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1. Observations of the Crab Nebula and Pulsar with the Large-sized Telescope Prototype of the Cherenkov Telescope Array

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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.

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2023
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2. Observation of inverse Compton emission from a long γ-ray burst

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P. Veres, P. N. Bhat, M. S. Briggs, W. H. Cleveland, R. Hamburg, C. M. Hui, B. Mailyan, R. D. Preece, O. J. Roberts, A. von Kienlin, C. A. Wilson-Hodge, D. Kocevski, M. Arimoto, D. Tak, K. Asano, M. Axelsson, G. Barbiellini, E. Bissaldi, F.Fana Dirirsa, R. Gill, J. Granot, J. McEnery, N. Omodei, S. Razzaque, F. Piron, J. L. Racusin, D. J. Thompson, S. Campana, M. G. Bernardini, N. P. M. Kuin, M. H. Siegel, S. B. Cenko, P. O’Brien, M. Capalbi, A. Daì, M. De Pasquale, J. Gropp, N. Klingler, J. P. Osborne, M. Perri, R. L. C. Starling, G. Tagliaferri, A. Tohuvavohu, A. Ursi, M.Tavani, M. Cardillo, C. Casentini, G. Piano, Y. Evangelista, F. Verrecchia, C. Pittori, F. Lucarelli, A. Bulgarelli, N. Parmiggiani, G. E. Anderson, J. P. Anderson, G. Bernardi, J. Bolmer, M. D. Caballero-García, I. M. Carrasco, A. Castellón, N. Castro Segura, A. J. Castro-Tirado, S. V. Cherukuri, A. M. Cockeram, P. D’Avanzo, A. Di Dato, R. Diretse, R. P. Fender, E. Fernández-García, J. P. U. Fynbo, A. S.Fruchter, J. Greiner, M. Gromadzki, K. E. Heintz, I. Heywood, A. J. van der Horst, Y.-D. Hu, C. Inserra, L. Izzo, V. Jaiswal, P. Jakobsson, J. Japelj, E. Kankare, D. A.Kann, C. Kouveliotou, S. Klose, A. J. Levan, X. Y. Li, S. Lotti, K. Maguire, D. B. Malesani, I. Manulis, M. Marongiu, S. Martin, A. Melandri, M. J.Michałowski, J. C. A. Miller-Jones, K. Misra, A. Moin, K. P. Mooley, S. Nasri, M. Nicholl, A. Noschese, G. Novara, S. B. Pandey, E. Peretti, C. J. Pérez del Pulgar, M. A. Pérez-Torres, D. A. Perley, L. Piro, F. Ragosta, L. Resmi, R. Ricci, A. Rossi, R. Sánchez-Ramírez, J. Selsing, S. Schulze, S. J. Smartt, I. A. Smith, V. V. Sokolov, J. Stevens, N. R. Tanvir, C. C. Thöne, A. Tiengo, E. Tremou, E. Troja, A. de Ugarte Postigo, A. F. Valeev, S. D. Vergani, M. Wieringa, P. A. Woudt, D. Xu, O. Yaron, D. R. Young, V. A. Acciari, S. Ansoldi, L. A. Antonelli, A. Arbet Engels, D. Baack, A. Babić, B. Banerjee, U. Barres de Almeida, J. A. Barrio, J. Becerra González, W. Bednarek, L. Bellizzi, E. Bernardini, A. Berti, J. Besenrieder, W. Bhattacharyya, C. Bigongiari, A. Biland, O. Blanch, G. Bonnoli, Ž. Bošnjak, G. Busetto, R. Carosi, G. Ceribella, Y. Chai, A. Chilingaryan, S. Cikota, S. M. Colak, U. Colin, E. Colombo, J. L. Contreras, J. Cortina, S. Covino, V. D’Elia, P. Da Vela, F. Dazzi, A. De Angelis, B. De Lotto, M. Delfino, J. Delgado, D. Depaoli, F. Di Pierro, L. Di Venere, E. Do Souto Espiñeira, D. Dominis Prester, A. Donini, D. Dorner, M. Doro, D. Elsaesser, V. Fallah Ramazani, A. Fattorini, G. Ferrara, D. Fidalgo, L. Foffano, M. V. Fonseca, L. Font, C. Fruck, S. Fukami, R. J. García López, M. Garczarczyk, S.Gasparyan, M. Gaug, N. Giglietto, F. Giordano, N. Godinović, D. Green, D. Guberman, D. Hadasch, A. Hahn, J. Herrera, J. Hoang, D. Hrupec, M. Hütten, T. Inada, S. Inoue, K. Ishio, Y. Iwamura, L. Jouvin, D. Kerszberg, H. Kubo, J. Kushida, A. Lamastra, D. Lelas, F. Leone, E. Lindfors, S. Lombardi, F. Longo, M. López, R. López-Coto, A. López-Oramas, S. Loporchio, B. Machado de Oliveira Fraga, C. Maggio, P. Majumdar, M. Makariev, M. Mallamaci, G. Maneva, M. Manganaro, K. Mannheim, L. Maraschi, M. Mariotti, M. Martínez, D. Mazin, S. Mićanović, D. Miceli, M. Minev, J. M. Miranda, R. Mirzoyan, E. Molina, A. Moralejo, D. Morcuende, V. Moreno, E. Moretti, P. Munar-Adrover, V. Neustroev, C. Nigro, K. Nilsson, D. Ninci, K. Nishijima, K. Noda, L. Nogués, S. Nozaki, S. Paiano, M. Palatiello, D. Paneque, R. Paoletti, J. M. Paredes, P. Peñil, M. Peresano, M. Persic, P. G. Prada Moroni, E. Prandini, I. Puljak, W. Rhode, M. Ribó, J. Rico, C. Righi, A. Rugliancich, L. Saha, N. Sahakyan, T. Saito, S. Sakurai, K. Satalecka, K. Schmidt, T. Schweizer, J. Sitarek, I. Šnidarić, D. Sobczynska, A. Somero, A. Stamerra, D. Strom, M. Strzys, Y. Suda, T. Surić, M. Takahashi, F. Tavecchio, P. Temnikov, T. Terzić, M. Teshima, N. Torres-Albà, L. Tosti, V. Vagelli, J. van Scherpenberg, G. Vanzo, M. Vazquez Acosta, C. F. Vigorito, V. Vitale, I. Vovk, M. Will, D. Zarić, and L. Nava

Subjects
Space Sciences (General)
Abstract

Long-duration γ-ray bursts (GRBs) originate from ultra-relativistic jets launched from the collapsing cores of dying massive stars. They are characterized by an initial phase of bright and highly variable radiation in the kiloelectronvolt-to-megaelectronvolt band, which is probably produced within the jet and lasts from milliseconds to minutes, known as the prompt emission. Subsequently, the interaction of the jet with the surrounding medium generates shock waves that are responsible for the afterglow emission, which lasts from days to months and occurs over a broad energy range from the radio to the gigaelectronvolt bands. The afterglow emission is generally well explained as synchrotron radiation emitted by electrons accelerated by the external shock. Recently, intense long-lasting emission between 0.2 and 1 teraelectronvolts was observed from GRB 190114C. Here we report multifrequency observations of GRB 190114C, and study the evolution in time of the GRB emission across 17 orders of magnitude in energy, from 5 × 10^(−6) to 10^(12) electronvolts. We find that the broadband spectral energy distribution is double-peaked, with the teraelectronvolt emission constituting a distinct spectral component with power comparable to the synchrotron component. This component is associated with the afterglow and is satisfactorily explained by inverse Compton up-scattering of synchrotron photons by high-energy electrons. We find that the conditions required to account for the observed teraelectronvolt component are typical for GRBs, supporting the possibility that inverse Compton emission is commonly produced in GRBs.

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2019
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3. MAGIC and Fermi-LAT gamma-ray results on unassociated HAWC sources

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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.

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2019
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4. Cherenkov Telescope Array : the World’s largest VHE gamma-ray observatory

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Roberta Zanin, H. Abdalla, H. Abe, S. Abe, A. Abusleme, F. Acero, A. Acharyya, V. Acin Portella, K. Ackley, R. Adam, C. Adams, S.S. Adhikari, I. Aguado Ruesga, I. Agudo, R. Aguilera, A. Aguirre Santaella, F. Aharonian, A. Alberdi, R. Alfaro, J. Alfaro, C. Alispach, R. Aloisio, R. Alves Batista, J.P. Amans, L. Amati, E. Amato, L. Ambrogi, G. Ambrosi, M. Ambrosio, R. Ammendola, J. Anderson, M. Anduze, E.O. Anguner, L.A. Antonelli, V. Antonuccio, P. Antoranz, R. Anutarawiramkul, J. Aragunde Gutierrez, C. Aramo, A. Araudo, M. Araya, A. Arbet Engels, C. Arcaro, V. Arendt, C. Armand, T. Armstrong, F. Arqueros, L. Arrabito, B. Arsioli, M. Artero, K. Asano, Y. Ascasibar, J. Aschersleben, M. Ashley, P. Attina, P. Aubert, C. B. Singh, D. Baack, A. Babic, M. Backes, V. Baena, S. Bajtlik, A. Baktash, C. Balazs, M. Balbo, O. Ballester, J. Ballet, B. Balmaverde, A. Bamba, R. Bandiera, A. Baquero Larriva, P. Barai, C. Barbier, V. Barbosa Martins, M. Barcelo, M. Barkov, M. Barnard, L. Baroncelli, U. Barres de Almeida, J.A. Barrio, D. Bastieri, P.I. Batista, I. Batkovic, C. Bauer, R. Bautista González, J. Baxter, U. Becciani, J. Becerra González, Y. Becherini, G. Beck, J. Becker Tjus, W. Bednarek, A. Belfiore, L. Bellizzi, R. Belmont, W. Benbow, D. Berge, E. Bernardini, M.I. Bernardos, K. Bernlöhr, A. Berti, M. Berton, B. Bertucci, V. Beshley, N. Bhatt, S. Bhattacharyya, W. Bhattacharyya, B. Y. Bi, G. Bicknell, N. Biederbeck, C. Bigongiari, A. Biland, R. Bird, E. Bissaldi, J. Biteau, M. Bitossi, O. Blanch, M. Blank, J. Blazek, J. Bobin, C. Boccato, F. Bocchino, C. Boehm, M. Bohacova, C. Boisson, J. Boix, J.P. Bolle, J. Bolmont, G. Bonanno, C. Bonavolontà, L. Bonneau Arbeletche, G. Bonnoli, P. Bordas, J. Borkowski, R. Bose, D. Bose, Z. Bosnjak, E. Bottacini, Markus Böttcher, M.T. Botticella, C. Boutonnet, F. Bouyjou, V. Bozhilov, E. Bozzo, L. Brahimi, C. Braiding, S. Brau Nogue, S. Breen, J. Bregeon, M. Breuhaus, A. Brill, W. Brisken, E. Brocato, A.M. Brown, K. Brügge, P. Brun, F. 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Wakazono, S.P. Wakely, M. Ward, D. Warren, J. Watson, M. Wechakama, P. Wegner, A. Weinstein, C. Weniger, F. Werner, H. Wetteskind, M. L. White, A. Wierzcholska, S. Wiesand, R. Wijers, M. Wilkinson, M. Will, J. Williams, T. J. Williamson, A. Wolter, Y.W. Wong, M. Wood, T. Yamamoto, H. Yamamoto, Y. Yamane, R. Yamazaki, S. Yanagita, L. Yang, S. Yoo, T. Yoshida, T. Yoshikoshi, P. Yu, A. Yusafzai, Michael Zacharias, B. Zaldivar, L. Zampieri, R. Zanin, R. Zanmar Sanchez, D. Zaric, M. Zavrtanik, D. Zavrtanik, Andrzej Zdziarski, A. Zech, H. Zechlin, A. Zenin, A. Zerwekh, K. Ziętara, A. Zink, J. Ziolkowski, M. Zivec, A. Zmija, Współautorami artykułu są członkowie CTA Observatory, CTA Consortium i LST Collaboration w liczbie 1139, Astronomy, Research unit Nuclear & Hadron Physics, and Research unit Astroparticle Physics

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Physics, Observatory, Gamma ray, Astronomy
Abstract

Very-high Energy (VHE) gamma-ray astroparticle physics is a relatively young field, and observations over the past decade have surprisingly revealed almost two hundred VHE emitters which appear to act as cosmic particle accelerators. These sources are an important component of the Universe, influencing the evolution of stars and galaxies. At the same time, they also act as a probe of physics in the most extreme environments known - such as in supernova explosions, and around or after the merging of black holes and neutron stars. However, the existing experiments have provided exciting glimpses, but often falling short of supplying the full answer. A deeper understanding of the TeV sky requires a significant improvement in sensitivity at TeV energies, a wider energy coverage from tens of GeV to hundreds of TeV and a much better angular and energy resolution with respect to the currently running facilities. The next generation gamma-ray observatory, the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO), is the answer to this need. In this talk I will present this upcoming observatory from its design to the construction, and its potential science exploitation. CTAO will allow the entire astronomical community to explore a new discovery space that will likely lead to paradigm-changing breakthroughs. In particular, CTA has an unprecedented sensitivity to short (sub-minute) timescale phenomena, placing it as a key instrument in the future of multi-messenger and multi-wavelength time domain astronomy. I will conclude the talk presenting the first scientific results obtained by the LST-1, the prototype of one CTAO telescope type - the Large-Sized Telescope, that is currently under commission., PoS: Proceedings of Science, 395, ISSN:1824-8039, Proceedings of 37th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC2021)

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2022

5. Searching for GRBs at VHE with MAGIC: the status before CTA

Author

Zeljka Bosnjak, Martin Will, Francesco Longo, S. Nozaki, Elia Do Souto Espiñeira, Lara Nava, Davide Miceli, Elena Moretti, Juan Cortina, Valerio D'Elia, M. Peresano, Yusuke Suda, Susumu Inoue, Louis Antonelli, Koji Noda, Satoshi Fukami, Alessio Berti, and Stefano Covino

Subjects
Physics, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), astro-ph.HE, High energy, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, FOS: Physical sciences, IACT, Field of view, Astrophysics, Cherenkov Telescope Array, Afterglow, MAGIC (telescope), Gamma-ray burst, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Cherenkov radiation
Abstract

Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) are one of the main targets for current and next generation Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes (IACTs). Given their transient behavior, especially in the case of their prompt emission phase, performing fast follow-up observations is challenging for IACTs, which have a narrow field of view and limited duty cycle. Despite this, MAGIC plays a major role in the search for Very High Energy (VHE, E>100 GeV) gamma-ray emission from GRBs: this is possible thanks to its fast repositioning speed, low energy threshold and high sensitivity at the lowest energies. In 2013 the MAGIC GRB automatic procedure was upgraded, increasing the number of GRBs followed in the prompt and early afterglow phases and decreasing dramatically hardware failures during fast repositioning. Currently, only GRB 190114C was firmly detected in the VHE band, while for other GRBs no significant detection was achieved. In such a case, upper limits (ULs) can give insight into the physics driving such eluding sources, especially on their emission mechanisms. In this contribution we report on the status of the GRB follow-up with MAGIC and focus on the ULs and results obtained from a sample of GRBs observed between 2013 and 2018. This GRB catalog is the result of the MAGIC well-designed and tested follow-up procedure, and it serves as a precursor of GRBs observation with the next generation IACT system, the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA)., Proceedings of the ICRC 2019; 7 pages, 1 figure, 1 table

