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1. VERITAS and Fermi-LAT Constraints on the Gamma-Ray Emission from Superluminous Supernovae SN2015bn and SN2017egm

Author: A. Acharyya, C. B. Adams, P. Bangale, W. Benbow, J. H. Buckley, M. Capasso, V. V. Dwarkadas, M. Errando, A. Falcone, Q. Feng, J. P. Finley, G. M. Foote, L. Fortson, A. Furniss, G. Gallagher, A. Gent, W. F Hanlon, O. Hervet, J. Holder, T. B. Humensky, W. Jin, P. Kaaret, M. Kertzman, M. Kherlakian, D. Kieda, T. K Kleiner, S. Kumar, M. J. Lang, M. Lundy, G. Maier, C. E McGrath, J. Millis, P. Moriarty, R. Mukherjee, M. Nievas-Rosillo, S. O’Brien, R. A. Ong, S. R. Patel, K. Pfrang, M. Pohl, E. Pueschel, J. Quinn, K. Ragan, P. T. Reynolds, D. Ribeiro, E. Roache, J. L. Ryan, I. Sadeh, M. Santander, G. H. Sembroski, R. Shang, M. Splettstoesser, D. Tak, J. V. Tucci, A. Weinstein, D. A. Williams, VERITAS collaboration, B. D. Metzger, M. Nicholl, and I. Vurm
Subjects: Shocks, Gamma-rays, Particle astrophysics, Supernovae, Magnetars, Millisecond pulsars, Astrophysics, QB460-466
Abstract: Superluminous supernovae (SLSNe) are a rare class of stellar explosions with luminosities ∼ 10–100 times greater than ordinary core-collapse supernovae. One popular model to explain the enhanced optical output of hydrogen-poor (Type I) SLSNe invokes energy injection from a rapidly spinning magnetar. A prediction in this case is that high-energy gamma-rays, generated in the wind nebula of the magnetar, could escape through the expanding supernova ejecta at late times (months or more after optical peak). This paper presents a search for gamma-ray emission in the broad energy band from 100 MeV to 30 TeV from two Type I SLSNe, SN2015bn, and SN2017egm, using observations from Fermi-LAT and VERITAS. Although no gamma-ray emission was detected from either source, the derived upper limits approach the putative magnetar’s spin-down luminosity. Prospects are explored for detecting very-high-energy (VHE; 100 GeV–100 TeV) emission from SLSNe-I with existing and planned facilities such as VERITAS and CTA.
Published: 2023
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2. Multimessenger Characterization of Markarian 501 during Historically Low X-Ray and γ-Ray Activity

Author: 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.
Published: 2023
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3. Observations of the Crab Nebula and Pulsar with the Large-sized Telescope Prototype of the Cherenkov Telescope Array

Author: H. Abe, K. Abe, S. Abe, A. Aguasca-Cabot, I. Agudo, N. Alvarez Crespo, L. A. Antonelli, C. Aramo, A. Arbet-Engels, C. Arcaro, M. Artero, K. Asano, P. Aubert, A. Baktash, A. Bamba, A. Baquero Larriva, L. Baroncelli, U. Barres de Almeida, J. A. Barrio, I. Batkovic, J. Baxter, J. Becerra González, E. Bernardini, M. I. Bernardos, J. Bernete Medrano, A. Berti, P. Bhattacharjee, N. Biederbeck, C. Bigongiari, E. Bissaldi, O. Blanch, G. Bonnoli, P. Bordas, A. Borghese, A. Bulgarelli, I. Burelli, M. Buscemi, M. Cardillo, S. Caroff, A. Carosi, F. Cassol, D. Cauz, G. Ceribella, Y. Chai, K. Cheng, A. Chiavassa, M. Chikawa, L. Chytka, A. Cifuentes, J. L. Contreras, J. Cortina, H. Costantini, G. D’Amico, M. Dalchenko, A. De Angelis, M. de Bony de Lavergne, B. De Lotto, R. de Menezes, G. Deleglise, C. Delgado, J. Delgado Mengual, D. della Volpe, M. Dellaiera, D. Depaoli, A. Di Piano, F. Di Pierro, R. Di Tria, L. Di Venere, C. Díaz, R. M. Dominik, D. Dominis Prester, A. Donini, D. Dorner, M. Doro, D. Elsässer, G. Emery, J. Escudero, V. Fallah Ramazani, G. Ferrara, F. Ferrarotto, A. Fiasson, L. Freixas Coromina, S. Fröse, S. Fukami, Y. Fukazawa, E. Garcia, R. Garcia López, C. Gasbarra, D. Gasparrini, F. Geyer, J. Giesbrecht Paiva, N. Giglietto, F. Giordano, E. Giro, P. Gliwny, N. Godinovic, R. Grau, D. Green, J. Green, S. Gunji, J. Hackfeld, D. Hadasch, A. Hahn, K. Hashiyama, T. Hassan, K. Hayashi, L. Heckmann, M. Heller, J. Herrera Llorente, K. Hirotani, D. Hoffmann, D. Horns, J. Houles, M. Hrabovsky, D. Hrupec, D. Hui, M. Hütten, M. Iarlori, R. Imazawa, T. Inada, Y. Inome, K. Ioka, M. Iori, K. Ishio, Y. Iwamura, M. Jacquemont, I. Jimenez Martinez, J. Jurysek, M. Kagaya, V. Karas, H. Katagiri, J. Kataoka, D. Kerszberg, Y. Kobayashi, A. Kong, H. Kubo, J. Kushida, M. Lainez, G. Lamanna, A. Lamastra, T. Le Flour, M. Linhoff, F. Longo, R. López-Coto, M. López-Moya, A. López-Oramas, S. Loporchio, A. Lorini, P. L. Luque-Escamilla, P. Majumdar, M. Makariev, D. Mandat, M. Manganaro, G. Manicò, K. Mannheim, M. Mariotti, P. Marquez, G. Marsella, J. Martí, O. Martinez, G. Martínez, M. Martínez, P. Marusevec, A. Mas-Aguilar, G. Maurin, D. Mazin, E. Mestre Guillen, S. Micanovic, D. Miceli, T. Miener, J. M. Miranda, R. Mirzoyan, T. Mizuno, M. Molero Gonzalez, E. Molina, T. Montaruli, I. Monteiro, A. Moralejo, D. Morcuende, A. Morselli, K. Mrakovcic, K. Murase, A. Nagai, S. Nagataki, T. Nakamori, L. Nickel, M. Nievas, K. Nishijima, K. Noda, D. Nosek, S. Nozaki, M. Ohishi, Y. Ohtani, T. Oka, N. Okazaki, A. Okumura, R. Orito, J. Otero-Santos, M. Palatiello, D. Paneque, F. R. Pantaleo, R. Paoletti, J. M. Paredes, M. Pech, M. Pecimotika, M. Peresano, A. Pérez, E. Pietropaolo, G. Pirola, C. Plard, F. Podobnik, V. Poireau, M. Polo, E. Pons, E. Prandini, J. Prast, G. Principe, C. Priyadarshi, M. Prouza, R. Rando, W. Rhode, M. Ribó, V. Rizi, G. Rodriguez Fernandez, J. E. Ruiz, T. Saito, S. Sakurai, D. A. Sanchez, T. Šarić, Y. Sato, F. G. Saturni, B. Schleicher, F. Schmuckermaier, J. L. Schubert, F. Schussler, T. Schweizer, M. Seglar Arroyo, R. Silvia, J. Sitarek, V. Sliusar, A. Spolon, J. Strišković, M. Strzys, Y. Suda, Y. Sunada, H. Tajima, H. Takahashi, M. Takahashi, J. Takata, R. Takeishi, P. H. T. Tam, S. J. Tanaka, D. Tateishi, L. A. Tejedor, P. Temnikov, Y. Terada, K. Terauchi, T. Terzic, M. Teshima, M. Tluczykont, F. Tokanai, D. F. Torres, P. Travnicek, S. Truzzi, A. Tutone, G. Uhlrich, M. Vacula, P. Vallania, J. van Scherpenberg, M. Vázquez Acosta, V. Verguilov, I. Viale, A. Vigliano, C. F. Vigorito, V. Vitale, G. Voutsinas, I. Vovk, T. Vuillaume, R. Walter, M. Will, T. Yamamoto, R. Yamazaki, T. Yoshida, T. Yoshikoshi, N. Zywucka, K. Bernlöhr, O. Gueta, K. Kosack, G. Maier, and J. Watson
Subjects: Gamma-ray astronomy, Gamma-ray sources, Astronomy data analysis, Pulsar wind nebulae, Pulsars, Astrophysics, QB460-466
Abstract: The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is a next-generation ground-based observatory for gamma-ray astronomy at very high energies. The Large-Sized Telescope prototype (LST-1) is located at the CTA-North site, on the Canary Island of La Palma. LSTs are designed to provide optimal performance in the lowest part of the energy range covered by CTA, down to ≃20 GeV. LST-1 started performing astronomical observations in 2019 November, during its commissioning phase, and it has been taking data ever since. We present the first LST-1 observations of the Crab Nebula, the standard candle of very-high-energy gamma-ray astronomy, and use them, together with simulations, to assess the performance of the telescope. LST-1 has reached the expected performance during its commissioning period—only a minor adjustment of the preexisting simulations was needed to match the telescope’s behavior. The energy threshold at trigger level is around 20 GeV, rising to ≃30 GeV after data analysis. Performance parameters depend strongly on energy, and on the strength of the gamma-ray selection cuts in the analysis: angular resolution ranges from 0.°12–0.°40, and energy resolution from 15%–50%. Flux sensitivity is around 1.1% of the Crab Nebula flux above 250 GeV for a 50 hr observation (12% for 30 minutes). The spectral energy distribution (in the 0.03–30 TeV range) and the light curve obtained for the Crab Nebula agree with previous measurements, considering statistical and systematic uncertainties. A clear periodic signal is also detected from the pulsar at the center of the Nebula.
Published: 2023
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4. MAGIC and Fermi-LAT gamma-ray results on unassociated HAWC sources

Author: M. L. Ahnen, S. Ansoldi, L. A. Antonelli, C. Arcaro, D. Baack, A. Babic, B. Banerjee, P. Bangale, U. Barres de Almeida, J. A. Barrio, J. Becerra Gonzalez, W. Bednarek, E. Bernardini, R. Ch. Berse, A. Berti, W. Bhattacharyya, A. Biland, O. Blanch, G. Bonnoli, R. Carosi, A. Carosi, G. Ceribella, A. Chatterjee, S. M. Colak, P. Colin, E. Colombo, J. L. Contreras, J. Cortina, S. Covino, P. Cumani, P. Da Vela, F. Dazzi, A. De Angelis, B. De Lotto, M. Delfino, J. Delgado, F. Di Pierro, A. Domınguez, D. Dominis Prester, D. Dorner, M. Doro, S. Einecke, D. Elsaesser, V. Fallah Ramazani, A. Fernandez-Barral, D. Fidalgo, M. V. Fonseca, L. Font, C. Fruck, D. Galindo, R. J. Garcıa Lopez, M. Garczarczyk, M. Gaug, P. Giammaria, N. Godinovic, D. Gora, D. Guberman, D. Hadasch, A. Hahn, T. Hassan, M. Hayashida, J. Herrera, J. Hose, D. Hrupec, K. Ishio, Y. Konno, H. Kubo, J. Kushida, D. Kuvezdic, D. Lelas, E. Lindfors, S. Lombardi, F. Longo, M. Lopez, C. Maggio, P. Majumdar, M. Makariev, G. Maneva, M. Manganaro, K. Mannheim, L. Maraschi, M. Mariotti, M. Martınez, S. Masuda, D. Mazin, K. Mielke, M. Minev, J. M. Miranda, R. Mirzoyan, A. Moralejo, V. Moreno, E. Moretti, T. Nagayoshi, V. Neustroev, A. Niedzwiecki, M. Nievas Rosillo, C. Nigro, K. Nilsson, D. Ninci, K. Nishijima, K. Noda, L. Nogues, S. Paiano, J. Palacio, D. Paneque, R. Paoletti, J. M. Paredes, G. Pedaletti, M. Peresano, M. Persic, P. G. Prada Moroni, E. Prandini, I. Puljak, J. R. Garcia, I. Reichardt, W. Rhodes, M. Ribo, J. Rico, C. Righi, A. Rugliancich, T. Saito, K. Satalecka, T. Schweizer, J. Sitarek, I. Snidaric, D. Sobczynska, A. Stamerra, M. Strzys, T. Suric, M. Takahashi, L. Takalo, F. Tavecchio, P. Temnikov, T. Terzic, M. Teshima, N. Torres-Alba, A. Treves, S. Tsujimoto, G. Vanzo, M. Vazquez Acosta, I. Vovk, J. E. Ward, M. Will, D. Zaric, A. Albert, R. Alfaro, C. Alvarez, R. Arceo, J. C. Arteaga-Velazquez, D. Avila Rojas, H. A. Ayala Solares, A. Becerril, E. Belmont-Moreno, S. Y. BenZvi, A. Bernal, J. Braun, K. S. Caballero-Mora, T. Capistran, A. Carraminana, S. Casanova, M. Castillo, U. Cotti, J. Cotzomi, S. Coutino de Leon, C. De Leon, E. De la Fuente, R. Diaz Hernandez, S. Dichiara, B. L. Dingus, M. A. DuVernois, J. C. Dıaz-Velez, R. W. Ellsworth, K. Engel, O. Enriquez-Rivera, D. W. Fiorino, H. Fleischhack, N. Fraija, J. A. Garcıa-Gonzalez, F. Garfias, A. Gonzalez-Munoz, M. M. Gonzalez, J. A. Goodman, Z. Hampel-Arias, J. P. Harding, S. Hernandez, F. Hueyotl-Zahuantitla, C. M. Hui, P. Huntemeyer, A. Iriarte, A. Jardin-Blicq, V. Joshi, S. Kaufmann, A. Lara, R. J. Lauer, W. H. Lee, D. Lennarz, H. Leon Vargas, J. T. Linnemann, A. L. Longinotti, G. Luis-Raya, R. Luna-Garcıa, R. Lopez-Coto, K. Malone, S. S. Marinelli, O. Martinez, I. Martinez-Castellanos, J. Martınez-Castro, H. Martınez-Huerta, J. A. Matthews, P. Miranda-Romagnoli, E. Moreno, A. Nayerhoda, L. Nellen, M. Newbold, M. U. Nisa, R. Noriega-Papaqui, R. Pelayo, J. Pretz, E. G. Perez-Perez, Z. Ren, C. D. Rho, C. Riviere, D. Rosa-Gonzalez, M. Rosenberg, E. Ruiz-Velasco, F. Salesa Greus, A. Sandoval, M. Schneider, M. Seglar Arroyo, G. Sinnis, A. J. Smith, R. W. Springer, P. Surajbali, I. Taboada, O. Tibolla, K. Tollefson, I. Torres, T. N. Ukwatta, G. Vianello, L. Villasenor, F. Werner, S. Westerhoff, J. Wood, T. Yapici, G. Yodh, A. Zepeda, H. Zhou, J. D. Alvarez, M. Ajello, L. Baldini, G. Barbiellini, B. Berenji, E. Bissaldi, R. D. Blandford, R. Bonino, E. Bottacini, T. J. Brandt, J. Bregeon, P. Bruel, R. A. Cameron, R. Caputo, P. A. Caraveo, D. Castro, E. Cavazzuti, G. Chiaro, S. Ciprini, D. Costantin, F. D'Ammando, F. de Palma, A. Desai, N. Di Lalla, M. Di Mauro, L. Di Venere, C. Favuzzi, Y. Fukazawa, S. Funk, P. Fusco, F. Gargano, D. Gasparrini, N. Giglietto, F. Giordano, M. Giroletti, T. Glanzman, D. Green, I. A. Grenier, S. Guiriec, A. K. Harding, E. Hays, J. W. Hewitt, D. Horan, G. Johannesson, M. Kuss, S. Larsson, I. Liodakis, F. Loparco, P. Lubrano, J. D. Magill, S. Maldera, A. Manfreda, M. N. Mazziotta, I. Mereu, P. F. Michelson, T. Mizuno, M. E. Monzani, A. Morselli, I. V. Moskalenko, M. Negro, E. Nuss, N. Omodei, M. Orienti, E. Orlando, J. F. Ormes, M. Palatiello, V. S. Paliya, M. Pesce-Rollins, V. Petrosian, F. Piron, T. A. Porter, G. Principe, S. Raino, B. Rani, M. Razzano, S. Razzaque, A. Reimer, O. Reimer, C. Sgro, E. J. Siskind, G. Spandre, P. Spinelli, H. Tajima, J. B. Thayer, David J Thompson, D. F. Torres, E. Torresi, E. Troja, J. Valverde, K. Wood, and M. Yassine
Subjects: Astronomy, Astrophysics
Abstract: The HAWC Collaboration released the 2HWC catalogue of TeV sources, in which 19 show no association with any known high-energy (HE; E ≳ 10 GeV) or very-high-energy (VHE; E ≳ 300 GeV) sources. This catalogue motivated follow-up studies by both the Major Atmospheric Gamma-ray Imaging Cherenkov (MAGIC) and Fermi-LAT (Large Area Telescope) observatories with the aim of investigating gamma-ray emission over a broad energy band. In this paper, we report the results from the first joint work between High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC), MAGIC, and Fermi-LAT on three unassociated HAWC sources: 2HWC J2006+341, 2HWC J1907+084*, and 2HWC J1852+013*. Although no significant detection was found in the HE and VHE regimes, this investigation shows that a minimum 1° extension (at 95 per cent confidence level) and harder spectrum in the GeV than the one extrapolated from HAWC results are required in the case of 2HWC J1852+013*, whilst a simply minimum extension of 0.16° (at 95 per cent confidence level) can already explain the scenario proposed by HAWC for the remaining sources. Moreover, the hypothesis that these sources are pulsar wind nebulae is also investigated in detail.
Published: 2019
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5. Multi-Messenger observations of the Fermi-LAT blazar 4FGL J0658.6+0636 consistent with an IceCube high-energy neutrino

Author: David R. Williams, Antoine Kouchner, K. A. Farrell, Alasdair E. Gent, V. V. Vassiliev, Fabian Schüssler, H. A. Peña-Herazo, Georgios Paraschos, R. Shang, D. S. Hanna, Q. Feng, John L. Quinn, D. Ribeiro, Daniel Nieto, A. Brill, Giacomo Bonnoli, M. Kertzman, Lucy Fortson, Yong Sheng, Olivier Hervet, T. B. Humensky, Francesco Massaro, S. O'Brien, Alessio Berti, M. J. Lang, donggeun tak, Teddy Cheung, Suvi Gezari, Joern Wilms, A. D. Falcone, P. T. Reynolds, Miguel Perez-Torres, Andrea Tramacere, Reshmi Mukherjee, G. M. Foote, Binita Hona, C. Giuri, Raniere de Menezes, P. Kaaret, I. Sadeh, Frank J. Masci, Emilio Fernandez-Garcia, W. Jin, Wystan Benbow, Uwe Bach, R. R. Prado, P. Moriarty, Jonas Heßdörfer, M. Pohl, Matthias Kadler, Steven Hämmerich, Gernot Maier, G. H. Sembroski, Andrea Gokus, R. A. Ong, M. Capasso, Ivan Agudo, Marcos Santander, C. E. McGrath, T. J. Williamson, A. J.R. Weinstein, E. Roache, A. Archer, Jorge Otero-Santos, Simone Garrappa, Alex Kraus, G. H. Gillanders, A. J. Castro-Tirado, Alexis Coleiro, Jodi Christiansen, Jamie Holder, K. Ragan, Meenakshi Rajagopal, A. N. Otte, Alessandro Paggi, K. Pfrang, Orel Gueta, Marcello Giroletti, Cristina Nanci, Javier Moldon, M. Nievas-Rosillo, Elisa Bernardini, C. Adams, Werner Colmar, Y. D. Hu, J. A. Ryan, Richard Walters, M. Lundy, Florian Eppel, Tobias Kleiner, R. Sanchez-Ramirez, J. H. Buckley, A. J. Chromey, Amy Furniss, Charlotte Ward, Konstancja Satalecka, E. Pueschel, Manel Errando, Sara Buson, S. Kumar, S. Patel, M. D. Caballero-Garcia, and Marco Ajello
Subjects: Physics, High energy, Astrophysics, Neutrino, Blazar, Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope
Published: 2021
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6. VERITAS Observations of the Galactic Center Region at Multi-TeV Gamma-Ray Energies

Author: S. O'Brien, donggeun tak, E. Roache, K. A. Farrell, V. V. Vassiliev, John L. Quinn, D. Ribeiro, J. H. Buckley, K. Ragan, P. Kaaret, A. Archer, A. J. Chromey, M. Nievas-Rosillo, G. H. Gillanders, Reshmi Mukherjee, David Kieda, Jodi Christiansen, C. Giuri, James M. Ryan, M. Kertzman, Olivier Hervet, Amy Furniss, A. Brill, I. Sadeh, Lucy Fortson, Marcos Santander, Binita Hona, D. S. Hanna, M. J. Lang, E. Pueschel, Wystan Benbow, A. D. Falcone, Orel Gueta, Q. Feng, P. Moriarty, M. Capasso, W. Jin, Daniel Nieto, Gernot Maier, Martin Pohl, T. J. Williamson, A. N. Otte, C. E. McGrath, K. Pfrang, A. J.R. Weinstein, R. Shang, P. T. Reynolds, G. M. Foote, Jamie Holder, R. A. Ong, R. R. Prado, David A. Williams, Tobias Kleiner, G. H. Sembroski, J. A. Ryan, M. Lundy, C. Adams, T. B. Humensky, Manel Errando, S. Kumar, S. Patel, and Alasdair E. Gent
Subjects: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Physics, Supermassive black hole, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Galactic Center, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Gamma ray, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics, Light curve, law.invention, Telescope, Sagittarius A, law, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Cherenkov radiation, Zenith
Abstract: The Galactic Center region hosts a variety of powerful astronomical sources and rare astrophysical processes that emit a large flux of non-thermal radiation. We present the analysis of the very-high-energy gamma-ray emission above 2 TeV of the region around the Galactic Center known as the Central Molecular Zone using 125 hours of data taken with the VERITAS imaging-atmospheric Cherenkov telescope between 2010 and 2018. This analysis employs new shower reconstruction algorithms and instrument response functions optimized for data taken at large zenith angles such as the Galactic Center sources. We report positions and spectra for point sources VER J1745-290, G0.9+0.1, and HESS J1746-285, along with a light curve for VER J1745-290, the brightest source in the region consistent with the position of the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A*. We also measure the spectrum of the diffuse emission from the Galactic Center ridge region, which has been claimed as evidence of a Galactic PeVatron., Contribution to the Proceedings of the 37th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC 2021), Berlin, Germany
Published: 2021
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7. A model-driven search for extreme BL Lacs among Fermi-LAT blazar candidates

Author: Aaron Dominguez, G. La Mura, M. Nievas Rosillo, and G. Chiaro
Subjects: Physics, Active galactic nucleus, COSMIC cancer database, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics, Redshift, law.invention, Telescope, Extragalactic background light, law, Blazar, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Cherenkov radiation, Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope
Abstract: The emission of very-high-energy photons (VHE, E$>$100 GeV) in active galactic nuclei (AGN) is closely connected with the production of ultra-relativistic particles. Among AGN, the subclass of extreme BL Lacertae are of particular interest because they challenge state-of-art models on how these cosmic particle accelerators operate. By cross-matching two gamma-ray catalogs (this is, 4FGL-DR2 and 2BIGB), we identified 23 high-synchrotron-peaked (HSP) blazar candidates with photometric or spectroscopic redshifts, good multi-wavelength coverage, that are possibly detectable by VHE instruments. We performed a new analysis of Fermi Large Area Telescope data including the effects of attenuation from the extragalactic background light and complemented these results by collecting multiwavelength data from optical, radio and X-ray archival observations. Their broadband spectral energy distributions were interpreted in terms of synchrotron-self-Compton models with external-Compton components and compared with the properties of prototypical extreme HSP blazars. Finally, we test their detectability with imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes (IACTs) and propose a new method for selecting these extreme targets for these ground-based telescopes.
Published: 2021
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8. The VERITAS-Stellar Intensity Interferometry (VSII) survey of Stellar Diameters

Author: James Ryan, Wystan Benbow, Mike Lisa, G. M. Foote, P. Moriarty, C. B. Adams, Lucy Fortson, Amy Furniss, Q. Feng, R. A. Ong, P. T. Reynolds, M. Capasso, M. Kertzman, Manel Errando, E. Pueschel, Orel Gueta, Daniel Nieto, T. J. Williamson, S. Kumar, T. B. Humensky, M. Nievas-Rosillo, G. H. Sembroski, S. Patel, Nolan Matthews, Sameer Patel, Alasdair E. Gent, J. H. Buckley, A. N. Otte, D. S. Hanna, Marcos Santander, M. Lundy, Tugdual LeBohec, P. Kaaret, A. Archer, K. Pfrang, Gernot Maier, A. J. Chromey, S. O'Brien, Binita Hona, C. E. McGrath, donggeun tak, Olivier Hervet, David R. Williams, Reshmi Mukherjee, A. Brill, G. H. Gillanders, A. J.R. Weinstein, Jonathan Davis, Jodi Christiansen, I. Sadeh, C. Giuri, R. Shang, Tobias Kleiner, E. Roache, David Kieda, M. Pohl, K. Ragan, K. A. Farrell, V. V. Vassiliev, John L. Quinn, D. Ribeiro, R. R. Prado, W. Jin, Jamie Holder, M. J. Lang, and A. D. Falcone
Subjects: Telescope, Physics, Interferometry, Stars, Cardinal point, Optical wavelength, law, IACT, Astrophysics, Cherenkov radiation, Intensity (physics), law.invention
Abstract: The VERITAS Imaging Air Cherenkov Telescope (IACT) array was augmented in 2019 with high-speed focal plane electronics to allow its use for Stellar Intensity Interferometry (SII) observations. Since January 2019, The VERITAS Stellar Interferometer (VSII) recorded more than 250 hours of moonlit observations on 39 different bright stars and binary systems ($m_V < 3.74$ ) at an effective optical wavelength of 416 nm. These observations resulted in the measurement of the diameters of several stars with better than 5\% resolution. This talk will describe the status of the VSII survey and analysis.
Published: 2021
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9. A data-driven evaluation of Fermi-LAT extrapolation schemes to the VHE regime

Author: Tarek M. Hassan and M. Nievas Rosillo
Subjects: Physics, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Extrapolation, Astrophysics, Light curve, Spectral line, law.invention, Data-driven, Telescope, law, Satellite, Cherenkov radiation, Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope
Abstract: After 10 years of operations of the Large Area Telescope (LAT), a high-energy pair-creation telescope onboard the Fermi satellite, the Fermi Collaboration has produced two major catalogs: the 4FGL and the 3FHL. These catalogs represent the best sample of potential very high energy (VHE) emitters that may be studied by Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes (IACTs). Several methods are used to extrapolate the Fermi-LAT spectra to TeV energies, generally using simple analytical functions. The recent success of IACTs has motivated the creation of catalogs listing the discoveries of these experiments. Among these initiatives, gamma-cat excels as an open-access tool to archive high-level results in the VHE field, such as catalogs, spectra and light curves. By using these resources, we present a data-driven methodology to test the reliability of different VHE extrapolation schemes used in the literature and evaluate their accuracy reproducing real VHE observations.
Published: 2021
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10. VERITAS Observations of the Galactic Center Region at Multi-TeV Gamma-Ray Energies

Author: G. H. Sembroski, M. Lundy, P. Moriarty, Lucy Fortson, T. B. Humensky, S. Schlenstedt, Martin Pohl, Gernot Maier, Alasdair E. Gent, M. K. Daniel, Manel Errando, S. P. Wakely, A. Weinstein, J. P. Finley, Reshmi Mukherjee, M. Kertzman, C. Giuri, Jodi Christiansen, K. Ragan, Robert Brose, P. Kaaret, A. N. Otte, A. D. Falcone, K. Pfrang, Marcos Santander, D. S. Hanna, R. Shang, Wystan Benbow, David Kieda, G. H. Gillanders, Olivier Hervet, R. R. Prado, M. Buchovecky, John L. Quinn, D. Ribeiro, S. O'Brien, E. Roache, David A. Williams, R. A. Ong, S. Kumar, A. Brill, Daniel Nieto, Q. Feng, Amy Furniss, James Ryan, F. Krennrich, P. T. Reynolds, M. Nievas-Rosillo, E. Pueschel, B. Stevenson, A. J. Chromey, C. B. Adams, G. Hughes, Jamie Holder, M. J. Lang, Gordon T. Richards, N. Kelley-Hoskins, W. Jin, and M. Capasso
Subjects: 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, accelerator, High-energy astronomy, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, atmosphere [Cherenkov counter], VHE [gamma ray], FOS: Physical sciences, Cosmic ray, Astrophysics, power spectrum, 01 natural sciences, emission [gamma ray], HESS, 0103 physical sciences, supernova, black hole, TeV, cloud, composite, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Physics, Supermassive black hole, Spectral index, background, Galactic Center, Gamma ray, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Light curve, flux, Supernova, 13. Climate action, Space and Planetary Science, cosmic radiation, ddc:520, VERITAS, galaxy, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract: The Galactic Center (GC) region hosts a variety of powerful astronomical sources and rare astrophysical processes that emit a large flux of non-thermal radiation. The inner 375 pc x 600 pc region, called the Central Molecular Zone, is home to the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A*, massive cloud complexes, and particle accelerators such as supernova remnants. We present the results of our improved analysis of the very-high-energy (VHE) gamma-ray emission above 2 TeV from the GC using 125 hours of data taken with the VERITAS imaging-atmospheric Cherenkov telescope between 2010 and 2018. The central source VER J1745-290, consistent with the position of Sagittarius A*, is detected at a significance of 38 standard deviations above the background level $(38\sigma)$, and we report its spectrum and light curve. Its differential spectrum is consistent with a power law with exponential cutoff, with a spectral index of $2.12^{+0.22}_{-0.17}$, a flux normalization at 5.3 TeV of $1.27^{+0.22}_{-0.23}\times 10^{-13}$ TeV-1 cm-2 s-1, and cutoff energy of $10.0^{+4.0}_{-2.0}$ TeV. We also present results on the diffuse emission near the GC, obtained by combining data from multiple regions along the GC ridge which yield a cumulative significance of $9.5\sigma$. The diffuse GC ridge spectrum is best fit by a power law with a hard index of 2.19 $\pm$ 0.20, showing no evidence of a cutoff up to 40 TeV. This strengthens the evidence for a potential accelerator of PeV cosmic rays being present in the GC. We also provide spectra of the other sources in our field of view with significant detections, composite supernova remnant G0.9+0.1 and HESS J1746-285., Comment: 19 pages, 8 figures, Accepted for publication in Astrophysical Journal
Published: 2021
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11. Sensitivity of the Cherenkov Telescope Array for probing cosmology and fundamental physics with gamma-ray propagation

Author: J.-P. Lenain, A. Domínguez, Jonathan Ivor Davies, T. Armstrong, A. A. Zdziarski, F. Gianotti, M. Balbo, E. O. Angüner, M. Marculewicz, Alasdair E. Gent, Alice Donini, Olivier Hervet, Henry Przybilski, Giacomo Principe, G. Leto, M. Peresano, Stefano Covino, P. A. Caraveo, Gianpiero Tagliaferri, D. de Martino, V. V. Vassiliev, D. Cauz, F. R. Pantaleo, U. Barres de Almeida, Pietro Bruno, E. Lindfors, M. Zavrtanik, G. Hughes, Miriam Lucio Martinez, P. Bordas, Y. Suda, G. S. Varner, R. Rando, K. Cerny, S. Pita, Csaba Balázs, E. Fiandrini, Michael Backes, Tomohiko Oka, Massimo Persic, Andrea Chiavassa, Johannes Veh, A. Stamerra, Fabrizio Tavecchio, B. Biasuzzi, Michael Punch, Soebur Razzaque, F. D'Ammando, P. I. Batista, Bruna Bertucci, F. Longo, Francesco Gabriele Saturni, Michael G. Burton, Bohdan Hnatyk, P. Sangiorgi, E. M. Santos, D. Nosek, Gagik Tovmassian, J. L. Dournaux, Pedro L. Luque-Escamilla, A. Aguirre-Santaella, M. Orienti, Lluis Font, Andreas Quirrenbach, Philippe Laporte, Ralf Kissmann, Francesco Lucarelli, K. Noda, I. Jiménez Martínez, G. Romeo, Wystan Benbow, P. Romano, B. Bi, J. Grube, H.-S. Zechlin, Giacomo Bonnoli, Martin White, J. P. Osborne, Enrico Cascone, Marek Jamrozy, C. Alispach, Miroslav Pech, O. Cuevas, Petr Schovanek, K. Hayashi, V. I. Zhdanov, Javier Coronado-Blázquez, D. Medina Miranda, Barbara Balmaverde, E. de Ona Wilhelmi, Frank M. Rieger, A. Shalchi, J. M. Paredes, Ruben Alfaro, N. Giglietto, Diego Falceta-Gonçalves, Helene Sol, Rodolfo Carosi, Ayan Acharyya, Dominik Elsässer, S. Vercellone, D. Pimentel, T. Mizuno, Alessandro Bruno, Juan Abel Barrio, K. Kosack, Mauro Orlandini, Rodrigo Guedes Lang, P. Marquez, Adrian Biland, Y. Kobayashi, Nicholas F. H Tothill, M. de Naurois, Daniele Spiga, Lili Yang, L. Tibaldo, Pavel Horvath, M. Lopez, I. Sadeh, Marek Nikolajuk, F. Schüssler, Reshmi Mukherjee, Gianpaolo Vettolani, Jürgen Knödlseder, Daniel Nieto, R. Hnatyk, German Martinez, Diego F. Torres, Farinaldo S. Queiroz, N. Parmiggiani, G. Lamanna, Marcos Santander, S. Fegan, I. Vovk, M. Sánchez-Conde, Wiphu Rujopakarn, Norita Kawanaka, R. C. Shellard, Michael C. B. Ashley, J. Jurysek, Francisco J. Franco, Samuel Timothy Spencer, E. Rebert, J. Morales Merino, M. Pecimotika, Marco Berton, Regis Terrier, G. A. Beck, Carlos Díaz, J. L. Contreras, G. Zaharijas, R. Moderski, José-María Martí, A. Insolia, D. Zavrtanik, K. Kohri, Ladislav Chytka, T. Grabarczyk, A. Zech, M. Garczarczyk, Anastasia Sokolenko, J. Lefaucheur, R. A. Cameron, Moritz Hütten, S. Karkar, K. Pfrang, V. Poireau, Asaf Pe'er, A. Reimer, Fabio Acero, L. Freixas Coromina, David Sánchez, Jonathan S. Lapington, Konstantinos N. Gourgouliatos, J.R. Hörandel, Mario Buscemi, Francesco Dazzi, Abelardo Moralejo, J. Bolmont, R. White, A. Rosales de Leon, J. Prast, Sabrina Einecke, Roberto Aloisio, Yvonne Becherini, Andreas Specovius, Shohei Yanagita, Juan Cortina, Miroslav Hrabovsky, Petr Janecek, D. Depaoli, Lucas Taylor, U. Schwanke, H. Abdalla, S. Recchia, Manuela Mallamaci, M. K. Daniel, Q. Feng, L. Baroncelli, Hiromitsu Takahashi, Susumu Inoue, U. Straumann, Masatoshi Ohishi, Roberto Capuzzo-Dolcetta, Nu. Komin, Federico Russo, R. de Cássia dos Anjos, Y. Ohira, Ferdinando Giordano, Nagisa Hiroshima, E. Garcia, Gavin Rowell, V. Bozhilov, Maxim V. Barkov, Dario Hrupec, I. Oya, F. Salesa Greus, Anna Wolter, M. Živec, R. Belmont, R. Adam, T. Reposeur, J. Rico, A. W. Chen, G. Pühlhofer, H. Prokoph, Stefan Wagner, F. Di Pierro, Fabrizio Bocchino, M. de Bony de Lavergne, A. Kong, Masha Chernyakova, M. Pohl, M. Vazquez Acosta, A. Nagai, A. Brill, Dusan Mandat, Jonathan Biteau, Martin Makariev, Catherine Boisson, E. Lyard, Gilles Maurin, H. Martínez-Huerta, Oscar Blanch, Bernd Schleicher, M. Minev, A. Berti, James E. M. Watson, Talvikki Hovatta, M. Valentino, Luis Ángel Tejedor, Elena Amato, M. V. Fonseca, Anderson Caproni, L. Mohrmann, P. Reichherzer, R. L. C. Starling, M. Seglar Arroyo, E. Orlando, B. Rudak, G. Emery, J. A. Green, Salvo Scuderi, M. Prouza, Tom Richtler, Bartłomiej Pilszyk, A. Carosi, Jacek Niemiec, Wolfgang Rhode, G. Ambrosi, D. Ribeiro, A. Wierzcholska, A. Ghalumyan, Eugenio Bottacini, Sylvain Chaty, A. Baquero Larriva, Olaf Reimer, D. Horan, Fabian Leuschner, T. Di Girolamo, Alessandro Caccianiga, Martin Will, Saverio Lombardi, A. Fiasson, Mitsunari Takahashi, J. J. Rodríguez Vázquez, B. De Lotto, V. De Caprio, Stefano Truzzi, Dirk L. Hoffmann, M. Vecchi, Antonio Pagliaro, Jose J. Gonzalez, Wenwu Tian, R. Della Ceca, J. Becerra González, S. Nozaki, T. Vuillaume, S. L. Lloyd, Maria Ionica, Elisabetta Bissaldi, Petr Travnicek, Y. Ascasibar, Carlo Vigorito, F. Tuossenel, Malcolm Fairbairn, O. Martinez, Marco Iarlori, Serena Loporchio, Alessandro Costa, R. Pillera, A. Morselli, M. Heller, Jaime Rosado, E. M. de Gouveia Dal Pino, V. Vitale, A. M. Brown, E. Molina, Takashi Saito, A. De Angelis, Thomas Murach, R. A. Ong, J. Bregeon, P. T. O'Brien, Mikael Jacquemont, P. Cristofari, Francesco Conte, Lab Saha, R. Walter, Vitalii Sliusar, W. Jin, Vito Conforti, N. Produit, H. Siejkowski, Lovro Pavletić, Carole Mundell, G. Rodriguez Fernandez, J. F. Glicenstein, Paresh Sharma, C. Delgado, Vladimír Karas, Luca Foffano, J. Granot, Manuel Meyer, Reiko Orito, G. Umana, G. Chiaro, D. Tonev, R. Wiemann, G. Manicò, J.C. Rodriguez Ramirez, Luca Tosti, Markus Böttcher, Andrea Bulgarelli, C. Díaz-Bahamondes, I. Jung-Richardt, Karol Seweryn, P. Piatteli, Agnieszka Slowikowska, Jan Ebr, M. Ostrowski, J. L. Rodriguez, D. della Volpe, Ermanno Pietropaolo, M. Caprai, T. Montaruli, A. Lopez, Rodrigo Nemmen, R. R. Prado, L. Arrabito, Atreyee Sinha, C. van Eldik, Serguei Vorobiov, Hidetoshi Sano, J. Alfaro, Sabrina Casanova, G. Maneva, B. Vallage, Valentina Fioretti, Carmelo Evoli, P. Kaaret, B. A. W. Mode, Agnieszka Majczyna, Sebastian Diebold, A. Scherer, F. de Palma, S. Hernández Cadena, V. Beshley, T.R.N. Ekoume, David A. Williams, M. Capasso, A. Halim, Alison Mitchell, Tomislav Terzić, Paola Grandi, Lorenzo Amati, Christopher Eckner, David Gascon, K. Nishijima, J. Becker Tjus, B. Khélifi, G. Galanti, Jamie Holder, Vincenzo Rizi, Orel Gueta, Daniele Gaggero, F. Pintore, Utane Sawangwit, Vassil Verguilov, Heide Costantini, F. Arqueros, Daniel Kerszberg, P. M. Chadwick, D. Zarić, Marc Ribó, Olga Sergijenko, Dario Grasso, Hidetoshi Kubo, Daniela Dorner, T. Stolarczyk, M. Gaug, R. Alves Batista, Elisa Bernardini, Vikram V. Dwarkadas, Jim Hinton, Jelena Strišković, Andreu Sanuy, M. Servillat, V. Barbosa Martins, Giovanni Bonanno, S. Gunji, R. Wischnewski, S. Sarkar, Gianluca Giavitto, Takeshi Nakamori, M. Palatka, Maria Letizia Pumo, Camilla Maggio, M. Zacharias, Katsuaki Asano, Valerio Vagelli, Anton Dmytriiev, Ryo Yamazaki, M. Vacula, P. Goldoni, Gilles Fontaine, Hiroshi Muraishi, D. Mazin, Samo Stanič, G. Ghirlanda, M. Polo, M. Nievas, M. Lemoine-Goumard, Oleh Petruk, Jose Miguel Miranda, M. Iori, A. Marcowith, Y. Renier, Satoshi Fukami, M. Roncadelli, F. Leone, Takanori Yoshikoshi, Ana Luiza d'Ávila Viana, Y. Fukui, Max Harvey, Sera Markoff, I. Agudo, P. Temnikov, Vincenzo Testa, R. López-Coto, J.D. Mbarubucyeye, Tjark Miener, David Paneque, V. Gammaldi, T. Hassan Collado, H. Abe, L. Bonneau Arbeletche, S. D. Vergani, Sasa Micanovic, P. Vallania, Marina Manganaro, Elena Torresi, M. Giarrusso, G. Ferrand, Paweł Świerk, B. Patricelli, Matteo Cerruti, N. La Palombara, D. Morcuende-Parrilla, V. de Souza, Toshiaki Inada, Yasushi Fukazawa, Werner Hofmann, Michele Doro, E. Pueschel, A. Araudo, E. Sciacca, Thomas Lohse, A. Djannati-Ataï, Abdalla, H., Abe, H., Acero, F., Acharyya, A., Adam, R., Agudo, I., Aguirre-Santaella, A., Alfaro, R., Alfaro, J., Alispach, C., Aloisio, R., Alves Batista, R., Amati, L., Amato, E., Ambrosi, G., Ang??ner, E. O., Araudo, A., Armstrong, T., Arqueros, F., Arrabito, L., Asano, K., Ascas??bar, Y., Ashley, M., Backes, M., Balazs, C., Balbo, M., Balmaverde, B., Baquero Larriva, A., Barbosa Martins, V., Barkov, M., Baroncelli, L., Barres de Almeida, U., Barrio, J. A., Batista, P. -I., Becerra Gonz??lez, J., Becherini, Y., Beck, G., Becker Tjus, J., Belmont, R., Benbow, W., Bernardini, E., Berti, A., Berton, M., Bertucci, B., Beshley, V., Bi, B., Biasuzzi, B., Biland, A., Bissaldi, E., Biteau, J., Blanch, O., Bocchino, F., Boisson, C., Bolmont, J., Bonanno, G., Bonneau Arbeletche, L., Bonnoli, G., Bordas, P., Bottacini, E., B??ttcher, M., Bozhilov, V., Bregeon, J., Brill, A., Brown, A. M., Bruno, P., Bruno, A., Bulgarelli, A., Burton, M., Buscemi, M., Caccianiga, A., Cameron, R., Capasso, M., Caprai, M., Caproni, A., Capuzzo-Dolcetta, R., Caraveo, P., Carosi, R., Carosi, A., Casanova, S., Cascone, E., Cauz, D., Cerny, K., Cerruti, M., Chadwick, P., Chaty, S., Chen, A., Chernyakova, M., Chiaro, G., Chiavassa, A., Chytka, L., Conforti, V., Conte, F., Contreras, J. L., Coronado-Blazquez, J., Cortina, J., Costa, A., Costantini, H., Covino, S., Cristofari, P., Cuevas, O., D'Ammando, F., Daniel, M. K., Davies, J., Dazzi, F., De Angelis, A., de Bony de Lavergne, M., De Caprio, V., de C??ssia dos Anjos, R., de Gouveia Dal Pino, E. M., De Lotto, B., De Martino, D., de Naurois, M., de O??a Wilhelmi, E., De Palma, F., de Souza, V., Delgado, C., Della Ceca, R., della Volpe, D., Depaoli, D., Di Girolamo, T., Di Pierro, F., D??az, C., D??az-Bahamondes, C., Diebold, S., Djannati-Ata??, A., Dmytriiev, A., Dom??nguez, A., Donini, A., Dorner, D., Doro, M., Dournaux, J., Dwarkadas, V. V., Ebr, J., Eckner, C., Einecke, S., Ekoume, T. R. N., Els??sser, D., Emery, G., Evoli, C., Fairbairn, M., Falceta-Goncalves, D., Fegan, S., Feng, Q., Ferrand, G., Fiandrini, E., Fiasson, A., Fioretti, V., Foffano, L., Fonseca, M. V., Font, L., Fontaine, G., Franco, F. J., Freixas Coromina, L., Fukami, S., Fukazawa, Y., Fukui, Y., Gaggero, D., Galanti, G., Gammaldi, V., Garcia, E., Garczarczyk, M., Gascon, D., Gaug, M., Gent, A., Ghalumyan, A., Ghirlanda, G., Gianotti, F., Giarrusso, M., Giavitto, G., Giglietto, N., Giordano, F., Glicenstein, J., Goldoni, P., Gonz??lez, J. 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Phys (API, FNWI), and Université Montpellier 2 - Sciences et Techniques (UM2)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Subjects: Gamma ray Astronomy, Cherenkov Telescope Array, axions, MATÉRIA ESCURA, redshift: dependence, Astronomy, Gamma ray experiments, gamma ray experiments, Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, Cosmology, Observatory, cosmological model: parameter space, gamma ray experiment, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), astro-ph.HE, Physics, Cherenkov telescopes, IACT technique, Gamma rays, Cosmic rays, new physics, 4. Education, Settore FIS/01 - Fisica Sperimentale, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Gamma-ray astronomy, violation: Lorentz, 3. Good health, observatory, Extragalactic background light, astro-ph.CO, axion-like particles, Física nuclear, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics, gamma ray: propagation, Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), Active galactic nucleus, Axions, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Dark matter, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, invariance: Lorentz, jet: relativistic, dark matter: halo, 0103 physical sciences, active galactic nuclei, extragalactic magnetic fields, AGN, Blazar, background, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Física, Astronomy and Astrophysics, sensitivity, axion, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], absorption, statistical, Blazars, Telescopes
Abstract: Full list of authors: Abdalla, H.; Abe, H.; Acero, F.; Acharyya, A.; Adam, R.; Agudo, I; Aguirre-Santaella, A.; Alfaro, R.; Alfaro, J.; Alispach, C.; Aloisio, R.; Batista, R. Alves; Amati, L.; Amato, E.; Ambrosi, G.; Anguner, E. O.; Araudo, A.; Armstrong, T.; Arqueros, F.; Arrabito, L.; Asano, K.; Ascasibar, Y.; Ashley, M.; Backes, M.; Balazs, C.; Balbo, M.; Balmaverde, B.; Baquero Larriva, A.; Martins, V. Barbosa; Barkov, M.; Baroncelli, L.; de Almeida, U. Barres; Barrio, J. A.; Batista, P-, I; Becerra Gonzalez, J.; Becherini, Y.; Beck, G.; Tjus, J. Becker; Belmont, R.; Benbow, W.; Bernardini, E.; Berti, A.; Berton, M.; Bertucci, B.; Beshley, V; Bi, B.; Biasuzzi, B.; Biland, A.; Bissaldi, E.; Biteau, J.; Blanch, O.; Bocchino, F.; Boisson, C.; Bolmont, J.; Bonanno, G.; Arbeletche, L. Bonneau; Bonnoli, G.; Bordas, P.; Bottacini, E.; Bottcher, M.; Bozhilov, V; Bregeon, J.; Brill, A.; Brown, A. 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F.; Vitale, V.; Vorobiov, S.; Vovk, I; Vuillaume, T.; Wagner, S. J.; Walter, R.; Watson, J.; White, M.; White, R.; Wiemann, R.; Wierzcholska, A.; Will, M.; Williams, D. A.; Wischnewski, R.; Wolter, A.; Yamazaki, R.; Yanagita, S.; Yang, L.; Yoshikoshi, T.; Zacharias, M.; Zaharijas, G.; Zaric, D.; Zavrtanik, M.; Zavrtanik, D.; Zdziarski, A. A.; Zech, A.; Zechlin, H.; Zhdanov, V., I; Zivec, M., The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA), the new-generation ground-based observatory for γ astronomy, provides unique capabilities to address significant open questions in astrophysics, cosmology, and fundamental physics. We study some of the salient areas of γ cosmology that can be explored as part of the Key Science Projects of CTA, through simulated observations of active galactic nuclei (AGN) and of their relativistic jets. Observations of AGN with CTA will enable a measurement of γ absorption on the extragalactic background light with a statistical uncertainty below 15% up to a redshift z=2 and to constrain or detect γ halos up to intergalactic-magnetic-field strengths of at least 0.3 pG . Extragalactic observations with CTA also show promising potential to probe physics beyond the Standard Model. The best limits on Lorentz invariance violation from γ astronomy will be improved by a factor of at least two to three. CTA will also probe the parameter space in which axion-like particles could constitute a significant fraction, if not all, of dark matter. We conclude on the synergies between CTA and other upcoming facilities that will foster the growth of γ cosmology. © 2021 IOP Publishing Ltd and Sissa Medialab., We gratefully acknowledge financial support from the following agencies and organizations: State Committee of Science of Armenia, Armenia; The Australian Research Council, Astronomy Australia Ltd, The University of Adelaide, Australian National University, Monash University, The University of New South Wales, The University of Sydney, Western Sydney University, Australia; Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research, and Innsbruck University, Austria; Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq), Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (FAPERJ), Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP), Ministry of Science, Technology, Innovations and Communications (MCTIC), Brasil; Ministry of Education and Science, National RI Roadmap Project DO1-153/28.08.2018, Bulgaria; The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada and the Canadian Space Agency, Canada; CONICYT-Chile grants CATA AFB 170002, ANID PIA/APOYO AFB 180002, ACT 1406, FONDECYT-Chile grants, 1161463, 1170171, 1190886, 1171421, 1170345, 1201582, Gemini-ANID 32180007, Chile; Croatian Science Foundation, Rudjer Boskovic Institute, University of Osijek, University of Rijeka, University of Split, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture, University of Zagreb, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, Croa tia; Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports, MEYS M2015046, LM2018105, LTT17006, EU/MEYS CZ.02.1.01/0.0/0.0/16_013/0001403, CZ.02.1.01/0.0/0.0/18_046/0016007 and CZ.02.1.01/0.0/0.0/16_019/0000754, Czech Republic; Academy of Finland (grant nr.317636 and 320045), Finland; Ministry of Higher Education and Research, CNRS-INSU and CNRS-IN2P3, CEA-Irfu, ANR, Regional Council Ile de France, Labex ENIGMASS, OCEVU, OSUG2020 and P2IO, France; Max Planck Society, BMBF, DESY, Helmholtz Association, Germany; Department of Atomic Energy, Department of Science and Technology, India; Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF), Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), MIUR, Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF-OABRERA) Grant Fondazione Cariplo/Regione Lombardia ID 2014-1980/RST_ERC, Italy; ICRR, University of Tokyo, JSPS, MEXT, Japan; Netherlands Research School for Astronomy (NOVA), Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO), Netherlands; University of Oslo, Norway; Ministry of Science and Higher Education, DIR/WK/2017/12, the National Centre for Research and Development and the National Science Centre, UMO-2016/22/M/ST9/00583, Poland; Slovenian Research Agency, grants P1-0031, P1-0385, I0-0033, J1-9146, J1-1700, N1-0111, and the Young Researcher program, Slovenia; South African Department of Science and Technology and National Research Foundation through the South African Gamma-Ray Astronomy Programme, South Africa; The Spanish groups acknowledge the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation and the Spanish Research State Agency (AEI) through grants AYA2016-79724-C4-1-P, AYA2016-80889-P, AYA2016-76012-C3-1-P, BES-2016-076342, FPA2017-82729-C6-1-R, FPA2017-82729-C6-2-R, FPA2017-82729-C6-3-R, FPA2017-82729-C6-4-R, FPA2017-82729-C6-5-R, FPA2017-82729-C6-6-R, PGC2018-095161-B-I00, PGC2018-095512-B-I00, PID2019-107988GB-C22; the “Centro de Excelencia Severo Ochoa” program through grants no. SEV-2016-0597, SEV-2016-0588, SEV-2017-0709, CEX2019-000920-S; the “Unidad de Excelencia María de Maeztu” program through grant no. MDM-2015-0509; the “Ramón y Cajal” programme through grants RYC-2013-14511, RYC-2017-22665; and the MultiDark Consolider Network FPA2017-90566-REDC. They also acknowledge the Atracción de Talento contract no. 2016-T1/TIC-1542 granted by the Comunidad de Madrid; the “Postdoctoral Junior Leader Fellowship” programme from La Caixa Bank ing Foundation, grants no. LCF/BQ/LI18/11630014 and LCF/BQ/PI18/11630012; the “Programa Operativo” FEDER 2014-2020, Consejería de Economía y Conocimiento de la Junta de Andalucía (Ref. 1257737), PAIDI 2020 (Ref. P18-FR-1580) and Universidad de Jaén; “Programa Operativo de Crecimiento Inteligente” FEDER 2014-2020 (Ref. ESFRI-2017-IAC-12), Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación, 15% co-financed by Consejería de Economía, Industria, Comercio y Conocimiento del Gobierno de Canarias; the Spanish AEI EQC2018-005094-P FEDER 2014-2020; the European Union’s “Horizon 2020” research and innovation programme under Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement no. 665919; and the ESCAPE project with grant no. GA:824064; Swedish Research Council, Royal Physiographic Society of Lund, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, The Swedish National Infrastructure for Computing (SNIC) at Lunarc (Lund), Sweden; State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI) and Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF), Switzerland; Durham University, Leverhulme Trust, Liverpool University, University of Leicester, University of Oxford, Royal Soci ety, Science and Technology Facilities Council, UK; U.S. National Science Foundation, U.S. Department of Energy, Argonne National Laboratory, Barnard College, University of California, University of Chicago, Columbia University, Georgia Institute of Technology, Institute for Nuclear and Particle Astrophysics (INPAC-MRPI program), Iowa State University, the Smithsonian Institution, Washington University McDonnell Center for the Space Sciences, The University of Wisconsin and the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, USA. The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) under grant agreements No 262053 and No 317446. This project is receiving funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programs under agreement No 676134. The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement GammaRayCascades No 843800. 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.
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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., Moroni, P. G. P., 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., Adams, C. B., Benbow, W., Brill, A., Capasso, M., Christiansen, J. L., Chromey, A. J., Daniel, M. K., Errando, M., Farrell, K. A., Feng, Q., Finley, J. P., Fortson, L., Furniss, A., Gent, A., Giuri, C., Hassan, T., Hervet, O., Holder, J., Hughes, G., Humensky, T. B., Jin, W., Kaaret, P., Kertzman, M., Kieda, D., Kumar, S., Lang, M. J., Lundy, M., Maier, G., Moriarty, P., Mukherjee, R., Nieto, D., Nievas-Rosillo, M., O'Brien, S., Ong, R. A., Otte, A. N., Patel, S., Pfrang, K., Pohl, M., Prado, R. R., Pueschel, E., Quinn, J., Ragan, K., Reynolds, P. T., Ribeiro, D., Richards, G. T., Roache, E., Rulten, C., Ryan, J. L., Santander, M., Sembroski, G. H., Shang, R., Weinstein, A., Williams, D. A., Williamson, T. 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. 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M.; Pavletić, L.; Peñil, P.; Perennes, C.; Persic, M.; Moroni, P. G. Prada; 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.; VERITAS Collaboration; Adams, C. B.; Benbow, W.; Brill, A.; Capasso, M.; Christiansen, J. L.; Chromey, A. J.; Daniel, M. K.; Errando, M.; Farrell, K. A.; Feng, Q.; Finley, J. P.; Fortson, L.; Furniss, A.; Gent, A.; Giuri, C.; Hassan, T.; Hervet, O.; Holder, J.; Hughes, G.; Humensky, T. B.; Jin, W.; Kaaret, P.; Kertzman, M.; Kieda, D.; Kumar, S.; Lang, M. J.; Lundy, M.; Maier, G.; Moriarty, P.; Mukherjee, R.; Nieto, D.; Nievas-Rosillo, M.; O'Brien, S.; Ong, R. A.; Otte, A. N.; Patel, S.; Pfrang, K.; Pohl, M.; Prado, R. R.; Pueschel, E.; Quinn, J.; Ragan, K.; Reynolds, P. T.; Ribeiro, D.; Richards, G. T.; Roache, E.; Rulten, C.; Ryan, J. L.; Santander, M.; Sembroski, G. H.; Shang, R.; Weinstein, A.; Williams, D. A.; Williamson, T. J.; Eavn Collaboration; Hirota, Tomoya; Cui, Lang; Niinuma, Kotaro; Ro, Hyunwook; Sakai, Nobuyuki; Sawada-Satoh, Satoko; Wajima, Kiyoaki; Wang, Na; Liu, Xiang; Yonekura, Yoshinori, In 2017, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration succeeded in capturing the first direct image of the center of the M87 galaxy. The asymmetric ring morphology and size are consistent with theoretical expectations for a weakly accreting supermassive black hole of mass ∼6.5 × 109 M o˙. 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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13. Probing the Properties of the Pulsar Wind in the Gamma-Ray Binary HESS J0632+057 with NuSTAR and VERITAS Observations

