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非常硬的Gamma-ray Blazar PG 1553+113的费米观测

Fermi Observations of the Very Hard Gamma-ray Blazar PG 1553+113

LAT Collaboration

摘要:

我们报告了从2008年8月4日到2009年2月22日费米伽马射线空间望远镜科学运行的前200天(MJD 54682.7-54884.2)期间对PG 1553+113的观测结果。这是第一次详细研究PG 1553+113在GeV的伽马射线制度,它使我们能够填补三十年的差距,在其光谱能量分布的能量。我们发现PG 1553+113是一个稳定的源与硬频谱,是最好的符合一个简单的幂律在费米能带。我们将费米数据与档案无线电,光学,X射线和甚高能量(VHE)伽马射线数据相结合,以模拟其宽带光谱能量分布,并发现一个简单的,单区同步自康普顿模型提供了一个合理的拟合。PG 1553+113具有在该区域中检测到的所有源中最软的VHE光谱,并且在迄今为止在费米能量带通上具有显著检测的那些源中,具有该能量区域中最硬的光谱。因此,它具有迄今为止研究的任何伽马射线源中最大的光谱突变,这可能是由于河外背景光(EBL)吸收了固有的伽马射线光谱。假设是这种情况,我们选择了一个低水平的EBL模型,并使用它来吸收费米(200 MeV - 157 GeV)测量的PG 1553+113的幂律谱,以找到最适合测量VHE数据(90 GeV - 1.1 TeV)的红移,用于EBL的参数化。我们表明,这个红移可以被认为是一个上限的距离PG 1553+113。

英文摘要:

We report the observations of PG 1553+113 during the first ~200 days of Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope science operations, from 4 August 2008 to 22 February 2009 (MJD 54682.7-54884.2). This is the first detailed study of PG 1553+113 in the GeV gamma-ray regime and it allows us to fill a gap of three decades in energy in its spectral energy distribution. We find PG 1553+113 to be a steady source with a hard spectrum that is best fit by a simple power-law in the Fermi energy band. We combine the Fermi data with archival radio, optical, X-ray and very high energy (VHE) gamma-ray data to model its broadband spectral energy distribution and find that a simple, one-zone synchrotron self-Compton model provides a reasonable fit. PG 1553+113 has the softest VHE spectrum of all sources detected in that regime and, out of those with significant detections across the Fermi energy bandpass so far, the hardest spectrum in that energy regime. Thus, it has the largest spectral break of any gamma-ray source studied to date, which could be due to the absorption of the intrinsic gamma-ray spectrum by the extragalactic background light (EBL). Assuming this to be the case, we selected a model with a low level of EBL and used it to absorb the power-law spectrum from PG 1553+113 measured with Fermi (200 MeV - 157 GeV) to find the redshift which gave the best fit to the measured VHE data (90 GeV - 1.1 TeV) for this parameterisation of the EBL. We show that this redshift can be considered an upper limit on the distance to PG 1553+113.

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