARABOLIC SPECTRA, ACTIVE GALACTIC NUCLEI, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, FOS: Physical sciences, radiation, mechanisms: non-thermal, LIGHT CURVES, X-RAY, MULTIWAVELENGTH, GLAST, leptonic [model], blazar, 0103 physical sciences, TeV, Blazar, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Astronomy and Astrophysics, MAGIC, gamma ray: VHE, Space and Planetary Science, ddc:520, spectral, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope
Abstract

Full list of authors: Acciari, V. A.; Ansoldi, S.; Antonelli, L. A.; Arbet Engels, A.; Artero, M.; Asano, K.; Babić, A.; Baquero, A.; Barres de Almeida, U.; Barrio, J. A.; Batković, I.; Becerra González, J.; Bednarek, W.; Bellizzi, L.; Bernardini, E.; Bernardos, M.; Berti, A.; Besenrieder, J.; Bhattacharyya, W.; Bigongiari, C.; Blanch, O.; Bošnjak, Ž.; Busetto, G.; Carosi, R.; Ceribella, G.; Cerruti, M.; Chai, Y.; Chilingarian, A.; Cikota, S.; Colak, S. M.; Colombo, E.; Contreras, J. L.; Cortina, J.; Covino, S.; D'Amico, G.; D'Elia, V.; da Vela, P.; Dazzi, F.; de Angelis, A.; de Lotto, B.; Delfino, M.; Delgado, J.; Delgado Mendez, C.; Depaoli, D.; di Pierro, F.; di Venere, L.; Do Souto Espiñeira, E.; Dominis Prester, D.; Donini, A.; Doro, M.; Fallah Ramazani, V.; Fattorini, A.; Ferrara, G.; Fonseca, M. V.; Font, L.; Fruck, C.; Fukami, S.; García López, R. J.; Garczarczyk, M.; Gasparyan, S.; Gaug, M.; Giglietto, N.; Giordano, F.; Gliwny, P.; Godinović, N.; Green, J. G.; Green, D.; Hadasch, D.; Hahn, A.; Heckmann, L.; Herrera, J.; Hoang, J.; Hrupec, D.; Hütten, M.; Inada, T.; Inoue, S.; Ishio, K.; Iwamura, Y.; Jiménez, I.; Jormanainen, J.; Jouvin, L.; Kajiwara, Y.; Karjalainen, M.; Kerszberg, D.; Kobayashi, Y.; Kubo, H.; Kushida, J.; Lamastra, A.; Lelas, D.; Leone, F.; Lindfors, E.; Lombardi, S.; Longo, F.; López-Coto, R.; López-Moya, M.; López-Oramas, A.; Loporchio, S.; Machado de Oliveira Fraga, B.; Maggio, C.; Majumdar, P.; Makariev, M.; Mallamaci, M.; Maneva, G.; Manganaro, M.; Maraschi, L.; Mariotti, M.; Martínez, M.; Mazin, D.; Menchiari, S.; Mender, S.; Mićanović, S.; Miceli, D.; Miener, T.; Minev, M.; Miranda, J. M.; Mirzoyan, R.; Molina, E.; Moralejo, A.; Morcuende, D.; Moreno, V.; Moretti, E.; Neustroev, V.; Nigro, C.; Nilsson, K.; Nishijima, K.; Noda, K.; Nozaki, S.; Ohtani, Y.; Oka, T.; Otero-Santos, J.; Paiano, S.; Palatiello, M.; Paneque, D.; Paoletti, R.; Paredes, J. M.; Pavletić, L.; Peñil, P.; Perennes, C.; Persic, M.; Prada Moroni, P. G.; Prandini, E.; Priyadarshi, C.; Puljak, I.; Ribó, M.; Rico, J.; Righi, C.; Rugliancich, A.; Saha, L.; Sahakyan, N.; Saito, T.; Sakurai, S.; Satalecka, K.; Saturni, F. G.; Schmidt, K.; Schweizer, T.; Sitarek, J.; Šnidarić, I.; Sobczynska, D.; Spolon, A.; Stamerra, A.; Strom, D.; Strzys, M.; Suda, Y.; Surić, T.; Takahashi, M.; Tavecchio, F.; Temnikov, P.; Terzić, T.; Teshima, M.; Tosti, L.; Truzzi, S.; Tutone, A.; Ubach, S.; van Scherpenberg, J.; Vanzo, G.; Vazquez Acosta, M.; Ventura, S.; Verguilov, V.; Vigorito, C. F.; Vitale, V.; Vovk, I.; Will, M.; Wunderlich, C.; Zarić, D.; Baack, D.; Balbo, M.; Biederbeck, N.; Biland, A.; Bretz, T.; Buss, J.; Dorner, D.; Eisenberger, L.; Elsaesser, D.; Hildebrand, D.; Iotov, R.; Mannheim, K.; Neise, D.; Noethe, M.; Paravac, A.; Rhode, W.; Schleicher, B.; Sliusar, V.; Walter, R.; D'Ammando, F.; Horan, D.; Lien, A. Y.; Baloković, M.; Madejski, G. M.; Perri, M.; Verrecchia, F.; Leto, C.; Lähteenmäki, A.; Tornikoski, M.; Ramakrishnan, V.; Järvelä, E.; Vera, R. J. C.; Chamani, W.; Villata, M.; Raiteri, C. M.; Gupta, A. C.; Pandey, A.; Fuentes, A.; Agudo, I.; Casadio, C.; Semkov, E.; Ibryamov, S.; Marchini, A.; Bachev, R.; Strigachev, A.; Ovcharov, E.; Bozhilov, V.; Valcheva, A.; Zaharieva, E.; Damljanovic, G.; Vince, O.; Larionov, V. M.; Borman, G. A.; Grishina, T. S.; Hagen-Thorn, V. A.; Kopatskaya, E. N.; Larionova, E. G.; Larionova, L. V.; Morozova, D. A.; Nikiforova, A. A.; Savchenko, S. S.; Troitskiy, I. S.; Troitskaya, Y. V.; Vasilyev, A. A.; Merkulova, O. A.; Chen, W. P; Samal, M.; Lin, H. C.; Moody, J. W.; Sadun, A. C.; Jorstad, S. G.; Marscher, A. P.; Weaver, Z. R.; Feige, M.; Kania, J.; Kopp, M.; Kunkel, L.; Reinhart, D.; Scherbantin, A.; Schneider, L.; Lorey, C.; Acosta-Pulido, J. A.; Carnerero, M. I.; Carosati, D.; Kurtanidze, S. O.; Kurtanidze, O. M.; Nikolashvili, M. G.; Chigladze, R. A.; Ivanidze, R. Z.; Kimeridze, G. N.; Sigua, L. A.; Joner, M. D.; Spencer, M.; Giroletti, M.; Marchili, N.; Righini, S.; Rizzi, N.; Bonnoli, G.; MAGIC Collaboration; Fact Collaboration.-- This is an Open Access article, published by EDP Sciences, under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited., Aims. We present a detailed characterisation and theoretical interpretation of the broadband emission of the paradigmatic TeV blazar Mrk 421, with a special focus on the multi-band flux correlations. Methods. The dataset has been collected through an extensive multi-wavelength campaign organised between 2016 December and 2017 June. The instruments involved are MAGIC, FACT, Fermi-LAT, Swift, GASP-WEBT, OVRO, Medicina, and Metsahovi. Additionally, four deep exposures (several hours long) with simultaneous MAGIC and NuSTAR observations allowed a precise measurement of the falling segments of the two spectral components. Results. The very-high-energy (VHE; E 100 GeV) gamma rays and X-rays are positively correlated at zero time lag, but the strength and characteristics of the correlation change substantially across the various energy bands probed. The VHE versus X-ray fluxes follow dierent patterns, partly due to substantial changes in the Compton dominance for a few days without a simultaneous increase in the X-ray flux (i.e., orphan gamma-ray activity). Studying the broadband spectral energy distribution (SED) during the days including NuSTAR observations, we show that these changes can be explained within a one-zone leptonic model with a blob that increases its size over time. The peak frequency of the synchrotron bump varies by two orders of magnitude throughout the campaign. Our multi-band correlation study also hints at an anti-correlation between UV-optical and X-ray at a significance higher than 3. A VHE flare observed on MJD 57788 (2017 February 4) shows gamma-ray variability on multi-hour timescales, with a factor ten increase in the TeV flux but only a moderate increase in the keV flux. The related broadband SED is better described by a two-zone leptonic scenario rather than by a one-zone scenario.We find that the flare can be produced by the appearance of a compact second blob populated by high energetic electrons spanning a narrow range of Lorentz factors, from 0 min = 2104 to 0 max = 6105. © 2021 Georg Thieme Verlag. All rights reserved., The MAGIC Collaboration would like to thank the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias for the excellent working conditions at the Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos in La Palma. The financial support of the German BMBF, MPG and HGF; the Italian INFN and INAF; the Swiss National Fund SNF; the ERDF under the Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (MICINN) (FPA2017-87859-P, FPA2017-85668-P, FPA2017-82729-C6-5-R, FPA2017-90566-REDC, PID2019-104114RB-C31, PID2019-104114RB-C32, PID2019-105510GB-C31,PID2019-107847RB-C41, PID2019-107847RB-C42, PID2019-107847RB-C44, PID2019-107988GB-C22); the Indian Department of Atomic Energy; the Japanese ICRR, the University of Tokyo, JSPS, and MEXT; the Bulgarian Ministry of Education and Science, National RI Roadmap Project DO1-268/16.12.2019 and the Academy of Finland grant nr. 320045 is gratefully acknowledged. This work was also supported by the Spanish Centro de Excelencia “Severo Ochoa” SEV-2016-0588, SEV-2017-0709 and CEX2019-000920-S, and “María de Maeztu” CEX2019-000918-M, the Unidad de Excelencia “María de Maeztu” MDM-2015-0509-18-2 and the “la Caixa” Foundation (fellowship LCF/BQ/PI18/11630012) and by the CERCA program of the Generalitat de Catalunya; by the Croatian Science Foundation (HrZZ) Project IP-2016-06-9782 and the University of Rijeka Project 13.12.1.3.02; by the DFG Collaborative Research Centers SFB823/C4 and SFB876/C3; the Polish National Research Centre grant UMO-2016/22/M/ST9/00382; and by the Brazilian MCTIC, CNPq and FAPERJ. The important contributions from ETH Zurich grants ETH-10.08-2 and ETH-27.12-1 as well as the funding by the Swiss SNF and the German BMBF (Verbundforschung Astro- und Astroteilchenphysik) and HAP (Helmoltz Alliance for Astroparticle Physics) are gratefully acknowledged. Part of this work is supported by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) within the Collaborative Research Center SFB 876 “Providing Information by Resource-Constrained Analysis”, project C3. We are thankful for the very valuable contributions from E. Lorenz, D. Renker and G. Viertel during the early phase of the project. We thank the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias for allowing us to operate the telescope at the Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos in La Palma, the Max-Planck-Institut für Physik for providing us with the mount of the former HEGRA CT3 telescope, and the MAGIC collaboration for their support. The Fermi LAT Collaboration acknowledges generous ongoing support from a number of agencies and institutes that have supported both the development and the operation of the LAT as well as scientific data analysis. These include the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the Department of Energy in the United States, the Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique and the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique/Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules in France, the Agenzia Spaziale Italiana and the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare in Italy, the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT), High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK) and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) in Japan, and the K. A. Wallenberg Foundation, the Swedish Research Council and the Swedish National Space Board in Sweden. Additional support for science analysis during the operations phase is gratefully acknowledged from the Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica in Italy and the Centre National d’Études Spatiales in France. This work performed in part under DOE Contract DE-AC02-76SF00515. This work made use of data from the NuSTAR mission, a project led by the California Institute of Technology, managed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and funded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. We thank the NuSTAR Operations, Software, and Calibration teams for support with the execution and analysis of these observations. This research has made use of the NuSTAR Data Analysis Software (NuSTARDAS) jointly developed by the ASI Science Data Center (ASDC; Italy) and the California Institute of Technology (USA). This research has also made use of the XRT Data Analysis Software (XRTDAS) developed under the responsibility of the ASI Science Data Center (ASDC), Italy. A.A.E and D.P acknowledge support from the Deutsche Forschungs gemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) under Germany’s Excellence Strategy – EXC-2094 – 390783311. M. B. acknowledges support from the YCAA Prize Postdoctoral Fellowship and from the Black Hole Initiative at Harvard University, which is funded in part by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation (grant GBMF8273) and in part by the John Templeton Foundation. This publication makes use of data obtained at the Metsähovi Radio Observatory, operated by Aalto University in Finland. This research has made use of data from the OVRO 40-m monitoring program (Richards et al. 2011) which is supported in part by NASA grants NNX08AW31G, NNX11A043G, and NNX14AQ89G and NSF grants AST-0808050 and AST-1109911. I.A. acknowledges financial support from the Spanish “Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación” (MCINN) through the “Center of Excellence Severo Ochoa” award for the Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía-CSIC (SEV-2017-0709). Acquisition and reduction of the MAPCAT data was supported in part by MICINN through grants AYA2016-80889-P and PID2019-107847RB-C44. The MAPCAT observations were carried out at the German-Spanish Calar Alto Observatory, which is jointly operated by Junta de Andalucía and Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas. C.C. acknowledges support from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under the grant agreement No 771282. This research was partially supported by the Bulgarian National Science Fund of the Ministry of Education and Science under grants KP-06-H28/3 (2018), KP-06-H38/4 (2019) and KP-06-KITAJ/2 (2020). We acknowledge support by Bulgarian National Science Fund under grant DN18-10/2017 and National RI Roadmap Projects DO1-277/16.12.2019 and DO1-268/16.12.2019 of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Bulgaria. This research was supported by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development of the Republic of Serbia (contract No 451-03-68/2020-14/200002). G.D. acknowledges observing grant support from the Institute of Astronomy and Rozhen NAO BAS through the bilateral joint research project “Gaia Celestial Reference Frame (CRF) and fast variable astronomical objects” (2020–2022, head – G. Damljanovic). The BU group was supported in part by NASA Fermi guest investigator program grants 80NSSC19K1505 and 80NSSC20K1566. This study was based in part on observations conducted using the 1.8 m Perkins Telescope Observatory (PTO) in Arizona, which is owned and operated by Boston University. This article is partly based on observations made with the LCOGT Telescopes, one of whose nodes is located at the Observatorios de Canarias del IAC on the island of Tenerife in the Observatorio del Teide. This article is also based partly on data obtained with the STELLA robotic telescopes in Tenerife, an AIP facility jointly operated by AIP and IAC. The Abastumani team acknowledges financial support by the Shota Rustaveli National Science Foundation under contract FR-19-6174. Based on observations with the Medicina telescope operated by INAF – Istituto di Radioastronomia.