Author: P. Kaaret, R. Mukherjee, M. Nievas-Rosillo, N. Kelley-Hoskins, C. Giuri, Gernot Maier, E. Roache, Ralph Bird, David Kieda, R. A. Ong, Kaya Mori, K. Ragan, D. S. Hanna, Orel Gueta, Abraham D. Falcone, A. Brill, P. Wilcox, C. J. Hailey, Tarek M. Hassan, M. Kertzman, David A. Williams, A. N. Otte, Amy Furniss, G. H. Sembroski, A. Weinstein, Marcos Santander, A. J. Chromey, I. Sadeh, Robert Brose, Maria Krause, N. H. Park, I. Sushch, Wystan Benbow, J. P. Finley, T. J. Williamson, Jodi Christiansen, O. Hervet, A. Archer, A. Petrashyk, Jamie Holder, P. T. Reynolds, E. Pueschel, M. J. Lang, S. O'Brien, A. Gent, G. H. Gillanders, Q. Feng, Lucy Fortson, Shifra Mandel, D. Ribeiro, Gordon T. Richards, John L. Quinn, A. Wilhelm, Weiguang Cui, K. Pfrang, Daniel Nieto, G. Hughes, Martin Pohl, T. B. Humensky, S. Schlenstedt, P. Moriarty, M. Buchovecky, and R.R. Prado
Subjects: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Physics, Spectral index, 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, Be star, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Gamma ray, FOS: Physical sciences, Spectral density, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Electron, Astrophysics, Compact star, Light curve, 01 natural sciences, Pulsar, 13. Climate action, Space and Planetary Science, 0103 physical sciences, ddc:520, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences
Abstract: HESS J0632+057 is a gamma-ray binary composed of a compact object orbiting a Be star with a period of about $315$ days. Extensive X-ray and TeV gamma-ray observations have revealed a peculiar light curve containing two peaks, separated by a dip. We present the results of simultaneous observations in hard X-rays with NuSTAR and in TeV gamma-rays with VERITAS, performed in November and December 2017. These observations correspond to the orbital phases $\phi\approx0.22$ and $0.3$, where the fluxes are rising towards the first light-curve peak. A significant variation of the spectral index from 1.77$\pm$0.05 to 1.56$\pm$0.05 is observed in the X-ray data. The multi-wavelength spectral energy distributions (SED) derived from the observations are interpreted in terms of a leptonic model, in which the compact object is assumed to be a pulsar and non-thermal radiation is emitted by high-energy electrons accelerated at the shock formed by the collision between the stellar and pulsar wind. The results of the SED fitting show that our data can be consistently described within this scenario, and allow us to estimate the magnetization of the pulsar wind at the location of the shock formation. The constraints on the pulsar-wind magnetization provided by our results are shown to be consistent with those obtained from other systems., Comment: Accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal
Published: 2020
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14. Study of the variable broadband emission of Markarian 501 during the most extreme Swift X-ray activity

Author: Francesco Longo, Yuki Iwamura, Susumu Inoue, L. Nogués, M. I. Martínez, G. Pedaletti, Thomas Bretz, J. Buss, A. Rugliancich, Marina Manganaro, D. Galindo, Merja Tornikoski, Sabrina Einecke, Martin Makariev, Oscar Blanch, C. Leto, Ciro Bigongiari, Adrian Biland, D. Zarić, Andrii Neronov, M. Garczarczyk, Sargis Gasparyan, Konstancja Satalecka, Michele Doro, Marc Ribó, M. Noethe, J. Becerra González, Kazuma Ishio, J. Rico, Christian Fruck, Kyoshi Nishijima, Abelardo Moralejo, E. Moretti, Wolfgang Rhode, Christoph Wendel, Dominik Baack, Satoshi Masuda, Hidetoshi Kubo, Nikola Godinovic, B. Machado de Oliveira Fraga, Alexander Hahn, Manuel Delfino, Daniela Dorner, P. Giammaria, A. Niedzwiecki, Alessio Berti, U. Barres de Almeida, F. Verrecchia, G. Busetto, Lena Linhoff, D. Fidalgo, Damir Lelas, G. Ferrara, Alicia Fattorini, D. Hildebrand, David Paneque, V. A. Acciari, Bernd Schleicher, Gaia Vanzo, M. Peresano, Rodolfo Carosi, M. Perri, Alessandra Lamastra, John Hoang, Marcel Strzys, M. Gaug, Chiara Righi, M. Armas Padilla, D. Ninci, Ana Babić, Michael Blank, Dorota Sobczyńska, D. Dominis Prester, A. De Angelis, Vitaly Neustroev, I. Snidaric, F. Schulz, E. von Willert, D. Guberman, A. Y. Lien, J. Herrera, Juan Abel Barrio, B. Banerjee, J. van Scherpenberg, V. D'Elia, Narek Sahakyan, P. Temnikov, Stefano Ansoldi, R. J. García López, G. Maneva, E. Do Souto Espiñera, B. De Lotto, Elisa Bernardini, Riccardo Paoletti, S. Paiano, Karl Mannheim, Pablo Peñil, A. Shukla, Ivica Puljak, Jose Luis Contreras, D. Neise, Andrea Tramacere, Manuela Mallamaci, A. López-Oramas, Jordi Delgado, V. Fallah Ramazani, Juan Cortina, J. Palacio, P. Colin, R. Walter, J. M. Paredes, F. Di Pierro, Antonio Stamerra, Pratik Majumdar, Camilla Maggio, M. V. Fonseca, Ievgen Vovk, Francesco Dazzi, A. Fernández-Barral, Cosimo Nigro, P. Munar-Adrover, Massimo Persic, Dario Hrupec, L. A. Antonelli, Martin Will, D. Kuveždić, T. Schweizer, F. Leone, Anne Lähteenmäki, Tarek M. Hassan, Fabrizio Tavecchio, Masahiro Teshima, A. Somero, Kari Nilsson, Ll. Font, M. Bulinski, Wlodek Bednarek, Vitalii Sliusar, P. G. Prada Moroni, Junko Kushida, P. Da Vela, E. Prandini, N. Torres-Albà, Joni Tammi, Sebastian Achim Mueller, J. R. Garcia, Giacomo Bonnoli, Manuel Doerr, Stefano Gallozzi, Jose Miguel Miranda, Wrijupan Bhattacharyya, Julian Sitarek, T. Surić, Shimpei Tsujimoto, K. Bruegge, D. Elsaesser, Tomislav Terzić, Jürgen Besenrieder, E. Molina, E. Colombo, Lab Saha, Luca Foffano, Mosè Mariotti, A. Paravac, Saverio Lombardi, M. Nievas Rosillo, M. Minev, M. Balbo, D. Hadasch, R. Mirzoyan, A. Arbet-Engels, K. Sedlaczek, L. Maraschi, Elina Lindfors, Daniel Mazin, Stefan Cikota, M. Vazquez Acosta, Victoria Moreno, Stefano Covino, Tomoki Saito, Giovanni Ceribella, Aaron Dominguez, K. Noda, Sidika Merve Colak, M. López, German Research Foundation, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica, Swiss National Science Foundation, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (Japan), Croatian Science Foundation, University of Rijeka, Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange, Ministério da Ciência, Tecnologia e Inovação (Brasil), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (US), Department of Energy (US), Commissariat à l'Ènergie Atomique et aux Ènergies Alternatives (France), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (France), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules (France), Agenzia Spaziale Italiana, High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (Japan), Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation, Swedish Research Council, Swedish National Space Board, Acciari, V. A., Ansoldi, S., Antonelli, L. A., Babic, A., Banerjee, B., Barres De Almeida, U., Barrio, J. A., Becerra Gonzalez, J., Bednarek, W., Bernardini, E., Berti, A., Besenrieder, J., Bhattacharyya, W., Bigongiari, C., Blanch, O., Bonnoli, G., Busetto, G., Carosi, R., Ceribella, G., Cikota, S., Colak, S. M., Colin, P., Colombo, E., Contreras, J. L., Cortina, J., Covino, S., D'Elia, V., Da Vela, P., Dazzi, F., De Angelis, A., De Lotto, B., Delfino, M., Delgado, J., DI Pierro, F., Do Souto Espinera, E., Dominguez, A., Dominis Prester, D., Doro, M., Fallah Ramazani, V., Fattorini, A., Fernandez-Barral, A., Ferrara, G., Fidalgo, D., Foffano, L., Fonseca, M. V., Font, L., Fruck, C., Galindo, D., Gallozzi, S., Garcia Lopez, R. J., Garczarczyk, M., Gasparyan, S., Gaug, M., Giammaria, P., Godinovic, N., Guberman, D., Hadasch, D., Hahn, A., Hassan, T., Herrera, J., Hoang, J., Hrupec, D., Inoue, S., Ishio, K., Iwamura, Y., Kubo, H., Kushida, J., Kuvecdic, D., Lamastra, A., Lelas, D., Leone, F., Lindfors, E., Lombardi, S., Longo, F., Lopez, M., Lopez-Oramas, A., MacHado De Oliveira Fraga, B., Maggio, C., Majumdar, P., Makariev, M., Mallamaci, M., Maneva, G., Manganaro, M., Maraschi, L., Mariotti, M., Martinez, M., Masuda, S., Mazin, D., Minev, M., Miranda, J. M., Mirzoyan, R., Molina, E., Moralejo, A., Moreno, V., Moretti, E., Munar-Adrover, P., Neustroev, V., Niedzwiecki, A., Nievas Rosillo, M., Nigro, C., Nilsson, K., Ninci, D., Nishijima, K., Noda, K., Nogues, L., Paiano, S., Palacio, J., Paneque, D., Paoletti, R., Paredes, J. M., Pedaletti, G., Penil, P., Peresano, M., Persic, M., Prada Moroni, P. G., Prandini, E., Puljak, I., Garcia, J. R., Ribo, M., Rico, J., Righi, C., Rugliancich, A., Saha, L., Sahakyan, N., Saito, T., Satalecka, K., Schweizer, T., Sitarek, J., Snidaric, I., Sobczynska, D., Somero, A., Stamerra, A., Strzys, M., Suric, T., Tavecchio, F., Temnikov, P., Terzic, T., Teshima, M., Torres-Alba, N., Tsujimoto, S., Van Scherpenberg, J., Vanzo, G., Vazquez Acosta, M., Vovk, I., Will, M., Zaric, D., Arbet-Engels, A., Baack, D., Balbo, M., Biland, A., Blank, M., Bretz, T., Bruegge, K., Bulinski, M., Buss, J., Doerr, M., Dorner, D., Einecke, S., Elsaesser, D., Hildebrand, D., Linhoff, L., Mannheim, K., Mueller, S., Neise, D., Neronov, A., Noethe, M., Paravac, A., Rhode, W., Schleicher, B., Schulz, F., Sedlaczek, K., Shukla, A., Sliusar, V., Von Willert, E., Walter, R., Wendel, C., Tramacere, A., Lien, A., Perri, M., Verrecchia, F., Armas Padilla, M., Leto, C., Lahteenmaki, A., Tornikoski, M., Tammi, J., Department of Electronics and Nanoengineering, Metsähovi Radio Observatory, Aalto-yliopisto, and Aalto University
Subjects: galaxies: active, BL Lacertae objects: individual: Mrk 501, gamma rays: galaxies, X-rays: galaxies, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, FOS: Physical sciences, Flux, Context (language use), Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, Power law, Spectral line, Galaxies: active, Gamma rays: galaxies, individual: Mrk 501 [BL Lacertae objects], 0103 physical sciences, MAGIC (telescope), Blazar, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Physics, galaxie [Gamma rays], 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Gamma ray, Astronomy and Astrophysics, galaxies [X-rays], Crab Nebula, Space and Planetary Science, active [galaxies], galaxies [gamma rays], ddc:520, Física nuclear, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract: [Context] Markarian 501 (Mrk 501) is a very high-energy (VHE) gamma-ray blazar located at z = 0:034, which is regularly monitored by a wide range of multi-wavelength instruments, from radio to VHE gamma rays. During a period of almost two weeks in July 2014, the highest X-ray activity of Mrk 501 was observed in -14 years of operation of the Neil Gehrels Swift Gamma-ray Burst Observatory., [Aims] We characterize the broadband variability of Mrk 501 from radio to VHE gamma rays during the most extreme X-ray activity measured in the last 14 years, and evaluate whether it can be interpreted within theoretical scenarios widely used to explain the broadband emission from blazars., [Methods] The emission of Mrk 501 was measured at radio with Metsähovi, at optical–UV with KVA and Swift/UVOT, at X-ray with Swift/XRT and Swift/BAT, at gamma ray with Fermi-LAT, and at VHE gamma rays with the FACT and MAGIC telescopes. The multi-band variability and correlations were quantified, and the broadband spectral energy distributions (SEDs) were compared with predictions from theoretical models., [Results] The VHE emission of Mrk 501 was found to be elevated during the X-ray outburst, with a gamma-ray flux above 0.15 TeV varying from ∼0.5 to ∼2 times the Crab nebula flux. The X-ray and VHE emission both varied on timescales of 1 day and were found to be correlated. We measured a general increase in the fractional variability with energy, with the VHE variability being twice as large as the X-ray variability. The temporal evolution of the most prominent and variable segments of the SED, characterized on a day-by-day basis from 2014 July 16 to 2014 July 31, is described with a one-zone synchrotron self-Compton model with variations in the break energy of the electron energy distribution (EED), and with some adjustments in the magnetic field strength and spectral shape of the EED. These results suggest that the main flux variations during this extreme X-ray outburst are produced by the acceleration and the cooling of the high-energy electrons. A narrow feature at ∼3 TeV was observed in the VHE spectrum measured on 2014 July 19 (MJD 56857.98), which is the day with the highest X-ray flux (>0.3 keV) measured during the entire Swift mission. This feature is inconsistent with the classical analytic functions to describe the measured VHE spectra (power law, log-parabola, and log-parabola with exponential cutoff) at more than 3σ. A fit with a log-parabola plus a narrow component is preferred over the fit with a single log-parabola at more than 4σ, and a dedicated Monte Carlo simulation estimated the significance of this extra component to be larger than 3σ. Under the assumption that this VHE spectral feature is real, we show that it can be reproduced with three distinct theoretical scenarios: (a) a pileup in the EED due to stochastic acceleration; (b) a structured jet with two-SSC emitting regions, with one region dominated by an extremely narrow EED; and (c) an emission from an IC pair cascade induced by electrons accelerated in a magnetospheric vacuum gap, in addition to the SSC emission from a more conventional region along the jet of Mrk 501., 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 (FPA2015-69818-P, FPA2012-36668, FPA2015-68378-P, FPA2015-69210-C6-2-R, FPA2015-69210-C6-4-R, FPA2015-69210-C6-6-R, AYA2015-71042-P, AYA2016-76012-C3-1-P, ESP2015-71662-C2-2-P, FPA2017-90566-REDC), and the Japanese JSPS and MEXT is gratefully acknowledged. This work was also supported by the Spanish Centro de Excelencia “Severo Ochoa” SEV-2016-0588 and SEV-2015-0548, and Unidad de Excelencia “María de Maeztu” MDM-2014-0369, 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, 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 Instituto Nazionale di Astrofisica in Italy and the Centre National d’Études Spatiales in France. 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 (Ver-bundforschung 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, project C3. We thank the Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias for allowing us to operate the telescope at the Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos in La Palma, the Max-Planck-Institut fur Physik for providing us with the mount of the former HEGRA CT3 telescope, and the MAGIC Collaboration for their support. JBG acknowledges the support of the Viera y Clavijo program funded by ACIISI and ULL. C. W. is grateful for the support by the project “Promotion inklusive” of the Universität zu Köln and the German Bundesmin-isterium für Arbeit und Soziales. This publication makes use of data obtained at Metsähovi Radio Observatory, operated by Aalto University, Finland.
Published: 2020
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15. VERITAS Discovery of VHE Emission from the Radio Galaxy 3C 264: A Multi-Wavelength Study

Author: A. Brill, Alasdair E. Gent, James Ryan, Manel Errando, E. T. Meyer, Gordon T. Richards, Olivier Hervet, M. Kertzman, E. Roache, A. Archer, T. T.Y. Lin, K. Ragan, R. A. Ong, S. O'Brien, B. Stevenson, D. S. Hanna, G. Hughes, Wystan Benbow, P. Moriarty, Matthew L. Lister, C. B. Rulten, M. Lundy, K. Ramirez, Karlen Shahinyan, T. J. Williamson, Tarek M. Hassan, A. Wilhelm, David Kieda, Daniel Nieto, M. Nievas-Rosillo, A. C. Sadun, Jodi Christiansen, Jamie Holder, Marcos Santander, P. T. Reynolds, K. Pfrang, John L. Quinn, D. Ribeiro, R. Shang, M. J. Lang, Gernot Maier, A. D. Falcone, A. Weinstein, M. Pohl, S. P. Wakely, R. R. Prado, M. K. Daniel, P. Fortin, Ralph Bird, David A. Williams, Orel Gueta, P. Wilcox, J. H. Buckley, S. S. Scott, A. J. Chromey, Michael T. Carini, F. Krennrich, M. Georganopoulos, Reshmi Mukherjee, C. Giuri, Q. Feng, G. H. Gillanders, T. B. Humensky, P. Kaaret, Lucy Fortson, M. Buchovecky, G. H. Sembroski, E. Pueschel, Vladimir Vassiliev, and Amy Furniss
Subjects: 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, Radio galaxy, atmosphere [Cherenkov counter], Astrophysics, cosmic background radiation, power spectrum, 01 natural sciences, law.invention, Astrophysical jet, law, pixel, ultraviolet, black hole, optical, dimension: 2, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Physics, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), photon, 2 [dimension], Elliptical galaxy, Spectral energy distribution, VERITAS, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Lorentz, Active galactic nucleus, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, radio wave [galaxy], energy spectrum, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Cherenkov counter: atmosphere, VHE, GLAST, Telescope, X-ray, 0103 physical sciences, structure, Very Long Baseline Array, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, polarization, synchrotron radiation, background, galaxy: radio wave, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Doppler effect, flux, Crab Nebula, Space and Planetary Science, gamma ray, ddc:520, spectral, statistical
Abstract: The astrophysical journal 896(1), 41 - (2020). doi:10.3847/1538-4357/ab910e, The radio source 3C 264, hosted by the giant elliptical galaxy NGC 3862, was observed with VERITAS between February 2017 and May 2019. These deep observations resulted in the discovery of very-high-energy (VHE; E $>100$ GeV) $\gamma$-ray emission from this active galaxy. An analysis of $\sim$57 hours of quality-selected live time yields a detection at the position of the source, corresponding to a statistical significance of 7.8 standard deviations above background. The observed VHE flux is variable on monthly time scales, with an elevated flux seen in 2018 observations. The VHE emission during this elevated state is well-characterized by a power-law spectrum with a photon index $\Gamma = 2.20 \pm 0.27$ and flux F($>315$ GeV) = ($7.6\pm 1.2_{\mathrm stat} \pm 2.3_{\mathrm syst})\times 10^{-13}$ cm$^{-2}$ s$^{-1}$, or approximately 0.7% of the Crab Nebula flux above the same threshold. 3C 264 ($z = 0.0217$) is the most distant radio galaxy detected at VHE, and the elevated state is thought to be similar to that of the famously outbursting jet in M 87. Consequently, extensive contemporaneous multi-wavelength data were acquired in 2018 at the time of the VHE high state. An analysis of these data, including VLBA, VLA, HST, Chandra and Swift observations in addition to the VERITAS data, is presented, along with a discussion of the resulting spectral energy distribution., Published by Univ.8743, Chicago, Ill. [u.a.]
Published: 2020
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16. Measurement of the extragalactic background light spectral energy distribution with VERITAS

Author: A. U. Abeysekara, A. Archer, W. Benbow, R. Bird, A. Brill, R. Brose, M. Buchovecky, D. Calderon-Madera, J. L. Christiansen, W. Cui, M. K. Daniel, A. Falcone, Q. Feng, M. Fernandez-Alonso, J. P. Finley, L. Fortson, A. Furniss, A. Gent, C. Giuri, O. Gueta, D. Hanna, T. Hassan, O. Hervet, J. Holder, G. Hughes, T. B. Humensky, C. A. Johnson, P. Kaaret, M. Kertzman, D. Kieda, M. Krause, F. Krennrich, S. Kumar, M. J. Lang, G. Maier, P. Moriarty, R. Mukherjee, M. Nievas-Rosillo, S. O’Brien, R. A. Ong, K. Pfrang, M. Pohl, R. R. Prado, E. Pueschel, J. Quinn, K. Ragan, P. T. Reynolds, D. Ribeiro, G. T. Richards, E. Roache, A. C. Rovero, I. Sadeh, M. Santander, G. H. Sembroski, K. Shahinyan, I. Sushch, T. Svraka, A. Weinstein, R. M. Wells, P. Wilcox, A. Wilhelm, D. A. Williams, T. J Williamson, and B. Zitzer
Subjects: Cherenkov Telescope Array, Photon, atmosphere [Cherenkov counter], Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, VHE [gamma ray], energy spectrum, FOS: Physical sciences, cosmic background radiation, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, GLAST, Spectral line, pixel, ultraviolet, 0103 physical sciences, optical, Radiative transfer, Blazar, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Physics, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), background, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, photon, Institut für Physik und Astronomie, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Computer Science::Computation and Language (Computational Linguistics and Natural Language and Speech Processing), redshift, sensitivity, Redshift, Galaxy, flux, pair production, Extragalactic background light, Space and Planetary Science, spectrum [blazar], infrared, ddc:520, spectral, Spectral energy distribution, energy dependence [interaction], VERITAS, history, galaxy, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract: The extragalactic background light (EBL), a diffuse photon field in the optical and infrared range, is a record of radiative processes over the Universe's history. Spectral measurements of blazars at very high energies ($>$100 GeV) enable the reconstruction of the spectral energy distribution (SED) of the EBL, as the blazar spectra are modified by redshift- and energy-dependent interactions of the gamma-ray photons with the EBL. The spectra of 14 VERITAS-detected blazars are included in a new measurement of the EBL SED that is independent of EBL SED models. The resulting SED covers an EBL wavelength range of 0.56--56 $��$m, and is in good agreement with lower limits obtained by assuming that the EBL is entirely due to radiation from cataloged galaxies., Accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal
Published: 2019
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17. Statistics of VHE gamma-Rays in Temporal Association with Radio Giant Pulses from the Crab Pulsar

Author: J. Palacio, J. M. Paredes, Antonio Stamerra, L. Maraschi, Elina Lindfors, Daniel Mazin, Chiara Righi, Wlodek Bednarek, Alessandro Carosi, P. Temnikov, Pratik Majumdar, N. Torres-Albà, M. V. Fonseca, S. N. Shore, Martin Will, Jose Miguel Miranda, E. Colombo, E. Prandini, Aaron Dominguez, Kari Nilsson, L. O. Takalo, Francesco Longo, Juan Abel Barrio, Masahiro Teshima, Nikola Godinovic, U. Menzel, L. A. Antonelli, Mosè Mariotti, D. Hadasch, J. E. Ward, Alba Fernández-Barral, M. Engelkemeier, Stefano Covino, Martin Makariev, Alexander Hahn, P. Colin, Saverio Lombardi, Andrea Rugliancich, Sidika Merve Colak, Oscar Blanch, Arka Chatterjee, Adrian Biland, Christian Fruck, Tomoki Saito, M. Doert, T. Surić, Shimpei Tsujimoto, M. Garczarczyk, Ana Babić, D. Fidalgo, M. Peresano, Camilla Maggio, J. Rico, S. Schroeder, Ivica Puljak, Ievgen Vovk, M. Vazquez Acosta, D. Dominis Prester, Tarek M. Hassan, B. Biasuzzi, Victoria Moreno, Fabrizio Tavecchio, L. Nogués, E. Moretti, D. Kuveždić, Jose Luis Contreras, Abelardo Moralejo, F. Di Pierro, Yusuke Konno, Juan Cortina, T. Schweizer, J. R. Garcia, Giacomo Bonnoli, A. De Angelis, A. Treves, Vitaly Neustroev, V. Fallah Ramazani, Max Ludwig Ahnen, Wrijupan Bhattacharyya, T. Nagayoshi, Daniela Dorner, Dariusz Gora, Gaia Vanzo, G. Maneva, Junko Kushida, P. Da Vela, Kyoshi Nishijima, U. Barres de Almeida, M. Minev, I. Reichardt, P. Giammaria, A. Niedzwiecki, R. Smits, M. Gaug, Damir Lelas, D. Elsaesser, I. Snidaric, Dorota Sobczyńska, J. Herrera, B. De Lotto, Julian Sitarek, Koji Noda, J. Hose, Elisa Bernardini, Stefano Ansoldi, David Paneque, M. I. Martínez, Riccardo Paoletti, D. Guberman, Marina Manganaro, Sabrina Einecke, D. Galindo, P. Cumani, Konstancja Satalecka, Michele Doro, Dario Hrupec, M. A. Lopez, S. Paiano, Karl Mannheim, P. G. Prada Moroni, Tomislav Terzić, Francesco Dazzi, J. Becerra González, Alessio Berti, Natalia Lewandowska, L. Perri, D. Eisenacher Glawion, Cosimo Nigro, M. Nievas Rosillo, B. Banerjee, C. Arcaro, Lluis Font, Marcel Strzys, R. J. García López, G. Pedaletti, Massimo Persic, Wolfgang Rhode, D. Ninci, M. Hayashida, D. Zarić, Marc Ribó, P. Bangale, Hidetoshi Kubo, R. Mirzoyan, Kazuma Ishio, Rodolfo Carosi, German Research Foundation, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica, Swiss National Science Foundation, Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (España), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (Japan), Universidad de Barcelona, Croatian Science Foundation, University of Rijeka, Foundation for Polish Science, Ministério da Ciência, Tecnologia e Inovação (Brasil), Ahnen, M. L., Ansoldi, S., Antonelli, L. A., Arcaro, C., Babic, A., Banerjee, B., Bangale, P., Barres De Almeida, U., Barrio, J. A., Becerra Gonzalez, J., Bednarek, W., Bernardini, E., Berti, A., Bhattacharyya, W., Biasuzzi, B., Biland, A., Blanch, O., Bonnoli, G., Carosi, R., Carosi, A., Chatterjee, A., Colak, S. M., Colin, P., Colombo, E., Contreras, J. L., Cortina, J., Covino, S., Cumani, P., Da Vela, P., Dazzi, F., De Angelis, A., De Lotto, B., Di Pierro, F., Doert, M., Dominguez, A., Dominis Prester, D., Dorner, D., Doro, M., Einecke, S., Eisenacher Glawion, D., Elsaesser, D., Engelkemeier, M., Fallah Ramazani, V., Fernandez-Barral, A., Fidalgo, D., Fonseca, M. V., Font, L., Fruck, C., Galindo, D., Garcia Lopez, R. J., Garczarczyk, M., Gaug, M., Giammaria, P., Godinovic, N., Gora, D., Guberman, D., Hadasch, D., Hahn, A., Hassan, T., Hayashida, M., Herrera, J., Hose, J., Hrupec, D., Ishio, K., Konno, Y., Kubo, H., Kushida, J., Kuvez Dic, D., Lelas, D., Lewandowska, N., Lindfors, E., Lombardi, S., Longo, F., Lopez, M., Maggio, C., Majumdar, P., Makariev, M., Maneva, G., Manganaro, M., Mannheim, K., Maraschi, L., Mariotti, M., Martinez, M., Mazin, D., Menzel, U., Minev, M., Miranda, J. M., Mirzoyan, R., Moralejo, A., Moreno, V., Moretti, E., Nagayoshi, T., Neustroev, V., Niedzwiecki, A., Nievas Rosillo, M., Nigro, C., Nilsson, K., Ninci, D., Nishijima, K., Noda, K., Nogues, L., Paiano, S., Palacio, J., Paneque, D., Paoletti, R., Paredes, J. M., Pedaletti, G., Peresano, M., Perri, L., Persic, M., Prada Moroni, P. G., Prandini, E., Puljak, I., Garcia, J. R., Reichardt, I., Rhode, W., Ribo, M., Rico, J., Righi, C., Rugliancich, A., Saito, T., Satalecka, K., Schroeder, S., Schweizer, T., Shore, S. N., Sitarek, J., Snidaric, I., Sobczynska, D., Stamerra, A., Strzys, M., Suric, T., Takalo, L., Tavecchio, F., Temnikov, P., Terzic, T., Teshima, M., Torres-Alba, N., Treves, A., Tsujimoto, S., Vanzo, G., Vazquez Acosta, M., Vovk, I., Ward, J. E., Will, M., Zaric, D., and Smits, R.
Subjects: Photon, Radiation mechanisms: non-thermal, Radio continuum: stars, VHE [gamma ray], Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, Cherenkov, individual, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Pulsars: individual: Crab pulsar, pulsar, Physics, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), photon, Gamma ray, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, imaging, pulsed, Gamma rays: stars, pulsars: individual: Crab pulsar - gamma-rays: stars - radio continuum: stars - radiation mechanics: non-thermal, detector [radio wave], statistics, Crab pulsar, Global Positioning System, stars [Radio continuum], Física nuclear, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, stars, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, FOS: Physical sciences, pulsars, gamma rays, radio continuum, radiation mechanisms, non-thermal, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Radio telescope, star [Gamma rays], Pulsar, emission [gamma ray], 0103 physical sciences, 010306 general physics, enhancement, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Cherenkov radiation, non-thermal [Radiation mechanisms], business.industry, Crab Pulsar, stars [Gamma rays], Astronomy and Astrophysics, individual: Crab pulsar [Pulsars], MAGIC, flux, Stars, Space and Planetary Science, correlation, ddc:520, business, statistical
Abstract: [Aims] The aim of this study is to search for evidence of a common emission engine between radio giant pulses (GPs) and very-high-energy (VHE, E > 100 GeV) γ-rays from the Crab pulsar., [Methods] We performed 16 h of simultaneous observations of the Crab pulsar at 1.4 GHz with the Effelsberg radio telescope and the Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope (WSRT), and at energies above 60 GeV we used the Major Atmospheric Gamma-ray Imaging Cherenkov (MAGIC) telescopes. We searched for a statistical correlation between the radio and VHE γ-ray emission with search windows of different lengths and different time lags to the arrival times of a radio GP. A dedicated search for an enhancement in the number of VHE γ-rays correlated with the occurrence of radio GPs was carried out separately for the P1 and P2 phase ranges, respectively., [Results] In the radio data sample, 99444 radio GPs were detected. We find no significant correlation between the GPs and VHE photons in any of the search windows. Depending on phase cuts and the chosen search windows, we find upper limits at a 95% confidence level on an increase in VHE γ-ray events correlated with radio GPs between 7% and 61% of the average Crab pulsar VHE flux for the P1 and P2 phase ranges, respectively. This puts upper limits on the flux increase during a radio GP between 12% and 2900% of the pulsed VHE flux, depending on the search window duration and phase cuts. This is the most stringent upper limit on a correlation between γ-ray emission and radio GPs reported so far., 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 (FPA2015-69818-P, FPA2012-36668, FPA2015-68378-P, FPA2015-69210-C6-2-R, FPA2015-69210-C6-4-R, FPA2015-69210-C6-6-R, AYA2015-71042-P, AYA2016-76012-C3-1-P, ESP2015-71662-C2-2-P, CSD2009-00064), and the Japanese JSPS and MEXT is gratefully acknowledged. This work was also supported by the Spanish Centro de Excelencia “Severo Ochoa” SEV-2012-0234 and SEV-2015-0548, and Unidad de Excelencia “María de Maeztu” MDM-2014-0369, by the Croatian Science Foundation (HrZZ) Project 09/176 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.
Published: 2019
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18. Deep observations of the globular cluster M15 with the MAGIC telescopes

Author: B. Machado de Oliveira Fraga, A. Lamastra, Jordi Delgado, P. Giammaria, Razmik Mirzoyan, D. Baack, D. Galindo, Massimo Persic, John Hoang, E. Moretti, J. Palacio, Pablo Peñil, Chiara Righi, A. Hahn, R. J. García López, Kari Nilsson, P. Majumdar, J. M. Paredes, Antonio Stamerra, J. Becerra González, Dorota Sobczyńska, Francesco Longo, Satoshi Masuda, D. Dominis Prester, Adrian Biland, S. Gasparyan, Y. Iwamura, M. Strzys, J. Kushida, S. M. Colak, Abelardo Moralejo, Jose Luis Contreras, Juan Cortina, A. Fernández-Barral, N. Godinović, Takashi Saito, Pierre Colin, Tihomir Surić, Francesco Leone, W. Rhode, M. V. Fonseca, I. Puljak, P G Prada Moroni, N. Sahakyan, W. Bhattacharyya, V. Fallah Ramazani, J. Rico, P. Munar-Adrover, Oscar Blanch, A. Somero, Saverio Lombardi, Louis Antonelli, U. Barres de Almeida, A. Niedzwiecki, D. Fidalgo, M. Will, David H. Green, Edgar Molina, V. D'Elia, E. Colombo, S. Gallozzi, A. De Angelis, G. Vanzo, Petar Temnikov, Koji Noda, Ana Babić, Stefan Cikota, A. Fattorini, D. Ninci, Shimpei Tsujimoto, M. I. Martínez, M. Vazquez Acosta, Stefano Ansoldi, Elisa Bernardini, Masahiro Teshima, M. Peresano, Giovanni Busetto, M. Mallamaci, F. Di Pierro, Lab Saha, B. De Lotto, D. Dorner, Markus Gaug, M. López, Elisa Prandini, A. Arbet Engels, D. Hadasch, Sabrina Einecke, Victoria Moreno, D. Kuveždić, Julian Sitarek, Rodolfo Carosi, D. Lelas, Vitaly Neustroev, Francesco Dazzi, Darko Zarić, Jürgen Besenrieder, K. Mannheim, Juan Abel Barrio, D. Elsaesser, I. Vovk, M. Makariev, Ciro Bigongiari, Aaron Dominguez, M. Nöthe, S. Paiano, B. Banerjee, K. Ishio, C. Nigro, G. Ceribella, G. Pedaletti, W. Bednarek, C. Maggio, G. Maneva, E. Do Souto Espiñera, Fabrizio Tavecchio, Ll. Font, Tomislav Terzić, Susumu Inoue, M. Nievas Rosillo, Dario Hrupec, R. Paoletti, A. López-Oramas, L. Foffano, L. Maraschi, M. Delfino, Marc Ribó, Jose Carlos Herrera, Elina Lindfors, Daniel Mazin, A. Berti, J. R. Garcia, Stefano Covino, M. Minev, Hidetoshi Kubo, G. Bonnoli, T. Schweizer, L. Nogués, M. Mariotti, M. Garczarczyk, V. A. Acciari, J. van Scherpenberg, K. Nishijima, P. Da Vela, Iva Šnidarić, A. Rugliancich, Marina Manganaro, G. Ferrara, D. Paneque, Konstancja Satalecka, Michele Doro, C. Fruck, D. Guberman, N. Torres-Albà, Jose Miguel Miranda, Acciari, V. A., Ansoldi, S., Antonelli, L. A., Arbet Engels, A., Baack, D., Babic, A., Banerjee, B., Barres De Almeida, U., Barrio, J. A., Becerra Gonzalez, J., Bednarek, W., Bernardini, E., Berti, A., Besenrieder, J., Bhattacharyya, W., Bigongiari, C., Biland, A., Blanch, O., Bonnoli, G., Busetto, G., Carosi, R., Ceribella, G., Cikota, S., Colak, S. M., Colin, P., Colombo, E., Contreras, J. L., Cortina, J., Covino, S., D'Elia, V., Da Vela, P., Dazzi, F., De Angelis, A., De Lotto, B., Delfino, M., Delgado, J., Di Pierro, F., Do Souto Espinera, E., Dominguez, A., Dominis Prester, D., Dorner, D., Doro, M., Einecke, S., Elsaesser, D., Fallah Ramazani, V., Fattorini, A., Fernandez-Barral, A., Ferrara, G., Fidalgo, D., Foffano, L., Fonseca, M. V., Font, L., Fruck, C., Galindo, D., Gallozzi, S., Garcia Lopez, R. J., Garczarczyk, M., Gasparyan, S., Gaug, M., Giammaria, P., Godinovic, N., Green, D., Guberman, D., Hadasch, D., Hahn, A., Herrera, J., Hoang, J., Hrupec, D., Inoue, S., Ishio, K., Iwamura, Y., Kubo, H., Kushida, J., Kuvezdic, D., Lamastra, A., Lelas, D., Leone, F., Lindfors, E., Lombardi, S., Longo, F., Lopez, M., Lopez-Oramas, A., 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., Masuda, S., Mazin, D., Minev, M., Miranda, J. M., Mirzoyan, R., Molina, E., Moralejo, A., Moreno, V., Moretti, E., Munar-Adrover, P., Neustroev, V., Niedzwiecki, A., Nievas Rosillo, M., Nigro, C., Nilsson, K., Ninci, D., Nishijima, K., Noda, K., Nogues, L., Nothe, M., Paiano, S., Palacio, J., Paneque, D., Paoletti, R., Paredes, J. M., Pedaletti, G., Penil, P., Peresano, M., Persic, M., Prada Moroni, P. G., Prandini, E., Puljak, I., Garcia, J. R., Rhode, W., Ribo, M., Rico, J., Righi, C., Rugliancich, A., Saha, L., Sahakyan, N., Saito, T., Satalecka, K., Schweizer, T., Sitarek, J., Snidaric, I., Sobczynska, D., Somero, A., Stamerra, A., Strzys, M., Suric, T., Tavecchio, F., Temnikov, P., Terzic, T., Teshima, M., Torres-Alba, N., Tsujimoto, S., Van Scherpenberg, J., Vanzo, G., Vazquez Acosta, M., Vovk, I., Will, M., and Zaric, D.
Subjects: Radiation mechanisms: non-thermal, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Population, general [Pulsars], Globular clusters: general, FOS: Physical sciences, astro-ph.HE, Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, 7. Clean energy, stars [gamma-rays], Pulsar, Millisecond pulsar, 0103 physical sciences, Gamma-rays: stars, Globular clusters: individual: M15, Pulsars: general, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Space and Planetary Science, Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, star [Gamma-rays], education, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Physics, education.field_of_study, individual: M15 [Globular clusters], non-thermal [Radiation mechanisms], 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Compton scattering, Stars, Crab Nebula, Globular cluster, ddc:520, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Electrónica, general [Globular clusters], radiation mechanisms: non-thermal, pulsars: general, globular clusters: general, globular clusters: individual: M15, gamma-rays: stars, Electricidad, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Lepton
Abstract: A population of globular clusters (GCs) has been recently established by the Fermi-LAT telescope as a new class of GeV $\gamma$-ray sources. Leptons accelerated to TeV energies, in the inner magnetospheres of MSPs or in their wind regions, should produce $\gamma$-rays through the inverse Compton scattering in the dense radiation field from the huge population of stars. We have conducted deep observations of the globular cluster M15 with the MAGIC telescopes and used 165 hrs in order to search for $\gamma$-ray emission. A strong upper limit on the TeV $\gamma$-ray flux $, Comment: 11 pages, 7 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS
Published: 2019
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19. Direct measurement of stellar angular diameters by the VERITAS Cherenkov telescopes

