The next generation of TeV detectors is expected to have a significantly enhanced performance. It is therefore constructive to search for new TeV candidates for observation. This paper focuses on TeV candidates among the high-synchrotron-peaked BL Lacertae objects (HBLs) reported in the fourth catalog of active galactic nuclei detected by the Fermi's Large Area Telescope, i.e., 4LAC. By cross-matching the Fermi data with radio and optical observations, we collected the multiwavelength features of 180 HBLs with known redshift. The data set contains 39 confirmed TeV sources and 141 objects whose TeV detection has not yet been reported (either not yet observed, or observed but not detected). Using two kinds of supervised machine-learning (SML) methods, we searched for new possible TeV candidates (PTCs) among the nondetected objects by assessing the similarity of their multi-wavelength properties to existing TeV-detected objects. The classification results of the two SML classifiers were combined and the 24 highest-confidence PTCs were proposed as the best candidates. We calculate, here, the 12 year averaged Fermi spectra of these PTCs and estimate their detectability by extrapolating the Fermi spectrum and including the extragalactic background light attenuation. Four candidates are suggested to have a high likelihood of being detected by the Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory and 24 are candidates for the Cerenkov Telescope Array observations.
Very recently a fast radio burst (FRB) 200428 associated with a strong X-ray burst from the Galactic magnetar SGR 1935+2154 has been detected, which is direct evidence supporting the magnetar progenitor models of FRBs. Assuming the FRB radiation mechanism is synchrotron maser emission from magnetized shocks, we develop a specific scenario by introducing a density jump structure of upstream medium, and thus the double-peaked character of FRB 200428 is a natural outcome. The luminosity and emission frequency of two pulses can be well explained in this scenario. Furthermore, we find that the sync…
Testing the Correlations between X-ray Spectral Properties and Polarization for High Synchrotron Peaked Blazars
Science & Technology Institute, Universities Space Research Association（科学与技术学院，美国太空研究协会）；NASA Marshall Space Flight Center（美国国家航空航天局马歇尔太空飞行中心）；Institute of Astrophysics, Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas（天体物理研究所，希腊研究与技术基金会）；INAF Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera（意大利国家天体物理研究所布雷拉天文台）；Department of Physics, University of Crete（克里特大学物理系）；INAF Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma（意大利国家天体物理研究所罗马天文台）
We present a search for high-energy $γ$-ray emission from 566 Active Galactic Nuclei at redshift $z > 0.2$, from the 2WHSP catalog of high-synchrotron peaked BL Lac objects with eight years of Fermi-LAT data. We focus on a redshift range where electromagnetic cascade emission induced by ultra-high-energy cosmic rays can be distinguished from leptonic emission based on the spectral properties of the sources. Our analysis leads to the detection of 160 sources above $\approx$ $5σ$ (TS $\geq 25$) in the 1 - 300 GeV energy range. By discriminating significant sources based on their $γ$-ray fluxes, …
High synchrotron peaked blazars (HSPs or HBLs) play a central role in very high energy (VHE) gamma-ray astronomy, and likely in neutrino astronomy. Currently, the largest compilation of HSP blazars, the 2WHSP sample, includes 1691 sources, but it is not complete neither in the radio nor in the X-ray band. In order to provide a more sizable and more accurate set of HSP blazars that is useful for future statistical studies and to plan for VHE/TeV observations, we present the largest sample of extreme and high synchrotron peaked (EHSP;HSP) blazars and blazar candidates: the 3HSP catalogue. The 3H…
Studying unidentified γ-ray sources is important as they may hide new discoveries. We conducted a multiwavelength analysis of 13 unidentified Fermi-LAT sources in the 3FGL catalog that have no known counterparts (Unidentified Gamma-ray Sources, UnIDs). The sample was selected for sources that have a single radio and X-ray candidate counterpart in their uncertainty ellipses. The purpose of this study is to find a possible blazar signature and to model the Spectral Energy Distribution (SED) of the selected sources using an empirical log parabolic model. The results show that the synchrotron emis…