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38. First detection of VHE gamma-ray emission from TXS 1515-273, study of its X-ray variability and spectral energy distribution

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M. I. Martínez, V. Neustroev, Francesco Longo, Maria-Isabel Bernardos, Alessandro Marchini, Alicia Fattorini, Tomohiko Oka, Katsuaki Asano, U. Barres de Almeida, Damir Lelas, Adrian Biland, D. Hadasch, D. Miceli, Sanae Inoue, Giacomo D'Amico, Yating Chai, Stefan Cikota, Pawel Gliwny, I. Vovk, David A. Green, R. J. García López, Narek Sahakyan, Stefano Covino, Lea Heckmann, Francesco Gabriele Saturni, J. Becerra González, Armin Nabizadeh, F. D'Ammando, J. Rico, M. Vazquez Acosta, Nicola Giglietto, Alexander Hahn, Nikola Godinovic, Dorota Sobczyńska, G. Ferrara, G. Busetto, E. Molina, Satoshi Fukami, Shunsuke Sakurai, Jarred Gershon Green, Elisabetta Bissaldi, C. Perennes, D. Strom, Yusuke Suda, E. Colombo, Lab Saha, Alice Donini, Kazuma Ishio, Massimo Persic, L. A. Antonelli, Martin Makariev, Dominik Baack, P. G. Prada Moroni, J. Kushida, Ivica Puljak, Victor Moreno, Oscar Blanch, S. Ventura, C. Nigro, Carlo Vigorito, F. Leone, D. Dominis Prester, Alessandra Lamastra, J. A. Barrio, John Hoang, V. Verguilov, Tomoki Saito, J. M. Paredes, Antonio Stamerra, Giovanni Ceribella, Rodolfo Carosi, I. Jiménez, V. D'Elia, Pratik Majumdar, M. V. Fonseca, Daniel Morcuende, Jose Luis Contreras, Jenni Jormanainen, Vincenzo Vitale, T. Schweizer, A. Arbet Engels, S. Loporchio, A. Rugliancich, Marina Manganaro, A. De Angelis, M. Karjalainen, Sargis Gasparyan, Stefano Menchiari, Y. Kajiwara, Fabrizio Tavecchio, M. Palatiello, Manuela Mallamaci, Masahiro Teshima, S. Paiano, Luca Tosti, I. Snidaric, Mosè Mariotti, Martin Will, M. Orienti, S. Mićanović, Ashot Chilingarian, Wolfgang Rhode, Lluis Font, B. Machado de Oliveira Fraga, Tihomir Surić, Manuel Artero, Juan Cortina, Toshiaki Inada, Yuki Iwamura, Stefano Truzzi, D. Zarić, Saverio Lombardi, Francesco Dazzi, Simone Mender, E. Do Souto Espiñeira, Tomislav Terzić, Dario Hrupec, Pablo Peñil, Konstancja Satalecka, L. Maraschi, Giacomo Bonnoli, Sidika Merve Colak, Elina Lindfors, Marcos López-Moya, G. Maneva, Karl Mannheim, Wlodek Bednarek, L. Di Venere, Mitsunari Takahashi, Michele Doro, J. van Scherpenberg, Stefano Ansoldi, Daniel Mazin, Riccardo Paoletti, Christian Fruck, Ivana Batković, E. Prandini, Wrijupan Bhattacharyya, Julian Sitarek, Santiago Ubach, Y. Kobayashi, F. Di Pierro, Jürgen Besenrieder, Lorenzo Bellizzi, Francesco Giordano, Antonio Tutone, J. Otero-Santos, K. Nishijima, Jose Miguel Miranda, Kai Phillip Schmidt, A. Berti, Yoshiki Ohtani, Tjark Miener, David Paneque, D. Elsaesser, Jordi Delgado, Ž. Bošnjak, Matteo Cerruti, Chiara Righi, V. Fallah Ramazani, V. A. Acciari, P. Temnikov, P. Da Vela, Manuel Delfino, Lovro Pavletić, Moritz Hütten, Chaitanya Priyadarshi, Carolin Wunderlich, Ana Babić, C. Delgado Mendez, M. Strzys, Kari Nilsson, Camilla Maggio, Daniela Dorner, Gaia Vanzo, M. Gaug, J. Herrera, Koji Noda, Elisa Bernardini, Alessia Spolon, Léa Jouvin, A. López-Oramas, S. Cutini, Daniel Kerszberg, Marc Ribó, B. De Lotto, S. Nozaki, Andrés Baquero, Hidetoshi Kubo, Abelardo Moralejo, E. Moretti, D. Depaoli, Bernd Schleicher, M. Minev, R. Mirzoyan, Ciro Bigongiari, M. Garczarczyk, R. López-Coto, German Research Foundation, Swiss National Science Foundation, Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades (España), Department of Atomic Energy (India), Institute for Cosmic Ray Research (Japan), University of Tokyo, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (Japan), Ministry of Education and Research (Romania), Academy of Finland, La Caixa, Croatian Science Foundation, University of Rijeka, Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange, European Commission, Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (España), Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica, Acciari, Va, Ansoldi, S, Antonelli, La, Engels, Aa, Artero, M, Asano, K, Baack, D, Babic, A, Baquero, A, de Almeida, Ub, Barrio, Ja, Batkovic, I, Gonzalez, Jb, Bednarek, W, Bellizzi, L, Bernardini, E, Bernardos, M, Berti, A, Besenrieder, J, Bhattacharyya, W, Bigongiari, C, Biland, A, Blanch, O, Bosnjak, Z, Busetto, G, Carosi, R, Ceribell, G, Cerruti, M, Chai, Y, Chilingarian, A, Cikota, S, Colak, Sm, Colombo, E, Contreras, Jl, Cortina, J, Covino, S, D'Amico, G, D'Elia, V, Da Vela, P, Dazzi, F, De Angelis, A, De Lotto, B, Delfino, M, Delgado, J, Mendez, Cd, Depaoli, D, Di Pierro, F, Di Venere, L, Espineira, Ed, Prester, Dd, Donini, A, Dorner, D, Doro, M, Elsaesser, D, Ramazani, Vf, Fattorini, A, Ferrara, G, Fonseca, Mv, Font, L, Fruck, C, Fukami, S, Lopez, Rjg, Garczarczyk, M, Gasparyan, S, Gaug, M, Giglietto, N, Giordano, F, Gliwny, P, Godinovic, N, Green, Jg, Green, D, Hadasch, D, Hahn, A, Heckmann, L, Herrera, J, Hoang, J, Hrupec, D, Hutten, M, Inada, T, Inoue, S, Ishio, K, Iwamura, Y, Jimenez, I, Jormanainen, J, Jouvin, L, Kajiwara, Y, Karjalainen, M, Kerszberg, D, Kobayashi, Y, Kubo, H, Kushida, J, Lamastra, A, Lelas, D, Leone, F, Lindfors, E, Lombardi, S, Longo, F, Lopez-Coto, R, Lopez-Moya, M, Lopez-Oramas, A, Loporchio, S, Fraga, Bmd, Maggio, C, Majumdar, P, Makariev, M, Mallamaci, M, Maneva, G, Manganaro, M, Mannheim, K, Maraschi, L, Mariotti, M, Martinez, M, Mazin, D, Menchiari, S, Mender, S, Micanovic, S, Miceli, D, Miener, T, Minev, M, Miranda, Jm, Mirzoyan, R, Molina, E, Moralejo, A, Morcuende, D, Moreno, V, Moretti, E, Neustroev, V, Nigro, C, Nilsson, K, Nishijima, K, Noda, K, Nozaki, S, Ohtani, Y, Oka, T, Otero-Santos, J, Paiano, S, Palatiello, M, Paneque, D, Paoletti, R, Paredes, Jm, Pavletic, L, Penil, P, Perennes, C, Moroni, Pgp, Prandini, E, Priyadarshi, C, Puljak, I, Rhode, W, Ribo, M, Rico, J, Righi, C, Rugliancich, A, Saha, L, Sahakyan, N, Saito, T, Sakurai, S, Satalecka, K, Saturni, Fg, Schleicher, B, Schmidt, K, Schweizer, T, Sitarek, J, Snidaric, I, Sobczynska, D, Spolon, A, Stamerra, A, Strom, D, Strzys, M, Suda, Y, Suric, T, Takahashi, M, Tavecchio, F, Temnikov, P, Terzic, T, Teshima, M, Tosti, L, Truzzi, S, Tutone, A, Ubach, S, Vanscherpenberg, J, Vanzo, G, Acosta, Mv, Ventura, S, Verguilov, V, Vigorito, Cf, Vitale, V, Vovk, I, Will, M, Wunderlich, C, Zaric, D, Bissaldi, E, Bonnoli, G, Cutini, S, D'Ammando, F, Nabizadeh, A, Marchini, A, and Orienti, M

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Photon, 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, active [Galaxies], Radiation mechanisms: non-thermal, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, galaxies: active, Objects: individual: TXS 1515–273, FOS: Physical sciences, Flux, Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, 7. Clean energy, law.invention, law, objects: individual: TXS 1515-273, 0103 physical sciences, individual: TXS 1515-273 [Objects], MAGIC (telescope), Blazar, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Physics, non-thermal [Radiation mechanisms], individual: TXS 1515–273 [objects], Gamma ray, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Synchrotron, Crab Nebula, Space and Planetary Science, ddc:520, Spectral energy distribution, Física nuclear, objects: individual: TXS 1515–273, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract

Full list of authors: Acciari, V. A.; Ansoldi, S.; Antonelli, L. A.; Arbet Engels, A. ; Artero, M.; Asano, K.; Baack, D.; Babić, A.; Baquero, A.; Barres de Almeida, U.; Barrio, J. A.; Batković, I.; Becerra González, J.; Bednarek, W.; Bellizzi, L.; Bernardini, E.; Bernardos, M.; Berti, A.; Besenrieder, J.; Bhattacharyya, W.; Bigongiari, C.; Biland, A.; Blanch, O.; Bošnjak, Ž.; Busetto, G.; Carosi, R.; Ceribella, G.; Cerruti, M.; Chai, Y.; Chilingarian, A.; Cikota, S.; Colak, S. M.; Colombo, E.; Contreras, J. L.; Cortina, J.; Covino, S.; D'Amico, G.; D'Elia, V.; da Vela, P.; Dazzi, F.; de Angelis, A.; de Lotto, B.; Delfino, M.; Delgado, J.; Delgado Mendez, C.; Depaoli, D.; Pierro, F. Di; Venere, L. Di; Do Souto Espiñeira, E.; Dominis Prester, D.; Donini, A.; Dorner, D.; Doro, M.; Elsaesser, D.; Fallah Ramazani, V.; Fattorini, A.; Ferrara, G.; Fonseca, M. V.; Font, L.; Fruck, C.; Fukami, S.; García López, R. J.; Garczarczyk, M.; Gasparyan, S.; Gaug, M.; Giglietto, N.; Giordano, F.; Gliwny, P.; Godinović, N.; Green, J. G.; Green, D.; Hadasch, D.; Hahn, A.; Heckmann, L.; Herrera, J.; Hoang, J.; Hrupec, D.; Hütten, M.; Inada, T.; Inoue, S.; Ishio, K.; Iwamura, Y.; Jiménez, I.; Jormanainen, J.; Jouvin, L.; Kajiwara, Y.; Karjalainen, M.; Kerszberg, D.; Kobayashi, Y.; Kubo, H.; Kushida, J.; Lamastra, A.; Lelas, D.; Leone, F.; Lindfors, E.; Lombardi, S.; Longo, F.; López-Coto, R.; López-Moya, M.; López-Oramas, A.; Loporchio, S.; Machado de Oliveira Fraga, B.; Maggio, C.; Majumdar, P.; Makariev, M.; Mallamaci, M.; Maneva, G.; Manganaro, M.; Mannheim, K.; Maraschi, L.; Mariotti, M.; Martínez, M.; Mazin, D.; Menchiari, S.; Mender, S.; Mićanović, S.; Miceli, D.; Miener, T.; Minev, M.; Miranda, J. M.; Mirzoyan, R.; Molina, E.; Moralejo, A.; Morcuende, D.; Moreno, V.; Moretti, E.; Neustroev, V.; Nigro, C.; Nilsson, K.; Nishijima, K.; Noda, K.; Nozaki, S.; Ohtani, Y.; Oka, T.; Otero-Santos, J.; Paiano, S.; Palatiello, M.; Paneque, D.; Paoletti, R.; Paredes, J. M.; Pavletić, L.; Peñil, P.; Perennes, C.; Persic, M.; Prada Moroni, P. G.; Prandini, E.; Priyadarshi, C.; Puljak, I.; Rhode, W.; Ribó, M.; Rico, J.; Righi, C.; Rugliancich, A.; Saha, L.; Sahakyan, N.; Saito, T.; Sakurai, S.; Satalecka, K.; Saturni, F. G.; Schleicher, B.; Schmidt, K.; Schweizer, T.; Sitarek, J.; Šnidarić, I.; Sobczynska, D.; Spolon, A.; Stamerra, A.; Strom, D.; Strzys, M.; Suda, Y.; Surić, T.; Takahashi, M.; Tavecchio, F.; Temnikov, P.; Terzić, T.; Teshima, M.; Tosti, L.; Truzzi, S.; Tutone, A.; Ubach, S.; van Scherpenberg, J.; Vanzo, G.; Vazquez Acosta, M.; Ventura, S.; Verguilov, V.; Vigorito, C. F.; Vitale, V.; Vovk, I.; Will, M.; Wunderlich, C.; Zarić, D.; Bissaldi, E.; Bonnoli, G.; Cutini, S.; D'Ammando, F.; Nabizadeh, A.; Marchini, A.; Orienti, M.; MAGIC Collaboration., We report here on the first multiwavelength (MWL) campaign on the blazar TXS 1515-273, undertaken in 2019 and extending from radio to very-high-energy gamma-rays (VHE). Up until now, this blazar had not been the subject of any detailed MWL observations. It has a rather hard photon index at GeV energies and was considered a candidate extreme high-synchrotron-peaked source. MAGIC observations resulted in the first-time detection of the source in VHE with a statistical significance of 7.6σ. The average integral VHE flux of the source is 6 ± 1 per cent of the Crab nebula flux above 400 GeV. X-ray coverage was provided by Swift-XRT, XMM-Newton, and NuSTAR. The long continuous X-ray observations were separated by ∼9 h, both showing clear hour scale flares. In the XMM-Newton data, both the rise and decay time-scales are longer in the soft X-ray than in the hard X-ray band, indicating the presence of a particle cooling regime. The X-ray variability time-scales were used to constrain the size of the emission region and the strength of the magnetic field. The data allowed us to determine the synchrotron peak frequency and classify the source as a flaring high, but not extreme synchrotron-peaked object. Considering the constraints and variability patterns from the X-ray data, we model the broad-band spectral energy distribution. We applied a simple one-zone model, which could not reproduce the radio emission and the shape of the optical emission, and a two-component leptonic model with two interacting components, enabling us to reproduce the emission from radio to VHE band. © 2021 The Author(s) Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Royal Astronomical Society., The financial support of the German BMBF, MPG, and HGF; the Italian INFN and INAF; the Swiss National Fund SNF; the ERDF under the Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovacion (MICINN) (FPA201787859-P, FPA2017-85668-P, FPA2017-82729-C6-5-R, FPA201790566-REDC, PID2019-104114RB-C31, PID2019-104114RB-C32, PID2019-105510GB-C31, PID2019-107847RB-C41, PID2019107847RB-C42, PID2019-107847RB-C44, PID2019-107988GBC22); the Indian Department of Atomic Energy; the Japanese ICRR, the University of Tokyo, JSPS, and MEXT; the Bulgarian Ministry of Education and Science, National RI Roadmap Project DO1268/16.12.2019 and the Academy of Finland grant nr. 317637 and 320045 are gratefully acknowledged. This work was also supported by the Spanish Centro de Excelencia `Severo Ochoa' SEV-20160588, SEV-2017-0709 and CEX2019-000920-S, and `Maria de Maeztu' CEX2019-000918-M, the Unidad de Excelencia `Maria de Maeztu' MDM-2015-0509-18-2 and the `la Caixa' Foundation (fellowshipLCF/BQ/PI18/11630012), by the Croatian Science Foundation (HrZZ) Project IP-2016-06-9782 and the University of Rijeka Project 13.12.1.3.02, by the DFG Collaborative Research Centers SFB823/C4 and SFB876/C3, the Polish National Research Centre grant UMO-2016/22/M/ST9/00382 and by the Brazilian MCTIC, CNPq, and FAPERJ. The Fermi-LAT Collaboration acknowledges generous ongoing support from a number of agencies and institutes that have supported both the development and the operation of the LAT as well as scientific data analysis. These include the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the Department of Energy in the United States, theCommissariat à l'Energie Atomique and the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique/Institut National de Physique Nucleaire et de Physique des Particules in France, the Agenzia Spaziale Italiana and the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare in Italy, the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT), High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK) and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) in Japan, and the K. A. Wallenberg Foundation, the Swedish Research Council and the Swedish National Space Board in Sweden. Additional support for science analysis during the operations phase from the following agencies is also gratefully acknowledged: the Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica in Italy and the Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales in France.