Author: M. J. Lang, Robert Brose, S. O'Brien, J. P. Finley, Gernot Maier, Nahee Park, T. J. Williamson, M. K. Daniel, Daniel Nieto, Jamie Holder, Wystan Benbow, A. M. Joyce, S. P. Wakely, John L. Quinn, Nolan Matthews, Cameron B Rulten, A. Petrashyk, D. S. Hanna, A. Furniss, T. B. Humensky, P. Kar, I. Sushch, R. M. Wells, P. Wilcox, P. Kaaret, N. Kelley-Hoskins, E. Roache, E. Pueschel, Ralph Bird, Martin Pohl, M. Kertzman, David Kieda, David A. Williams, Karlen Shahinyan, Tarek M. Hassan, I. Sadeh, R. A. Ong, C. Giuri, A. Brill, K. Ragan, Q. Feng, Gordon T. Richards, Maria Krause, Marcos Santander, M. Nievas-Rosillo, P. T. Reynolds, R. Mukherjee, T. T.Y. Lin, A. Wilhelm, P. Moriarty, Lucy Fortson, G. Hughes, G. H. Gillanders, Orel Gueta, A. J. Chromey, G. H. Sembroski, and Jules P. Halpern
Subjects: Brightness, 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, Occultation, law.invention, Telescope, Photometry (optics), Angular diameter, law, 0103 physical sciences, Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, ddc:530, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR), Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Cherenkov radiation, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Astroparticle physics, Physics, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Institut für Physik und Astronomie, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Stars, Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, ddc:520, Astrophysics::Earth and Planetary Astrophysics, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
Abstract: Nature astronomy 3(6), 511 - 516 (2019). doi:10.1038/s41550-019-0741-z, The angular size of a star is a critical factor in determining its basic properties$^1$. Direct measurement of stellar angular diameters is difficult: at interstellar distances stars are generally too small to resolve by any individual imaging telescope. This fundamental limitation can be overcome by studying the diffraction pattern in the shadow cast when an asteroid occults a star$^2$, but only when the photometric uncertainty is smaller than the noise added by atmospheric scintillation$^3$. Atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes used for particle astrophysics observations have not generally been exploited for optical astronomy due to the modest optical quality of the mirror surface. However, their large mirror area makes them well suited for such high-time-resolution precision photometry measurements$^4$. Here we report two occultations of stars observed by the Very Energetic Radiation Imaging Telescope Array System (VERITAS)$^5$ Cherenkov telescopes with millisecond sampling, from which we are able to provide a direct measurement of the occulted stars’ angular diameter at the ≤0.1 mas scale. This is a resolution never achieved before with optical measurements and represents an order of magnitude improvement over the equivalent lunar occultation method$^6$. We compare the resulting stellar radius with empirically derived estimates from temperature and brightness measurements, confirming the latter can be biased for stars with ambiguous stellar classifications., Published by Nature Publishing Group, London
Published: 2019
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20. Discovery of TeV γ-ray emission from the neighbourhood of the supernova remnant G24.7+0.6 by MAGIC

Author: R. J. García López, P G Prada Moroni, C. Arcaro, M. Vazquez Acosta, Masahiro Teshima, Elina Lindfors, Nikola Godinovic, Victoria Moreno, Daniel Mazin, Saverio Lombardi, A. Fernández-Barral, Chiara Righi, Pratik Majumdar, M. V. Fonseca, L. Nogués, Cosimo Nigro, M. Nievas Rosillo, Lluis Font, D. Dorner, A. Lamastra, M. Minev, R. Zanin, P. Temnikov, D. Elsaesser, J. Palacio, J. M. Paredes, Antonio Stamerra, Marcel Strzys, V. D'Elia, Martin Will, Stefano Covino, D. Zarić, Adrian Biland, D.F. Torres, Dario Hrupec, R. Paoletti, Wrijupan Bhattacharyya, B. Banerjee, A. Fattorini, Marc Ribó, S. Ansoldi, P. Giammaria, M. A. Lopez, Karl Mannheim, P. Bangale, Junko Kushida, J. Delgado, J. Rico, Kyoshi Nishijima, Tomoki Saito, Giovanni Ceribella, Satoshi Masuda, John Hoang, U. Barres de Almeida, Arka Chatterjee, Tarek M. Hassan, Hidetoshi Kubo, S. Paiano, Aaron Dominguez, F. Di Pierro, D. Kuveždić, Jürgen Besenrieder, Alexander Hahn, D. Hadasch, A. Rugliancich, Marina Manganaro, Fabrizio Tavecchio, M. I. Martínez, D. Fidalgo, Juan Abel Barrio, J. Becerra González, J. E. Ward, Damir Lelas, Francesco Longo, I. Snidaric, Sidika Merve Colak, G. Ferrara, E. Colombo, Sabrina Einecke, M. Delfino, Lab Saha, D. Dominis Prester, Alessio Berti, Ievgen Vovk, Louis Antonelli, A. Arbet Engels, S. Gallozzi, Gaia Vanzo, P. Cumani, Konstancja Satalecka, A. De Angelis, D. Ninci, Michele Doro, Dorota Sobczyńska, Martin Makariev, Ana Babić, Oscar Blanch, R. Mirzoyan, Vitaly Neustroev, W. Bednarek, T. Schweizer, Jose Luis Contreras, Christian Fruck, Julian Sitarek, Juan Cortina, J. Herrera, V. Fallah Ramazani, G. Bonnoli, David Paneque, M. Mariotti, Koji Noda, A. López-Oramas, Ivica Puljak, D. Guberman, Elisa Bernardini, G. Pedaletti, G. Maneva, D. Baack, M. Persic, P. Colin, V. A. Acciari, P. Da Vela, L. Foffano, L. Maraschi, Tomislav Terzić, Kari Nilsson, Yuki Iwamura, Susumu Inoue, J. R. Garcia, Camilla Maggio, Kazuma Ishio, E. de Oña Wilhelmi, A. Niedzwiecki, Elisa Prandini, Rodolfo Carosi, M. Peresano, N. Torres-Albà, Jose Miguel Miranda, D. Galindo, Francesco Leone, T. Surić, Shimpei Tsujimoto, Abelardo Moralejo, E. Moretti, Edgar Molina, B. De Lotto, Markus Gaug, Ciro Bigongiari, M. Garczarczyk, W. Rhode, Francesco Dazzi, A. Somero, Pablo Peñil, Acciari, V. A., Ansoldi, S., Antonelli, L. A., Arbet Engels, A., Arcaro, C., Baack, D., Babić, A., Banerjee, B., Bangale, P., De Almeida, U Barre, Barrio, J. A., Becerra González, J., Bednarek, W., Bernardini, E., Berti, A., Besenrieder, J., Bhattacharyya, W., Bigongiari, C., Biland, A., Blanch, O., Bonnoli, G., Carosi, R., Ceribella, G., Chatterjee, A., Colak, S. M., Colin, P., Colombo, E., Contreras, J. L., Cortina, J., Covino, S., Cumani, P., D'Elia, V., Da Vela, P., Dazzi, F., De Angelis, A., De Lotto, B., Delfino, M., Delgado, J., Di Pierro, F., Domínguez, A., Dominis Prester, D., Dorner, D., Doro, M., Einecke, S., Elsaesser, D., Fallah Ramazani, V., Fattorini, A., Fernández-Barral, A., Ferrara, G., Fidalgo, D., Foffano, L., Fonseca, M. V., Font, L., Fruck, C., Galindo, D., Gallozzi, S., García López, R. J., Garczarczyk, M., Gaug, M., Giammaria, P., Godinović, N., Guberman, D., Hadasch, D., Hahn, A., Hassan, T., Herrera, J., Hoang, J., Hrupec, D., Inoue, S., Ishio, K., Iwamura, Y., Kubo, H., Kushida, J., Kuveždić, D., Lamastra, A., Lelas, D., Leone, F., Lindfors, E., Lombardi, S., Longo, F., López, M., López-Oramas, A., Maggio, C., Majumdar, P., Makariev, M., Maneva, G., Manganaro, M., Mannheim, K., Maraschi, L., Mariotti, M., Martínez, M., Masuda, S., Mazin, D., Minev, M., Miranda, J. M., Mirzoyan, R., Molina, E., Moralejo, A., Moreno, V., Moretti, E., Neustroev, V., Niedzwiecki, A., Nievas Rosillo, M., Nigro, C., Nilsson, K., Ninci, D., Nishijima, K., Noda, K., Nogués, L., Paiano, S., Palacio, J., Paneque, D., Paoletti, R., Paredes, J. M., Pedaletti, G., Peñil, P., Peresano, M., Persic, M., Prada Moroni, P. G., Prandini, E., Puljak, I., Garcia, J. R., Rhode, W., Ribó, M., Rico, J., Righi, C., Rugliancich, A., Saha, L., Saito, T., Satalecka, K., Schweizer, T., Sitarek, J., Šnidarić, I., Sobczynska, D., Somero, A., Stamerra, A., Strzys, M., Surić, T., Tavecchio, F., Temnikov, P., Terzić, T., Teshima, M., Torres-Albà, N., Tsujimoto, S., Vanzo, G., Vazquez Acosta, M., Vovk, I., Ward, J. E., Will, M., Zarić, D., De Oña Wilhelmi, E., Torres, D. F., and Zanin, R.
Subjects: Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, cloud [ISM], ISM:supernova remnants, acceleration of particles, ISM: clouds, cosmic rays, ISM: supernova remnants, gamma-rays: general, astro-ph.HE, Cosmic ray, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Space and Planetary Science, 01 natural sciences, Spectral line, 0103 physical sciences, Supernova remnant, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, acceleration of particle, cosmic ray, Cherenkov radiation, Physics, Spectral index, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, supernova remnants [ISM], Spectral density, Astronomy and Astrophysic, acceleration of particles, cosmic rays, ISM:supernova remnants, ISM: clouds, gamma-rays: general, Acceleration of particles, cosmic rays, gamma-rays: general, ISM: clouds, ISM: supernova remnants, Supernova, 13. Climate action, ddc:520, supernova remnant [ISM], Física nuclear, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, clouds [ISM], general [gamma-rays], Radio wave
Abstract: SNR G24.7+0.6 is a 9.5 kyrs radio and $\gamma$-ray supernova remnant evolving in a dense medium. In the GeV regime, SNR G24.7+0.6 (3FHL\,J1834.1--0706e/FGES\,J1834.1--0706) shows a hard spectral index ($\Gamma$$\sim$2) up to $200$\,GeV, which makes it a good candidate to be observed with Cherenkov telescopes such as MAGIC. We observed the field of view of \snr\ with the MAGIC telescopes for a total of 31 hours. We detect very high energy $\gamma$-ray emission from an extended source located 0.34\degr\ away from the center of the radio SNR. The new source, named \mgc\ is detected up to 5\,TeV, and its spectrum is well-represented by a power-law function with spectral index of $2.74 \pm 0.08$. The complexity of the region makes the identification of the origin of the very-high energy emission difficult, however the spectral agreement with the LAT source and overlapping position at less than 1.5$\sigma$ point to a common origin. We analysed 8 years of \fermi-LAT data to extend the spectrum of the source down to 60\,MeV. \fermi-LAT and MAGIC spectra overlap within errors and the global broad band spectrum is described by a power-law with exponential cutoff at $1.9\pm0.5$\,TeV. The detected $\gamma$-ray emission can be interpreted as the results of proton-proton interaction between the supernova and the CO-rich surrounding., Comment: accepted for publication by MNRAS
Published: 2019
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21. A Decade of Multiwavelength Observations of the TeV Blazar 1ES 1215+303: Extreme Shift of the Synchrotron Peak Frequency and Long-term Optical–Gamma-Ray Flux Increase

Author: Tuomas Savolainen, S. S. Scott, K. Nilsson, A. Wilhelm, Walter Max-Moerbeck, S. O'Brien, Alasdair E. Gent, Nahee Park, A. N. Otte, K. Ragan, R. A. Ong, G. H. Sembroski, K. Pfrang, Merja Tornikoski, T. J. Williamson, Wei Cui, Sebastian Kiehlmann, R. Shang, Marita Krause, Anushka Udara Abeysekara, Philip G. Edwards, Amy Furniss, P. Kaaret, A. Pichel, Gernot Maier, Alexander B. Pushkarev, D. Horan, Anne Lähteenmäki, Jamie Holder, V. V. Vassiliev, B. G. Piner, Lucy Fortson, A. Brill, P. Moriarty, Karlen Shahinyan, Tarek M. Hassan, Denis Bernard, J. H. Buckley, G. Hughes, M. Pohl, I. Sushch, M. Kertzman, A. C. S. Readhead, J. Valverde, Robert Brose, Wystan Benbow, Q. Feng, John L. Quinn, Daniel Nieto, Stephen Fegan, M. Nievas-Rosillo, D. Ribeiro, M. Buchovecky, Giuliana Noto, T. B. Humensky, Jenni Jormanainen, F. Krennrich, Talvikki Hovatta, M. J. Lang, A. Petrashyk, R. R. Prado, V. Fallah Ramazani, J. P. Finley, Jodi Christiansen, P. Wilcox, Olivier Hervet, A. J.R. Weinstein, A. D. Falcone, Matthew L. Lister, D. S. Hanna, N. Kelley-Hoskins, Ralph Bird, I. Sadeh, David A. Williams, Gordon T. Richards, A. Archer, E. Roache, D. B. Kieda, Orel Gueta, L. O. Takalo, G. H. Gillanders, Yuri Y. Kovalev, P. T. Reynolds, E. Lindfors, Marcos Santander, Reshmi Mukherjee, C. Giuri, R. M. Wells, E. Pueschel, Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet (LLR), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-École polytechnique (X)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Fermi-LAT, VERITAS, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École polytechnique (X)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3), University of Turku, Metsähovi Radio Observatory, Anne Lähteenmäki Group, Department of Electronics and Nanoengineering, Aalto-yliopisto, and Aalto University
Subjects: 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, Infrared, Flux, Astrophysics, 4/3, 01 natural sciences, law.invention, law, Jets, Broadband, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Physics, Gamma ray, Optical polarization, Galaxies: active, gamma-rays, Synchrotron, Wavelength, gamma ray: emission, optical [polarization], infrared, BL Lacertae objects, VERITAS, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Gamma-rays, ON 325, jets, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, GLAST, blazar, X-ray, emission [gamma ray], synchrotron, 0103 physical sciences, polarization: optical, Blazar, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, B2 1215+30, S3 1215+30), Astronomy and Astrophysics, flux, 13. Climate action, Space and Planetary Science, correlation, Active galaxies, ddc:520, blazars BL Lacertae objects: individ- ual: 1ES 1215+303 (Ton 605, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Blazars
Abstract: Blazars are known for their variability on a wide range of timescales at all wavelengths. Most studies of TeV gamma-ray blazars focus on short timescales, especially during flares. With a decade of observations from the Fermi-LAT and VERITAS, we present an extensive study of the long-term multi-wavelength radio-to-gamma-ray flux-density variability, with the addition of a couple of short-time radio-structure and optical polarization observations of the blazar 1ES 1215+303 (z=0.130), with a focus on its gamma-ray emission from 100 MeV to 30 TeV. Multiple strong GeV gamma-ray flares, a long-term increase in the gamma-ray and optical flux baseline and a linear correlation between these two bands are observed over the ten-year period. Typical HBL behaviors are identified in the radio morphology and broadband spectrum of the source. Three stationary features in the innermost jet are resolved by VLBA at 43.1, 22.2, and 15.3 GHz. We employ a two-component synchrotron self-Compton model to describe different flux states of the source, including the epoch during which an extreme shift in energy of the synchrotron peak frequency from infrared to soft X-rays is observed., Comment: Accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal
Published: 2020
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22. Detection of persistent VHE gamma-ray emission from PKS 1510–089 by the MAGIC telescopes during low states between 2012 and 2017

Author: M. I. Martínez, P. Bangale, Sabrina Einecke, Jae-Young Kim, M. Makariev, Aaron Dominguez, Alicia Fattorini, G. Pedaletti, Ivica Puljak, Stefano Covino, B. De Lotto, Pierre Colin, J. Kushida, Jose Luis Contreras, Walter Max-Moerbeck, J. Becerra González, A. Arbet Engels, A. De Angelis, Vitaly Neustroev, M. Peresano, Chiara Righi, Juan Abel Barrio, D. Elsaesser, J. Palacio, Satoshi Masuda, J. E. Ward, Juan Cortina, Takashi Saito, Wrijupan Bhattacharyya, P. Temnikov, Sidika Merve Colak, Wolfgang Rhode, Giovanni Ceribella, I. Agudo, José L. Gómez, V. A. Acciari, Antonio Stamerra, D. Hadasch, D. Fidalgo, Camilla Maggio, Abelardo Moralejo, A. López-Oramas, P. Munar-Adrover, E. Moretti, Daniela Dorner, Pablo Peñil, Alexander Hahn, Dominik Baack, Gaia Vanzo, G. Maneva, E. Do Souto Espiñera, Joni Tammi, Adrian Biland, Elina Lindfors, Jürgen Besenrieder, C. M. Raiteri, Louis Antonelli, Sol N. Molina, Daniel Mazin, Ievgen Vovk, A. Berti, Francesco Dazzi, A. Fernández-Barral, K. Nishijima, Manuel Delfino, M. Gaug, R. J. García López, Nikola Godinovic, D. Dominis Prester, J. Rico, V. Ramakrishnan, Francesco Longo, Pratik Majumdar, D. Zarić, M. V. Fonseca, J. Herrera, T. Schweizer, Antonio Fuentes, Sebastian Kiehlmann, Marc Ribó, Ana Babić, A. Somero, Koji Noda, L. Maraschi, E. Prandini, Elisa Bernardini, P. Giammaria, V. Fallah Ramazani, John Hoang, Massimo Persic, Stefano Ansoldi, S. Paiano, Efthalia Traianou, Riccardo Paoletti, Tomislav Terzić, Ciro Bigongiari, Clemens Thum, B. Banerjee, P. G. Prada Moroni, Hidetoshi Kubo, C. Arcaro, J. van Scherpenberg, Karl Mannheim, I. Snidaric, Oscar Blanch, D. Kuveždić, Razmik Mirzoyan, U. Barres de Almeida, F. Leone, Carolina Casadio, Kari Nilsson, Damir Lelas, Anne Lähteenmäki, Masahiro Teshima, Stefan Cikota, M. Strzys, M. Will, Markus Garczarczyk, Dorota Sobczyńska, D. Ninci, M. Vazquez Acosta, Angela Sandrinelli, Cosimo Nigro, M. Nievas Rosillo, G. Ferrara, M. Minev, Victoria Moreno, G. Bonnoli, Kazuma Ishio, Yuki Iwamura, Susumu Inoue, Tarek M. Hassan, W. Bednarek, Fabrizio Tavecchio, Dario Hrupec, Luca Foffano, Ll. Font, L. Nogués, M. A. Lopez, Rodolfo Carosi, Mosè Mariotti, J. M. Paredes, J. R. Garcia, V. D'Elia, Saverio Lombardi, A. Rugliancich, Marina Manganaro, Ioannis Myserlis, D. Galindo, Merja Tornikoski, E. Molina, E. Colombo, Konstancja Satalecka, Michele Doro, Lab Saha, A. Niedzwiecki, David Paneque, D. Guberman, Jordi Delgado, F. Di Pierro, Talvikki Hovatta, P. Da Vela, Julian Sitarek, C. Fruck, N. Torres-Albà, Stefano Gallozzi, Jose Miguel Miranda, Alessandra Lamastra, T. Surić, Shimpei Tsujimoto, Acciari, V. A., Ansoldi, S., Antonelli, L. A., Arbet Engels, A., Arcaro, C., Baack, D., Babić, A., Banerjee, B., Bangale, P., Barres De Almeida, U., Barrio, J. A., Bednarek, W., Bernardini, E., Berti, A., Besenrieder, J., Bhattacharyya, W., Bigongiari, C., Biland, A., Blanch, O., Bonnoli, G., Carosi, R., Ceribella, G., Cikota, S., Colak, S. M., Colin, P., Colombo, E., Contreras, J. L., Cortina, J., Covino, S., D'Elia, V., Da Vela, P., Dazzi, F., De Angelis, A., De Lotto, B., Delfino, M., Delgado, J., DI Pierro, F., Do Souto Espiñera, E., Domínguez, A., Dominis Prester, D., Dorner, D., Doro, M., Einecke, S., Elsaesser, D., Fallah Ramazani, V., Fattorini, A., Fernández-Barral, A., Ferrara, G., Fidalgo, D., Foffano, L., Fonseca, M. V., Font, L., Fruck, C., Galindo, D., Gallozzi, S., García López, R. J., Garczarczyk, M., Gaug, M., Giammaria, P., Godinović, N., Guberman, D., Hadasch, D., Hahn, A., Hassan, T., Herrera, J., Hoang, J., Hrupec, D., Inoue, S., Ishio, K., Iwamura, Y., Kubo, H., Kushida, J., Kuveždić, D., Lamastra, A., Lelas, D., Leone, F., Lindfors, E., Lombardi, S., Longo, F., López, M., López-Oramas, A., Maggio, C., Majumdar, P., Makariev, M., Maneva, G., Manganaro, M., Mannheim, K., Maraschi, L., Mariotti, M., Martínez, M., Masuda, S., Mazin, D., Minev, M., Miranda, J. M., Mirzoyan, R., Molina, E., Moralejo, A., Moreno, V., Moretti, E., Munar-Adrover, P., Neustroev, V., Niedzwiecki, A., Nievas Rosillo, M., Nigro, C., Nilsson, K., Ninci, D., Nishijima, K., Noda, K., Nogués, L., Paiano, S., Palacio, J., Paneque, D., Paoletti, R., Paredes, J. M., Pedaletti, G., Peñil, P., Peresano, M., Persic, M., Prada Moroni, P. G., Prandini, E., Puljak, I., Garcia, J. R., Rhode, W., Ribó, M., Rico, J., Righi, C., Rugliancich, A., Saha, L., Saito, T., Satalecka, K., Schweizer, T., Sitarek, J., Šnidarić, I., Sobczynska, D., Somero, A., Stamerra, A., Strzys, M., Surić, T., Tavecchio, F., Temnikov, P., Terzić, T., Teshima, M., Torres-Albà, N., Tsujimoto, S., Van Scherpenberg, J., Vanzo, G., Vazquez Acosta, M., Vovk, I., Ward, J. E., Will, M., Zarić, D., Becerra González, J., Raiteri, C. M., Sandrinelli, A., Hovatta, T., Kiehlmann, S., Max-Moerbeck, W., Tornikoski, M., Lähteenmäki, A., Tammi, J., Ramakrishnan, V., Thum, C., Agudo, I., Molina, S. N., Gómez, J. L., Fuentes, A., Casadio, C., Traianou, E., Myserlis, I., Kim, J. -Y., Metsähovi Radio Observatory, Department of Electronics and Nanoengineering, Aalto-yliopisto, Aalto University, Universitat de Barcelona, Federal Ministry of Education and Research (Germany), Max Planck Society, Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (España), Swiss National Science Foundation, and Junta de Andalucía
Subjects: galaxies [Gamma rays], Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, 7. Clean energy, jet [Galaxies], law.invention, Raigs gamma, law, Jets (Astrofísica), Broadband, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Physics, galaxies: active, galaxies: jets, gamma rays: galaxies, quasars: individual: PKS 1510-089, galaxie [Gamma rays], Gamma ray, Galaxies: active, 3. Good health, Magnetic field, Gamma rays: galaxies, Spectral energy distribution, Física nuclear, Galaxies: jets, Quasars: individual: PKS 1510-089, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Space and Planetary Science, Flare, Spectral shape analysis, active [Galaxies], astro-ph.GA, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, 0103 physical sciences, individual: PKS 1510-089 [Quasars], Quasars, Quàsars, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Gamma rays, Quasar, Plasma, Astronomy and Astrophysic, Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, Astrophysical jets, Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA), Galàxies actives, Active galaxies, ddc:520, jets [Galaxies]
Abstract: PKS 1510-089 is a flat spectrum radio quasar strongly variable in the optical and GeV range. To date, very high-energy (VHE, > 100 GeV) emission has been observed from this source either during long high states of optical and GeV activity or during short flares. Aims. We search for low-state VHE gamma-ray emission from PKS 1510-089. We characterize and model the source in a broadband context, which would provide a baseline over which high states and flares could be better understood. Methods. PKS 1510-089 has been monitored by the MAGIC telescopes since 2012. We use daily binned Fermi-LAT flux measurements of PKS 1510-089 to characterize the GeV emission and select the observation periods of MAGIC during low state of activity. For the selected times we compute the average radio, IR, optical, UV, X-ray, and gamma-ray emission to construct a low-state spectral energy distribution of the source. The broadband emission is modeled within an external Compton scenario with a stationary emission region through which plasma and magnetic fields are flowing. We also perform the emission-model-independent calculations of the maximum absorption in the broad line region (BLR) using two different models. Results. The MAGIC telescopes collected 75 hr of data during times when the Fermi-LAT flux measured above 1 GeV was below 3? × 10 -8 ? cm -2 ? s -1 , which is the threshold adopted for the definition of a low gamma-ray activity state. The data show a strongly significant (9.5¿) VHE gamma-ray emission at the level of (4.27 ± 0.61 stat ) × 10 -12 ? cm -2 ? s -1 above 150 GeV, a factor of 80 lower than the highest flare observed so far from this object. Despite the lower flux, the spectral shape is consistent with earlier detections in the VHE band. The broadband emission is compatible with the external Compton scenario assuming a large emission region located beyond the BLR. For the first time the gamma-ray data allow us to place a limit on the location of the emission region during a low gamma-ray state of a FSRQ. For the used model of the BLR, the 95% confidence level on the location of the emission region allows us to place it at a distance > 74% of the outer radius of the BLR. © ESO 2018., 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 (FPA2015-69818-P, FPA2012-36668, FPA2015-68378-P, FPA2015-69210-C6-2-R, FPA2015-69210-C6-4-R, FPA2015-69210-C6-6-R, AYA2015-71042-P, AYA2016-76012-C3-1-P, ESP2015-71662-C2-2-P, CSD2009-00064), and the Japanese JSPS and MEXT is gratefully acknowledged. This work was also supported by the Spanish Centro de Exce-lencia “Severo Ochoa” SEV-2012-0234 and SEV-2015-0548, and Unidad de Excelencia “María de Maeztu” MDM-2014-0369, 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. IA acknowledges support from a Ramón y Cajal grant of the Ministerio de Economía, Industria, y Competitividad (MINECO) of Spain. Acquisition and reduction of the POLAMI and MAPCAT data was supported in part by MINECO through grants AYA2010-14844, AYA2013-40825-P, and AYA2016-80889-P, and by the Regional Government of Andalucía through grant P09-FQM-4784.
Published: 2018
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23. The Blazar TXS 0506+056 associated with a high-energy neutrino: insights into extragalactic jets and cosmic-ray acceleration

Author: M. Makariev, John Hoang, J. Besenrieder, J. Rico, W. Rhode, M. Vazquez Acosta, L. Nogués, J. Kushida, Simona Paiano, D. Hadasch, R. Ch. Berse, Jose Luis Contreras, Abelardo Moralejo, E. Moretti, K. Mielke, P. Da Vela, Ievgen Vovk, Francesco Dazzi, A. Fernández-Barral, M. I. Martínez, Juan Cortina, P. Bangale, A. Hahn, W. Bhattacharyya, K. Pfrang, F. Di Pierro, D. Fidalgo, M. Mariotti, K. Nishijima, G. Pedaletti, V. Moreno, G. Vanzo, S. Gallozzi, Sabrina Einecke, K. Mannheim, T. Saito, D. Dorner, C. Maggio, D. Dominis Prester, Stefano Covino, Matteo Cerruti, Marina Manganaro, Juan Abel Barrio, P. G. Prada Moroni, M. Strzys, S. Lombardi, P. Cumani, Konstancja Satalecka, Michele Doro, J. R. Garcia, P. Peñil, M. Minev, D. Lelas, F. Leone, B. De Lotto, Elisa Prandini, Rodolfo Carosi, Dario Hrupec, R. Paoletti, S. M. Colak, C. Arcaro, M. A. Lopez, M. Peresano, G. Ceribella, A. Niedzwiecki, M. V. Fonseca, Tarek M. Hassan, W. Bednarek, Ana Babić, David Paneque, Ciro Bigongiari, Petar Temnikov, Koji Noda, Elisa Bernardini, Stefano Ansoldi, Fabrizio Tavecchio, I. Šnidarić, Eduardo Colombo, Razmik Mirzoyan, Elina Lindfors, Ll. Font, Markus Gaug, D. Guberman, Daniel Mazin, A. Berti, J. Palacio, Christian Fruck, A. Fattorini, Tomislav Terzić, B. Banerjee, Dorota Sobczyńska, J. M. Paredes, Antonio Stamerra, Y. Iwamura, M. Hayashida, P. Giammaria, R. J. García López, Markus Garczarczyk, Francesco Longo, N. Godinović, Lab Saha, Pierre Colin, Kari Nilsson, G. Maneva, V. Fallah Ramazani, Marc Ribó, Massimo Persic, M. Will, Hidetoshi Kubo, Pratik Majumdar, D. Elsaesser, Jose Carlos Herrera, G. Ferrara, G. Bonnoli, Oscar Blanch, Jordi Delgado, M. Delfino, Julian Sitarek, Masahiro Teshima, T. Schweizer, D. Ninci, Chiara Righi, Satoshi Masuda, Arka Chatterjee, Yusuke Konno, I. Puljak, Laura Maraschi, C. Nigro, Darko Zarić, Luca Foffano, Aaron Dominguez, A. Lamastra, J. E. Ward, Shimpei Tsujimoto, A. Rugliancich, Vitaly Neustroev, Susumu Inoue, N. Torres-Albà, Valerio D'Elia, Dominik Baack, Adrian Biland, Jose Miguel Miranda, Tihomir Surić, Louis Antonelli, A. De Angelis, U. Barres de Almeida, M. Nievas Rosillo, K. Ishio, J. Becerra González, Ansoldi, S., Antonelli, L. A., Arcaro, C., Baack, D., Babić, A., Banerjee, B., Bangale, P., Barres De Almeida, U., Barrio, J. A., González, J. Becerra, Bednarek, W., Bernardini, E., Berse, R. Ch., Berti, A., Besenrieder, J., Bhattacharyya, W., Bigongiari, C., Biland, A., Blanch, O., Bonnoli, G., Carosi, R., Ceribella, G., Chatterjee, A., Colak, S. M., Colin, P., Colombo, E., Contreras, J. L., Cortina, J., Covino, S., Cumani, P., D'Elia, V., Vela, P. Da, Dazzi, F., Angelis, A. De, Lotto, B. De, Delfino, M., Delgado, J., Pierro, F. Di, Domínguez, A., Prester, D. Domini, Dorner, D., Doro, M., Einecke, S., Elsaesser, D., Ramazani, V. Fallah, Fattorini, A., Fernández-Barral, A., Ferrara, G., Fidalgo, D., Foffano, L., Fonseca, M. V., Font, L., Fruck, C., Gallozzi, S., López, R. J. García, Garczarczyk, M., Gaug, M., Giammaria, P., Godinović, N., Guberman, D., Hadasch, D., Hahn, A., Hassan, T., Hayashida, M., Herrera, J., Hoang, J., Hrupec, D., Inoue, S., Ishio, K., Iwamura, Y., Konno, Y., Kubo, H., Kushida, J., Lamastra, A., Lelas, D., Leone, F., Lindfors, E., Lombardi, S., Longo, F., López, M., Maggio, C., Majumdar, P., Makariev, M., Maneva, G., Manganaro, M., Mannheim, K., Maraschi, L., Mariotti, M., Martínez, M., Masuda, S., Mazin, D., Mielke, K., Minev, M., Miranda, J. M., Mirzoyan, R., Moralejo, A., Moreno, V., Moretti, E., Neustroev, V., Niedzwiecki, A., Rosillo, M. Nieva, Nigro, C., Nilsson, K., Ninci, D., Nishijima, K., Noda, K., Nogués, L., Paiano, S., Palacio, J., Paneque, D., Paoletti, R., Paredes, J. M., Pedaletti, G., Peñil, P., Peresano, M., Persic, M., Pfrang, K., Moroni, P. G. Prada, Prandini, E., Puljak, I., Garcia, J. R., Rhode, W., Ribó, M., Rico, J., Righi, C., Rugliancich, A., Saha, L., Saito, T., Satalecka, K., Schweizer, T., Sitarek, J., Šnidarić, I., Sobczynska, D., Stamerra, A., Strzys, M., Surić, T., Tavecchio, F., Temnikov, P., Terzić, T., Teshima, M., Torres-Albá, N., Tsujimoto, S., Vanzo, G., Acosta, M. Vazquez, Vovk, I., Ward, J. E., Will, M., Zarić, D., Cerruti, Matteo, Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire et de Hautes Énergies (LPNHE (UMR_7585)), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), MAGIC, and Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Paris (UP)
Subjects: neutrino: energy: high, jets [galaxies], Electron, Astrophysics, individual (TXS 0506+056) [BL Lacertae objects], 01 natural sciences, neutrino, Absorption (logic), MAGIC (telescope), 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, interaction [electron], cosmic ray, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Physics, photon, neutrinos, 520 Astronomie und zugeordnete Wissenschaften, non-thermal [radiation mechanisms], Neutrino detector, inverse [Compton scattering], electron: interaction, galaxies [gamma rays], acceleration [cosmic radiation], Física nuclear, Neutrino, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, BL Lac object, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, FOS: Physical sciences, Cosmic ray, VHE, energy [p], blazar, X-ray, cosmic rays, 0103 physical sciences, gamma rays: galaxies, ddc:530, galaxie [gamma rays], energy: high [neutrino], cosmic radiation: acceleration, Blazar, plasma, BL Lacertae objects: individual, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astronomy and Astrophysic, galaxies: jets, radiation mechanisms: non-thermal, 530 Physik, MAGIC, BL Lacertae objects: individual (TXS 0506+056), cosmic rays, galaxies: jets, gamma rays: galaxies, neutrinos, radiation mechanisms: non-thermal, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Space and Planetary Science, BL Lacertae objects: individual (TXS 0506+056), messenger, electromagnetic, Compton scattering: inverse, p: energy, jet [galaxies], gamma ray, Space and Planetary Science, ddc:520, High Energy Physics::Experiment, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], absorption
Abstract: A neutrino with energy of $\sim$290 TeV, IceCube-170922A, was detected in coincidence with the BL Lac object TXS~0506+056 during enhanced gamma-ray activity, with chance coincidence being rejected at $\sim 3\sigma$ level. We monitored the object in the very-high-energy (VHE) band with the MAGIC telescopes for $\sim$41 hours from 1.3 to 40.4 days after the neutrino detection. Day-timescale variability is clearly resolved. We interpret the quasi-simultaneous neutrino and broadband electromagnetic observations with a novel one-zone lepto-hadronic model, based on interactions of electrons and protons co-accelerated in the jet with external photons originating from a slow-moving plasma sheath surrounding the faster jet spine. We can reproduce the multiwavelength spectra of TXS 0506+056 with neutrino rate and energy compatible with IceCube-170922A, and with plausible values for the jet power of $\sim 10^{45} - 4 \times 10^{46} {\rm erg \ s^{-1}}$. The steep spectrum observed by MAGIC is concordant with internal $\gamma\gamma$ absorption above a few tens of GeV entailed by photohadronic production of a $\sim$290 TeV neutrino, corroborating a genuine connection between the multi-messenger signals. In contrast to previous predictions of predominantly hadronic emission from neutrino sources, the gamma-rays can be mostly ascribed to inverse Compton up-scattering of external photons by accelerated electrons. The X-ray and VHE bands provide crucial constraints on the emission from both accelerated electrons and protons. We infer that the maximum energy of protons in the jet co-moving frame can be in the range $\sim 10^{14}$ to $10^{18}$ eV., Comment: 11 pages, 3 figues, 3 tables, Accepted for publication in ApJL. Major changes in the revised Version: corrected author list
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24. Multi-wavelength characterization of the blazar S5 0716+714 during an unprecedented outburst phase

