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M87中TeV燃烧点的定位实验

An Experiment to Locate the Site of TeV Flaring in M87

D. E. Harris, F. Massaro, C. C. Cheung, D. Horns, M. Raue, L. Stawarz, S. Wagner, P. Colin, D. Mazin, R. Wagner, M. Beilicke, S. LeBohec, M. Hui, R. Mukherjee

摘要:

我们描述了一个钱德拉X射线ToO项目,旨在隔离的网站TeV耀斑的射电星系M87。到目前为止,我们只触发了一次钱德拉观测(2010年4月),到我们9次观测中的第一次时,TeV耀斑已经结束。然而,我们发现,在我们的第一次观察中,未分辨的原子核的X射线强度处于较高的水平。在我们对M87喷流进行的长达9年的60多次钱德拉观测中,只有3次在极高的水平上测量到它的核。其中两次可能与TeV耀斑有关,在第三次事件发生时,没有TeV监测活动。根据原子核强度下降的速度,我们推断发射区的大小是几个光日乘以未知的光束因子的数量级;与TeV发射区的同类估计相当。我们还发现了在X射线波段的光谱演化的证据,这似乎与影响未解决的原子核内的发射电子的非热种群的辐射损失一致。

英文摘要:

We describe a Chandra X-ray ToO project designed to isolate the site of TeV flaring in the radio galaxy M87. To date, we have triggered the Chandra observations only once (2010 April) and by the time of the first of our 9 observations, the TeV flare had ended. However, we found that the X-ray intensity of the unresolved nucleus was at an elevated level for our first observation. Of the more than 60 Chandra observations we have made of the M87 jet covering 9 years, the nucleus was measured at a comparably high level only 3 times. Two of these occasions can be associated with TeV flaring, and at the time of the third event, there were no TeV monitoring activities. From the rapidity of the intensity drop of the nucleus, we infer that the size of the emitting region is of order a few light days times the unknown beaming factor; comparable to the same sort of estimate for the TeV emitting region. We also find evidence of spectral evolution in the X-ray band which seems consistent with radiative losses affecting the non-thermal population of the emitting electrons within the unresolved nucleus.

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