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arXiv 1104.2801astro-ph.HE
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Mrk 501耀斑的非常硬的gamma-ray辐射

Very hard gamma-ray emission from a flare of Mrk 501

A. Neronov, D. V. Semikoz, A. M. Taylor

摘要:

我们研究了2009年多波长活动期间探测到的Mrk~501大TeV伽马射线耀斑的特殊性质。我们确定对应的耀斑在费米/LAT望远镜的数据,并研究其光谱和定时特性。在耀斑期间,非常高能量的伽马射线通量的强数量级增加并不伴随着X射线通量的增加,因此耀斑是BL Lac中观察到的“孤儿”型TeV耀斑之一。该耀斑持续了约1个月,能量超过10 GeV。在10-200 GeV范围内的耀斑源光谱非常硬,光子指数为1.1+/-0.2,比在伽马射线带中观察到的任何其他耀变体都要硬。在10 GeV以下没有发现同时的耀斑活动。低于和高于10 GeV的发射的不同的可变性特性表明在光谱中存在两个单独的组件。我们调查可能的解释非常硬的扩口组件。我们认为,除其他外,耀斑产生的电磁级联启动的非常高的能量伽马射线在星系际介质中的可能性。如果星系际介质中的磁场为1 e-17 - 1 e-16 G量级,那么在这种解释下,耀斑的特殊光谱和时间特征就可以得到解释。

英文摘要:

We investigate the peculiar properties of a large TeV gamma-ray flare from Mrk~501 detected during the 2009 multiwavelength campaign. We identify the counterpart of the flare in the Fermi/LAT telescope data and study its spectral and timing characteristics. A strong order-of-magnitude increase of the very-high-energy gamma-ray flux during the flare was not accompanied by an increase in the X-ray flux, so that the flare was one of the "orphan"-type TeV flares observed in BL Lacs. The flare lasted about 1 month at energies above 10 GeV. The flaring source spectrum in the 10-200 GeV range was very hard, with a photon index 1.1+/-0.2, harder than that observed in any other blazar in the gamma-ray band. No simultaneous flaring activity was detected below 10 GeV. Different variability properties of the emission below and above 10 GeV indicate the existence of two separate components in the spectrum. We investigate possible explanations of the very hard flaring component. We consider, among others, the possibility that the flare is produced by an electromagnetic cascade initiated by very-high-energy gamma-rays in the intergalactic medium. Within such an interpretation, peculiar spectral and temporal characteristics of the flare could be explained if the magnetic field in the intergalactic medium is of the order of 1e-17 - 1e-16 G.

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