Author: Mark Gurwell, Max Ludwig Ahnen, Elina Lindfors, D. Gasparrini, Antonio Stamerra, Daniel Mazin, J. Becerra González, Alessandro Carosi, B. De Lotto, Francesco Longo, A. Berti, Ievgen Vovk, G. A. Borman, Rodrigo Reeves, Abelardo Moralejo, M. Peresano, N. Torres-Albà, P. Giammaria, Helen Jermak, V. Fallah Ramazani, Juan Abel Barrio, G. Pedaletti, Adrian Biland, G. Bonnoli, M. Minev, I. Reichardt, T. Schweizer, D. Bastieri, I. Snidaric, Takashi Saito, I. Agudo, Stefano Gallozzi, Jose Miguel Miranda, Satoshi Masuda, R. J. García López, Alexander Hahn, Stefano Covino, Dario Hrupec, J. Kushida, J. Rico, J. Anton Zensus, Arka Chatterjee, Alan P. Marscher, Mosè Mariotti, M. A. Lopez, Dominik Baack, Yu. V. Troitskaya, Mitsunari Takahashi, A. C. S. Readhead, J. E. Ward, K. Mielke, D. Galindo, Aaron Dominguez, Jose Luis Contreras, Svetlana G. Jorstad, J. R. Garcia, D. Fidalgo, Massimo Persic, Pratik Majumdar, M. V. Fonseca, L. Maraschi, D. Kuveždić, K. Nishijima, D. Dominis Prester, J. M. Paredes, Sidika Merve Colak, E. N. Kopatskaya, D. J. Thompson, Juan Cortina, P. G. Prada Moroni, Giovanni Ceribella, Julian Sitarek, Stefano Ansoldi, Oscar Blanch, T. S. Grishina, Emmanouil Angelakis, Wrijupan Bhattacharyya, C. Fruck, Tomislav Terzić, Riccardo Paoletti, Chiara Righi, B. Lott, Jordi Delgado, A. Niedzwiecki, G. M. Madejski, D. Hadasch, F. Di Pierro, Saverio Lombardi, A. De Angelis, M. Strzys, Talvikki Hovatta, M. Vazquez Acosta, A. Treves, Vitaly Neustroev, L. V. Larionova, Ivan S. Troitsky, David Paneque, Yusuke Konno, L. Nogués, P. Temnikov, Andrea Rugliancich, Tarek M. Hassan, Krzysztof Nalewajko, W. Bednarek, Thomas P. Krichbaum, Sergey S. Savchenko, Victoria Moreno, Francesco Dazzi, A. Fernández-Barral, Ryosuke Itoh, P. Da Vela, Alexander Kraus, E. Moretti, Louis Antonelli, Fabrizio Tavecchio, Ll. Font, Bindu Rani, T. J. Pearson, Valeri M. Larionov, T. Nagayoshi, G. Maneva, D. Guberman, Manuel Delfino, Camilla Maggio, Daniela Dorner, Dariusz Gora, Gaia Vanzo, M. Gaug, S. Paiano, T. Surić, J. Herrera, Marina Manganaro, Shimpei Tsujimoto, Koji Noda, Ana Babić, Elisa Bernardini, Emilia Järvelä, Carolina Casadio, Anne Lähteenmäki, Masahiro Teshima, Karl Mannheim, Kari Nilsson, M. Will, Nikola Godinovic, Ioannis Myserlis, Merja Tornikoski, E. Colombo, Markus Garczarczyk, N. P. M. Kuin, L. O. Takalo, P. Cumani, Kazuma Ishio, Konstancja Satalecka, Michele Doro, Cosimo Nigro, M. Nievas Rosillo, Rodolfo Carosi, J. Palacio, V. Ramakrishnan, M. I. Martínez, P. Bangale, Sabrina Einecke, M. Makariev, E. Prandini, Iain A. Steele, Razmik Mirzoyan, U. Barres de Almeida, Damir Lelas, A. A. Vasilyev, Dorota Sobczyńska, Ivica Puljak, Pierre Colin, Sol N. Molina, D. A. Morozova, D. Ninci, A. Y. Lien, J. Hose, D. Elsaesser, Walter Max-Moerbeck, R. Ch. Berse, M. Hayashida, D. Zarić, Wolfgang Rhode, Marc Ribó, Hidetoshi Kubo, B. Banerjee, C. Arcaro, Centre d'Etudes Nucléaires de Bordeaux Gradignan (CENBG), Université Sciences et Technologies - Bordeaux 1-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), MAGIC, MWL, Fermi-LAT, Ahnen, M. L., Ansoldi, S., Antonelli, L. A., Arcaro, C., Baack, D., Babić, A., Banerjee, B., Bangale, P., Barres De Almeida, U., Barrio, J. A., Becerra González, J., Bednarek, W., Bernardini, E., Ch Berse, R., Berti, A., Bhattacharyya, W., Biland, A., Blanch, O., Bonnoli, G., Carosi, R., Carosi, A., Ceribella, G., Chatterjee, A., Colak, S. M., Colin, P., Colombo, E., Contreras, J. L., Cortina, J., Covino, S., Cumani, P., Da Vela, P., Dazzi, F., De Angelis, A., De Lotto, B., Delfino, M., Delgado, J., Di Pierro, F., Domínguez, A., Dominis Prester, D., Dorner, D., Doro, M., Einecke, S., Elsaesser, D., Fallah Ramazani, V., Fernández-Barral, A., Fidalgo, D., Fonseca, M. V., Font, L., Fruck, C., Galindo, D., Gallozzi, S., García López, R. J., Garczarczyk, M., Gaug, M., Giammaria, P., Godinović, N., Gora, D., Guberman, D., Hadasch, D., Hahn, A., Hassan, T., Hayashida, M., Herrera, J., Hose, J., Hrupec, D., Ishio, K., Konno, Y., Kubo, H., Kushida, J., Kuveždić, D., Lelas, D., Lindfors, E., Lombardi, S., Longo, F., López, M., Maggio, C., Majumdar, P., Makariev, M., Maneva, G., Manganaro, M., Mannheim, K., Maraschi, L., Mariotti, M., Martínez, M., Masuda, S., Mazin, D., Mielke, K., Minev, M., Miranda, J. M., Mirzoyan, R., Moralejo, A., Moreno, V., Moretti, E., Nagayoshi, T., Neustroev, V., Niedzwiecki, A., Nievas Rosillo, M., Nigro, C., Nilsson, K., Ninci, D., Nishijima, K., Noda, K., Nogués, L., Paiano, S., Palacio, J., Paneque, D., Paoletti, R., Paredes, J. M., Pedaletti, G., Peresano, M., Persic, M., Prada Moroni, P. G., Prandini, E., Puljak, I., Garcia, J. R., Reichardt, I., Rhode, W., Ribó, M., Rico, J., Righi, C., Rugliancich, A., Saito, T., Satalecka, K., Schweizer, T., Sitarek, J., Šnidarić, I., Sobczynska, D., Stamerra, A., Strzys, M., Surić, T., Takahashi, M., Takalo, L., Tavecchio, F., Temnikov, P., Terzić, T., Teshima, M., Torres-Albà, N., Treves, A., Tsujimoto, S., Vanzo, G., Vazquez Acosta, M., Vovk, I., Ward, J. E., Will, M., Zarić, D., Bastieri, D., Gasparrini, D., Lott, B., Rani, B., Thompson, D. J., Agudo, I., Angelakis, E., Borman, G. A., Casadio, C., Grishina, T. S., Gurwell, M., Hovatta, T., Itoh, R., Järvelä, E., Jermak, H., Jorstad, S., Kopatskaya, E. N., Kraus, A., Krichbaum, T. P., Kuin, N. P. M., Lähteenmäki, A., Larionov, V. M., Larionova, L. V., Lien, A. Y., Madejski, G., Marscher, A., Myserlis, I., Max-Moerbeck, W., Molina, S. N., Morozova, D. A., Nalewajko, K., Pearson, T. J., Ramakrishnan, V., Readhead, A. C. S., Reeves, R. A., Savchenko, S. S., Steele, I. A., Tornikoski, M., Troitskaya, Yu. V., Troitsky, I., Vasilyev, A. A., Anton Zensus, J., Japanese Government, Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (España), Swiss National Science Foundation, Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica, Federal Ministry of Education and Research (Germany), Croatian Science Foundation, Polish Academy of Sciences, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (France), Ministério da Ciência e Tecnologia (Brasil), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (US), Academy of Finland, Smithsonian Institution, Academia Sinica (Taiwan), Russian Science Foundation, Junta de Andalucía, Department of Electronics and Nanoengineering, Aalto-yliopisto, and Aalto University
Subjects: BL Lacertae objects: individual: S5 0716+714, galaxies: active, galaxies: jets, gamma rays: galaxies, galaxies [Gamma rays], active [Galaxies], Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Galaxies: active, Galaxies: jets, Gamma rays: galaxies, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Space and Planetary Science, 7. Clean energy, 01 natural sciences, jet [Galaxies], Radio spectrum, 0103 physical sciences, Blazar, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, QC, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, QB, Physics, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Superluminal motion, galaxie [Gamma rays], 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Spectral density, Astronomy and Astrophysic, Light curve, Redshift, ddc:520, jets [Galaxies], Física nuclear, individual: S5 0716+714 [BL Lacertae objects], gamma-rays: galaxies, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], BL Lac object, Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope
Abstract: Context. The BL Lac object S5 0716+714, a highly variable blazar, underwent an impressive outburst in January 2015 (Phase A), followed by minor activity in February (Phase B). The MAGIC observations were triggered by the optical flux observed in Phase A, corresponding to the brightest ever reported state of the source in the R-band. Aims.The comprehensive dataset collected is investigated in order to shed light on the mechanism of the broadband emission. Methods. Multi-wavelength light curves have been studied together with the broadband spectral energy distributions (SEDs). The sample includes data from Effelsberg, OVRO, Metsähovi, VLBI, CARMA, IRAM, SMA, Swift-UVOT, KVA, Tuorla, Steward, RINGO3, KANATA, AZT-8+ST7, Perkins, LX-200, Swift-XRT, NuSTAR, Fermi-LAT and MAGIC. Results. The flaring state of Phase A was detected in all the energy bands, providing for the first time a multi-wavelength sample of simultaneous data from the radio band to the very-high-energy (VHE, E > 100 GeV). In the constructed SED, the Swift-XRT+NuSTAR data constrain the transition between the synchrotron and inverse Compton components very accurately, while the second peak is constrained from 0.1 GeV to 600 GeV by Fermi+MAGIC data. The broadband SED cannot be described with a one-zone synchrotron self-Compton model as it severely underestimates the optical flux in order to reproduce the X-ray to -ray data. Instead we use a two-zone model. The electric vector position angle (EVPA) shows an unprecedented fast rotation. An estimation of the redshift of the source by combined high-energy (HE, 0.1 GeV < E < 100 GeV) and VHE data provides a value of z = 0:31 ± 0:02 ± 0:05, confirming the literature value. Conclusions. The data show the VHE emission originating in the entrance and exit of a superluminal knot in and out of a recollimation shock in the inner jet. A shock-shock interaction in the jet seems responsible for the observed flares and EVPA swing. This scenario is also consistent with the SED modeling. © ESO 2018., We would like to thank the Instituto de Astrofisica 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 and MPG, the Italian INFN and INAF, the Swiss National Fund SNF, the ERDF under the Spanish MINECO (FPA2015-69818-P, FPA2012-36668, FPA2015-68378-P, FPA2015-69210-C6-2-R, FPA2015-69210-C6-4-R, FPA2015-69210-C6-6-R, AYA2015-71042-P, AYA2016-76012-C3-1-P, ESP2015-71662-C2-2-P, CSD2009-00064), and the Japanese JSPS and MEXT is gratefully acknowledged. This work was also supported by the Spanish Centro de Excelencia "Severo Ochoa" SEV-2012-0234 and SEV-2015-0548, and Unidad de Excelencia "Maria de Maeztu" MDM-2014-0369, 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, the Commissariat a 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 is gratefully acknowledged from the Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica in Italy and the Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales in France. This research was supported by an appointment to the NASA Postdoctoral Program at the Goddard Space Flight Center, administered by Universities Space Research Association through a contract with NASA. We thank the Swift team duty scientists and science planners., The Metsahovi team acknowledges the support from the Academy of Finland to our observing projects (numbers 212656, 210338, 121148, and others). The VLBA is an instrument of the Long Baseline Observatory. The Long Baseline Observatory is a facility of the National Science Foundation operated by Associated Universities, Inc. The Sub-millimeter Array is a joint project between the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory and the Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics and is funded by the Smithsonian Institution and the Academia Sinica. The OVRO 40-m monitoring program is supported in part by NASA grants NNX08AW31G, NNX11A043G and NNX14AQ89G, and NSF grants AST-0808050 and AST-1109911. The St. Petersburg University team acknowledges support from Russian Science Foundation grant 17-12-01029. The BU group acknowledges support by NASA under Fermi Guest Investigator grant NNX14AQ58G and by NSF under grant AST-1615796. Part of this work was done with funding by the UK Space Agency. The VLBA is an instrument of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory. The National Radio Astronomy Observatory is a facility of the National Science Foundation operated under cooperative agreement by Associated Universities, Inc. The PRISM (Perkins Re-Imaging SysteM) camera at Lowell Observatory was developed by K. Janes et al. at BU and Lowell Observatory, with funding from the NSF, BU, and Lowell Observatory. This paper makes use of data obtained with the 100m Effelsberg radio-telescope, which is operated by the Max-Planck-Institut fur Radioastronomy (MPIfR) in Bonn (Germany). Part of this work is based on archival data, software or online services provided by the ASI Science Data Center (ASDC). PYRAF is a product of the Space Telescope Science Institute, which is operated by AURA for NASA. This paper is partly based on observations carried out with the IRAM 30 m. IRAM is supported by INSU/CNRS (France), MPG (Germany) and IGN (Spain). IA acknowledges support by a Ramon y Cajal grant of the Ministerio de Economia, Industria y Competitividad (MINECO) of Spain. The research at the IAA-CSIC was supported in part by the MINECO through grants AYA2016-80889-P, AYA2013-40825-P, and AYA2010-14844, and by the regional government of Andalucia through grant P09-FQM-4784. The Liverpool Telescope is operated by JMU with financial support from the UK-STFC.
Published: 2018
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25. Gamma-ray flaring activity of NGC 1275 in 2016-2017 measured by MAGIC

Author: Ansoldi, S., Antonelli, L. A., Bednarek, W., Niedzwiecki, A., Rosillo, M. Nievas, Nigro, Cosimo, Nilsson, K., Ninci, D., Nishijima, K., Noda, K., Nogués, L., Paiano, S., Palacio, J., Bernardini, E., Paneque, D., Paoletti, R., Paredes, J. M., Pedaletti, G., Peñil, P., Peresano, M., Persic, M., Pfrang, Konstantin Johannes, Moroni, P. G. Prada, Prandini, E., Berse, R. Ch, Puljak, I., Garcia, J. R., Reichardt, I., Rhode, W., Ribó, M., Rico, J., Righi, C., Rugliancich, A., Saha, L., Saito, T., Berti, A., Satalecka, K., Schweizer, T., Sitarek, J., Šnidarić, I., Sobczynska, D., Stamerra, A., Strzys, M., Surić, T., Takahashi, M., Tavecchio, F., Bhattacharyya, W., Temnikov, P., Terzić, T., Teshima, M., Torres-Albà, N., Tsujimoto, S., Vanzo, G., Acosta, M. Vazquez, Vovk, I., Ward, J. E., Will, M., Bigongiari, C., Zarić, D., Glawion, D., Takalo, L. O., Jormanainen, J., Magic, Collaboration, Biland, A., Blanch, O., Bonnoli, G., Carosi, R., Arcaro, C., Ceribella, G., Chatterjee, A., SIDIKA MERVE COLAK, Colin, P., Colombo, E., Contreras, J. L., Cortina, J., Covino, S., Cumani, P., D Elia, V., Baack, D., Da Vela, P., Dazzi, F., Angelis, A., Lotto, B., Delfino, M., Delgado, J., Di Pierro, F., Domínguez, A., Prester, D. Dominis, Dorner, D., Babić, A., Doro, M., Einecke, S., Elsaesser, D., Ramazani, V. Fallah, Fattorini, A., Fernández-Barral, A., Ferrara, G., Fidalgo, D., Foffano, L., Fonseca, M. V., Banerjee, B., Font, L., Fruck, C., Galindo, D., Gallozzi, S., López, R. J. García, Garczarczyk, M., Gaug, M., Giammaria, P., Godinović, N., Gora, D., Bangale, P., Guberman, D., Hadasch, D., Hahn, A., Hassan, T., Hayashida, M., Herrera, J., Hoang, J., Hose, J., Hrupec, D., Ishio, K., Almeida, U. Barres, Konno, Y., Kubo, H., Kushida, J., Lamastra, A., Lelas, D., Leone, F., Lindfors, E., Lombardi, S., Longo, F., López, M., Barrio, J. A., Maggio, C., Majumdar, P., Makariev, M., Maneva, G., Manganaro, M., Mannheim, K., Maraschi, L., Mariotti, M., Martínez, M., Masuda, S., González, J. Becerra, Mazin, D., Mielke, K., Minev, M., Miranda, J. M., Mirzoyan, R., Moralejo, A., Moreno, V., Moretti, E., Nagayoshi, T., Neustroev, V., Ansoldi, S., Antonelli, L. A., Arcaro, C., Baack, D., Babić, A., Banerjee, B., Bangale, P., Barres De Almeida, U., Barrio, J. A., Becerra González, J., Bednarek, W., Bernardini, E., Berse, R. Ch., Berti, A., Bhattacharyya, W., Bigongiari, C., Biland, A., Blanch, O., Bonnoli, G., Carosi, R., Ceribella, G., Chatterjee, A., Colak, S. M., Colin, P., Colombo, E., Contreras, J. L., Cortina, J., Covino, S., Cumani, P., D'Elia, V., Da Vela, P., Dazzi, F., De Angelis, A., De Lotto, B., Delfino, M., Delgado, J., Di Pierro, F., Domínguez, A., Dominis Prester, D., Dorner, D., Doro, M., Einecke, S., Elsaesser, D., Fallah Ramazani, V., Fattorini, A., Fernández-Barral, A., Ferrara, G., Fidalgo, D., Foffano, L., Fonseca, M. V., Font, L., Fruck, C., Galindo, D., Gallozzi, S., García López, R. J., Garczarczyk, M., Gaug, M., Giammaria, P., Godinović, N., Gora, D., Guberman, D., Hadasch, D., Hahn, A., Hassan, T., Hayashida, M., Herrera, J., Hoang, J., Hose, J., Hrupec, D., Ishio, K., Konno, Y., Kubo, H., Kushida, J., Lamastra, A., Lelas, D., Leone, F., Lindfors, E., Lombardi, S., Longo, F., López, M., Maggio, C., Majumdar, P., Makariev, M., Maneva, G., Manganaro, M., Mannheim, K., Maraschi, L., Mariotti, M., Martínez, M., Masuda, S., Mazin, D., Mielke, K., Minev, M., Miranda, J. M., Mirzoyan, R., Moralejo, A., Moreno, V., Moretti, E., Nagayoshi, T., Neustroev, V., Niedzwiecki, A., Nievas Rosillo, M., Nigro, C., Nilsson, K., Ninci, D., Nishijima, K., Noda, K., Nogués, L., Paiano, S., Palacio, J., Paneque, D., Paoletti, R., Paredes, J. M., Pedaletti, G., Peñil, P., Peresano, M., Persic, M., Pfrang, K., Prada Moroni, P. G., Prandini, E., Puljak, I., Garcia, J. R., Reichardt, I., Rhode, W., Ribó, M., Rico, J., Righi, C., Rugliancich, A., Saha, L., Saito, T., Satalecka, K., Schweizer, T., Sitarek, J., Šnidarić, I., Sobczynska, D., Stamerra, A., Strzys, M., Surić, T., Takahashi, M., Tavecchio, F., Temnikov, P., Terzić, T., Teshima, M., Torres-Albà, N., Tsujimoto, S., Vanzo, G., Vazquez Acosta, M., Vovk, I., Ward, J. E., Will, M., Zarić, D., Glawion, D., Takalo, L. O., and Jormanainen, J.
Subjects: Galaxies: active, Galaxies: individual: NGC 1275, Galaxies: jets, Gamma rays: galaxies, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Space and Planetary Science, Radio galaxy, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, galaxies: active, jets [galaxies], FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, jet [Galaxies], law.invention, law, 0103 physical sciences, gamma rays: galaxies, MAGIC (telescope), 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Physics, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), galaxies: jets, galaxies: individual: NGC 1275, galaxie [Gamma rays], 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Gamma ray, Astronomy and Astrophysic, Light curve, Monitoring program, Black hole, Crab Nebula, 13. Climate action, active [galaxies], galaxies [gamma rays], ddc:520, Física nuclear, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, individual: NGC 1275 [galaxies], Flare
Abstract: We report on the detection of flaring activity from the Fanaroff-Riley I radio galaxy NGC 1275 in very-high-energy (VHE, E $>$ 100 GeV) gamma rays with the MAGIC telescopes. Observations were performed between 2016 September and 2017 February as part of a monitoring program. The brightest outburst with $\sim1.5$ times the Crab Nebula flux above 100 GeV (C.U.) was observed during the night between 2016 December 31 and 2017 January 1 (fifty times higher than the mean previously measured in two observational campaigns between 2009 and 2011). Significant variability of the day-by-day light curve was measured, the shortest flux-doubling time-scales was found to be of $(611\pm101)$ min. The combined spectrum of the MAGIC data during the strongest flare state and simultaneous data from the Fermi-LAT around 2017 January 1 follows a power-law with an exponential cutoff at the energy $(492\pm35)$ GeV. Simultaneous optical flux density measurements in the R-band obtained with the KVA telescope are also presented and the correlation between the optical and gamma-ray emission is investigated. Due to possible internal pair-production, the fast flux variability constrains the Doppler factor to values which are inconsistent with a large viewing angle as observed in the radio band. We investigate different scenarios for the explanation of fast gamma-ray variability, namely emission from: magnetospheric gaps, relativistic blobs propagating in the jet (mini-jets) or external cloud (or star) entering the jet. We find that the only plausible model to account for the luminosities here observed would be the production of gamma rays in a magnetospheric gap around the central black hole only in the eventuality of an enhancement of the magnetic field threading the hole from its equipartition value with the gas pressure in the accretion flow., accepted for publications in Astronomy and Astrophysics
Published: 2018
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26. Limits on the flux of tau neutrinos from 1 PeV to 3 EeV with the MAGIC telescopes

Author: Christian Fruck, L. Nogués, E. Moretti, Francesco Longo, Alba Fernández-Barral, Kazuma Ishio, Satoshi Masuda, Arka Chatterjee, D. Fidalgo, Yusuke Konno, M. Garczarczyk, L. Maraschi, Elina Lindfors, Ievgen Vovk, Ivica Puljak, Pierre Colin, J. R. Garcia, Daniel Mazin, A. Berti, M. I. Martínez, Rodolfo Carosi, Mosè Mariotti, Louis Antonelli, T. Schweizer, K. Mielke, Alessandro Carosi, B. De Lotto, Aaron Dominguez, Cosimo Nigro, M. Nievas Rosillo, T. Nagayoshi, Martin Makariev, N. Torres-Albà, M. Minev, Sabrina Einecke, Pratik Majumdar, M. V. Fonseca, Nikola Godinovic, J. E. Ward, J. Becerra González, Stefano Ansoldi, Riccardo Paoletti, Jose Miguel Miranda, Saverio Lombardi, Andrea Rugliancich, Abelardo Moralejo, Sidika Merve Colak, Stefano Covino, Tomislav Terzić, Oscar Blanch, P. G. Prada Moroni, G. Pedaletti, E. Colombo, Marcel Strzys, Masahiro Teshima, Wrijupan Bhattacharyya, J. Palacio, Julian Sitarek, J. Hose, K. Nishijima, Daniela Hadasch, R. Mirzoyan, Adrian Biland, Martin Will, J. M. Paredes, U. Barres de Almeida, I. Reichardt, L. O. Takalo, Antonio Stamerra, Tomoki Saito, Giovanni Ceribella, D. Elsaesser, R. Ch. Berse, Damir Lelas, M. Peresano, Marina Manganaro, D. Galindo, Shimpei Tsujimoto, Dominik Baack, Tihomir Surić, J. Rico, Dorota Sobczyńska, Wolfgang Rhode, S. Paiano, Chiara Righi, P. Cumani, Konstancja Satalecka, Michele Doro, Karl Mannheim, P. Temnikov, Dario Hrupec, Francesco Dazzi, M. Vazquez Acosta, Juan Abel Barrio, M. A. Lopez, Mitsunari Takahashi, Victoria Moreno, A. Niedzwiecki, R. J. García López, David Paneque, B. Banerjee, C. Arcaro, D. Guberman, E. Prandini, A. De Angelis, A. Treves, Vitaly Neustroev, Massimo Persic, D. Kuveždić, Jordi Delgado, G. Bonnoli, F. Di Pierro, Manuel Delfino, Camilla Maggio, Daniela Dorner, Dariusz Gora, Gaia Vanzo, M. Gaug, J. Herrera, G. Maneva, Koji Noda, Elisa Bernardini, P. Da Vela, Ana Babić, Kari Nilsson, J. Kushida, Jose Luis Contreras, Juan Cortina, Tarek M. Hassan, W. Bednarek, Fabrizio Tavecchio, Ll. Font, Max Ludwig Ahnen, P. Giammaria, I. Snidaric, M. Hayashida, D. Zarić, Marc Ribó, P. Bangale, Hidetoshi Kubo, D. Ninci, Alexander Hahn, D. Dominis Prester, V. Fallah Ramazani, Ahnen, M. L., Ansoldi, S., Antonelli, L. A., Arcaro, C., Baack, D., Babić, A., Banerjee, B., Bangale, P., Barres de Almeida, U., Barrio, J. A., González, J. Becerra, Bednarek, W., Bernardini, E., Berse, R. Ch., Berti, A., Bhattacharyya, W., Biland, A., Blanch, O., Bonnoli, G., Carosi, R., Carosi, A., Ceribella, G., Chatterjee, A., Colak, S. M., Colin, P., Colombo, E., Contreras, J. L., Cortina, J., Covino, S., Cumani, P., Vela, P. Da, Dazzi, F., Angelis, A. De, Lotto, B. De, Delfino, M., Delgado, J., Pierro, F. Di, Domínguez, A., Prester, D. Domini, Dorner, D., Doro, M., Einecke, S., Elsaesser, D., Fallah Ramazani, V., Fernández-Barral, A., Fidalgo, D., Fonseca, M. V., Font, L., Fruck, C., Galindo, D., García López, R. J., Garczarczyk, M., Gaug, M., Giammaria, P., Godinović, N., Góra, D., Guberman, D., Hadasch, D., Hahn, A., Hassan, T., Hayashida, M., Herrera, J., Hose, J., Hrupec, D., Ishio, K., Konno, Y., Kubo, H., Kushida, J., Kuveždić, D., Lelas, D., Lindfors, E., Lombardi, S., Longo, F., López, M., Maggio, C., Majumdar, P., Makariev, M., Maneva, G., Manganaro, M., Mannheim, K., Maraschi, L., Mariotti, M., Martínez, M., Masuda, S., Mazin, D., Mielke, K., Minev, M., Miranda, J. M., Mirzoyan, R., Moralejo, A., Moreno, V., Moretti, E., Nagayoshi, T., Neustroev, V., Niedzwiecki, A., Nievas Rosillo, M., Nigro, C., Nilsson, K., Ninci, D., Nishijima, K., Noda, K., Nogués, L., Paiano, S., Palacio, J., Paneque, D., Paoletti, R., Paredes, J. M., Pedaletti, G., Peresano, M., Persic, M., Prada Moroni, P. G., Prandini, E., Puljak, I., Garcia, J. R., Reichardt, I., Rhode, W., Ribó, M., Rico, J., Righi, C., Rugliancich, A., Saito, T., Satalecka, K., Schweizer, T., Sitarek, J., Šnidarić, I., Sobczynska, D., Stamerra, A., Strzys, M., Surić, T., Takahashi, M., Takalo, L., Tavecchio, F., Temnikov, P., Terzić, T., Teshima, M., Torres-Albà, N., Treves, A., Tsujimoto, S., Vanzo, G., Vazquez Acosta, M., Vovk, I., Ward, J. E., Will, M., and Zarić, D.
Subjects: Point source, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Tau neutrinos, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics, Cherenkov telescopes, 01 natural sciences, law.invention, law, Tau neutrino, 0103 physical sciences, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Physics, Gamma-ray astronomy, tau neutrinos, Spectral index, ta115, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Horizon, High Energy Physics::Phenomenology, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Cherenkov telescope, ddc:540, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Neutrino, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Lepton, Flare
Abstract: Astroparticle physics 102, 77 - 88 (2018). doi:10.1016/j.astropartphys.2018.05.002, A search for tau neutrino induced showers with the MAGIC telescopes is presented. The MAGIC telescopes located at an altitude of 2200 m a.s.l. in the Canary Island of La Palma, can point towards the horizon or a few degrees below across an azimuthal range of about 80°. This provides a possibility to search for air showers induced by tau leptons arising from interactions of tau neutrinos in the Earth crust or the surrounding ocean. In this paper we show how such air showers can be discriminated from the background of very inclined hadronic showers by using Monte Carlo simulations. Taking into account the orography of the site, the point source acceptance and the event rates expected have been calculated for a sample of generic neutrino fluxes from photo-hadronic interactions in AGNs. The analysis of about 30 h of data taken towards the sea leads to a 90% C.L. point source limit for tau neutrinos in the energy range from 1.0 × 10$^{15}$ eV to 3.0 × 10$^{18}$ eV of about $E^{2}_{\nu_{\tau}} \times \phi (E_{\nu_{\tau}}) < 2.0 \times 10^{-4}$ GeV cm$^{-2} s^{-1}$ for an assumed power-law neutrino spectrum with spectral index $\gamma =−2$. However, with 300 h and in case of an optimistic neutrino flare model, limits of the level down to $E^{2}_{\nu_{\tau}} \times \phi (E_{\nu_{\tau}}) < 8.4 \times 10^{-6}$ GeV cm$^{-2} s^{-1}$ can be expected., Published by Elsevier Science, Amsterdam [u.a.]
Published: 2018
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27. The broad-band properties of the intermediate synchrotron peaked BL Lac S2 0109+22 from radio to VHE gamma rays

Author: F. Wierda, M. Peresano, Cosimo Nigro, Alexander Hahn, M. Nievas Rosillo, R. Reinthal, M. Hayashida, M. Minev, N. Mankuzhiyil, Julian Sitarek, Razmik Mirzoyan, U. Barres de Almeida, Nikola Godinovic, Damir Lelas, J. M. Paredes, Tomislav Terzić, Marc Ribó, Kazuma Ishio, Antonio Stamerra, Ievgen Vovk, Dorota Sobczyńska, M. Delfino, Wrijupan Bhattacharyya, Juan Abel Barrio, P. Bangale, Francesco Longo, D. Dominis Prester, Hidetoshi Kubo, B. De Lotto, J. E. Ward, Rodolfo Carosi, Camilla Maggio, Jenni Jormanainen, S. Paiano, M. Lopez, Karl Mannheim, P. G. Prada Moroni, Marcel Strzys, Ivica Puljak, John Hoang, Stefano Ciprini, Pierre Colin, Daniela Dorner, Gaia Vanzo, Dominik Baack, R. Desiante, Jordi Delgado, T. Schweizer, Fallah Ramazani, F. Di Pierro, M. Gaug, G. Ferrara, Anthony C. S. Readhead, D. Elsaesser, J. Becerra González, J. Herrera, G. Bonnoli, M. Vazquez Acosta, Talvikki Hovatta, Neustroev, L. Nogués, R. J. García López, Martin Makariev, Koji Noda, Elisa Bernardini, L. Maraschi, A. Niedzwiecki, Francesco Dazzi, A. Fernández-Barral, Elina Lindfors, K. Pfrang, Oscar Blanch, E. Moretti, Dario Hrupec, P. Da Vela, Pratik Majumdar, M. V. Fonseca, Darko Zarić, Aaron Dominguez, Daniel Mazin, A. Berti, Ciro Bigongiari, J. Palacio, Massimo Persic, F. Leone, Anne Lähteenmäki, Stefano Ansoldi, S Barcewicz, M. Garczarczyk, David Paneque, Masahiro Teshima, Martin Will, Riccardo Paoletti, Stefano Covino, Walter Max-Moerbeck, R. Ch. Berse, Sidika Merve Colak, Yuki Iwamura, Kyoshi Nishijima, D. Ninci, Abelardo Moralejo, J. R. Garcia, Susumu Inoue, D. Guberman, E. Prandini, Louis Antonelli, R. J. C. Vera, Alessandra Lamastra, M. I. Martínez, Tomoki Saito, Giovanni Ceribella, Marina Manganaro, Merja Tornikoski, Joni Tammi, Sabrina Einecke, P. Cumani, Chiara Righi, Konstancja Satalecka, Wolfgang Rhode, Michele Doro, P. Temnikov, K. Mielke, Iva Šnidarić, Sebastian Kiehlmann, B. Banerjee, Alicia Fattorini, C. Arcaro, Pablo Peñil, Shimpei Tsujimoto, Jürgen Besenrieder, Adrian Biland, Moreno, Tihomir Surić, J. Rico, Satoshi Masuda, Arka Chatterjee, P. Giammaria, D. Fidalgo, N. Torres-Albà, Tarek M. Hassan, G. Pedaletti, Yusuke Konno, W. Bednarek, Fabrizio Tavecchio, Ll. Font, A. De Angelis, Stefano Gallozzi, Jose Miguel Miranda, G. Maneva, Ana Babić, J. Kushida, Jose Luis Contreras, Juan Cortina, Kari Nilsson, E. Colombo, Lab Saha, Luca Foffano, L. O. Takalo, D. Hadasch, Mosè Mariotti, Saverio Lombardi, Andrea Rugliancich, D’Elia, Christian Fruck, Department of Electronics and Nanoengineering, Metsähovi Radio Observatory, Aalto-yliopisto, Aalto University, Ansoldi, S., Antonelli, L. A., Arcaro, C., Baack, D., Babić, A., Banerjee, B., Bangale, P., de Almeida, U. Barre, Barrio, J. A., González, J. Becerra, Bednarek, W., Bernardini, E., Berse, R. Ch., Berti, A., Besenrieder, J., Bhattacharyya, W., Bigongiari, C., Biland, A., Blanch, O., Bonnoli, G., Carosi, R., Ceribella, G., Chatterjee, A., Colak, S. M., Colin, P., Colombo, E., Contreras, J. L., Cortina, J., Covino, S., Cumani, P., D'Elia, V., Da Vela, P., Dazzi, F., De Angelis, A., De Lotto, B., Delfino, M., Delgado, J., Di Pierro, F., Domínguez, A., Prester, D. Domini, Dorner, D., Doro, M., Einecke, S., Elsaesser, D., Ramazani, V. Fallah, Fattorini, A., Fernández-Barral, A., Ferrara, G., Fidalgo, D., Foffano, L., Fonseca, M. V., Font, L., Fruck, C., Gallozzi, S., García Łópez, R. J., Garczarczyk, M., Gaug, M., Giammaria, P., Godinović, N., Guberman, D., Hadasch, D., Hahn, A., Hassan, T., Hayashida, M., Herrera, J., Hoang, J., Hrupec, D., Inoue, S., Ishio, K., Iwamura, Y., Konno, Y., Kubo, H., Kushida, J., Lamastra, A., Lelas, D., Leone, F., Lindfors, E., Lombardi, S., Longo, F., Łópez, M., Maggio, C., Majumdar, P., Makariev, M., Maneva, G., Manganaro, M., Mannheim, K., Maraschi, L., Mariotti, M., Martínez, M., Masuda, S., Mazin, D., Mielke, K., Minev, M., Miranda, J. M., Mirzoyan, R., Moralejo, A., Moreno, V., Moretti, E., Neustroev, V., Niedzwiecki, A., Nievas Rosillo, M., Nigro, C., Nilsson, K., Ninci, D., Nishijima, K., Noda, K., Nogués, L., Paiano, S., Palacio, J., Paneque, D., Paoletti, R., Paredes, J. M., Pedaletti, G., Peñil, P., Peresano, M., Persic, M., Pfrang, K., Prada Moroni, P. G., Prandini, E., Puljak, I., Garcia, J. R., Rhode, W., Ribó, M., Rico, J., Righi, C., Rugliancich, A., Saha, L., Saito, T., Satalecka, K., Schweizer, T., Sitarek, J., Šnidarić, I., Sobczynska, D., Stamerra, A., Strzys, M., Surić, T., Tavecchio, F., Temnikov, P., Terzić, T., Teshima, M., Torres-Albà, N., Tsujimoto, S., Vanzo, G., Vazquez Acosta, M., Vovk, I., Ward, J. E., Will, M., Zarić, D., Ciprini, S., Desiante, R., Barcewicz, S., Hovatta, T., Jormanainen, J., Takalo, L., Reinthal, R., Mankuzhiyil, N., Wierda, F., Lähteenmäki, A., Tammi, J., Tornikoski, M., Vera, R. J. C., Kiehlmann, S., Max-Moerbeck, W., Readhead, A. C. S., Ciprini , S., and Desiante , R.
Subjects: galaxie [Gamma-rays], active [Galaxies], Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Population, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, jet [Galaxies], Luminosity, 0103 physical sciences, BL Lacertae objects: individual: S2 0109+22, Galaxies: active, Galaxies: jets, Gamma-rays: galaxies, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Space and Planetary Science, MAGIC (telescope), Blazar, education, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Physics, education.field_of_study, ta115, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, galaxies: active, galaxies: jets, gamma-rays: galaxies, Optical polarization, individual: S2 0109+22 [BL Lacertae objects], Astronomy and Astrophysic, Redshift, 13. Climate action, ddc:520, Spectral energy distribution, Física nuclear, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, BL Lac object
Abstract: The MAGIC telescopes observed S2 0109+22 in 2015 July during its flaring activity in high energy gamma rays observed by Fermi-LAT. We analyse the MAGIC data to characterise the very high energy (VHE) gamma-ray emission of S2 0109+22, which belongs to the subclass of intermediate synchrotron peak (ISP) BL Lac objects. We study the multi-frequency emission in order to investigate the source classification. Finally, we compare the source long-term behaviour to other VHE gamma-ray emitting (TeV) blazars. We performed a temporal and spectral analysis of the data centred around the MAGIC interval of observation (MJD 57225-57231). Long-term radio and optical data have also been investigated using the discrete correlation function. The redshift of the source is estimated through optical host-galaxy imaging and also using the amount of VHE gamma-ray absorption. The quasi-simultaneous multi-frequency spectral energy distribution (SED) is modelled with the conventional one-zone synchrotron self-Compton (SSC) model. MAGIC observations resulted in the detection of the source at a significance level of $5.3\,\sigma$. The VHE gamma-ray emission of S2 0109+22 is variable on a daily time scale. VHE gamma-ray luminosity of the source is lower than the average of TeV BL Lacs. The optical polarization, and long-term optical/radio behaviour of the source are different from the general population of TeV blazars. All these findings agree with the classification of the source as an ISP BL Lac object. We estimate the source redshift as $z = 0.36 \pm 0.07$. The SSC parameters describing the SED are rather typical for blazars., Comment: 15 pages, 10 figures, Corresponding authors: Fallah Ramazani, V. (vafara@utu.fi), Hovatta, T. (talvikki.hovatta@utu.fi), Lindfors, E. (elilin@utu.fi) and Nilsson, K. (kani@utu.fi)
Published: 2018
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28. Periastron Observations of TeV Gamma-Ray Emission from a Binary System with a 50-year Period

Author: The VERITAS Collaboration, Abeysekara, A. U., Benbow, W., Bird, R., Brill, A., Brose, R., Buckley, J. H., Chromey, A. J., Daniel, M. K., Falcone, A., Finley, J. P., Fortson, L., Furniss, A., Gent, A., Gillanders, G. H., Hanna, D., Hassan, T., Hervet, O., Holder, J., Hughes, G., Humensky, T. B., Kaaret, P., Kar, P., Kertzman, M., Kieda, D., Krause, M., Krennrich, F., Kumar, S., Lang, M. J., Lin, T. T. Y., Maier, G., Moriarty, P., Mukherjee, R., O'Brien, S., Ong, R. A., Otte, A. N., Park, N., Petrashyk, A., Pohl, M., Pueschel, E., Quinn, J., Ragan, K., Richards, G. T., Roache, E., Sadeh, I., Santander, M., Schlenstedt, S., Sembroski, G. H., Sushch, I., Tyler, J., Vassiliev, V. V., Wakely, S. P., Weinstein, A., Wells, R. M., Wilcox, P., Wilhelm, A., Williams, D. A., Williamson, T. J, Zitzer, B., Collaboration, MAGIC, Acciari, V. A., Ansoldi, S., Antonelli, L. A., Engels, A. Arbet, Baack, D., Babi��, A., Banerjee, B., de Almeida, U. Barres, Barrio, J. A., Gonz��lez, J. Becerra, Bednarek, W., Bernardini, E., Berti, A., Besenrieder, J., Bhattacharyya, W., Bigongiari, C., Biland, A., Blanch, O., Bonnoli, G., Busetto, G., Carosi, R., Ceribella, G., Cikota, S., Colak, S. M., Colin, P., Colombo, E., Contreras, J. L., Cortina, J., Covino, S., D'Elia, V., Da Vela, P., Dazzi, F., De Angelis, A., De Lotto, B., Delfino, M., Delgado, J., Di Pierro, F., Espi��era, E. Do Souto, Dom��nguez, A., Prester, D. Dominis, Dorner, D., Doro, M., Einecke, S., Elsaesser, D., Ramazani, V. Fallah, Fattorini, A., Fern��ndez-Barral, A., Ferrara, G., Fidalgo, D., Foffano, L., Fonseca, M. V., Font, L., Fruck, C., Galindo, D., Gallozzi, S., L��pez, R. J. Garc��a, Garczarczyk, M., Gasparyan, S., Gaug, M., Giammaria, P., Godinovi��, N., Guberman, D., Hadasch, D., Hahn, A., Herrera, J., Hoang, J., Hrupec, D., Inoue, S., Ishio, K., Iwamura, Y., Kubo, H., Kushida, J., Kuve��di��, D., Lamastra, A., Lelas, D., Leone, F., Lindfors, E., Lombardi, S., Longo, F., L��pez, M., L��pez-Oramas, A., 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., Masuda, S., Mazin, D., Minev, M., Miranda, J. M., Mirzoyan, R., Molina, E., Moralejo, A., Moreno, V., Moretti, E., Munar-Adrover, P., Neustroev, V., Niedzwiecki, A., Rosillo, M. Nievas, Nigro, C., Nilsson, K., Ninci, D., Nishijima, K., Noda, K., Nogu��s, L., N��the, M., Paiano, S., Palacio, J., Paneque, D., Paoletti, R., Paredes, J. M., Pedaletti, G., Pe��il, P., Peresano, M., Persic, M., Moroni, P. G. Prada, Prandini, E., Puljak, I., Garcia, J. R., Rhode, W., Rib��, M., Rico, J., Righi, C., Rugliancich, A., Saha, L., Sahakyan, N., Saito, T., Satalecka, K., Schweizer, T., Sitarek, J., ��nidari��, I., Sobczynska, D., Somero, A., Stamerra, A., Strzys, M., Suri��, T., Tavecchio, F., Temnikov, P., Terzi��, T., Teshima, M., Torres-Alb��, N., Tsujimoto, S., van Scherpenberg, J., Vanzo, G., Acosta, M. Vazquez, Vovk, I., Will, M., Zari��, D., Abeysekara, A. U., Benbow, W., Bird, R., Brill, A., Brose, R., Buckley, J. H., Chromey, A. J., Daniel, M. K., Falcone, A., Finley, J. P., Fortson, L., Furniss, A., Gent, A., Gillanders, G. H., Hanna, D., Hassan, T., Hervet, O., Holder, J., Hughes, G., Humensky, T. B., Kaaret, P., Kar, P., Kertzman, M., Kieda, D., Krause, M., Krennrich, F., Kumar, S., Lang, M. J., Lin, T. T. Y., Maier, G., Moriarty, P., Mukherjee, R., O'Brien, S., Ong, R. A., Otte, A. N., Park, N., Petrashyk, A., Pohl, M., Pueschel, E., Quinn, J., Ragan, K., Richards, G. T., Roache, E., Sadeh, I., Santander, M., Schlenstedt, S., Sembroski, G. H., Sushch, I., Tyler, J., Vassiliev, V. V., Wakely, S. P., Weinstein, A., Wells, R. M., Wilcox, P., Wilhelm, A., Williams, D. A., Williamson, T. J., Zitzer, B., Acciari, V. A., Ansoldi, S., Antonelli, L. A., Engels, A. Arbet, Baack, D., Babić, A., Banerjee, B., De Almeida, U. Barre, Barrio, J. A., González, J. Becerra, Bednarek, W., Bernardini, E., Berti, A., Besenrieder, J., Bhattacharyya, W., Bigongiari, C., Biland, A., Blanch, O., Bonnoli, G., Busetto, G., Carosi, R., Ceribella, G., Cikota, S., Colak, S. M., Colin, P., Colombo, E., Contreras, J. L., Cortina, J., Covino, S., D'Elia, V., Vela, P. Da, Dazzi, F., Angelis, A. De, Lotto, B. De, Delfino, M., Delgado, J., Pierro, F. Di, Souto Espinera, E. Do, Dominguez, A., Prester, D. Domini, Dorner, D., Doro, M., Einecke, S., Elsaesser, D., Ramazani, V. Fallah, Fattorini, A., Fernández-Barral, A., Ferrara, G., Fidalgo, D., Foffano, L., Fonseca, M. V., Font, L., Fruck, C., Galindo, D., Gallozzi, S., López, R. J. Garcia, Garczarczyk, M., Gasparyan, S., Gaug, M., Giammaria, P., Godinović, N., Guberman, D., Hadasch, D., Hahn, A., Herrera, J., Hoang, J., Hrupec, D., Inoue, S., Ishio, K., Iwamura, Y., Kubo, H., Kushida, J., Kuveždić, D., Lamastra, A., Lelas, D., Leone, F., Lindfors, E., Lombardi, S., Longo, F., López, M., López-Oramas, A., De Oliveira Fraga, B. Machado, Maggio, C., Majumdar, P., Makariev, M., Mallamaci, M., Maneva, G., Manganaro, M., Mannheim, K., Maraschi, L., Mariotti, M., Martinez, M., Masuda, S., Mazin, D., Minev, M., Miranda, J. M., Mirzoyan, R., Molina, E., Moralejo, A., Moreno, V., Moretti, E., Munar-Adrover, P., Neustroev, V., Niedzwiecki, A., Rosillo, M. Nieva, Nigro, C., Nilsson, K., Ninci, D., Nishijima, K., Noda, K., Nogués, L., Nöthe, M., Paiano, S., Palacio, J., Paneque, D., Paoletti, R., Paredes, J. M., Pedaletti, G., Penil, P., Peresano, M., Persic, M., Moroni, P. G. Prada, Prandini, E., Puljak, I., Garcia, J. R., Rhode, W., Ribó, M., Rico, J., Righi, C., Rugliancich, A., Saha, L., Sahakyan, N., Saito, T., Satalecka, K., Schweizer, T., Sitarek, J., Šnidarić, I., Sobczynska, D., Somero, A., Stamerra, A., Strzys, M., Surić, T., Tavecchio, F., Temnikov, P., Terzić, T., Teshima, M., Torres-Alba, N., Tsujimoto, S., Scherpenberg, J. Van, Vanzo, G., Acosta, M. Vazquez, Vovk, I., Will, M., Zarić, D., and Universitat de Barcelona
Subjects: gamma rays: general, pulsars: individual (PSR J2032+4127, VER J2032+414, MAGIC J2032 +4127), stars: individual (MT91 213), X-rays: binaries, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Space and Planetary Science, MAGIC J2032 +4127), Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, law.invention, Raigs gamma, Observatory, law, Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, MAGIC (telescope), 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, astro-ph.HE, Physics, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), education.field_of_study, binarie [X-rays], Púlsars, Física nuclear, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, individual (MT91 213) [stars], Astrophysics and Astronomy, Be star, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Population, FOS: Physical sciences, Compact star, Telescope, Pulsar, 0103 physical sciences, pulsars: individual (PSR J2032+4127, individual (PSR J2032+4127, VER J2032+414, MAGIC J2032 +4127) [pulsars], 010306 general physics, education, MAGIC J2032+4127), Pulsars, pulsars: individual (PSR J2032+4127, VER J2032+414, MAGIC J2032+4127), Gamma rays, Institut für Physik und Astronomie, Astronomy and Astrophysic, Light curve, Stars, Estels, VER J2032+414, 13. Climate action, ddc:520, general [gamma rays]
Abstract: We report on observations of the pulsar / Be star binary system PSR J2032+4127 / MT91 213 in the energy range between 100 GeV and 20 TeV with the VERITAS and MAGIC imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescope arrays. The binary orbit has a period of approximately 50 years, with the most recent periastron occurring on 2017 November 13. Our observations span from 18 months prior to periastron to one month after. A new, point-like, gamma-ray source is detected, coincident with the location of PSR J2032+4127 / MT91 213. The gamma-ray light curve and spectrum are well-characterized over the periastron passage. The flux is variable over at least an order of magnitude, peaking at periastron, thus providing a firm association of the TeV source with the pulsar / Be star system. Observations prior to periastron show a cutoff in the spectrum at an energy around 0.5 TeV. This result adds a new member to the small population of known TeV binaries, and it identifies only the second source of this class in which the nature and properties of the compact object are firmly established. We compare the gamma-ray results with the light curve measured with the X-ray Telescope (XRT) on board the Neil Gehrels \textit{Swift} Observatory and with the predictions of recent theoretical models of the system. We conclude that significant revision of the models is required to explain the details of the emission we have observed, and we discuss the relationship between the binary system and the overlapping steady extended source, TeV J2032+4130., Comment: 12 pages, 3 figures, 1 table. Accepted for publication in ApJL
Published: 2018
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29. Constraining very-high-energy and optical emission from FRB 121102 with the MAGIC telescopes

