MINUTE-TIMESCALE > 100 MeV γ-RAY VARIABILITY DURING THE GIANT OUTBURST OF QUASAR 3C 279 OBSERVED BY FERMI-LAT IN 2015 JUNE

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作者
Ackermann, M. [1 ]
Anantua, R. [2 ,3 ]
Asano, K. [4 ]
Baldini, L. [2 ,3 ,5 ,6 ]
Barbiellini, G. [7 ,8 ]
Bastieri, D. [9 ,10 ]
Gonzalez, J. Becerra [11 ,12 ,13 ]
Bellazzini, R. [6 ]
Bissaldi, E. [14 ]
Blandford, R. D. [2 ,3 ]
Bloom, E. D. [2 ,3 ]
Bonino, R. [15 ,16 ]
Bottacini, E. [2 ,3 ]
Bruel, P. [17 ]
Buehler, R. [1 ]
Caliandro, G. A. [2 ,3 ,18 ]
Cameron, R. A. [2 ,3 ]
Caragiulo, M. [14 ,19 ,20 ]
Caraveo, P. A. [21 ]
Cavazzuti, E. [22 ]
Cecchi, C. [23 ,24 ]
Cheung, C. C. [25 ]
Chiang, J. [2 ,3 ]
Chiaro, G. [10 ]
Ciprini, S. [23 ]
Cohen-Tanugi, J. [26 ]
Costanza, F. [14 ]
Cutini, S. [22 ,23 ]
D'Ammando, F. [27 ,28 ]
De Palma, F. [14 ]
Desiante, R. [15 ,29 ]
Digel, S. W. [2 ,3 ]
Di Lalla, N. [6 ]
Di Mauro, M. [2 ,3 ]
Di Venere, L. [14 ,19 ,20 ]
Drell, P. S. [2 ,3 ]
Favuzzi, C. [14 ,19 ,20 ]
Fegan, S. J. [17 ]
Ferrara, E. C. [11 ]
Fukazawa, Y. [30 ]
Funk, S. [31 ]
Fusco, P. [19 ,20 ]
Gargano, F. [14 ]
Gasparrini, D. [23 ]
Giglietto, N. [14 ,19 ,20 ]
Giordano, F. [14 ,19 ,20 ]
Giroletti, M. [27 ]
Grenier, I. A. [32 ]
Guillemot, L. [33 ,34 ]
Guiriec, S.
机构
[1] Deutsch Elektronen Synchrotron DESY, D-15738 Zeuthen, Germany
[2] Stanford Univ, WW Hansen Expt Phys Lab, Kavli Inst Particle Astrophys & Cosmol, Dept Phys, Stanford, CA 94305 USA
[3] Stanford Univ, SLAC Natl Accelerator Lab, Stanford, CA 94305 USA
[4] Univ Tokyo, Inst Cosm Ray Res, 5-1-5 Kashiwanoha, Kashiwa, Chiba 2778582, Japan
[5] Univ Pisa, I-56127 Pisa, Italy
[6] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Pisa, I-56127 Pisa, Italy
[7] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Trieste, I-34127 Trieste, Italy
[8] Univ Trieste, Dipartimento Fis, I-34127 Trieste, Italy
[9] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Padova, I-35131 Padua, Italy
[10] Univ Padua, Dipartimento Fis & Astron G Galilei, I-35131 Padua, Italy
[11] NASA, Goddard Space Flight Ctr, Greenbelt, MD 20771 USA
[12] Univ Maryland, Dept Phys, College Pk, MD 20742 USA
[13] Univ Maryland, Dept Astron, College Pk, MD 20742 USA
[14] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Bari, I-70126 Bari, Italy
[15] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Torino, I-10125 Turin, Italy
[16] Univ Turin, Dipartimento Fis Gen Amadeo Avogadro, I-10125 Turin, Italy
[17] Ecole Polytech, CNRS, IN2P3, Lab Leprince Ringuet, F-91128 Palaiseau, France
[18] CIFS, I-10133 Turin, Italy
[19] Univ Bari, Dipartimento Fis M Merlin, I-70126 Bari, Italy
[20] Politecn Bari, I-70126 Bari, Italy
[21] Ist Astrofis Spaziale & Fis Cosm, INAF, I-20133 Milan, Italy
[22] ASI, Sci Data Ctr, I-00133 Rome, Italy
[23] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Perugia, I-06123 Perugia, Italy
[24] Univ Perugia, Dipartimento Fis, I-06123 Perugia, Italy
[25] Naval Res Lab, Div Space Sci, Washington, DC 20375 USA
[26] Univ Montpellier, CNRS, IN2P3, Lab Univers & Particules Montpellier, F-34095 Montpellier, France
[27] INAF Ist Radioastron, I-40129 Bologna, Italy
[28] Univ Telemat Pegaso, Piazza Trieste Trento 48, I-80132 Naples, Italy
[29] Univ Udine, I-33100 Udine, Italy
[30] Hiroshima Univ, Dept Phys Sci, Hiroshima 7398526, Japan
[31] Erlangen Ctr Astroparticle Phys, D-91058 Erlangen, Germany
[32] Univ Paris Diderot, Serv Astrophys, CEA Saclay, Lab AIM,CEA,IRFU,CNRS, F-91191 Gif Sur Yvette, France
[33] Univ Orleans, CNRS, Lab Phys & Chim Environm & Espace, F-45071 Orleans 02, France