Published
2021

6. Sensitivity of the Cherenkov Telescope Array for probing cosmology and fundamental physics with gamma-ray propagation

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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. 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CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Sciences et Technologies - Bordeaux 1 (UB)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), 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.A., 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., Larriva A.B., Martins V.B., Barkov M., Baroncelli L., De Almeida U.B., Barrio J.A., Batista P.-I., Gonzalez J.B., Becherini Y., Beck G., Tjus J.B., 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.B., Bonnoli G., Bordas P., Bottacini E., Bottcher 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., Angelis A.D., De Lavergne M.D.B., Caprio V.D., De Dos Anjos R.C., De Gouveia Dal Pino E.M., Lotto B.D., Martino D.D., De Naurois M., Wilhelmi E.D.O., Palma F.D., De Souza V., Delgado C., Ceca R.D., Volpe D.D., Depaoli D., Girolamo T.D., Pierro F.D., Diaz C., Diaz-Bahamondes C., Diebold S., Djannati-Atai A., Dmytriiev A., Dominguez A., Donini A., Dorner D., Doro M., Dournaux J., Dwarkadas V.V., Ebr J., Eckner C., Einecke S., Ekoume T.R.N., Elsasser 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., Coromina L.F., 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., Gonzalez J.M., Gourgouliatos K., Grabarczyk T., Grandi P., Granot J., Grasso D., Green J., Grube J., Gueta O., Gunji S., Halim A., Harvey M., Collado T.H., Hayashi K., Heller M., Cadena S.H., Hervet O., Hinton J., Hiroshima N., Hnatyk B., Hnatyk R., Hoffmann D., Hofmann W., Holder J., Horan D., Horandel J., Horvath P., Hovatta T., Hrabovsky M., Hrupec D., Hughes G., Hutten M., Iarlori M., Inada T., Inoue S., Insolia A., Ionica M., Iori M., Jacquemont M., Jamrozy M., Janecek P., Martinez I.J., Jin W., Jung-Richardt I., Jurysek J., Kaaret P., Karas V., Karkar S., Kawanaka N., Kerszberg D., Khelifi B., Kissmann R., Knodlseder J., Kobayashi Y., Kohri K., Komin N., Kong A., Kosack K., Kubo H., Palombara N.L., Lamanna G., Lang R.G., Lapington J., Laporte P., Lefaucheur J., Lemoine-Goumard M., Lenain J., Leone F., Leto G., Leuschner F., Lindfors E., Lloyd S., Lohse T., Lombardi S., Longo F., Lopez A., Lopez M., Lopez-Coto R., Loporchio S., Lucarelli F., Luque-Escamilla P.L., Lyard E., Maggio C., Majczyna A., Makariev M., Mallamaci M., Mandat D., Maneva G., Manganaro M., Manico G., Marcowith A., Marculewicz M., Markoff S., Marquez P., Marti J., Martinez O., Martinez M., Martinez G., Martinez-Huerta H., Maurin G., Mazin D., Mbarubucyeye J.D., Miranda D.M., Meyer M., Micanovic S., Miener T., Minev M., Miranda J.M., Mitchell A., Mizuno T., Mode B., Moderski R., Mohrmann L., Molina E., Montaruli T., Moralejo A., Merino J.M., Morcuende-Parrilla D., Morselli A., Mukherjee R., Mundell C., Murach T., Muraishi H., Nagai A., Nakamori T., Nemmen R., Niemiec J., Nieto D., Nievas M., Nikolajuk M., Nishijima K., Noda K., Nosek D., Nozaki S., O'Brien P., Ohira Y., Ohishi M., Oka T., Ong R.A., Orienti M., Orito R., Orlandini M., Orlando E., Osborne J.P., Ostrowski M., Oya I., Pagliaro A., Palatka M., Paneque D., Pantaleo F.R., Paredes J.M., Parmiggiani N., Patricelli B., Pavletic L., Pe'Er A., Pech M., Pecimotika M., Peresano M., Persic M., Petruk O., Pfrang K., Piatteli P., Pietropaolo E., Pillera R., Pilszyk B., Pimentel D., Pintore F., Pita S., Pohl M., Poireau V., Polo M., Prado R.R., Prast J., Principe G., Produit N., Prokoph H., Prouza M., Przybilski H., Pueschel E., Puhlhofer G., Pumo M.L., Punch M., Queiroz F., Quirrenbach A., Rando R., Razzaque S., Rebert E., Recchia S., Reichherzer P., Reimer O., Reimer A., Renier Y., Reposeur T., Rhode W., Ribeiro D., Ribo M., Richtler T., Rico J., Rieger F., Rizi V., Rodriguez J., Fernandez G.R., Ramirez J.C.R., Vazquez J.J.R., Romano P., Romeo G., Roncadelli M., Rosado J., De Leon A.R., Rowell G., Rudak B., Rujopakarn W., Russo F., Sadeh I., Saha L., Saito T., Greus F.S., Sanchez D., Sanchez-Conde M., Sangiorgi P., Sano H., Santander M., Santos E.M., Sanuy A., Sarkar S., Saturni F.G., Sawangwit U., Scherer A., Schleicher B., Schovanek P., Schussler F., Schwanke U., Sciacca E., Scuderi S., Arroyo M.S., Sergijenko O., Servillat M., Seweryn K., Shalchi A., Sharma P., Shellard R.C., Siejkowski H., Sinha A., Sliusar V., Slowikowska A., Sokolenko A., Sol H., Specovius A., Spencer S., Spiga D., Stamerra A., Stanic S., Starling R., Stolarczyk T., Straumann U., Striskovic J., Suda Y., Swierk P., Tagliaferri G., Takahashi H., Takahashi M., Tavecchio F., Taylor L., Tejedor L.A., Temnikov P., Terrier R., Terzic T., Testa V., Tian W., Tibaldo L., Tonev D., Torres D.F., Torresi E., Tosti L., Tothill N., Tovmassian G., Travnicek P., Truzzi S., Tuossenel F., Umana G., Vacula M., Vagelli V., Valentino M., Vallage B., Vallania P., Eldik C.V., Varner G.S., Vassiliev V., Acosta M.V., Vecchi M., Veh J., Vercellone S., Vergani S., Verguilov V., Vettolani G.P., Viana A., Vigorito C.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., ITA, USA, GBR, FRA, DEU, ESP, AUS, BRA, BGR, CHL, HRV, FIN, JPN, IRL, MEX, NAM, NLD, POL, CZE, SVN, SWE, CHE, UKR, Astronomy, High Energy Astrophys. & Astropart. 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. 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 Lavergne, M. de Bony; De Caprio, V; dos Anjos, R. de Cassia; Dal Pino, E. M. de Gouveia; De Lotto, B.; De Martino, D.; de Naurois, M.; Wilhelmi, E. de Ona; De Palma, F.; de Souza, V; Delgado, C.; Della Ceca, R.; della Volpe, D.; Depaoli, D.; Di Girolamo, T.; Di Pierro, F.; Diaz, C.; Diaz-Bahamondes, C.; Diebold, S.; Djannati-Atai, A.; Dmytriiev, A.; Dominguez, A.; Donini, A.; Dorner, D.; Doro, M.; Dournaux, J.; Dwarkadas, V. V.; Ebr, J.; Eckner, C.; Einecke, S.; Ekoume, T. R. N.; Elsaesser, 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.; Gonzalez, J. M.; Gourgouliatos, K.; Grabarczyk, T.; Grandi, P.; Granot, J.; Grasso, D.; Green, J.; Grube, J.; Gueta, O.; Gunji, S.; Halim, A.; Harvey, M.; Collado, T. Hassan; Hayashi, K.; Heller, M.; Cadena, S. Hernandez; Hervet, O.; Hinton, J.; Hiroshima, N.; Hnatyk, B.; Hnatyk, R.; Hoffmann, D.; Hofmann, W.; Holder, J.; Horan, D.; Horandel, J.; Horvath, P.; Hovatta, T.; Hrabovsky, M.; Hrupec, D.; Hughes, G.; Hutten, M.; Iarlori, M.; Inada, T.; Inoue, S.; Insolia, A.; Ionica, M.; Iori, M.; Jacquemont, M.; Jamrozy, M.; Janecek, P.; Jimenez Martinez, I; Jin, W.; Jung-Richardt, I; Jurysek, J.; Kaaret, P.; Karas, V; Karkar, S.; Kawanaka, N.; Kerszberg, D.; Khelifi, B.; Kissmann, R.; Knodlseder, J.; Kobayashi, Y.; Kohri, K.; Komin, N.; Kong, A.; Kosack, K.; Kubo, H.; La Palombara, N.; Lamanna, G.; Lang, R. G.; Lapington, J.; Laporte, P.; Lefaucheur, J.; Lemoine-Goumard, M.; Lenain, J.; Leone, F.; Leto, G.; Leuschner, F.; Lindfors, E.; Lloyd, S.; Lohse, T.; Lombardi, S.; Longo, F.; Lopez, A.; Lopez, M.; Lopez-Coto, R.; Loporchio, S.; Lucarelli, F.; Luque-Escamilla, P. L.; Lyard, E.; Maggio, C.; Majczyna, A.; Makariev, M.; Mallamaci, M.; Mandat, D.; Maneva, G.; Manganaro, M.; Manico, G.; Marcowith, A.; Marculewicz, M.; Markoff, S.; Marquez, P.; Marti, J.; Martinez, O.; Martinez, M.; Martinez, G.; Martinez-Huerta, H.; Maurin, G.; Mazin, D.; Mbarubucyeye, J. D.; Miranda, D. Medina; Meyer, M.; Micanovic, S.; Miener, T.; Minev, M.; Miranda, J. M.; Mitchell, A.; Mizuno, T.; Mode, B.; Moderski, R.; Mohrmann, L.; Molina, E.; Montaruli, T.; Moralejo, A.; Morales Merino, J.; Morcuende-Parrilla, D.; Morselli, A.; Mukherjee, R.; Mundell, C.; Murach, T.; Muraishi, H.; Nagai, A.; Nakamori, T.; Nemmen, R.; Niemiec, J.; Nieto, D.; Nievas, M.; Nikolajuk, M.; Nishijima, K.; Noda, K.; Nosek, D.; Nozaki, S.; Ohira, Y.; Ohishi, M.; Oka, T.; Ong, R. A.; Orienti, M.; Orito, R.; Orlandini, M.; Orlando, E.; Osborne, J. P.; Ostrowski, M.; Oya, I; Pagliaro, A.; Palatka, M.; Paneque, D.; Pantaleo, F. R.; Paredes, J. M.; Parmiggiani, N.; Patricelli, B.; Pavletic, L.; Pe'er, A.; Pech, M.; Pecimotika, M.; Peresano, M.; Persic, M.; Petruk, O.; Pfrang, K.; Piatteli, P.; Pietropaolo, E.; Pillera, R.; Pilszyk, B.; Pimentel, D.; Pintore, F.; Pita, S.; Pohl, M.; Poireau, V; Polo, M.; Prado, R. R.; Prast, J.; Principe, G.; Produit, N.; Prokoph, H.; Prouza, M.; Przybilski, H.; Pueschel, E.; Puehlhofer, G.; Pumo, M. L.; Punch, M.; Queiroz, F.; Quirrenbach, A.; Rando, R.; Razzaque, S.; Rebert, E.; Recchia, S.; Reichherzer, P.; Reimer, O.; Reimer, A.; Renier, Y.; Reposeur, T.; Rhode, W.; Ribeiro, D.; Ribo, M.; Richtler, T.; Rico, J.; Rieger, F.; Rizi, V; Rodriguez, J.; Fernandez, G. Rodriguez; Ramirez, J. C. Rodriguez; Rodriguez Vazquez, J. J.; Romano, P.; Romeo, G.; Roncadelli, M.; Rosado, J.; de Leon, A. Rosales; Rowell, G.; Rudak, B.; Rujopakarn, W.; Russo, F.; Sadeh, I; Saha, L.; Saito, T.; Greus, F. Salesa; Sanchez, D.; Sanchez-Conde, M.; Sangiorgi, P.; Sano, H.; Santander, M.; Santos, E. M.; Sanuy, A.; Sarkar, S.; Saturni, F. G.; Sawangwit, U.; Scherer, A.; Schleicher, B.; Schovanek, P.; Schussler, F.; Schwanke, U.; Sciacca, E.; Scuderi, S.; Arroyo, M. Seglar; Sergijenko, O.; Servillat, M.; Seweryn, K.; Shalchi, A.; Sharma, P.; Shellard, R. C.; Siejkowski, H.; Sinha, A.; Sliusar, V; Slowikowska, A.; Sokolenko, A.; Sol, H.; Specovius, A.; Spencer, S.; Spiga, D.; Stamerra, A.; Starling, R.; Stolarczyk, T.; Straumann, U.; Striskovic, J.; Suda, Y.; Tagliaferri, G.; Takahashi, H.; Takahashi, M.; Tavecchio, F.; Taylor, L.; Tejedor, L. A.; Temnikov, P.; Terrier, R.; Terzic, T.; Testa, V; Tian, W.; Tibaldo, L.; Tonev, D.; Torres, D. F.; Torresi, E.; Tosti, L.; Tothill, N.; Tovmassian, G.; Travnicek, P.; Truzzi, S.; Tuossenel, F.; Umana, G.; Vacula, M.; Vagelli, V.; Valentino, M.; Vallage, B.; Vallania, P.; van Eldik, C.; Varner, G. S.; Vassiliev, V.; Vazquez Acosta, M.; Vecchi, M.; Veh, J.; Vercellone, S.; Vergani, S.; Verguilov, V.; Vettolani, G. P.; Viana, A.; Vigorito, C. 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.

Published
2021

7. Extending the observation limits of Imaging Air Cherenkov Telescopes toward horizon

Author

M. Peresano, J. Besenrieder, Masahiro Teshima, Razmik Mirzoyan, Nikola Godinovic, Juliane van Scherpenberg, Ievgen Vovk, D. Zarić, and Petar Temnikov

Subjects
Physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Gamma ray, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy, Cosmic ray, IACT, Cherenkov Telescope Array, 01 natural sciences, Air shower, 0103 physical sciences, Density of air, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, 010306 general physics, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), Instrumentation, Cherenkov radiation, Zenith
Abstract

Usually the Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes, used for the ground-based gamma-ray astronomy in the very high energy range 50 GeV - 50 TeV, perform air shower observations till the zenith angle of ~60 deg. Beyond that limit the column density of air increases rapidly and the Cherenkov light absorption starts playing a major role. Absence of a proper calibration method of light transmission restrained researchers performing regular measurements under zenith angles >>60 deg. We extend the observation of air showers in Cherenkov light till almost the horizon. We use an aperture photometry technique for calibrating the Cherenkov light transmission in atmosphere during observations under very large zenith angles. Along with longer in time observations of a given source, this observation technique allows one to strongly increase the collection area and the event statistics of Cherenkov telescopes for the very high energy part of the spectrum. Study of the spectra of the highest energy gamma rays from a handful of candidate sources can provide a clue for the origin of the galactic cosmic rays. We show that MAGIC very large zenith angle observations yield a collection area in excess of a square kilometer. For selected sources this is becoming comparable with the target collection area anticipated with the Cherenkov Telescope Array., 6 pages, 5 figures, available online in Nucl. Instr. Meth. in the volume of the RICH10 conference proceedings

Published
2020

8. Testing two-component models on very high-energy gamma-ray-emitting BL Lac objects

Author

Razmik Mirzoyan, D. Ninci, Susumu Inoue, Dorota Sobczyńska, V. Verguilov, Chiara Righi, J. van Scherpenberg, I. Šnidarić, John Hoang, Y. Chai, Stefano Covino, A. Babić, F. Di Pierro, D. Strom, Jose Luis Contreras, Petar Temnikov, Elisa Bernardini, C. Arcaro, Y. Iwamura, Ž. Bošnjak, Juan Cortina, Andrei Berdyugin, Bernd Schleicher, L. Jouvin, M. Makariev, Massimo Persic, P. Peñil, Markus Garczarczyk, Antonio Stamerra, J. Becerra González, F. de Palma, A. Arbet Engels, F. Leone, B. Machado de Oliveira Fraga, L. Nogués, Juan Abel Barrio, Sebastian Kiehlmann, A. Rugliancich, Marina Manganaro, S. Ansoldi, J. Rico, Anthony C. S. Readhead, M. Palatiello, H. Kubo, M. Karjalainen, Vitaly Neustroev, Laura Maraschi, Pawel Gliwny, Tomohiro Inada, N. Godinović, Giacomo Bonnoli, L. Bellizzi, Narek Sahakyan, M. Vazquez Acosta, Nicola Giglietto, P. G. Prada Moroni, K. Mannheim, M. Takahashi, Luca Tosti, S. Loporchio, D. Dominis Prester, Miguel Nievas-rosillo, Francesco Giordano, U. Barres de Almeida, C. Nigro, Valerio D'Elia, J. Otero-Santos, M. I. Martínez, Francesco Dazzi, Simone Mender, Alessia Spolon, G. Maneva, D. Hadasch, Elina Lindfors, Konstancja Satalecka, Luca Foffano, R. J. García López, Jenni Jormanainen, Michele Doro, A. Hahn, Takeshi Oka, Rumen Bachev, Kyoshi Nishijima, Daniel Mazin, A. Berti, A. Donini, B. Banerjee, T. Schweizer, Kari Nilsson, K. Noda, Armin Nabizadeh, G. Busetto, Shunsuke Sakurai, Daniel Kerszberg, M. Will, S. Gasparyan, A. Lamastra, M. Delfino, P. Munar-Adrover, A. López-Oramas, V. Fallah Ramazani, Carlo Vigorito, L. Saha, M. Mariotti, Walter Max-Moerbeck, N. Torres-Albà, Sarah M. Wagner, David Paneque, A. Biland, F. D' Ammando, Anton Strigachev, J. Besenrieder, M. Hütten, I. Vovk, C. Maggio, Arto Oksanen, L. Pavletić, D. Elsaesser, Matteo Cerruti, S. Fukami, Christian Fruck, U. Colin, David A. Green, D. Lelas, Kazuma Ishio, V. A. Acciari, W. Bhattacharyya, Yosuke Kobayashi, A. Fattorini, R. Reinthal, D. Zarić, Seiya Nozaki, E. Do Souto Espiñeira, Tomislav Terzić, Y. Kajiwara, Julian Sitarek, A. De Angelis, D. Miceli, M. V. Fonseca, W. Rhode, Francesco Longo, S. Lombardi, B. De Lotto, Roberto Carosi, Elisa Prandini, Sofia Ventura, D. Morcuende, N. Talebpour Sheshvan, W. Bednarek, Saša Mićanović, M. Minev, Riccardo Paoletti, M. Teshima, S. M. Colak, Markus Gaug, M. Peresano, Yoshiki Ohtani, Jordi Delgado, J. Kushida, P. Kehusmaa, Oscar Blanch, Ashot Chilingarian, D. Dorner, L. A. Antonelli, L. O. Takalo, V. Moreno, Giacomo D'Amico, S. Cikota, Kevin Schmidt, Y. Suda, Talvikki Hovatta, Fabrizio Tavecchio, Rodrigo Reeves, Eduardo Colombo, Ll. Font, M. Hodges, G. Ferrara, Dario Hrupec, M. A. Lopez, G. Ceribella, J. M. Paredes, Ciro Bigongiari, M. Mallamaci, R. López-Coto, Abelardo Moralejo, E. Moretti, D. Depaoli, Edgar Molina, G. Vanzo, T. Saito, P. Majumdar, Jose Carlos Herrera, F. Wierda, M. Strzys, L. Di Venere, Vincenzo Vitale, Dominik Baack, Jose Miguel Miranda, Tjark Miener, T. Surić, P. Da Vela, M. Ribó, I. Puljak, 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., Bellizzi, L., Bernardini, E., Berti, A., Besenrieder, J., Bhattacharyya, W., Bigongiari, C., Biland, A., Blanch, O., Bonnoli, G., Bosnjak, A., Busetto, G., Carosi, R., Ceribella, G., Cerruti, M., Chai, Y., Chilingarian, A., Cikota, S., Colak, S. M., Colin, U., Colombo, E., Contreras, J. L., Cortina, J., Covino, S., D'Amico, G., D'Elia, V., Da Vela, P., Dazzi, F., De Angelis, A., De Lotto, B., Delfino, M., Delgado, J., Depaoli, D., Di Pierro, F., Di Venere, L., Do Souto Espineira, E., Dominis Prester, D., Donini, A., Dorner, D., Doro, M., Elsaesser, D., Fallah Ramazani, V., Fattorini, A., Ferrara, G., Foffano, L., Fonseca, M. V., Font, L., Fruck, C., Fukami, S., Garcia Lopez, R. J., Garczarczyk, M., Gasparyan, S., Gaug, M., Giglietto, N., Giordano, F., Gliwny, P., Godinovic, N., Green, D., Hadasch, D., Hahn, A., Herrera, J., Hoang, J., Hrupec, D., Hutten, M., Inada, T., Inoue, S., Ishio, K., Iwamura, Y., Jouvin, L., Kajiwara, Y., Karjalainen, M., Kerszberg, D., Kobayashi, Y., Kubo, H., Kushida, J., Lamastra, A., Lelas, D., Leone, F., Lindfors, E., Lombardi, S., Longo, F., Lopez, M., Lopez-Coto, R., Lopez-Oramas, A., Loporchio, S., MacHado De Oliveira Fraga, B., Maggio, C., Majumdar, P., Makariev, M., Mallamaci, M., Maneva, G., Manganaro, M., Mannheim, K., Maraschi, L., Mariotti, M., Martinez, M., Mazin, D., Mender, S., Micanovic, S., Miceli, D., Miener, T., Minev, M., Miranda, J. M., Mirzoyan, R., Molina, E., Moralejo, A., Morcuende, D., Moreno, V., Moretti, E., Munar-Adrover, P., Neustroev, V., Nigro, C., Nilsson, K., Ninci, D., Nishijima, K., Noda, K., Nogues, L., Nozaki, S., Ohtani, Y., Oka, T., Otero-Santos, J., Palatiello, M., Paneque, D., Paoletti, R., Paredes, J. M., Pavletic, L., Penil, P., Peresano, M., Persic, M., Prada Moroni, P. G., Prandini, E., Puljak, I., Rhode, W., Ribo, M., Rico, J., Righi, C., Rugliancich, A., Saha, L., Sahakyan, N., Saito, T., Sakurai, S., Satalecka, K., Schleicher, B., Schmidt, K., Schweizer, T., Sitarek, J., Snidaric, I., Sobczynska, D., Spolon, A., Stamerra, A., Strom, D., Strzys, M., Suda, Y., Suric, T., Takahashi, M., Tavecchio, F., Temnikov, P., Terzic, T., Teshima, M., Torres-Alba, N., Tosti, L., Van Scherpenberg, J., Vanzo, G., Vazquez Acosta, M., Ventura, S., Verguilov, V., Vigorito, C. F., Vitale, V., Vovk, I., Will, M., Zaric, D., Nievas-Rosillo, M., Arcaro, C., D' Ammando, F., De Palma, F., Hodges, M., Hovatta, T., Kiehlmann, S., Max-Moerbeck, W., Readhead, A. C. S., Reeves, R., Takalo, L., Reinthal, R., Jormanainen, J., Wierda, F., Wagner, S. M., Berdyugin, A., Nabizadeh, A., Talebpour Sheshvan, N., Oksanen, A., Bachev, R., Strigachev, A., Kehusmaa, P., 30588766 - Arcaro, Cornelia, Academy of Finland, Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (España), Swiss National Science Foundation, European Commission, Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades (España), Agencia Estatal de Investigación (España), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Metsähovi Radio Observatory, Aalto-yliopisto, and Aalto University

Subjects
galaxies [Gamma rays], Astronomical databases: miscellaneous, BL Lacertae objects: general, Galaxies: Active, Galaxies: jets, Gamma rays: galaxies, Radiation mechanisms: non-Thermal, SHEATH POLARIZATION STRUCTURES, Astrophysics, Parameter space, galaxies: active, galaxies: jets, astronomical databases: miscellaneous, radiation mechanisms: non-thermal, gamma rays: galaxies, 01 natural sciences, jet [Galaxies], non-Thermal [Radiation mechanisms], 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, LACERTAE OBJECTS, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Physics, TEV BLAZARS, CROSS-CORRELATIONS, galaxie [Gamma rays], 1ES 1959+650, Gamma ray, Active [Galaxies], miscellaneous [Astronomical databases], Spectral energy distribution, Física nuclear, RELATIVISTIC JETS, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, ACTIVE GALACTIC NUCLEI, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, FOS: Physical sciences, Context (language use), Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, GeneralLiterature_MISCELLANEOUS, 0103 physical sciences, Very-long-baseline interferometry, Blazar, MULTIWAVELENGTH OBSERVATIONS, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, general [BL Lacertae objects], ComputingMilieux_PERSONALCOMPUTING, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Light curve, Space and Planetary Science, X-RAY, ddc:520, jets [Galaxies], miscellaneou [Astronomical databases], COMPLETE SAMPLE, Free parameter
Abstract

MAGIC Collaboration: et al., [Context]: It has become evident that one-zone synchrotron self-Compton models are not always adequate for very high-energy (VHE) gamma-ray-emitting blazars. While two-component models perform better, they are difficult to constrain due to the large number of free parameters., [Aims]: In this work, we make a first attempt at taking into account the observational constraints from very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) data, long-term light curves (radio, optical, and X-rays), and optical polarisation to limit the parameter space for a two-component model and test whether or not it can still reproduce the observed spectral energy distribution (SED) of the blazars., [Methods]: We selected five TeV BL Lac objects based on the availability of VHE gamma-ray and optical polarisation data. We collected constraints for the jet parameters from VLBI observations. We evaluated the contributions of the two components to the optical flux by means of decomposition of long-term radio and optical light curves as well as modelling of the optical polarisation variability of the objects. We selected eight epochs for these five objects based on the variability observed at VHE gamma rays, for which we constructed the SEDs that we then modelled with a two-component model., [Results]: We found parameter sets which can reproduce the broadband SED of the sources in the framework of two-component models considering all available observational constraints from VLBI observations. Moreover, the constraints obtained from the long-term behaviour of the sources in the lower energy bands could be used to determine the region where the emission in each band originates. Finally, we attempt to use optical polarisation data to shed new light on the behaviour of the two components in the optical band. Our observationally constrained two-component model allows explanation of the entire SED from radio to VHE with two co-located emission regions., VFR and EL were supported by Academy of Finland projects 317636 and 320045. We would like to thank the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias for the excellent working conditions at the Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos in La Palma. The financial support of the German BMBF and MPG; the Italian INFN and INAF; the Swiss National Fund SNF; the ERDF under the Spanish MINECO (FPA2017-87859-P, FPA2017-85668-P, FPA2017-82729-C6-2-R, FPA2017-82729-C6-6-R, FPA2017-82729-C6-5-R, AYA2015-71042-P, AYA2016-76012-C3-1-P, ESP2017-87055-C2-2-P, FPA2017-90566-REDC); the Indian Department of Atomic Energy; the Japanese ICRR, the University of Tokyo, JSPS, and MEXT; the Bulgarian Ministry of Education and Science, National RI Roadmap Project DO1-268/16.12.2019 and the Academy of Finland grant nr. 320045 is gratefully acknowledged. This work was also supported by the Spanish Centro de Excelencia “Severo Ochoa” SEV-2016-0588 and SEV2015-0548, the Unidad de Excelencia “María de Maeztu” MDM-2014-0369 and the “la Caixa” Foundation (fellowship LCF/BQ/PI18/11630012), by the Croatian Science Foundation (HrZZ) Project IP-2016-06-9782 and the University of Rijeka Project 13.12.1.3.02, by the DFG Collaborative Research Centers SFB823/C4 and SFB876/C3, the Polish National Research Centre grant UMO2016/22/M/ST9/00382 and by the Brazilian MCTIC, CNPq and FAPERJ.

