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Swift经常观测到的耀变体的X射线谱、光变曲线和SEDs

X-ray spectra, light-curves and SEDs of blazars frequently observed by Swift

P. Giommi, M. Perri, M. Capalbi, V. D'Elia, U. Barres de Almeida, C. H. Brandt, A. M. T. Pollock, F. Arneodo, A. Di Giovanni, Y. L. Chang, O. Civitarese, M. De … 展开作者

P. Giommi, M. Perri, M. Capalbi, V. D'Elia, U. Barres de Almeida, C. H. Brandt, A. M. T. Pollock, F. Arneodo, A. Di Giovanni, Y. L. Chang, O. Civitarese, M. De Angelis, C. Leto, F. Verrecchia, N. Ricard, S. Di Pippo, R. Middei, A. V. Penacchioni, R. Ruffini, N. Sahakyan, D. Israyelyan, S. Turriziani

摘要:

Blazar的研究是当代河外天体物理学的热点之一。这是因为这些源是最丰富的河外伽马射线源类型,并且被怀疑在多信使天体物理学中发挥着核心作用。我们已经使用了swift_xrtproc,这是一种对Swift在2004年12月至2020年底期间至少50次观测到的所有耀变体的Swift-XRT数据进行精确光谱和光度分析的工具。我们提供了一个数据库的X射线光谱,最佳拟合参数值,计数率和流量估计在几个能带的31,000多个X射线观测和单快照的65 blazar。X射线分析的结果已与其他多频档案数据相结合,以组装样品中所有源的宽带光谱能量分布(SED)和长期光变曲线。我们的研究表明,大的X射线光度变化在不同的时间尺度上是存在于所有的对象。光谱变化也经常观察到“硬时亮”或“软时亮”的行为取决于SED类型的耀变体。从它们的X射线谱的对数抛物线形状估计的HBL耀变体的SED中的同步加速器分量nu_peak的峰值能量,在相同的源中也表现出非常大的变化,在Mrk 421和Mrk 501中跨越超过两个数量级的范围,在我们的样本中具有最好的数据集的对象。

英文摘要:

Blazars research is one of the hot topics of contemporary extra-galactic astrophysics. That is because these sources are the most abundant type of extra-galactic gamma-ray sources and are suspected to play a central role in multi-messenger astrophysics. We have used swift_xrtproc, a tool to carry out an accurate spectral and photometric analysis of the Swift-XRT data of all blazars observed by Swift at least 50 times between December 2004 and the end of 2020. We present a database of X-ray spectra, best-fit parameter values, count-rates and flux estimations in several energy bands of over 31,000 X-ray observations and single snapshots of 65 blazars. The results of the X-ray analysis have been combined with other multi-frequency archival data to assemble the broad-band Spectral Energy Distributions (SEDs) and the long-term light-curves of all sources in the sample. Our study shows that large X-ray luminosity variability on different timescales is present in all objects. Spectral changes are also frequently observed with a "harder-when-brighter" or "softer-when-brighter" behavior depending on the SED type of the blazars. The peak energy of the synchrotron component nu_peak in the SED of HBL blazars, estimated from the log-parabolic shape of their X-ray spectra, also exhibits very large changes in the same source, spanning a range of over two orders of magnitude in Mrk421 and Mrk501, the objects with the best data sets in our sample.

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