1. Modeling the non-flaring VHE emission from M87 as detected by the HAWC gamma ray observatory
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Dirk Lennarz, Segev BenZvi, Ian Herzog, Sara Coutiño de Leon, Francisco Salesa Greus, Joshua Wood, Andrea Albert, Hazal Goksu, Fernando Garfias, Eucario Gonzalo Pérez Pérez, Samridha Kunwar, Brian Humensky, Ramiro Torres Escobedo, Thomas Weisgarber, Israel Martinez Castellanos, Ke Fang, Arnulfo Zepeda, Nicola Omodei, Hannah Jhee, Tomás Capistrán Rojas, James Ryan, Kristi Engel, Humberto Ibarguen Salazar, Brian Fick, Lorenzo Diaz, Arturo Iriarte, Guillermo García-Torales, Arun Babu Kollamparambil, Gerd J. Kunde, Hugo Alberto Ayala Solares, Roberto Noriega-Papaqui, Josefa Becerra Gonzalez, Mehr Nisa, Laura Olivera-Nieto, Ian James Watson, Pooja Surajbali, Andrés Sandoval, Robert Ellsworth, Nissim Illich Fraija, Maria Magdalena González, Juan Carlos Arteaga Velazquez, Oscar Chaparro-Amaro, J. A. Goodman, Eduardo de la Fuente, Filiberto Hueyotl-Zahuantitla, Gus Sinnis, J. Patrick Harding, Humberto Martínez Huerta, Umberto Cotti, Jason Fan, Eduardo Moreno Barbosa, Ernesto Belmont-Moreno, Meghan Tanner, Jim Hinton, Alison Peisker, Andrew James Smith, Sabrina Casanova, Brenda Dingus, Fernando Ureña-Mena, Sergio Hernández Cadena, Colas Rivière, Ignacio Taboada, Henrike Fleischhack, Daniel Omar Avila Rojas, Jorge Cotzomi, Ruben Alfaro, Gaurang Yodh, Elijah Willox, David Kieda, Juan de Dios Álvarez Romero, María Catalina Espinoza Hernández, Jorge Antonio Morales Soto, William H. Lee, Anushka Udara Abeysekara, Julie McEnery, Ahron S. Barber, Karen S. Caballero Mora, Jason Lee, Diego Garcia Aguilar, Lukas Nellen, Rishi Babu, Kelly Malone, Hao Zhou, Jorge Luis Flores, Ibrahim Torres, Daniel Rosa-Gonzalez, Vincent Marandon, Alberto Carramiñana, Pedro Miranda-Romagnoli, Gwenael Giacinti, Jesús Martínez-Castro, Jose Luis García-Luna, Chang Dong Rho, Mora Durocher, Petra Hüntemeyer, Raquel Diaz Hernandez, Vardan Baghmanyan, Binita Hona, José Serna-Franco, Hermes Leon Vargas, Luis Villaseñor, Mateo Fernandez Alonso, Ruben Lopez-Coto, Michael Schneider, Fernando Ureña Mena, Felix Werner, Yunior Pérez Araujo, Anna Lia Longinotti, Edna Ruiz-Velasco, John Matthews, Miguel Mostafa, Cederik León de León, Jose Andres Garcia-Gonzalez, J. T. Linnemann, Oscar Martinez, Wayne Robert Springer, Amid Nayerhoda, Rhiannon Turner, Chad Brisbois, José Roberto Angeles Camacho, Juan Carlos Díaz Vélez, Armelle Jardin-Blicq, Harm Schoorlemmer, David Berley, Xiaojie Wang, Alejandro Lara, Michael DuVernois, Hawc, Vikas Joshi, Joe Lundeen, Gilgamesh Luis-Raya, Kirsten Tollefson, César Alvarez, Michael Newbold, Michelle Hui, and Dezhi Huang
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Physics ,Radio galaxy ,Observatory ,Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena ,Broadband ,Gamma ray ,Spectral energy distribution ,Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics ,Astrophysics ,Blazar ,Virgo Cluster ,Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics ,Cherenkov radiation - Abstract
M87 is a giant radio galaxy located in the Virgo Cluster, known to be a very high energy (VHE) gamma-ray source. As radio galaxies are considered the misaligned low-redshift counterparts of blazars, they are excellent laboratories for testing AGN emission models. M87 has been detected and monitored by Fermi-LAT and several atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes. Recently, the HAWC Collaboration presented marginal evidence of 4.5 year TeV gamma-ray emission from this object. The HAWC data has the potential to constrain the average VHE emission of sources of complex behavior, like M87, for which the physical origin of the VHE gamma-ray emission is still uncertain. We fitted a lepto-hadronic scenario to the broadband spectral energy distribution of M87 to model its non-flaring VHE emission using HAWC data.
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- 2021
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