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39. Searching for VHE gamma-ray emission associated with IceCube neutrino alerts using FACT, H.E.S.S., MAGIC, and VERITAS

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Konstancja, Satalecka, Acciari, Victor A., Stefano, Ansoldi, Lucio Angelo Antonelli, Axel Arbet Engels, Manuel, Artero, Katsuaki, Asano, Dominik, Baack, Ana, Babic, Andr('(e))s, Baquero, Ulisses Barres de Almeida, Juan Abel Barrio, Ivana, Batkovi('(c)), Josefa Becerra Gonzalez, Wlodek, Bednarek, Lorenzo, Bellizzi, Elisa, Bernardini, Maria-Isabel, Bernardos, Alessio, Berti, Jürgen, Besenrieder, Wrijupan, Bhattacharyya, Ciro, Bigongiari, Adrian, Biland, Oscar, Blanch, Hendrik, Bökenkamp, Giacomo, Bonnoli, Zeljka, Bosnjak, Giovanni, Busetto, Roberto, Carosi, Giovanni, Ceribella, Matteo, Cerruti, Yating, Chai, Ashot, Chilingarian, Stefan, Cikota, Sidika Merve Colak, Eduardo, Colombo, Jose Luis Contreras, Juan, Cortina, Stefano, Covino, Giacomo D( extquotesingle)Amico, Valerio D( extquotesingle)Elia, Paolo Da Vela, Francesco, Dazzi, Alessandro De Angelis, Barbara De Lotto, Manuel, Delfino, Jordi, Delgado, Carlos Delgado Mendez, Davide, Depaoli, Federico Di Pierro, Leonardo Di Venere, Elia Do Souto Espi(~(n))eira, Dijana Dominis Prester, Alice, Donini, Daniela, Dorner, Michele, Doro, Dominik, Elsaesser, Vandad Fallah Ramazani, Alicia, Fattorini, Maria Victoria Fonseca, Lluis, Font, Christian, Fruck, Satoshi, Fukami, Yasushi, Fukazawa, Garc('(i))a L('(o))pez, Ramon J., Markus, Garczarczyk, Sargis, Gasparyan, Markus, Gaug, Giglietto, Nicola, Francesco, Giordano, Pawel, Gliwny, Nikola, Godinovic, David, Green, Jarred Gershon Green, Daniela, Hadasch, Alexander, Hahn, Lea, Heckmann, Javier, Herrera, John, Hoang, Dario, Hrupec, Moritz, Hütten, Tomohiro, Inada, Kazuma, Ishio, Yuki, Iwamura, Irene Jim('(e))nez Mart('(i))nez, Jenni, Jormanainen, L('(e))a, Jouvin, Marie, Karjalainen, Daniel, Kerszberg, Yukiho, Kobayashi, Hidetoshi, Kubo, Junko, Kushida, Alessandra, Lamastra, Damir, Lelas, Francesco, Leone, Elina, Lindfors, Lena, Linhoff, Saverio, Lombardi, Francesco, Longo, Ruben, Lopez-Coto, Marcos, L('(o))pez-Moya, Alicia, L('(o))pez-Oramas, Loporchio, Serena, Bernardo Machado de Oliveira Fraga, Camilla, Maggio, Pratik, Majumdar, Martin, Makariev, Manuela, Mallamaci, Galina, Maneva, Marina, Manganaro, Karl, Mannheim, Laura, Maraschi, Mos(`(e)), Mariotti, Manel, Martinez, Daniel, Mazin, Stefano, Menchiari, Simone, Mender, Sa( (s))a Mi('(c))anovi('(c)), Davide, Miceli, Tjark, Miener, Jose Miguel Miranda, Razmik, Mirzoyan, Edgar, Molina, Abelardo, Moralejo, Daniel, Morcuende, Victoria, Moreno, Elena, Moretti, Takeshi, Nakamori, Lara, Nava, Vitaly, Neustroev, Cosimo, Nigro, Kari, Nilsson, Kyoshi, Nishijima, Koji, Noda, Seiya, Nozaki, Yoshiki, Ohtani, Tomohiko, Oka, Jorge, Otero-Santos, Simona, Paiano, Michele, Palatiello, David, Paneque, Riccardo, Paoletti, Paredes, Josep M., Lovro, Pavleti('(c)), Pablo, Pe(~(n))il, Massimo, Persic, Marine, Pihet, Pier Giorgio Prada Moroni, Elisa, Prandini, Chaitanya, Priyadarshi, Ivica, Puljak, Wolfgang, Rhode, Marc, Rib('(o)), Javier, Rico, Chiara, Righi, Andrea, Rugliancich, Narek, Sahakyan, Takayuki, Saito, Shunsuke, Sakurai, Francesco Gabriele Saturni, Bernd, Schleicher, Kevin, Schmidt, Thomas, Schweizer, Julian, Sitarek, Iva, ( (S))nidari('(c)), Dorota, Sobczy('(n))ska, Alessia, Spolon, Antonio, Stamerra, Jelena Stri( (s))kovi('(c)), Derek, Strom, Marcel, Strzys, Yusuke, Suda, Tihomir, Suri('(c)), Mitsunari, Takahashi, Ryuji, Takeishi, Fabrizio, Tavecchio, Petar, Temnikov, Tomislav, Terzic, Masahiro, Teshima, Luca, Tosti, Stefano, Truzzi, Antonio, Tutone, Santiago, Ubach, Juliane van Scherpenberg, Gaia, Vanzo, Monica VAZQUEZ ACOSTA, Sofia, Ventura, Vassil, Verguilov, Carlo Francesco Vigorito, Vincenzo, Vitale, Ievgen, Vovk, Martin, Will, Carolin, Wunderlich, Tokonatsu, Yamamoto, Darko, Zari('(c)), Matteo, Balbo, Thomas, Bretz, Jens, Buss, Laura, Eisenberger, Dorothee, Hildebrand, Roman, Iotov, Adelina, Kalenski, Dominik, Neise, Maximilian, Noethe, Aleksander, Paravac, Vitalii, Sliusar, Roland, Walter, Rasha, Abbasi, Markus, Ackermann, Jenni, Adams, Juanan, Aguilar, Ahlers, M., Maryon, Ahrens, Cyril Martin Alispach, Antonio Augusto Alves Junior, Najia Moureen Binte Amin, Rui, An, Karen, Andeen, Tyler, Anderson, Gisela, Anton, Carlos, Arguelles, Yosuke, Ashida, Spencer, Axani, Xinhua, Bai, Aswathi Balagopal, V., Anastasia Maria Barbano, Barwick, S. 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S., Kleopas, Shiningayamwe, Rachel, Simoni, Atreyee, Sinha, Helene, Sol, Hugh, Spackman, Andreas, Specovius, Samuel Timothy Spencer, Marion, Spir-Jacob, Lukasz, Stawarz, Riaan, Steenkamp, Christian, Stegmann, Simon, Steinmassl, Constantin, Steppa, Lei, Sun, Tadayuki, Takahashi, Takaaki, Tanaka, Thomas, Tavernier, Andrew, Taylor, Regis, Terrier, Hannes, Thiersen, Charles, Thorpe-Morgan, Martin, Tluczykont, Lenka, Tomankova, Michelle, Tsirou, Naomi, Tsuji, Richard, Tuffs, Yasunobu, Uchiyama, Johann van der Walt, Christopher van Eldik, Carlo van Rensburg, Brian van Soelen, George, Vasileiadis, Johannes, Veh, Christo, Venter, Pascal, Vincent, Jacco, Vink, Völk, Heinrich J., Stefan, Wagner, Jason John Watson, Felix, Werner, Richard, White, Alicja, Wierzcholska, Yu Wun Wong, Hend, Yassin, Anke, Yusafzai, Michael, Zacharias, Roberta, Zanin, Davit, Zargaryan, Andrzej, Zdziarski, Andreas, Zech, Sylvia, Zhu, Andreas, Zmija, Samuel, Zouari, Natalia, Zywucka, The FACT Collaboration, The H.E.S.S. Collaboration, The IceCube Collaboration, The MAGIC Collaboration, The VERITAS Collaboration, and Współautorami artykułu są członkowie Magic Collaboration, IceCube Collaboration, FACT Collaboration, H.E.S.S. Collaboration, VERITAS Collaboration w liczbie 808

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Physics, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Point source, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Gamma ray, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, FOS: Physical sciences, IACT, Astrophysics, law.invention, High Energy Physics - Experiment, Telescope, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), law, HESS - Abteilung Hinton, ddc:530, High Energy Physics::Experiment, MAGIC (telescope), Neutrino, Blazar, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Cherenkov radiation
Abstract

The realtime follow-up of neutrino events is a promising approach to search for astrophysical neutrino sources. It has so far provided compelling evidence for a neutrino point source: the flaring gamma-ray blazar TXS 0506+056 observed in coincidence with the high-energy neutrino IceCube-170922A detected by IceCube. The detection of very-high-energy gamma rays (VHE, $\mathrm{E} > 100\,\mathrm{GeV}$) from this source helped establish the coincidence and constrained the modeling of the blazar emission at the time of the IceCube event. The four major imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescope arrays (IACTs) - FACT, H.E.S.S., MAGIC, and VERITAS - operate an active follow-up program of target-of-opportunity observations of neutrino alerts sent by IceCube. This program has two main components. One are the observations of known gamma-ray sources around which a cluster of candidate neutrino events has been identified by IceCube (Gamma-ray Follow-Up, GFU). Second one is the follow-up of single high-energy neutrino candidate events of potential astrophysical origin such as IceCube-170922A. GFU has been recently upgraded by IceCube in collaboration with the IACT groups. We present here recent results from the IACT follow-up programs of IceCube neutrino alerts and a description of the upgraded IceCube GFU system., Presented at the 37th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC 2021). See arXiv:2107.06966 for all IceCube contributions. See arXiv:2108.05257 for all H.E.S.S. contributions

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2022

40. An excessively massive thick disc of the enormous edge-on lenticular galaxy NGC 7572

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Anastasia V. Kasparova, Igor Chilingarian, and Ivan Yu. Katkov

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Physics, Stellar population, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Milky Way, FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics, Radius, Mass ratio, Disc galaxy, Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, 01 natural sciences, Galaxy, law.invention, Telescope, Stars, Space and Planetary Science, law, Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA), 0103 physical sciences, Astrophysics::Earth and Planetary Astrophysics, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics
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Galactic discs are known to have a complex multilayer structure. An in-depth study of the stellar population properties of the thin and thick components can elucidate the formation and evolution of disc galaxies. Even though thick discs are ubiquitous, their origin is still debated. Here we probe the thick disc formation scenarios by investigating NGC7572, an enormous edge-on galaxy having $R_{25}\approx 25$ kpc and $V_{\rm rot} \approx 370$ km s$^{-1}$, which substantially exceeds the Milky Way size and mass. We analysed DECaLS archival imaging and found that the disc of NGC7572 contains two flaring stellar discs (a thin and a thick disc) with similar radial scales. We collected deep long-slit spectroscopic data using the 6m Russian BTA telescope and analysed them with a novel technique. We first reconstructed a non-parametric stellar line-of-sight velocity distribution along the radius of the galaxy and then fitted it with two kinematic components accounting for the orbital distribution of stars in thin and thick discs. The old thick disc turned out to be 2.7 times as massive as the intermediate-age thin component, $1.6\times 10^{11}$ $\textrm{M}_{\odot}$ vs. $5.9\times10^{10}$ $\textrm{M}_{\odot}$, which is very unusual. The different duration of the formation epochs evidenced by the [Mg/Fe] values of +0.3 and +0.15 dex for the thick and thin discs respectively, their kinematics and the mass ratio suggest that in NGC7572 we observe a rapidly formed very massive thick disc and an underdeveloped thin disc, whose growth ended prematurely due to the exhaustion of the cold gas likely because of environmental effects., Comment: 16 pages, 10 figures, submitted to MNRAS

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2020
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41. MAGIC observations of HESS J1809-193 using the Very Large Zenith Angle technique at energies above TeV

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Wrijupan Bhattacharyya, Chiara Righi, Jordi Delgado, M. I. Martínez, Giacomo D'Amico, Chaitanya Priyadarshi, Manuel Artero, Francesco Longo, Katsuaki Asano, Andrés Baquero, Tomislav Terzić, Maria Victoria Fonseca, Kevin Schmidt, Yusuke Suda, Sidika Merve Colak, Carlo Vigorito, Daniel Kerszberg, Jarred Gershon Green, Davide Depaoli, Monica Vazquez Acosta, Nikola Godinovic, Elia Do Souto Espiñeira, Lena Linhoff, Pratik Majumdar, Leonardo Di Venere, Louis Antonelli, Jürgen Besenrieder, Francesco Giordano, Antonio Tutone, Stefano Menchiari, Michele Palatiello, Paolo Da Vela, Junko Kushida, David H. Green, Lovro Pavletić, Vandad Fallah Ramazani, Francesco Dazzi, Javier Rico, Tokonatsu Yamamoto, Martin Makariev, Josep M. Paredes, Antonio Stamerra, Martin Will, Vitaly Neustroev, Oscar Blanch, Tihomir Surić, Carolin Wunderlich, John Hoang, Marc Ribó, Santiago Ubach, Iva Šnidarić, Lorenzo Bellizzi, Jorge Otero-Santos, Luca Tosti, Ciro Bigongiari, Markus Garczarczyk, Kazuma Ishio, Seiya Nozaki, Manuel Delfino, Ulisses Barres de Almeida, Marina Manganaro, Manuela Mallamaci, Valerio D'Elia, Satoshi Fukami, Hidetoshi Kubo, Tomohiro Inada, Victor A. Acciari, Yating Chai, Dario Hrupec, Stefan Cikota, Alessandro De Angelis, G. Maneva, Abelardo Moralejo, Elisa Prandini, Elena Moretti, Pawel Gliwny, Nicola Giglietto, Mitsunari Takahashi, Masahiro Teshima, Massimo Persic, Adrian Biland, Konstancja Satalecka, Moritz Hütten, Juan Abel Barrio, Michele Doro, Serena Loporchio, Victoria Moreno, Karl Mannheim, Darko Zarić, Narek Sahakyan, Stefano Truzzi, Lluis Font, Tomohiko Oka, Ashot Chilingarian, Maria-Isabel Bernardos, Alice Donini, Josefa González, Alicia López-Oramas, Bernd Schleicher, Roberto Carosi, Carlos Delgado Mendez, Pablo Peñil, Marcel Strzys, Edgar Molina, Tjark Miener, Giacomo Bonnoli, Kyoshi Nishijima, David Paneque, Davide Miceli, Ana Babić, Simona Paiano, Thomas Schweizer, Simone Mender, Javier Herrera, P. G. Prada Moroni, Alessia Spolon, Alicia Fattorini, Léa Jouvin, Cosimo Nigro, Stefano Ansoldi, Jelena Strišković, Sofia Ventura, Alexander Hahn, Riccardo Paoletti, Markus Gaug, Lara Nava, Saša Mićanović, Alessandra Lamastra, Takeshi Nakamori, Daniel Morcuende, Jose Luis Contreras, Vassil Verguilov, Fabrizio Tavecchio, Barbara De Lotto, Camilla Maggio, Daniela Dorner, Alessio Berti, Eduardo Colombo, Ivana Batković, Vincenzo Vitale, Gaia Vanzo, Axel Arbet Engels, Juan Cortina, Marine Pihet, Petar Temnikov, Koji Noda, Elisa Bernardini, D. Dominis Prester, Hendrik Bökenkamp, Francesco Leone, Jenni Jormanainen, Sargis Gasparyan, Ryuji Takeishi, D. M. Strom, Kari Nilsson, Wolfgang Rhode, Bernardo Machado de Oliveira Fraga, Giovanni Busetto, Marcos López-Moya, Wlodek Bednarek, Federico Di Pierro, Ruben Lopez-Coto, Irene Jiménez Martínez, Shunsuke Sakurai, Jose Miguel Miranda, Juliane van Scherpenberg, Matteo Cerruti, Yasushi Fukazawa, Ievgen Vovk, Mosè Mariotti, Ivica Puljak, Saverio Lombardi, Andrea Rugliancich, Ramon J. García López, Marie Karjalainen, Dominik Elsaesser, Razmik Mirzoyan, Damir Lelas, Lea Heckmann, Francesco Gabriele Saturni, Dorota Sobczyńska, Zeljka Bosnjak, L. Maraschi, Elina Lindfors, Daniel Mazin, Stefano Covino, Giovanni Ceribella, Takashi Saito, Dominik Baack, Yukiho Kobayashi, Christian Fruck, Yuki Iwamura, Julian Sitarek, Daniela Hadasch, and Yoshiki Ohtani

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Astroparticle physics, Physics, Supernova, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Gamma ray, Cosmic ray, MAGIC (telescope), Astrophysics, Zenith
Abstract

The origin of Galactic Cosmic rays (GCRs), whose spectrum extends to PeV energies, is one of the longest-standing problems in astroparticle physics. One of the main sources of GCRs are regarded to be Supernova remnants (SNRs). While SNRs are known to accelerate protons, so far there is no evidence that SNRs can accelerate CRs to PeV energies. Providing that ~10% of the parent Cosmic ray energy is converted to gamma rays, the gamma-ray spectrum extending up to ~100 TeV would be a signature of a so-called Galactic PeVatron, an object responsible for the production of protons up to the knee of the Cosmic ray spectrum. The current multi-wavelength data indicate that HESS J1809-193 is one of the most promising Galactic PeVatron candidates. So far, no firm identification on the source nature has been established as there are several possible counterparts at lower energies; one of them being SNR G11.0−0.0. We report here the results of an observational campaign performed by the MAGIC telescopes on HESS J1809-193 since 2019 in the very-high-energy gamma-ray domain (E>100 GeV). The data were obtained with the Very Large Zenith Angle (VLZA) technique, which increased the collection area significantly to about one square kilometer. We used ~60 hours of collected VLZA data to explore the spectrum and the morphology of the source at energies above several TeV., PoS: Proceedings of Science, 395, ISSN:1824-8039, 37th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC 2021)

