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2008年2月M87强耀斑活动的甚高能Gamma-Ray观测

Very High Energy Gamma-Ray Observations of a Strong Flaring Activity in M87 in 2008 February

MAGIC Collaboration, J. Albert

摘要:

M87是唯一已知的非耀变体射电星系,发射甚高能量(VHE)伽马射线。在M87的监测计划中,MAGIC望远镜在2008年初探测到VHE伽马射线的快速耀斑。通量被认为是可变的350 GeV以上的时间尺度短至1天,在$5.6σ$的显着性水平。最高的测量流量达到蟹状星云流量的15%。在13天的观测期间,我们观察到了几个显著的变化。相反,在较低能量(150 - 350 GeV)下的通量与常数是相容的。能谱可以用光子指数为$2.30 \pm 0.11_\mathrm{stat} \pm 0.20_\mathrm{syst}$的幂律来描述。在VHE观测到的日尺度通量变化倾向于M87核心作为发射源,这意味着发射区域非常紧凑(只有几个史瓦西半径),或者在非扩展发射区域的情况下,发射团的多普勒因子相当大。

英文摘要:

M87 is the only known non blazar radio galaxy to emit very high energy (VHE) gamma-rays. During a monitoring program of M87, a rapid flare in VHE gamma-rays was detected by the MAGIC telescope in early 2008. The flux was found to be variable above 350 GeV on a timescale as short as 1 day at a significance level of $5.6σ$. The highest measured flux reached 15% of the Crab Nebula flux. We observed several substantial changes of the flux level during the 13 day observing period. The flux at lower energies (150 -- 350 GeV), instead, is compatible with being constant. The energy spectrum can be described by a power law with a photon index of $2.30 \pm 0.11_\mathrm{stat} \pm 0.20_\mathrm{syst}$. The observed day-scale flux variability at VHE prefers the M87 core as source of the emission and implies that either the emission region is very compact (just a few Schwarzschild radii) or the Doppler factor of the emitting blob is rather large in the case of a non expanding emission region.

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