Published
2020

9. New Hard-TeV Extreme Blazars Detected with the MAGIC Telescopes*

Author

D. Fidalgo, K. Nishijima, R. Mirzoyan, B. Machado de Oliveira Fraga, P. Majumdar, P. Temnikov, L. Bellizzi, H. Kubo, M. Vazquez Acosta, M. I. Martínez, B. De Lotto, D. Dominis Prester, S. Paiano, I. Šnidarić, C. Nigro, Y. Iwamura, A. Carosi, Stefano Covino, M. Makariev, Alice Donini, A. Rugliancich, P. Munar-Adrover, G. Vanzo, Satoshi Fukami, John Hoang, Massimo Persic, J. Becerra González, Kazuma Ishio, T. Saito, S. Ansoldi, M. Palatiello, V. Fallah Ramazani, Jordi Delgado, C. Maggio, M. Delfino, S. Gasparyan, Elisa Prandini, Francesco Dazzi, Saverio Lombardi, A. Lamastra, Saša Mićanović, A. Berti, V. Vitale, J. Kushida, Kari Nilsson, Dario Hrupec, D. Lelas, A. Arbet Engels, M. Mallamaci, L. Maraschi, Elisa Bernardini, Fabrizio Tavecchio, P. Peñil, Vitaly Neustroev, Elina Lindfors, Ll. Font, M. Peresano, K. Noda, U. Colin, N. Godinović, Mitsunari Takahashi, E. Molina, David Paneque, A. Biland, W. Bednarek, W. Bhattacharyya, A. Fattorini, Ž. Bošnjak, M. Will, Anne M. Lohfink, A. Somero, Luca Tosti, Antonio Stamerra, P. Da Vela, C. Fruck, F. D'Ammando, D. Guberman, Katsuaki Asano, K. Mannheim, R. Carosi, M. Minev, Francesco Longo, Jose Luis Contreras, M. Teshima, A. Hahn, R. J. García López, G. Maneva, L. Nogués, Susumu Inoue, I. Puljak, M. V. Fonseca, Abelardo Moralejo, Nicola Giglietto, J. van Scherpenberg, Juan Cortina, Ferdinando Giordano, Kevin Schmidt, E. Moretti, D. Miceli, U. Barres de Almeida, Victoria Moreno, Valerio Vagelli, B. Banerjee, Shunsuke Sakurai, A. Babić, F. Di Pierro, D. Hadasch, M. Ribó, Oscar Blanch, T. Schweizer, Serena Loporchio, Marina Manganaro, A. De Angelis, A. Chilingaryan, Dominik Baack, M. Strzys, S. Cikota, Daniel Kerszberg, P. G. Prada Moroni, Chiara Righi, V. D'Elia, Wolfgang Rhode, G. Ceribella, M. López, Konstancja Satalecka, D. Mazin, Michele Doro, C. Arcaro, G. Busetto, Ciro Bigongiari, D. Zarić, Matteo Cerruti, R. López-Coto, Tomohiro Inada, J. Herrera, Léa Jouvin, F. Leone, Julian Sitarek, G. Ferrara, D. Dorner, Louis Antonelli, E. Colombo, D. Morcuende, N. Torres-Albà, M. Garczarczyk, I. Vovk, Dorota Sobczyńska, Victor A. Acciari, Y. Chai, Moritz Hütten, D. Strom, J. Rico, R. Paoletti, J. Besenrieder, David H. Green, T. Surić, M. Gaug, L. Di Venere, G. Bonnoli, D. Elsaesser, D. Ninci, Jose Miguel Miranda, E. Do Souto Espiñeira, Tomislav Terzić, S. M. Colak, Juan Abel Barrio, Narek Sahakyan, A. López-Oramas, Yusuke Suda, Carlo Vigorito, L. Saha, J. M. Paredes, Francesco Tombesi, Seiya Nozaki, Davide Depaoli, L. Foffano, M. Mariotti, Laboratoire d'Annecy de Physique des Particules (LAPP/Laboratoire d'Annecy-le-Vieux de Physique des Particules), 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), MAGIC, Acciari, V. A., Ansoldi, S., Antonelli, L. A., Engels, A. A., Asano, K., Baack, D., Babic, A., Banerjee, B., De Almeida, U. B., Barrio, J. A., Gonzalez, J. B., Bednarek, W., Bellizzi, L., Bernardini, E., Berti, A., Besenrieder, J., Bhattacharyya, W., Bigongiari, C., Biland, A., Blanch, O., Bonnoli, G., Bosnjak, Z., Busetto, G., Carosi, R., Ceribella, G., Cerruti, M., Chai, Y., Chilingaryan, A., Cikota, S., Colak, S. M., Colin, U., Colombo, E., Contreras, J. L., Cortina, J., Covino, S., D'Elia, V., Vela, P. D., Dazzi, F., Angelis, A. D., Lotto, B. D., Delfino, M., Delgado, J., Depaoli, D., Pierro, F. D., Venere, L. D., Souto Espieira, E. D., Prester, D. D., Donini, A., Dorner, D., Doro, M., Elsaesser, D., Ramazani, V. F., Fattorini, A., Ferrara, G., Fidalgo, D., Foffano, L., Fonseca, M. V., Font, L., Fruck, C., Fukami, S., Lopez, R. J. G., Garczarczyk, M., Gasparyan, S., Gaug, M., Giglietto, N., Giordano, F., Godinovic, N., Green, D., Guberman, D., Hadasch, D., Hahn, A., Herrera, J., Hoang, J., Hrupec, D., Hutten, M., Inada, T., Inoue, S., Ishio, K., Iwamura, Y., Jouvin, L., Kerszberg, D., Kubo, H., Kushida, J., Lamastra, A., Lelas, D., Leone, F., Lindfors, E., Lombardi, S., Longo, F., Lopez, M., Lopez-Coto, R., Lopez-Oramas, A., Loporchio, S., De Oliveira Fraga, B. M., Maggio, C., Majumdar, P., Makariev, M., Mallamaci, M., Maneva, G., Manganaro, M., Mannheim, K., Maraschi, L., Mariotti, M., Martinez, M., Mazin, D., Micanovic, S., Miceli, D., Minev, M., Miranda, J. M., Mirzoyan, R., Molina, E., Moralejo, A., Morcuende, D., Moreno, V., Moretti, E., Munar-Adrover, P., Neustroev, V., Nigro, C., Nilsson, K., Ninci, D., Nishijima, K., Noda, K., Nogues, L., Nozaki, S., Paiano, S., Palatiello, M., Paneque, D., Paoletti, R., Paredes, J. M., Peil, P., Peresano, M., Persic, M., Moroni, P. G. P., Prandini, E., Puljak, I., Rhode, W., Ribo, M., Rico, J., Righi, C., Rugliancich, A., Saha, L., Sahakyan, N., Saito, T., Sakurai, S., Satalecka, K., Schmidt, K., Schweizer, T., Sitarek, J., Snidaric, I., Sobczynska, D., Somero, A., Stamerra, A., Strom, D., Strzys, M., Suda, Y., Suric, T., Takahashi, M., Tavecchio, F., Temnikov, P., Terzic, T., Teshima, M., Torres-Alb, N., Tosti, L., Vagelli, V., Scherpenberg, J. V., Vanzo, G., Acosta, M. V., Vigorito, C. F., Vitale, V., Vovk, I., Will, M., Zaric, D., Arcaro, C., Carosi, A., D'Ammando, F., Tombesi, F., Lohfink, A., 30588766 - Arcaro, Cornelia, Laboratoire d'Annecy de Physique des Particules (LAPP), German Research Foundation, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Swiss National Science Foundation, Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (España), Department of Atomic Energy (India), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (Japan), Academy of Finland, Croatian Science Foundation, University of Rijeka, Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange, and European Commission

Subjects
Non-thermal radiation sources, VHE [gamma ray], Non-thermal radiation source, Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, Relativistic jet, MAGIC (telescope), 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, model: leptonic, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Physics, astro-ph.HE, education.field_of_study, Gamma ray, gamma ray: emission, quality, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, BL Lacertae objects, Física nuclear, Catalog, Astrophysics and Astronomy, astro-ph.GA, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Population, energy spectrum, FOS: Physical sciences, Proton Synchrotron, magnetization, BL Lacertae object, leptonic [model], blazar, X-ray, Settore FIS/05 - Astronomia e Astrofisica, emission [gamma ray], 0103 physical sciences, synchrotron, education, Blazar, Active galactic nuclei, Gamma-ray sources, X-ray active galactic nuclei, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Spectral density, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Catalogues, proton synchrotron, MAGIC, Synchrotron emission, Blazars, Relativistic jets, Catalogs, Automatic Keywords, gamma ray: VHE, Space and Planetary Science, Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA), ddc:520, spectral, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]
Abstract

Extreme high-frequency-peaked BL Lac objects (EHBLs) are blazars that exhibit extremely energetic synchrotron emission. They also feature nonthermal gamma-ray emission whose peak lies in the very high-energy (VHE, E > 100 GeV) range, and in some sources exceeds 1 TeV: this is the case for hard-TeV EHBLs such as 1ES 0229+200. With the aim of increasing the EHBL population, 10 targets were observed with the MAGIC telescopes from 2010 to 2017, for a total of 265 hr of good-quality data. The data were complemented by coordinated Swift observations. The X-ray data analysis confirms that all but two sources are EHBLs. The sources show only a modest variability and a harder-when-brighter behavior, typical for this class of objects. At VHE gamma-rays, three new sources were detected and a hint of a signal was found for another new source. In each case, the intrinsic spectrum is compatible with the hypothesis of a hard-TeV nature of these EHBLs. The broadband spectral energy distributions (SEDs) of all sources are built and modeled in the framework of a single-zone, purely leptonic model. The VHE gamma-ray-detected sources were also interpreted with a spine-layer model and a proton synchrotron model. The three models provide a good description of the SEDs. However, the resulting parameters differ substantially in the three scenarios, in particular the magnetization parameter. This work presents the first mini catalog of VHE gamma-ray and multiwavelength observations of EHBLs., We would like to thank the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias for the excellent working conditions at the Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos in La Palma. The financial support of the German BMBF and MPG, the Italian INFN and INAF, the Swiss National Fund SNF, the ERDF under the Spanish MINECO (FPA2015-69818-P, FPA2012-36668, FPA 2015-68378-P, FPA2017-82729-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-RE DC), the Indian Department of Atomic Energy, the Japanese JSPS and MEXT, the Bulgarian Ministry of Education and Science, National RI Roadmap Project DO1-153/28.08.2018, and the Academy of Finland grant nr. 320045 is gratefully acknowledged. This work was also supported by the Spanish Centro de Excelencia “Severo Ochoa” SEV-2016-0588 and SEV-2015-0548, 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. E.P. has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska–Curie grant agreement No. 664931. M.C. has received financial support through the Postdoctoral Junior Leader Fellowship Programme from la Caixa Banking Foundation, grant No. LCF/BQ/LI18/11630012.

Published
2020

10. MAGIC very large zenith angle observations of the Crab Nebula up to 100 TeV

Author

David Paneque, A. Biland, T. Schweizer, D. Ninci, Elina Lindfors, J. Besenrieder, D. Guberman, Masahiro Teshima, Chiara Righi, Daniel Mazin, A. De Angelis, J. Becerra González, A. Berti, S. Ansoldi, N. Godinović, S. Fukami, B. Machado de Oliveira Fraga, L. Bellizzi, Giacomo Bonnoli, D. Dominis Prester, K. Mannheim, N. Torres-Albà, J. Palacio, J. van Scherpenberg, P. Da Vela, A. Babić, D. Elsaesser, M. Ribó, D. Morcuende, P. Peñil, F. Leone, I. Šnidarić, A. Rugliancich, Marina Manganaro, V. Moreno, Dario Hrupec, Antonio Stamerra, P. G. Prada Moroni, G. Ceribella, Massimo Persic, Stefano Covino, Konstancja Satalecka, V. Fallah Ramazani, L. Nogués, P. Majumdar, Jose Carlos Herrera, Michele Doro, M. A. Lopez, G. Maneva, Elisa Prandini, D. Miceli, D. Fidalgo, Julian Sitarek, M. Mariotti, S. Cikota, M. I. Martínez, Razmik Mirzoyan, L. Saha, A. Chilingaryan, W. Rhode, G. Vanzo, M. Strzys, J. M. Paredes, Kyoshi Nishijima, U. Barres de Almeida, U. Colin, David A. Green, D. Hadasch, E. Do Souto Espiñeira, Tomislav Terzić, Ciro Bigongiari, D. Dorner, L. A. Antonelli, Petar Temnikov, M. Mallamaci, M. Minev, W. Bhattacharyya, Christian Fruck, S. Lombardi, D. Zarić, Jordi Delgado, John Hoang, Elisa Bernardini, G. Busetto, Y. Suda, Jose Luis Contreras, Dorota Sobczyńska, C. Maggio, Juan Cortina, R. López-Coto, Saša Mićanović, T. Surić, D. Lelas, Fabrizio Tavecchio, Y. Chai, Seiya Nozaki, S. Gasparyan, A. Lamastra, Eduardo Colombo, Ll. Font, S. M. Colak, D. Strom, J. Kushida, V. Vagelli, M. V. Fonseca, Auni Somero, M. Peresano, Kevin Schmidt, A. Arbet Engels, F. Di Pierro, M. Palatiello, Vitaly Neustroev, Luca Tosti, Juan Abel Barrio, M. Takahashi, I. Puljak, Narek Sahakyan, Carlo Vigorito, Laura Maraschi, Francesco Dazzi, Riccardo Paoletti, Markus Gaug, M. Vazquez Acosta, Nicola Giglietto, Valerio D'Elia, M. Delfino, A. López-Oramas, P. Munar-Adrover, G. Ferrara, Susumu Inoue, Abelardo Moralejo, E. Moretti, D. Depaoli, C. Nigro, V. A. Acciari, M. Makariev, Dominik Baack, R. J. García López, Luca Foffano, Francesco Giordano, Kari Nilsson, J. Rico, H. Kubo, Daniel Kerszberg, M. Will, Ž. Bošnjak, L. Jouvin, S. Loporchio, Simona Paiano, K. Noda, Jose Miguel Miranda, Edgar Molina, T. Saito, L. Di Venere, M. Hütten, B. Banerjee, Shunsuke Sakurai, Vincenzo Vitale, Ievgen Vovk, A. Hahn, Y. Iwamura, Markus Garczarczyk, Kazuma Ishio, B. De Lotto, W. Bednarek, Francesco Longo, Oscar Blanch, A. Fattorini, Roberto Carosi, Tomohiro Inada, A. Donini, Federal Ministry of Education and Research (Germany), Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica, Swiss National Science Foundation, Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (España), Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades (España), Department of Atomic Energy (India), Ministry of Education, Youth and Science (Bulgaria), Academy of Finland, Universidad de Barcelona, Croatian Science Foundation, University of Rijeka, Ministério da Ciência, Tecnologia e Inovação (Brasil), 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., Bellizzi, L., Bernardini, E., Berti, A., Besenrieder, J., Bhattacharyya, W., Bigongiari, C., Biland, A., Blanch, O., Bonnoli, G., Bosnjak, Z., Busetto, G., Carosi, R., Ceribella, G., Chai, Y., Chilingaryan, A., Cikota, S., Colak, S. M., Colin, U., 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., Depaoli, D., Di Pierro, F., Di Venere, L., Do Souto Espineira, E., Dominis Prester, D., Donini, A., Dorner, D., Doro, M., Elsaesser, D., Fallah Ramazani, V., Fattorini, A., Ferrara, G., Fidalgo, D., Foffano, L., Fonseca, M. V., Font, L., Fruck, C., Fukami, S., Garcia Lopez, R. J., Garczarczyk, M., Gasparyan, S., Gaug, M., Giglietto, N., Giordano, F., Godinovic, N., Green, D., Guberman, D., Hadasch, D., Hahn, A., Herrera, J., Hoang, J., Hrupec, D., Hutten, M., Inada, T., Inoue, S., Ishio, K., Iwamura, Y., Jouvin, L., Kerszberg, D., Kubo, H., Kushida, J., Lamastra, A., Lelas, D., Leone, F., Lindfors, E., Lombardi, S., Longo, F., Lopez, M., Lopez-Coto, R., Lopez-Oramas, A., Loporchio, S., Machado De Oliveira Fraga, B., Maggio, C., Majumdar, P., Makariev, M., Mallamaci, M., Maneva, G., Manganaro, M., Mannheim, K., Maraschi, L., Mariotti, M., Martinez, M., Mazin, D., Micanovic, S., Miceli, D., Minev, M., Miranda, J. M., Mirzoyan, R., Molina, E., Moralejo, A., Morcuende, D., Moreno, V., Moretti, E., Munar-Adrover, P., Neustroev, V., Nigro, C., Nilsson, K., Ninci, D., Nishijima, K., Noda, K., Nogues, L., Nozaki, S., Paiano, S., Palacio, J., Palatiello, M., Paneque, D., Paoletti, R., Paredes, J. M., Penil, P., Peresano, M., Persic, M., Prada Moroni, P. G., Prandini, E., Puljak, I., Rhode, W., Ribo, M., Rico, J., Righi, C., Rugliancich, A., Saha, L., Sahakyan, N., Saito, T., Sakurai, S., Satalecka, K., Schmidt, K., Schweizer, T., Sitarek, J., Snidaric, I., Sobczynska, D., Somero, A., Stamerra, A., Strom, D., Strzys, M., Suda, Y., Suric, T., Takahashi, M., Tavecchio, F., Temnikov, P., Terzic, T., Teshima, M., Torres-Alba, N., Tosti, L., Vagelli, V., Van Scherpenberg, J., Vanzo, G., Vazquez Acosta, M., Vigorito, C. F., Vitale, V., Vovk, I., Will, M., and Zaric, D.