Author: D. Elsaesser, Satoshi Masuda, Alessandra Lamastra, A. Hahn, Stefano Covino, K. Nishijima, Francesco Longo, Kazumi Kashiyama, Arka Chatterjee, Marc Ribó, Pierre Colin, D. Hadasch, J. Becerra González, Oscar Blanch, Julian Sitarek, P. Bangale, Abelardo Moralejo, Hidetoshi Kubo, W. Bhattacharyya, W. Rhode, J. Kushida, Jose Luis Contreras, J. Rico, P. Giammaria, Laura Spitler, F. Leone, M. Minev, L. Maraschi, E. Colombo, Juan Cortina, I. Puljak, Masahiro Teshima, G. Ferrara, Jordi Delgado, M. Vazquez Acosta, M. López, G. Bonnoli, J. Palacio, T. Schweizer, E. Molina, Victoria Moreno, Chiara Righi, J. M. Paredes, Antonio Stamerra, M. Delfino, Francesco Dazzi, A. Fernández-Barral, Jason W. T. Hessels, N. Torres-Albà, B. Banerjee, C. Arcaro, J. R. Garcia, Darko Zarić, P. Da Vela, Iva Šnidarić, D. Baack, D. Ninci, Jürgen Besenrieder, Alicia Fattorini, D. Dominis Prester, F. Di Pierro, M. Peresano, M. Makariev, A. Arbet Engels, Vitaly Neustroev, Lab Saha, Luca Foffano, Pablo Peñil, R. J. García López, Stefano Gallozzi, Jose Miguel Miranda, A. Somero, V. D'Elia, Aaron Dominguez, A. Niedzwiecki, J. E. Ward, C. Fruck, Ciro Bigongiari, Kari Nilsson, P. Majumdar, C. Nigro, G. Ceribella, Elina Lindfors, Juan Abel Barrio, L. Nogués, D. Dorner, M. Nievas Rosillo, M. Mariotti, S. M. Colak, M. Garczarczyk, D. Guberman, Kohta Murase, A. Rugliancich, Marina Manganaro, V. Fallah Ramazani, C. Maggio, G. Maneva, Daniel Mazin, Tomislav Terzić, Dario Hrupec, R. Paoletti, A. Berti, M. Will, A. López-Oramas, D. Paneque, N. Godinović, B. De Lotto, K. Mannheim, Tarek M. Hassan, W. Bednarek, Andrew Seymour, G. Pedaletti, Shimpei Tsujimoto, P. Cumani, Konstancja Satalecka, Michele Doro, Fabrizio Tavecchio, M. I. Martínez, Massimo Persic, V. A. Acciari, Ll. Font, Razmik Mirzoyan, P G Prada Moroni, Adrian Biland, Louis Antonelli, D. Lelas, G. Vanzo, E. Moretti, Ana Babić, Sabrina Einecke, A. De Angelis, Tihomir Surić, S. Paiano, K. Ishio, Dorota Sobczyńska, Benito Marcote, Stefano Ansoldi, D. Fidalgo, Markus Gaug, M. V. Fonseca, Saverio Lombardi, John Hoang, Takashi Saito, U. Barres de Almeida, Elisa Prandini, Rodolfo Carosi, Susumu Inoue, Daniele Michilli, Y. Iwamura, M. Strzys, D. Kuveždić, I. Vovk, Valentí Bosch-Ramon, Jose Carlos Herrera, Petar Temnikov, Koji Noda, Elisa Bernardini, Acciari, V. A., Ansoldi, S., Antonelli, L. A., Arbet Engels, A., Arcaro, C., Baack, D., Babić, A., Banerjee, B., Bangale, P., de Almeida, U. Barre, Barrio, J. A., González, J. Becerra, Bednarek, W., Bernardini, E., Berti, A., Besenrieder, J., Bhattacharyya, W., Bigongiari, C., Biland, A., Blanch, O., Bonnoli, G., Carosi, R., Ceribella, G., Chatterjee, A., Colak, S. M., Colin, P., Colombo, E., Contreras, J. L., Cortina, J., Covino, S., Cumani, P., D'Elia, V., Da Vela, P., Dazzi, F., De Angelis, A., De Lotto, B., Delfino, M., Delgado, J., Di Pierro, F., Domínguez, A., Prester, D. Domini, Dorner, D., Doro, M., Einecke, S., Elsaesser, D., Ramazani, V. Fallah, Fattorini, A., Fernández-Barral, A., Ferrara, G., Fidalgo, D., Foffano, L., Fonseca, M. V., Font, L., Fruck, C., Gallozzi, S., López, R. J. García, Garczarczyk, M., Gaug, M., Giammaria, P., Godinović, N., Guberman, D., Hadasch, D., Hahn, A., Hassan, T., Herrera, J., Hoang, J., Hrupec, D., Inoue, S., Ishio, K., Iwamura, Y., Kubo, H., Kushida, J., Kuveždić, D., Lamastra, A., Lelas, D., Leone, F., Lindfors, E., Lombardi, S., Longo, F., López, M., López-Oramas, A., Maggio, C., Majumdar, P., Makariev, M., Maneva, G., Manganaro, M., Mannheim, K., Maraschi, L., Mariotti, M., Martínez, M., Masuda, S., Mazin, D., Minev, M., Miranda, J. M., Mirzoyan, R., Molina, E., Moralejo, A., Moreno, V., Moretti, E., Neustroev, V., Niedzwiecki, A., Rosillo, M. Nieva, Nigro, C., Nilsson, K., Ninci, D., Nishijima, K., Noda, K., Nogués, L., Paiano, S., Palacio, J., Paneque, D., Paoletti, R., Paredes, J. M., Pedaletti, G., Peñil, P., Peresano, M., Persic, M., Moroni, P. G. Prada, Prandini, E., Puljak, I., Garcia, J. R., Rhode, W., Ribó, M., Rico, J., Righi, C., Rugliancich, A., Saha, L., Saito, T., Satalecka, K., Schweizer, T., Sitarek, J., Šnidarić, I., Sobczynska, D., Somero, A., Stamerra, A., Strzys, M., Surić, T., Tavecchio, F., Temnikov, P., Terzić, T., Teshima, M., Torres-Albà, N., Tsujimoto, S., Vanzo, G., Acosta, M. Vazquez, Vovk, I., Ward, J. E., Will, M., Zarić, D., Marcote, B., Spitler, L. G., Hessels, J. W. T., Kashiyama, K., Murase, K., Bosch-Ramon, V., Michilli, D., Seymour, A., Universitat de Barcelona, and ITA
Subjects: High energy, Photon, Radiation mechanisms: non-thermal, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, Radiació, Raigs gamma, radiation mechanisms: non-thermal, methods: data analysis, methods: observational, gamma-rays: general, Methods: observational, Methods: data analysis, 0103 physical sciences, Gamma ray astronomy, Astronomia de raigs gamma, observational [Methods], 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Physics, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Millisecond, general [Gamma-rays], ta115, Radiation, non-thermal [Radiation mechanisms], 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Gamma rays, Gamma ray, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astronomy and Astrophysic, Galaxy, Redshift, data analysi [Methods], Wavelength, 13. Climate action, Space and Planetary Science, Gamma-rays: general, ddc:520, Física nuclear, Optical emission spectroscopy, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract: Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are bright flashes observed typically at GHz frequencies with millisecond duration, whose origin is likely extragalactic. Their nature remains mysterious, motivating searches for counterparts at other wavelengths. FRB 121102 is so far the only source known to repeatedly emit FRBs and is associated with a host galaxy at redshift $z \simeq 0.193$. We conducted simultaneous observations of FRB 121102 with the Arecibo and MAGIC telescopes during several epochs in 2016--2017. This allowed searches for millisecond-timescale burst emission in very-high-energy (VHE) gamma rays as well as the optical band. While a total of five FRBs were detected during these observations, no VHE emission was detected, neither of a persistent nature nor burst-like associated with the FRBs. The average integral flux upper limits above 100 GeV at 95% confidence level are $6.6 \times 10^{-12}~\mathrm{photons\ cm^{-2}\ s^{-1}}$ (corresponding to luminosity $L_{\rm VHE} \lesssim 10^{45}~\mathrm{erg\ s^{-1}}$) over the entire observation period, and $1.2 \times 10^{-7}~ \mathrm{photons\ cm^{-2}\ s^{-1}}$ ($L_{\rm VHE} \lesssim 10^{49}~\mathrm{erg\ s^{-1}}$) over the total duration of the five FRBs. We constrain the optical U-band flux to be below 8.6 mJy at 5-$\sigma$ level for 1-ms intervals around the FRB arrival times. A bright burst with U-band flux $29~\mathrm{mJy}$ and duration $\sim 12$ ms was detected 4.3 s before the arrival of one FRB. However, the probability of spuriously detecting such a signal within the sampled time space is 1.5% (2.2 $\sigma$, post-trial), i.e. consistent with the expected background. We discuss the implications of the obtained upper limits for constraining FRB models., Comment: 9 pages, 3 figures. Accepted for publication in MNRAS the 2nd September 2018
Published: 2018
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30. Detection of the blazar S4 0954+65 at very-high-energy with the MAGIC telescopes during an exceptionally high optical state

Author: M. Hayashida, Satoshi Masuda, Arka Chatterjee, Juan Abel Barrio, D. Fidalgo, Yu. V. Troitskaya, Svetlana G. Jorstad, Emilia Järvelä, Marc Ribó, J. A. Acosta Pulido, Wrijupan Bhattacharyya, L. Maraschi, Kari Nilsson, P. Bangale, Hidetoshi Kubo, J. Hose, Stefano Ansoldi, Yusuke Konno, D. Elsaesser, Riccardo Paoletti, Tomislav Terzić, Francesco Longo, Elina Lindfors, P. G. Prada Moroni, Daniel Mazin, G. A. Borman, Alessandro Carosi, V. Fallah Ramazani, J. Palacio, D. Ninci, Kazuma Ishio, Pratik Majumdar, A. Berti, J. M. Paredes, Antonio Stamerra, N. Torres-Albà, J. Kushida, M. V. Fonseca, Jose Luis Contreras, M. Peresano, M. Makariev, G. Bonnoli, D. Kuveždić, Tarek M. Hassan, W. Bednarek, G. Pedaletti, Juan Cortina, Fabrizio Tavecchio, Martin Will, Chiara Righi, R. Ch. Berse, Ll. Font, Razmik Mirzoyan, Rodolfo Carosi, Dario Hrupec, Jose Miguel Miranda, J. Becerra González, M. A. Lopez, J. R. Garcia, Marina Manganaro, U. Barres de Almeida, P. Temnikov, E. Colombo, Oscar Blanch, T. S. Grishina, Mitsunari Takahashi, Stefano Covino, Louis Antonelli, Damir Lelas, Valeri M. Larionov, Aaron Dominguez, D. Galindo, Merja Tornikoski, Sergey S. Savchenko, Francesco Dazzi, Manuel Delfino, D. Dominis Prester, Wolfgang Rhode, Nikola Godinovic, Shimpei Tsujimoto, Tomoki Saito, Giovanni Ceribella, A. A. Vasilyev, Ana Babić, P. Cumani, L. O. Takalo, Konstancja Satalecka, L. Nogués, Michele Doro, Max Ludwig Ahnen, Dorota Sobczyńska, R. Ojha, K. Mielke, J. Finke, E. Moretti, Ievgen Vovk, P. Giammaria, Jordi Delgado, F. Di Pierro, Camilla Maggio, Daniela Dorner, Dariusz Gora, M. Gaug, G. Vanzo, C. Protasio, J. Herrera, D. Hadasch, Alba Fernández-Barral, Carolina Casadio, Anne Lähteenmäki, Mosè Mariotti, Masahiro Teshima, Alexander Hahn, E. Prandini, Cosimo Nigro, M. Nievas Rosillo, T. Nagayoshi, Kyoshi Nishijima, M. Minev, Iva Šnidarić, T. Schweizer, J. E. Ward, Sidika Merve Colak, E. N. Kopatskaya, A. Niedzwiecki, Koji Noda, Elisa Bernardini, Ivan S. Troitsky, David Paneque, D. Guberman, Saverio Lombardi, Andrea Rugliancich, V. Ramakrishnan, M. I. Martínez, Sabrina Einecke, Ivica Puljak, Pierre Colin, Markus Garczarczyk, M. I. Carnerero, Talvikki Hovatta, Sol N. Molina, P. Da Vela, Julian Sitarek, S. Paiano, Karl Mannheim, D. A. Morozova, A. De Angelis, A. Treves, Vitaly Neustroev, M. Vazquez Acosta, L. V. Larionova, G. Maneva, I. Agudo, Adrian Biland, Tihomir Surić, J. Rico, Dominik Baack, Alan P. Marscher, Christian Fruck, Victoria Moreno, Darko Zarić, B. De Lotto, Abelardo Moralejo, I. Reichardt, Mark Gurwell, B. Banerjee, Marcel Strzys, C. Arcaro, R. J. García López, Massimo Persic, Yasuyuki T. Tanaka, Ahnen, M. L., Ansoldi, S., Antonelli, L. A., Arcaro, C., Baack, D., Babić, A., Banerjee, B., Bangale, P., Barres De Almeida, U., Barrio, J. A., Bednarek, W., Bernardini, E., Berse, R. Ch., Berti, A., Bhattacharyya, W., Biland, A., Blanch, O., Bonnoli, G., Carosi, R., Carosi, A., Ceribella, G., Chatterjee, A., Colak, S. M., Colin, P., Colombo, E., Contreras, J. L., Cortina, J., Covino, S., Cumani, P., Da Vela, P., Dazzi, F., De Angelis, A., De Lotto, B., Delfino, M., Delgado, J., Di Pierro, F., Domínguez, A., Dominis Prester, D., Dorner, D., Doro, M., Einecke, S., Elsaesser, D., Fallah Ramazani, V., Fernández-Barral, A., Fidalgo, D., Fonseca, M. V., Font, L., Fruck, C., Galindo, D., García López, R. J., Garczarczyk, M., Gaug, M., Giammaria, P., Godinović, N., Gora, D., Guberman, D., Hadasch, D., Hahn, A., Hassan, T., Hayashida, M., Herrera, J., Hose, J., Hrupec, D., Ishio, K., Konno, Y., Kubo, H., Kushida, J., Kuveždić, D., Lelas, D., Lindfors, E., Lombardi, S., Longo, F., López, M., Maggio, C., Majumdar, P., Makariev, M., Maneva, G., Manganaro, M., Mannheim, K., Maraschi, L., Mariotti, M., Martínez, M., Masuda, S., Mazin, D., Mielke, K., Minev, M., Miranda, J. M., Mirzoyan, R., Moralejo, A., Moreno, V., Moretti, E., Nagayoshi, T., Neustroev, V., Niedzwiecki, A., Nievas Rosillo, M., Nigro, C., Nilsson, K., Ninci, D., Nishijima, K., Noda, K., Nogués, L., Paiano, S., Palacio, J., Paneque, D., Paoletti, R., Paredes, J. M., Pedaletti, G., Peresano, M., Persic, M., Prada Moroni, P. G., Prandini, E., Puljak, I., Garcia, J. R., Reichardt, I., Rhode, W., Ribó, M., Rico, J., Righi, C., Rugliancich, A., Saito, T., Satalecka, K., Schweizer, T., Sitarek, J., Šnidarić, I., Sobczynska, D., Stamerra, A., Strzys, M., Surić, T., Takahashi, M., Takalo, L., Tavecchio, F., Temnikov, P., Terzić, T., Teshima, M., Torres-Albà, N., Treves, A., Tsujimoto, S., Vanzo, G., Vazquez Acosta, M., Vovk, I., Ward, J. E., Will, M., Zarić, D., Becerra González, J., Tanaka, Y., Ojha, R., Finke, J., Lähteenmäki, A., Järvelä, E., Tornikoski, M., Ramakrishnan, V., Hovatta, T., Jorstad, S. G., Marscher, A. P., Larionov, V. M., Borman, G. A., Grishina, T. S., Kopatskaya, E. N., Larionova, L. V., Morozova, D. A., Savchenko, S. S., Troitskaya, Yu. V., Troitsky, I. S., Vasilyev, A. A., Agudo, I., Molina, S. N., Casadio, C., Gurwell, M., Carnerero, M. I., Protasio, C., Acosta Pulido, J. A., Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (España), Swiss National Science Foundation, Federal Ministry of Education and Research (Germany), Junta de Andalucía, Max Planck Society, Universitat de Barcelona, Department of Electronics and Nanoengineering, Aalto-yliopisto, and Aalto University
Subjects: individual: S4 0954+65 [BL Lacertae objects], Active galactic nucleus, active [Galaxies], BL Lacertae objects: individual: S4 0954+65, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, Galaxies: active, Gamma rays: galaxies, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Space and Planetary Science, 0103 physical sciences, Gamma ray astronomy, Astronomia de raigs gamma, gamma rays:galaxies, galaxies:active, BL Lacertae objects:individual:S40954+65, Blazar, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Quasars, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Quàsars, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Physics, gamma rays: galaxies, galaxies: active, galaxie [Gamma rays], 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Compton scattering, Optical polarization, Quasar, Astronomy and Astrophysic, Galaxies, Redshift, Galàxies, galaxies [gamma rays], ddc:520, Spectral energy distribution, Física nuclear, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Radio wave
Abstract: The very high energy (VHE ¿ 100 GeV) -ray MAGIC observations of the blazar S4 0954+65, were triggered by an exceptionally high flux state of emission in the optical. This blazar has a disputed redshift of z = 0.368 or z ¿ 0.45 and an uncertain classification among blazar subclasses. The exceptional source state described here makes for an excellent opportunity to understand physical processes in the jet of S4 0954+65 and thus contribute to its classification. Methods. We investigated the multiwavelength (MWL) light curve and spectral energy distribution (SED) of the S4 0954+65 blazar during an enhanced state in February 2015 and have put it in context with possible emission scenarios. We collected photometric data in radio, optical, X-ray, and ¿-ray. We studied both the optical polarization and the inner parsec-scale jet behavior with 43 GHz data. Results. Observations with the MAGIC telescopes led to the first detection of S4 0954+65 at VHE. Simultaneous data with Fermi-LAT at high energy ¿-ray(HE, 100 MeV < E < 100 GeV) also show a period of increased activity. Imaging at 43 GHz reveals the emergence of a new feature in the radio jet in coincidence with the VHE flare. Simultaneous monitoring of the optical polarization angle reveals a rotation of approximately 100. Conclusions. The high emission state during the flare allows us to compile the simultaneous broadband SED and to characterize it in the scope of blazar jet emission models. The broadband spectrum can be modeled with an emission mechanism commonly invoked for flat spectrum radio quasars (FSRQs), that is, inverse Compton scattering on an external soft photon field from the dust torus, also known as external Compton. The light curve and SED phenomenology is consistent with an interpretation of a blob propagating through a helical structured magnetic field and eventually crossing a standing shock in the jet, a scenario typically applied to FSRQs and low-frequency peaked BL Lac objects (LBL). © ESO 2018., 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 (FPA2015-69818-P, FPA2012-36668, FPA2015-68378-P, FPA2015-69210-C6-2-R, FPA2015-69210-C6-4-R, FPA2015-69210-C6-6-R, AYA2015-71042-P, AYA2016-76012-C3-1-P, ESP2015-71662-C2-2-P, CSD2009-00064), and the Japanese JSPS and MEXT is gratefully acknowledged. This work was also supported by the Spanish Centro de Excelencia “Severo Ochoa” SEV-2012-0234 and SEV-2015-0548, and Unidad de Excelencia “María de Maeztu” MDM-2014-0369, 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. IA acknowledges support by a Ramón y Cajal grant of the Ministerio de Economía, Industria y Competitividad (MINECO) of Spain. The research at the IAA–CSIC was supported in part by the MINECO through grants AYA2016–80889–P, AYA2013–40825–P, and AYA2010–14844, and by the regional government of Andalucía through grant P09–FQM–4784.
Published: 2018
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31. The Cherenkov Telescope Array potential for the study of young supernova remnants

Author: Tomasz Szepieniec, K. Nishijima, T. Grabarczyk, M. C. Maccarone, Thomas Lohse, F. de Palma, Jacek Niemiec, R. J. García López, S. Rainò, Stefan Ohm, G. Busetto, F. Nunio, G. Pareschi, Emmanuel Moulin, Michał Szanecki, Jiri Chudoba, Saverio Lombardi, M. Nievas, Massimo Persic, A. Wilhelm, A. Bonardi, D. Garrido, J. L. Dournaux, A. Förster, Vikram V. Dwarkadas, Juan Abel Barrio, F. Di Pierro, K. Meagher, A. C. Rovero, Paweł Wójcik, Martina Bohacova, A. Sillanpää, Giuseppe Malaguti, R. A. Ong, Jörg R. Hörandel, Włodek Kluźniak, Henrike Fleischhack, Valerie Connaughton, Juhani Huovelin, Dusan Mandat, B. De Lotto, M. Palatka, Francesco Dazzi, A. De Franco, Carla Aramo, Martin Pohl, Anton N. Baushev, H. Siejkowski, G. Lamanna, David Berge, P. Vallania, M. Shayduk, C. van Eldik, N. Giglietto, Alicja Wierzcholska, S. Kaufmann, A. Giuliani, T. B. Humensky, T. Di Girolamo, R. López-Coto, L. Tibaldo, Masatoshi Ohishi, Pratik Majumdar, Luis Ángel Tejedor, B. S. Acharya, B. García, Gernot Maier, D. Nosek, Gagik Tovmassian, J.-P. Lenain, B. Khélifi, Takanori Yoshikoshi, Stanislav Stefanik, P. M. Chadwick, I. de la Calle, Garret Cotter, Masahiro Teshima, M. Fesquet, S. P. Wakely, William H. Lee, Andreas Quirrenbach, U. F. Katz, M. Garczarczyk, P. Romano, P. A. Caraveo, O. Tibolla, Marek Jamrozy, Nikola Godinovic, N. Otte, Hidetoshi Kubo, M. Fuessling, G. Fontaine, Rodolfo Carosi, Tarek M. Hassan, S. Vercellone, R. de los Reyes Lopez, Vito Conforti, Carlo Vigorito, Ll. Font, M. Prouza, V. Bugaev, Petr Travnicek, M. Hrabovsky, Jan Ebr, G. Rodriguez Fernandez, Miroslav Pech, Reiko Orito, J. Kocot, Ana Babić, A. Morselli, A. M. Brown, B. Rudak, M. N. Mazziotta, Kathrin Egberts, F. Lucarelli, Nukri Komin, J. Kushida, Jose Luis Contreras, Ferdinando Giordano, Alicia López-Oramas, J. Carr, Nestor Mirabal, C. Di Giulio, P. Kaaret, Petr Janecek, M. Trzeciak, Stefan Wagner, T. Stolarczyk, M. Gaug, Michael G. Burton, Petr Schovanek, A. Weinstein, Maria Magdalena González, I. Telezhinsky, J. Becker Tjus, F. Gargano, Dario Hrupec, Tomasz Bulik, Centre de Physique des Particules de Marseille (CPPM), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet (LLR), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-École polytechnique (X)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire d'Annecy de Physique des Particules (LAPP), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB [Université de Savoie] [Université de Chambéry])-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire et de Hautes Énergies (LPNHE), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), CTA Collaboration, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École polytechnique (X)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC), High Energy Astrophys. & Astropart. Phys (API, FNWI), Acharya, B. S., Aramo, C., Babic, A., Barrio, J. A., Baushev, A., Becker Tjus, J., Berge, D., Bohacova, M., Bonardi, A., Brown, A., Bugaev, V., Bulik, T., Burton, M., Busetto, G., Caraveo, P., Carosi, R., Carr, J., Chadwick, P., Chudoba, J., Conforti, V., Connaughton, V., Contreras, J. L., Cotter, G., Dazzi, F., De Franco, A., de la Calle, I., de los Reyes Lopez, R., De Lotto, B., De Palma, F., DI GIROLAMO, Tristano, Di Giulio, C., Di Pierro, F., Dournaux, J. L., Dwarkadas, V., Ebr, J., Egberts, K., Fesquet, M., Fleischhack, H., Font, L., Fontaine, G., Förster, A., Fuessling, M., Garcia, B., Garcia López, R., Garczarczyk, M., Gargano, F., Garrido, D., Gaug, M., Giglietto, N., Giordano, F., Giuliani, A., Godinovic, N., Gonzalez, M. M., Grabarczyk, T., Hassan, T., Hörandel, J., Hrabovsky, M., Hrupec, D., Humensky, T. B., Huovelin, J., Jamrozy, M., Janecek, P., Kaaret, P. E., Katz, U., Kaufmann, S., Khélifi, B., Kluźniak, W., Kocot, J., Komin, N., Kubo, H., Kushida, J., Lamanna, G., Lee, W. H., Lenain, J. P., Lohse, T., Lombardi, S., López Coto, R., López Oramas, A., Lucarelli, F., Maccarone, M. C., Maier, G., Majumdar, P., Malaguti, G., Mandat, D., Mazziotta, M. N., Meagher, K., Mirabal, N., Morselli, A., Moulin, E., Niemiec, J., Nievas, M., Nishijima, K., Nosek, D., Nunio, F., Ohishi, M., Ohm, S., Ong, R. A., Orito, R., Otte, N., Palatka, M., Pareschi, G., Pech, M., Persic, M., Pohl, M., Prouza, M., Quirrenbach, A., Rainó, S., Rodriguez Fernandez, G., Romano, P., Rovero, A. C., Rudak, B., Schovanek, P., Shayduk, M., Siejkowski, H., Sillanpää, A., Stefanik, S., Stolarczyk, T., Szanecki, M., Szepieniec, T., Tejedor, L. A., Telezhinsky, I., Teshima, M., Tibaldo, L., Tibolla, O., Tovmassian, G., Travnicek, P., Trzeciak, M., Vallania, P., van Eldik, C., Vercellone, S., Vigorito, C., Wagner, S. J., Wakely, S. P., Weinstein, A., Wierzcholska, A., Wilhelm, A., Wojcik, P., and Yoshikoshi, T.
Subjects: Non-termal. [Radiation mechanisms], [PHYS.ASTR.HE]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena [astro-ph.HE], Acceleration of particles, PARTICLE-ACCELERATION, GAMMA RAYS, Ciencias Físicas, Milky Way, Astronomy, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Cosmic ray, Astrophysics, 7. Clean energy, REVERSE SHOCKS, Gamma rays: General, ISM: Supernova remnants, Radiation mechanisms: Non-termal, General, non-termal [radiation mechanisms], Cherenkov radiation, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, acceleration of particles, Physics, CTA, supernova remnants [ISM], MAGNETIC-FIELD, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astronomy and Astrophysics, AMPLIFICATION, Gamma-ray astronomy, Cherenkov Telescope Array, COSMIC-RAYS, DIFFUSIVE SHOCK ACCELERATION, GAMMA-RAY ASTRONOMY, CASSIOPEIA-A, MILKY-WAY, EMISSION, Astronomía, Particle acceleration, Cassiopeia A, Supernova, SUPERNOVA REMNANTS, ddc:540, general [gamma rays], CIENCIAS NATURALES Y EXACTAS
Abstract: Supernova remnants (SNRs) are among the most important targets for γ-ray observatories. Being prominent non-thermal sources, they are very likely responsible for the acceleration of the bulk of Galactic cosmic rays (CRs). To firmly establish the SNR paradigm for the origin of cosmic rays, it should be confirmed that protons are indeed accelerated in, and released from, SNRs with the appropriate flux and spectrum. This can be done by detailed theoretical models which account for microphysics of acceleration and various radiation processes of hadrons and leptons. The current generation of Cherenkov telescopes has insufficient sensitivity to constrain theoretical models. A new facility, the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA), will have superior capabilities and may finally resolve this long standing issue of high-energy astrophysics. We want to assess the capabilities of CTA to reveal the physics of various types of SNRs in the initial 2000 years of their evolution. During this time, the efficiency to accelerate cosmic rays is highest. We perform time-dependent simulations of the hydrodynamics, the magnetic fields, the cosmic-ray acceleration, and the non-thermal emission for type Ia, Ic and IIP SNRs. We calculate the CTA response to the γ-ray emission from these SNRs for various ages and distances, and we perform a realistic analysis of the simulated data. We derive distance limits for the detectability and resolvability of these SNR types at several ages. We test the ability of CTA to reconstruct their morphological and spectral parameters as a function of their distance. Finally, we estimate how well CTA data will constrain the theoretical models. Fil: Acharya, B. S.. Tata Institute of Fundamental Research; India Fil: Aramo, C.. INFN; Italia Fil: Babic, A.. Rudjer Boskovic Institute; Croacia Fil: Barrio, J. A.. Universidad Complutense de Madrid; España Fil: Baushev, A.. Universität Potsdam; Alemania Fil: Becker Tjus, J.. Ruhr-universität Bochum; Alemania Fil: Berge, D.. University of Amsterdam; Países Bajos Fil: Bohacova, M.. Institute of Physics of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic; República Checa Fil: Bonardi, A.. Universität Tübingen; Alemania Fil: Brown, A.. Durham University; Reino Unido Fil: Bugaev, V.. Washington University; Estados Unidos Fil: Bulik, T.. University of Warsaw; Polonia Fil: Burton, M.. University Of New South Wales; Australia Fil: Busetto, G.. Universitá degli Studi di Padova; Italia Fil: Caraveo, P.. Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica Cosmica; Italia Fil: Carosi, R.. INFN; Italia Fil: Carr, J.. Aix-Marseille Université; Francia Fil: Chadwick, P.. Durham University; Reino Unido Fil: Chudoba, J.. Institute of Physics of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic; República Checa Fil: Conforti, V.. Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica Cosmica; Italia Fil: Connaughton, V.. University of Alabama; Estados Unidos Fil: Contreras, J. L.. Universidad Complutense de Madrid; España Fil: Cotter, G.. University of Oxford; Reino Unido Fil: Dazzi, F.. Universitá degli Studi di Padova; Italia Fil: De Franco, A.. t University of Oxford; Reino Unido Fil: de la Calle, I.. Universidad Complutense de Madrid; España Fil: de los Reyes Lopez, R.. Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik; Alemania Fil: De Lotto, B.. University of Udine; Italia Fil: Garcia, Beatriz Elena. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Oficina de Coordinación Administrativa Parque Centenario. Instituto de Tecnologías en Detección y Astropartículas. Subsede del Instituto de Tecnologías en Detección y Astropartículas Mendoza; Argentina Fil: Rovero, Adrian Carlos. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciónes Científicas y Técnicas. Oficina de Coordinación Administrativa Ciudad Universitaria. Instituto de Astronomía y Física del Espacio. - Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales. Instituto de Astronomía y Física del Espacio; Argentina Fil: The Cta Consortium.
Published: 2015
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32. MAGIC detection of short-term variability of the high-peaked BL Lac object 1ES 0806+524

Author: A. De Angelis, A. Treves, Vitaly Neustroev, R. Zanin, Adrian Biland, J. Rico, G. Maneva, Dario Hrupec, Thomas Bretz, M. Palatiello, Dario Gasparrini, I. Lozano, M. A. Lopez, A. González Muñoz, Louis Antonelli, Walter Max-Moerbeck, Diego F. Torres, Jelena Aleksić, R. López-Coto, X. Paredes-Fortuny, A. Niedzwiecki, D. Nakajima, Julian Sitarek, Francesco Dazzi, A. Fernández-Barral, Patrick Vogler, P. Munar-Adrover, J. M. Paredes, J. Kushida, Jose Luis Contreras, Masahiro Teshima, Ivica Puljak, Filippo D'Ammando, Daniela Dorner, K. Mallot, Wolfgang Rhode, Pierre Colin, R. J. García López, Elina Lindfors, A. Sillanpää, Juan Abel Barrio, David Paneque, Juan Cortina, C. Fruck, M. Gaug, D. Fidalgo, T. Toyama, Antonio Stamerra, Daniel Mazin, Takashi Saito, J. Krause, W. Bednarek, J. Herrera, B. De Lotto, Fabrizio Tavecchio, Julia Thaele, S. N. Shore, K. Berger, Ll. Font, Koji Noda, Reiko Orito, Elisa Bernardini, J. Hose, I. Snidaric, J. L. Richards, D. Elsaesser, E. de Oña Wilhelmi, Francesco Longo, H. Takami, Abelardo Moralejo, K. Nishijima, F. Di Pierro, C. Delgado Mendez, D. Dominis Prester, T. Steinbring, Massimo Persic, Yusuke Konno, Juri Poutanen, E. Lorenz, M. Hayashida, Stefano Covino, G. De Caneva, M. V. Fonseca, Kari Nilsson, K. Kodani, Y. Hanabata, K. Saito, G. Bonnoli, Talvikki Hovatta, M. Will, Marc Ribó, D. Tescaro, P. Antoranz, Konstancja Satalecka, R. Reinthal, P. Temnikov, Michele Doro, M. L. Knoetig, S. Buson, Razmik Mirzoyan, Hidetoshi Kubo, P. G. Prada Moroni, D. Garrido Terrats, Damir Lelas, V. Scalzotto, Nikola Godinovic, Benito Marcote, Dorota Sobczyńska, Oscar Blanch, Ana Babić, P. Da Vela, Stefano Ansoldi, T. Schweizer, Riccardo Paoletti, E. Prandini, F. Borracci, Alessandro Carosi, D. Hadasch, Jose Miguel Miranda, C. Schultz, V. Scapin, Anthony C. S. Readhead, M. Strzys, L. Maraschi, B. Biasuzzi, Tomislav Terzić, D. Galindo, M. I. Martínez, P. Bangale, Sabrina Einecke, S. R. Gozzini, J. Rodriguez Garcia, M. Makariev, U. Menzel, W. Idec, E. Colombo, L. O. Takalo, Mosè Mariotti, A.-K. Overkemping, Saverio Lombardi, Hanna Kellermann, K. Frantzen, V. Kadenius, S. Bonnefoy, S. Paiano, Karl Mannheim, D. Eisenacher, E. Carmona, Markus Garczarczyk, Alicia López-Oramas, Natalia Lewandowska, A. La Barbera, M. Nievas Rosillo, J. Becerra González, Aalto-yliopisto, Aalto University, Aleksi , J., Ansoldi, Stefano, Antonelli, L. A., Antoranz, P., Babic, A., Bangale, P., Barrio, J. A., Becerra Gonzalez, J., Bednarek, W., Bernardini, E., Biasuzzi, B., Biland, A., Blanch, O., Bonnefoy, S., Bonnoli, G., Borracci, F., Bretz, T., Carmona, E., Carosi, A., Colin, P., Colombo, E., Contreras, J. L., Cortina, J., Covino, S., Da Vela, P., Dazzi, F., De Angelis, A., De Caneva, G., De Lotto, B., de Ona Wilhelmi, E., Delgado Mendez, C., Di Pierro, F., Dominis Prester, D., Dorner, D., Doro, M., Einecke, S., Eisenacher, D., Elsaesser, D., Fernandez Barral, A., Fidalgo, D., Fonseca, M. V., Font, L., Frantzen, K., Fruck, C., Galindo, D., Garcia Lopez, R. J., Garczarczyk, M., Garrido Terrats, D., Gaug, M., Godinovi , N., Gonzalez Munoz, A., Gozzini, S. R., Hadasch, D., Hanabata, Y., Hayashida, M., Herrera, J., Hose, J., Hrupec, D., Idec, W., Kadenius, V., Kellermann, H., Knoetig, M. L., Kodani, K., Konno, Y., Krause, J., Kubo, H., Kushida, J., La Barbera, A., Lelas, D., Lewandowska, N., Lindfors, E., Lombardi, S., Longo, Francesco, Lopez, M., Lopez Coto, R., Lopez Oramas, A., Lorenz, E., Lozano, I., Makariev, M., Mallot, K., Maneva, G., Mannheim, K., Maraschi, L., Marcote, B., Mariotti, M., Martinez, M., Mazin, D., Menzel, U., Miranda, J. M., Mirzoyan, R., Moralejo, A., Munar Adrover, P., Nakajima, D., Neustroev, V., Niedzwiecki, A., Nievas Rosillo, M., Nilsson, K., Nishijima, K., Noda, K., Orito, R., Overkemping, A., Paiano, S., Palatiello, M., Paneque, D., Paoletti, R., Paredes, J. M., Paredes Fortuny, X., Persic, M., Poutanen, J., Prada Moroni, P. G., Prandini, E., Puljak, I., Reinthal, R., Rhode, W., Ribo, M., Rico, J., Rodriguez Garcia, J., Saito, T., Saito, K., Satalecka, K., Scalzotto, V., Scapin, V., Schultz, C., Schweizer, T., Shore, S. N., Sillanpaa, A., Sitarek, J., Snidaric, I., Sobczynska, D., Stamerra, A., Steinbring, T., Strzys, M., Takalo, L., Takami, H., Tavecchio, F., Temnikov, P., Terzi , T., Tescaro, D., Teshima, M., Thaele, J., Torres, D. F., Toyama, T., Treves, A., Vogler, P., Will, M., Zanin, R., Berger, K., Buson, S., D'Ammando, F., Gasparrini, D., Hovatta, T., Max Moerbeck, W., Readhead, A., and Richards, J.
Subjects: radiation mechanisms: non-thermal, galaxies: active, BL Lacertae objects: individual: 1ES 0806+524, galaxies: jets, gamma rays: galaxies, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, astro-ph.GA, galaxies: active, jets [galaxies], Flux, FOS: Physical sciences, radiation mechanisms: non-thermal, BL Lacertae objects: individual: 1ES 0806+524, galaxies: jets, gamma rays: galaxies, individual: 1ES 0806+524 [BL Lacertae objects], Astrophysics, law.invention, law, MAGIC (telescope), Blazar, Physics, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), astro-ph.HE, ta115, ta213, Compton scattering, Astronomy, Astronomy and Astrophysics, non-thermal [radiation mechanisms], non-thermal, galaxies: active, BL Lacertae objects: individual: 1ES 0806+524, galaxies: jets, gamma rays: galaxies [radiation mechanisms], Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, Galaxies: active, Galaxies: jets, Gamma rays: galaxies, Radiation mechanisms: non-thermal, Space and Planetary Science, Crab Nebula, Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA), active [galaxies], galaxies [gamma rays], ddc:520, Spectral energy distribution, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, BL Lac object, Flare
Abstract: Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 451(1), 739 - 750 (2015). doi:10.1093/mnras/stv895, The high-frequency-peaked BL Lac (HBL) 1ES 0806+524 (z = 0.138) was discovered in very high energy (VHE) γ-rays in 2008. Until now, the broad-band spectrum of 1ES 0806+524 has been only poorly characterized, in particular at high energies. We analysed multiwavelength observations from γ-rays to radio performed from 2011 January to March, which were triggered by the high activity detected at optical frequencies. These observations constitute the most precise determination of the broad-band emission of 1ES 0806+524 to date. The stereoscopic Major Atmospheric Gamma-Ray Imaging Cherenkov (MAGIC) observations yielded a γ-ray signal above 250 GeV of (3.7 ± 0.7) per cent of the Crab Nebula flux with a statistical significance of 9.9σ. The multiwavelength observations showed significant variability in essentially all energy bands, including a VHE γ-ray flare that lasted less than one night, which provided unprecedented evidence for short-term variability in 1ES 0806+524. The spectrum of this flare is well described by a power law with a photon index of 2.97 ± 0.29 between ∼150 GeV and 1 TeV and an integral flux of (9.3 ± 1.9) per cent of the Crab nebula flux above 250 GeV. The spectrum during the non-flaring VHE activity is compatible with the only available VHE observation performed in 2008 with VERITAS when the source was in a low optical state. The broad-band spectral energy distribution can be described with a one-zone synchrotron self-Compton model with parameters typical for HBLs, indicating that 1ES 0806+524 is not substantially different from the HBLs previously detected., Published by Oxford Univ. Press, Oxford
Published: 2015
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33. Very-high-energy gamma-ray observations of the Type Ia Supernova SN 2014J with the MAGIC telescopes

Author: K. Mallot, F. Di Pierro, Francesco Longo, R. J. García López, D. Hadasch, Daniela Dorner, U. Barres de Almeida, Damir Lelas, S. Paiano, Karl Mannheim, W. Idec, Mosè Mariotti, Dariusz Gora, Gaia Vanzo, D. Nakajima, D. Elsaesser, Dorota Sobczyńska, P. Da Vela, M. Gaug, Arka Chatterjee, R. Zanin, Adrian Biland, Saverio Lombardi, Abelardo Moralejo, Wlodek Bednarek, Alessandro Carosi, Max Ludwig Ahnen, J. Becerra González, M. Palatiello, M. Hayashida, Ruben Lopez-Coto, J. Herrera, D. Fidalgo, Martin Makariev, Pratik Majumdar, M. V. Fonseca, Massimo Persic, Alessio Berti, Marc Ribó, P. Bangale, Hidetoshi Kubo, E. Moretti, Alexander Hahn, Dario Hrupec, M. A. Lopez, Francesco Dazzi, A. Fernández-Barral, M. Vazquez Acosta, J. Rico, I. Reichardt, Rodolfo Carosi, Oscar Blanch, E. Colombo, P. Giammaria, P. Temnikov, Gareth Hughes, J. M. Paredes, L. Nogués, B. Biasuzzi, Koji Noda, Stefano Covino, U. Menzel, Antonio Stamerra, K. Kodani, L. O. Takalo, Elisa Bernardini, Kyoshi Nishijima, Nikola Godinovic, Benito Marcote, Jose Miguel Miranda, E. Prandini, L. Perri, Yusuke Konno, Diego F. Torres, M. Doert, M. H. Wu, L. A. Antonelli, M. I. Martínez, M. Garczarczyk, A. La Barbera, Marcel Strzys, S. Bonnefoy, Julian Sitarek, D. Eisenacher Glawion, X. Paredes-Fortuny, M. Peresano, D. Dominis Prester, Sabrina Einecke, B. De Lotto, Kari Nilsson, D. Tescaro, J. Hose, A. Niedzwiecki, C. Fruck, M. Engelkemeier, F. Borracci, M. Nievas Rosillo, M. Will, A. De Angelis, A. Treves, Vitaly Neustroev, R. Mirzoyan, T. Toyama, Fabrizio Tavecchio, T. Surić, J. R. Garcia, David Paneque, A. Sillanpää, Ll. Font, S. Schroeder, Giacomo Bonnoli, L. Maraschi, D. Guberman, D. Garrido Terrats, Ivica Puljak, Pierre Colin, I. Snidaric, V. Fallah Ramazani, Elina Lindfors, Takashi Saito, G. Maneva, J. Palacio, J. E. Ward, Masahiro Teshima, Daniel Mazin, Juan Abel Barrio, E. de Oña Wilhelmi, Ievgen Vovk, Aaron Dominguez, Stefano Ansoldi, P. G. Prada Moroni, T. Schweizer, Riccardo Paoletti, Tomislav Terzić, Marina Manganaro, Ana Babić, D. Galindo, B. Banerjee, C. Arcaro, Juri Poutanen, J. Kushida, G. Pedaletti, Thomas Bretz, Jose Luis Contreras, P. Antoranz, P. Cumani, Konstancja Satalecka, Michele Doro, Juan Cortina, Wolfgang Rhode, K. Frantzen, Ahnen, M. L., Ansoldi, S., Antonelli, L. A., Antoranz, P., Arcaro, C., Babic, A., Banerjee, B., Bangale, P., Barres De Almeida, U., Barrio, J. A., Becerra GonzÃ¡lez, J., Bednarek, W., Bernardini, E., Berti, Alessio, Biasuzzi, B., Biland, A., Blanch, O., Bonnefoy, S., Bonnoli, G., Borracci, F., Bretz, T., Carosi, R., Carosi, A., Chatterjee, A., Colin, P., Colombo, E., Contreras, J. L., Cortina, J., Covino, S., Cumani, P., Da Vela, P., Dazzi, F., De Angelis, A., De Lotto, B., De OnÃ£ Wilhelmi, E., DI Pierro, F., Doert, M., Domãnguez, A., Dominis Prester, D., Dorner, D., Doro, M., Einecke, S., Eisenacher Glawion, D., Elsaesser, D., Engelkemeier, M., Fallah Ramazani, V., FernÃ¡ndez Barral, A., Fidalgo, D., Fonseca, M. V., Font, L., Frantzen, K., Fruck, C, Galindo, D., GarciÃ¡ LÃ³pez, R. J., Garczarczyk, M., Garrido Terrats, D., Gaug, M., Giammaria, P., Godinoviä , N., Gora, D., Guberman, D., Hadasch, D., Hahn, A., Hayashida, M., Herrera, J., Hose, J., Hrupec, D., Hughes, G., Idec, W., Kodani, K., Konno, Y., Kubo, H., Kushida, J., La Barbera, A., Lelas, D., Lindfors, E., Lombardi, S., Longo, Francesco, Lã³pez, M., LÃ³pez Coto, R., Majumdar, P., Makariev, M., Mallot, K., Maneva, G., Manganaro, M., Mannheim, K., Maraschi, L., Marcote, B., Mariotti, M., Martãnez, M., Mazin, D., Menzel, U., Miranda, J. M., Mirzoyan, R., Moralejo, A., Moretti, E., Nakajima, D., Neustroev, V., Niedzwiecki, A., Nievas Rosillo, M., Nilsson, K., Nishijima, K., Noda, K., Noguã©s, L., Paiano, S., Palacio, J., Palatiello, Michele, Paneque, D., Paoletti, R., Paredes, J. M., Paredes Fortuny, X., Pedaletti, G., Peresano, M., Perri, L., Persic, M., Poutanen, J., Prada Moroni, P. G., Prandini, E., Puljak, I., Garcia, J. R., Reichardt, I., Rhode, W., Ribã³, M., Rico, J., Saito, T., Satalecka, K., Schroeder, S., Schweizer, T., Sillanpaã¤, A., Sitarek, J., Snidaric, I., Sobczynska, D., Stamerra, A., Strzys, M., Suriä , T., Takalo, L., Tavecchio, F., Temnikov, P., Terziä , T., Tescaro, D., Teshima, M., Torres, D. F., Toyama, T., Treves, A., Vanzo, G., Vazquez Acosta, M., Vovk, I., Ward, J. E., Will, M., Wu, M. H., and Zanin, R.
Subjects: Individual: SN 2014J [Supernovae], Gamma rays: General, Supernovae: Individual: SN 2014J, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Space and Planetary Science, air, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Hadron, VHE [gamma ray], FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics, Type (model theory), power spectrum, 01 natural sciences, 0103 physical sciences, supernova, MAGIC (telescope), 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Cherenkov radiation, Physics, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Spectral index, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, photon, Gamma ray, imaging, General [Gamma rays], Astronomy and Astrophysic, MAGIC, gamma rays: general, supernovae: individual (SN 2014J), flux, Supernova, Cherenkov counter, ddc:520, high [energy], Electrónica, Física nuclear, Electricidad, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Energy (signal processing)
Abstract: In this work we present data from observations with the MAGIC telescopes of SN 2014J detected in January 21 2014, the closest Type Ia supernova since Imaging Air Cherenkov Telescopes started to operate. We probe the possibility of very-high-energy (VHE; $E\geq100$ GeV) gamma rays produced in the early stages of Type Ia supernova explosions. We performed follow-up observations after this supernova explosion for 5 days, between January 27 and February 2 in 2014. We search for gamma-ray signal in the energy range between 100 GeV and several TeV from the location of SN 2014J using data from a total of $\sim5.5$ hours of observations. Prospects for observing gamma-rays of hadronic origin from SN 2014J in the near future are also being addressed. No significant excess was detected from the direction of SN 2014J. Upper limits at 95$\%$ confidence level on the integral flux, assuming a power-law spectrum, d$F/$d$E\propto E^{-\Gamma}$, with a spectral index of $\Gamma=2.6$, for energies higher than 300 GeV and 700 GeV, are established at $1.3\times10^{-12}$ and $4.1\times10^{-13}$ photons~cm$^{-2}$s$^{-1}$, respectively. For the first time, upper limits on the VHE emission of a Type Ia supernova are established. The energy fraction isotropically emitted into TeV gamma rays during the first $\sim10$ days after the supernova explosion for energies greater than 300 GeV is limited to $10^{-6}$ of the total available energy budget ($\sim 10^{51}$ erg). Within the assumed theoretical scenario, the MAGIC upper limits on the VHE emission suggest that SN 2014J will not be detectable in the future by any current or planned generation of Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes., Comment: 5 pages, 2 figures. Accepted for publication in A&A
Published: 2017
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34. Observation of the black widow B1957+20 millisecond pulsar binary system with the MAGIC telescopes