We present the 1-100 GeV spectral energy distribution for a population of 148 high-synchrotron-peaked blazars (HSPs) recently detected with Fermi-LAT as part of the First Brazil-ICRANet Gamma-ray Blazar catalogue (1BIGB). Most of the 1BIGB sources do not appear in previous Fermi-LAT catalogues and their gamma-ray spectral properties are presented here for the first time, representing a significant new extension of the gamma-ray blazar population. Since our sample was originally selected from an excess signal in the 0.3-500 GeV band, the sources stand out as promising TeV blazar candidates, pot…
High-Synchrotron-Peaked BL Lacs as Multi-Messenger Sources: Connecting Ultra-High-Energy Cosmic Rays and Neutrinos
Unidade Acadêmica de Física, Universidade Federal de Campina Grande (UAF-UFCG)（坎皮纳格兰德联邦大学物理学术单位）；Instituto de Física, Universidade de São Paulo (IFUSP)（圣保罗大学物理研究所）；Departamento de Engenharias e Exatas, Universidade Federal do Paraná (UFPR)（巴拉那联邦大学工程与理学院）；Programa de Pós-Graduação em Física, Departamento de Física, Universidade Estadual de Londrina (UEL)（隆德里纳州立大学物理系物理学研究生项目）；Programa de Pós-Graduação em Física e Astronomia, Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná (UTFPR)（巴拉那联邦技术大学物理与天文学研究生项目）；Programa de Pós-Graduação em Física Aplicada, Universidade Federal da Integração Latino-Americana（拉丁美洲一体化联邦大学应用物理学研究生项目）；Departamento de Física, Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, Núcleo de Astrofísica e Cosmologia (Cosmo-Ufes)（圣埃斯皮里图联邦大学物理系天体物理与宇宙学中心）
The origin of the multiwavelength emission from the high-synchrotron-peaked BL Lac 1ES 1218+304 is studied using the data from {\it Swift UVOT/XRT}, {\it NuSTAR} and {\it Fermi-LAT}. A detailed temporal and spectral analysis of the data observed during 2008-2020 in the $γ$-ray ($>100$ MeV), X-ray (0.3-70 keV), and optical/UV bands is performed. The $γ$-ray spectrum is hard with a photon index of $1.71\pm0.02$ above $100$ MeV. The {\it Swift UVOT/XRT} data show a flux increase in the UV/optical and X-ray bands; the highest $0.3-3$ keV X-ray flux was $(1.13\pm0.02)\times10^{-10}{\rm erg\:cm^{-2}…
BL Lac objects can be extreme in two ways: with their synchrotron emission, peaking beyond 1 keV in their spectral energy distribution, or with their gamma-ray emission, peaking at multi-TeV energies up to and beyond 10-20 TeV, like 1ES 0229+200. This second type of extreme BL Lacs --which we can name "TeV-peaked BL Lacs" is not well explained by the usual synchrotron self-Compton scenarios for BL Lacs. These sources are also important as probes for the intergalactic diffuse infrared background and cosmic magnetic fields, as well as possible sites of production of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays…
The Fundamental Planes of Black Hole Activity for High-Synchrotron-Peaked BL Lacertae Objects
School of Physics and Electronic Science, Guizhou Normal University（贵州师范大学物理与电子科学学院）；Guizhou Provincial Key Laboratory of Radio Astronomy and Data Processing, Guizhou Normal University（贵州师范大学贵州省射电天文与数据处理重点实验室）；College of Physics, Guizhou University（贵州大学物理学院）
We present the results obtained from our campaign to characterize the intra-night-optical variability properties of blazars detected by the {\it Fermi} Large Area Telescope. This involves R-band monitoring observations of a sample of 18 blazars, that includes five flat-spectrum radio quasars (FSRQs) and thirteen BL Lac objects (BL Lacs) covering the redshift range z = 0.085$-$1.184. Our observations, carried out using the 1.3 m J.C. Bhattacharya Telescope cover a total of 40 nights ($\sim$200 hrs) between the period 2016 December and 2020 March. We characterized variability using the power enh…
The spectral energy distribution (SED) of blazars is generally understood through the standard one-zone synchrotron self-Compton (SSC) model, where a strong correlation between X-ray and TeV gamma-ray fluxes is expected. Recently, for Mrk 421 the correlation was confirmed and interpreted within the SSC model arguing that a description of the correlation up to large flux values considerably restricts the value of the magnetic field under the assumption of an electron spectral index independent of the flux state. In this work, we extend the analysis done on Mrk 421 for other two high-energy peak…