Subjects
Gamma rays: general, ISM: supernova remnants, Methods: observational, Astronomy, gamma rays general, methods observational, ISM supernova remnants, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, model [emission], generalI [Gamma rays], Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, Raigs gamma, optical, MAGIC (telescope), 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Physics, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Supernoves, supernova remnants [ISM], Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, imaging, Supernovae, Gamma rays: generalI, high [energy], Spectral energy distribution, Física nuclear, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, general [Gamma rays], FOS: Physical sciences, SM: supernova remnants, monitoring [atmosphere], emission [gamma ray], 0103 physical sciences, Calibration, observational [Methods], 14. Life underwater, 010306 general physics, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), Cherenkov radiation, Zenith, Computer Science::Information Retrieval, Gamma rays, Astronomy and Astrophysics, calibration, supernova remnants [SM], MAGIC, Cherenkov counter, Crab Nebula, Space and Planetary Science, ddc:520, spectral, supernova remnant [ISM], Energy (signal processing), Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope
Abstract

Aims. We measure the Crab Nebula γ-ray spectral energy distribution in the ~100 TeV energy domain and test the validity of existing leptonic emission models at these high energies. Methods. We used the novel very large zenith angle observations with the MAGIC telescope system to increase the collection area above 10 TeV. We also developed an auxiliary procedure of monitoring atmospheric transmission in order to assure proper calibration of the accumulated data. This employs recording optical images of the stellar field next to the source position, which provides a better than 10% accuracy for the transmission measurements. Results. We demonstrate that MAGIC very large zenith angle observations yield a collection area larger than a square kilometer. In only ~ 56 h of observations, we detect the γ-ray emission from the Crab Nebula up to 100 TeV, thus providing the highest energy measurement of this source to date with Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes. Comparing accumulated and archival MAGIC and Fermi/LAT data with some of the existing emission models, we find that none of them provides an accurate description of the 1 GeV to 100 TeV γ-ray signal., 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), the Indian Department of Atomic Energy, the Japanese JSPS and MEXT, the Bulgarian Ministry of Education and Science, National RI Roadmap Project DO1-153/28.08.2018 and the Academy of Finland grant nr. 320045 is gratefully acknowledged. This work was also supported by the Spanish Centro de Excelencia “Severo Ochoa” SEV-2016-0588 and SEV-2015-0548, 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. This research has made use of the CTA instrument response functions provided by the CTA Consortium and Observatory, see http://www.cta-observatory.org/science/cta-performance/ (version prod3b-v1) for more details.

Published
2020

11. MAGIC observations of the diffuse γ -ray emission in the vicinity of the Galactic center

Author

U. Barres de Almeida, L. Nogués, Damir Lelas, Dorota Sobczyńska, Daniel Kerszberg, Zeljka Bosnjak, Satoshi Masuda, L. Maraschi, Elina Lindfors, M. Peresano, B. Banerjee, D. Strom, A. Rugliancich, Marina Manganaro, D. Zarić, Daniel Mazin, D. Dominis Prester, Shunsuke Sakurai, Kyoshi Nishijima, D. Fidalgo, Marc Ribó, I. Snidaric, S. Paiano, Pratik Majumdar, M. V. Fonseca, Giacomo Bonnoli, Martin Will, Karl Mannheim, Ivica Puljak, Seiya Nozaki, Juan Abel Barrio, M. Nöthe, Narek Sahakyan, Toshiaki Inada, Hidetoshi Kubo, G. Busetto, Konstancja Satalecka, Michele Doro, E. Molina, Pablo Peñil, P. Munar-Adrover, E. Colombo, Saša Mićanović, John Hoang, V. Fallah Ramazani, Lab Saha, T. Schweizer, Luca Foffano, K. Noda, Daniel Morcuende, Jose Luis Contreras, M. Palatiello, V. Vitale, J. Becerra González, Juan Cortina, Stefano Covino, Francesco Dazzi, A. Fernández-Barral, Alice Donini, L. A. Antonelli, D. Ninci, Sanae Inoue, U. Colin, Manuela Mallamaci, D. Hadasch, Alessio Berti, Kai Phillip Schmidt, Sidika Merve Colak, David A. Green, Alexander Hahn, Wrijupan Bhattacharyya, Jordi Delgado, Tomoki Saito, Giovanni Ceribella, J. van Scherpenberg, A. Arbet Engels, Léa Jouvin, Sargis Gasparyan, Fabrizio Tavecchio, A. Somero, F. Di Pierro, Lluis Font, Stefano Ansoldi, Manuel Delfino, I. Vovk, B. Machado de Oliveira Fraga, Vitaly Neustroev, Davide Depaoli, Riccardo Paoletti, Wolfgang Rhode, M. Strzys, David Paneque, D. Miceli, Mosè Mariotti, Yuki Iwamura, A. López-Oramas, P. G. Prada Moroni, N. Giglietto, Valerio Vagelli, Chiara Righi, G. Ferrara, J. Palacio, D. Guberman, Ana Babić, Nikola Godinovic, Luca Tosti, Ferdinando Giordano, P. Temnikov, Alicia Fattorini, R. J. García López, J. M. Paredes, Antonio Stamerra, Junko Kushida, P. Da Vela, M. I. Martínez, Serena Loporchio, Satoshi Fukami, G. Maneva, Jürgen Besenrieder, Christian Fruck, Camilla Maggio, Daniela Dorner, D. Elsaesser, Gaia Vanzo, V. A. Acciari, Massimo Persic, F. Leone, V. D'Elia, Kari Nilsson, M. Gaug, Adrian Biland, Masahiro Teshima, Saverio Lombardi, J. Herrera, Julian Sitarek, Cosimo Nigro, Elisa Bernardini, J. Rico, Dario Hrupec, M. A. Lopez, Mitsunari Takahashi, A. Chilingaryan, Dominik Baack, E. Do Souto Espiñeira, Tomislav Terzić, A. De Angelis, Yusuke Suda, Carlo Vigorito, Moritz Hütten, Abelardo Moralejo, E. Moretti, M. Minev, B. De Lotto, Ciro Bigongiari, M. Garczarczyk, R. López-Coto, Kazuma Ishio, Elisa Prandini, Rodolfo Carosi, R. Mirzoyan, Yating Chai, Stefan Cikota, M. Vazquez Acosta, Victoria Moreno, Francesco Longo, Lorenzo Bellizzi, Martin Makariev, Oscar Blanch, T. Surić, Shimpei Tsujimoto, Wlodek Bednarek, N. Torres-Albà, Jose Miguel Miranda, Alessandra Lamastra, L. Di Venere, Federal Ministry of Education and Research (Germany), Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica, Swiss National Science Foundation, Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (España), Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades (España), Department of Atomic Energy (India), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Ministry of Education, Youth and Science (Bulgaria), Academy of Finland, Universidad de Barcelona, Croatian Science Foundation, University of Rijeka, Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange, Ministério da Ciência e Tecnologia (Brasil), 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., Bellizzi, L., Bernardini, E., Berti, A., Besenrieder, J., Bhattacharyya, W., Bigongiari, C., Biland, A., Blanch, O., Bonnoli, G., Bosnjak, Z., Busetto, G., Carosi, R., Ceribella, G., Chai, Y., Chilingaryan, A., Cikota, S., Colak, S. M., Colin, U., 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., Depaoli, D., Di Pierro, F., Di Venere, L., Do Souto Espineira, E., Dominis Prester, D., Donini, A., Dorner, D., Doro, M., Elsaesser, D., Fallah Ramazani, V., Fattorini, A., Fernandez-Barral, A., Ferrara, G., Fidalgo, D., Foffano, L., Fonseca, M. V., Font, L., Fruck, C., Fukami, S., Garcia Lopez, R. J., Garczarczyk, M., Gasparyan, S., Gaug, M., Giglietto, N., Giordano, F., Godinovic, N., Green, D., Guberman, D., Hadasch, D., Hahn, A., Herrera, J., Hoang, J., Hrupec, D., Hutten, M., Inada, T., Inoue, S., Ishio, K., Iwamura, Y., Jouvin, L., Kerszberg, D., Kubo, H., Kushida, J., Lamastra, A., Lelas, D., Leone, F., Lindfors, E., Lombardi, S., Longo, F., Lopez, M., Lopez-Coto, R., Lopez-Oramas, A., Loporchio, S., 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., Micanovic, S., Miceli, D., Minev, M., Miranda, J. M., Mirzoyan, R., Molina, E., Moralejo, A., Morcuende, D., Moreno, V., Moretti, E., Munar-Adrover, P., Neustroev, V., Nigro, C., Nilsson, K., Ninci, D., Nishijima, K., Noda, K., Nogues, L., Nothe, M., Nozaki, S., Paiano, S., Palacio, J., Palatiello, M., Paneque, D., Paoletti, R., Paredes, J. M., Penil, P., Peresano, M., Persic, M., Prada Moroni, P. G., Prandini, E., Puljak, I., Rhode, W., Ribo, M., Rico, J., Righi, C., Rugliancich, A., Saha, L., Sahakyan, N., Saito, T., Sakurai, S., Satalecka, K., Schmidt, K., Schweizer, T., Sitarek, J., Snidaric, I., Sobczynska, D., Somero, A., Stamerra, A., Strom, D., Strzys, M., Suda, Y., Suric, T., Takahashi, M., Tavecchio, F., Temnikov, P., Terzic, T., Teshima, M., Torres-Alba, N., Tosti, L., Tsujimoto, S., Vagelli, V., Van Scherpenberg, J., Vanzo, G., Vazquez Acosta, M., Vigorito, C. F., Vitale, V., Vovk, I., Will, M., and Zaric, D.

Subjects
model [background], accelerator, Point source, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Gamma rays: general, background: model, general [Gamma rays], Cosmic ray, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics, programming, 01 natural sciences, Spectral line, law.invention, energy: threshold, law, gas, TRACER, 0103 physical sciences, ISM [Gamma rays], 010306 general physics, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Cosmic rays, Zenith, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Physics, Gamma rays: ISM, Galaxy: center, Galactic ridge, Galactic Center, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Particle accelerator, center [Galaxy], threshold [energy], MAGIC, gamma ray, Space and Planetary Science, cosmic radiation: galaxy, ddc:520, galaxy [cosmic radiation], Física nuclear, gamma rays: general, gamma rays: ISM, cosmic rays, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract

[Aims] In the presence of a sufficient amount of target material, γ-rays can be used as a tracer in the search for sources of Galactic cosmic rays (CRs). Here we present deep observations of the Galactic center (GC) region with the MAGIC telescopes and use them to infer the underlying CR distribution and to study the alleged PeV proton accelerator at the center of our Galaxy., [Methods] We used data from ≈100 h observations of the GC region conducted with the MAGIC telescopes over five years (from 2012 to 2017). Those were collected at high zenith angles (58−70 deg), leading to a larger energy threshold, but also an increased effective collection area compared to low zenith observations. Using recently developed software tools, we derived the instrument response and background models required for extracting the diffuse emission in the region. We used existing measurements of the gas distribution in the GC region to derive the underlying distribution of CRs. We present a discussion of the associated biases and limitations of such an approach., [Results] We obtain a significant detection for all four model components used to fit our data (Sgr A*, “Arc”, G0.9+0.1, and an extended component for the Galactic Ridge). We observe no significant difference between the γ-ray spectra of the immediate GC surroundings, which we model as a point source (Sgr A*) and the Galactic Ridge. The latter can be described as a power-law with index 2 and an exponential cut-off at around 20 TeV with the significance of the cut-off being only 2σ. The derived cosmic-ray profile hints to a peak at the GC position and with a measured profile index of 1.2 ± 0.3 is consistent with the 1/r radial distance scaling law, which supports the hypothesis of a CR accelerator at the GC. We argue that the measurements of this profile are presently limited by our knowledge of the gas distribution in the GC vicinity., 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), the Indian Department of Atomic Energy, the Japanese JSPS and MEXT, the Bulgarian Ministry of Education and Science, National RI Roadmap Project DO1-153/28.08.2018 and the Academy of Finland grant nr. 320045 is gratefully acknowledged. This work was also supported by the Spanish Centro de Excelencia “Severo Ochoa” SEV-2016-0588 and SEV-2015-0548, 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 Center grant UMO-2016/22/M/ST9/00382 and by the Brazilian MCTIC, CNPq and FAPERJ.

Published
2020

12. 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

13. A search for dark matter in Triangulum II with the MAGIC telescopes

Author

Satoshi Fukami, Alice Donini, F. Leone, Lorenzo Bellizzi, Wlodek Bednarek, Masahiro Teshima, M. Palatiello, N. Torres-Albà, Daniela Dorner, D. Dominis Prester, Pablo Peñil, Fabrizio Tavecchio, Gaia Vanzo, Francesco Dazzi, Ll. Font, Kari Nilsson, V. Vitale, Valerio Vagelli, Nikola Godinovic, Jose Miguel Miranda, E. Prandini, Christian Fruck, G. Busetto, Yating Chai, D. Miceli, V. Fallah Ramazani, Stefan Cikota, Jordi Delgado, Pawel Gliwny, M. Vazquez Acosta, M. Gaug, A. Somero, G. Ferrara, Manuel Delfino, D. Zarić, Victoria Moreno, L. Nogués, Jarred Gershon Green, Adrian Biland, Cosimo Nigro, F. Di Pierro, Ž. Bošnjak, J. Herrera, Giacomo Bonnoli, D. Ninci, P. G. Prada Moroni, E. Molina, Francesco Longo, John Hoang, Chiara Righi, E. Colombo, Ana Babić, Serena Loporchio, D. Fidalgo, I. Snidaric, Lab Saha, Luca Foffano, Razmik Mirzoyan, U. Barres de Almeida, J. van Scherpenberg, Elisa Bernardini, Stefano Ansoldi, Tjark Miener, David Paneque, U. Colin, David A. Green, J. Kushida, V. D'Elia, Daniel Morcuende, Jose Luis Contreras, Juan Cortina, P. Temnikov, Alexander Hahn, Juan Abel Barrio, J. Rico, Riccardo Paoletti, Alessandra Lamastra, L. Di Venere, M. Peresano, D. Guberman, Narek Sahakyan, Damir Lelas, Francesco Gabriele Saturni, Dorota Sobczyńska, Léa Jouvin, B. De Lotto, S. Nozaki, Stefano Covino, B. Banerjee, Wrijupan Bhattacharyya, Shunsuke Sakurai, D. Strom, Kai Phillip Schmidt, K. Noda, P. Da Vela, J. Palacio, Martin Makariev, E. Do Souto Espiñeira, Tomislav Terzić, Ivica Puljak, Oscar Blanch, Dario Hrupec, Sidika Merve Colak, D. Hadasch, Davide Depaoli, M. A. Lopez, J. Becerra González, D. Elsaesser, J. M. Paredes, Antonio Stamerra, Mitsunari Takahashi, P. Munar-Adrover, Victor A. Acciari, Abelardo Moralejo, Ievgen Vovk, Camilla Maggio, E. Moretti, Pratik Majumdar, M. V. Fonseca, Mosè Mariotti, Moritz Hütten, Julian Sitarek, A. Arbet Engels, A. De Angelis, Vitaly Neustroev, Sargis Gasparyan, Yuki Iwamura, Martin Will, A. Rugliancich, Marina Manganaro, Saverio Lombardi, A. López-Oramas, Susumu Inoue, Alessio Berti, Luca Tosti, S. Mićanović, K. Nishijima, L. A. Antonelli, Jürgen Besenrieder, T. Schweizer, M. Minev, Ferdinando Giordano, Toshiaki Inada, Wolfgang Rhode, Konstancja Satalecka, Manuela Mallamaci, G. Maneva, Michele Doro, Yusuke Suda, Carlo Vigorito, Ciro Bigongiari, T. Surić, S. Paiano, M. Garczarczyk, Karl Mannheim, R. López-Coto, Daniel Kerszberg, Tomoki Saito, Giovanni Ceribella, Kazuma Ishio, Rodolfo Carosi, Dominik Baack, Ashot Chilingarian, L. Maraschi, Elina Lindfors, Marc Ribó, Daniel Mazin, Hidetoshi Kubo, Alicia Fattorini, M. I. Martínez, B. Machado de Oliveira Fraga, N. Giglietto, R. J. García López, Massimo Persic, Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades (España), Agencia Estatal de Investigación (España), Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (España), 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., Bellizzi, L., Bernardini, E., Berti, A., Besenrieder, J., Bhattacharyya, W., Bigongiari, C., Biland, A., Blanch, O., Bonnoli, G., Bosnjak, Z., Busetto, G., Carosi, R., Ceribella, G., Chai, Y., Chilingarian, A., Cikota, S., Colak, S. M., Colin, U., 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., Depaoli, D., Di Pierro, F., Di Venere, L., Do Souto Espineira, E., Dominis Prester, D., Donini, A., Dorner, D., Doro, M., Elsaesser, D., Fallah Ramazani, V., Fattorini, A., Ferrara, G., Fidalgo, D., Foffano, L., Fonseca, M. V., Font, L., Fruck, C., Fukami, S., Garcia Lopez, R. J., Garczarczyk, M., Gasparyan, S., Gaug, M., Giglietto, N., Giordano, F., Gliwny, P., Godinovic, N., Green, D., Green, J. G., Guberman, D., Hadasch, D., Hahn, A., Herrera, J., Hoang, J., Hrupec, D., Hutten, M., Inada, T., Inoue, S., Ishio, K., Iwamura, Y., Jouvin, L., Kerszberg, D., Kubo, H., Kushida, J., Lamastra, A., Lelas, D., Leone, F., Lindfors, E., Lombardi, S., Longo, F., Lopez, M., Lopez-Coto, R., Lopez-Oramas, A., Loporchio, S., Machado de Oliveira Fraga, B., Maggio, C., Majumdar, P., Makariev, M., Mallamaci, M., Maneva, G., Manganaro, M., Mannheim, K., Maraschi, L., Mariotti, M., Martinez, M., Mazin, D., Micanovic, S., Miceli, D., Miener, T., Minev, M., Miranda, J. M., Mirzoyan, R., Molina, E., Moralejo, A., Morcuende, D., Moreno, V., Moretti, E., Munar-Adrover, P., Neustroev, V., Nigro, C., Nilsson, K., Ninci, D., Nishijima, K., Noda, K., Nogues, L., Nozaki, S., Paiano, S., Palacio, J., Palatiello, M., Paneque, D., Paoletti, R., Paredes, J. M., Penil, P., Peresano, M., Persic, M., Prada Moroni, P. G., Prandini, E., 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., Schmidt, K., Schweizer, T., Sitarek, J., Snidaric, I., Sobczynska, D., Somero, A., Stamerra, A., Strom, D., Suda, Y., Suric, T., Takahashi, M., Tavecchio, F., Temnikov, P., Terzic, T., Teshima, M., Torres-Alba, N., Tosti, L., Vagelli, V., van Scherpenberg, J., Vanzo, G., Vazquez Acosta, M., Vigorito, C. F., Vitale, V., Vovk, I., Will, M., and Zaric, D.

