Rapid and multiband variability of the TeV bright active nucleus of the galaxy IC 310

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作者
Aleksie, J. [1 ]
Antonelli, L. A. [2 ]
Antoranz, P. [3 ,4 ]
Babic, A. [5 ,6 ]
de Almeida, U. Barres [7 ]
Barrio, J. A. [8 ]
Becerra Gonzalez, J. [9 ]
Bednarek, W. [10 ]
Berger, K. [9 ,11 ]
Bernardini, E. [12 ]
Biland, A. [13 ]
Blanch, O. [1 ]
Bock, R. K. [7 ]
Boller, A. [13 ]
Bonnefoy, S. [8 ]
Bonnoli, G. [2 ]
Tridon, D. Borla [7 ]
Borracci, F. [7 ]
Bretz, T. [14 ]
Carmona, E. [15 ]
Carosi, A. [2 ]
Carreto Fidalgo, D. [8 ,14 ]
Colin, P. [7 ]
Colombo, E. [9 ]
Contreras, J. L. [8 ]
Cortina, J. [1 ]
Cossio, L. [16 ,17 ]
Covino, S. [2 ]
Da Vela, P. [3 ,4 ]
Dazzi, F. [16 ,17 ]
De Angelis, A. [16 ,17 ]
De Caneva, G. [12 ]
Delgado Mendez, C. [15 ]
De Lotto, B. [16 ,17 ]
Doert, M. [18 ]
Dominguez, A. [19 ]
Dominis Prester, D. [5 ,6 ]
Dorner, D. [14 ]
Doro, M. [20 ,21 ,22 ,23 ]
Eisenacher, D. [14 ]
Elsaesser, D. [14 ]
Farina, E. [24 ]
Ferenc, D. [5 ,6 ]
Fonseca, M. V. [8 ]
Font, L. [22 ,23 ]
Fruck, C. [7 ]
Garcia Lopez, R. J. [9 ,11 ]
Garczarczyk, M. [9 ]
Terrats, D. Garrido [22 ,23 ]
Gaug, M. [22 ,23 ]
机构
[1] IFAE, Bellaterra 08193, Spain
[2] INAF Natl Inst Astrophys, I-00136 Rome, Italy
[3] Univ Siena, I-53100 Siena, Italy
[4] INFN Pisa, I-53100 Siena, Italy
[5] Univ Rijeka, Croatian MAGIC Consortium, Rudjer Boskov Inst, Zagreb 10000, Croatia
[6] Univ Split, Zagreb 10000, Croatia
[7] Max Planck Inst Phys & Astrophys, D-80805 Munich, Germany
[8] Univ Complutense, E-28040 Madrid, Spain
[9] Inst Astrofis Canarias, Tenerife 38200, Spain
[10] Univ Lodz, PL-90236 Lodz, Poland
[11] Univ La Laguna, Depto Astrofis, San Cristobal la Laguna 38206, Spain
[12] Deutsch Elektronen Synchrotron DESY, D-15738 Zeuthen, Germany
[13] Swiss Fed Inst Technol, CH-8093 Zurich, Switzerland
[14] Univ Wurzburg, D-97074 Wurzburg, Germany
[15] Ctr Invest Energet Medioambientales & Tecnol, Madrid 28040, Spain
[16] Univ Udine, I-33100 Udine, Italy
[17] INFN Trieste, I-33100 Udine, Italy
[18] Tech Univ Dortmund, D-44221 Dortmund, Germany
[19] Inst Astrofis Andalucia CSIC, Granada 18080, Spain
[20] Univ Padua, I-35131 Padua, Italy
[21] INFN, I-35131 Padua, Italy
[22] Univ Autonoma Barcelona, Unitat Fis Radiac, Dept Fis, Bellaterra 08193, Spain
[23] Univ Autonoma Barcelona, CERES IEEC, Bellaterra 08193, Spain
[24] Univ Insubria, I-22100 Como, Italy
[25] Inst Ciencies Espai IEEC CSIC, Bellaterra 08193, Spain
[26] Univ Turku, Tuorla Observ, Piikkio 21500, Finland
[27] Kyoto Univ, Japanese MAGIC Consortium, Div Phys & Astron, Kahiwa, Chiba 2778582, Japan
[28] Inst Nucl Energy Res, Sofia 1784, Bulgaria
[29] Univ Barcelona ICC IEEC, Barcelona 08028, Spain
[30] INAF Osservatorio Astron, I-34143 Trieste, Italy
[31] INFN, I-34143 Trieste, Italy
[32] Univ Pisa, I-56126 Pisa, Italy
[33] INFN Pisa, I-56126 Pisa, Italy
[34] ICREA, Barcelona 08010, Spain
[35] UAM CSIC, Inst Fis Teor, Madrid 28049, Spain
[36] Dr Karl Remeis Observ, D-96049 Bamberg, Germany
[37] Erlangen Ctr Astroparticle Phys, D-96049 Bamberg, Germany
[38] Harvard Smithsonian Ctr Astrophys, Fred Lawrence Whipple Observ, Amado, AZ 85645 USA
基金
美国国家航空航天局; 芬兰科学院; 美国国家科学基金会;
关键词
galaxies: active; galaxies: individual: IC 310; gamma rays: galaxies; X-rays: galaxies; GAMMA-RAY EMISSION; LARGE-AREA TELESCOPE; PERSEUS CLUSTER; RADIO GALAXIES; CENTAURUS; CATALOG; FLARES; M87; RADIATION; SYSTEM;
D O I
10.1051/0004-6361/201321938
中图分类号
P1 [天文学];
学科分类号
0704 ;
摘要
Context. The radio galaxy IC 310 has recently been identified as a gamma-ray emitter based on observations at GeV energies with Fermi-LAT and at very high energies (VHE, E > 100 GeV) with the MAGIC telescopes. Originally classified as a head-tail radio galaxy, the nature of this object is subject of controversy since its nucleus shows blazar-like behavior. Aims. To understand the nature of IC310 and the origin of the VHE emission, we studied the spectral and flux variability of IC 310 from the X-ray band to the VHE gamma-ray regime. Methods. The light curve of IC310 above 300GeV has been measured with the MAGIC telescopes from 2009 October to 2010 February. Contemporaneous Fermi-LAT data (2008-2011) in the 10-500 GeV energy range were also analyzed. In the X-ray regime, archival observations from 2003 to 2007 with XMM-Newton, Chandra, and Swift-XRT in the 0.5-10 keV band were studied. Results. The VHE light curve reveals several high-amplitude and short-duration flares. Day-to-day flux variability is clearly present (>5 sigma). The photon index between 120 GeV and 8 TeV remains at the value Gamma similar to 2.0 during both low and high flux states. The VHE spectral shape does not show significant variability, whereas the flux at 1 TeV changes by a factor of similar to 7. Fermi-LAT detected only eight gamma-ray events in the energy range 10 GeV-500 GeV in three years of observation. The measured photon index of Gamma = 1.3 +/- 0.5 in the Fermi-LAT range is very hard. The X-ray measurements show strong variability in both flux and photon index. The latter varied from 1.76 +/- 0.07 to 2.55 +/- 0.07. Conclusions. The rapid variability measured in gamma-rays and X-rays confirms the blazar-like behavior of IC310. The multi-TeV gamma-ray emission seems to originate from scales of less than 80 Schwarzschild radii (for a black hole mass of 2 x 10(8) M-circle dot) within the compact core of its FR I radio jet with orientation angle 10 degrees-38 degrees. The spectral energy distribution resembles that of an extreme blazar, albeit the luminosity is more than two orders of magnitude lower.
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