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2022
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42. Recent MAGIC results on Galactic binaries

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Pablo Peñil, Saša Mićanović, Ivana Batković, Francesco Longo, Sargis Gasparyan, Wolfgang Rhode, Giovanni Busetto, Daniel Kerszberg, Shunsuke Sakurai, Marie Karjalainen, Tomohiko Oka, Mosè Mariotti, Kyoshi Nishijima, Tihomir Surić, Giacomo Bonnoli, Takeshi Nakamori, P. G. Prada Moroni, Matteo Cerruti, Elia Do Souto Espiñeira, Pratik Majumdar, Barbara De Lotto, Yuki Iwamura, Camilla Maggio, Daniela Dorner, Alexander Hahn, Lena Linhoff, Tjark Miener, L. Maraschi, Elina Lindfors, Gaia Vanzo, Dominik Elsaesser, Razmik Mirzoyan, David Paneque, John Hoang, Christian Fruck, Thomas Schweizer, Marc Ribó, Daniel Mazin, Damir Lelas, Jelena Strišković, Yasushi Fukazawa, Daniel Morcuende, Jose Luis Contreras, Dario Hrupec, Manuela Mallamaci, Martin Will, Saverio Lombardi, Manuel Artero, Andrea Rugliancich, Stefano Ansoldi, Jorge Otero-Santos, Petar Temnikov, Koji Noda, Karl Mannheim, Massimo Persic, Lea Heckmann, Francesco Gabriele Saturni, Riccardo Paoletti, Marine Pihet, Marina Manganaro, Elisa Bernardini, Alessandro De Angelis, Markus Gaug, Martin Makariev, Hidetoshi Kubo, Tomohiro Inada, Dorota Sobczyńska, Mitsunari Takahashi, Oscar Blanch, Juan Cortina, Vandad Fallah Ramazani, Alicia López-Oramas, Josep M. Paredes, Louis Antonelli, Antonio Stamerra, Elena Moretti, D. Dominis Prester, Lluis Font, Tomislav Terzić, Seiya Nozaki, Konstancja Satalecka, Michele Doro, Julian Sitarek, Juliane van Scherpenberg, Michele Palatiello, Stefano Covino, Ivica Puljak, Serena Loporchio, Jenni Jormanainen, Daniela Hadasch, Katsuaki Asano, Giacomo D'Amico, Davide Depaoli, Hendrik Bökenkamp, Alice Donini, Bernardo Machado de Oliveira Fraga, Yoshiki Ohtani, Jordi Delgado, Maria Victoria Fonseca, Iva Šnidarić, Ž. Bošnjak, Roberto Carosi, Nikola Godinovic, Lara Nava, Ramon J. García López, Kevin Schmidt, Alessio Berti, Abelardo Moralejo, Giovanni Ceribella, Francesco Dazzi, Fabrizio Tavecchio, Ievgen Vovk, Davide Miceli, Jarred Gershon Green, Takashi Saito, Adrian Biland, Alessia Spolon, Eduardo Colombo, Junko Kushida, Lovro Pavletić, Léa Jouvin, Juan Abel Barrio, Marcel Strzys, Dominik Baack, Axel Arbet Engels, Narek Sahakyan, Vassil Verguilov, Yukiho Kobayashi, Carlos Delgado Mendez, Carolin Wunderlich, Ryuji Takeishi, Bernd Schleicher, Edgar Molina, D. M. Strom, Kari Nilsson, Simone Mender, Javier Herrera, Leonardo Di Venere, Andrés Baquero, Jürgen Besenrieder, Francesco Giordano, Antonio Tutone, Manuel Delfino, Ulisses Barres de Almeida, Ana Babić, Ciro Bigongiari, Yusuke Suda, Carlo Vigorito, Wrijupan Bhattacharyya, Javier Rico, Tokonatsu Yamamoto, Vitaly Neustroev, Luca Tosti, Valerio D'Elia, G. Maneva, Victor A. Acciari, Moritz Hütten, Paolo Da Vela, David H. Green, Marcos López-Moya, Wlodek Bednarek, Federico Di Pierro, Ruben Lopez-Coto, Irene Jiménez Martínez, Jose Miguel Miranda, Alessandra Lamastra, Vincenzo Vitale, Josefa González, M. I. Martínez, Maria-Isabel Bernardos, Simona Paiano, Alicia Fattorini, Sidika Merve Colak, Francesco Leone, Monica Vazquez Acosta, Yating Chai, Stefan Cikota, Pawel Gliwny, Nicola Giglietto, Victoria Moreno, Darko Zarić, Satoshi Fukami, Lorenzo Bellizzi, Masahiro Teshima, Cosimo Nigro, Sofia Ventura, Markus Garczarczyk, Kazuma Ishio, Santiago Ubach, Chiara Righi, Elisa Prandini, Chaitanya Priyadarshi, Ashot Chilingarian, Stefano Menchiari, and Stefano Truzzi

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Physics, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Gamma ray, Binary number, MAGIC (telescope), Astrophysics, Compact star, Radiation
Abstract

X-ray and gamma-ray binaries are systems consisting of a compact object and normally a non-degenerate companion star. Most of these sources have been shown to emit radiation in a broad frequency range, from radio up to X-rays and sometimes gamma rays. We report on recent results in very high-energy gamma rays above 100 GeV obtained by the MAGIC Collaboration for the Galactic X-ray binaries MAXI J1820+070 and 1A 0535+262, and the gamma-ray binary HESS J0632+057. Multiwavelength data at lower energies are also provided for a better contextualisation of the sources.

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2022

43. Multi-messenger characterization of Mrk501 during historically low X-ray and gamma-ray activity

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Lluis Font, Marcel Strzys, Simone Mender, Javier Herrera, Stefano Covino, Christian Fruck, Tjark Miener, David Paneque, Francesco Dazzi, Andrés Baquero, Vandad Fallah Ramazani, Yusuke Suda, Josep M. Paredes, Antonio Stamerra, Cosimo Nigro, Carlo Vigorito, Jelena Strišković, M. I. Martínez, Giacomo D'Amico, Marcos López-Moya, Wlodek Bednarek, Jarred Gershon Green, Sofia Ventura, Javier Rico, Tokonatsu Yamamoto, Dario Hrupec, Mitsunari Takahashi, Giovanni Ceribella, Federico Di Pierro, Ruben Lopez-Coto, John Hoang, Lorenzo Bellizzi, Wrijupan Bhattacharyya, Vitaly Neustroev, Luca Tosti, Jordi Delgado, Manuel Artero, Kevin Schmidt, Marie Karjalainen, Irene Jiménez Martínez, Jose Miguel Miranda, Tihomir Surić, Michele Palatiello, Chiara Righi, Valerio D'Elia, Yuki Iwamura, Francesco Longo, Ciro Bigongiari, Tomislav Terzić, Daniela Dorner, Yating Chai, Stefan Cikota, Massimo Persic, Pawel Gliwny, Nicola Giglietto, G. Maneva, Iva Šnidarić, Giacomo Bonnoli, Gaia Vanzo, Lena Linhoff, P. G. Prada Moroni, Louis Antonelli, L. Maraschi, Elina Lindfors, Junko Kushida, Lovro Pavletić, Elia Do Souto Espiñeira, Alessandra Lamastra, Vincenzo Vitale, Juliane van Scherpenberg, Chaitanya Priyadarshi, Ivica Puljak, Karl Mannheim, Victoria Moreno, Alicia López-Oramas, Thomas Schweizer, Adrian Biland, Davide Depaoli, Marina Manganaro, Carolin Wunderlich, Darko Zarić, Daniel Mazin, Abelardo Moralejo, Satoshi Fukami, Francesco Leone, Ramon J. García López, Stefano Ansoldi, Julian Sitarek, Riccardo Paoletti, Martin Makariev, Petar Temnikov, Oscar Blanch, Leonardo Di Venere, Koji Noda, Elisa Bernardini, Daniela Hadasch, Katsuaki Asano, Ievgen Vovk, Markus Gaug, Masahiro Teshima, Maria Victoria Fonseca, Alessio Berti, Elena Moretti, Maria-Isabel Bernardos, Stefano Menchiari, Markus Garczarczyk, Konstancja Satalecka, Manuela Mallamaci, Jürgen Besenrieder, Dominik Elsaesser, Francesco Giordano, Antonio Tutone, Yoshiki Ohtani, Victor A. Acciari, Alessandro De Angelis, Bernd Schleicher, Edgar Molina, Paolo Da Vela, Razmik Mirzoyan, Josefa González, Michele Doro, Damir Lelas, Nikola Godinovic, Axel Arbet Engels, Sidika Merve Colak, Lea Heckmann, Francesco Gabriele Saturni, Monica Vazquez Acosta, Moritz Hütten, David H. Green, Takeshi Nakamori, Santiago Ubach, Barbara De Lotto, Dorota Sobczyńska, Zeljka Bosnjak, Tomohiko Oka, Roberto Carosi, Matteo Cerruti, Camilla Maggio, Simona Paiano, Kyoshi Nishijima, Alicia Fattorini, Kazuma Ishio, Yasushi Fukazawa, Elisa Prandini, Ashot Chilingarian, Davide Miceli, Alessia Spolon, Léa Jouvin, Vassil Verguilov, Pratik Majumdar, Daniel Kerszberg, Marc Ribó, Martin Will, Jorge Otero-Santos, Hidetoshi Kubo, Tomohiro Inada, Seiya Nozaki, Juan Abel Barrio, Narek Sahakyan, Carlos Delgado Mendez, Manuel Delfino, Ulisses Barres de Almeida, Ana Babić, Sargis Gasparyan, Daniel Morcuende, Jose Luis Contreras, Wolfgang Rhode, Giovanni Busetto, Juan Cortina, Stefano Truzzi, Pablo Peñil, Hendrik Bökenkamp, Saša Mićanović, Ivana Batković, Ryuji Takeishi, D. M. Strom, Kari Nilsson, Shunsuke Sakurai, Alice Donini, Lara Nava, Fabrizio Tavecchio, Eduardo Colombo, Serena Loporchio, D. Dominis Prester, Jenni Jormanainen, Bernardo Machado de Oliveira Fraga, Alexander Hahn, Marine Pihet, Takashi Saito, Dominik Baack, Yukiho Kobayashi, Mosè Mariotti, Saverio Lombardi, and Andrea Rugliancich

Subjects
Physics, Active galactic nucleus, media_common.quotation_subject, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Gamma ray, Flux, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Galaxy, Universe, Crab Nebula, MAGIC (telescope), Blazar, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, media_common
Abstract

Blazars, together with other active galactic nuclei, are the most luminous persistent sources in our universe; and therefore a prime candidate for very-high-energy (>0.2 TeV, VHE) gamma-ray observations. For the two MAGIC telescopes, the Mrk501 galaxy is among the brightest observed blazars due to its proximity. We report a multi-wavelength and multi-messenger study of Mrk501 with data from 2017 to 2020, when Mrk501 showed a VHE flux typically below 10% that of the Crab Nebula. During this time, we performed three long observations with NuSTAR, which characterized the hard X-ray emission during three different low-activity flux levels. This Mrk501 dataset provided the unprecedented opportunity to study multi-wavelength variability and correlations with sensitive instruments during historically low X-ray and VHE gamma-ray emission (below 5% of the Crab Nebula flux in the VHE range), which could be considered as the baseline emission of Mrk501. We complemented the broadband spectral energy distributions (SED) of the identified historically low X-ray and VHE gamma-ray flux with data published by IceCube, in order to evaluate the potential existence of a hadronic component that is stable (or slowly variable), and less visible than the leptonic component that may dominate the emission during typical and flaring activity. In this contribution, we will also describe the evolution of the broadband SED comparing different theoretical scenarios., PoS: Proceedings of Science, 395, ISSN:1824-8039, 37th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC 2021)

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2022
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44. Unveiling the complex correlation patterns in Mrk 421

Author

Arbet-Engels, A., Paneque, D., Heckmann, L., Acciari, V. A., Ansoldi, S., Antonelli, L. A., Artero, M., Asano, K., Baack, D., Babić, A., Baquero, A., Barres Almeida, U., Barrio, J. A., Batković, I., Becerra González, J., Bednarek, W., Bellizzi, L., Bernardini, E., Bernardos, M., Berti, A., Besenrieder, J., Bhattacharyya, W., Bigongiari, C., Biland, A., Blanch, O., Bökenkamp, H., Bonnoli, G., Bošnjak, Ž, Busetto, G., Carosi, R., Ceribella, G., Cerruti, M., Chai, Y., Chilingarian, A., Cikota, S., Colak, S. M., Colombo, E., Contreras, J. L., Cortina, J., Covino, S., Giacomo D'Amico, D Elia, V., Da Vela, P., Dazzi, F., Angelis, A., Lotto, B., Delfino, M., Delgado, J., Delgado Mendez, C., Depaoli, D., Di Pierro, F., Di Venere, L., Do Souto Espiñeira, E., Dominis Prester, D., Donini, A., Dorner, D., Doro, M., Elsaesser, D., Fallah Ramazani, V., Fattorini, A., Fonseca, M. V., Font, L., Fruck, C., Fukami, S., Fukazawa, Y., García López, R. J., Garczarczyk, M., Gasparyan, S., Gaug, M., Giglietto, N., Giordano, F., Gliwny, P., Godinović, N., Green, J. G., Green, D., Hadasch, D., Hahn, A., Herrera, J., Hoang, J., Hrupec, D., Hütten, M., Inada, T., Ishio, K., Iwamura, Y., Jiménez Martínez, I., Jormanainen, J., Jouvin, L., Karjalainen, M., Kerszberg, D., Kobayashi, Y., Kubo, H., Kushida, J., Lamastra, A., Lelas, D., Leone, F., Lindfors, E., Linhoff, L., Lombardi, S., Longo, F., López-Coto, R., López-Moya, M., López-Oramas, A., Loporchio, S., Machado Oliveira Fraga, B., Maggio, C., Majumdar, P., Makariev, M., Mallamaci, M., Maneva, G., Manganaro, M., Mannheim, K., Maraschi, L., Mariotti, M., Martínez, M., Mazin, D., Menchiari, S., Mender, S., Mićanović, S., Miceli, D., Miener, T., Miranda, J. M., Mirzoyan, R., Molina, E., Moralejo, A., Morcuende, D., Moreno, V., Moretti, E., Nakamori, T., Nava, L., Neustroev, V., Nigro, C., Nilsson, K., Nishijima, K., Noda, K., Nozaki, S., Ohtani, Y., Oka, T., Otero-Santos, J., Paiano, S., Palatiello, M., Paoletti, R., Paredes, J. M., Pavletić, L., Peñil, P., Persic, M., Pihet, M., Prada Moroni, P. G., Prandini, E., Priyadarshi, C., Puljak, I., Rhode, W., Ribó, M., Rico, J., Righi, C., Rugliancich, A., Sahakyan, N., Saito, T., Sakurai, S., Satalecka, K., Saturni, F. G., Schleicher, B., Schmidt, K., Schweizer, T., Sitarek, J., Šnidarić, I., Sobczynska, D., Spolon, A., Stamerra, A., Strišković, J., Strom, D., Strzys, M., Suda, Y., Surić, T., Takahashi, M., Takeishi, R., Tavecchio, F., Temnikov, P., Terzić, T., Teshima, M., Tosti, L., Truzzi, S., Tutone, A., Ubach, S., Scherpenberg, J., Vanzo, G., Vazquez Acosta, M., Ventura, S., Verguilov, V., Vigorito, C. F., Vitale, V., Vovk, I., Will, M., Wunderlich, C., Yamamoto, T., Zarić, D., Balbo, M., Bretz, T., Buss, J., Eisenberger, L., Hildebrand, D., Iotov, R., Kalenski, A., D Ammando, F., Horan, D., Lien, A. Y., Baloković, M., Madejski, G. M., Perri, M., Verrecchia, F., Leto, C., Lähteenmäki, A., Tornikoski, M., Ramakrishnan, V., Järvelä, E., Vera, R. J. C., Villata, M., Raiteri, C. M., Gupta, A. C., Pandey, A., Fuentes, A., Agudo, I., Casadio, C., Semkov, E., Ibryamov, S., Marchini, A., Bachev, R., Strigachev, A., Ovcharov, E., Bozhilov, V., Valcheva, A., Zaharieva, E., Damljanovic, G., Vince, O., Larionov, V. M., Borman, G. A., Grishina, T. S., Hagen-Thorn, V. A., Kopatskaya, E. N., Larionova, E. G., Larionova, L. V., Morozova, D. A., Nikiforova, A. A., Savchenko, S. S., Troitskiy, I. S., Troitskaya, Y. V., Vasilyev, A. A., Merkulova, O. A., Chen, W. P., Samal, M., Lin, H. C., Moody, J. W., Sadun, A. C., Jorstad, S. G., Marscher, A. P., Weaver, Z. R., Feige, M., Kania, J., Kopp, M., Kunkel, L., Reinhart, D., Scherbantin, A., Schneider, L., Lorey, C., Acosta-Pulido, J. A., Carnerero, M. I., Carosati, D., Kurtanidze, S. O., Kurtanidze, O. M., Nikolashvili, M. G., Chanishvili, R. G., Chigladze, R. A., Ivanidze, R. Z., Kimeridze, G. N., Sigua, L. A., Joner, M. D., Spencer, M., Giroletti, M., Marchili, N., Righini, S., and Rizzi, N.