Subjects
Dwarf spheroidal satellite galaxies, Astrophysics, 7. Clean energy, 01 natural sciences, dark matter [WIMP], Imaging air Cherenkov telescopes, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph), WIMP, Dwarf spheroidal satellite galaxie, flux [gamma ray], Triangulum II, annihilation [WIMP], 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Physics, astro-ph.HE, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Annihilation, scaling, density [dark matter], hep-ph, halo [dark matter], High Energy Physics - Phenomenology, Dark matter, Indirect searches, kinematics, Física nuclear, Halo, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Astrophysics and Astronomy, Milky Way, satellite, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, GeneralLiterature_MISCELLANEOUS, VHE, annihilation [down], 0103 physical sciences, Imaging air Cherenkov telescope, Indirect searche, ddc:530, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Particle Physics - Phenomenology, Triangulum, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, ComputingMilieux_PERSONALCOMPUTING, Astronomy and Astrophysics, MAGIC, Galaxy, Dark matter halo, annihilation [cross section], Space and Planetary Science, galaxy
Abstract

MAGIC Collaboration: et al., arXiv:2003.05260v1, We present the first results from very-high-energy observations of the dwarf spheroidal satellite candidate Triangulum II with the MAGIC telescopes from 62.4 hours of good-quality data taken between August 2016 and August 2017. We find no gamma-ray excess in the direction of Triangulum II, and upper limits on both the differential and integral gamma-ray flux are presented. Currently, the kinematics of Triangulum II are affected by large uncertainties leading to a bias in the determination of the properties of its dark matter halo. Using a scaling relation between the annihilation J -factor and heliocentric distance of well-known dwarf spheroidal galaxies, we estimate an annihilation J -factor for Triangulum II for WIMP dark matter of log[Jann(0.5◦)/ GeV2cm−5] = 19.35±0.37. We also derive a dark matter density profile for the object relying on results from resolved simulations of Milky Way sized dark matter halos. We obtain 95% confidence-level limits on the thermally averaged annihilation cross section for WIMP annihilation into various Standard Model channels. The most stringent limits are obtained in the τ−τ+final state, where a cross section for annihilation down to hσannvi = 3.05 × 10−24cm3s−1is excluded., The financial support of the German BMBF and MPG, Germany, the Italian INFN and INAF, Italy, the Swiss National Fund SNF, the ERDF under the Spanish MINECO (FPA2017-87859-P, FPA2017-85668-P, FPA2017-82729-C6-2-R, FPA2017-82729-C6-6-R, FPA2017-82729-C6-5-R, AYA2015-71042-P, AYA2016-76012-C3-1-P, ESP2017-87055-C2-2-P, FPA2017-90566-REDC), the Indian Department of Atomic Energy, the Japanese JSPS, Japan and MEXT, Japan, the Bulgarian Ministry of Education and Science, National RI Roadmap Project DO1-153/28.08.2018 and the Academy of Finland grant nr. 320045 is gratefully acknowledged. This work was also supported by the Spanish Centro de Excelencia “Severo Ochoa” SEV-2016-0588 and SEV-2015-0548, 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, Croatia Project 13.12.1.3.02, by the DFG, Germany Collaborative Research Centers SFB823/C4 and SFB876/C3, the Polish National Research Centre, Polland grant UMO-2016/22/M/ST9/00382 and by the Brazilian MCTIC, CNPq, Brazil and FAPERJ, Brazil .

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2020

14. Statistics of VHE gamma-Rays in Temporal Association with Radio Giant Pulses from the Crab Pulsar

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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.

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2019
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15. Testing emission models on the extreme blazar 2WHSP J073326.7+515354 detected at very high energies with the MAGIC telescopes

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Adrian Biland, J. Becerra González, J. Rico, Satoshi Fukami, Alessandra Lamastra, D. Mazin, G. Busetto, L. Di Venere, Alessio Berti, F. Leone, Neustroev, Kazuma Ishio, R. Mirzoyan, Rodolfo Carosi, Mosè Mariotti, Masahiro Teshima, Manuela Mallamaci, Sargis Gasparyan, Léa Jouvin, John Hoang, Cosimo Nigro, F. D'Ammando, A. Somero, Wolfgang Rhode, L. Nogués, A. Arbet Engels, Juan Abel Barrio, M. Minev, D. Dominis Prester, Giacomo Bonnoli, Stefano Covino, A. López-Oramas, Narek Sahakyan, Daniela Dorner, Luca Tosti, Julian Sitarek, Fallah Ramazani, Tihomir Surić, Pablo Peñil, Lorenzo Bellizzi, Gaia Vanzo, M. Gaug, D. Fidalgo, P. G. Prada Moroni, K. Nishijima, Daniela Hadasch, Francesco Longo, Alicia Fattorini, Tomoki Saito, Giovanni Ceribella, G. Maneva, U. Barres de Almeida, Damir Lelas, S. Paiano, Karl Mannheim, R. J. García López, Katsuaki Asano, David Paneque, Saverio Lombardi, D. Ninci, Wrijupan Bhattacharyya, Koji Noda, Chiara Righi, M. Peresano, Daniel Kerszberg, Pratik Majumdar, D. Guberman, Dorota Sobczyńska, Matteo Cerruti, V. A. Acciari, Yuki Iwamura, Susumu Inoue, Elisa Bernardini, Wlodek Bednarek, M. V. Fonseca, P. Temnikov, A. Rugliancich, Martin Makariev, Marina Manganaro, G. Ferrara, L. Maraschi, Elina Lindfors, Martin Will, D. Zarić, Oscar Blanch, Nikola Godinovic, D. Strom, E. Do Souto Espiñeira, N. Torres-Albà, Ferdinando Giordano, Jordi Delgado, U. Colin, David A. Green, Marc Ribó, M. Palatiello, F. Di Pierro, Ž. Bošnjak, Ivica Puljak, Tomislav Terzić, Alexander Hahn, D. Elsaesser, Toshiaki Inada, B. Banerjee, Shunsuke Sakurai, Kevin Schmidt, Dario Hrupec, E. Molina, Hidetoshi Kubo, M. A. Lopez, Konstancja Satalecka, M. I. Martínez, Michele Doro, Francesco Dazzi, E. Colombo, A. De Angelis, Mitsunari Takahashi, Lab Saha, Luca Foffano, P. Munar-Adrover, Massimo Persic, Stefano Ansoldi, Davide Depaoli, Yating Chai, Junko Kushida, Stefan Cikota, P. Da Vela, Jose Miguel Miranda, Vitale, Riccardo Paoletti, J. van Scherpenberg, Sasa Micanovic, B. Machado de Oliveira Fraga, J. Palacio, E. Prandini, M. Vazquez Acosta, J. M. Paredes, Antonio Stamerra, Moritz Hütten, Vagelli, A. Chilingaryan, Ievgen Vovk, Dominik Baack, Marcel Strzys, Jose Carlos Herrera, Jürgen Besenrieder, T. Schweizer, D’Elia, Camilla Maggio, Christian Fruck, N. Giglietto, Moreno, Yusuke Suda, Carlo Vigorito, Sidika Merve Colak, Manuel Delfino, Alice Donini, L. A. Antonelli, Ana Babić, R. Clavero, Daniel Morcuende, Jose Luis Contreras, Juan Cortina, Fabrizio Tavecchio, Ll. Font, I. Snidaric, Kari Nilsson, D. Miceli, Serena Loporchio, Abelardo Moralejo, E. Moretti, B. De Lotto, S. Nozaki, Ciro Bigongiari, M. Garczarczyk, R. López-Coto, ITA, 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., Bellizzi, L., Bernardini, E., Berti, A., Besenrieder, J., Bhattacharyya, W., Bigongiari, C., Biland, A., Blanch, O., Bonnoli, G., Bosnjak, Z., Busetto, G., Carosi, R., Ceribella, G., Cerruti, M., Chai, Y., Chilingaryan, A., Cikota, S., Colak, S. M., Colin, U., 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., Depaoli, D., Di Pierro, F., Di Venere, L., Do Souto Espineira, E., Dominis Prester, D., Donini, A., Dorner, D., Doro, M., Elsaesser, D., Fallah Ramazani, V., Fattorini, A., Ferrara, G., Fidalgo, D., Foffano, L., Fonseca, M. V., Font, L., Fruck, C., Fukami, S., Garcia Lopez, R. J., Garczarczyk, M., Gasparyan, S., Gaug, M., Giglietto, N., Giordano, F., Godinovic, N., Green, D., Guberman, D., Hadasch, D., Hahn, A., Herrera, J., Hoang, J., Hrupec, D., Hutten, M., Inada, T., Inoue, S., Ishio, K., Iwamura, Y., Jouvin, L., Kerszberg, D., Kubo, H., Kushida, J., Lamastra, A., Lelas, D., Leone, F., Lindfors, E., Lombardi, S., Longo, F., Lopez, M., Lopez-Coto, R., Lopez-Oramas, A., Loporchio, S., Machado de Oliveira Fraga, B., Maggio, C., Majumdar, P., Makariev, M., Mallamaci, M., Maneva, G., Manganaro, M., Mannheim, K., Maraschi, L., Mariotti, M., Martinez, M., Mazin, D., Micanovic, S., Miceli, D., Minev, M., Miranda, J. M., Mirzoyan, R., Molina, E., Moralejo, A., Morcuende, D., Moreno, V., Moretti, E., Munar-Adrover, P., Neustroev, V., Nigro, C., Nilsson, K., Ninci, D., Nishijima, K., Noda, K., Nogues, L., Nozaki, S., Paiano, S., Palacio, J., Palatiello, M., Paneque, D., Paoletti, R., Paredes, J. M., Penil, P., Peresano, M., Persic, M., Prada Moroni, P. G., Prandini, E., Puljak, I., Rhode, W., Ribo, M., Rico, J., Righi, C., Rugliancich, A., Saha, L., Sahakyan, N., Saito, T., Sakurai, S., Satalecka, K., Schmidt, K., Schweizer, T., Sitarek, J., Snidaric, I., Sobczynska, D., Somero, A., Stamerra, A., Strom, D., Strzys, M., Suda, Y., Suric, T., Takahashi, M., Tavecchio, F., Temnikov, P., Terzic, T., Teshima, M., Torres-Alba, N., Tosti, L., Vagelli, V., van Scherpenberg, J., Vanzo, G., Vazquez Acosta, M., Vigorito, C. F., Vitale, V., Vovk, I., Will, M., Zaric, D., Asano, K., D'Ammando, F., and Clavero, R.

Subjects
Astrophysics and Astronomy, galaxie [Gamma-rays], active [Galaxies], Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Hadron, FOS: Physical sciences, astro-ph.HE, Context (language use), Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Jet (particle physics), X-rays: general, 01 natural sciences, 7. Clean energy, law.invention, law, general [X-rays], 0103 physical sciences, MAGIC (telescope), Blazar, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, general [BL Lacertae objects], Gamma ray, BL Lacertae objects: general - galaxies: active - gamma-rays: galaxies - X-rays: general, Astronomy and Astrophysics, alaxies: active, BL Lacertae objects: general, gamma-rays: gala, Galaxies: active, Synchrotron, galaxies [gamma-rays], 13. Climate action, Space and Planetary Science, Spectral energy distribution, ddc:520, Física nuclear, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Gamma-rays: galaxies
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Extreme high-energy peaked BL Lac objects (EHBLs) are an emerging class of blazars. Their typical two-hump structured spectral energy distribution (SED) peaks at higher energies with respect to conventional blazars. Multi-wavelength (MWL) observations constrain their synchrotron peak in the medium to hard X-ray band. Their gamma-ray SED peaks above the GeV band, and in some objects it extends up to several TeV. Up to now, only a few EHBLs have been detected in the TeV gamma-ray range. In this paper, we report the detection of the EHBL 2WHSP J073326.7+515354, observed and detected during 2018 in TeV gamma rays with the MAGIC telescopes. The broad-band SED is studied within a MWL context, including an analysis of the Fermi-LAT data over ten years of observation and with simultaneous Swift-XRT, Swift-UVOT, and KVA data. Our analysis results in a set of spectral parameters that confirms the classification of the source as an EHBL. In order to investigate the physical nature of this extreme emission, different theoretical frameworks were tested to model the broad-band SED. The hard TeV spectrum of 2WHSP J073326.7+515354 sets the SED far from the energy equipartition regime in the standard one-zone leptonic scenario of blazar emission. Conversely, more complex models of the jet, represented by either a two-zone spine-layer model or a hadronic emission model, better represent the broad-band SED., MNRAS published

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2019

16. Deep observations of the globular cluster M15 with the MAGIC telescopes

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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

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2019

17. Following up transient sources at very high energies with MAGIc

Author

Daniela Dorner, Elia Do Souto Espiñeira, John Hoang, Antonio Stamerra, Yusuke Suda, Stefano Covino, Marina Manganaro, Susumu Inoue, Koji Noda, Elisa Bernardini, Elena Moretti, Konstancja Satalecka, Alicia Fattorini, Wrijupan Bhattacharyya, Markus Garczarczyk, Alessio Berti, Juan Cortina, Marc Ribó, M. Peresano, Satoshi Fukami, Davide Miceli, Martin Will, Luca Foffano, and Francesco Longo

Subjects
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Computer science, media_common.quotation_subject, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Magic (programming), FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy, Wide field, law.invention, Telescope, Neutron star, Sky, law, Neutrino, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Alert system, Cherenkov radiation, media_common
Abstract

Several classes of sources are known to emit different messengers. Among them, transient sources are a special case, due to their serendipitous occurrence, time variability and duration on different timescales. They are associated with explosive and catastrophic events where very compact objects like neutron stars and black holes are involved. The difficulty of observing such elusive and possibly short-lasting events requires a fast reaction and a well-organized alert network between different experiments. In order to characterize them in the best possible way, instruments with a wide field of view should serve as external triggers for facilities with small sky coverage. MAGIC, as a Cherenkov telescope, belongs to the latter category. The search for transients by MAGIC is possible thanks to an automatic alert system listening to the alerts sent by the Gamma-ray Coordinate Network (GCN). In this contribution we describe the MAGIC alert system, which was designed mainly for the follow-up of Gamma-Ray Bursts in its initial conception. The alert system was recently updated in a multi-messenger context, receiving alerts also from neutrino and GW observatories. Finally we will present the MAGIC program for transient sources and how it was adapted in the current multi-wavelength and multi-messenger panorama., Proceedings of the ICRC 2019; 8 pages

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2019

18. 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

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2019

19. Unraveling the Complex Behavior of Mrk 421 with Simultaneous X-Ray and VHE Observations during an Extreme Flaring Activity in 2013 April

Author

Simonetta Puccetti, D. Dominis Prester, M. Makariev, Alice Donini, Sofia O. Kurtanidze, G. Bonnoli, Julian Sitarek, D. Dorner, Yoshiki Ohtani, J. Becerra González, S. Ventura, S. Ansoldi, L. Nogués, J. Besenrieder, A. Rugliancich, P. Munar-Adrover, Jose Luis Contreras, B. Jordan, I. Puljak, Pawel Gliwny, L. V. Larionova, L. Di Venere, Sunay Ibryamov, Abelardo Moralejo, M. I. Martínez, B. De Lotto, Juan Cortina, A. A. Mokrushina, E. Moretti, Kaya Mori, Maria Petropoulou, Elena G. Larionova, J. Rico, Juan Abel Barrio, Narek Sahakyan, A. Fattorini, C. Fruck, F. Del Puppo, F. Verrecchia, Victoria Moreno, Chiara Righi, M. V. Fonseca, Elina Lindfors, Justin D. Finke, D. A. Morozova, V. D'Elia, A. López-Oramas, M. G. Nikolashvili, John Hoang, Susumu Inoue, L. Maraschi, R. Paoletti, R. Reinthal, A. Strigachev, Saverio Lombardi, T. Schweizer, E. Do Souto Espiñeira, Tomislav Terzić, Ferdinando Giordano, Fabrizio Tavecchio, C. Nigro, B. Banerjee, Bernd Schleicher, A. Hahn, R. G. Chanishvili, Francesco Longo, M. Will, Shunsuke Sakurai, Ll. Font, Takeshi Oka, Davide Depaoli, Alan P. Marscher, L. Saha, D. Elsaesser, Antonio Stamerra, R. Carosi, G. Ceribella, Joni Tammi, V. Fallah Ramazani, D. Lelas, T. Guever, M. Teshima, J. M. Paredes, Dorota Sobczyńska, Zeljka Bosnjak, Chakali Eswaraiah, A. C. R. Readhead, G. Busetto, Jorge Otero-Santos, Mislav Baloković, J. L. Richards, R. A. Chigladze, Y. Chai, J. Kushida, Seiya Nozaki, Kari Nilsson, U. Barres de Almeida, L. Foffano, Ciro Bigongiari, Saša Mićanović, V. Vitale, Wen Ping Chen, P. Temnikov, T. Saito, Andrei Berdyugin, David H. Green, D. Strom, F. Di Pierro, E. N. Kopatskaya, Stefano Covino, D. Miceli, S. Gasparyan, D. Blinov, G. Maneva, E. Molina, S. G. Jorstad, T. Surić, M. Mariotti, I. Šnidarić, Satoshi Fukami, H. Kubo, M. Vazquez Acosta, R. López-Coto, Kazuma Ishio, Y. Iwamura, M. Gaug, A. Lamastra, A. C. Sadun, J. Herrera, G. Vanzo, Oscar Blanch, T. S. Grishina, Walter Max-Moerbeck, Anne Lähteenmäki, S. M. Colak, Valeri M. Larionov, C. M. Raiteri, C. Maggio, O. M. Kurtanidze, S. Cikota, D. Ninci, G. Ferrara, A. De Angelis, Rumen Bachev, Yu. V. Troitskaya, M. Minev, Georgi Latev, Elisa Bernardini, Other groups, L. Pavletić, Elisa Prandini, Goran Damljanović, Evgeni Semkov, M. Delfino, Wolfgang Rhode, Yusuke Suda, Massimo Persic, Carlo Vigorito, A. Berti, Paul S. Smith, K. Noda, Dario Hrupec, C. Leto, Victor A. Acciari, K. Nishijima, B. Machado de Oliveira Fraga, Mitsunari Takahashi, P. Peñil, L. Bellizzi, Serena Loporchio, Jose Miguel Miranda, N. Godinović, M. Strzys, Ashot Chilingarian, N. Giglietto, U. Colin, W. Bednarek, Simone Mender, Moritz Hütten, W. Bhattacharyya, I. Agudo, R. Mirzoyan, Louis Antonelli, Dominik Baack, P. Majumdar, G. M. Madejski, A. Arbet Engels, Vitaly Neustroev, J. W. Moody, Luca Tosti, M. Villata, D. Morcuende, N. Torres-Albà, I. Vovk, Jordi Delgado, H. C. Lin, Kevin Schmidt, Talvikki Hovatta, D. Hadasch, M. Palatiello, Y. Kajiwara, Francesco Dazzi, M. Mallamaci, O. Vince, M. Peresano, Yosuke Kobayashi, P. Da Vela, F. D'Ammando, K. Mannheim, R. J. García López, Ivan S. Troitsky, Tjark Miener, David Paneque, A. Biland, Marina Manganaro, P. G. Prada Moroni, Merja Tornikoski, Matteo Cerruti, M. López, Konstancja Satalecka, D. Mazin, Michele Doro, J. Barnes, F. Leone, M. Ribó, J. van Scherpenberg, A. Babić, Alessia Spolon, Léa Jouvin, Manasvita Joshi, Vassil Verguilov, Daniel Kerszberg, V. Ramakrishnan, D. Zarić, Tomohiro Inada, E. Colombo, M. Perri, M. Garczarczyk, Federal Ministry of Education and Research (Germany), Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica, Swiss National Science Foundation, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (España), European Commission, Department of Atomic Energy (India), Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (Japan), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Ministry of Education, Youth and Science (Bulgaria), Academy of Finland, Croatian Science Foundation, University of Rijeka, German Research Foundation, National Centre for Research and Development (Poland), Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (Brasil), Fundação Carlos Chagas Filho de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (US), Department of Energy (US), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (France), Russian Science Foundation, Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, John Templeton Foundation, Shota Rustaveli National Science Foundation, Comisión Nacional de Investigación Científica y Tecnológica (Chile), Metsähovi Radio Observatory, Department of Electronics and Nanoengineering, Aalto-yliopisto, Aalto University, Magic, Collaboration, Other Groups And, Collaborator, Acciari, V. A., Ansoldi, S., Antonelli, L. A., Engels, A. A., Baack, D., Babic, A., Banerjee, B., De Almeida, U. B., Barrio, J. A., Gonzalez, J. B., Bednarek, W., Bellizzi, L. K., Bernardini, E., Berti, A., Besenrieder, J., Bhattacharyya, W., Bigongiari, C., Biland, A., Blanch, O., Bonnoli, G., Bosnjak, Z., Busetto, G., Carosi, R., Ceribella, G., Cerruti, M., Chai, Y., Chilingarian, A., Cikota, S., Colak, S. M., Colin, U., Colombo, E., Contreras, J. L., Cortina, J., Covino, S., D'Elia, V., Vela, P. D., Dazzi, F., Angelis, A. D., Lotto, B. D., Puppo, F. D., Delfino, M., Delgado, J., Depaoli, D., Pierro, F. D., Venere, L. D., Souto Espiñeira, E. D., Prester, D. D., Donini, A., Dorner, D., Doro, M., Elsaesser, D., Ramazani, V. F., Fattorini, A., Ferrara, G., Foffano, L., Fonseca, M. V., Font, L., Fruck, C., Fukami, S., Lopez, R. J. G., Garczarczyk, M., Gasparyan, S., Gaug, M., Giglietto, N., Giordano, F., Gliwny, P., Godinovic, N., Green, D., Hadasch, D., Hahn, A., Hassan, T., Herrera, J., Hoang, J., Hrupec, D., Hutten, M., Inada, T., Inoue, S., Ishio, K., Iwamura, Y., Jouvin, L., Kajiwara, Y., Kerszberg, D., Kobayashi, Y., Kubo, H., Kushida, J., Lamastra, A., Lelas, D., Leone, F., Lindfors, E., Lombardi, S., Longo, F., Lopez, M., Lopez-Coto, R., Lopez-Oramas, A., Loporchio, S., De Oliveira Fraga, B. M., Maggio, C., Majumdar, P., Makariev, M., Mallamaci, M., Maneva, G., Manganaro, M., Mannheim, K., Maraschi, L., Mariotti, M., Martinez, M., Mazin, D., Mender, S., Micanovic, S., Miceli, D., Miener, T., Minev, M., Miranda, J. M., Mirzoyan, R., Molina, E., Moralejo, A., Morcuende, D., Moreno, V., Moretti, E., Munar-Adrover, P., Neustroev, V., Nigro, C., Nilsson, K., Ninci, D., Nishijima, K., Noda, K., Nogues, L., Nozaki, S., Ohtani, Y., Oka, T., Otero-Santos, J., Palatiello, M., Paneque, D., Paoletti, R., Paredes, J. M., Pavletic, L., Peñil, P., Peresano, M., Persic, M., Moroni, P. G. P., Prandini, E., Puljak, I., Rhode, W., Ribo, M., Rico, J., Righi, C., Rugliancich, A., Saha, L., Sahakyan, N., Saito, T., Sakurai, S., Satalecka, K., Schleicher, B., Schmidt, K., Schweizer, T., Sitarek, J., Snidaric, I., Sobczynska, D., Spolon, A., Stamerra, A., Strom, D., Strzys, M., Suda, Y., Suric, T., Takahashi, M., Tavecchio, F., Temnikov, P., Terzic, T., Teshima, M., Torres-Alba, N., Tosti, L., Scherpenberg, J. V., Vanzo, G., Acosta, M. V., Ventura, S., Verguilov, V., Vigorito, C. F., Vitale, V., Vovk, I., Will, M., Zaric, D., Petropoulou, M., Finke, J., D'Ammando, F., Balokovic, M., Madejski, G., Mori, K., Puccetti, S., Leto, C., Perri, M., Verrecchia, F., Villata, M., Raiteri, C. M., Agudo, I., Bachev, R., Berdyugin, A., Blinov, D. A., Chanishvili, R., Chen, W. P., Chigladze, R., Damljanovic, G., Eswaraiah, C., Grishina, T. S., Ibryamov, S., Jordan, B., Jorstad, S. G., Joshi, M., Kopatskaya, E. N., Kurtanidze, O. M., Kurtanidze, S. O., Larionova, E. G., Larionova, L. V., Larionov, V. M., Latev, G., Lin, H. C., Marscher, A. P., Mokrushina, A. A., Morozova, D. A., Nikolashvili, M. G., Semkov, E., Smith, P. S., Strigachev, A., Troitskaya, Y. V., Troitsky, I. S., Vince, O., Barnes, J., Guver, T., Moody, J. W., Sadun, A. C., Hovatta, T., Richards, J. L., Max-Moerbeck, W., Readhead, A. C. S., Lahteenmaki, A., Tornikoski, M., Tammi, J., Ramakrishnan, V., and Reinthal, R.