Author: M. I. Martínez, Sabrina Einecke, G. Pedaletti, S. R. Gozzini, Thomas Bretz, L. Nogués, E. Moretti, J. Becerra González, Giacomo Bonnoli, F. Di Pierro, M. Engelkemeier, E. Prandini, Francesco Longo, I. Snidaric, Stefano Covino, B. De Lotto, Alessio Berti, S. Bonnefoy, A. Sillanpää, Arka Chatterjee, M. Vazquez Acosta, Ana Babić, Wolfgang Rhode, Alexander Hahn, Nikola Godinovic, Gareth Hughes, B. Biasuzzi, U. Barres de Almeida, D. Elsaesser, Juan Abel Barrio, R. Mirzoyan, Damir Lelas, Victoria Moreno, Tomoki Saito, D. Tescaro, Dario Hrupec, L. Perri, A. De Angelis, A. Treves, Vitaly Neustroev, Stefano Ansoldi, P. Da Vela, M. A. Lopez, Kari Nilsson, D. Dominis Prester, Riccardo Paoletti, Daniela Dorner, S. Griffiths, Dorota Sobczyńska, Dariusz Gora, J. Palacio, M. Will, D. Eisenacher Glawion, Abelardo Moralejo, Gaia Vanzo, Marcel Strzys, X. Paredes-Fortuny, Mosè Mariotti, M. Nievas Rosillo, J. M. Paredes, Antonio Stamerra, Yusuke Konno, S. Schroeder, Ivica Puljak, Pierre Colin, M. Gaug, Tomislav Terzić, L. Maraschi, V. Fallah Ramazani, J. Kushida, Martin Makariev, Elina Lindfors, Jose Luis Contreras, Oscar Blanch, Saverio Lombardi, Christian Fruck, Daniel Mazin, B. Banerjee, C. Arcaro, G. Maneva, Juan Cortina, E. de Oña Wilhelmi, S. Paiano, Kazuma Ishio, Karl Mannheim, J. Herrera, M. Doert, E. Colombo, Adrian Biland, M. H. Wu, L. A. Antonelli, J. R. Garcia, Lucas Guillemot, L. O. Takalo, Koji Noda, Aaron Dominguez, F. Borracci, Elisa Bernardini, J. Rico, Pratik Majumdar, M. V. Fonseca, T. Surić, Masahiro Teshima, Tarek M. Hassan, R. J. García López, J. E. Ward, Fabrizio Tavecchio, Ismaël Cognard, Rodolfo Carosi, Ll. Font, Wlodek Bednarek, Alessandro Carosi, D. Kuveždić, N. Torres-Albà, Max Ludwig Ahnen, I. Reichardt, P. Temnikov, P. Giammaria, Massimo Persic, U. Menzel, Diego F. Torres, M. Garczarczyk, Ievgen Vovk, M. Peresano, T. Schweizer, D. Fidalgo, Juri Poutanen, Julian Sitarek, J. Hose, K. Nishijima, Daniela Hadasch, Francesco Dazzi, A. Fernández-Barral, A. Niedzwiecki, P. G. Prada Moroni, David Paneque, M. Hayashida, D. Guberman, D. Zarić, Marina Manganaro, Marc Ribó, D. Galindo, P. Bangale, Hidetoshi Kubo, P. Cumani, Konstancja Satalecka, Michele Doro, Ahnen, M. L., Ansoldi, S., Antonelli, L. A., Arcaro, C., Babić, A., Banerjee, B., Bangale, P., de Almeida, U. Barre, Barrio, J. A., González, J. Becerra, Bednarek, W., Bernardini, E., Berti, Alessio, Biasuzzi, B., Biland, A., Blanch, O., Bonnefoy, S., Bonnoli, G., Borracci, F., Bretz, T., Carosi, R., Carosi, A., Chatterjee, A., Colin, P., Colombo, E., Contreras, J. L., Cortina, J., Covino, S., Cumani, P., Da Vela, P., Dazzi, F., De Angelis, A., De Lotto, B., Wilhelmi, E. de Oña, Pierro, F. Di, Doert, M., Domínguez, A., Prester, D. Domini, Dorner, D., Doro, M., Einecke, S., Glawion, D. Eisenacher, Elsaesser, D., Engelkemeier, M., Ramazani, V. Fallah, Fernández Barral, A., Fidalgo, D., Fonseca, M. V., Font, L., Fruck, C., Galindo, D., López, R. J. García, Garczarczyk, M., Gaug, M., Giammaria, P., Godinović, N., Gora, D., Gozzini, S. R., Griffiths, S., Guberman, D., Hadasch, D., Hahn, A., Hassan, T., Hayashida, M., Herrera, J., Hose, J., Hrupec, D., Hughes, G., Ishio, K., Konno, Y., Kubo, H., Kushida, J., Kuveždić, D., Lelas, D., Lindfors, E., Lombardi, S., Longo, Francesco, López, M., Majumdar, P., Makariev, M., Maneva, G., Manganaro, M., Mannheim, K., Maraschi, L., Mariotti, M., Martínez, M., Mazin, D., Menzel, U., Mirzoyan, R., Moralejo, A., Moreno, V., Moretti, E., Neustroev, V., Niedzwiecki, A., Rosillo, M. Nieva, Nilsson, K., Nishijima, K., Noda, K., Nogués, L., Paiano, S., Palacio, J., Paneque, D., Paoletti, R., Paredes, J. M., Paredes Fortuny, X., Pedaletti, G., Peresano, M., Perri, L., Persic, M., Poutanen, J., Moroni, P. G. Prada, Prandini, E., Puljak, I., Garcia, J. R., Reichardt, I., Rhode, W., Ribó, M., Rico, J., Saito, T., Satalecka, K., Schroeder, S., Schweizer, T., Sillanpää, A., Sitarek, J., Šnidarić, I., Sobczynska, D., Stamerra, A., Strzys, M., Surić, T., Takalo, L., Tavecchio, F., Temnikov, P., Terzić, T., Tescaro, D., Teshima, M., Torres, D. F., Torres Albà, N., Treves, A., Vanzo, G., Acosta, M. Vazquez, Vovk, I., Ward, J. E., Will, M., Wu, M. H., Zarić, D., Collaboration), (MAGIC, Cognard, I., Guillemot, L., Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, Instituto de Fisica Corpuscular (IFIC), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas [Madrid] (CSIC)-Universitat de València (UV), Nuclear Physics Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), Government of India, Department of Atomic Energy-Government of India, Department of Atomic Energy, Politecnico di Milano [Milan] (POLIMI), INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera (OAB), Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF), Technische Universität Dortmund [Dortmund] (TU), Institut de Física d’Altes Energies [Barcelone] (IFAE), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), IEEC-CSIC, Institut de Física d'Altes Energies, Institut d'Estudis Espacials de Catalunya (IEEC-CSIC), Laboratoire de l'Accélérateur Linéaire (LAL), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11), Università degli Studi di Udine - University of Udine [Italie], Universita degli Studi di Padova, Max-Planck-Institut für Physik (Werner-Heisenberg-Institut) (MPI-P), Institute for Physical Research (IPR), National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia [Yerevan] (NAS RA), Universitat de Barcelona (UB), INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Trieste (OAT), 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), Dept. of Physics, Institut de Ciencies del Cosmos (ICCUB), Department of Environment and Energy [Sendai], Tohoku University [Sendai], Optoelectronic Research Centre, University of Southampton, Laboratoire de Physique et Chimie de l'Environnement et de l'Espace (LPC2E), Observatoire des Sciences de l'Univers en région Centre (OSUC), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université d'Orléans (UO)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université d'Orléans (UO)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Centre National d’Études Spatiales [Paris] (CNES), Unité Scientifique de la Station de Nançay (USN), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire des Sciences de l'Univers en région Centre (OSUC), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université d'Orléans (UO)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université d'Orléans (UO), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université d'Orléans (UO)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université d'Orléans (UO)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National d’Études Spatiales [Paris] (CNES), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université d'Orléans (UO), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Università degli Studi di Padova = University of Padua (Unipd), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-École polytechnique (X)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université d'Orléans (UO)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Subjects: non-thermal, pulsars: general, binaries: close, pulsars: individual: B1957+20, gamma-rays: general [radiation mechanisms], Radiation mechanisms: non-thermal, VHE [gamma ray], Astrophysics, spin, 01 natural sciences, 7. Clean energy, star, emission [pulsar], Millisecond pulsar, Pulsars: general, radiation mechanisms: non-thermal, gamma rays: general, Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), acceleration [electron], Physics, radio wave, Superluminal motion, efficiency [acceleration], non-thermal, binaries: close, pulsars: general, pulsars: individual: B1957+20, gamma-rays: general [radiation mechanisms], inverse [Compton scattering], frequency, compact [binary], symbols, Electrónica, Física nuclear, Electricidad, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, upper limit, Active galactic nucleus, Pulsars: individual: B1957+20, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, FOS: Physical sciences, Lorentz covariance, GLAST, Binary pulsar, symbols.namesake, Pulsar, Binaries: close, 0103 physical sciences, interaction [pulsar], plasma, radiation mechanisms: non-thermal, binaries: close, pulsars: general, pulsars: individual: B1957+20, gamma-rays: general, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Gamma-rays: general, Planck energy, ta115, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Crab Pulsar, [SDU.ASTR.SR]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Solar and Stellar Astrophysics [astro-ph.SR], binary [pulsar], Astronomy and Astrophysics, injection [electron], MAGIC, 13. Climate action, Space and Planetary Science, ddc:520, mass
Abstract: B1957+20 is a millisecond pulsar located in a black-widow-type compact binary system with a low-mass stellar companion. The interaction of the pulsar wind with the companion star wind and/or the interstellar plasma is expected to create plausible conditions for acceleration of electrons to TeV energies and subsequent production of very high-energy γ-rays in the inverse Compton process. We performed extensive observations with the Major Atmospheric Gamma Imaging Cherenkov Telescopes (MAGIC) telescopes of B1957+20. We interpret results in the framework of a few different models, namely emission from the vicinity of the millisecond pulsar, the interaction of the pulsar and stellar companion wind region or bow shock nebula. No significant steady very high-energy γ-ray emission was found. We derived a 95 per cent confidence level upper limit of 3.0 × 10−12 cm−2 s−1 on the average γ-ray emission from the binary system above 200 GeV. The upper limits obtained with the MAGIC constrain, for the first time, different models of the high-energy emission in B1957+20. In particular, in the inner mixed wind nebula model with mono-energetic injection of electrons, the acceleration efficiency of electrons is constrained to be below ∼2–10 per cent of the pulsar spin-down power. For the pulsar emission, the obtained upper limits for each emission peak are well above the exponential cut-off fits to the Fermi-LAT data, extrapolated to energies above 50 GeV. The MAGIC upper limits can rule out a simple power-law tail extension through the sub-TeV energy range for the main peak seen at radio frequencies., Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 470 (4), ISSN:0035-8711, ISSN:1365-2966, ISSN:1365-8711
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35. MAGIC observations of the microquasar V404 Cygni during the 2015 outburst

Author: M. I. Martínez, Sabrina Einecke, Daniela Dorner, Dariusz Gora, A. Sillanpää, R. J. García López, Kazuma Ishio, Gaia Vanzo, A. Loh, Francesco Dazzi, A. Fernández-Barral, A. Niedzwiecki, U. Barres de Almeida, F. Di Pierro, A. De Angelis, Massimo Persic, Damir Lelas, M. Gaug, A. Treves, Vitaly Neustroev, L. Maraschi, Elina Lindfors, B. De Lotto, D. Hadasch, Stefano Ansoldi, David Paneque, Riccardo Paoletti, Dorota Sobczyńska, Daniel Mazin, J. Becerra González, Marcel Strzys, D. Guberman, J. Herrera, M. Vazquez Acosta, Pratik Majumdar, J. Palacio, Marina Manganaro, M. V. Fonseca, Rodolfo Carosi, Jerome Rodriguez, D. Galindo, J. M. Paredes, Christian Fruck, Antonio Stamerra, Giacomo Bonnoli, Koji Noda, B. Biasuzzi, Elisa Bernardini, Stefano Covino, E. Prandini, E. Colombo, Victoria Moreno, P. Cumani, Konstancja Satalecka, Michele Doro, G. Maneva, Tomoki Saito, D. Tescaro, U. Menzel, D. Kuveždić, Alessio Berti, Mosè Mariotti, Adrian Biland, D. Ninci, P. G. Prada Moroni, P. Da Vela, J. Rico, M. Hayashida, S. Schroeder, Ivica Puljak, D. Elsaesser, Diego F. Torres, Juan Abel Barrio, Pierre Colin, Nikola Godinovic, M. Peresano, D. Zarić, M. Garczarczyk, Dario Hrupec, M. Doert, P. Temnikov, Marc Ribó, P. Bangale, M. A. Lopez, Hidetoshi Kubo, Saverio Lombardi, Tomislav Terzić, S. Bonnefoy, Abelardo Moralejo, L. Nogués, M. Engelkemeier, E. Moretti, L. Perri, R. Mirzoyan, Arka Chatterjee, E. de Oña Wilhelmi, S. Griffiths, Ievgen Vovk, D. Fidalgo, J. R. Garcia, Alexander Hahn, Masahiro Teshima, Aaron Dominguez, T. Schweizer, Kyoshi Nishijima, Yusuke Konno, Gareth Hughes, Francesco Longo, D. Eisenacher Glawion, D. Dominis Prester, M. Minev, X. Paredes-Fortuny, Camilla Maggio, M. Nievas Rosillo, I. Reichardt, J. E. Ward, Julian Sitarek, V. Fallah Ramazani, J. Hose, Martin Makariev, Oscar Blanch, Wlodek Bednarek, Alessandro Carosi, S. Paiano, Karl Mannheim, N. Torres-Albà, G. Pedaletti, Wolfgang Rhode, T. Surić, B. Banerjee, C. Arcaro, L. A. Antonelli, Tarek M. Hassan, Fabrizio Tavecchio, Ll. Font, Ana Babić, Max Ludwig Ahnen, J. Kushida, Jose Luis Contreras, P. Giammaria, Juan Cortina, I. Snidaric, L. Takalo, Kari Nilsson, M. Will, Institut de Física d’Altes Energies [Barcelone] (IFAE), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), Max-Planck-Institut für Physik (Werner-Heisenberg-Institut) (MPI-P), Département d'Astrophysique (ex SAP) (DAP), Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, The German BMBF and MPG, the Italian INFN and INAF, the Swiss National Fund SNF, the ERDF under the Spanish MINECO (FPA2015-69818-P, FPA2012-36668, FPA2015-68378-P, FPA2015-69210-C6-2-R, FPA2015-69210-C6-4-R, FPA2015-69210-C6-6-R, AYA2015-71042-P, AYA2016-76012-C3-1-P, ESP2015-71662-C2-2-P, CSD2009-00064), and the Japanese JSPS and MEXT is gratefully acknowledged. This work was also supported by the Spanish Centro de Excelencia \Severo Ochoa' SEV-2012-0234 and SEV-2015-0548, and Unidad de Excelencia \Mara de Maeztu'MDM-2014-0369, by the Croatian Science Foundation (HrZZ) Project 09/176 and the University of Rijeka Project 13.12.1.3.02, by the DFG Collaborative Research Centers SFB823/C4 and SFB876/C3, and by the Polish MNiSzW grant 2016/22/M/ST9/00382., Ahnen, M. L., Ansoldi, S., Antonelli, L. A., Arcaro, C., Babić, A., Banerjee, B., Bangale, P., Barres de Almeida, U., Barrio, J. A., Becerra González, J., Bednarek, W., Bernardini, E., Berti, Alessio, Biasuzzi, B., Biland, A., Blanch, O., Bonnefoy, S., Bonnoli, G., Carosi, R., Carosi, A., Chatterjee, A., Colin, P., Colombo, E., Contreras, J. L., Cortina, J., Covino, S., Cumani, P., Da Vela, P., Dazzi, F., De Angelis, A., De Lotto, B., de Oña Wilhelmi, E., Di Pierro, F., Doert, M., Domínguez, A., Dominis Prester, D., Dorner, D., Doro, M., Einecke, S., Eisenacher Glawion, D., Elsaesser, D., Engelkemeier, M., Fallah Ramazani, V., Fernández Barral, A., Fidalgo, D., Fonseca, M. V., Font, L., Fruck, C., Galindo, D., García López, R. J., Garczarczyk, M., Gaug, M., Giammaria, P., Godinović, N., Gora, D., Griffiths, S., Guberman, D., Hadasch, D., Hahn, A., Hassan, T., Hayashida, M., Herrera, J., Hose, J., Hrupec, D., Hughes, G., Ishio, K., Konno, Y., Kubo, H., Kushida, J., Kuveždić, D., Lelas, D., Lindfors, E., Lombardi, S., Longo, Francesco, López, M., Maggio, C., Majumdar, P., Makariev, M., Maneva, G., Manganaro, M., Mannheim, K., Maraschi, L., Mariotti, M., Martínez, M., Mazin, D., Menzel, U., Minev, M., Mirzoyan, R., Moralejo, A., Moreno, V., Moretti, E., Neustroev, V., Niedzwiecki, A., Nievas Rosillo, M., Nilsson, K., Ninci, D., Nishijima, K., Noda, K., Nogués, L., Paiano, S., Palacio, J., Paneque, D., Paoletti, R., Paredes, J. M., Paredes Fortuny, X., Pedaletti, G., Peresano, M., Perri, L., Persic, M., Prada Moroni, P. G., Prandini, E., Puljak, I., Garcia, J. R., Reichardt, I., Rhode, W., Ribó, M., Rico, J., Saito, T., Satalecka, K., Schroeder, S., Schweizer, T., Sillanpää, A., Sitarek, J., Šnidarić, I., Sobczynska, D., Stamerra, A., Strzys, M., Surić, T., Takalo, L., Tavecchio, F., Temnikov, P., Terzić, T., Tescaro, D., Teshima, M., Torres, D. F., Torres Albà, N., Treves, A., Vanzo, G., Vazquez Acosta, M., Vovk, I., Ward, J. E., Will, M., Zarić, D., Collaboration), (The MAGIC, Loh, A., and Rodriguez, J.
Subjects: Flux, Astrophysics, 7. Clean energy, 01 natural sciences, law.invention, general [, gamma-rays], law, Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, MAGIC (telescope), 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Physics, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), radio wave, Gamma-rays: general, Stars: individual: V404 Cygni (V404 Cyg), X-rays: binaries, Electrónica, Física nuclear, Electricidad, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, burst, Flare, Radio wave, exceptional, Opacity, gamma-rays: general, stars: individual: V404 Cygni (V404 Cyg), Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, FOS: Physical sciences, Compact star, GLAST, VHE, X-ray, 0103 physical sciences, upper limit [flux], quasar, ta115, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Astronomy, opacity, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Quasar, acceleration, MAGIC, Crab Nebula, 13. Climate action, Space and Planetary Science, gamma ray, [SDU]Sciences of the Universe [physics], ddc:520, binaries [X-rays], individual: V404 Cygni (V404 Cyg) [stars]
Abstract: The microquasar V404 Cygni underwent a series of outbursts in 2015, June 15-31, during which its flux in hard X-rays (20-40 keV) reached about 40 times the Crab Nebula flux. Because of the exceptional interest of the flaring activity from this source, observations at several wavelengths were conducted. The MAGIC telescopes, triggered by the INTEGRAL alerts, followed-up the flaring source for several nights during the period June 18-27, for more than 10 hours. One hour of observation was conducted simultaneously to a giant 22 GHz radio flare and a hint of signal at GeV energies seen by Fermi-LAT. The MAGIC observations did not show significant emission in any of the analysed time intervals. The derived flux upper limit, in the energy range 200--1250 GeV, is 4.8$\times 10^{-12}$ ph cm$^{-2}$ s$^{-1}$. We estimate the gamma-ray opacity during the flaring period, which along with our non-detection, points to an inefficient acceleration in the V404\,Cyg jets if VHE emitter is located further than $1\times 10^{10}$ cm from the compact object., Comment: 7 pages, accepted by MNRAS
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36. OUP accepted manuscript

Author: Kazuma Ishio, Rodolfo Carosi, L. Nogués, E. Moretti, Max Ludwig Ahnen, Giacomo Bonnoli, Adrian Biland, M. Peresano, S. Bonnefoy, R. Mirzoyan, Masahiro Teshima, Marcel Strzys, J. Rico, Abelardo Moralejo, E. Prandini, M. Hayashida, Aaron Dominguez, Valentí Bosch-Ramon, S. Paiano, M. Engelkemeier, Karl Mannheim, Wrijupan Bhattacharyya, Dario Hrupec, M. A. Lopez, A. Niedzwiecki, Ana Babić, P. Giammaria, Stefano Covino, Juan Abel Barrio, D. Zarić, J. Kushida, Jose Luis Contreras, R. Zanin, J. Becerra González, Kyoshi Nishijima, Juan Cortina, R. J. García López, J. E. Ward, David Paneque, Camilla Maggio, U. Barres de Almeida, Wlodek Bednarek, Alessandro Carosi, M. Minev, Nikola Godinovic, I. Reichardt, Tomoki Saito, D. Tescaro, Marc Ribó, Damir Lelas, Josep M. Paredes, Alessio Berti, D. Kuveždić, N. Torres-Albà, Arka Chatterjee, D. Guberman, U. Menzel, L. A. Antonelli, S. A. Trushkin, P. Bangale, L. Perri, Kari Nilsson, L. Maraschi, Massimo Persic, Elina Lindfors, Diego F. Torres, Hidetoshi Kubo, Daniela Dorner, A. De Angelis, Dariusz Gora, M. Vazquez Acosta, D. Fidalgo, M. Will, Dorota Sobczyńska, Gaia Vanzo, D. Eisenacher Glawion, X. Paredes-Fortuny, Daniel Mazin, M. Nievas Rosillo, B. Biasuzzi, A. Treves, Vitaly Neustroev, M. Garczarczyk, G. Pedaletti, Victoria Moreno, M. Gaug, Francesco Dazzi, A. Fernández-Barral, Chiara Righi, M. I. Martínez, T. Surić, Yusuke Konno, J. Herrera, B. De Lotto, Koji Noda, Elisa Bernardini, Pratik Majumdar, P. Temnikov, M. V. Fonseca, S. Schroeder, Ivica Puljak, Guy G. Pooley, Pierre Colin, Sabrina Einecke, Christian Fruck, Marina Manganaro, Tarek M. Hassan, G. Maneva, D. Ninci, Wolfgang Rhode, D. Galindo, E. de Oña Wilhelmi, Fabrizio Tavecchio, Ievgen Vovk, Ll. Font, P. Cumani, T. Schweizer, Konstancja Satalecka, Michele Doro, D. Elsaesser, B. Banerjee, I. Snidaric, C. Arcaro, Stefano Ansoldi, P. G. Prada Moroni, Riccardo Paoletti, Tomislav Terzić, J. Palacio, Antonio Stamerra, Julian Sitarek, J. Hose, F. Di Pierro, D. Dominis Prester, P. Da Vela, V. Fallah Ramazani, Alexander Hahn, Mosè Mariotti, Francesco Longo, Saverio Lombardi, E. Colombo, Martin Makariev, L. O. Takalo, Oscar Blanch, D. Hadasch, M. Doert, and J. R. Garcia
Subjects: Physics, Photon, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Gamma ray, Flux, Astronomy, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Quasar, Context (language use), Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, Black hole, 13. Climate action, Space and Planetary Science, 0103 physical sciences, MAGIC (telescope), 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Radio wave
Abstract: The microquasar Cygnus X-1 displays the two typical soft and hard X-ray states of a black hole transient. During the latter, Cygnus X-1 shows a one-sided relativistic radio-jet. Recent detection of the system in the high energy (HE; E greater than or similar to 60 MeV) gamma-ray range with FermiLAT associates this emission with the outflow. Former MAGIC observations revealed a hint of flaring activity in the very high-energy (VHE; E greater than or similar to 100 GeV) regime during this X-ray state. We analyse ~ to 97 h of Cygnus X-1 data taken with the MAGIC telescopes between July 2007 and October 2014. To shed light on the correlation between hard X-ray and VHE gamma rays as previously suggested, we study each main X-ray state separately. We perform an orbital phase-folded analysis to look for variability in the VHE band. Additionally, to place this variability behaviour in a multiwavelength context, we compare our results with Fermi-LAT, AGILE, Swift-BAT, MAXI, RXTE-ASM, AMI and RATAN-600 data. We do not detect Cygnus X-1 in the VHE regime. We establish upper limits for each X-ray state, assuming a power-law distribution with photon index Γ = 3.2. For steady emission in the hard and soft X-ray states, we set integral upper limits at 95 %per cent confidence level for energies above 200 GeV at 2.6 x 10⁻¹² photons cm⁻² s⁻¹ and 1.0 x 10⁻¹¹ photons cm⁻² s ⁻¹, respectively. We rule out steady VHE gamma-ray emission above this energy range, at the level of theMAGIC sensitivity, originating in the interaction between the relativistic jet and the surrounding medium, while the emission above this flux level produced inside the binary still remains a valid possibility.
Published: 2017
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37. Prospects for Cherenkov Telescope Array Observations of the Young Supernova Remnant RX J1713.7−3946

Author: Csaba Balázs, M. Servillat, F. D'Ammando, D. Nosek, T. Yamamoto, A. Bilinsky, H.-S. Zechlin, Francesco Dazzi, A. Fernández-Barral, Satoshi Yoshiike, Catherine Boisson, Philippe Laporte, K. Nishijima, Yutaka Fujita, T. Armstrong, A. Shalchi, S. Kimura, D. Nakajima, Fuyuki Tokanai, Francesco Longo, S. Pavy, Philip Kaaret, W. van Driel, Gianpiero Tagliaferri, L. Nogués, F. Di Pierro, Wystan Benbow, T. Stolarczyk, Marco Padovani, T. Di Girolamo, Johan Bregeon, J. Rico, R. Wischnewski, A. Sillanpää, T. Grabarczyk, E. Pueschel, P. Blasi, S. D. Vergani, A. De Franco, C. Bonavolontà, J. Prast, J. Zorn, Elisabetta Bissaldi, Giuseppe Malaguti, A. Pe'Er, Stefano Covino, Akira Okumura, Takashi Saito, C. Aramo, Hermine Landt, R. Zanin, E. Fedorova, Shinji Hara, Yutaka Ohira, Petr Janecek, Petar Temnikov, T. B. Humensky, E. Fiandrini, C. Townsley, R. J. White, A. Fiasson, Koji Noda, Takanori Yoshikoshi, Y. Ikeno, Elena Amato, Yasuo Fukui, J. P. Lees, M. Nievas-Rosillo, Vito Conforti, Kazunori Kohri, I. Oya, M. Trifoglio, Gavin Rowell, Jacek Niemiec, Juan Abel Barrio, R. Walter, Stefan Wagner, Teresa Mineo, J. J. Watson, Reiko Orito, Masahiro Teshima, Jim Hinton, A. Pisarski, G. Rodriguez Fernandez, F. De Frondat, Robert Wagner, Pedro L. Luque-Escamilla, G. Morlino, Thomas Lohse, B. Rudak, Olaf Reimer, Josep Martí, Subir Sarkar, Martin White, Johann Cohen-Tanugi, Michiyuki Chikawa, Dusan Mandat, T. Montaruli, M. Mohammed, M. Iori, Oscar Blanch, Giovanni Bonanno, Benjamin Koch, M. A. Lopez, Julien Rousselle, M. Heller, Yusuke Konno, G. Maurin, J. Palacio, S. Gunji, C. Di Giulio, M. Zavrtanik, J.-P. Lenain, Adrian Biland, Michael Backes, Miroslav Filipovic, M. I. Martínez, M. Vazquez Acosta, Nicola Giglietto, J. M. Paredes, G. Fontaine, R. Moderski, A.A. Zdziarski, D. Tescaro, V. Vassiliev, C. van Eldik, H. Siejkowski, Stefan Kimeswenger, Shu Koyama, A. Bonardi, R. Gnatyk, S. Vorobiov, Oleh Petruk, M. Del Santo, Michał Szanecki, C. Delgado, Carole Mundell, Tomasz Szepieniec, Michael G. Burton, Bohdan Hnatyk, M. Capalbi, Kunihito Ioka, Jonathan Granot, Bohdan Novosyadlyj, Petr Schovanek, A. Weinstein, M. Stephan, Vikram V. Dwarkadas, L. Valore, Sabrina Einecke, P. Goldoni, J. Jacquemier, Hiroshi Muraishi, Andreas Quirrenbach, Takeshi Nakamori, Stefan Ohm, G. Busetto, Marcos Santander, A. Wierzcholska, Jaime Rosado, M. Yoshida, M. Huetten, S. Eschbach, Tatsuo Yoshida, Tomasz Bulik, Gino Tosti, Valentina Fioretti, Makoto Sawada, D. Zavrtanik, P. A. Caraveo, Mohamed Rameez, Sylvain Chaty, Nu. Komin, D. Dumas, Michael Zacharias, J. M. Huet, Reshmi Mukherjee, F. Lucarelli, L. Di Venere, Shuta J. Tanaka, F. de Palma, Shiu-Hang Lee, A. W. Chen, A. Giuliani, R. L. C. Starling, V. Beshley, Jonathan S. Lapington, Gilles Ferrand, Giovanni Covone, Rodrigo Nemmen, Tsuyoshi Inoue, R. C. Shellard, P. Cumani, G. Lamanna, Stefan Funk, Michele Doro, Koji Mori, G. Pühlhofer, Hidetoshi Sano, Susumu Inoue, Luis Ángel Tejedor, G. Kukec Mezek, Anderson Caproni, L. Freixas Coromina, M. de Naurois, D. Jankowsky, Yoshiyuki Inoue, Elina Lindfors, Saverio Lombardi, D. della Volpe, Giancarlo Cusumano, Andrea Orlati, S. Mangano, Samar Safi-Harb, Alexandre Marcowith, R. López-Coto, Martin Pohl, J. Lefaucheur, Vincenzo Rizi, Masayuki Tanaka, Shigehiro Nagataki, J. L. Rodriguez, Diego Falceta-Gonçalves, J. E. Ward, Petr Travnicek, I. Sadeh, Dominik Elsässer, P. Wilcox, Tsunefumi Mizuno, Kohta Murase, K. Lalik, M. Ostrowski, Vincenzo Testa, Tsuguya Naito, Matteo Cerruti, N. La Palombara, Yukikatsu Terada, Emmanuel Moulin, A. Balzer, M. Palatka, Samo Stanič, D. D'Urso, Łukasz Stawarz, D. Simone, Giuseppe Romeo, Francesco Giordano, Luca Zampieri, Michiko Ohishi, Giuseppe Leto, J.F. Glicenstein, G. De Cesare, Eleonora Torresi, R. A. Cameron, Katsuaki Asano, Ricardo Graciani, Gernot Maier, Paweł Wójcik, R. A. Ong, Jörg R. Hörandel, Carlo Vigorito, S. P. Wakely, Valerio Vagelli, Andrea Bulgarelli, J. Takeda, S. 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Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Département de Physique des Particules (ex SPP) (DPhP), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Observatoire des Sciences de l'Univers de Grenoble (OSUG ), Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP )-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies pour l'environnement et l'agriculture (IRSTEA)-Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB [Université de Savoie] [Université de Chambéry])-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes [2016-2019] (UGA [2016-2019])-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP )-Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies pour l'environnement et l'agriculture (IRSTEA)-Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB [Université de Savoie] [Université de Chambéry])-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes [2016-2019] (UGA [2016-2019]), Acero, F, Aloisio, R, Amans, J, De Lisio, C, Di Girolamo, T, Valore, L, Covone, G, and Al., Et
Subjects: electron, Supernova Remnants, PARTICLE-ACCELERATION, Cherenkov Telescope Array, Astronomy, leptonic, Telescope Array Experiment, pi, Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, Supernova Remnant, LARGE-AREA TELESCOPE, Spectral line, spectrum, ISM: individual objects, HESS, Supernova remnant, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, cosmic ray, Physics, cosmic rays gamma rays: ISM ISM: individual objects (RX J1713.7-3946, G347.3-0.5), spatial distribution, Gamma Ray, Cherenkov radiation, MAGNETIC-FIELD, Gamma ray, COSMIC-RAYS, ISM: individual objects (RX J1713.7–3946, G347.3–0.5), Supernova, cosmic rays, gamma rays: ISM, ISM: individual objects (RX J1713.7-3946, G347.3-0.5), Astronomy and Astrophysics, Space and Planetary Science, gamma ray: emission, G347.3–0.5, ComputingMethodologies_DOCUMENTANDTEXTPROCESSING, DIFFUSIVE SHOCK ACCELERATION, Electrónica, Física nuclear, Electricidad, individual objects: RX J1713.7–3946 [ISM], Compton scattering, Gamma Rays, G347.3-0.5), NONTHERMAL, accelerator, X-RAYS, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, INSTABILITY, Cosmic ray, hadronic, GLAST, ISM: individual objects (RX J1713.7-3946, ISM [gamma rays], gas, 0103 physical sciences, supernova, ddc:530, X-ray: emission, GAMMA-RAY EMISSION, AMPLIFICATION, BROAD-BAND EMISSION, MOLECULAR CLOUDS, STREAMING, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Astroparticle physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, p: relativistic, Institut für Physik und Astronomie, ASTROFÍSICA, gamma ray: VHE, ddc:520, time dependence, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], RAIOS CÓSMICOS
Abstract: 著者人数: 382名 (JAXA職員: 井上, 芳幸 : 小山, 志勇 : Lee, Shiu-Hang), Accepted: 2017-04-12, 資料番号: SA1170071000
Published: 2017
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38. The first VHE detection of the blazar S4 0954+65 with the MAGIC telescopes during an exceptionally high optical state

Author: G. A. Borman, Talvikki Hovatta, M. Doert, Anne Lähteenmäki, J. Becerra González, Marina Manganaro, Merja Tornikoski, Valeri M. Larionov, J. Finke, Alan P. Marscher, Elina Lindfors, G. Pedaletti, I. S. Troitsky, V. Fallah Ramazani, M. Nievas Rosillo, S. G. Jorstad, Yasuyuki T. Tanaka, and R. Ojha
Subjects: Physics, ta115, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Gamma ray, Flux, Astronomy, Astrophysics, Redshift, law.invention, Crab Nebula, law, MAGIC (telescope), Blazar, Flare, Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope
Abstract: The blazar S4 0954+65 (at a disputed redshift of z=0.368 or z≥0.45) underwent an exceptionally high state in the optical band during January and February 2015, as revealed by the Tuorla and St. Petersburg University blazar monitoring programs: a brightening of more than 3 magnitudes in the R-band from the average monitored states. Simultaneous data from the Fermi satellite at high energy gamma rays (HE, 100 MeV 100 GeV) emission from S4 0954+65 (ATel #7080). The VHE flux above 150 GeV is estimated to be about 6% of the Crab nebula flux above the same threshold.In this contribution we present a comprehensive multiwavelength picture of this object, including data from mm/optical/X-ray/HE and VHE gamma-ray bands. The high emission state during the flare allows us to compile the simultaneous broadband spectral energy distribu...
Published: 2017
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39. Performance of the MAGIC telescopes under moonlight

Author: L. Maraschi, Elina Lindfors, Daniel Mazin, S. Schroeder, Ivica Puljak, U. Menzel, Alexander Hahn, Gareth Hughes, Pierre Colin, M. Doert, M. Vazquez Acosta, E. de Oña Wilhelmi, D. Dominis Prester, Diego F. Torres, J. Palacio, B. Biasuzzi, J. M. Paredes, M. Garczarczyk, Victoria Moreno, V. Fallah Ramazani, S. Paiano, Antonio Stamerra, Stefano Covino, L. Nogués, Karl Mannheim, D. Ninci, A. Niedzwiecki, Kazuma Ishio, A. De Angelis, U. Barres de Almeida, A. Treves, Vitaly Neustroev, R. J. García López, E. Moretti, Damir Lelas, Abelardo Moralejo, Christian Fruck, Dario Hrupec, David Paneque, Dorota Sobczyńska, Francesco Longo, J. Becerra González, Ievgen Vovk, Mosè Mariotti, M. A. Lopez, G. Maneva, Adrian Biland, B. Banerjee, C. Arcaro, G. Pedaletti, T. Surić, J. R. Garcia, E. Prandini, Max Ludwig Ahnen, Louis Antonelli, D. Guberman, Marina Manganaro, Alessio Berti, Aaron Dominguez, M. I. Martínez, Ana Babić, Tomoki Saito, D. Tescaro, J. Kushida, T. Schweizer, P. Temnikov, D. Galindo, J. Rico, Massimo Persic, Arka Chatterjee, M. Minev, I. Reichardt, P. Cumani, Jose Luis Contreras, Konstancja Satalecka, Sabrina Einecke, Michele Doro, Juan Cortina, P. Giammaria, D. Kuveždić, Martin Makariev, J. E. Ward, D. Fidalgo, Giacomo Bonnoli, Julian Sitarek, Rodolfo Carosi, M. Hayashida, Saverio Lombardi, Oscar Blanch, Kyoshi Nishijima, B. De Lotto, L. Perri, J. Hose, Wolfgang Rhode, I. Snidaric, Wrijupan Bhattacharyya, Andrea Rugliancich, Yusuke Konno, D. Zarić, D. Eisenacher Glawion, Marc Ribó, Nikola Godinovic, X. Paredes-Fortuny, D. Elsaesser, Marcel Strzys, M. Nievas Rosillo, P. Bangale, D. Hadasch, Daniela Dorner, F. Di Pierro, Hidetoshi Kubo, Stefano Ansoldi, Riccardo Paoletti, Kari Nilsson, Dariusz Gora, Gaia Vanzo, M. Will, Wlodek Bednarek, Alessandro Carosi, N. Torres-Albà, M. Gaug, P. Da Vela, A. Sillanpää, E. Colombo, J. Herrera, L. O. Takalo, Koji Noda, S. Bonnefoy, Elisa Bernardini, M. Engelkemeier, Tarek M. Hassan, Camilla Maggio, R. Mirzoyan, S. Griffiths, Masahiro Teshima, Fabrizio Tavecchio, Ll. Font, Tomislav Terzić, Juan Abel Barrio, Francesco Dazzi, A. Fernández-Barral, Pratik Majumdar, M. V. Fonseca, M. Peresano, P. G. Prada Moroni, Ahnen, M. L., Ansoldi, S., Antonelli, L. A., Arcaro, C., Babiä , A., Banerjee, B., Bangale, P., Barres de Almeida, U., Barrio, J. A., Becerra GonzÃ¡lez, J., Bednarek, W., Bernardini, E., Berti, Alessio, Bhattacharyya, W., Biasuzzi, B., Biland, A., Blanch, O., Bonnefoy, S., Bonnoli, G., Carosi, R., Carosi, A., Chatterjee, A., Colin, P, Colombo, E., Contreras, J. L., Cortina, J., Covino, S., Cumani, P., Da Vela, P., Dazzi, F., De Angelis, A., De Lotto, B., de OÃ±a Wilhelmi, E., Di Pierro, F., Doert, M., Domãnguez, A., Dominis Prester, D., Dorner, D., Doro, M., Einecke, S., Eisenacher Glawion, D., Elsaesser, D., Engelkemeier, M., Fallah Ramazani, V., FernÃ¡ndez Barral, A., Fidalgo, D., Fonseca, M. V., Font, L., Fruck, C., Galindo, D., GarcÃa LÃ³pez, R. J., Garczarczyk, M., Gaug, M., Giammaria, P., Godinoviä , N., Gora, D., Griffiths, S., Guberman, D., Hadasch, D., Hahn, A., Hassan, T., Hayashida, M., Herrera, J., Hose, J., Hrupec, D., Hughes, G., Ishio, K., Konno, Y., Kubo, H., Kushida, J., Kuveå¾diä , D., Lelas, D., Lindfors, E., Lombardi, S., Longo, Francesco, Lã³pez, M., Maggio, C., Majumdar, P., Makariev, M., Maneva, G., Manganaro, M., Mannheim, K., Maraschi, L., Mariotti, M., Martãnez, M., Mazin, D., Menzel, U., Minev, M., Mirzoyan, R., Moralejo, A., Moreno, V., Moretti, E., Neustroev, V., Niedzwiecki, A., Nievas Rosillo, M., Nilsson, K., Ninci, D., Nishijima, K., Noda, K., Noguã©s, L., Paiano, S., Palacio, J., Paneque, D., Paoletti, R., Paredes, J. M., Paredes Fortuny, X., Pedaletti, G., Peresano, M., Perri, L., Persic, M., Prada Moroni, P. G., Prandini, E., Puljak, I., Garcia, J. R., Reichardt, I., Rhode, W., Ribã³, M., Rico, J., Rugliancich, A., Saito, T., Satalecka, K., Schroeder, S., Schweizer, T., Sillanpã¤ã¤, A., Sitarek, J., Å nidariä , I., Sobczynska, D., Stamerra, A., Strzys, M., Suriä , T., Takalo, L., Tavecchio, F., Temnikov, P., Terziä , T., Tescaro, D., Teshima, M., Torres, D. F., Torres AlbÃ , N., Treves, A., Vanzo, G., Vazquez Acosta, M., Vovk, I., Ward, J. E., Will, M., and Zariä , D.
Subjects: Moonlight, Photomultiplier, Twilight, media_common.quotation_subject, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics, Cherenkov telescopes, 01 natural sciences, Gamma-ray astronomy, Crab Nebula, Optics, 0103 physical sciences, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Cherenkov radiation, media_common, Physics, ta115, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, business.industry, Crab nebula, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Cherenkov telescope, Sky, Duty cycle, ddc:540, Electrónica, Física nuclear, Electricidad, business, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
Abstract: MAGIC, a system of two imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes, achieves its best performance under dark conditions, i.e. in absence of moonlight or twilight. Since operating the telescopes only during dark time would severely limit the duty cycle, observations are also performed when the Moon is present in the sky. Here we develop a dedicated Moon-adapted analysis to characterize the performance of MAGIC under moonlight. We evaluate energy threshold, angular resolution and sensitivity of MAGIC under different background light levels, based on Crab Nebula observations and tuned Monte Carlo simulations. This study includes observations taken under non-standard hardware configurations, such as reducing the camera photomultiplier tubes gain by a factor ~1.7 (Reduced HV settings) with respect to standard settings (Nominal HV) or using UV-pass filters to strongly reduce the amount of moonlight reaching the cameras of the telescopes. The Crab Nebula spectrum is correctly reconstructed in all the studied illumination levels, that reach up to 30 times brighter than under dark conditions. The main effect of moonlight is an increase in the analysis energy threshold and in the systematic uncertainties on the flux normalization. The sensitivity degradation is constrained to be below 10%, within 15-30% and between 60 and 80% for Nominal HV, Reduced HV and UV-pass filter observations, respectively. No worsening of the angular resolution was found. Thanks to observations during moonlight, the maximal duty cycle of MAGIC can be increased from ~18%, under dark nights only, to up to ~40% in total with only moderate performance degradation., 14 pages, 13 figures, accepted in Astroparticle Physics. Corresponding authors: Daniel Guberman (dguberman@ifae.es) and Pierre Colin (colin@mppmu.mpg.de)
Published: 2017
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40. A cut-off in the TeV gamma-ray spectrum of the SNR Cassiopeia A

Author: G. Pedaletti, E. Prandini, Stefano Ansoldi, Riccardo Paoletti, Wolfgang Rhode, A. De Angelis, A. Treves, Vitaly Neustroev, T. Surić, M. I. Martínez, Juan Abel Barrio, M. Engelkemeier, B. De Lotto, S. Bonnefoy, Sabrina Einecke, L. Maraschi, Kazuma Ishio, Elina Lindfors, G. Maneva, J. Kushida, Razmik Mirzoyan, U. Barres de Almeida, Damir Lelas, Rodolfo Carosi, Daniel Mazin, A. Berti, Wlodek Bednarek, Alessandro Carosi, Jose Luis Contreras, Adrian Biland, Chiara Righi, Dorota Sobczyńska, M. Colak, N. Torres-Albà, J. Palacio, M. Hayashida, J. Rico, Camilla Maggio, J. M. Paredes, Antonio Stamerra, B. Banerjee, Daniela Dorner, C. Arcaro, Dariusz Gora, Juan Cortina, Gaia Vanzo, D. Zarić, Arka Chatterjee, S. Schroeder, Marc Ribó, Stefano Covino, Ivica Puljak, Pierre Colin, M. Gaug, Pratik Majumdar, L. Nogués, D. Fidalgo, P. Bangale, M. V. Fonseca, Abelardo Moralejo, E. Moretti, Hidetoshi Kubo, Tomohiro Inada, L. A. Antonelli, J. Herrera, S. N. Shore, E. de Oña Wilhelmi, Martin Will, Petar Temnikov, Koji Noda, Tomoki Saito, D. Tescaro, Marcel Strzys, Elisa Bernardini, Masahiro Teshima, Yusuke Konno, P. G. Prada Moroni, Kyoshi Nishijima, Nikola Godinovic, D. Ninci, D. Kuveždić, Tomislav Terzić, Ievgen Vovk, M. Minev, Tarek M. Hassan, T. Schweizer, I. Reichardt, Fabrizio Tavecchio, A. Niedzwiecki, Ll. Font, I. Snidaric, U. Menzel, M. Peresano, David Paneque, Max Ludwig Ahnen, P. Giammaria, D. Guberman, Marina Manganaro, Ana Babić, D. Galindo, M. Garczarczyk, P. Cumani, Konstancja Satalecka, Michele Doro, Francesco Dazzi, Dario Hrupec, A. Fernández-Barral, M. A. Lopez, R. J. García López, Kari Nilsson, Massimo Persic, F. Di Pierro, D. Dominis Prester, V. Fallah Ramazani, P. Da Vela, Alexander Hahn, Julian Sitarek, J. Hose, M. Vazquez Acosta, B. Biasuzzi, Victoria Moreno, E. Colombo, L. O. Takalo, Aaron Dominguez, D. Hadasch, Francesco Longo, J. E. Ward, Mosè Mariotti, Saverio Lombardi, Martin Makariev, Oscar Blanch, M. Doert, J. R. Garcia, J. Becerra González, Christian Fruck, L. Perri, Giacomo Bonnoli, Wrijupan Bhattacharyya, D. Eisenacher Glawion, D. Elsaesser, M. Nievas Rosillo, S. Paiano, Karl Mannheim, Ahnen, M. L., Ansoldi, S., Antonelli, L. A., Arcaro, C., Babić, A., Banerjee, B., Bangale, P., Barres de Almeida, U., Barrio, J. A., Becerra González, J., Bednarek, W., Bernardini, E., Berti, A., Bhattacharyya, W., Biasuzzi, B., Biland, A., Blanch, O., Bonnefoy, S., Bonnoli, G., Carosi, R., Carosi, A., Chatterjee, A., Colak, M., Colin, P., Colombo, E., Contreras, J. L., Cortina, J., Covino, S., Cumani, P., Da Vela, P., Dazzi, F., De Angelis, A., De Lotto, B., de Oña Wilhelmi, E., Di Pierro, F., Doert, M., Domínguez, A., Dominis Prester, D., Dorner, D., Doro, M., Einecke, S., Eisenacher Glawion, D., Elsaesser, D., Engelkemeier, M., Fallah Ramazani, V., Fernández-Barral, A., Fidalgo, D., Fonseca, M. V., Font, L., Fruck, C., Galindo, D., García López, R. J., Garczarczyk, M., Gaug, M., Giammaria, P., Godinović, N., Gora, D., Guberman, D., Hadasch, D., Hahn, A., Hassan, T., Hayashida, M., Herrera, J., Hose, J., Hrupec, D., Inada, T., Ishio, K., Konno, Y., Kubo, H., Kushida, J., Kuveždić, D., Lelas, D., Lindfors, E., Lombardi, S., Longo, F., López, M., Maggio, C., Majumdar, P., Makariev, M., Maneva, G., Manganaro, M., Mannheim, K., Maraschi, L., Mariotti, M., Martínez, M., Mazin, D., Menzel, U., Minev, M., Mirzoyan, R., Moralejo, A., Moreno, V., Moretti, E., Neustroev, V., Niedzwiecki, A., Nievas Rosillo, M., Nilsson, K., Ninci, D., Nishijima, K., Noda, K., Nogués, L., Paiano, S., Palacio, J., Paneque, D., Paoletti, R., Paredes, J. M., Pedaletti, G., Peresano, M., Perri, L., Persic, M., Prada Moroni, P. G., Prandini, E., Puljak, I., Garcia, J. R., Reichardt, I., Rhode, W., Ribó, M., Rico, J., Righi, C., Saito, T., Satalecka, K., Schroeder, S., Schweizer, T., Shore, S. N., Sitarek, J., Šnidarić, I., Sobczynska, D., Stamerra, A., Strzys, M., Surić, T., Takalo, L., Tavecchio, F., Temnikov, P., Terzić, T., Tescaro, D., Teshima, M., Torres-Albà, N., Treves, A., Vanzo, G., Vazquez Acosta, M., Vovk, I., Ward, J. E., Will, M., and Zarić, D.
Subjects: lepton, Astrophysics, power spectrum, 01 natural sciences, Spectral line, Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, MAGIC (telescope), 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, acceleration of particle, cosmic ray, energy spectrum [gamma ray], acceleration of particles, ISM: supernova remnants, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Physics, Spectral index, education.field_of_study, Gamma ray, cosmic rays, gamma rays: general, high [energy], Spectral energy distribution, Electrónica, Física nuclear, Electricidad, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, low [magnetic field], Population, energy spectrum, FOS: Physical sciences, Cosmic ray, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, GLAST, leptonic [model], emission [gamma ray], supernova, 0103 physical sciences, education, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Computer Science::Information Theory, ta115, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Astronomy, cosmic ray physics, stars: supernovae: individual: Cassiopeia A, supernova remnants, Astronomy and Astrophysics, acceleration, MAGIC, moment, flux, Cassiopeia A, Space and Planetary Science, ddc:520, galaxy [cosmic radiation], spectral, High Energy Physics::Experiment, supernova remnant [ISM], general [gamma rays]
Abstract: It is widely believed that the bulk of the Galactic cosmic rays are accelerated in supernova remnants (SNRs). However, no observational evidence of the presence of particles of PeV energies in SNRs has yet been found. The young historical SNR Cassiopeia A (Cas A) appears as one of the best candidates to study acceleration processes. Between December 2014 and October 2016 we observed Cas A with the MAGIC telescopes, accumulating 158 hours of good-quality data. We derived the spectrum of the source from 100 GeV to 10 TeV. We also analysed $\sim$8 years of $Fermi$-LAT to obtain the spectral shape between 60 MeV and 500 GeV. The spectra measured by the LAT and MAGIC telescopes are compatible within the errors and show a clear turn off (4.6 $\sigma$) at the highest energies, which can be described with an exponential cut-off at $E_c = 3.5\left(^{+1.6}_{-1.0}\right)_{\textit{stat}} \left(^{+0.8}_{-0.9}\right)_{\textit{sys}}$ TeV. The gamma-ray emission from 60 MeV to 10 TeV can be attributed to a population of high-energy protons with spectral index $\sim$2.2 and energy cut-off at $\sim$10 TeV. This result indicates that Cas A is not contributing to the high energy ($\sim$PeV) cosmic-ray sea in a significant manner at the present moment. A one-zone leptonic model fails to reproduce by itself the multi-wavelength spectral energy distribution. Besides, if a non-negligible fraction of the flux seen by MAGIC is produced by leptons, the radiation should be emitted in a region with a low magnetic field (B$\lessapprox$100$\mu$G) like in the reverse shock.), Comment: 8 pages, 3 figures, submitted to MNRAS. Corresponding authors: Daniel Guberman (dguberman@ifae.es), Emma de O\~na Wilhelmi (wilhelmi@ice.csic.es) and Daniel Galindo (dgalindo@am.ub.es)
Published: 2017
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41. Investigating the peculiar emission from the new VHE gamma-ray source H1722+119