Subjects
Physics, education.field_of_study, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Population, Flux, Sigma, Astrophysics, Synchrotron, Redshift, law.invention, law, MAGIC (telescope), education, Blazar, Flare
Abstract

The blazar Mrk421 (redshift z=0.031) is one of the brightest and closest BL Lac type objects, making it an ideal target to probe blazar physics. We report on an extensive multi-wavelength observing campaign in 2017, during which the intra-band correlation patterns show some disparity and complex behaviours. Observations from several instruments are used to achieve an optimal temporal coverage from radio to TeV energies. In particular, four multi-hour NuSTAR observations organised simultaneously with MAGIC allow to obtain a precise measurement of the falling segments of the two spectral components. A detailed investigation of the very-high-energy (VHE; >100 GeV) versus X-ray flux correlation is performed, by binning the data into several sub-energy bands. A positively correlated variability is observed, but the correlation characteristics change substantially across the various bands probed. Furthermore, during the simultaneous MAGIC and NuSTAR observations a clear change of the Compton dominance is detected without a simultaneous change in the synchrotron regime, indicating "orphan gamma-ray activity". We also investigate an intriguing bright flare at VHE without a substantial flux increase in the X-rays. Within a leptonic scenario, this behaviour is best explained by the appearance of a second population of highly-energetic electrons spanning a narrow range of energies. Finally, our multi-wavelength correlation study also reveals an anti-correlation between the UV/optical and X-ray bands at a significance level above 3 sigma.

Published
2022

45. BL Lac object 1ES 0647+250, a decade of MWL observations

Author

Francesco Longo, John Hoang, Cosimo Nigro, Abelardo Moralejo, Elia Do Souto Espiñeira, Sofia Ventura, Lluis Font, Alessandra Lamastra, Josefa González, Alexander Hahn, Manuel Artero, Vincenzo Vitale, Chiara Righi, Martin Makariev, Oscar Blanch, Maria-Isabel Bernardos, Tomislav Terzić, Dominik Elsaesser, Razmik Mirzoyan, Marcel Strzys, Daniel Kerszberg, Marine Pihet, Ryuji Takeishi, D. M. Strom, Kari Nilsson, Serena Loporchio, Damir Lelas, Simone Mender, Javier Herrera, Mosè Mariotti, Francesco Leone, Pratik Majumdar, Julian Sitarek, Davide Depaoli, Stefano Truzzi, Bernd Schleicher, Takeshi Nakamori, Lea Heckmann, Francesco Gabriele Saturni, Saverio Lombardi, Alice Donini, Andrea Rugliancich, Edgar Molina, D. Dominis Prester, Marc Ribó, Katsuaki Asano, Chaitanya Priyadarshi, Alessio Berti, Barbara De Lotto, Daniela Hadasch, Dorota Sobczyńska, Zeljka Bosnjak, Sidika Merve Colak, Monica Vazquez Acosta, Tomohiko Oka, Simona Paiano, Giacomo D'Amico, Lara Nava, Vandad Fallah Ramazani, Maria Victoria Fonseca, Martin Will, Hidetoshi Kubo, Tomohiro Inada, Jorge Otero-Santos, Pablo Peñil, Leonardo Di Venere, Jürgen Besenrieder, Francesco Giordano, Antonio Tutone, Camilla Maggio, Satoshi Fukami, Alicia Fattorini, Fabrizio Tavecchio, Jenni Jormanainen, Josep M. Paredes, Louis Antonelli, L. Maraschi, Seiya Nozaki, Nikola Godinovic, Axel Arbet Engels, Eduardo Colombo, Adrian Biland, Antonio Stamerra, Elina Lindfors, Yoshiki Ohtani, Jordi Delgado, Marcos López-Moya, Ivica Puljak, Wlodek Bednarek, Federico Di Pierro, Giacomo Bonnoli, Kyoshi Nishijima, Bernardo Machado de Oliveira Fraga, Manuel Delfino, Ulisses Barres de Almeida, Tjark Miener, David Paneque, Daniel Mazin, Tihomir Surić, Ruben Lopez-Coto, Kazuma Ishio, Masahiro Teshima, Jarred Gershon Green, Yating Chai, Kevin Schmidt, P. G. Prada Moroni, Ramon J. García López, Stefan Cikota, Matteo Cerruti, Yusuke Suda, Irene Jiménez Martínez, Pawel Gliwny, Nicola Giglietto, Juan Abel Barrio, Narek Sahakyan, Carlo Vigorito, Ana Babić, Massimo Persic, Jelena Strišković, Marina Manganaro, Andrés Baquero, Jose Miguel Miranda, Victoria Moreno, Lena Linhoff, Saša Mićanović, Ivana Batković, Darko Zarić, Roberto Carosi, Daniel Morcuende, Carolin Wunderlich, Jose Luis Contreras, Elisa Prandini, Juan Cortina, Yasushi Fukazawa, Paolo Da Vela, Yuki Iwamura, Junko Kushida, Carlos Delgado Mendez, Karl Mannheim, Lovro Pavletić, Stefano Covino, Marie Karjalainen, David H. Green, Elena Moretti, Davide Miceli, Francesco Dazzi, Hendrik Bökenkamp, Daniela Dorner, Gaia Vanzo, Santiago Ubach, Konstancja Satalecka, Lorenzo Bellizzi, Alessia Spolon, Manuela Mallamaci, Ashot Chilingarian, Ievgen Vovk, Léa Jouvin, Michele Doro, Alessandro De Angelis, Dario Hrupec, M. I. Martínez, Michele Palatiello, Alicia López-Oramas, Giovanni Ceribella, Javier Rico, Tokonatsu Yamamoto, Vitaly Neustroev, Stefano Menchiari, Ciro Bigongiari, Mitsunari Takahashi, Vassil Verguilov, Luca Tosti, Petar Temnikov, Sargis Gasparyan, Koji Noda, Wrijupan Bhattacharyya, Valerio D'Elia, Iva Šnidarić, Elisa Bernardini, Markus Garczarczyk, G. Maneva, Takashi Saito, Juliane van Scherpenberg, Wolfgang Rhode, Giovanni Busetto, Dominik Baack, Yukiho Kobayashi, Christian Fruck, Shunsuke Sakurai, Thomas Schweizer, Stefano Ansoldi, Riccardo Paoletti, Victor A. Acciari, Markus Gaug, and Moritz Hütten

Subjects
Physics, Crab Nebula, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Flux, Spectral energy distribution, MAGIC (telescope), Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Blazar, Spectral line, Redshift, BL Lac object
Abstract

The high-peaked BL Lac object 1ES 0647+250 is one of the few distant blazars detected at very-high-energy (VHE, E>100 GeV) γ rays during non-flaring activity. Its redshift is still uncertain, with a recently proposed lower limit of z>0.29. This blazar was first detected by the MAGIC telescopes between 2009 and 2011 during its low state, displaying a flux of around 2% of the Crab Nebula above 100 GeV, but it has shown several periods of high activity, where the VHE γ-ray flux increased by more than one order of magnitude. The VHE spectra of four observed periods are characterized and the redshift of this source is estimated using the HE and VHE spectral shapes. The multi-wavelength data set collected from 2009 to 2020 introduced in this work will serve as the seed for further studies, including detailed studies of the broad-band spectral energy distribution for different activity levels and multi-band variability and correlation studies., PoS: Proceedings of Science, 395, ISSN:1824-8039, 37th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC 2021)

Published
2022

46. Search for Gamma-ray Line emission from Dark Matter annihilation in the Galactic Centre with the MAGIC telescopes

Author

Tomohiro Inada, Ana Babic, Andrés Baquero, Ivana Batković, Josefa Becerra Gonzalez, Jürgen Besenrieder, Hendrik Bökenkamp, Zeljka Bosnjak, Elia Do Souto Espiñeira, Ramon J. García López, Nikola Godinovic, Moritz Hütten, Irene Jiménez Martínez, Ruben Lopez-Coto, Marcos López-Moya, Alicia López-Oramas, Mosè Mariotti, Manel Martinez, Saša Mićanović, Lovro Pavletić, Pablo Peñil, Marc Ribó, Iva Šnidarić, Jelena Strišković, Tihomir Surić, Tomislav Terzic, Darko Zarić, Victor A. Acciari, Stefano Ansoldi, Lucio Angelo Antonelli, Axel Arbet Engels, Manuel Artero, Katsuaki Asano, Dominik Baack, Ana Babić, Ulisses Barres de Almeida, Juan Abel Barrio, Josefa Becerra González, Wlodek Bednarek, Lorenzo Bellizzi, Elisa Bernardini, Maria-Isabel Bernardos, Alessio Berti, Wrijupan Bhattacharyya, Ciro Bigongiari, Adrian Biland, Oscar Blanch, Giacomo Bonnoli, Željka Bošnjak, Giovanni Busetto, Roberto Carosi, Giovanni Ceribella, Matteo Cerruti, Yating Chai, Ashot Agassi Chilingarian, Stefan Cikota, Sidika Merve Colak, Eduardo Colombo, Jose Luis Contreras, Juan Cortina, Stefano Covino, Giacomo D'Amico, Valerio D'Elia, Paolo Da Vela, Francesco Dazzi, Alessandro De Angelis, Barbara De Lotto, Manuel Delfino, Jordi Delgado, Carlos Delgado Mendez, Davide Depaoli, Federico Di Pierro, Leonardo Di Venere, Dijana Dominis Prester, Alice Donini, Daniela Dorner, Michele Doro, Dominik Elsaesser, Vandad Fallah Ramazani, Alicia Fattorini, Maria Victoria Fonseca, Lluis Font, Christian Fruck, Satoshi Fukami, Yasushi Fukazawa, Markus Garczarczyk, Sargis Gasparyan, Markus Gaug, Nicola Giglietto, Francesco Giordano, Pawel Gliwny, Nikola Godinović, David Green, Jarred Gershon Green, Daniela Hadasch, Alexander Hahn, Lea Heckmann, Javier Herrera, John Hoang, Dario Hrupec, Kazuma Ishio, Yuki Iwamura, Irene Jimenez-Martinez, Jenni Jormanainen, Léa Jouvin, Marie Karjalainen, Daniel Kerszberg, Yukiho Kobayashi, Hidetoshi Kubo, Junko Kushida, Alessandra Lamastra, Damir LELAS, Francesco Leone, Elina Lindfors, Lena Linhoff, Saverio Lombardi, Francesco Longo, Rubén López-Coto, Serena Loporchio, Bernardo Machado de Oliveira Fraga, Camilla Maggio, Pratik Majumdar, Martin MAKARIEV, Manuela Mallamaci, Galina Maneva, Marina Manganaro, Karl Mannheim, Laura Maraschi, Manel Martínez, Daniel Mazin, Stefano Menchiari, Simone Mender, Davide Miceli, Tjark Miener, Jose Miguel Miranda, Razmik Mirzoyan, Edgar Molina, Abelardo Moralejo, Daniel Morcuende, Victoria Moreno, Elena Moretti, Takeshi Nakamori, Lara Nava, Vitaly Neustroev, Cosimo Nigro, Kari Nilsson, Kyoshi Nishijima, Koji Noda, Seiya Nozaki, Yoshiki Ohtani, Tomohiko Oka, Jorge Otero-Santos, Simona Paiano, Michele Palatiello, David Paneque, Riccardo Paoletti, Josep M. Paredes, Massimo Persic, Marine Pihet, Pier Giorgio Prada Moroni, Elisa Prandini, Chaitanya Priyadarshi, Ivica Puljak, Wolfgang Rhode, Javier Rico, Chiara Righi, Andrea Rugliancich, Narek Sahakyan, Takayuki Saito, Shunsuke Sakurai, Konstancja Satalecka, Francesco Gabriele Saturni, Bernd Schleicher, Kevin Schmidt, Thomas Schweizer, Julian Sitarek, Dorota Sobczyńska, Alessia Spolon, Antonio Stamerra, Derek Strom, Marcel C. Strzys, Yusuke Suda, Mitsunari Takahashi, Ryuji Takeishi, Fabrizio Tavecchio, Petar Temnikov, Tomislav Terzić, Masahiro Teshima, Luca Tosti, Stefano Truzzi, Antonio Tutone, Santiago Ubach, Juliane van Scherpenberg, Gaia Vanzo, Monica VAZQUEZ ACOSTA, Sofia Ventura, Vassil VERGUILOV, Carlo francesco Vigorito, Vincenzo Vitale, Ievgen Vovk, Martin Will, Carolin Wunderlich, Tokonatsu Yamamoto, and Daniele Ninci

Subjects
Physics, Annihilation, media_common.quotation_subject, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Dark matter, Gamma ray, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Galaxy, Spectral line, Sky, MAGIC (telescope), Zenith, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, media_common
Abstract

We present the first search for dark matter (DM) spectral lines in the Galactic centre (GC) region with the MAGIC telescopes. The MAGIC telescopes, located on the Canary island of La Palma (Spain), are sensitive to gamma rays in the energy range from 50 GeV to 50 TeV. MAGIC has performed indirect DM searches in various astrophysical targets, such as dwarf spheroidal galaxies and clusters of galaxies. Observations at high zenith angles significantly increase the telescopes' collection area and sensitivity for gamma rays in the TeV regime. We present the results obtained with more than 200 hours of high-zenith angle observations of the GC region with MAGIC, which allow us to probe promising heavy SUSY models, and to obtain competitive limits to the DM annihilation cross-section at high DM particle mass, compared to existing constraints. We will discuss how we exploit the data from a complex sky region to search for a line-like DM signature., PoS: Proceedings of Science, 395, ISSN:1824-8039, 37th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC 2021)

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2022
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47. Multiwavelength study of the gravitationally lensed blazar QSO B0218+357 between 2016 and 2020