Subjects
Individual sources Mrk 421, Flux, Astrophysics, Blazar, 7. Clean energy, 01 natural sciences, Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov observations, Gamma-ray, Active galaxie, Relativistic jet, MAGIC (telescope), BL lacertae objects, BL Lacertae objects, Blazars, Active galaxies, Markarian galaxies, Gamma-ray detectors, Gamma-rays, Relativistic jets, High energy astrophysics, Observational astronomy, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, astro-ph.HE, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Physics, Gamma ray, X-ray, Markarian galaxie, Física nuclear, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Astrophysics and Astronomy, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Individual sources Mrk 421, Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov observations, MAGIC, BL Lacertae objects, Blazars, Active galaxies, Markarian galaxies, Gamma-ray detectors, Gamma-rays, Relativistic jets, High energy astrophysics, Observational astronomy, Plasmoid, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, BL Lacertae object, High energy astrophysic, 0103 physical sciences, Gamma-ray detector, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Magnetic reconnection, Light curve, MAGIC, 13. Climate action, Space and Planetary Science, ddc:520, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract

We report on a multiband variability and correlation study of the TeV blazar Mrk 421 during an exceptional flaring activity observed from 2013 April 11 to 19. The study uses, among others, data from GLAST-AGILE Support Program (GASP) of the Whole Earth Blazar Telescope (WEBT), Swift, Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR), Fermi Large Area Telescope, Very Energetic Radiation Imaging Telescope Array System (VERITAS), and Major Atmospheric Gamma Imaging Cherenkov (MAGIC). The large blazar activity and the 43 hr of simultaneous NuSTAR and MAGIC/VERITAS observations permitted variability studies on 15 minute time bins over three X-ray bands (3-7 keV, 7-30 keV, and 30-80 keV) and three very-high-energy (VHE; >0.1 TeV) gamma-ray bands (0.2-0.4 TeV, 0.4-0.8 TeV, and >0.8 TeV). We detected substantial flux variations on multi-hour and sub-hour timescales in all of the X-ray and VHE gamma-ray bands. The characteristics of the sub-hour flux variations are essentially energy independent, while the multi-hour flux variations can have a strong dependence on the energy of the X-rays and the VHE gamma-rays. The three VHE bands and the three X-ray bands are positively correlated with no time lag, but the strength and characteristics of the correlation change substantially over time and across energy bands. Our findings favor multi-zone scenarios for explaining the achromatic/chromatic variability of the fast/slow components of the light curves, as well as the changes in the flux-flux correlation on day-long timescales. We interpret these results within a magnetic reconnection scenario, where the multi-hour flux variations are dominated by the combined emission from various plasmoids of different sizes and velocities, while the sub-hour flux variations are dominated by the emission from a single small plasmoid moving across the magnetic reconnection layer. © 2020. The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved., The financial support of the German BMBF and MPG, the Italian INFN and INAF, the Swiss National Fund SNF, the ERDF under the Spanish MINECO (FPA2017-87859-P, FPA2017-85668-P, FPA2017-82729-C6-2-R, FPA2017-827 29-C6-6-R, FPA2017-82729-C6-5-R, AYA2015-71042-P, AYA2016-76012-C3-1-P, ESP2017-87055-C2-2-P, and FPA 201790566REDC), the Indian Department of Atomic Energy, the Japanese JSPS and MEXT, the Bulgarian Ministry of Education and Science, National RI Roadmap Project DO-1153/28.08.2018 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-20160588 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 work made use of data from the NuSTAR mission, a project led by the California Institute of Technology, managed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and funded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. We thank the NuSTAR Operations, Software, and Calibration teams for support with the execution and analysis of these observations. This research has made use of the NuSTAR Data Analysis Software (NuSTARDAS) jointly developed by the ASI Science Data Center (ASDC; Italy) and the California Institute of Technology (USA). D.P. and A.B. are grateful to Amy Furniss and Wystan Benbow for providing the VERITAS VHE gamma-ray fluxes and for useful discussions about them. M.P. acknowledges support from the Lyman Jr. Spitzer Postdoctoral Fellowship and NASA Fermi grant No. 80NSSC18K1745., and J.F. is partially supported by NASA under contract S-15633Y. M.B. acknowledges support from NASA Headquarters under the NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship Program (grant NNX14AQ07H) and the black hole Initiative at Harvard University, which is funded in part by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation (grant GBMF8273) and in part by the John Templeton Foundation. This research was partially supported by the Bulgarian National Science Fund of the Ministry of Education and Science under grants DN 18-13/2017, DN 18-10/2017, KP06-H28/3 (2018), and KP-06-PN38/1 (2019), as well as for the Spanish MIMECO (AYA2016-80889-P, RYC-2013-14511) and the IAA-CSIC "Severo Ochoa" program SEV2017-0709. The St. Petersburg University team acknowledges support from Russian Science Foundation grant 17-12-01029. The Abastumani team acknowledges financial support of the project FR/638/6-320/12 by the Shota Rustaveli National Science Foundation under contract 31/77. T.G. acknowledges support from Istanbul University (Project numbers 49429 and 48285), Bilim Akademisi (BAGEP program), and TUBITAK (project numbers 13AT100-431, 13AT100-466, and 13AT60-430). The Boston University effort was supported in part by NASA grants NNX12AO90G and NNX14AQ58G. Data from the Steward Observatory spectropolarimetric monitoring project were used in this paper. This program is supported by Fermi Guest Investigator grants NNX08AW56G, NNX09 AU10G, NNX12AO93G, and NNX15AU81G. The OVRO 40 m monitoring program is supported in part by NASA grants NNX08AW31G and NNX11A043G and NSF grants AST-0808050 and AST-1109911. The Metsahovi team acknowledges the support from the Academy of Finland to our observing projects (numbers 212656, 210338, 121148, and others). W.M. acknowledges support from CONICYT project Basal AFB-170002.

Published
2020

20. 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

21. 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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2018

22. 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.

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2018

23. 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.]

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2018

24. The broad-band properties of the intermediate synchrotron peaked BL Lac S2 0109+22 from radio to VHE gamma rays

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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)

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2018
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25. Constraining very-high-energy and optical emission from FRB 121102 with the MAGIC telescopes

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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

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2018

26. 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

27. 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 González, 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., Fernández Barral, A., Fidalgo, D., Fonseca, M. V., Font, L., Frantzen, K., Fruck, C, Galindo, D., Garciá López, 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., López 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

28. 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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2017

29. 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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2017

30. 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.

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2017

31. 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 González, 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 Oña 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., Fernández Barral, A., Fidalgo, D., Fonseca, M. V., Font, L., Fruck, C., Galindo, D., García López, 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 Albà , 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

32. 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

33. 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

34. 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 González, 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 Oña 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., 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., Godinoviä , N., González Muñoz, 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., López 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

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2016

35. Multiband variability studies and novel broadband SED modeling of Mrk 501 in 2009

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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 González, 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 Oña 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., 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., Godinoviä , 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, Lã³pez, M., López 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.

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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
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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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36. Search for VHE gamma-ray emission from Geminga pulsar and nebula with the MAGIC telescopes

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J. Palacio, S. Bonnefoy, R. Mirzoyan, Dario Hrupec, Daniela Dorner, Dariusz Gora, Gaia Vanzo, A. De Angelis, Marina Manganaro, Jose Luis Contreras, Vitaly Neustroev, J. E. Ward, Giacomo Bonnoli, F. Di Pierro, D. Fidalgo, Ignasi Reichardt, M. Gaug, D. Dominis Prester, K. Frantzen, G. Pedaletti, Thomas Bretz, E. Moretti, B. De Lotto, Miriam Lucio Martinez, Juan Cortina, J. M. Paredes, Antonio Stamerra, R. Clavero, D. Galindo, D. Nakajima, Stefano Covino, Juri Poutanen, Tihomir Surić, J. Herrera, Sara Buson, D. Eisenacher Glawion, Arka Chatterjee, P. G. Prada Moroni, Pratik Majumdar, M. V. Fonseca, Y. Hanabata, Fabrizio Tavecchio, Nikola Godinovic, Tomoki Saito, D. Tescaro, Benito Marcote, Junko Kushida, P. Da Vela, Koji Noda, G. Maneva, Ll. Font, P. Antoranz, S. Paiano, M. Lopez, Wolfgang Rhode, G. Hughes, Elisa Bernardini, Adrian Biland, S. N. Shore, Marcel Strzys, I. Snidaric, Karl Mannheim, M. Garczarczy, Tomislav Terzić, Martin Makariev, V. Fallah Ramazani, Konstancja Satalecka, Michele Doro, Martin Will, M. Peresano, Julian Sitarek, Oscar Blanch, L. Maraschi, J. Rico, R. López-Coto, J. Hose, F. Borracci, Daniel Mazin, K. Nishijima, Daniela Hadasch, C. Fruck, F. Longo, Yusuke Konno, A. Niedzwiecki, P. Colin, Ievgen Vovk, T. Toyama, Masahiro Teshima, L. Nogués, A. González Muñoz, K. Mallot, R. J. García López, B. Biasuzzi, David Paneque, C. Schultz, T. Schweizer, A. Sillanpää, M. Doert, M. H. Wu, Alexander Hahn, D. Guberman, E. Lindfors, U. Menzel, W. Idec, Mosè Mariotti, A.-K. Overkemping, A. La Barbera, Michele Palatiello, Wlodek Bednarek, P. Temnikov, Max Ludwig Ahnen, Juan Abel Barrio, X. Paredes-Fortuny, D. Garrido Terrats, Diego F. Torres, Francesco Dazzi, A. Fernández-Barral, Julia Thaele, Saverio Lombardi, Massimo Persic, Aaron Dominguez, K. Nilsson, Jose Miguel Miranda, M. Nievas Rosillo, Stefano Ansoldi, P. Giammaria, E. Colombo, Abelardo Moralejo, L. O. Takalo, Ana Babić, R. Paoletti, T. Steinbring, J. Becerra González, Alessio Berti, L. A. Antonelli, K. Kodani, Ivica Puljak, E. de Oña Wilhelmi, L. M. Perri, Roberta Zanin, Sabrina Einecke, J. Rodriguez Garcia, A. Carosi, Dominik Elsaesser, U. Barres de Almeida, Damir Lelas, Dorota Sobczyńska, E. Prandini, Aldo Treves, M. Hayashida, Marc Ribó, P. Bangale, Hidetoshi Kubo, Vassil Verguilov, B. Banerjee, Universitat de Barcelona, Ahnen, M. L., Ansoldi, S., Antonelli, L. A., Antoranz, P., Babic, 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., 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., Prester, D. Domini, Dorner, D., Doro, M., Einecke, S., Glawion, D. Eisenacher, Elsaesser, D., Ramazani, V. Fallah, Fernández Barral, A., Fidalgo, D., Fonseca, M. V., Font, L., Frantzen, K., Fruck, C., Galindo, D., López, R. J. García, Garczarczyk, M., Terrats, D. Garrido, Gaug, M., Giammaria, P., Godinović, N., Muñoz, A. González, 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., Rosillo, M. Nieva, Nilsson, K., Nishijima, K., Noda, K., Nogués, 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., Moroni, P. G. Prada, Prandini, E., Puljak, I., Reichardt, I., Rhode, W., Ribó, M., Rico, J., Garcia, J. Rodriguez, 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., Surić, T., Takalo, L., Tavecchio, F., Temnikov, P., Terzić, 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.

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CRAB PULSAR, Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, Power law, Pulsar wind nebula, neutron stars, LARGE-AREA TELESCOPE, Spectral line, MAJOR UPGRADE, Raigs gamma, astroparticle physics, stars: neutron, pulsars: general, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Physics, Nebula, CURVATURE-RADIATION, Gamma ray, CATALOG, astroparticle physics, neutron stars , pulsars, Geminga, Geminga, Electrónica, Física nuclear, Electricidad, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Current generation, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, general [Pulsars], FOS: Physical sciences, Astroparticle physic, Nebulae, HIGH-ENERGY EMISSION, RAPIDLY SPINNING PULSARS, 1E 0630+178, SLOT GAPS, MODEL, Pulsar, 0103 physical sciences, Cherenkov radiation, Telescopis, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Gamma rays, neutron [Stars], Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astronomy and Astrophysic, Astroparticle physics, Pulsars: general, Stars: neutron, Space and Planetary Science, pulsars, ddc:520, Nebuloses, Telescopes
Abstract

Astronomy and astrophysics 591, A138(2016). doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201527722, The Geminga pulsar, one of the brighest gamma-ray sources, is a promising candidate for emission of very-high-energy (VHE > 100 GeV) pulsed gamma rays. Also, detection of a large nebula has been claimed by water Cherenkov instruments. We performed deep observations of Geminga with the MAGIC telescopes, yielding 63 h of good-quality data, and searched for emission from the pulsar and pulsar wind nebula. We did not find any significant detection, and derived 95% confidence level upper limits. The resulting upper limits of 5.3 × 10$^{-13}$ TeV cm$^{-2}$ s$^{-1}$ for the Geminga pulsar and 3.5 × 10$^{-12}$ TeV cm$^{-2} s$^{-1}$ for the surrounding nebula at 50 GeV are the mostconstraining ones obtained so far at VHE. To complement the VHE observations, we also analyzed 5 yr of Fermi-LAT data from Geminga, finding that the sub-exponential cut-off is preferred over the exponential cut-off that has been typically used in the literature. We also find that, above 10 GeV, the gamma-ray spectra from Geminga can be described with a power law with index softer than 5. The extrapolation of the power-law Fermi-LAT pulsed spectra to VHE goes well below the MAGIC upper limits, indicating that the detection of pulsed emission from Geminga with the current generation of Cherenkov telescopes is very difficult., Published by EDP Sciences, Les Ulis