[34] INSU, CNRS, Observ Paris, Stn Radioastron Nancay, F-18330 Nancay, France
[35] Univ Iceland, Inst Sci, IS-107 Reykjavik, Iceland
[36] AlbaNova, KTH Royal Inst Technol, Dept Phys, SE-10691 Stockholm, Sweden
[37] AlbaNova, Oskar Klein Ctr Cosmoparticle Phys, SE-10691 Stockholm, Sweden
[38] CSIC, Inst Space Sci IEEC, Campus UAB, E-08193 Barcelona, Spain
[39] Univ Bordeaux 1, CNRS, IN2P3, Ctr Etud Nucl Bordeaux Gradignan, BP120, F-33175 Gradignan, France
[40] Hiroshima Univ, Hiroshima Astrophys Sci Ctr, Hiroshima 7398526, Japan
[41] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Roma Tor Vergata, I-00133 Rome, Italy
[42] Nicolaus Copernicus Astron Ctr, PL-00716 Warsaw, Poland
[43] Max Planck Inst Phys & Astrophys, D-80805 Munich, Germany
[44] Univ Johannesburg, Dept Phys, POB 524, ZA-2006 Auckland Pk, South Africa
[45] Leopold Franzens Univ Innsbruck, Inst Astro & Teilchenphys, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria
[46] Leopold Franzens Univ Innsbruck, Inst Theoret Phys, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria
[47] NASA, Div Space Sci, Ames Res Ctr, Moffett Field, CA 94035 USA
[48] NYCB Real Time Comp Inc, Lattingtown, NY 11560 USA
[49] Jagiellonian Univ, Astron Observ, PL-30244 Krakow, Poland
[50] ICREA, Barcelona, Spain
基金
瑞典研究理事会;
关键词
galaxies: active; galaxies: jets; gamma rays: galaxies; quasars: individual (3C 279); radiation mechanisms: non-thermal; LARGE-AREA TELESCOPE; MULTIWAVELENGTH OBSERVATIONS; RAPID VARIABILITY; RELATIVISTIC JET; CRAB-NEBULA; EMISSION; BLAZARS; RADIATION; FLARES; LOCATION;
D O I
10.3847/2041-8205/824/2/L20
中图分类号
P1 [天文学];
学科分类号
0704 ;
摘要
On 2015 June 16, Fermi- LAT observed a giant outburst from the flat spectrum radio quasar 3C 279 with a peak >100 MeV flux of similar to 3.6 x 10(-5) photons cm(-2) s(-1), averaged over orbital period intervals. It is historically the highest gamma-ray flux observed from the source, including past EGRET observations, with the gamma-ray isotropic luminosity reaching similar to 10(49) erg s(-1). During the outburst, the Fermi spacecraft, which has an orbital period of 95.4 minutes, was operated in a special pointing mode to optimize the exposure for 3C 279. For the first time, significant flux variability at sub-orbital timescales was found in blazar observations by Fermi- LAT. The source flux variability was resolved down to 2-minute binned timescales, with flux doubling times of less than 5 minutes. The observed minute-scale variability suggests a very compact emission region at hundreds of Schwarzschild radii from the central engine in conical jet models. A minimum bulk jet Lorentz factor (Gamma) of 35 is necessary to avoid both internal gamma-ray absorption and super-Eddington jet power. In the standard external radiation Comptonization scenario, G should be at least 50 to avoid overproducing the synchrotron self-Compton component. However, this predicts extremely low magnetization (similar to 5 x 10(-4)). Equipartition requires Gamma as high as 120, unless the emitting region is a small fraction of the dissipation region. Alternatively, we consider. rays originating as synchrotron radiation of gamma e similar to 1.6 x 10(6) electrons, in a magnetic field B similar to 1.3 kG, accelerated by strong electric fields E similar to B in the process of magnetoluminescence. At such short distance scales, one cannot immediately exclude the production of gamma-rays in hadronic processes.
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