Author

MAGIC Collaboration, Acciari, V. A., Ansoldi, S., Antonelli, L. A., Engels, A. Arbet, Artero, M., Asano, K., Baack, D., Babi��, A., Baquero, A., de Almeida, U. Barres, Barrio, J. A., Batkovi��, I., Gonz��lez, J. Becerra, Bednarek, W., Bellizzi, L., Bernardini, E., Bernardos, M., Berti, A., Besenrieder, J., Bhattacharyya, W., Bigongiari, C., Biland, A., Blanch, O., Bonnoli, G., Bo��njak, ��., Busetto, G., Carosi, R., Ceribella, G., Cerruti, M., Chai, Y., Chilingarian, A., Cikota, S., Colak, S. M., Colombo, E., Contreras, J. L., Cortina, J., Covino, S., D'Amico, G., D'Elia, V., Da Vela, P., Dazzi, F., De Angelis, A., De Lotto, B., Delfino, M., Delgado, J., Mendez, C. Delgado, Depaoli, D., Di Pierro, F., Di Venere, L., Espi��eira, E. Do Souto, Prester, D. Dominis, Donini, A., Dorner, D., Doro, M., Elsaesser, D., Ramazani, V. Fallah, Fattorini, A., Ferrara, G., Fonseca, M. V., Font, L., Fruck, C., Fukami, S., L��pez, R. J. Garc��a, Garczarczyk, M., Gasparyan, S., Gaug, M., Giglietto, N., Giordano, F., Gliwny, P., Godinovi��, N., Green, J. G., Green, D., Hadasch, D., Hahn, A., Heckmann, L., Herrera, J., Hoang, J., Hrupec, D., H��tten, M., Inada, T., Inoue, S., Ishio, K., Iwamura, Y., Jim��nez, I., Jormanainen, J., Jouvin, L., Kajiwara, Y., Karjalainen, M., Kerszberg, D., Kobayashi, Y., Kubo, H., Kushida, J., Lamastra, A., Lelas, D., Leone, F., Lindfors, E., Lombardi, S., Longo, F., L��pez-Coto, R., L��pez-Moya, M., L��pez-Oramas, A., Loporchio, S., Fraga, B. Machado de Oliveira, Maggio, C., Majumdar, P., Makariev, M., Mallamaci, M., Maneva, G., Manganaro, M., Mannheim, K., Maraschi, L., Mariotti, M., Mart��nez, M., Mazin, D., Menchiari, S., Mender, S., Mi��anovi��, S., Miceli, D., Miener, T., Minev, M., Miranda, J. M., Mirzoyan, R., Molina, E., Moralejo, A., Morcuende, D., Moreno, V., Moretti, E., Neustroev, V., Nigro, C., Nilsson, K., Nishijima, K., Noda, K., Nozaki, S., Ohtani, Y., Oka, T., Otero-Santos, J., Paiano, S., Palatiello, M., Paneque, D., Paoletti, R., Paredes, J. M., Pavleti��, L., Pe��il, P., Perennes, C., Persic, M., Moroni, P. G. Prada, Prandini, E., Priyadarshi, C., Puljak, I., Rhode, W., Rib��, M., Rico, J., Righi, C., Rugliancich, A., Saha, L., Sahakyan, N., Saito, T., Sakurai, S., Satalecka, K., Saturni, F. G., Schleicher, B., Schmidt, K., Schweizer, T., Sitarek, J., ��nidari��, I., Sobczynska, D., Spolon, A., Stamerra, A., Strom, D., Strzys, M., Suda, Y., Suri��, T., Takahashi, M., Tavecchio, F., Temnikov, P., Terzi��, T., Teshima, M., Tosti, L., Truzzi, S., Tutone, A., Ubach, S., van Scherpenberg, J., Vanzo, G., Acosta, M. Vazquez, Ventura, S., Verguilov, V., Vigorito, C. F., Vitale, V., Vovk, I., Will, M., Wunderlich, C., Zari��, D., de Palma, F., D'Ammando, F., Barnacka, A., Sahu, D. K., Hodges, M., Hovatta, T., Kiehlmann, S., Max-Moerbeck, W., Readhead, A. C. S., Reeves, R., Pearson, T. J., L��hteenm��ki, A., Bj��rklund, I., Tornikoski, M., Tammi, J., Suutarinen, S., Hada, K., Niinuma, K., Acciari, V. A., Ansoldi, S., Antonelli, L. A., Arbet Engels, A., Artero, M., Asano, K., Baack, D., Babic, A., Baquero, A., Barres De Almeida, U., Barrio, J. A., Batkovic, I., Becerra Gonzalez, J., Bednarek, W., Bellizzi, L., Bernardini, E., Bernardos, M., Berti, A., Besenrieder, J., Bhattacharyya, W., Bigongiari, C., Biland, A., Blanch, O., Bonnoli, G., Bosnjak, Z., Busetto, G., Carosi, R., Ceribella, G., Cerruti, M., Chai, Y., Chilingarian, A., Cikota, S., Colak, S. M., Colombo, E., Contreras, J. L., Cortina, J., Covino, S., D'Amico, G., D'Elia, V., Da Vela, P., Dazzi, F., De Angelis, A., De Lotto, B., Delfino, M., Delgado, J., Delgado Mendez, C., Depaoli, D., Di Pierro, F., Di Venere, L., Do Souto Espineira, E., Dominis Prester, D., Donini, A., Dorner, D., Doro, M., Elsaesser, D., Fallah Ramazani, V., Fattorini, A., Ferrara, G., Fonseca, M. V., Font, L., Fruck, C., Fukami, S., Garcia Lopez, R. J., Garczarczyk, M., Gasparyan, S., Gaug, M., Giglietto, N., Giordano, F., Gliwny, P., Godinovic, N., Green, J. G., Green, D., Hadasch, D., Hahn, A., Heckmann, L., Herrera, J., Hoang, J., Hrupec, D., Hutten, M., Inada, T., Inoue, S., Ishio, K., Iwamura, Y., JimCrossed D SignCopyrightnez, I., Jormanainen, J., Jouvin, L., Kajiwara, Y., Karjalainen, M., Kerszberg, D., Kobayashi, Y., Kubo, H., Kushida, J., Lamastra, A., Lelas, D., Leone, F., Lindfors, E., Lombardi, S., Longo, F., Lopez-Coto, R., Lopez-Moya, M., Lopez-Oramas, A., Loporchio, S., Machado De Oliveira Fraga, B., Maggio, C., Majumdar, P., Makariev, M., Mallamaci, M., Maneva, G., Manganaro, M., Mannheim, K., Maraschi, L., Mariotti, M., Martinez, M., Mazin, D., Menchiari, S., Mender, S., Micanovic, S., Miceli, D., Miener, T., Minev, M., Miranda, J. M., Mirzoyan, R., Molina, E., Moralejo, A., Morcuende, D., Moreno, V., Moretti, E., Neustroev, V., Nigro, C., Nilsson, K., Nishijima, K., Noda, K., Nozaki, S., Ohtani, Y., Oka, T., Otero-Santos, J., Paiano, S., Palatiello, M., Paneque, D., Paoletti, R., Paredes, J. M., Pavletic, L., Penil, P., Perennes, C., Persic, M., Prada Moroni, P. G., Prandini, E., Priyadarshi, C., Puljak, I., Rhode, W., Ribo, M., Rico, J., Righi, C., Rugliancich, A., Saha, L., Sahakyan, N., Saito, T., Sakurai, S., Satalecka, K., Saturni, F. G., Schleicher, B., Schmidt, K., Schweizer, T., Sitarek, J., Snidaric, I., Sobczynska, D., Spolon, A., Stamerra, A., Strom, D., Strzys, M., Suda, Y., Suric, T., Takahashi, M., Tavecchio, F., Temnikov, P., Terzic, T., Teshima, M., Tosti, L., Truzzi, S., Tutone, A., Ubach, S., Van Scherpenberg, J., Vanzo, G., Vazquez Acosta, M., Ventura, S., Verguilov, V., Vigorito, C. F., Vitale, V., Vovk, I., Will, M., Wunderlich, C., Zaric, D., De Palma, F., D'Ammando, F., Barnacka, A., Sahu, D. K., Hodges, M., Hovatta, T., Kiehlmann, S., Max-Moerbeck, W., Readhead, A. C. S., Reeves, R., Pearson, T. J., Lahteenmaki, A., Bjorklund, I., Tornikoski, M., Tammi, J., Suutarinen, S., Hada, K., Niinuma, K., Metsähovi Radio Observatory, Department of Electronics and Nanoengineering, School common, ELEC, Aalto-yliopisto, Aalto University, Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades (España), Agencia Estatal de Investigación (España), Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (España), Swiss National Science Foundation, European Commission, European Research Council, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (US), and Generalitat de Catalunya

Subjects
RADIO-SOURCES, gamma-rays: galaxies, individual: QSO B0218+357 [quasars], astro-ph.GA, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, jets [galaxies], FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, VLBI OBSERVATIONS, 01 natural sciences, LARGE-AREA TELESCOPE, Gamma rays: galaxies – Gravitational lensing: strong – Galaxies: jets – Radiation mechanisms: non- thermal – quasars: individual: QSO B0218+357, 0103 physical sciences, ABSORPTION, Blazar, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, XMM-NEWTON, astro-ph.HE, Physics, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), galaxies: jets, gravitational lensing: strong, quasars: individual: QSO B0218+357, radiation mechanisms: non-thermal, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, TIME-DELAY, POINT-SOURCE CATALOG, Astronomy and Astrophysics, non-thermal [radiation mechanisms], Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, GALAXIES, galaxies [gamma-rays], Space and Planetary Science, strong [gravitational lensing], Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA), gravitational lensing: strong radiation mechanisms: non-thermalgalaxies: jetsquasars: individual: QSO B0218+357gamma-rays: galaxies, ddc:520, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, GAMMA-RAY EMISSION, SYSTEM
Abstract

V. A. Acciari et al., We report multiwavelength observations of the gravitationally lensed blazar QSO B0218+357 in 2016–2020. Optical, X-ray, and GeV flares were detected. The contemporaneous MAGIC observations do not show significant very high energy (VHE; ≳100 GeV) gamma-ray emission. The lack of enhancement in radio emission measured by The Owens Valley Radio Observatory indicates the multizone nature of the emission from this object. We constrain the VHE duty cycle of the source to be, The financial support of the German BMBF, MPG, and HGF; the Italian INFN and INAF; the Swiss National Fund SNF; the ERDF under the Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (MICINN) (FPA2017-87859-P, FPA2017-85668-P, FPA2017-82729-C6-5-R, FPA2017-90566-REDC, PID2019-104114RB-C31, PID2019-104114RB-C32, PID2019-105510GB-C31, PID2019-107847RB-C41, PID2019-107847RB-C42, PID2019-107988GB-C22); the Indian Department of Atomic Energy; the Japanese ICRR, the University of Tokyo, JSPS, and MEXT; the Bulgarian Ministry of Education and Science, National RI Roadmap Project DO1-268/16.12.2019 and the Academy of Finland grant nr. 320045 is gratefully acknowledged. This work was also supported by the Spanish Centro de Excelencia ‘Severo Ochoa’ SEV-2016-0588 and CEX2019-000920-S, and ‘María de Maeztu’ CEX2019-000918-M, the Unidad de Excelencia ‘María de Maeztu’ MDM-2015-0509-18-2 and the ‘la Caixa’ Foundation (fellowship LCF/BQ/PI18/11630012) and by the CERCA program of the Generalitat de Catalunya; by the Croatian Science Foundation (HrZZ) Project IP-2016-06-9782 and the University of Rijeka Project uniri-prirod-18-48; by the DFG Collaborative Research Centers SFB823/C4 and SFB876/C3; the Polish National Research Centre grant UMO-2016/22/M/ST9/00382; and by the Brazilian MCTIC, CNPq, and FAPERJ. The Fermi LAT Collaboration acknowledges generous ongoing support from a number of agencies and institutes that have supported both the development and the operation of the LAT as well as scientific data analysis. These include the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the Department of Energy in the United States, the Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique and the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique / Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules in France, the Agenzia Spaziale Italiana and the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare in Italy, the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT), High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK) and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) in Japan, and the K. A. Wallenberg Foundation, the Swedish Research Council and the Swedish National Space Board in Sweden. Additional support for science analysis during the operations phase is gratefully acknowledged from the Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica in Italy and the Centre National d’Études Spatiales in France. This work performed in part under DOE Contract DE-AC02-76SF00515. We thank Director of Indian Institute of Astrophysics for allotting us observing time with HCT under DDT. We also thank the staff of IAO, Hanle and CREST, Hosakote, that made HCT observations possible. The facilities at IAO and CREST are operated by the Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore. The Joan Oró Telescope (TJO) of the Montsec Astronomical Observatory (OAdM) is owned by the Catalan Government and operated by the Institute for Space Studies of Catalonia (IEEC). This research has made use of data from the OVRO 40-m monitoring program which was supported in part by NASA grants NNX08AW31G, NNX11A043G, and NNX14AQ89G, and NSF grants AST-0808050 and AST-1109911, and private funding from Caltech and the MPIfR. SK acknowledges support from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Unions Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 771282. This research has made use of the NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database (NED), which is funded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and operated by the California Institute of Technology. This publication makes use of data obtained at the Metsähovi Radio Observatory, operated by Aalto University in Finland. Part of this work is based on archival data, software or online services provided by the Space Science Data Center - ASI.

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48. Multiwavelength variability and correlation studies of Mrk 421 during historically low X-ray and γ-ray activity in 2015-2016