Author: M. Hayashida, M. Makariev, B. Biasuzzi, K. Mallot, R. J. García López, Louis Antonelli, D. Dominis Prester, E. Prandini, M. Doert, M. H. Wu, Massimo Persic, F. D'Ammando, Marc Ribó, G. Bonnoli, Abelardo Moralejo, Juri Poutanen, R. Reinthal, V. Fallah Ramazani, P. Bangale, Y. Hanabata, Razmik Mirzoyan, U. Barres de Almeida, Damir Lelas, T. Steinbring, Marina Manganaro, P. G. Prada Moroni, Stefano Covino, Hidetoshi Kubo, P. Antoranz, D. Galindo, J. Becerra González, G. Pedaletti, Dorota Sobczyńska, D. Nakajima, Thomas Bretz, J. Hose, Andrei Berdyugin, Pratik Majumdar, M. V. Fonseca, S. Bonnefoy, A. Sillanpää, Arka Chatterjee, Francesco Longo, D. Elsaesser, F. Di Pierro, K. Kodani, Alexander Hahn, Konstancja Satalecka, Walter Max-Moerbeck, Tomoki Saito, D. Tescaro, Ivica Puljak, Pierre Colin, H. Takami, L. Nogués, U. Menzel, Michele Doro, M. I. Martínez, Gareth Hughes, Talvikki Hovatta, C. Schultz, E. Moretti, Marcel Strzys, D. Fidalgo, Vassil Verguilov, Aaron Dominguez, Diego F. Torres, Julia Thaele, E. de Oña Wilhelmi, Reiko Orito, F. Verrecchia, Sabrina Einecke, Junko Kushida, P. Da Vela, R. López-Coto, J. Rodriguez Garcia, J. E. Ward, M. Palatiello, Elina Lindfors, A. Niedzwiecki, Kyoshi Nishijima, Ievgen Vovk, Wolfgang Rhode, Daniel Mazin, Oscar Blanch, Julian Sitarek, Juan Abel Barrio, L. Maraschi, Francesco Dazzi, David Paneque, A. Fernández-Barral, Markus Garczarczyk, Yusuke Konno, C. Fruck, B. De Lotto, M. Villata, T. Schweizer, T. Toyama, D. Guberman, Tomislav Terzić, K. Frantzen, J. L. Richards, Mosè Mariotti, A.-K. Overkemping, S. Paiano, Saverio Lombardi, Karl Mannheim, D. Hadasch, L. Perri, A. La Barbera, D. Eisenacher Glawion, X. Paredes-Fortuny, P. Temnikov, M. Nievas Rosillo, W. Idec, A. González Muñoz, E. Colombo, B. Banerjee, S. Buson, L. O. Takalo, Masahiro Teshima, Daniela Dorner, R. Zanin, Dariusz Gora, Adrian Biland, M. Gaug, J. Rico, J. Herrera, Koji Noda, Elisa Bernardini, A. De Angelis, A. Treves, Vitaly Neustroev, Jose Luis Contreras, Juan Cortina, G. Maneva, C. M. Raiteri, Nikola Godinovic, Benito Marcote, Max Ludwig Ahnen, Kari Nilsson, P. Giammaria, M. Will, Dario Hrupec, M. A. Lopez, R. Clavero, D. Garrido Terrats, W. Bednarek, Fabrizio Tavecchio, Ll. Font, I. Snidaric, Ana Babić, Stefano Ansoldi, Riccardo Paoletti, J. Palacio, J. M. Paredes, Antonio Stamerra, Alessandro Carosi, Jose Miguel Miranda, F. Borracci, Anthony C. S. Readhead, Universitat de Barcelona, Aalto-yliopisto, Aalto University, Ahnen ML, Ansoldi S, Antonelli LA, Antoranz P, Babic A, Banerjee B, Bangale P, de Almeida UB, Barrio JA, Gonzalez JB, Bednarek W, Bernardini E, Biasuzzi B, Biland A, Blanch O, Bonnefoy S, Bonnoli G, Borracci F, Bretz T, Buson S, Carosi A, Chatterjee A, Clavero R, Colin P, Colombo E, Contreras JL, Cortina J, Covino S, Da Vela P, Dazzi F, De Angelis A, De Lotto B, Wilhelmi ED, Di Pierro F, Doert M, Dominguez A, Prester DD, Dorner D, Doro M, Einecke S, Glawion DE, Elsaesser D, Ramazani VF, Fernandez-Barral A, Fidalgo D, Fonseca MV, Font L, Frantzen K, Fruck C, Galindo D, Lopez RJG, Garczarczyk M, Terrats DG, Gaug M, Giammaria P, Godinovic N, Munoz AG, Gora D, Guberman D, Hadasch D, Hahn A, Hanabata Y, Hayashida M, Herrera J, Hose J, Hrupec D, Hughes G, Idec W, Kodani K, Konno Y, Kubo H, Kushida J, La Barbera A, Lelas D, Lindfors E, Lombardi S, Longo F, Lopez M, Lopez-Coto R, Majumdar P, Makariev M, Mallot K, Maneva G, Manganaro M, Mannheim K, Maraschi L, Marcote B, Mariotti M, Martinez M, Mazin D, Menzel U, Miranda JM, Mirzoyan R, Moralejo A, Moretti E, Nakajima D, Neustroev V, Niedzwiecki A, Rosillo MN, Nilsson K, Nishijima K, Noda K, Nogues L, Orito R, Overkemping A, Paiano S, Palacio J, Palatiello M, Paneque D, Paoletti R, Paredes JM, Paredes-Fortuny X, Pedaletti G, Perri L, Persic M, Poutanen J, Moroni PGP, Prandini E, Puljak I, Rhode W, Ribo M, Rico J, Garcia JR, Saito T, Satalecka K, Schultz C, Schweizer T, Sillanpaa A, Sitarek J, Snidaric I, Sobczynska D, Stamerra A, Steinbring T, Strzys M, Takalo L, Takami H, Tavecchio F, Temnikov P, Terzic T, Tescaro D, Teshima M, Thaele J, Torres DF, Toyama T, Treves A, Verguilov V, Vovk I, Ward JE, Will M, Wu MH, Zanin R, DAmmando F, Berdyugin A, Hovatta T, Max-Moerbeck W, Raiteri CM, Readhead ACS, Reinthal R, Richards JL, Verrecchia F, Villata M, Ahnen, M. L., Ansoldi, S., Antonelli, L. A., Antoranz, P., Babic, A., Banerjee, B., Bangale, P., Barres De Almeida, U., Barrio, J. A., Becerra González, J., Bednarek, W., Bernardini, E., Biasuzzi, B., Biland, A., Blanch, O., Bonnefoy, S., Bonnoli, G., Borracci, F., Bretz, T., Buson, S., Carosi, A., Chatterjee, A., Clavero, R., Colin, P., Colombo, E., Contreras, J. L., Cortina, J., Covino, S., Da Vela, P., Dazzi, F., De Angelis, A., De Lotto, B., De Oña Wilhelmi, E., Di Pierro, F., Doert, M., Domínguez, A., Dominis Prester, D., Dorner, D., Doro, M., Einecke, S., Eisenacher Glawion, D., Elsaesser, D., Fallah Ramazani, V., Fernández Barral, A., Fidalgo, D., Fonseca, M. V., Font, L., Frantzen, K., Fruck, C., Galindo, D., García López, R. J., Garczarczyk, M., Garrido Terrats, D., Gaug, M., Giammaria, P., Godinović, N., González Muñoz, A., Gora, D., Guberman, D., Hadasch, D., Hahn, A., Hanabata, Y., Hayashida, M., Herrera, J., Hose, J., Hrupec, D., Hughes, G., Idec, W., Kodani, K., Konno, Y., Kubo, H., Kushida, J., La Barbera, A., Lelas, D., Lindfors, E., Lombardi, S., Longo, Francesco, López, M., López Coto, R., Majumdar, P., Makariev, M., Mallot, K., Maneva, G., Manganaro, M., Mannheim, K., Maraschi, L., Marcote, B., Mariotti, M., Martínez, M., Mazin, D., Menzel, U., Miranda, J. M., Mirzoyan, R., Moralejo, A., Moretti, E., Nakajima, D., Neustroev, V., Niedzwiecki, A., Nievas Rosillo, M., Nilsson, K., Nishijima, K., Noda, K., Nogués, L., Orito, R., Overkemping, A., Paiano, S., Palacio, J., Palatiello, Michele, Paneque, D., Paoletti, R., Paredes, J. M., Paredes Fortuny, X., Pedaletti, G., Perri, L., Persic, M., Poutanen, J., Prada Moroni, P. G., Prandini, E., Puljak, I., Rhode, W., Ribó, M., Rico, J., Rodriguez Garcia, J., Saito, T., Satalecka, K., Schultz, C., Schweizer, T., Sillanpää, A., Sitarek, J., Snidaric, I., Sobczynska, D., Stamerra, A., Steinbring, T., Strzys, M., Takalo, L., Takami, H., Tavecchio, F., Temnikov, P., Terzić, T, Tescaro, D., Teshima, M., Thaele, J., Torres, D. F., Toyama, T., Treves, A., Verguilov, V., Vovk, I., Ward, J. E., Will, M., Wu, M. H., Zanin, R., D'Ammando, F., Berdyugin, A., Hovatta, T., Max Moerbeck, W., Raiteri, C. M., Readhead, A. C. S., Reinthal, R., Richards, J. L., Verrecchia, F., and Villata, M.
Subjects: galaxie [Gamma-rays], gamma-rays: galaxies, UPGRADE, Astrophysics, DETECTED BLAZARS, 01 natural sciences, LARGE-AREA TELESCOPE, law.invention, Raigs gamma, law, galaxies: active, BL Lacertae objects: individual: H1722+119, galaxies, distances and redshifts, BL LACERTAE OBJECTS, ALL-SKY SURVEY, MAGIC, TELESCOPES, LAC OBJECTS, SOURCE CATALOG, MAJOR, HELICAL JETS, CRAB-NEBULA, MAGIC (telescope), 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Physics, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), distances and redshift [Galaxies], active BL Lacertae objects, individual, H1722+119 galaxies, distances and redshifts gamma-rays, Galaxies: active, Galaxies: distances and redshifts, Gamma-rays: galaxies, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Space and Planetary Science, galaxies [Gamma-rays], Extragalactic background light, Spectral energy distribution, Electrónica, Física nuclear, Electricidad, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, BL Lac object, active [Galaxies], Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, FOS: Physical sciences, Owens Valley Radio Observatory, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Telescope, galaxies: active, BL Lacertae objects: individual: H1722+119, galaxies: distances and redshifts, gamma-rays: galaxies, 0103 physical sciences, individual: H1722+119 [BL Lacertae objects], distances and redshifts [Galaxies], ta115, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Gamma rays, Astronomy, Astronomy and Astrophysic, Redshift, Crab Nebula, 13. Climate action, Galàxies actives, Active galaxies, ddc:520
Abstract: The MAGIC (Major Atmospheric Gamma-ray Imaging Cherenkov) telescopes observed the BL Lac object H1722+119 (redshift unknown) for six consecutive nights between 2013 May 17 and 22, for a total of 12.5 h. The observations were triggered by high activity in the optical band measured by the KVA (Kungliga Vetenskapsakademien) telescope. The source was for the first time detected in the very high energy (VHE, $E > 100$ GeV) $\gamma$-ray band with a statistical significance of 5.9 $\sigma$. The integral flux above 150 GeV is estimated to be $(2.0\pm 0.5)$ per cent of the Crab Nebula flux. We used contemporaneous high energy (HE, 100 MeV $ < E < 100$ GeV) $\gamma$-ray observations from Fermi-LAT (Large Area Telescope) to estimate the redshift of the source. Within the framework of the current extragalactic background light models, we estimate the redshift to be $z = 0.34 \pm 0.15$. Additionally, we used contemporaneous X-ray to radio data collected by the instruments on board the Swift satellite, the KVA, and the OVRO (Owens Valley Radio Observatory) telescope to study multifrequency characteristics of the source. We found no significant temporal variability of the flux in the HE and VHE bands. The flux in the optical and radio wavebands, on the other hand, did vary with different patterns. The spectral energy distribution (SED) of H1722+119 shows surprising behaviour in the $\sim 3\times10^{14} - 10^{18}$ Hz frequency range. It can be modelled using an inhomogeneous helical jet synchrotron self-Compton model., Comment: 12 pages, 5 figures, 2 tables
Published: 2016
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42. Erratum: A cut-off in the TeV gamma-ray spectrum of the SNR Cassiopeia A

Author: MAGIC Collaboration: M L Ahnen, S Ansoldi, L A Antonelli, C Arcaro, A Babić, B Banerjee, P Bangale, U Barres de Almeida, J A Barrio, J Becerra González, W Bednarek, E Bernardini, A Berti, W Bhattacharyya, B Biasuzzi, A Biland, O Blanch, S Bonnefoy, G Bonnoli, R Carosi, A Carosi, A Chatterjee, M Colak, P Colin, E Colombo, J L Contreras, J Cortina, S Covino, P Cumani, P Da Vela, F Dazzi, A De Angelis, B De Lotto, E de Oña Wilhelmi, F Di Pierro, M Doert, A Domínguez, D Dominis Prester, D Dorner, M Doro, S Einecke, D Eisenacher Glawion, D Elsaesser, M Engelkemeier, V Fallah Ramazani, A Fernández-Barral, D Fidalgo, M V Fonseca, L Font, C Fruck, D Galindo, R J García López, M Garczarczyk, M Gaug, P Giammaria, N Godinović, D Gora, D Guberman, D Hadasch, A Hahn, T Hassan, M Hayashida, J Herrera, J Hose, D Hrupec, T Inada, K Ishio, Y Konno, H Kubo, J Kushida, D Kuveždić, D Lelas, E Lindfors, S Lombardi, F Longo, M López, C Maggio, P Majumdar, M Makariev, G Maneva, M Manganaro, K Mannheim, L Maraschi, M Mariotti, M Martínez, D Mazin, U Menzel, M Minev, R Mirzoyan, A Moralejo, V Moreno, E Moretti, V Neustroev, A Niedzwiecki, M Nievas Rosillo, K Nilsson, D Ninci, K Nishijima, K Noda, L Nogués, S Paiano, J Palacio, D Paneque, R Paoletti, J M Paredes, G Pedaletti, M Peresano, L Perri, M Persic, P G Prada Moroni, E Prandini, I Puljak, J R Garcia, I Reichardt, W Rhode, M Ribó, J Rico, C Righi, T Saito, K Satalecka, S Schroeder, T Schweizer, S N Shore, J Sitarek, I Šnidarić, D Sobczynska, A Stamerra, M Strzys, T Surić, L Takalo, F Tavecchio, P Temnikov, T Terzić, D Tescaro, M Teshima, D F Torres, N Torres-Albà, A Treves, G Vanzo, M Vazquez Acosta, I Vovk, J E Ward, M Will, and D Zarić
Subjects: Physics, Cassiopeia A, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Space and Planetary Science, 0103 physical sciences, Gamma ray, ddc:520, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Cosmic ray, Astrophysics, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, Spectrum (topology)
Published: 2018
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43. Observations of Sagittarius A* during the pericenter passage of the G2 object with MAGIC

Author: D. Paneque, D. Garrido Terrats, T. Schweizer, L. Nogués, M. Engelkemeier, M. Makariev, Masahiro Teshima, J. Becerra González, Alessandro Carosi, X. Paredes-Fortuny, F. Di Pierro, A. González Muñoz, A.-K. Overkemping, M. Hayashida, Ruben Lopez-Coto, Elina Lindfors, Laura Maraschi, S. Ansoldi, B. Biasuzzi, Ana Babić, D. Nakajima, J. Rico, M. V. Fonseca, Daniel Mazin, A. Berti, P. Da Vela, Juan Abel Barrio, Jose Miguel Miranda, Arka Chatterjee, Iva Šnidarić, Kyoshi Nishijima, Abelardo Moralejo, A. Treves, Vitaly Neustroev, P. Majumdar, Jose Carlos Herrera, R. J. García López, Benito Marcote, S. Schroeder, T. Steinbring, C. Arcaro, Dariusz Gora, E. Moretti, Pierre Colin, F. Borracci, M. Ribó, Kari Nilsson, K. Frantzen, A. De Angelis, Yusuke Konno, M. Will, Christian Fruck, Stefano Covino, Julian Sitarek, D. Lelas, U. Menzel, I. Puljak, A. Niedzwiecki, Riccardo Paoletti, Julia Thaele, Elisa Prandini, J. Kushida, Dario Hrupec, D. Hadasch, Markus Gaug, D. Galindo, Aaron Dominguez, I. Reichardt, Petar Temnikov, G. Vanzo, R. Zanin, Razmik Mirzoyan, Jose Luis Contreras, Simona Paiano, J. Palacio, M. A. Lopez, Elisa Bernardini, G. Pedaletti, Juan Cortina, A. Biland, Antonio Stamerra, K. Noda, D. Fidalgo, M. Mariotti, J. E. Ward, Juri Poutanen, Dorota Sobczyńska, D. Guberman, Tihomir Surić, Giacomo Bonnoli, J. M. Paredes, S. Bonnefoy, P. Antoranz, G. Maneva, Marina Manganaro, E. de Ona Wilhelmi, M. I. Martínez, W. Idec, P. Bangale, M. Strzys, P. G. Prada Moroni, Diego F. Torres, Konstancja Satalecka, Sabrina Einecke, Michele Doro, A. Sillanpää, K. Kodani, Francesco Longo, V. Fallah Ramazani, Karl Mannheim, Takashi Saito, Max Ludwig Ahnen, Oscar Blanch, M. H. Wu, U. Barres de Almeida, L. Perri, A. La Barbera, Takeshi Toyama, D. Eisenacher Glawion, K. Mallot, M. Nievas Rosillo, J. R. Garcia, Massimo Persic, Leo O. Takalo, Ievgen Vovk, A. Hahn, Hidetoshi Kubo, B. De Lotto, M. Doert, W. Bednarek, V. Verguilov, J. Hose, S. Buson, D. Elsaesser, Markus Garczarczyk, B. Banerjee, Thomas Bretz, S. N. Shore, D. Dominis Prester, S. Lombardi, M. Peresano, Gareth Hughes, Tomislav Terzić, D. Tescaro, N. Godinović, D. Dorner, L. A. Antonelli, R. Clavero, Fabrizio Tavecchio, Eduardo Colombo, Ll. Font, P. Giammaria, M. Palatiello, Francesco Dazzi, A. Fernández-Barral, W. Rhode, Ahnen, M. L., Ansoldi, S., Antonelli, L. A., Antoranz, P., Arcaro, C., Babic, A., Banerjee, B., Bangale, P., Barres De Almeida, U., Barrio, J. A., Becerra GonzÃ¡lez, J., Bednarek, W., Bernardini, E., Berti, Alessio, Biasuzzi, B., Biland, A., Blanch, O., Bonnefoy, S., Bonnoli, G., Borracci, F., Bretz, T., Buson, S., Carosi, A., Chatterjee, A., Clavero, R., Colin, P., Colombo, E., Contreras, J. L., Cortina, J., Covino, S., Da Vela, P., Dazzi, F., De Angelis, A., De Lotto, B., De OÃ±a Wilhelmi, E., Di Pierro, F., Doert, M., Domãnguez, A., Dominis Prester, D., Dorner, D., Doro, M., Einecke, S., Eisenacher Glawion, D., Elsaesser, D., Engelkemeier, M., Fallah Ramazani, V., FernÃ¡ndez Barral, A., Fidalgo, D., Fonseca, M. V., Font, L., Frantzen, K., Fruck, C, Galindo, D., GarcÃa LÃ³pez, R. J., Garczarczyk, M., Garrido Terrats, D., Gaug, M., Giammaria, P., Godinoviä , N., GonzÃ¡lez MuÃ±oz, A., Gora, D., Guberman, D., Hadasch, D., Hahn, A., Hayashida, M., Herrera, J., Hose, J., Hrupec, D., Hughes, G., Idec, W., Kodani, K., Konno, Y., Kubo, H., Kushida, J., La Barbera, A., Lelas, D., Lindfors, E., Lombardi, S., Longo, Francesco, Lã³pez, M., LÃ³pez Coto, R., Majumdar, P., Makariev, M., Mallot, K., Maneva, G., Manganaro, M., Mannheim, K., Maraschi, L., Marcote, B., Mariotti, M., Martãnez, M., Mazin, D., Menzel, U., Miranda, J. M., Mirzoyan, R., Moralejo, A., Moretti, E., Nakajima, D., Neustroev, V., Niedzwiecki, A., Nievas Rosillo, M., Nilsson, K., Nishijima, K., Noda, K., Noguã©s, L., Overkemping, A., Paiano, S., Palacio, J., Palatiello, Michele, Paneque, D., Paoletti, R., Paredes, J. M., Paredes Fortuny, X., Pedaletti, G., Peresano, M., Perri, L., Persic, M., Poutanen, J., Prada Moroni, P. G., Prandini, E., Puljak, I., Garcia, J. R., Reichardt, I., Rhode, W., Ribã³, M., Rico, J., Saito, T., Satalecka, K., Schroeder, S., Schweizer, T., Shore, S. N., Sillanpã¤ã¤, A., Sitarek, J., Snidaric, I., Sobczynska, D., Stamerra, A., Steinbring, T., Strzys, M., Suriä , T., Takalo, L., Tavecchio, F., Temnikov, P., Terziä , T., Tescaro, D., Teshima, M., Thaele, J., Torres, D. F., Toyama, T., Treves, A., Vanzo, G., Verguilov, V., Vovk, I., Ward, J. E., Will, M., Wu, M. H., and Zanin, R.
Subjects: Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, black hole physics, general [Gamma rays], Galaxy: center, gamma rays: general, FOS: Physical sciences, Context (language use), Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, Black hole physic, 0103 physical sciences, MAGIC (telescope), Black hole physics, Gamma rays: general, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Space and Planetary Science, Supernova remnant, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Cherenkov radiation, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Galactic Center, center [Galaxy], Astronomy and Astrophysic, Galaxy, Black hole, Sagittarius A, ddc:520, Física nuclear, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract: Astronomy and astrophysics 601, A33 (2017). doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201629355, Context. We present the results of a multi-year monitoring campaign of the Galactic center (GC) with the MAGIC telescopes. These observations were primarily motivated by reports that a putative gas cloud (G2) would be passing in close proximity to the super-massive black hole (SMBH), associated with Sagittarius A*, located at the center of our galaxy. This event was expected to give astronomers a unique chance to study the effect of in-falling matter on the broad-band emission of a SMBH.Aims. We search for potential flaring emission of very-high-energy (VHE; ≥100 GeV) gamma rays from the direction of the SMBH at the GC due to the passage of the G2 object. Using these data we also study the morphology of this complex region.Methods. We observed the GC region with the MAGIC Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes during the period 2012–2015, collecting 67 h of good-quality data. In addition to a search for variability in the flux and spectral shape of the GC gamma-ray source, we use a point-source subtraction technique to remove the known gamma-ray emitters located around the GC in order to reveal the TeV morphology of the extended emission inside that region.Results. No effect of the G2 object on the VHE gamma-ray emission from the GC was detected during the 4 yr observation campaign. We confirm previous measurements of the VHE spectrum of Sagittarius A*, and do not detect any significant variability of the emission from the source. Furthermore, the known VHE gamma-ray emitter at the location of the supernova remnant G0.9+0.1 was detected, as well as the recently discovered VHE source close to the GG radio arc.Key words: Galaxy: center / gamma rays: general / black hole physics, Published by EDP Sciences, Les Ulis
Published: 2016
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44. Multiband variability studies and novel broadband SED modeling of Mrk 501 in 2009

Author: K. Nishijima, J. L. Richards, Stefano Covino, G. Piner, D. Dominis Prester, U. Menzel, A. Flinders, D. Tescaro, Louis Antonelli, D. Galindo, Aaron Dominguez, S. Schröder, Elena G. Larionova, Kari Nilsson, Paul S. Smith, A. McCann, T. S. Grishina, Wen Ping Chen, M. Will, Pratik Majumdar, J. E. Ward, Daniela Dorner, Dariusz Gora, P. Moriarty, C. Rulten, Soebur Razzaque, D. Garrido Terrats, K. Frantzen, Joseph Moody, Wystan Benbow, G. Hughes, K. Ragan, Ralph Bird, L. Perri, M. Gaug, T. Sakamoto, Valeri M. Larionov, Elina Lindfors, G. H. Sembroski, Daniel Mazin, Ievgen Vovk, A. Hahn, M. Hütten, N. H. Park, Alexander B. Pushkarev, G. Maccaferri, Thomas Bretz, P. Wilcox, P. Kar, D. Nakajima, R. Zanin, J. Herrera, Wei Cui, Amanda Weinstein, J. Palacio, P. G. Prada Moroni, Frank Krennrich, Matthew L. Lister, A. Berti, A. Cesarini, M. Kertzman, A. La Barbera, Walter Max-Moerbeck, E. Colombo, M. Villata, M. P. Connolly, Adrian Biland, D. S. Hanna, Ana Babić, D. Eisenacher Glawion, Juan Abel Barrio, John L. Quinn, M. Capalbi, Koji Noda, Arka Chatterjee, Elisa Bernardini, A. Sillanpää, Adrian Rovero, Antonio Stamerra, J. V. Tucci, M. Nievas Rosillo, M. Palatiello, L. V. Larionova, S. N. Shore, R. Mukherjee, M. J. Lang, Daniel Nieto, M. I. Martínez, S. Bonnefoy, J. Kushida, P. Giammaria, P. Bangale, Wolfgang Rhode, Gernot Maier, G. Pedaletti, L. O. Takalo, Margo F. Aller, Jose Luis Contreras, Andrei Berdyugin, J. A. Zensus, E. Roache, V. Verguilov, D. Fidalgo, C. Pace, Thomas P. Krichbaum, Francesco Dazzi, Juan Cortina, M. Engelkemeier, G. H. Gillanders, A. Carraminyana, S. P. Wakely, Mosè Mariotti, J. Rico, A. Fernández-Barral, R. Clavero, J. Becerra González, A.-K. Overkemping, S. O. Kurtanidze, Sabrina Einecke, Abraham D. Falcone, A. González Muñoz, Evgenia N. Kopatskaya, Lars Fuhrmann, Nikola Godinovic, Benito Marcote, Karlen Shahinyan, Takashi Saito, W. Bednarek, C. Schultz, Marcos Santander, Fabrizio Tavecchio, J. Rodriguez Garcia, E. Pueschel, Ll. Font, A. C. Sadun, A. Popkow, J. Grube, V. Bugaev, Anthony C. S. Readhead, R. Ligustri, A. Archer, I. Snidaric, Yusuke Konno, P. Calcidese, M. Strzys, A. Pichel, Saverio Lombardi, B. De Lotto, Markus Garczarczyk, N. Kelley-Hoskins, J. Tyler, Ann E. Wehrle, B. Banerjee, S. Buson, D. Hadasch, N. Otte, Maria G. Nikolashvili, Gordon T. Richards, L. Nogués, B. Biasuzzi, Juri Poutanen, U. Barres de Almeida, J. P. Finley, K. Mallot, S. Paiano, Marcello Giroletti, I. Nestoras, A. De Angelis, A. Treves, Vitaly Neustroev, X. Paredes-Fortuny, T. B. Humensky, R. A. Ong, Karl Mannheim, J. H. Buckley, Yu. A. Kovalev, R. J. García López, H. Fleischhack, G. N. Kimeridze, I. Sadeh, David A. Williams, Y. Mori, M. V. Fonseca, W. Idec, Matthias Kadler, Yuri Y. Kovalev, Stefano Ansoldi, Riccardo Paoletti, K. Kodani, J. P. Norris, O. M. Kurtanidze, N. V. Efimova, Y. Hanabata, Arkady A. Arkharov, Anne Lähteenmäki, Abelardo Moralejo, G. Maneva, Masahiro Teshima, A. C. Zook, Dario Hrupec, P. Antoranz, B. Zitzer, Hugh Dickinson, R. A. Chigladze, M. Peresano, Ekaterina Koptelova, S. Archambault, M. A. Lopez, T. Steinbring, P. Temnikov, P. Leto, Massimo Persic, J. M. Paredes, Hugh D. Aller, F. Borracci, S. O'Brien, T. Surić, I. Telezhinsky, I. Reichardt, Jamie Holder, G. Vanzo, R. Pearson, Julia Thaele, G. Bonnoli, Mark Gurwell, Eduardo Ros, Andrea Orlati, S. Griffin, L. A. Sigua, Diego F. Torres, Alessandro Carosi, Ruben Lopez-Coto, Maria Krause, Y. Yatsu, A. Wilhelm, Jose Miguel Miranda, Anushka Udara Abeysekara, T. Schweizer, P. Cassaro, Razmik Mirzoyan, E. Moretti, Damir Lelas, Francesco Longo, V. Fallah Ramazani, P. Kaaret, Dorota Sobczyńska, L. Maraschi, Kirill Sokolovsky, Tomislav Terzić, Lucy Fortson, E. de Ona Wilhelmi, Julian Sitarek, C. Fruck, T. Toyama, Ivica Puljak, Max Ludwig Ahnen, David Kieda, F. Di Pierro, Pierre Colin, M. Buchovecky, Oscar Blanch, P. Da Vela, A. Niedzwiecki, Emmanouil Angelakis, M. Doert, M. H. Wu, Ivan S. Troitsky, C. Pagani, David Paneque, Q. Feng, Vladimir A. Hagen-Thorn, E. De la Fuente, E. Prandini, C. M. Raiteri, L. Carrasco, D. Guberman, Jeremy S. Perkins, Martin Pohl, Marina Manganaro, H. A. Krimm, Merja Tornikoski, Konstancja Satalecka, Michele Doro, Dmitry A. Blinov, M. Perri, J. Hose, D. Elsaesser, Daria A. Morozova, P. T. Reynolds, M. Hayashida, Marc Ribó, Hidetoshi Kubo, M. Makariev, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, University of Udine, INAF National Institute for Astrophysics, University of Siena, University of Rijeka, Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Max Planck Institute for Physics, Complutense University, University of La Laguna, University of Łódź, German Electron Synchrotron, Autonomous University of Barcelona, University of Würzburg, University of Padova, Institute of Space Studies of Catalonia, Dortmund University, Finnish MAGIC Consortium, University of Barcelona, The University of Tokyo, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Osservatorio Astronomicodi Roma, University of Pisa, ICREA, University of Maryland, College Park, McGill University, Washington University St. Louis, Harvard University, University College Dublin, University of California Los Angeles, National University of Ireland, Galway, Purdue University, Iowa State University, Pennsylvania State University, University of Utah, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Adler Planetarium and Astronomy Museum, University of Delaware, Columbia University, University of Iowa, DePauw University, Georgia Institute of Technology, University of Chicago, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Cork Institute of Technology, University of California Santa Cruz, Argonne National Laboratory, University of Johannesburg, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, St. Petersburg State University, RAS - Pulkovo Astronomical Observatory, Circolo Astrofili Talmassons, Osservatorio Astrofisico della Regione Autonoma Valle d'Aosta, Georgian National Academy of Sciences, National Central University, Aoyama Gakuin University, University of Colorado Denver, Brigham Young University, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Instituto Nacional de Astrofisica Optica y Electronica, Universidad de Guadalajara, University of Denver, University of Arizona, Space Science Institute, Pomona College, University of Leicester, ASI Science Data Center, University of Trento, RAS - P.N. Lebedev Physics Institute, Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy, Whittier College, Metsähovi Radio Observatory, INAF Istituto di Radioastronomia, Osservatorio Astrofisico di Catania, California Institute of Technology, Department of Electronics and Nanoengineering, Aalto-yliopisto, Aalto University, Ahnen, M. L., Ansoldi, S., Antonelli, L. A., Antoranz, P., Babic, A., Banerjee, B., Bangale, P., Barres De Almeida, U., Barrio, J. A., Becerra GonzÃ¡lez, J., Bednarek, W., Bernardini, E., Berti, Alessio, Biasuzzi, B., Biland, A., Blanch, O., Bonnefoy, S., Bonnoli, G., Borracci, F., Bretz, T., Buson, S., Carosi, A., Chatterjee, A., Clavero, R., Colin, P., Colombo, E., Contreras, J. L., Cortina, J., Covino, S., Da Vela, P., Dazzi, F., De Angelis, A., De Lotto, B., De OÃ±a Wilhelmi, E., Di Pierro, F., Doert, M., Domãnguez, A., Dominis Prester, D., Dorner, D., Doro, M., Einecke, S., Eisenacher Glawion, D., Elsaesser, D., Engelkemeier, M., Fallah Ramazani, V., FernÃ¡ndez Barral, A., Fidalgo, D., Fonseca, M. V., Font, L., Frantzen, K., Fruck, C., Galindo, D., GarcÃa LÃ³pez, R. J., Garczarczyk, M., Garrido Terrats, D., Gaug, M., Giammaria, P., Godinoviä , N., GonzÃ¡lez MuÃ±oz, A., Gora, D., Guberman, D., Hadasch, D., Hahn, A., Hanabata, Y., Hayashida, M., Herrera, J., Hose, J., Hrupec, D., Hughes, G., Idec, W., Kodani, K., Konno, Y., Kubo, H., Kushida, J., La Barbera, A., Lelas, D., Lindfors, E., Lombardi, S., Longo, Francesco, Lã³pez, M., LÃ³pez Coto, R., Majumdar, P., Makariev, M., Mallot, K., Maneva, G., Manganaro, M., Mannheim, K., Maraschi, L., Marcote, B., Mariotti, M., Martãnez, M., Mazin, D., Menzel, U., Miranda, J. M., Mirzoyan, R., Moralejo, A., Moretti, E., Nakajima, D., Neustroev, V., Niedzwiecki, A., Nievas Rosillo, M., Nilsson, K., Nishijima, K., Noda, K., Noguã©s, L., Overkemping, A., Paiano, S., Palacio, J., Palatiello, Michele, Paneque, D., Paoletti, R., Paredes, J. M., Paredes Fortuny, X., Pedaletti, G., Peresano, M., Perri, L., Persic, M., Poutanen, J., Prada Moroni, P. G., Prandini, E., Puljak, I., Reichardt, I., Rhode, W., Ribã³, M., Rico, J., Rodriguez Garcia, J., Saito, T., Satalecka, K., Schrã¶der, S., Schultz, C., Schweizer, T., Shore, S. N., Sillanpã¤ã¤, A., Sitarek, J., Snidaric, I., Sobczynska, D., Stamerra, A., Steinbring, T., Strzys, M., Suriä , T., Takalo, L., Tavecchio, F., Temnikov, P., Terziä , T., Tescaro, D., Teshima, M., Thaele, J., Torres, D. F., Toyama, T., Treves, A., Vanzo, G., Verguilov, V., Vovk, I., Ward, J. E., Will, M., Wu, M. H., Zanin, R., Abeysekara, A. U., Archambault, S., Archer, A., Benbow, W., Bird, R., Buchovecky, M., Buckley, J. H., Bugaev, V., Connolly, M. P., Cui, W., Dickinson, H. J., Falcone, A., Feng, Q., Finley, J. P., Fleischhack, H., Flinders, A., Fortson, L., Gillanders, G. H., Griffin, S., Grube, J., Hã¼tten, M., Hanna, D., Holder, J., Humensky, T. B., Kaaret, P., Kar, P., Kelley Hoskins, N., Kertzman, M., Kieda, D., Krause, M., Krennrich, F., Lang, M. J., Maier, G., Mccann, A., Moriarty, P., Mukherjee, R., Nieto, D., O'Brien, S., Ong, R. A., Otte, N., Park, N., Perkins, J., Pichel, A., Pohl, M., Popkow, A., Pueschel, E., Quinn, J., Ragan, K., Reynolds, P. T., Richards, G. T., Roache, E., Rovero, A. C., Rulten, C., Sadeh, I., Santander, M., Sembroski, G. H., Shahinyan, K., Telezhinsky, I., Tucci, J. V., Tyler, J., Wakely, S. P., Weinstein, A., Wilcox, P., Wilhelm, A., Williams, D. A., Zitzer, B., Razzaque, S., Villata, M., Raiteri, C. M., Aller, H. D., Aller, M. F., Larionov, V. M., Arkharov, A. A., Blinov, D. A., Efimova, N. V., Grishina, T. S., Hagen Thorn, V. A., Kopatskaya, E. N., Larionova, L. V., Larionova, E. G., Morozova, D. A., Troitsky, I. S., Ligustri, R., Calcidese, P., Berdyugin, A., Kurtanidze, O. M., Nikolashvili, M. G., Kimeridze, G. N., Sigua, L. A., Kurtanidze, S. O., Chigladze, R. A., Chen, W. P., Koptelova, E., Sakamoto, T., Sadun, A. C., Moody, J. W., Pace, C., Pearson, R., Yatsu, Y., Mori, Y., Carraminyana, A., Carrasco, L., De La Fuente, E., Norris, J. P., Smith, P. S., Wehrle, A., Gurwell, M. A., Zook, A., Pagani, C., Perri, M., Capalbi, M., Cesarini, A., Krimm, H. A., Kovalev, Y. Y., Kovalev, Y. u. A., Ros, E., Pushkarev, A. B., Lister, M. L., Sokolovsky, K. V., Kadler, M., Piner, G., Lã¤hteenmã¤ki, A., Tornikoski, M., Angelakis, E., Krichbaum, T. P., Nestoras, I., Fuhrmann, L., Zensus, J. A., Cassaro, P., Orlati, A., Maccaferri, G., Leto, P., Giroletti, M., Richards, J. L., Max Moerbeck, W., and Readhead, A. C. S.
Subjects: extragalactic background light, multiwavelength observations, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, bl-lacertae objects, Galaxies: BL Lacertae objects: individual: Markarian 501, Methods: data analysis, observational, Polarization, spectral energy-distribution, Flux, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, law.invention, individual: Markarian 501 [BL Lacertae objects], law, Coincident, 0103 physical sciences, ddc:530, MAGIC (telescope), crab-nebula, Blazar, data analysis [Methods], 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Physics, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), tev blazars, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, stochastic acceleration, telescope observations, Institut für Physik und Astronomie, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astronomy and Astrophysic, gamma-ray emission, methods: data analysis, BL Lacertae objects: individual: Markarian 501, Synchrotron, data analysi [Methods], Space and Planetary Science, x-ray, ddc:520, Electrónica, Física nuclear, Electricidad, Degeneracy (mathematics), Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Flare, BL Lac object
Abstract: Astronomy and astrophysics 603, A31 (2017). doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201629540, We present an extensive study of the BL Lac object Mrk 501 based on a data set collected during the multi-instrument campaign spanning from 2009 March 15 to 2009 August 1, which includes, among other instruments, MAGIC, VERITAS, Whipple 10 m, and Fermi-LAT to cover the γ-ray range from 0.1 GeV to 20 TeV; RXTE and Swift to cover wavelengths from UV tohard X-rays; and GASP-WEBT, which provides coverage of radio and optical wavelengths. Optical polarization measurements were provided for a fraction of the campaign by the Steward and St. Petersburg observatories. We evaluate the variability of the source and interband correlations, the γ-ray flaring activity occurring in May 2009, and interpret the results within two synchrotron self-Compton (SSC) scenarios. Aims. The multiband variability observed during the full campaign is addressed in terms of the fractional variability, and the possible correlations are studied by calculating the discrete correlation function for each pair of energy bands where the significance was evaluated with dedicated Monte Carlo simulations. The space of SSC model parameters is probed following a dedicated grid-scan strategy, allowing for a wide range of models to be tested and offering a study of the degeneracy of model-to-data agreement in the individual model parameters, hence providing a less biased interpretation than the “single-curve SSC model adjustment” typically reported in the literature. Methods. We find an increase in the fractional variability with energy, while no significant interband correlations of flux changes are found on the basis of the acquired data set. The SSC model grid-scan shows that the flaring activity around May 22 cannot be modeled adequately with a one-zone SSC scenario (using an electron energy distribution with two breaks), while it can be suitably described within a two (independent) zone SSC scenario. Here, one zone is responsible for the quiescent emission from the averaged 4.5-month observing period, while the other one, which is spatially separated from the first, dominates the flaring emission occurring at X-rays and very-high-energy (>100 GeV, VHE) γ rays. The flaring activity from May 1, which coincides with a rotation of the electric vector polarization angle (EVPA), cannot be satisfactorily reproduced by either a one-zone or a two-independent-zone SSC model, yet this is partially affected by the lack of strictly simultaneous observations and the presence of large flux changes on sub-hour timescales (detected at VHE γ rays). Results. The higher variability in the VHE emission and lack of correlation with the X-ray emission indicate that, at least during the 4.5-month observing campaign in 2009, the highest energy (and most variable) electrons that are responsible for the VHE γ rays do not make a dominant contribution to the ~1 keV emission. Alternatively, there could be a very variable component contributing to the VHE γ-ray emission in addition to that coming from the SSC scenario. The studies with our dedicated SSC grid-scan show that there is some degeneracy in both the one-zone and the two-zone SSC scenarios probed, with several combinations of model parameters yielding a similar model-to-data agreement, and some parameters better constrained than others. The observed γ-ray flaring activity, with the EVPA rotation coincident with the first γ-ray flare, resembles those reported previously for low frequency peaked blazars, hence suggesting that there are many similarities in the flaring mechanisms of blazars with different jet properties., Published by EDP Sciences, Les Ulis
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45. Limits to dark matter annihilation cross-section from a combined analysis of MAGIC and Fermi-LAT observations of dwarf satellite galaxies