Published
2016

37. First Multi-wavelength Campaign on the Gamma-ray-loud Active Galaxy IC 310

Author

D. Nakajima, E. Prandini, Arka Chatterjee, D. Fidalgo, S. Schroeder, Ivica Puljak, Pierre Colin, Stefano Ansoldi, Yusuke Konno, E. Moretti, X. Paredes-Fortuny, L. Maraschi, Riccardo Paoletti, Tarek M. Hassan, W. Bednarek, A. De Angelis, Alexander Hahn, Fabrizio Tavecchio, A. Treves, Vitaly Neustroev, Ll. Font, R. Schulz, E. de Oña Wilhelmi, Gareth Hughes, K. Nishijima, Tomislav Terzić, B. Banerjee, Stefano Covino, K. Mallot, C. Arcaro, I. Snidaric, Antonio Stamerra, D. Dominis Prester, Pratik Majumdar, S. N. Shore, G. Pedaletti, Thomas Bretz, M. V. Fonseca, R. J. García López, G. Maneva, N. Gehrels, Ana Babić, Juri Poutanen, M. Engelkemeier, Max Ludwig Ahnen, Alessandro Carosi, Razmik Mirzoyan, U. Barres de Almeida, Damir Lelas, J. Hose, L. Perri, W. H. Baumgartner, V. Fallah Ramazani, Adrian Biland, P. Giammaria, Wolfgang Rhode, D. Tescaro, M. Doert, Massimo Persic, D. Elsaesser, Nikola Godinovic, Dorota Sobczyńska, D. Eisenacher Glawion, N. Torres-Albà, Juan Abel Barrio, Kari Nilsson, M. Will, J. Rico, Victoria Grinberg, Eduardo Ros, Matthias Kadler, M. Nievas Rosillo, J. Kushida, Daniela Dorner, Jose Luis Contreras, Elina Lindfors, Dariusz Gora, Gaia Vanzo, Daniel Mazin, M. Strzys, Masahiro Teshima, M. Vazquez Acosta, Diego F. Torres, M. I. Martínez, Juan Cortina, P. Bangale, M. Gaug, L. Nogués, B. Biasuzzi, J. Herrera, M. Langejahn, M. Hayashida, P. Temnikov, Sabrina Einecke, Koji Noda, T. Beuchert, Elisa Bernardini, U. Bach, Marc Ribó, Felicia Krauß, Hidetoshi Kubo, S. Paiano, G. Bonnoli, M. Makariev, Ievgen Vovk, Francesco Longo, Dario Hrupec, J. D. Magill, Karl Mannheim, M. Nöthe, Abelardo Moralejo, M. A. Lopez, Cornelia Müller, D. Galindo, Aaron Dominguez, T. Schweizer, U. Menzel, J. M. Paredes, J. Becerra González, Alessio Berti, I. Reichardt, F. Borracci, T. Surić, B. De Lotto, Oscar Blanch, E. Colombo, L. O. Takalo, Mosè Mariotti, Saverio Lombardi, Julian Sitarek, C. Fruck, C. B. Markwardt, T. Toyama, F. Di Pierro, Talvikki Hovatta, P. Da Vela, W. Idec, A. Sillanpää, Takashi Saito, Christoph Wendel, A. Niedzwiecki, M. Peresano, David Paneque, D. Guberman, J. R. Garcia, Louis Antonelli, Marina Manganaro, Francesco Dazzi, A. Fernández-Barral, Jörn Wilms, P. Cumani, Konstancja Satalecka, Michele Doro, J. E. Ward, K. Kodani, D. Hadasch, M. H. Wu, P. G. Prada Moroni, Kazuma Ishio, Rodolfo Carosi, J. Palacio, S. Bonnefoy, Markus Garczarczyk, High Energy Astrophys. & Astropart. Phys (API, FNWI), Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, University of Udine, INAF National Institute for Astrophysics, University of Padova, University of Rijeka, Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Max Planck Institute for Physics, Complutense University, Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, University of Łódź, German Electron Synchrotron, Autonomous University of Barcelona, University of Siena, University of Würzburg, Osservatorio Astronomicodi Roma, Institute of Space Studies of Catalonia, Dortmund University, Finnish MAGIC Consortium, University of Barcelona, The University of Tokyo, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, University of Turku, Finnish Centre for Astronomy with ESO, University of Pisa, University of Turku, University of Amsterdam, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Radboud University Nijmegen, ESTEC, Metsähovi Radio Observatory, University of Maryland, College Park, Department of Electronics and Nanoengineering, Department of Radio Science and Engineering, Aalto-yliopisto, Aalto University, Ahnen, M. L., Ansoldi, S., Antonelli, L. A., Arcaro, C., Babiä , 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., 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 Oña 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., Fernández Barral, A., Fidalgo, D., Fonseca, M. V., Font, L., Fruck, C., Galindo, D., García López, R. J., Garczarczyk, M., Gaug, M., Giammaria, P., Godinoviä , N., Gora, D., Guberman, D., Hadasch, D., Hahn, A., Hassan, T., Hayashida, M., Herrera, J., Hose, J., Hrupec, D., Hughes, G., Idec, W., Ishio, K., Kodani, K., Konno, Y., Kubo, H., Kushida, J., Lelas, D., Lindfors, E., Lombardi, S., Longo, Francesco, Lã³pez, M., Majumdar, P., Makariev, M., Mallot, K., Maneva, G., Manganaro, M., Mannheim, K., Maraschi, L., Mariotti, M., Martã­nez, M., Mazin, D., Menzel, U., Mirzoyan, R., Moralejo, A., Moretti, E., Nakajima, D., Neustroev, V., Niedzwiecki, A., Nievas Rosillo, M., Nilsson, K., Nishijima, K., Noda, K., Noguã©s, L., Nã¶the, M., 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., Strzys, M., Suriä , T., Takalo, L., Tavecchio, F., Temnikov, P., Terziä , T., Tescaro, D., Teshima, M., Torres, D. F., Torres Albà , N., Toyama, T., Treves, A., Vanzo, G., Vazquez Acosta, M., Vovk, I., Ward, J. E., Will, M., Wu, M. H., Krauã , F., Schulz, R., Kadler, M., Wilms, J., Ros, E., Bach, U., Beuchert, T., Langejahn, M., Wendel, C., Gehrels, N., Baumgartner, W. H., Markwardt, C. B., Mã¼ller, C., Grinberg, V., Hovatta, T., and Magill, J.

Subjects
Active galactic nucleus, Astronomy, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, FOS: Physical sciences, Energy flux, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Galaxies: active, Galaxies: individual: IC 310, Gamma rays: galaxies, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Space and Planetary Science, 01 natural sciences, law.invention, law, 0103 physical sciences, individual: IC 310 [galaxies], Blazar, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Physics, galaxie [Gamma rays], 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Gamma ray, Astronomy and Astrophysic, Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, Synchrotron, gamma rays: galaxies, galaxies: active, individual (IC 310), Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA), active [galaxies], galaxies [gamma rays], ComputingMethodologies_DOCUMENTANDTEXTPROCESSING, Spectral energy distribution, ddc:520, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, Flare
Abstract

The extragalactic VHE gamma-ray sky is rich in blazars. These are jetted active galactic nuclei viewed at a small angle to the line-of-sight. Only a handful of objects viewed at a larger angle are known so far to emit above 100 GeV. Multi-wavelength studies of such objects up to the highest energies provide new insights into the particle and radiation processes of active galactic nuclei. We report the results from the first multi-wavelength campaign observing the TeV detected nucleus of the active galaxy IC 310, whose jet is observed at a moderate viewing angle of 10 deg - 20 deg. The multi-instrument campaign was conducted between 2012 Nov. and 2013 Jan., and involved observations with MAGIC, Fermi, INTEGRAL, Swift, OVRO, MOJAVE and EVN. These observations were complemented with archival data from the AllWISE and 2MASS catalogs. A one-zone synchrotron self-Compton model was applied to describe the broad-band spectral energy distribution. IC 310 showed an extraordinary TeV flare at the beginning of the campaign, followed by a low, but still detectable TeV flux. Compared to previous measurements, the spectral shape was found to be steeper during the low emission state. Simultaneous observations in the soft X-ray band showed an enhanced energy flux state and a harder-when-brighter spectral shape behaviour. No strong correlated flux variability was found in other frequency regimes. The broad-band spectral energy distribution obtained from these observations supports the hypothesis of a double-hump structure. The harder-when-brighter trend in the X-ray and VHE emission is consistent with the behaviour expected from a synchrotron self-Compton scenario. The contemporaneous broad-band spectral energy distribution is well described with a one-zone synchrotron self-Compton model using parameters that are comparable to those found for other gamma-ray-emitting misaligned blazars., 15 pages, 10 figures. Accepted for publication in A&A

38. Detection of very high energy gamma-ray emission from the gravitationally lensed blazar QSO B0218+357 with the MAGIC telescopes

Author

L. Nogués, B. Biasuzzi, Aaron Dominguez, K. Mallot, R. J. García López, M. Engelkemeier, Massimo Persic, Daniela Dorner, L. Maraschi, Dariusz Gora, Gaia Vanzo, Pratik Majumdar, M. V. Fonseca, Elina Lindfors, Daniel Mazin, D. Elsaesser, K. Kodani, S. N. Shore, Vassil Verguilov, Marcel Strzys, M. Gaug, Stefano Covino, Tomoki Saito, D. Tescaro, J. Herrera, B. De Lotto, Koji Noda, F. Borracci, D. Nakajima, Elisa Bernardini, T. Surić, Arka Chatterjee, M. Palatiello, Juan Abel Barrio, Abelardo Moralejo, M. Hayashida, D. Fidalgo, Francesco Dazzi, J. R. Garcia, E. Colombo, R. Desiante, Yusuke Konno, A. Niedzwiecki, E. Moretti, Wlodek Bednarek, Alessandro Carosi, Nikola Godinovic, Benito Marcote, L. O. Takalo, I. Reichardt, J. E. Ward, David Paneque, Ruben Lopez-Coto, Mosè Mariotti, P. G. Prada Moroni, D. Guberman, S. Bonnefoy, Kyoshi Nishijima, R. Zanin, Marina Manganaro, Juri Poutanen, Jose Miguel Miranda, U. Menzel, D. Galindo, M. Peresano, Giacomo Bonnoli, Adrian Biland, S. Buson, M. Doert, M. H. Wu, Saverio Lombardi, U. Barres de Almeida, Tomislav Terzić, Diego F. Torres, R. Mirzoyan, P. Antoranz, Konstancja Satalecka, Michele Doro, Damir Lelas, J. Rico, M. Garczarczyk, Sabrina Einecke, D. Hadasch, Francesco Longo, A. Sillanpää, J. Palacio, Alba Fernández-Barral, Ievgen Vovk, Louis Antonelli, Stefano Ansoldi, Dorota Sobczyńska, Riccardo Paoletti, T. Schweizer, W. Idec, Martin Makariev, Oscar Blanch, A. De Angelis, A. Treves, Vitaly Neustroev, J. M. Paredes, Antonio Stamerra, G. Maneva, Christian Fruck, Dario Hrupec, Julian Sitarek, J. Hose, M. A. Lopez, T. Toyama, F. Di Pierro, Junko Kushida, P. Da Vela, K. Frantzen, S. Paiano, Karl Mannheim, D. Garrido Terrats, J. Becerra González, R. Clavero, Miriam Lucio Martinez, Fabrizio Tavecchio, Ll. Font, I. Snidaric, Alessio Berti, Max Ludwig Ahnen, L. Perri, Ana Babić, A. La Barbera, P. Giammaria, D. Eisenacher Glawion, X. Paredes-Fortuny, M. Nievas Rosillo, G. Pedaletti, Kari Nilsson, Thomas Bretz, M. Will, Alexander Hahn, Wolfgang Rhode, Gareth Hughes, Marc Ribó, E. Prandini, Jose Luis Contreras, D. Dominis Prester, Juan Cortina, P. Bangale, V. Fallah Ramazani, Hidetoshi Kubo, S. Schroeder, Ivica Puljak, Pierre Colin, E. de Oña Wilhelmi, Masahiro Teshima, P. Temnikov, B. Banerjee, C. Arcaro, Universitat de Barcelona, 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 González, 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 Onã 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., Frantzen, K., Fruck, C., Galindo, D., Garciá López, R. J., Garczarczyk, M., Garrido Terrats, D., Gaug, M., Giammaria, P., Godinović, 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, 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., 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., Ribó, M., Rico, J., Saito, T., Satalecka, K., Schroeder, S., Schweizer, T., Shore, S. N., Sillanpaä, A., Sitarek, J., Snidaric, I., Sobczynska, D., Stamerra, A., Strzys, M., Surić, T., Takalo, L., Tavecchio, F., Temnikov, P., Terzić, T., Tescaro, D., Teshima, M., Torres, D. F., Toyama, T., Treves, A., Vanzo, G., Verguilov, V., Vovk, I., Ward, J. E., Will, M., Wu, M. H., Zanin, R., and Desiante, R.

Subjects
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), Radiation mechanisms: non-thermal, Gravitational lensing: strong, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, gamma rays: galaxies, gravitational lensing: strong, galaxies: jets, radiation mechanisms: non-thermal, quasars: individual: QSO B0218+357, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, strong [Gravitational lensing], jet [Galaxies], 01 natural sciences, Quasars: individual: QSO B0218+357, law.invention, Telescope, law, 0103 physical sciences, Gamma ray astronomy, Astronomia de raigs gamma, MAGIC (telescope), Blazar, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Physics, non-thermal [Radiation mechanisms], galaxie [Gamma rays], 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Gamma ray, Galaxies: jets, Gamma rays: galaxies, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Space and Planetary Science, Astronomy and Astrophysic, Galaxies, Redshift, Galàxies, Gravitational lens, Extragalactic background light, ddc:520, Spectral energy distribution, individual: QSO B0218+357 [Quasars], Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract

Context. QSO B0218+357 is a gravitationally lensed blazar located at a redshift of 0.944. The gravitational lensing splits the emitted radiation into two components, spatially indistinguishable by gamma-ray instruments, but separated by a 10-12 day delay. In July 2014, QSO B0218+357 experienced a violent flare observed by the Fermi-LAT and followed by the MAGIC telescopes. Aims. The spectral energy distribution of QSO B0218+357 can give information on the energetics of z ~ 1 very high energy gamma- ray sources. Moreover the gamma-ray emission can also be used as a probe of the extragalactic background light at z ~ 1. Methods. MAGIC performed observations of QSO B0218+357 during the expected arrival time of the delayed component of the emission. The MAGIC and Fermi-LAT observations were accompanied by quasi-simultaneous optical data from the KVA telescope and X-ray observations by Swift-XRT. We construct a multiwavelength spectral energy distribution of QSO B0218+357 and use it to model the source. The GeV and sub-TeV data, obtained by Fermi-LAT and MAGIC, are used to set constraints on the extragalactic background light. Results. Very high energy gamma-ray emission was detected from the direction of QSO B0218+357 by the MAGIC telescopes during the expected time of arrival of the trailing component of the flare, making it the farthest very high energy gamma-ray sources detected to date. The observed emission spans the energy range from 65 to 175 GeV. The combined MAGIC and Fermi-LAT spectral energy distribution of QSO B0218+357 is consistent with current extragalactic background light models. The broad band emission can be modeled in the framework of a two zone external Compton scenario, where the GeV emission comes from an emission region in the jet, located outside the broad line region., 11 pages, 6 figures, accepted for publication in A&A

39. Bounds on Lorentz Invariance Violation from MAGIC Observation of GRB 190114C

Author

M. Peresano, Lara Nava, K. Noda, L. Maraschi, Lorenzo Bellizzi, Elina Lindfors, Daniel Mazin, Sidika Merve Colak, Pratik Majumdar, M. V. Fonseca, L. Pavletić, B. Banerjee, Shunsuke Sakurai, Yating Chai, Stefan Cikota, Pawel Gliwny, M. Vazquez Acosta, Alessandra Lamastra, L. Di Venere, Victoria Moreno, L. Nogués, C. Nigro, U. Colin, David A. Green, Martin Will, Alice Donini, Julian Sitarek, L. A. Antonelli, M. I. Martínez, Kari Nilsson, Jorge Otero-Santos, Seiya Nozaki, Alexander Hahn, Abelardo Moralejo, D. Hadasch, Dominik Baack, D. Ninci, Matteo Cerruti, M. Minev, E. Do Souto Espiñeira, Tomislav Terzić, A. Rugliancich, E. Moretti, Marina Manganaro, Stefano Covino, J. Becerra González, P. G. Prada Moroni, C. Perennes, U. Barres de Almeida, I. Vovk, Yoshiki Ohtani, Daniel Morcuende, Jose Luis Contreras, Jordi Delgado, Kyoshi Nishijima, Daniel Kerszberg, J. M. Paredes, Juan Cortina, Martin Makariev, Fabrizio Tavecchio, M. Palatiello, Alessio Berti, F. Di Pierro, Ž. Bošnjak, Damir Lelas, Victor A. Acciari, D. Dominis Prester, Oscar Blanch, V. D'Elia, Ll. Font, Y. Kajiwara, Antonio Stamerra, Yusuke Suda, Wlodek Bednarek, Nikola Godinovic, Kai Phillip Schmidt, Tomoki Saito, Giovanni Ceribella, Francesco Dazzi, Carlo Vigorito, I. Snidaric, Mosè Mariotti, G. Busetto, Yuki Iwamura, Dorota Sobczyńska, Satoshi Fukami, Camilla Maggio, D. Zarić, N. Torres-Albà, Ferdinando Giordano, J. van Scherpenberg, Daniela Dorner, Davide Depaoli, Marc Ribó, Takeshi Oka, Manuel Delfino, Toshiaki Inada, Bernd Schleicher, Christian Fruck, V. Fallah Ramazani, D. Strom, Jose Miguel Miranda, Ivica Puljak, Junko Kushida, M. Gaug, G. Vanzo, P. Da Vela, Moritz Hütten, John Hoang, Konstancja Satalecka, Hidetoshi Kubo, Ana Babić, F. Leone, Michele Doro, Jürgen Besenrieder, S. Ventura, Karl Mannheim, Saverio Lombardi, J. Herrera, Sanae Inoue, Giacomo D'Amico, Manuela Mallamaci, Alessia Spolon, Léa Jouvin, P. Munar-Adrover, Alicia Fattorini, D. Miceli, T. Surić, Masahiro Teshima, B. Machado de Oliveira Fraga, Elisa Bernardini, T. Schweizer, Vassil Verguilov, F Longo, G. Ferrara, Serena Loporchio, Marie Karjalainen, E. Molina, E. Colombo, B. De Lotto, Dario Hrupec, Stefano Ansoldi, Riccardo Paoletti, Lab Saha, Luca Foffano, M. A. Lopez, N. Giglietto, Simone Mender, Mitsunari Takahashi, R. J. García López, M. Strzys, Y. Kobayashi, A. Arbet Engels, A. De Angelis, Vitaly Neustroev, Tjark Miener, Massimo Persic, David Paneque, Luca Tosti, G. Maneva, Chiara Righi, Adrian Biland, P. Temnikov, Giacomo Bonnoli, J. Rico, Ciro Bigongiari, M. Garczarczyk, R. López-Coto, Wrijupan Bhattacharyya, D. Elsaesser, Pablo Peñil, Saša Mićanović, V. Vitale, Sargis Gasparyan, Wolfgang Rhode, Juan Abel Barrio, Narek Sahakyan, A. López-Oramas, R. Mirzoyan, Kazuma Ishio, Elisa Prandini, Rodolfo Carosi, Ashot Chilingarian, 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., Bellizzi, L., Bernardini, E., Berti, A., Besenrieder, J., Bhattacharyya, W., Bigongiari, C., Biland, A., Blanch, O., Bonnoli, G., Bosnjak, A., Busetto, G., Carosi, R., Ceribella, G., Cerruti, M., Chai, Y., Chilingarian, A., Cikota, S., Colak, S. M., Colin, U., Colombo, E., Contreras, J. L., Cortina, J., Covino, S., D'Amico, G., D'Elia, V., Da Vela, P., Dazzi, F., De Angelis, A., De Lotto, B., Delfino, M., Delgado, J., Depaoli, D., Di Pierro, F., Di Venere, L., Do Souto Espineira, E., Dominis Prester, D., Donini, A., Dorner, D., Doro, M., Elsaesser, D., Fallah Ramazani, V., Fattorini, A., Ferrara, G., Foffano, L., Fonseca, M. V., Font, L., Fruck, C., Fukami, S., Garcia Lopez, R. J., Garczarczyk, M., Gasparyan, S., Gaug, M., Giglietto, N., Giordano, F., Gliwny, P., Godinovic, N., Green, D., Hadasch, D., Hahn, A., Herrera, J., Hoang, J., Hrupec, D., Hutten, M., Inada, T., Inoue, S., Ishio, K., Iwamura, Y., Jouvin, L., Kajiwara, Y., Karjalainen, M., Kerszberg, D., Kobayashi, Y., Kubo, H., Kushida, J., Lamastra, A., Lelas, D., Leone, F., Lindfors, E., Lombardi, S., Longo, F., Lopez, M., Lopez-Coto, R., Lopez-Oramas, A., Loporchio, S., Machado De Oliveira Fraga, B., Maggio, C., Majumdar, P., Makariev, M., Mallamaci, M., Maneva, G., Manganaro, M., Mannheim, K., Maraschi, L., Mariotti, M., Martinez, M., Mazin, D., Mender, S., Micanovic, S., Miceli, D., Miener, T., Minev, M., Miranda, J. M., Mirzoyan, R., Molina, E., Moralejo, A., Morcuende, D., Moreno, V., Moretti, E., Munar-Adrover, P., Neustroev, V., Nigro, C., Nilsson, K., Ninci, D., Nishijima, K., Noda, K., Nogues, L., Nozaki, S., Ohtani, Y., Oka, T., Otero-Santos, J., Palatiello, M., Paneque, D., Paoletti, R., Paredes, J. M., Pavletic, L., Penil, P., Perennes, C., Peresano, M., Persic, M., Prada Moroni, P. G., Prandini, E., Puljak, I., Rhode, W., Ribo, M., Rico, J., Righi, C., Rugliancich, A., Saha, L., Sahakyan, N., Saito, T., Sakurai, S., Satalecka, K., Schleicher, B., Schmidt, K., Schweizer, T., Sitarek, J., Snidaric, I., Sobczynska, D., Spolon, A., Stamerra, A., Strom, D., Strzys, M., Suda, Y., Suric, T., Takahashi, M., Tavecchio, F., Temnikov, P., Terzic, T., Teshima, M., Torres-Alba, N., Tosti, L., Van Scherpenberg, J., Vanzo, G., Vazquez Acosta, M., Ventura, S., Verguilov, V., Vigorito, C. F., Vitale, V., Vovk, I., Will, M., Zaric, D., and Nava, L.