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Banerjee, B., Terzić, T., Paneque, D., Majumdar, P., Acciari, V. A., Ansoldi, S., Antonelli, L. A., Artero, M., Asano, K., Babić, A., Banrje, B., Baquero, A., Barres Almeida, U., Barrio, J. A., Batković, I., Becerra González, J., Bednarek, W., Bellizzi, L., Bernardini, E., Bernardos, M., Berti, A., Besenrieder, J., Bhattacharyya, W., Bigongiari, C., Blanch, O., Bökenkamp, H., Bonnoli, G., Bošnjak, Ž, Busetto, G., Carosi, R., Ceribella, G., Cerruti, M., Chai, Y., Chilingarian, A., Cikota, S., Colak, S. M., Colombo, E., Contreras, J. L., Cortina, J., Covino, S., Giacomo D'Amico, D’elia, V., Da Vela, P., Dazzi, F., Angelis, A., Lotto, B., Delfino, M., Delgado, J., Delgado Mendez, C., Depaoli, D., Di Pierro, F., Di Venere, L., Do Souto Espiñeira, E., Dominis Prester, D., Donini, A., Doro, M., Fallah Ramazani, V., Fattorini, A., Fonseca, M. V., Font, L., Fruck, C., Fukami, S., Fukazawa, Y., García López, R. J., Garczarczyk, M., Gasparyan, S., Gaug, M., Giglietto, N., Giordano, F., Gliwny, P., Godinović, N., Green, J. G., Green, D., Hadasch, D., Hahn, A., Heckmann, L., Herrera, J., Hoang, J., Hrupec, D., Hütten, M., Inada, T., Ishio, K., Iwamura, Y., Jiménez Martínez, I., Jormanainen, J., Jouvin, L., Karjalainen, M., Kerszberg, D., Kobayashi, Y., Kubo, H., Kushida, J., Lamastra, A., Lelas, D., Leone, F., Lindfors, E., Linhoff, L., Lombardi, S., Longo, F., López-Coto, R., López-Moya, M., López-Oramas, A., Loporchio, S., Machado Oliveira Fraga, B., Maggio, C., Righini, S., Makariev, M., Mallamaci, M., Maneva, G., Manganaro, M., Maraschi, L., Mariotti, M., Martínez, M., Mazin, D., Menchiari, S., Mender, S., Mićanović, S., Miceli, D., Miener, T., Miranda, J. M., Mirzoyan, R., Molina, E., Moralejo, A., Morcuende, D., Moreno, V., Moretti, E., Nakamori, T., Nava, L., Neustroev, V., Nigro, C., Nilsson, K., Nishijima, K., Noda, K., Nozaki, S., Ohtani, Y., Oka, T., Otero-Santos, J., Paiano, S., Palatiello, M., Vera, R. J. C., Paoletti, R., Paredes, J. M., Pavletić, L., Peñil, P., Persic, M., Pihet, M., Prada Moroni, P. G., Prandini, E., Priyadarshi, C., Puljak, I., Ribó, M., Rico, J., Righi, C., Rugliancich, A., Sahakyan, N., Saito, T., Sakurai, S., Satalecka, K., Saturni, F. G., Lien, A. Y., Schmidt, K., Schweizer, T., Sitarek, J., Šnidarić, I., Sobczynska, D., Spolon, A., Stamerra, A., Strišković, J., Strom, D., Strzys, M., Suda, Y., Surić, T., Takahashi, M., Takeishi, R., Tavecchio, F., Temnikov, P., Järvelä, E., Teshima, M., Tosti, L., Truzzi, S., Tutone, A., Ubach, S., Scherpenberg, J., Vanzo, G., Vazquez Acosta, M., Ventura, S., Verguilov, V., Vigorito, C. F., Vitale, V., Vovk, I., Will, M., Wunderlich, C., Yamamoto, T., Zarić, D., Arbet-Engels, A., Baack, D., Balbo, M., Biland, A., Bretz, T., Buss, J., Dorner, D., Eisenberger, L., Elsaesser, D., Hildebrand, D., Iotov, R., Kalenski, A., Mannheim, K., Mitchell, A., Neise, D., Noethe, M., Paravac, A., Rhode, W., Schleicher, B., Sliusar, V., Walter, R., Valverde, J., Horan, D., Giroletti, M., Perri, M., Verrecchia, F., Leto, C., Sadun, A. C., Moody, J. W., Joner, M., Marscher, A. P., Jorstad, S. G., Lähteenmäki, A., Tornikoski, M., Ramakrishnan, V., Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet (LLR), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École polytechnique (X)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3), MAGIC, ITA, USA, GBR, DEU, ARM, BRA, CHL, HRV, FIN, JPN, IND, POL, RUS, CHE, German Research Foundation, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica, Swiss National Science Foundation, Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades (España), Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (España), Department of Atomic Energy (India), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (Japan), Ministry of Education, Youth and Science (Bulgaria), Academy of Finland, University of Tokyo, La Caixa, University of Rijeka, Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange, Ministério da Ciência e Tecnologia (Brasil), Croatian Science Foundation, Department of Electronics and Nanoengineering, Metsähovi Radio Observatory, Aalto-yliopisto, Aalto University, Acciari, Va, Ansoldi, S, Antonelli, La, Asano, K, Babic, A, Banerjee, B, Baquero, A, de Almeida, Ub, Barrio, Ja, Gonzalez, Jb, Bednarek, W, Bellizzi, L, Bernardini, E, Bernardos, M, Berti, A, Besenrieder, J, Bhattacharyya, W, Bigongiari, C, Blanch, O, Bonnoli, G, Bosnjak, Z, Busetto, G, Carosi, R, Ceribella, G, Cerruti, M, Chai, Y, Chilingarian, A, Cikota, S, Colak, Sm, Colombo, E, Contreras, Jl, Cortina, J, Covino, S, D'Amico, G, D'Elia, V, Da Vela, P, Dazzi, F, De Angelis, A, De Lotto, B, Delfino, M, Delgado, J, Mendez, Cd, Depaoli, D, Di Girolamo, T, Di Pierro, F, Di Venere, L, Neira, Ede, Prester, Dd, Donini, A, Doro, M, Ramazani, Vf, Fattorini, A, Ferrara, G, Foffano, L, Fonseca, Mv, Font, L, Fruck, C, Fukami, S, Lopez, Rjg, Garczarczyk, M, Gasparyan, S, Gaug, M, Giglietto, N, Giordano, F, Gliwny, P, Green, Jg, Green, D, Hadasch, D, Hahn, A, Heckmann, L, Herrera, J, Hoang, J, Hrupec, D, Hutten, M, Inada, T, Inoue, S, Ishio, K, Iwamura, Y, Jormanainen, J, Jouvin, L, Kajiwara, Y, Karjalainen, M, Kerszberg, D, Kobayashi, Y, Kubo, H, Kushida, J, Lamastra, A, Lelas, D, Leone, F, Lindfors, E, Lombardi, S, Longo, F, Lopez, M, Lopez-Coto, R, Lopez-Oramas, A, Loporchio, S, Fraga, Bmd, Maggio, C, Majumdar, P, Makariev, M, Mallamaci, M, Maneva, G, Manganaro, M, Maraschi, L, Mariotti, M, Martinez, M, Mazin, D, Mender, S, Micanovic, S, Miceli, D, Miener, T, Minev, M, Miranda, Jm, Mirzoyan, R, Molina, E, Moralejo, A, Morcuende, D, Moreno, V, Moretti, E, Munar-Adrover, P, Neustroev, V, Nigro, C, Nilsson, K, Ninci, D, Nishijima, K, Noda, K, Nozaki, S, Ohtani, Y, Oka, T, Otero-Santos, J, Palatiello, M, Paneque, D, Paoletti, R, Paredes, Jm, Pavletic, L, Penil, P, Perennes, C, Persic, M, Moroni, Pgp, Prandini, E, Priyadarshi, C, Puljak, I, Rhode, W, Ribo, M, Rico, J, Righi, C, Rugliancich, A, Saha, L, Sahakyan, N, Saito, T, Sakurai, S, Satalecka, K, Schleicher, B, Schmidt, K, Schweizer, T, Sitarek, J, Snidaric, I, Sobczynska, D, Spolon, A, Stamerra, A, Strom, D, Strzys, M, Suda, Y, Suric, T, Takahashi, M, Tavecchio, F, Temnikov, P, Terzic, T, Teshima, M, Torres-Alba, N, Tosti, L, Truzzi, S, van Scherpenberg, J, Vanzo, G, Acosta, Mv, Ventura, S, Verguilov, V, Vigorito, Cf, Vitale, V, Vovk, I, Will, M, Zaric, D, Arbet-Engels, A, Baack, D, Balbo, M, Beck, M, Biederbeck, N, Biland, A, Bretz, T, Bruegge, K, Buss, J, Dorner, D, Elsaesser, D, Hildebrand, D, Iotov, R, Klinger, M, Mannheim, K, Neise, D, Neronov, A, Noethe, M, Paravac, A, Sliusar, V, Theissen, F, Walter, R, Valverde, J, Horan, D, Giroletti, M, Perri, M, Verrecchia, F, Leto, C, Sadun, Ac, Moody, Jw, Joner, M, Marscher, Ap, Jorstad, Sg, Lahteenmaki, A, Tornikoski, M, Ramakrishnan, V, Jarvela, E, Vera, Rjc, Righini, S, and Lien, Ay

Subjects
BL Lacertae objects: individual: Mrk 421, galaxies: active, methods: data analysis, methods: observational, radiation mechanisms: non-thermal, Non-thermal, Astrophysics, 4/3, GeV, 01 natural sciences, law.invention, Correlation, law, optical, MAGIC (telescope), data analysis [Methods], 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Physics, individual: Mrk 421 [BL Lacertae objects], radio wave, Gamma ray, Low activity, X-ray, non-thermal [radiation mechanisms], Synchrotron, Log-normal distribution, Electrónica, Electricidad, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Radio wave, active [Galaxies], Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, VHE, GLAST, blazar, Flux (metallurgy), 0103 physical sciences, synchrotron, Radiation mechanisms, TeV, observational [Methods], Blazar, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Spectral component, MAGIC, flux, Space and Planetary Science, 13. Climate action, gamma ray, correlation, data analysi [methods], ddc:520, spectral, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Energy (signal processing)
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Acciari, V. A., et al. (MAGIC Collaboration), We report a characterization of the multiband flux variability and correlations of the nearby (z = 0.031) blazar Markarian 421 (Mrk 421) using data from Metsähovi, Swift, Fermi-LAT, MAGIC, FACT, and other collaborations and instruments from 2014 November till 2016 June. Mrk 421 did not show any prominent flaring activity, but exhibited periods of historically low activity above 1 TeV (F>1 TeV < 1.7 × 10-12 ph cm-2 s-1) and in the 2-10 keV (X-ray) band (F 2-10, keV< 3.6× 10-11 erg cm-2 s-1), during which the Swift-BAT data suggest an additional spectral component beyond the regular synchrotron emission. The highest flux variability occurs in X-rays and very high-energy (E > 0.1 TeV) γ-rays, which, despite the low activity, show a significant positive correlation with no time lag. The HRkeV and HRTeV show the harder-when-brighter trend observed in many blazars, but the trend flattens at the highest fluxes, which suggests a change in the processes dominating the blazar variability. Enlarging our data set with data from years 2007 to 2014, we measured a positive correlation between the optical and the GeV emission over a range of about 60 d centred at time lag zero, and a positive correlation between the optical/GeV and the radio emission over a range of about 60 d centred at a time lag of 43+9-6 d. This observation is consistent with the radio-bright zone being located about 0.2 parsec downstream from the optical/GeV emission regions of the jet. The flux distributions are better described with a lognormal function in most of the energy bands probed, indicating that the variability in Mrk 421 is likely produced by a multiplicative process., The financial support of the German BMBF and MPG; the Italian INFN and INAF; the Swiss National Fund SNF; the ERDF under the Spanish MINECO (FPA2017-87859-P, FPA2017-85668-P, FPA2017-82729-C6-2-R, FPA2017-82729-C6-6-R, FPA2017-82729-C6-5-R, AYA2015-71042-P, AYA2016-76012-C3-1-P, ESP2017-87055-C2-2-P, FPA2017-90566-REDC); the Indian Department of Atomic Energy; the Japanese ICRR, the University of Tokyo, JSPS, and MEXT; the Bulgarian Ministry of Education and Science, National RI Roadmap Project DO1-268/16.12.2019 and the Academy of Finland grant nr. 320045 is gratefully acknowledged. This work was also supported by the Spanish Centro de Excelencia ‘Severo Ochoa’ SEV-2016-0588 and SEV-2015-0548, the Unidad de Excelencia ‘María de Maeztu’ MDM-2014-0369 and the ‘la Caixa’ Foundation (fellowship LCF/BQ/PI18/11630012), by the Croatian Science Foundation (HrZZ) Project IP-2016-06-9782 and the University of Rijeka Project 13.12.1.3.02, by the DFG Collaborative Research Centers SFB823/C4 and SFB876/C3, the Polish National Research Centre grant UMO-2016/22/M/ST9/00382 and by the Brazilian MCTIC, CNPq, and FAPERJ.

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49. H.e.s.s. And magic observations of a sudden cessation of a very-high-energy γ -ray flare in PKS 1510-089 in May 2016

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A. Yusafzai, J. van Scherpenberg, M. Büchele, B. Boccardi, S. Caroff, S. J. Fegan, Daniela Dorner, T. Schweizer, Mosè Mariotti, Gaia Vanzo, Tom Armstrong, Nu. Komin, Pratik Majumdar, M. V. Fonseca, Matteo Cerruti, A. Lemiere, F. Eichhorn, J. Devin, C. Trichard, Michael Punch, Stefano Gabici, M. Palatiello, V. A. Acciari, F. Schüssler, Sylvia Zhu, P. J. Meintjes, Werner Hofmann, Samuel Timothy Spencer, Y. Kajiwara, J. Zorn, D. Dominis Prester, S. Bonnefoy, Constantin Steppa, G. Maurin, Adrian Biland, J. M. Paredes, Antonio Stamerra, U. Barres de Almeida, Tadayuki Takahashi, Damir Lelas, Victor Doroshenko, Davide Depaoli, Dmitriy Kostunin, R. Mirzoyan, T. Surić, D. Gottschall, M. Füßling, Moritz Hütten, Lea Heckmann, M. Gaug, J. Herrera, Ullrich Schwanke, C. Arcaro, H. Abdalla, Lorenzo Bellizzi, Thomas P. Krichbaum, Francesco Dazzi, John Hoang, Martin Will, Dominik Baack, L. Maraschi, Elina Lindfors, M. A. Kastendieck, R. Rauth, V. Baghmanyan, D. Ninci, Koji Noda, Michael Backes, S. Raab, Sanae Inoue, Giacomo D'Amico, Manuel Meyer, Q. Remy, L. Olivera-Nieto, Dorota Sobczyńska, Elisa Bernardini, M. Filipovic, Riaan Steenkamp, Davit Zargaryan, Hambeleleni Ndiyavala, Stefan Klepser, G. Vasileiadis, G. Lamanna, S. G. Jorstad, Daniel Mazin, Jacek Niemiec, Kirsty Feijen, Alessandro Montanari, Tim Holch, Seiya Nozaki, Anna Barnacka, M. Hörbe, Giacomo Bonnoli, D. Strom, T. Tavernier, Takeshi Oka, Axel Donath, J. Rico, A. W. Chen, J. Dyks, T. Chand, Jim Hinton, F. Niederwanger, Olaf Reimer, Daniel Kerszberg, Manuel Delfino, Krzysztof Katarzynski, Ivica Puljak, S. Sailer, Dmitry Khangulyan, Christian Fruck, Gavin Rowell, D. A. Sanchez, Maria Haupt, Julian Sitarek, Alan P. Marscher, Stefano Truzzi, Pablo Peñil, E. O. Angüner, Catherine Boisson, S. Ventura, Dieter Horns, M. Bryan, V. Barbosa Martins, L. Sun, Rachel Simoni, Gerard Fontaine, Jacco Vink, P. Reichherzer, Jim Davies, G. Hermann, Regis Terrier, Clemens Hoischen, A. A. Zdziarski, G. Ferrara, Francois Brun, G. Emery, M. de Bony de Lavergne, P. Vincent, Kyoshi Nishijima, Alessandra Lamastra, G. Fichet de Clairfontaine, E. de Oña Wilhelmi, P. Munar-Adrover, Yoshiki Ohtani, Carlo Romoli, Jordi Delgado, Wrijupan Bhattacharyya, L. Di Venere, D. Zarić, Zorawar Wadiasingh, F. Di Pierro, Ž. Bošnjak, Hester Schutte, Isak Delberth Davids, Roberta Zanin, Karl Mannheim, M. Strzys, Łukasz Stawarz, R. J. Tuffs, V. Fallah Ramazani, B. Bi, Marc Ribó, Sabrina Casanova, H. Prokoph, A. Carosi, Stefano Covino, D. J. van der Walt, Thomas Murach, Yating Chai, Saša Mićanović, Jae-Young Kim, V. Vitale, Francesco Longo, R. Konno, Alicia Fattorini, Narek Sahakyan, Y. A. Gallant, R. J. García López, Junko Kushida, Jürgen Besenrieder, Dario Hrupec, P. Da Vela, S. Steinmassl, P. G. Prada Moroni, Jonathan Mackey, Rafal Moderski, Stefan Cikota, Hidetoshi Kubo, Armelle Jardin-Blicq, Monica Barnard, J. Otero-Santos, Mischa Breuhaus, J. Becerra González, Yu. W. Wong, V. Joshi, Samuel Zouari, N. Shafi, Natalia Żywucka, E. 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D., Peron, G., Peyaud, B., Piel, Q., Pita, S., Poireau, V., Priyana Noel, A., Prokhorov, D. A., Prokoph, H., P??hlhofer, G., Punch, M., Quirrenbach, A., Raab, S., Rauth, R., Reichherzer, P., Reimer, A., Reimer, O., Remy, Q., Renaud, M., Rieger, F., Rinchiuso, L., Romoli, C., Rowell, G., Rudak, B., Ruiz-Velasco, E., Sahakian, V., Sailer, S., Sanchez, D. A., Santangelo, A., Sasaki, M., Scalici, M., Sch??ssler, F., Schutte, H. M., Schwanke, U., Schwemmer, S., Seglar-Arroyo, M., Senniappan, M., Seyffert, A. S., Shafi, N., Shiningayamwe, K., Simoni, R., Sinha, A., Sol, H., Specovius, A., Spencer, S., Spir-Jacob, M., Stawarz, ??., Sun, L., Steenkamp, R., Stegmann, C., Steinmassl, S., Steppa, C., Takahashi, T., Tavernier, T., Taylor, A. M., Terrier, R., Tiziani, D., Tluczykont, M., Tomankova, L., Trichard, C., Tsirou, M., Tuffs, R., Uchiyama, Y., van der Walt, D. J., van Eldik, C., van Rensburg, C., van Soelen, B., Vasileiadis, G., Veh, J., Venter, C., Vincent, P., Vink, J., V??lk, H. 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J., Garczarczyk, M., Gasparyan, S., Gaug, M., Giglietto, N., Giordano, F., Gliwny, P., Godinovi??, N., Green, D., Hadasch, D., Hahn, A., Heckmann, L., Herrera, J., Hoang, J., Hrupec, D., H??tten, M., Inada, T., Inoue, S., Ishio, K., Iwamura, Y., Jouvin, L., Kajiwara, Y., Karjalainen, M., Kerszberg, D., Kobayashi, Y., Kubo, H., Kushida, J., Lamastra, A., Lelas, D., Leone, F., Lindfors, E., Lombardi, S., Longo, F., L??pez, M., L??pez-Coto, R., L??pez-Oramas, A., Loporchio, S., Machado de Oliveira Fraga, B., Maggio, C., Majumdar, P., Makariev, M., Mallamaci, M., Maneva, G., Manganaro, M., Mannheim, K., Maraschi, L., Mariotti, M., Mart??nez, M., Mazin, D., Mender, S., Mi??anovi??, S., Miceli, D., Miener, T., Minev, M., Miranda, J. 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non-thermal, quasars: individual: PKS 1510−089, galaxies: active, relativistic processes, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies [radiation mechanisms], Photon, individual: PKS 1510−089 [quasars], Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Flux, radiation mechanisms: non-thermal / quasars: individual: PKS 1510−089 / galaxies: active / relativistic processes, radiation mechanisms: non-thermal, quasars: individual: PKS 1510-089, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, law.invention, law, 0103 physical sciences, Galaxies: Active, Quasars: Individual: Pks 1510-089, Radiation mechanisms: Non-thermal, Relativistic processes, individual: PKS 1510-089 [quasars], MAGIC (telescope), 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Physics, [PHYS]Physics [physics], 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Quasar, Light curve, non-thermal [radiation mechanisms], relativistic processes [radiation mechanisms], Extragalactic background light, Space and Planetary Science, active [galaxies], ddc:520, Física nuclear, quasars: individual: PKS 1510���089, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, Flare
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The flat spectrum radio quasar (FSRQ) PKS 1510−089 is known for its complex multiwavelength behaviour and it is one of only a few FSRQs detected in very-high-energy (VHE, E > 100 GeV) γ rays. The VHE γ-ray observations with H.E.S.S. and MAGIC in late May and early June 2016 resulted in the detection of an unprecedented flare, which revealed, for the first time, VHE γ-ray intranight variability for this source. While a common variability timescale of 1.5 h has been found, there is a significant deviation near the end of the flare, with a timescale of ∼20 min marking the cessation of the event. The peak flux is nearly two orders of magnitude above the low-level emission. For the first time, a curvature was detected in the VHE γ-ray spectrum of PKS 1510–089, which can be fully explained by the absorption on the part of the extragalactic background light. Optical R-band observations with ATOM revealed a counterpart of the γ-ray flare, even though the detailed flux evolution differs from the VHE γ-ray light curve. Interestingly, a steep flux decrease was observed at the same time as the cessation of the VHE γ-ray flare. In the high-energy (HE, E > 100 MeV) γ-ray band, only a moderate flux increase was observed with Fermi-LAT, while the HE γ-ray spectrum significantly hardens up to a photon index of 1.6. A search for broad-line region (BLR) absorption features in the γ-ray spectrum indicates that the emission region is located outside of the BLR. Radio very-long-baseline interferometry observations reveal a fast-moving knot interacting with a standing jet feature around the time of the flare. As the standing feature is located ∼50 pc from the black hole, the emission region of the flare may have been located at a significant distance from the black hole. If this is indeed a true correlation, the VHE γ rays must have been produced far down in the jet, where turbulent plasma crosses a standing shock., Astronomy & Astrophysics, 648, ISSN:0004-6361, ISSN:1432-0746