Author: Ahnen, M. L., Ansoldi, S., Bednarek, W., Noda, K., Orito, R., Overkemping, A., Paiano, S., Palacio, J., Palatiello, M., Paneque, D., Paoletti, R., Paredes, J. M., Paredes-Fortuny, X., Bernardini, E., Persic, M., Poutanen, J., Moroni, P. G. Prada, Prandini, E., Puljak, I., Rhode, W., Ribó, M., Rico, J., Garcia, J. Rodriguez, Saito, T., Biasuzzi, B., Satalecka, K., Schultz, C., Schweizer, T., Shore, S. N., Sillanpää, A., Sitarek, J., Snidaric, I., Sobczynska, D., Stamerra, A., Steinbring, T., Biland, A., Strzys, M., Takalo, L., Takami, H., Tavecchio, F., Temnikov, P., Terzić, T., Tescaro, D., Teshima, M., Thaele, J., Torres, D. F., Blanch, O., Toyama, T., Treves, A., Verguilov, V., Vovk, I., Ward, J. E., Will, M., Wu, M. H., Zanin, R., Aleksić, J., Wood, M., Bonnefoy, S., Anderson, B., Bloom, E. D., Cohen-Tanugi, J., Drlica-Wagner, A., Mazziotta, M. N., Sánchez-Conde, M., Strigari, L., MAGIC Collaboration, Bonnoli, G., Borracci, F., Bretz, T., Carmona, E., Antonelli, L. A., Carosi, A., Chatterjee, A., Clavero, R., Colin, P., Colombo, E., Contreras, J. L., Cortina, J., Covino, S., Da Vela, P., Dazzi, F., Antoranz, P., De Angelis, A., De Lotto, B., Wilhelmi, E. de Oña, Mendez, C. Delgado, Di Pierro, F., Dresbach, Christian, Prester, Dominis, Dorner, D., Doro, M., Einecke, S., Babic, A., Glawion, D. Eisenacher, Elsaesser, D., Fernández-Barral, A., Fidalgo, D., Fonseca, M. V., Font, L., Frantzen, K., Fruck, C., Galindo, D., López, R. J. García, Banerjee, B., Garczarczyk, M., Terrats, D. Garrido, Gaug, M., Giammaria, P., Godinović, N., Muñoz, A. González, Guberman, D., Hahn, A., Hanabata, Y., Hayashida, M., Bangale, P., Herrera, J., Hose, J., Hrupec, D., Hughes, G., Idec, W., Kodani, K., Konno, Y., Kubo, H., Kushida, J., La Barbera, A., de Almeida, U. Barres, Lelas, D., Lindfors, E., Lombardi, S., Longo, F., López, M., López-Coto, R., López-Oramas, A., Lorenz, E., Majumdar, P., Makariev, M., Barrio, J. A., Mallot, K., Maneva, G., Manganaro, M., Mannheim, K., Maraschi, L., Marcote, B., Mariotti, M., Martínez, M., Mazin, D., Menzel, U., González, J. Becerra, Miranda, J. M., Mirzoyan, R., Moralejo, A., Moretti, E., Nakajima, D., Neustroev, V., Niedzwiecki, A., Rosillo, M. Nievas, Nilsson, K., Nishijima, K., Universitat de Barcelona, Département de Physique des Particules (ex SPP) (DPhP), Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, Laboratoire Univers et Particules de Montpellier (LUPM), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), MAGIC, Fermi-LAT, Département de Physique des Particules (ex SPP) (DPP), 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), Université Montpellier 2 - Sciences et Techniques (UM2)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Magic, Collaboration, Ahnen, M. L., Ansoldi, S., Antonelli, L. A., Antoranz, P., Babic, A., Banerjee, B., Bangale, P., Barres De Almeida, U., Barrio, J. A., Becerra Gonzalez, J., Bednarek, W., Bernardini, E., Biasuzzi, B., Biland, A., Blanch, O., Bonnefoy, S., Bonnoli, G., Borracci, F., Bretz, T., Carmona, E., Carosi, A., Chatterjee, A., Clavero, R., Colin, P., Colombo, E., Contreras, J. L., Cortina, J., Covino, S., Da Vela, P., Dazzi, F., De Angelis, A., De Lotto, B., De Ona Wilhelmi, E., Delgado Mendez, C., Di Pierro, F., Dominis Prester, D., Dorner, D., Doro, M., Einecke, S., Eisenacher Glawion, D., Elsaesser, D., Fernandez-Barral, A., Fidalgo, D., Fonseca, M. V., Font, L., Frantzen, K., Fruck, C., Galindo, D., Garcia Lopez, R. J., Garczarczyk, M., Garrido Terrats, D., Gaug, M., Giammaria, P., Godinovic, N., Gonzalez Munoz, A., Guberman, D., Hahn, A., Hanabata, Y., Hayashida, M., Herrera, J., Hose, J., Hrupec, D., Hughes, G., Idec, W., Kodani, K., Konno, Y., Kubo, H., Kushida, J., La Barbera, A., Lelas, D., Lindfors, E., Lombardi, S., Longo, F., Lopez, M., Lopez-Coto, R., Lopez-Oramas, A., Lorenz, E., Majumdar, P., Makariev, M., Mallot, K., Maneva, G., Manganaro, M., Mannheim, K., Maraschi, L., Marcote, B., Mariotti, M., Martinez, M., Mazin, D., Menzel, U., Miranda, J. M., Mirzoyan, R., Moralejo, A., Moretti, E., Nakajima, D., Neustroev, V., Niedzwiecki, A., Nievas Rosillo, M., Nilsson, K., Nishijima, K., Noda, K., Orito, R., Overkemping, A., Paiano, S., Palacio, J., Palatiello, M., Paneque, D., Paoletti, R., Paredes, J. M., Paredes-Fortuny, X., Persic, M., Poutanen, J., Prada Moroni, P. G., Prandini, E., Puljak, I., Rhode, W., Ribo, M., Rico, J., Rodriguez Garcia, J., Saito, T., Satalecka, K., Schultz, C., Schweizer, T., Shore, S. N., Sillanpaa, A., Sitarek, J., Snidaric, I., Sobczynska, D., Stamerra, A., Steinbring, T., Strzys, M., Takalo, L., Takami, H., Tavecchio, F., Temnikov, P., Terzic, T., Tescaro, D., Teshima, M., Thaele, J., Torres, D. F., Toyama, T., Treves, A., Verguilov, V., Vovk, I., Ward, J. E., Will, M., Wu, M. H., Zanin, R., Aleksic, J., Wood, M., Anderson, B., Bloom, E. D., Cohen-Tanugi, J., Drlica-Wagner, A., Mazziotta, M. N., Sanchez-Conde, M., Strigari, L., and Université de Montpellier (UM)-Université Montpellier 2 - Sciences et Techniques (UM2)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Subjects: UPGRADE, dark matter experiment, gamma ray experiments, Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, LARGE-AREA TELESCOPE, law.invention, law, S046PHB, HESS, Satellite galaxy, gamma ray experiment, tau, white dwarf, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Physics, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Annihilation, Segue, dark matter experiments, dwarfs galaxies, neutrino experiments, Astronomy and Astrophysics, dwarfs galaxie, GAMMA-RAY EMISSION, SPHEROIDAL GALAXIES, MAJOR, SEARCH, CONSTRAINTS, DECAY, neutrino: detector, Neutrino detector, Dark matter (Astronomy), Electrónica, Física nuclear, Matèria fosca (Astronomia), Electricidad, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, upper limit, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics, Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Dark matter, satellite, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, GLAST, cross section: annihilation, Telescope, S030DMA, muon, 0103 physical sciences, ddc:530, Cherenkov radiation, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, dark matter: annihilation, Galaxies, MAGIC, Galàxies, Cherenkov counter, gamma ray: VHE, galaxy, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope
Abstract: We present the first joint analysis of gamma-ray data from the MAGIC Cherenkov telescopes and the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) to search for gamma-ray signals from dark matter annihilation in dwarf satellite galaxies. We combine 158 hours of Segue 1 observations with MAGIC with 6-year observations of 15 dwarf satellite galaxies by the Fermi-LAT. We obtain limits on the annihilation cross-section for dark matter particle masses between 10 GeV and 100 TeV - the widest mass range ever explored by a single gamma-ray analysis. These limits improve on previously published Fermi-LAT and MAGIC results by up to a factor of two at certain masses. Our new inclusive analysis approach is completely generic and can be used to perform a global, sensitivity-optimized dark matter search by combining data from present and future gamma-ray and neutrino detectors., 19 pages, 3 figures. V2: Few typos corrected and references added. Matches published version JCAP 02 (2016) 039
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46. MAGIC observations of the February 2014 flare of 1ES 1011+496 and ensuing constraint of the EBL density

Author: Dominik Elsaesser, U. Barres de Almeida, Damir Lelas, A. Stamerra, L. A. Antonelli, Dorota Sobczyńska, Max Ludwig Ahnen, E. Moretti, B. Biasuzzi, Abelardo Moralejo, Thomas Bretz, R. Paoletti, J. M. Mira, T. Steinbring, J. Becerra González, Marcel Strzys, Julian Sitarek, J. Hose, K. Nishijima, T. Toyama, J. Rico, Wolfgang Rhode, Martin Makariev, P. Giammaria, Aldo Treves, Oscar Blanch, A. Carosi, Christian Fruck, S. Bonnefoy, D. Garrido Terrats, Eckart Lorenz, A. La Barbera, M. H. Wu, Nikola Godinovic, Marina Manganaro, Ivica Puljak, Benito Marcote, A. Bil, B. De Lotto, D. Nakajima, Pratik Majumdar, X. Paredes-Fortuny, A. De Angelis, M. V. Fonseca, M. Nievas Rosillo, B. Banerjee, R. Mirzoyan, Miriam Lucio Martinez, Vitaly Neustroev, S. N. Shore, D. Galindo, K. Frantzen, Martin Will, Arka Chatterjee, E. Lindfors, A. Sillanpää, E. de Oña Wilhelmi, K. Nilsson, D. Eisenacher Glawion, Fabrizio Tavecchio, D. Fidalgo, Roberta Zanin, U. Menzel, G. Maneva, Stefano Ansoldi, Ll. Font, S. Paiano, M. Lopez, E. Carmona, Karl Mannheim, K. Kodani, F. Borracci, I. Snidaric, Alicia López-Oramas, Juan Abel Barrio, K. Mallot, R. J. García López, Diego F. Torres, Reiko Orito, J. M. Paredes, M. Garczarczyk, H. Takami, Yusuke Konno, J. Palacio, Vassil Verguilov, Massimo Persic, Konstancja Satalecka, Dario Hrupec, J. E. Ward, Julia Thaele, L. Maraschi, Michele Doro, Giacomo Bonnoli, M. Hayashida, Ana Babić, P. G. Prada Moroni, P. Temnikov, Daniel Mazin, F. Longo, Sabrina Einecke, J. Rodriguez Garcia, Marc Ribó, Wlodek Bednarek, Tomislav Terzić, P. Bangale, R. López-Coto, A. Niedzwiecki, Hidetoshi Kubo, Francesco Dazzi, Ievgen Vovk, C. Delgado Mendez, T. Schweizer, David Paneque, Stefano Covino, Juri Poutanen, Y. Hanabata, D. Guberman, P. Antoranz, Masahiro Teshima, Michele Palatiello, Jose Luis Contreras, Tomoki Saito, D. Tescaro, Juan Cortina, G. Hughes, Daniela Dorner, Alexander Hahn, M. Gaug, D. Dominis Prester, R. Clavero, E. Prini, J. Herrera, Koji Noda, Elisa Bernardini, E. Colombo, P. Colin, A. González Muñoz, L. O. Takalo, C. Schultz, F. Di Pierro, Junko Kushida, P. Da Vela, Alba Fernández-Barral, W. Idec, Mosè Mariotti, A.-K. Overkemping, Saverio Lombardi, Ahnen, M. L., Ansoldi, S., Antonelli, L. A., Antoranz, P., Babic, A., Banerjee, B., Bangale, P, Barres De Almeida, U., Barrio, J. A., Becerra Gonzalez, J., Bednarek, W., Bernardini, E., Biasuzzi, B., Biland, A., Blanch, O., Bonnefoy, S., Bonnoli, G., Borracci, F., Bretz, T., Carmona, E., Carosi, A., Chatterjee, A., Clavero, R., Colin, P., Colombo, E., Contreras, J. L., Cortina, J., Covino, S., Da Vela, P., Dazzi, F., De Angelis, A., De Lotto, B., De Ona Wilhelmi, E., Delgado Mendez, C., Di Pierro, F., Dominis Prester, D., Dorner, D., Doro, M., Einecke, S., Eisenacher Glawion, D., Elsaesser, D., Fernandez Barral, A., Fidalgo, D., Fonseca, M. V., Font, L., Frantzen, K., Fruck, C., Galindo, D., Garcia Lopez, R. J., Garczarczyk, M., Garrido Terrats, D., Gaug, M., Giammaria, P., Godinovic, N., Gonzalez Munoz, A., Guberman, D., Hahn, A., Hanabata, Y., Hayashida, M., Herrera, J., Hose, J., Hrupec, D., Hughes, G., Idec, W., Kodani, K., Konno, Y., Kubo, H., Kushida, J., La Barbera, A., Lelas, D., Lindfors, E., Lombardi, S., Longo, Francesco, Lopez, M., Lopez Coto, R., Lopez Oramas, A., Lorenz, E., Majumdar, P., Makariev, M., Mallot, K., Maneva, G., Manganaro, M., Mannheim, K., Maraschi, L., Marcote, B., Mariotti, M., Martinez, M., Mazin, D., Menzel, U., Miranda, J. M., Mirzoyan, R., Moralejo, A., Moretti, E., Nakajima, D., Neustroev, V., Niedzwiecki, A., Nievas Rosillo, M., Nilsson, K., Nishijima, K., Noda, K., Orito, R., Overkemping, A., Paiano, S., Palacio, J., Palatiello, Michele, Paneque, D., Paoletti, R., Paredes, J. M., Paredes Fortuny, X., Persic, M., Poutanen, J., Prada Moroni, P. G., Prandini, E., Puljak, I., Rhode, W., Ribo, M., Rico, J., Rodriguez Garcia, J., Saito, T., Satalecka, K., Schultz, C., Schweizer, T., Shore, S. N., Sillanpaa, A., Sitarek, J., Snidaric, I., Sobczynska, D., Stamerra, A., Steinbring, T., Strzys, M., Takalo, L., Takami, H., Tavecchio, F., Temnikov, P., Terzic, T., Tescaro, D., Teshima, M., Thaele, J., Torres, D. F., Toyama, T., Treves, A., Verguilov, V., Vovk, I., Ward, J. E., Will, M., Wu, M. H., Zanin, R., and Universitat de Barcelona
Subjects: Flux, DIRBE, Astrophysics, cosmic background radiation, Cosmic background radiation, 01 natural sciences, Spectral line, law.invention, 3.5 MU-M, law, Optical depth (astrophysics), NUMBER COUNTS, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, MINUS 2MASS, SPITZER-SPACE-TELESCOPE, Physics, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), TEV BLAZARS, Cosmology, Extragalactic background light, ENERGY GAMMA-RAYS, Electrónica, Física nuclear, intergalactic medium, cosmic background, MICRON SOURCE COUNTS, Electricidad, BL Lacertae objects, general, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Flare, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics, BL Lacertae objects: general, Intergalactic medium, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Space and Planetary Science, Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), Opacity, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, GALAXY COUNTS, 0103 physical sciences, TELESCOPE IMAGING SPECTROGRAPH, Cosmologia, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, general [BL Lacertae objects], Astronomy and Astrophysic, Light curve, radiation, EXTRAGALACTIC BACKGROUND LIGHT, Likelihood-ratio test, ddc:520
Abstract: Astronomy and astrophysics 590, A24(2016). doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201527256, During February–March 2014, the MAGIC telescopes observed the high-frequency peaked BL Lac 1ES 1011+496 (z = 0.212) in flaring state at very-high energy (VHE, E> 100 GeV). The flux reached a level of more than ten times higher than any previously recorded flaring state of the source.Aims. To describe the characteristics of the flare presenting the light curve and the spectral parameters of the night-wise spectra and the average spectrum of the whole period. From these data we aim to detect the imprint of the extragalactic background light (EBL) in the VHE spectrum of the source, to constrain its intensity in the optical band.Methods. We analyzed the gamma-ray data from the MAGIC telescopes using the standard MAGIC software for the production of the light curve and the spectra. To constrain the EBL, we implement the method developed by the H.E.S.S. collaboration, in which the intrinsic energy spectrum of the source is modeled with a simple function (≤4 parameters), and the EBL-induced optical depth is calculated using a template EBL model. The likelihood of the observed spectrum is then maximized, including a normalization factor for the EBL opacity among the free parameters.Results. The collected data allowed us to describe the night-wise flux changes and also to produce differential energy spectra for all nights in the observed period. The estimated intrinsic spectra of all the nights could be fitted by power-law functions. Evaluating the changes in the fit parameters, we conclude that the spectral shape for most of the nights were compatible, regardless of the flux level, which enabled us to produce an average spectrum from which the EBL imprint could be constrained. The likelihood ratio test shows that the model with an EBL density 1.07 (–0.20, +0.24)$_{stat+sys}$, relative to the one in the tested EBL template, is preferred at the 4.6σ level to the no-EBL hypothesis, with the assumption that the intrinsic source spectrum can be modeled as a log-parabola. This would translate into a constraint of the EBL density in the wavelength range [0.24 μm, 4.25 μm], with a peak value at 1.4 μm of λF$_λ$ = 12.27$_{-2.29}^{+2.75}$ nW m$^{-2}$ sr$^{-1}$, including systematics., Published by EDP Sciences, Les Ulis
Published: 2016
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47. EBL Constraints Using a Sample of TeV Gamma-Ray Emitters Measured with the MAGIC Telescopes

Author: Abelardo Moralejo, Gaia Vanzo, Daniel Mazin, Tarek M. Hassan, V. Fallah Ramazani, M. Vazquez Acosta, Aaron Dominguez, and M. Nievas Rosillo
Subjects: Physics, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), ta115, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Gamma ray, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, Sample (graphics), Redshift, Spectral line, Wavelength, 0103 physical sciences, MAGIC (telescope), Blazar, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Cherenkov radiation
Abstract: MAGIC is a stereoscopic system of two Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes operating in the very high energy (VHE) range from about 50 GeV to over 50 TeV. The VHE gamma-ray spectra measured at Earth carry an imprint of the extragalactic background light (EBL) and can be used to study the EBL density and its evolution in time. In the last few years, precision measurements of several blazars in the redshift range from z=0.03 up to z=0.9 were performed with MAGIC obtaining strong limits on the EBL density from single sources. In this paper, we present the results from a combined likelihood analysis using this broad redshift range sample of blazars allowing us to probe the EBL at different wavelengths. The implications on the EBL models and perspectives for future observations with MAGIC are also discussed., Comment: 6 pages, 3 figures. Contribution to the 6th International Symposium on High Energy Gamma-Ray Astronomy (Gamma2016), July 11-15, 2016, Heidelberg, Germany. To be published in the AIP Conference Proceedings
Published: 2016
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48. Super-orbital variability of LS I +61 ° 303 at TeV energies

Author: E. Colombo, K. Mallot, R. J. García López, M. H. Wu, D. Nakajima, L. O. Takalo, H. Takami, Arka Chatterjee, Christian Fruck, Sabrina Einecke, Vassil Verguilov, D. Fidalgo, Ivica Puljak, Pierre Colin, J. Rodriguez Garcia, Daniela Dorner, Dariusz Gora, Massimo Persic, E. de Oña Wilhelmi, Masahiro Teshima, Alexander Hahn, J. Palacio, M. Palatiello, J. M. Paredes, Antonio Stamerra, Francesco Longo, Gareth Hughes, M. Gaug, I. Snidaric, Yusuke Konno, J. Herrera, Stefano Ansoldi, Pratik Majumdar, M. V. Fonseca, A. La Barbera, Lluis Font, Riccardo Paoletti, Julian Sitarek, K. Kodani, Koji Noda, J. Hose, Elisa Bernardini, Francesco Dazzi, Marcel Strzys, D. Dominis Prester, D. Eisenacher Glawion, X. Paredes-Fortuny, M. Nievas Rosillo, A. Herrero, E. Moretti, Nikola Godinovic, Stefano Covino, P. Temnikov, Martin Makariev, Benito Marcote, Oscar Blanch, T. Toyama, G. Pedaletti, Dominik Elsaesser, S. Bonnefoy, Jose Luis Contreras, U. Barres de Almeida, Damir Lelas, Juan Cortina, D. Garrido Terrats, U. Menzel, Diego F. Torres, M. Garczarczyk, F. Di Pierro, Juan Abel Barrio, J. E. Ward, Giacomo Bonnoli, P. G. Prada Moroni, K. Frantzen, S. Paiano, R. López-Coto, A. Niedzwiecki, David Paneque, D. Guberman, Marina Manganaro, M. Hayashida, Thomas Bretz, S. N. Shore, R. Mirzoyan, Tomoki Saito, D. Tescaro, Jorge Casares, Mosè Mariotti, A.-K. Overkemping, A. González Muñoz, Kyoshi Nishijima, Dorota Sobczyńska, E. Prandini, Tomislav Terzić, Marc Ribó, B. De Lotto, C. Schultz, Aaron Dominguez, Karl Mannheim, Alicia López-Oramas, D. Galindo, Saverio Lombardi, P. Bangale, Hidetoshi Kubo, S. Buson, Junko Kushida, P. Da Vela, J. Becerra González, Wolfgang Rhode, D. Hadasch, Max Ludwig Ahnen, C. Delgado Mendez, Reiko Orito, Ana Babić, Konstancja Satalecka, Alba Fernández-Barral, F. Borracci, L. Maraschi, Michele Doro, Elina Lindfors, Dario Hrupec, B. Biasuzzi, Daniel Mazin, M. A. Lopez, Kari Nilsson, A. Sillanpää, M. Will, W. Idec, Abelardo Moralejo, P. Giammaria, T. Steinbring, Wlodek Bednarek, Alessandro Carosi, L. A. Antonelli, B. Banerjee, R. Clavero, Miriam Lucio Martinez, Fabrizio Tavecchio, Jose Miguel Miranda, A. De Angelis, A. Treves, Vitaly Neustroev, Ievgen Vovk, G. Maneva, R. Zanin, Adrian Biland, T. Schweizer, J. Rico, Julia Thaele, Juri Poutanen, Y. Hanabata, P. Antoranz, Ahnen, M. L., Ansoldi, S., Antonelli, L. A., Antoranz, P., Babic, A., Banerjee, B., Bangale, P., Barres De Almeida, U., Barrio, J. A., Becerra González, J., Bednarek, W., Bernardini, E., Biasuzzi, B., Biland, A., Blanch, O., Bonnefoy, S., Bonnoli, G., Borracci, F., Bretz, T., Buson, S., Carosi, A., Chatterjee, A., Clavero, R., Colin, P., Colombo, E., Contreras, J. L., Cortina, J., Covino, S., Da Vela, P., Dazzi, F., De Angelis, A., De Lotto, B., De Oña Wilhelmi, E., Delgado Mendez, C., Di Pierro, F., Domínguez, A., Dominis Prester, D., Dorner, D., Doro, M., Einecke, S., Eisenacher Glawion, D., Elsaesser, D., Fernández Barral, A., Fidalgo, D., Fonseca, M. V., Font, L., Frantzen, K., Fruck, C., Galindo, D., García López, R. J., Garczarczyk, M., Garrido Terrats, D., Gaug, M., Giammaria, P., Godinović, N., González Muñoz, A., Gora, D., Guberman, D., Hadasch, D, Hahn, A., Hanabata, Y., Hayashida, M., Herrera, J., Hose, J., Hrupec, D., Hughes, G., Idec, W., Kodani, K., Konno, Y., Kubo, H., Kushida, J., La Barbera, A., Lelas, D., Lindfors, E., Lombardi, S., Longo, Francesco, López, M., López Coto, R., López Oramas, A., Majumdar, P., Makariev, M., Mallot, K., Maneva, G., Manganaro, M., Mannheim, K., Maraschi, L., Marcote, B., Mariotti, M., Martínez, M., Mazin, D., Menzel, U., Miranda, J. M., Mirzoyan, R., Moralejo, A., Moretti, E., Nakajima, D., Neustroev, V., Niedzwiecki, A., Nievas Rosillo, M., Nilsson, K., Nishijima, K., Noda, K., Orito, R., Overkemping, A., Paiano, S., Palacio, J., Palatiello, Michele, Paneque, D., Paoletti, R., Paredes, J. M., Paredes Fortuny, X., Pedaletti, G., Persic, M., Poutanen, J., Prada Moroni, P. G., Prandini, E., Puljak, I., Rhode, W., Ribó, M., Rico, J., Rodriguez Garcia, J., Saito, T., Satalecka, K., Schultz, C., Schweizer, T., Shore, S. N., Sillanpää, A., Sitarek, J., Snidaric, I., Sobczynska, D., Stamerra, A., Steinbring, T., Strzys, M., Takalo, L., Takami, H., Tavecchio, F., Temnikov, P., Terzić, T., Tescaro, D., Teshima, M., Thaele, J., Torres, D. F., Toyama, T., Treves, A., Verguilov, V., Vovk, I., Ward, J. E., Will, M., Wu, M. H., Zanin, R., Casares, J., Herrero, A., and Universitat de Barcelona
Subjects: Astrofísica, astroparticle physics, binaries: general, gamma rays: general, stars: individual: LS I +61°303, X-rays: binaries, X-rays: individuals: LS I +61°303, Be star, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Gamma rays: general, general [Gamma rays], Binary number, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, Astroparticle physic, Radio spectrum, law.invention, individual: LS I +61°303 [Stars], Telescope, Raigs gamma, law, 0103 physical sciences, Modulation (music), individuals: LS I +61°303 [X-rays], Astroparticle physics, Binaries: general, Stars: individual: LS I +61°303, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Space and Planetary Science, MAGIC (telescope), Spectroscopy, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Physics, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), general [Binaries], 010308 nuclear & particles physics, binarie [X-rays], Gamma rays, Astronomy and Astrophysic, Orbital period, ddc:520, Astrophysics::Earth and Planetary Astrophysics, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract: Astronomy and astrophysics 591, A76(2016). doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201527964, The gamma-ray binary LS I +61°303 is a well-established source from centimeter radio up to very high energy (VHE;E > 100 GeV).The broadband emission shows a periodicity of $\sim$ 26.5 days, coincident with the orbital period. A longer (super-orbital) period of 1667 $\pm$ 8 dayswas proposed from radio variability and confirmed using optical and high-energy (HE; E > 100 MeV) gamma-ray observations. In this paper, wereport on a four-year campaign performed by MAGIC together with archival data concentrating on a search for a long-timescale signature in the VHE emission from LS I +61°303 Aims.We focus on the search for super-orbital modulation of the VHE emission, similar to that observed at other energies, and on the search forcorrelations between TeV emission and an optical determination of the extension of the circumstellar disk.Methods. A four-year campaign has been carried out using the MAGIC telescopes. The source was observed during the orbital phases when theperiodic VHE outbursts have occurred ($\phi$ = 0:55–0.75, one orbit=26.496 days). Additionally, we included archival MAGIC observations anddata published by the VERITAS collaboration in these studies. For the correlation studies, LS I +61°303 has also been observed during the orbitalphases where sporadic VHE emission had been detected in the past ($\phi$ = 0:75–1.0). These MAGIC observations were simultaneous with opticalspectroscopy from the LIVERPOOL telescope.Results.The TeV flux of the periodical outburst in orbital phases $\phi$ = 0:5–0.75 was found to show yearly variability consistent with the long-term modulation of$\sim$ 4.5 years found in the radio band. This modulation of the TeV flux can be well described by a sine function with a best-fit period of 1610 $\pm$ 58 days. The complete data, including archival observations, span two super-orbital periods. There is no evidence for a correlation betweenthe TeV emission and the mass-loss rate of the Be star, but this may be a ected by the strong, short-timescale (as short as intra-day) variation displayed by the Hfluxes., Published by EDP Sciences, Les Ulis
Published: 2016
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49. Long-term multi-wavelength variability and correlation study of Markarian 421 from 2007 to 2009

Author: E. Moretti, Alessandro Carosi, D. Nakajima, Kyoshi Nishijima, Arka Chatterjee, C. M. Raiteri, Nikola Godinovic, Benito Marcote, D. Fidalgo, Jose Miguel Miranda, D. Dominis Prester, Yusuke Konno, B. Jordan, Aaron Dominguez, L. Perri, Elena G. Larionova, Marina Manganaro, Kari Nilsson, Pratik Majumdar, M. V. Fonseca, Wen Ping Chen, M. Will, A. La Barbera, D. Galindo, R. Zanin, Merja Tornikoski, Mosè Mariotti, Dario Hrupec, K. Kodani, S. N. Shore, Louis Antonelli, D. Eisenacher Glawion, Max Ludwig Ahnen, X. Paredes-Fortuny, M. Nievas Rosillo, J. E. Ward, A. González Muñoz, Adrian Biland, A.-K. Overkemping, Razmik Mirzoyan, U. Barres de Almeida, J. Palacio, Dmitry A. Blinov, G. Pedaletti, M. A. Lopez, Juri Poutanen, Konstancja Satalecka, Sofia O. Kurtanidze, Michele Doro, U. Menzel, J. M. Paredes, S. Bonnefoy, Givi N. Kimeridze, Thomas Bretz, E. N. Kopatskaya, M. H. Wu, Antonio Stamerra, K. Frantzen, J. Rico, M. Villata, P. Giammaria, Damir Lelas, Alexander Hahn, Y. Hanabata, E. Forné, F. Di Pierro, Jose Luis Contreras, H. C. Lin, R. López-Coto, I. Snidaric, Daniela Dorner, Dariusz Gora, A. Niedzwiecki, F. Borracci, Gareth Hughes, P. Antoranz, Juan Abel Barrio, Juan Cortina, Saverio Lombardi, L. V. Larionova, Ivan S. Troitsky, David Paneque, Dorota Sobczyńska, P. Temnikov, S. Paiano, Karl Mannheim, B. Biasuzzi, M. Gaug, J. Herrera, Talvikki Hovatta, Junko Kushida, Diego F. Torres, Wolfgang Rhode, D. Guberman, Koji Noda, Elisa Bernardini, M. G. Nikolashvili, P. Da Vela, Francesco Longo, J. Hose, D. Garrido Terrats, J. Becerra González, E. Prandini, A. De Angelis, A. Treves, D. Elsaesser, Vitaly Neustroev, D. Hadasch, Julia Thaele, P. G. Prada Moroni, R. Clavero, Markus Garczarczyk, Valeri M. Larionov, R. Ligustri, H. Takami, W. Bednarek, Julian Sitarek, Fabrizio Tavecchio, J. A. Ros, Abelardo Moralejo, M. Palatiello, Stefano Ansoldi, A. C. Sadun, C. Schultz, Vassil Verguilov, G. Maneva, B. Banerjee, S. Buson, Riccardo Paoletti, T. Steinbring, C. Fruck, Lorand A. Sigua, W. Idec, Ivica Puljak, Francesco Dazzi, A. Fernández-Barral, Pierre Colin, Oscar Blanch, T. S. Grishina, Ana Babić, E. de Oña Wilhelmi, E. Colombo, T. Toyama, O. M. Kurtanidze, G. Bonnoli, Elina Lindfors, Anne Lähteenmäki, M. Hayashida, D. A. Morozova, L. O. Takalo, Masahiro Teshima, Ekaterina Koptelova, A. Sillanpää, B. De Lotto, Ievgen Vovk, L. Maraschi, Tomislav Terzić, T. Schweizer, Reiko Orito, Daniel Mazin, Marc Ribó, P. Bangale, Hidetoshi Kubo, Stefano Covino, Tomoki Saito, D. Tescaro, M. Makariev, B. McBreen, M. I. Martínez, Sabrina Einecke, J. Rodriguez Garcia, K. Mallot, R. J. García López, Massimo Persic, Lluis Font, Marcel Strzys, N. V. Efimova, L. Nogués, Universitat de Barcelona, Ahnen, M. L., Ansoldi, S., Antonelli, L. A., Antoranz, P., Babic, A., Banerjee, B., Bangale, P., Barres De Almeida, U., Barrio, J. A., Becerra González, J., Bednarek, W., Bernardini, E., Biasuzzi, B., Biland, A., Blanch, O., Bonnefoy, S., Bonnoli, G., Borracci, F., Bretz, T., Buson, S., Carosi, A., Chatterjee, A., Clavero, R., Colin, P., Colombo, E., Contreras, J. L., Cortina, J., Covino, S., Da Vela, P., Dazzi, F., De Angelis, A., De Lotto, B., De Oña Wilhelmi, E., Di Pierro, F., Domínguez, A., Dominis Prester, D., Dorner, D., Doro, M., Einecke, S., Eisenacher Glawion, D., Elsaesser, D., Fernández Barral, A., Fidalgo, D., Fonseca, M. V., Font, L., Frantzen, K., Fruck, C., Galindo, D., García López, R. J., Garczarczyk, M., Garrido Terrats, D., Gaug, M., Giammaria, P., Godinović, N., González Muñoz, A., Gora, D., Guberman, D., Hadasch, D., Hahn, A., Hanabata, Y., Hayashida, M., Herrera, J., Hose, J., Hrupec, D., Hughes, G., Idec, W., Kodani, K., Konno, Y., Kubo, H., Kushida, J., La Barbera, A., Lelas, D., Lindfors, E., Lombardi, S., Longo, Francesco, López, M., López Coto, R., Majumdar, P., Makariev, M., Mallot, K., Maneva, G., Manganaro, M., Mannheim, K., Maraschi, L., Marcote, B., Mariotti, M., Martínez, M., Mazin, D., Menzel, U., Miranda, J. M., Mirzoyan, R., Moralejo, A., Moretti, E., Nakajima, D., Neustroev, V., Niedzwiecki, A., Nievas Rosillo, M., Nilsson, K., Nishijima, K., Noda, K., Nogués, L., Orito, R., Overkemping, A, Paiano, S., Palacio, J., Palatiello, Michele, Paneque, D., Paoletti, R., Paredes, J. M., Paredes Fortuny, X., Pedaletti, G., Perri, L., Persic, M., Poutanen, J., Prada Moroni, P. G., Prandini, E., Puljak, I., Rhode, W., Ribó, M., Rico, J., Rodriguez Garcia, J., Saito, T., Satalecka, K., Schultz, C., Schweizer, T., Shore, S. N., Sillanpää, A., Sitarek, J., Snidaric, I., Sobczynska, D., Stamerra, A., Steinbring, T., Strzys, M., Takalo, L., Takami, H., Tavecchio, F., Temnikov, P., Terzić, T., Tescaro, D., Teshima, M., Thaele, J., Torres, D. F., Toyama, T., Treves, A., Verguilov, V., Vovk, I., Ward, J. E., Will, M., Wu, M. H., Zanin, R., Blinov, D. A., Chen, W. P., Efimova, N. V., Forné, E., Grishina, T. S., Hovatta, T., Jordan, B., Kimeridze, G. N., Kopatskaya, E. N., Koptelova, E., Kurtanidze, O. M., Kurtanidze, S. O., Lähteenmäki, A., Larionov, V. M., Larionova, E. G., Larionova, L. V., Ligustri, R., Lin, H. C., Mcbreen, B., Morozova, D. A., Nikolashvili, M. G., Raiteri, C. M., Ros, J. A., Sadun, A. C., Sigua, L. A., Tornikoski, M., Troitsky, I. S., Villata, M., Department of Radio Science and Engineering, Aalto-yliopisto, and Aalto University
Subjects: Astrofísica, Astroparticle physics, BL Lacertae objects: individual: Markarian 421, Radiation mechanisms: non-thermal, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Space and Planetary Science, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, FOS: Physical sciences, Flux, Astrophysics, Astroparticle physic, individual: Markarian 421 [BL Lacertae objects], 01 natural sciences, Radiació, law.invention, Telescope, law, 0103 physical sciences, MAGIC (telescope), Blazar, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Cherenkov radiation, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Physics, non-thermal [Radiation mechanisms], Radiation, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Compton scattering, Astronomy and Astrophysic, Light curve, Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, astroparticle physics / BL Lacertae objects: individual: Markarian 421 / radiation mechanisms: non-thermal, Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA), ddc:520, Electrónica, Física nuclear, Electricidad, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract: We study the multi-band variability and correlations of the TeV blazar Mrk 421 on year time scales, which can bring additional insight on the processes responsible for its broadband emission. We observed Mrk 421 in the very high energy (VHE) gamma-ray range with the Cherenkov telescope MAGIC-I from March 2007 to June 2009 for a total of 96 hours of effective time after quality cuts. The VHE flux variability is quantified with several methods, including the Bayesian Block algorithm, which is applied to data from Cherenkov telescopes for the first time. The 2.3 year long MAGIC light curve is complemented with data from the Swift/BAT and RXTE/ASM satellites and the KVA, GASP-WEBT, OVRO, and Mets\"ahovi telescopes from February 2007 to July 2009, allowing for an excellent characterisation of the multi-band variability and correlations over year time scales. Mrk 421 was found in different gamma-ray emission states during the 2.3 year long observation period. Flares and different levels of variability in the gamma-ray light curve could be identified with the Bayesian Block algorithm. The same behaviour of a quiet and active emission was found in the X-ray light curves measured by Swift/BAT and the RXTE/ASM, with a direct correlation in time. The behaviour of the optical light curve of GASP-WEBT and the radio light curves by OVRO and Mets\"ahovi are different as they show no coincident features with the higher energetic light curves and a less variable emission. The fractional variability is overall increasing with energy. The comparable variability in the X-ray and VHE bands and their direct correlation during both high- and low-activity periods spanning many months show that the electron populations radiating the X-ray and gamma-ray photons are either the same, as expected in the Synchrotron-Self-Compton mechanism, or at least strongly correlated, as expected in electromagnetic cascades., Comment: Corresponding authors: Ann-Kristin Overkemping (ann-kristin.overkemping@tu-dortmund.de), Marina Manganaro (manganaro@iac.es), Diego Tescaro (diego.tescaro@gmail.com), To be published in Astronomy&Astrophysics (A&A), 12 pages, 9 figures
Published: 2016
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50. Multiwavelength observations of the blazar 1ES 1011+496 in Spring 2008

Author: Pierre Colin, E. de Oña Wilhelmi, Kari Nilsson, L. Maraschi, M. Will, Francesco Longo, Tomislav Terzić, Daniela Dorner, C. Pittori, Michael T. Carini, R. Clavero, Louis Antonelli, E. Prandini, Pratik Majumdar, M. V. Fonseca, Mosè Mariotti, K. Kodani, J. Becerra González, W. Bednarek, M. Makariev, M. Palatiello, Ievgen Vovk, Fabrizio Tavecchio, S. N. Shore, M. Gaug, J. Herrera, J. Palacio, J. M. Paredes, Koji Noda, F. Di Pierro, Antonio Stamerra, Thomas Bretz, Elisa Bernardini, Stefano Covino, T. Schweizer, R. Zanin, D. Dominis Prester, A.-K. Overkemping, Adrian Biland, B. Biasuzzi, R. López-Coto, Juri Poutanen, Nikola Godinovic, R. Reinthal, Benito Marcote, Jose Luis Contreras, Saverio Lombardi, S. Rügamer, Marcel Strzys, R. Walters, Junko Kushida, D. Nakajima, Francesco Dazzi, Juan Abel Barrio, A. Niedzwiecki, P. Da Vela, Juan Cortina, Y. Hanabata, S. Bonnefoy, J. Rico, A. González Muñoz, Razmik Mirzoyan, Oscar Blanch, U. Barres de Almeida, P. Antoranz, Tomoki Saito, D. Tescaro, K. Frantzen, P. Temnikov, E. Colombo, Damir Lelas, K. Mallot, David Paneque, J. Sainio, Arka Chatterjee, M. Hayashida, R. J. García López, L. O. Takalo, Kyoshi Nishijima, Wolfgang Rhode, M. H. Wu, D. Guberman, Dorota Sobczyńska, D. Fidalgo, Gareth Hughes, E. Carmona, Markus Garczarczyk, P. G. Prada Moroni, Anne Lähteenmäki, A. De Angelis, Andrei Berdyugin, A. Pease, S. Paiano, Masahiro Teshima, A. Treves, Vitaly Neustroev, D. Garrido Terrats, G. De Caneva, Alba Fernández-Barral, Stefano Ansoldi, Karl Mannheim, Elina Lindfors, M. I. Martínez, Julian Sitarek, Julia Thaele, Riccardo Paoletti, W. Idec, Massimo Persic, C. Schultz, V. Scapin, Yusuke Konno, F. Lucarelli, Daniel Mazin, Marina Manganaro, Marc Ribó, G. Maneva, T. Toyama, S. Vercellone, D. Galindo, Merja Tornikoski, J. E. Ward, Alicia López-Oramas, Ana Babić, Sabrina Einecke, P. Bangale, Reiko Orito, J. Rodriguez Garcia, Christian Fruck, Hidetoshi Kubo, B. De Lotto, A. La Barbera, Konstancja Satalecka, Michele Doro, X. Paredes-Fortuny, J. Hose, D. Elsaesser, M. Nievas Rosillo, H. Takami, B. Banerjee, D. Glawion, Vassil Verguilov, U. Menzel, Diego F. Torres, M. Pasanen, Abelardo Moralejo, A. Sillanpää, T. Steinbring, Ll. Font, I. Snidaric, E. Lorenz, Max Ludwig Ahnen, P. Giammaria, G. Bonnoli, Dario Hrupec, M. A. Lopez, F. Borracci, C. Delgado Mendez, Alessandro Carosi, Jose Miguel Miranda, Ivica Puljak, Glawion, D., Universitat de Barcelona, Ahnen, M. L, Ansoldi, S., Antonelli, L. A., Antoranz, P., Babic, A., Banerjee, B., Bangale, P., Barres De Almeida, U., Barrio, J. A., Becerra González, J., Bednarek, W., Bernardini, E., Biasuzzi, B., Biland, A., Blanch, O., Bonnefoy, S., Bonnoli, G., Borracci, F., Bretz, T., Carmona, E., Carosi, A., Chatterjee, A., Clavero, R., Colin, P., Colombo, E., Contreras, J. L., Cortina, J., Covino, S., Da Vela, P., Dazzi, F., De Angelis, A., De Caneva, G., De Lotto, B., De Oña Wilhelmi, E., Delgado Mendez, C., Di Pierro, F., Dominis Prester, D., Dorner, D., Doro, M., Einecke, S., Elsaesser, D., Fernández Barral, A., Fidalgo, D., Fonseca, M. V., Font, L., Frantzen, K., Fruck, C., Galindo, D., García López, R. J., Garczarczyk, M., Garrido Terrats, D., Gaug, M., Giammaria, P., Godinović, N., González Muñoz, A., Guberman, D., Hanabata, Y., Hayashida, M., Herrera, J., Hose, J., Hrupec, D., Hughes, G., Idec, W., Kodani, K., Konno, Y., Kubo, H., Kushida, J., La Barbera, A., Lelas, D., Lindfors, E., Lombardi, S., Longo, Francesco, López, M., López Coto, R., López Oramas, A., Lorenz, E., Majumdar, P., Makariev, M., Mallot, K., Maneva, G., Manganaro, M., Mannheim, K., Maraschi, L., Marcote, B., Mariotti, M., Martínez, M., Mazin, D., Menzel, U., Miranda, J. M., Mirzoyan, R., Moralejo, A., Nakajima, D., Neustroev, V., Niedzwiecki, A., Nievas Rosillo, M., Nilsson, K., Nishijima, K., Noda, K., Orito, R., Overkemping, A., Paiano, S., Palacio, J., Palatiello, Michele, Paneque, D., Paoletti, R., Paredes, J. M., Paredes Fortuny, X., Persic, M., Poutanen, J., Prada Moroni, P. G., Prandini, E., Puljak, I., Reinthal, R., Rhode, W., Ribó, M., Rico, J., Rodriguez Garcia, J., Rügamer, S., Saito, T., Satalecka, K., Scapin, V., Schultz, C., Schweizer, T., Shore, S. N., Sillanpää, A., Sitarek, J., Snidaric, I., Sobczynska, D., Stamerra, A., Steinbring, T., Strzys, M., Takalo, L., Takami, H., Tavecchio, F., Temnikov, P., Terzić, T., Tescaro, D., Teshima, M., Thaele, J., Torres, D. F., Toyama, T., Treves, A., Verguilov, V., Vovk, I., Ward, J. E., Will, M., Wu, M. H., Zanin, R., Lucarelli, F., Pittori, C., Vercellone, S., Berdyugin, A., Carini, M. T., Lähteenmäki, A., Pasanen, M., Pease, A., Sainio, J., Tornikoski, M., Walters, R., Department of Radio Science and Engineering, Aalto-yliopisto, and Aalto University
Subjects: galaxie [X-rays], galaxie [Gamma-rays], Radiation mechanisms: non-thermal, radiation mechanisms: non-thermal, galaxies: active, gamma-rays, galaxies, X-rays: galaxies, BL-LACERTAE OBJECTS, ACTIVE GALACTIC NUCLEI, LARGE-AREA TELESCOPE, GAMMA-RAY EMISSION, SPECTRAL ENERGY-DISTRIBUTIONS, ALL-SKY SURVEY, LAC, OBJECTS, X-RAY, MAGIC TELESCOPES, SOURCE CATALOG, Astrophysics, Galaxies: active, Gamma-rays: galaxies, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Space and Planetary Science, 01 natural sciences, Radiació, law.invention, law, MAGIC (telescope), 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Physics, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Spectral index, Radiation, Gamma ray, galaxies [Gamma-rays], galaxies [X-rays], Electrónica, Física nuclear, Electricidad, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Flare, BL Lac object, Active galactic nucleus, radiation mechanisms, non-thermal galaxies, active gamma-rays, galaxies X-rays, active [Galaxies], Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, FOS: Physical sciences, 0103 physical sciences, Blazar, ta115, non-thermal [Radiation mechanisms], 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Astronomy, Astronomy and Astrophysic, Light curve, Galàxies actives, Active galaxies, ddc:520
Abstract: The BL Lac object 1ES 1011+496 was discovered at Very High Energy gamma-rays by MAGIC in spring 2007. Before that the source was little studied in different wavelengths. Therefore a multi-wavelength (MWL) campaign was organized in spring 2008. Along MAGIC, the MWL campaign included the Metsahovi radio observatory, Bell and KVA optical telescopes and the Swift and AGILE satellites. MAGIC observations span from March to May, 2008 for a total of 27.9 hours, of which 19.4 hours remained after quality cuts. The light curve showed no significant variability. The differential VHE spectrum could be described with a power-law function. Both results were similar to those obtained during the discovery. Swift XRT observations revealed an X-ray flare, characterized by a harder when brighter trend, as is typical for high synchrotron peak BL Lac objects (HBL). Strong optical variability was found during the campaign, but no conclusion on the connection between the optical and VHE gamma-ray bands could be drawn. The contemporaneous SED shows a synchrotron dominated source, unlike concluded in previous work based on nonsimultaneous data, and is well described by a standard one zone synchrotron self Compton model. We also performed a study on the source classification. While the optical and X-ray data taken during our campaign show typical characteristics of an HBL, we suggest, based on archival data, that 1ES 1011+496 is actually a borderline case between intermediate and high synchrotron peak frequency BL Lac objects., 13 pages, accepted for publication in MNRAS
Published: 2016
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