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Astrophysics and Astronomy, Photon, Gamma ray burst, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, GRB190114C, MAGIC, Lorentz Invariance Violation, FOS: Physical sciences, General Physics and Astronomy, burst [gamma ray], astro-ph.HE, 0 [higher-order], Astrophysics, Lorentz covariance, 01 natural sciences, 7. Clean energy, Gamma ray bursts, energy dependence, Astrophysical studies of gravity, Gamma ray astronomy, Quantum gravity, 0103 physical sciences, ddc:530, MAGIC (telescope), Lorentz [invariance], 010306 general physics, Cherenkov radiation, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Physics, velocity [photon], Lorentz [violation], model [quantum gravity], Gamma-ray astronomy, imaging [Cherenkov counter], Speed of light, spectral, Física nuclear, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Gamma-ray burst
Abstract

On January 14, 2019, the Major Atmospheric Gamma Imaging Cherenkov telescopes detected GRB 190114C above 0.2 TeV, recording the most energetic photons ever observed from a gamma-ray burst. We use this unique observation to probe an energy dependence of the speed of light in vacuo for photons as predicted by several quantum gravity models. Based on a set of assumptions on the possible intrinsic spectral and temporal evolution, we obtain competitive lower limits on the quadratic leading order of speed of light modification., 8 pages, 5 figures, Published in Physical Review Letters, Corresponding authors: Tomislav Terzi\'c (tterzic@phy.uniri.hr), Giacomo D'Amico (damico@mppmu.mpg.de), Daniel Kerszberg (dkerszberg@ifae.es), Cedric Perennes (perennes.cedric@gmail.com)

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40. Indirect dark matter searches in the dwarf satellite galaxy Ursa Major II with the MAGIC telescopes

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R. J. García López, Chiara Righi, D. Dominis Prester, P. Temnikov, J. Becerra González, M. Hayashida, Cosimo Nigro, M. Nievas Rosillo, J. Kushida, Massimo Persic, A. De Angelis, A. Treves, Vitaly Neustroev, Jose Luis Contreras, S. Paiano, M. Lopez, Satoshi Masuda, Karl Mannheim, Ignasi Reichardt, I. Snidaric, D. Kuveždić, M. I. Martínez, D. Zarić, Juan Cortina, V. Fallah Ramazani, Nikola Godinovic, M. Garczarczyk, Mosè Mariotti, Aaron Dominguez, Arka Chatterjee, Francesco Longo, J. E. Ward, Alessandro Carosi, D. Fidalgo, Marc Ribó, Stefano Ansoldi, Tomislav Terzić, Christian Fruck, Abelardo Moralejo, Ievgen Vovk, Sabrina Einecke, Riccardo Paoletti, Dario Hrupec, E. Prandini, Daniela Dorner, N. Torres-Albà, Dariusz Gora, P. Bangale, G. Pedaletti, Sidika Merve Colak, Julian Sitarek, J. M. Paredes, Mitsunari Takahashi, G. Maneva, T. Schweizer, P. G. Prada Moroni, J. Hose, Hidetoshi Kubo, Antonio Stamerra, K. Nishijima, Daniela Hadasch, R. Ch. Berse, M. Gaug, G. Vanzo, Jose Miguel Miranda, Yusuke Konno, Adrian Biland, M. Minev, Marcel Strzys, Masahiro Teshima, J. Herrera, Razmik Mirzoyan, U. Barres de Almeida, M. Vazquez Acosta, Wolfgang Rhode, M. Delfino, Koji Noda, Damir Lelas, Martin Makariev, L. Nogués, Elisa Bernardini, K. Nilsson, J. Rico, Victoria Moreno, Oscar Blanch, Saverio Lombardi, Francesco Dazzi, A. Fernández-Barral, B. De Lotto, G. Bonnoli, Dorota Sobczyńska, D. Ninci, Andrea Rugliancich, Tarek M. Hassan, W. Bednarek, Fabrizio Tavecchio, J. Palacio, B. Banerjee, C. Arcaro, M. Peresano, Jordi Delgado, Ivica Puljak, Pierre Colin, F. Di Pierro, Ll. Font, Camilla Maggio, Max Ludwig Ahnen, D. Elsaesser, P. Da Vela, P. Giammaria, Dominik Baack, Kazuma Ishio, T. Surić, Shimpei Tsujimoto, Rodolfo Carosi, L. Maraschi, Elina Lindfors, Daniel Mazin, A. Berti, E. Colombo, Stefano Covino, L. O. Takalo, Pratik Majumdar, M. V. Fonseca, Tomoki Saito, Giovanni Ceribella, Louis Antonelli, T. Nagayoshi, Martin Will, Juan Abel Barrio, Ana Babić, J. R. Garcia, A. Niedzwiecki, David Paneque, Wrijupan Bhattacharyya, D. Guberman, K. Mielke, E. Moretti, Marina Manganaro, D. Galindo, P. Cumani, Konstancja Satalecka, Michele Doro, Alexander Hahn, Ahnen, M. L., 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., 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., 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., 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., 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., Peresano, M., Persic, M., Moroni, P. G. Prada, 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., Acosta, M. Vazquez, Vovk, I., Ward, J. E., Will, M., and Zarić, D.

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supersymmetry and cosmology, High energy, Ursa Major, Milky Way, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Dark matter, FOS: Physical sciences, gamma ray experiments, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, dark matter, dwarf spheroidal satellite galaxies, indirect searches, Imaging Air Cherenkov Telescopes, Ursa Major II, 01 natural sciences, Dark Matter, Gamma-rays, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph), 0103 physical sciences, Satellite galaxy, ddc:530, MAGIC (telescope), 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, dark matter experiments, dwarfs galaxies, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Physics, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Annihilation, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Dwarf spheroidal galaxy, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology, Física nuclear, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract

Journal of cosmology and astroparticle physics 2018(03), 009 (2018). doi:10.1088/1475-7516/2018/03/009, The dwarf spheroidal galaxy Ursa Major II (UMaII) is believed to be one of the most dark-matter dominated systems among the Milky Way satellites and represents a suitable target for indirect dark matter (DM) searches. The MAGIC telescopes carried out a deep observation campaign on UMaII between 2014 and 2016, collecting almost one hundred hours of good-quality data. This campaign enlarges the pool of DM targets observed at very high energy (E $\gtrsim$ 50 GeV) in search for signatures of DM annihilation in the wide massrange between ∼100 GeV and ∼100 TeV. To this end, the data are analyzed with the full likelihood analysis, a method based on the exploitation of the spectral information of the recorded events for an optimal sensitivity to the explored DM models. We obtain constraints on the annihilation cross-section for different channels that are among the most robust and stringent achieved so far at the TeV mass scale from observations of dwarf satellite galaxies., Published by IOP, London

41. Blazar jet emission: A statistical approach

Author

Stefano Ansoldi, Massimo Persic, M. Peresano, Domenico Ferigo, and Barbara Biasuzzi

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Physics, Multidisciplinary, Active galactic nucleus, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Astronomy, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics, Jet (particle physics), Galaxy, Luminosity, Variable (computer science), Spectral energy distribution, Blazar, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics
Abstract

Blazars belong to the class of active galaxies tha th ost an active galactic nucleus (AGN) in their center and show a luminosity that far exceeds the luminosity of the host galaxy. The emission from blazar jets is strongly variable and non-thermal. Its spectral energy distribution (SED) is characterized by two humps located, respectively, at IR‐X-ray and MeV-TeV frequencies. By modelling and fitting observational blazar SEDs we can derive the physical properties of these sources and better understand the processes that occur at very high energies. Even though several models have been proposed to describe blazar emission, so far SED models have been obtained only (mostly) heuristically. In this article we present a statistically rigorous approach and its implementation to efficiently rule out models for specific sources ‐ when simultaneous datasets are available. We will also digress on some still unsolved technical problems that may appear when dealing with multi-frequency datasets, an dr eport on recent progress to solve them.

42. Multiwavelength observations of a VHE gamma-ray flare from PKS 1510-089 in 2015

Author

I. Snidaric, M. Strzys, M. Vazquez Acosta, J. A. Acosta-Pulido, Vishal Bala, B. De Lotto, J. Palacio, Julian Sitarek, L. Nogués, E. Colombo, B. Biasuzzi, M. Makariev, C. Fruck, D. Nakajima, T. Toyama, Diego F. Torres, Abelardo Moralejo, Stefan Larsson, Navpreet Kaur, R. Desiante, L. O. Takalo, I. Reichardt, Francesco Longo, E. Prandini, Arka Chatterjee, A. Sillanpää, M. Peresano, A. Niedzwiecki, D. Hadasch, Elina Lindfors, D. Fidalgo, M. Engelkemeier, C. Protasio, S. Bonnefoy, Iain A. Steele, Daniel Mazin, S. Paiano, Karl Mannheim, Takashi Saito, Nicholas R. MacDonald, David Paneque, D. Guberman, Anne Lähteenmäki, Svetlana G. Jorstad, Kiran S. Baliyan, Tarek M. Hassan, W. Bednarek, L. Perri, Fabrizio Tavecchio, U. Menzel, Masahiro Teshima, M. Palatiello, Marina Manganaro, Stefano Ansoldi, Yusuke Konno, Ll. Font, Merja Tornikoski, S. Schroeder, Ivica Puljak, Riccardo Paoletti, D. Eisenacher Glawion, F. Di Pierro, Pierre Colin, Oscar Blanch, Pratik Majumdar, Mosè Mariotti, Markus Garczarczyk, Francesco Dazzi, M. Nievas Rosillo, T. S. Grishina, Louis Antonelli, M. V. Fonseca, A. Fernández-Barral, J. Hose, Max Ludwig Ahnen, F. Borracci, Emilia Järvelä, R. J. García López, G. Pedaletti, Thomas Bretz, Stefano Covino, P. Cumani, Kazuma Ishio, C. M. Raiteri, Konstancja Satalecka, T. Surić, M. Doert, M. H. Wu, E. de Oña Wilhelmi, D. Elsaesser, Michele Doro, A. B. Grinon-Marin, Dario Hrupec, J. Becerra González, D. Kuveždić, Nikola Godinovic, P. Temnikov, C. Lázaro, Saverio Lombardi, A. Pastor Yabar, Helen Jermak, Rodolfo Carosi, M. A. Lopez, Antonio Stamerra, J. E. Ward, S. N. Shore, Alessio Berti, P. Giammaria, Filippo D'Ammando, Juan Abel Barrio, R. Reinthal, P. Da Vela, D. Tescaro, P. G. Prada Moroni, Razmik Mirzoyan, U. Barres de Almeida, Massimo Persic, Alessandro Carosi, D. Galindo, Aaron Dominguez, L. Maraschi, Damir Lelas, Kari Nilsson, Daniela Dorner, Dariusz Gora, Gaia Vanzo, N. Torres-Albà, E. Moretti, M. Hayashida, Sameer, M. Gaug, Dorota Sobczyńska, J. M. Paredes, X. Paredes-Fortuny, J. Herrera, C. Martínez-Lombilla, D. Zarić, M. Will, Alexander Hahn, Tomislav Terzić, Koji Noda, Marc Ribó, Elisa Bernardini, J. R. Garcia, Gareth Hughes, Hidetoshi Kubo, K. Nishijima, D. Dominis Prester, V. Ramakrishnan, V. Fallah Ramazani, M. I. Martínez, G. A. Borman, Wolfgang Rhode, P. Bangale, J. Kushida, Jose Luis Contreras, Sabrina Einecke, G. Bonnoli, Juan Cortina, B. Banerjee, C. Arcaro, Valeri M. Larionov, Ana Babić, Adrian Biland, J. Rico, M. I. Carnerero, Alan P. Marscher, Ievgen Vovk, A. De Angelis, A. Treves, Vitaly Neustroev, T. Schweizer, G. Maneva, Juri Poutanen, Ahnen, M. L., Ansoldi, S., Antonelli, L. A., Arcaro, C., Babiä , A., Banerjee, B., Bangale, P., Barres De Almeida, U., Barrio, J. A., 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 Oña 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., Fernández Barral, A., Fidalgo, D., Fonseca, M. V., Font, L., Fruck, C., Galindo, D., García López, R. J., Garczarczyk, M., Gaug, M., Giammaria, P., Godinoviä , N., Gora, D., 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., Majumdar, P., Makariev, M., Maneva, G., Manganaro, M., Mannheim, K., Maraschi, L., Mariotti, M., Martã­nez, M., Mazin, D., Menzel, U., 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., Shore, S. N., 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 Albà , N., Toyama, T., Treves, A., Vanzo, G., Vazquez Acosta, M., Vovk, I., Ward, J. E., Will, M., Wu, M. H., Zariä , D., Desiante, R., Becerra González, J., D'Ammando, F., Larsson, S., Raiteri, C. M., Reinthal, R., Lã¤hteenmã¤ki, A., Jã¤rvelã¤, E., Tornikoski, M., Ramakrishnan, V., Jorstad, S. G., Marscher, A. P., Bala, V., Macdonald, N. R., Kaur, N., Sameer, Null, Baliyan, K., Acosta Pulido, J. A., Lazaro, C., Martí Nez Lombilla, C., Grinon Marin, A. B., Pastor Yabar, A., Protasio, C., Carnerero, M. I., Jermak, H., Steele, I. A., Larionov, V. M., Borman, G. A., Grishina, T. S., Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, University of Udine, INAF National Institute for Astrophysics, University of Padova, University of Rijeka, Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Max Planck Institute for Physics, Complutense University, University of Łódź, German Electron Synchrotron, Autonomous University of Barcelona, University of Siena, University of Würzburg, Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, Institute of Space Studies of Catalonia, Dortmund University, Finnish MAGIC Consortium, University of Barcelona, The University of Tokyo, Osservatorio Astronomicodi Roma, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, University of Pisa, University of Bologna, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, University of Turku, Metsähovi Radio Observatory, Department of Radio Science and Engineering, Boston University, Physical Research Laboratory India, Lancaster University, Liverpool John Moores University, St. Petersburg State University, Crimean Astrophysical Observatory, Department of Electronics and Nanoengineering, Aalto-yliopisto, and Aalto University

Subjects
galaxies [Gamma rays], VHE [gamma ray], Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, rotation, jet [Galaxies], law.invention, law, galaxies, active, galaxies: jets, gamma rays: galaxies, quasars: individual: PKS 1510-089, Broadband, QD, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, QC, QB, Physics, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), galaxie [Gamma rays], Gamma ray, Optical polarization, Galaxies: active, Polarization (waves), Gamma rays: galaxies, optical [polarization], Spectral energy distribution, Electrónica, Física nuclear, Electricidad, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Galaxies: jets, Quasars: individual: PKS 1510-089, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Space and Planetary Science, Flare, active [Galaxies], Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Photometry (optics), X-ray, 0103 physical sciences, individual: PKS 1510-089 [Quasars], quasar, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Quasar, Astronomy and Astrophysic, MAGIC, flux, ddc:520, spectral, jets [Galaxies]
Abstract

Context. PKS 1510-089 is one of only a few flat spectrum radio quasars detected in the VHE (very-high-energy, > 100 GeV) gamma-ray band. Aims. We study the broadband spectral and temporal properties of the PKS 1510-089 emission during a high gamma-ray state. Methods. We performed VHE gamma-ray observations of PKS 1510-089 with the MAGIC telescopes during a long high gamma-ray state in May 2015. In order to perform broadband modelling of the source, we have also gathered contemporaneous multiwavelength data in radio, IR, optical photometry and polarization, UV, X-ray and GeV gamma-ray ranges. We construct a broadband spectral energy distribution (SED) in two periods, selected according to VHE gamma-ray state. Results. PKS 1510-089 has been detected by MAGIC during a few day-long observations performed in the middle of a long, high optical and gamma-ray state, showing for the first time a significant VHE gamma-ray variability. Similarly to the optical and gamma-ray high state of the source detected in 2012, it was accompanied by a rotation of the optical polarization angle and the emission of a new jet component observed in radio. However, due to large uncertainty on the knot separation time, the association with the VHE gamma-ray emission cannot be firmly established. The spectral shape in the VHE band during the flare is similar to the ones obtained during previous measurements of the source. The observed flux variability sets for the first time constraints on the size of the region from which VHE gamma rays are emitted. We model the broadband SED in the framework of the external Compton scenario and discuss the possible emission site in view of multiwavelength data and alternative emission models., 12 pages, 10 figures, accepted for a publication in A&A

43. Bounds on Lorentz Invariance Violation from MAGIC Observation of GRB 190114C.

Author

Acciari VA, Ansoldi S, Antonelli LA, Arbet Engels A, Baack D, Babić A, Banerjee B, Barres de Almeida U, Barrio JA, Becerra González J, Bednarek W, Bellizzi L, Bernardini E, Berti A, Besenrieder J, Bhattacharyya W, Bigongiari C, Biland A, Blanch O, Bonnoli G, Bošnjak Ž, Busetto G, Carosi R, Ceribella G, Cerruti M, Chai Y, Chilingarian A, Cikota S, Colak SM, Colin U, Colombo E, Contreras JL, Cortina J, Covino S, D'Amico G, D'Elia V, Da Vela P, Dazzi F, De Angelis A, De Lotto B, Delfino M, Delgado J, Depaoli D, Di Pierro F, Di Venere L, Do Souto Espiñeira E, Dominis Prester D, Donini A, Dorner D, Doro M, Elsaesser D, Fallah Ramazani V, Fattorini A, Ferrara G, Foffano L, Fonseca MV, Font L, Fruck C, Fukami S, García López RJ, Garczarczyk M, Gasparyan S, Gaug M, Giglietto N, Giordano F, Gliwny P, Godinović N, Green D, Hadasch D, Hahn A, Herrera J, Hoang J, Hrupec D, Hütten M, Inada T, Inoue S, Ishio K, Iwamura Y, Jouvin L, Kajiwara Y, Karjalainen M, Kerszberg D, Kobayashi Y, Kubo H, Kushida J, Lamastra A, Lelas D, Leone F, Lindfors E, Lombardi S, Longo F, López M, López-Coto R, López-Oramas A, Loporchio S, Machado de Oliveira Fraga B, Maggio C, Majumdar P, Makariev M, Mallamaci M, Maneva G, Manganaro M, Mannheim K, Maraschi L, Mariotti M, Martínez M, Mazin D, Mender S, Mićanović S, Miceli D, Miener T, Minev M, Miranda JM, Mirzoyan R, Molina E, Moralejo A, Morcuende D, Moreno V, Moretti E, Munar-Adrover P, Neustroev V, Nigro C, Nilsson K, Ninci D, Nishijima K, Noda K, Nogués L, Nozaki S, Ohtani Y, Oka T, Otero-Santos J, Palatiello M, Paneque D, Paoletti R, Paredes JM, Pavletić L, Peñil P, Perennes C, Peresano M, Persic M, Prada Moroni PG, Prandini E, Puljak I, Rhode W, Ribó M, Rico J, Righi C, Rugliancich A, Saha L, Sahakyan N, Saito T, Sakurai S, Satalecka K, Schleicher B, Schmidt K, Schweizer T, Sitarek J, 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, Torres-Albà N, Tosti L, van Scherpenberg J, Vanzo G, Vazquez Acosta M, Ventura S, Verguilov V, Vigorito CF, Vitale V, Vovk I, Will M, Zarić D, and Nava L

Abstract

On January 14, 2019, the Major Atmospheric Gamma Imaging Cherenkov telescopes detected GRB 190114C above 0.2 TeV, recording the most energetic photons ever observed from a gamma-ray burst. We use this unique observation to probe an energy dependence of the speed of light in vacuo for photons as predicted by several quantum gravity models. Based on a set of assumptions on the possible intrinsic spectral and temporal evolution, we obtain competitive lower limits on the quadratic leading order of speed of light modification.

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2020
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