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J., Hirota, T., Cui, L., Niinuma, K., Ro, H., Sakai, N., Sawada-Satoh, S., Wajima, K., Wang, N., Liu, X., Yonekura, Y., German Research Foundation, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Swiss National Science Foundation, Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades (España), Department of Atomic Energy (India), University of Tokyo, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Ministry of Education and Scientific Research (Romania), Academy of Finland, La Caixa, Croatian Science Foundation, Generalitat de Catalunya, Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange, University of Rijeka, Department of Energy (US), Smithsonian Institution, Astronomy, and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Montpellier 2 - Sciences et Techniques (UM2)

Subjects
Accretion, 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, Astronomy, Flux, Astrophysics, 7. Clean energy, 01 natural sciences, Active galactic nuclei, Radio cores, Low-luminosity active galactic nuclei, High energy astrophysics, Astrophysical black holes, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Physics, astro-ph.HE, Radio core, Accretion (meteorology), 520 Astronomie und zugeordnete Wissenschaften, Low-luminosity, active galactic nuclei, Astrophysical black hole, astro-ph.CO, Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), Active galactic nucleus, High-energy astronomy, astro-ph.GA, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, FOS: Physical sciences, F500, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, High energy astrophysic, 0103 physical sciences, Very-long-baseline interferometry, ddc:530, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, Event Horizon Telescope, Supermassive black hole, Astronomy and Astrophysics, 530 Physik, Galaxy, Space and Planetary Science, Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA), ddc:520, HESS - Abteilung Hinton, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]
Abstract

Full list of authors: EHT MWL Science Working Group; Algaba, J. C.; Anczarski, J.; Asada, K.; Baloković, M.; Chandra, S.; Cui, Y. -Z.; Falcone, A. D.; Giroletti, M.; Goddi, C.; Hada, K.; Haggard, D.; Jorstad, S.; Kaur, A.; Kawashima, T.; Keating, G.; Kim, J. -Y.; Kino, M.; Komossa, S.; Kravchenko, E. V.; Krichbaum, T. P.; Lee, S. -S.; Lu, R. -S.; Lucchini, M.; Markoff, S.; Neilsen, J.; Nowak, M. A.; Park, J.; Principe, G.; Ramakrishnan, V.; Reynolds, M. T.; Sasada, M.; Savchenko, S. S.; Williamson, K. E.; Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration; Akiyama, Kazunori; Alberdi, Antxon; Alef, Walter; Anantua, Richard; Azulay, Rebecca; Baczko, Anne-Kathrin; Ball, David; Barrett, John; Bintley, Dan; Benson, Bradford A.; Blackburn, Lindy; Blundell, Raymond; Boland, Wilfred; Bouman, Katherine L.; Bower, Geoffrey C.; Boyce, Hope; Bremer, Michael; Brinkerink, Christiaan D.; Brissenden, Roger; Britzen, Silke; Broderick, Avery E.; Broguiere, Dominique; Bronzwaer, Thomas; Byun, Do-Young; Carlstrom, John E.; Chael, Andrew; Chan, Chi-Kwan; Chatterjee, Shami; Chatterjee, Koushik; Chen, Ming-Tang; Chen, Yongjun; Chesler, Paul M.; Cho, Ilje; Christian, Pierre; Conway, John E.; Cordes, James M.; Crawford, Thomas M.; Crew, Geoffrey B.; Cruz-Osorio, Alejandro; Davelaar, Jordy; de Laurentis, Mariafelicia; Deane, Roger; Dempsey, Jessica; Desvignes, Gregory; Dexter, Jason; Doeleman, Sheperd S.; Eatough, Ralph P.; Falcke, Heino; Farah, Joseph; Fish, Vincent L.; Fomalont, Ed; Ford, H. Alyson; Fraga-Encinas, Raquel; Friberg, Per; Fromm, Christian M.; Fuentes, Antonio; Galison, Peter; Gammie, Charles F.; García, Roberto; Gentaz, Olivier; Georgiev, Boris; Gold, Roman; Gómez, José L.; Gómez-Ruiz, Arturo I.; Gu, Minfeng; Gurwell, Mark; Hecht, Michael H.; Hesper, Ronald; Ho, Luis C.; Ho, Paul; Honma, Mareki; Huang, Chih-Wei L.; Huang, Lei; Hughes, David H.; Ikeda, Shiro; Inoue, Makoto; Issaoun, Sara; James, David J.; Jannuzi, Buell T.; Janssen, Michael; Jeter, Britton; Jiang, Wu; Jiménez-Rosales, Alejandra; Johnson, Michael D.; Jung, Taehyun; Karami, Mansour; Karuppusamy, Ramesh; Kettenis, Mark; Kim, Dong-Jin; Kim, Jongsoo; Kim, Junhan; Koay, Jun Yi; Kofuji, Yutaro; Koch, Patrick M.; Koyama, Shoko; Kramer, Michael; Kramer, Carsten; Kuo, Cheng-Yu; Lauer, Tod R.; Levis, Aviad; Li, Yan-Rong; Li, Zhiyuan; Lindqvist, Michael; Lico, Rocco; Lindahl, Greg; Liu, Jun; Liu, Kuo; Liuzzo, Elisabetta; Lo, Wen-Ping; Lobanov, Andrei P.; Loinard, Laurent; Lonsdale, Colin; MacDonald, Nicholas R.; Mao, Jirong; Marchili, Nicola; Marrone, Daniel P.; Marscher, Alan P.; Martí-Vidal, Iván; Matsushita, Satoki; Matthews, Lynn D.; Medeiros, Lia; Menten, Karl M.; Mizuno, Izumi; Mizuno, Yosuke; Moran, James M.; Moriyama, Kotaro; Moscibrodzka, Monika; Müller, Cornelia; Musoke, Gibwa; Mejías, Alejandro Mus; Nagai, Hiroshi; Nagar, Neil M.; Nakamura, Masanori; Narayan, Ramesh; Narayanan, Gopal; Natarajan, Iniyan; Nathanail, Antonios; Neri, Roberto; Ni, Chunchong; Noutsos, Aristeidis; Okino, Hiroki; Olivares, Héctor; Ortiz-León, Gisela N.; Oyama, Tomoaki; Özel, Feryal; Palumbo, Daniel C. M.; Patel, Nimesh; Pen, Ue-Li; Pesce, Dominic W.; Piétu, Vincent; Plambeck, Richard; Popstefanija, Aleksandar; Porth, Oliver; Pötzl, Felix M.; Prather, Ben; Preciado-López, Jorge A.; Psaltis, Dimitrios; Pu, Hung-Yi; Rao, Ramprasad; Rawlings, Mark G.; Raymond, Alexander W.; Rezzolla, Luciano; Ricarte, Angelo; Ripperda, Bart; Roelofs, Freek; Rogers, Alan; Ros, Eduardo; Rose, Mel; Roshanineshat, Arash; Rottmann, Helge; Roy, Alan L.; Ruszczyk, Chet; Rygl, Kazi L. J.; Sánchez, Salvador; Sánchez-Arguelles, David; Savolainen, Tuomas; Schloerb, F. Peter; Schuster, Karl-Friedrich; Shao, Lijing; Shen, Zhiqiang; Small, Des; Sohn, Bong Won; Soohoo, Jason; Sun, He; Tazaki, Fumie; Tetarenko, Alexandra J.; Tiede, Paul; Tilanus, Remo P. J.; Titus, Michael; Toma, Kenji; Torne, Pablo; Trent, Tyler; Traianou, Efthalia; Trippe, Sascha; van Bemmel, Ilse; van Langevelde, Huib Jan; van Rossum, Daniel R.; Wagner, Jan; Ward-Thompson, Derek; Wardle, John; Weintroub, Jonathan; Wex, Norbert; Wharton, Robert; Wielgus, Maciek; Wong, George N.; Wu, Qingwen; Yoon, Doosoo; Young, André; Young, Ken; Younsi, Ziri; Yuan, Feng; Yuan, Ye-Fei; Zensus, J. Anton; Zhao, Guang-Yao; Zhao, Shan-Shan; Fermi Large Area Telescope Collaboration; Principe, G.; Giroletti, M.; D'Ammando, F.; Orienti, M.; H. E. S. S. Collaboration; Abdalla, H.; Adam, R.; Aharonian, F.; Benkhali, F. Ait; Angüner, E. O.; Arcaro, C.; Armand, C.; Armstrong, T.; Ashkar, H.; Backes, M.; Baghmanyan, V.; Barbosa Martins, V.; Barnacka, A.; Barnard, M.; Becherini, Y.; Berge, D.; Bernlöhr, K.; Bi, B.; Böttcher, M.; Boisson, C.; Bolmont, J.; de Lavergne, M. 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A.; Katarzyński, K.; Katz, U.; Khangulyan, D.; Khélifi, B.; Klepser, S.; Kluźniak, W.; Komin, Nu.; Konno, R.; Kosack, K.; Kostunin, D.; Kreter, M.; Lamanna, G.; Lemière, A.; Lemoine-Goumard, M.; Lenain, J. -P.; Levy, C.; Lohse, T.; Lypova, I.; Mackey, J.; Majumdar, J.; Malyshev, D.; Malyshev, D.; Marandon, V.; Marchegiani, P.; Marcowith, A.; Mares, A.; Martí-Devesa, G.; Marx, R.; Maurin, G.; Meintjes, P. J.; Meyer, M.; Moderski, R.; Mohamed, M.; Mohrmann, L.; Montanari, A.; Moore, C.; Morris, P.; Moulin, E.; Muller, J.; Murach, T.; Nakashima, K.; Nayerhoda, A.; de Naurois, M.; Ndiyavala, H.; Niederwanger, F.; Niemiec, J.; Oakes, L.; O'Brien, P.; Odaka, H.; Ohm, S.; Olivera-Nieto, L.; de Ona Wilhelmi, E.; Ostrowski, M.; Panter, M.; Panny, S.; Parsons, R. D.; Peron, G.; Peyaud, B.; Piel, Q.; Pita, S.; Poireau, V.; Noel, A. Priyana; Prokhorov, D. A.; Prokoph, H.; Pühlhofer, G.; Punch, M.; Quirrenbach, A.; Rauth, R.; Reichherzer, P.; Reimer, A.; Reimer, O.; Remy, Q.; Renaud, M.; Rieger, F.; Rinchiuso, L.; Romoli, C.; Rowell, G.; Rudak, B.; Ruiz-Velasco, E.; Sahakian, V.; Sailer, S.; Sanchez, D. A.; Santangelo, A.; Sasaki, M.; Scalici, M.; Schutte, H. M.; Schwanke, U.; Schwemmer, S.; Seglar-Arroyo, M.; Senniappan, M.; Seyffert, A. S.; Shafi, N.; Shiningayamwe, K.; Simoni, R.; Sinha, A.; Sol, H.; Specovius, A.; Spencer, S.; Spir-Jacob, M.; Stawarz, Ł.; Sun, L.; Steenkamp, R.; Stegmann, C.; Steinmassl, S.; Steppa, C.; Takahashi, T.; Tavernier, T.; Taylor, A. M.; Terrier, R.; Tiziani, D.; Tluczykont, M.; Tomankova, L.; Trichard, C.; Tsirou, M.; Tuffs, R.; Uchiyama, Y.; van der Walt, D. J.; van Eldik, C.; van Rensburg, C.; van Soelen, B.; Vasileiadis, G.; Veh, J.; Venter, C.; Vincent, P.; Vink, J.; Völk, H. J.; Vuillaume, T.; Wadiasingh, Z.; Wagner, S. 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The EHTC also partnered with several international facilities in space and on the ground, to arrange an extensive, quasi-simultaneous multi-wavelength campaign. This Letter presents the results and analysis of this campaign, as well as the multi-wavelength data as a legacy data repository. We captured M87 in a historically low state, and the core flux dominates over HST-1 at high energies, making it possible to combine core flux constraints with the more spatially precise very long baseline interferometry data. We present the most complete simultaneous multi-wavelength spectrum of the active nucleus to date, and discuss the complexity and caveats of combining data from different spatial scales into one broadband spectrum. We apply two heuristic, isotropic leptonic single-zone models to provide insight into the basic source properties, but conclude that a structured jet is necessary to explain M87's spectrum. We can exclude that the simultaneous γ-ray emission is produced via inverse Compton emission in the same region producing the EHT mm-band emission, and further conclude that the γ-rays can only be produced in the inner jets (inward of HST-1) if there are strongly particle-dominated regions. Direct synchrotron emission from accelerated protons and secondaries cannot yet be excluded., The financial support of the German BMBF, MPG and HGF; the Italian INFN and INAF; the Swiss National Fund SNF; the ERDF under the Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovacion (MICINN) (FPA2017-87859-P, FPA2017-85668-P, FPA2017- 82729-C6-5-R, FPA2017-90566-REDC, PID2019-104114RBC31, PID2019-104114RB-C32, PID2019-105510GB-C31,PID 2019-107847RB-C41, PID2019-107847RB-C42, PID2019- 107988GB-C22); the Indian Department of Atomic Energy; the Japanese ICRR, the University of Tokyo, JSPS, and MEXT; the Bulgarian Ministry of Education and Science, National RI Roadmap Project DO1-268/16.12.2019 and the Academy of Finland grant No. 320045 is gratefully acknowledged. This work was also supported by the Spanish Centro de Excelencia “Severo Ochoa” SEV-2016-0588 and CEX2019- 000920-S, and “Maria de Maeztu” CEX2019-000918-M, the Unidad de Excelencia “Maria de Maeztu” MDM-2015-0509- 18-2 and the “la Caixa” Foundation (fellowship LCF/BQ/ PI18/11630012) and by the CERCA program of the Generalitat de Catalunya; by the Croatian Science Foundation (HrZZ) Project IP-2016-06-9782 and the University of Rijeka Project 13.12.1.3.02; by the DFG Collaborative Research Centers SFB823/C4 and SFB876/C3; the Polish National Research Centre grant UMO-2016/22/M/ST9/00382; and by the Brazilian MCTIC, CNPq, and FAPERJ. This research is supported by grants from the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science, the U.S. National Science Foundation and the Smithsonian Institution, by NSERC in Canada, and by the Helmholtz Association in Germany. This research used resources provided by the Open Science Grid, which is supported by the National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science, and resources of the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC), a U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science User Facility operated under Contract No. DE-AC02-05CH11231. We acknowledge the excellent work of the technical support staff at the Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory and at the collaborating institutions in the construction and operation of the instrument.

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