PG 1553+113 is the first blazar showing an approximately two-year quasi-periodic pattern in its gamma-ray light curve. Such quasi-periodicity might have a geometrical origin, possibly related to the precessing nature of the jet, or could be intrinsic to the source and related to pulsational accretion flow instabilities. By means of a ~2yr very long baseline array (VLBA) monitoring at 15, 24, and 43 GHz we investigate the source pc-scale properties during an entire cycle of gamma-ray activity in the period 2015-2017. In contrast to the well-defined periodicity in the gamma-ray emission, at radi…
The synchrotron hump of the high energy peaked blazars generally lies in the 0.1-10 keV range and such sources show extreme flux and spectral variability in X-ray bands. Various spectral studies showed that the X-ray spectra of high energy peaked blazars are curved and better described by the log-parabolic model. The curvature is attributed to the energy dependent statistical acceleration mechanism. In this work, we review the X-ray spectral studies of high energy peaked blazars. It is found that the log-parabolic model well describes the spectra in a wide energy interval around the peak. The …
Hunting for extreme high-energy-peaked BL Lacs: Rare to find and difficult to classify
INAF – Osservatorio di Astrofisica e Scienza dello Spazio（国家天体物理研究所空间科学与天体物理观测台）；Instituto de Astrofisica, Universidad Andres Bello（安第斯贝尔托大学 Astrophysics 研究所）
KM3NeT/ARCA stacking search for high-energy neutrino point sources: the case of ultra-luminous infrared galaxies and blazars
Università di Firenze（佛罗伦萨大学）；INFN, Sezione di Firenze（意大利国家核物理研究所佛罗伦萨分部）；Université de Strasbourg（斯特拉斯堡大学）；CNRS（法国国家科学研究中心）；Université de Haute Alsace（上阿尔萨斯大学）；Khalifa University of Science and Technology（哈利法科学技术大学）；INFN, Sezione di Napoli（意大利国家核物理研究所那不勒斯分部）；Università di Napoli “Federico II”（那不勒斯费德里科二世大学）；INFN, Sezione di Roma（意大利国家核物理研究所罗马分部）；IFIC - Instituto de Física Corpuscular (CSIC - Universitat de València)（粒子物理研究所（瓦伦西亚大学与西班牙高等科学研究理事会联合））；Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya（加泰罗尼亚理工大学）
Extreme high-energy peaked BL Lac objects (EHBLs) are an emerging class of blazars with exceptional spectral properties. The non-thermal emission of the relativistic jet peaks in the spectral energy distribution (SED) plot with the synchrotron emission in X-rays and with the gamma-ray emission in the TeV range or above. These high photon energies may represent a challenge for the standard modeling of these sources. They are important for the implications on the indirect measurements of the extragalactic background light, the intergalactic magnetic field estimate, and the possible origin of ext…
Extreme high-energy peaked BL Lac objects (EHBLs) are an emerging class of blazars with exceptional spectral properties. In blazars, the spectral energy distribution (SED) is dominated by the non-thermal emission of the relativistic jet, and consists of two main broad humps. For the EHBLs, these two components peak in the X-ray and GeV-TeV bands, respectively. Although the number of TeV detected extreme blazars is very limited, recent observations by Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes (IACTs) have revealed that in some of them the energy of the second peak exceeds several TeV (e.g. 1ES 0…
The emission of very-high-energy photons (VHE, E>100 GeV$) in blazars is closely connected to the production of ultra-relativistic particles and the role of these gamma-ray sources as cosmic particle accelerators. This work focuses on a selection of 22 gamma-ray objects from the 2BIGB catalog of high-synchrotron-peaked sources, which are classified as blazar candidates of uncertain type in the 4FGL-DR2 catalog. We study these sources by means of a re-analysis of the first 10 years of gamma-ray data taken with the Fermi Large Area Telescope, including the attenuation by the extragalactic backgr…
We present optical, radio, and X-ray observations of SN2020bvc (=ASASSN20bs; ZTF20aalxlis), a nearby ($z=0.0252$; $d$=114 Mpc) broad-lined (BL) Type Ic supernova (SN). Our observations show that SN2020bvc shares several properties in common with the Ic-BL SN2006aj, which was associated with the low-luminosity gamma-ray burst (LLGRB) 060218. First, the 10 GHz radio light curve is on the faint end of LLGRB-SNe ($L_\mathrm{radio} \approx 10^{37}$erg/s): we model our VLA observations (spanning 13-43 d) as synchrotron emission from a mildly relativistic ($v \gtrsim 0.3c$) forward shock. Second, wit…
Gigahertz-Peaked spectrum (GPS) sources are compact active galactic nuclei, presumably young precursors of bright radio sources. The study of GPS radio properties provides information about the features of synchrotron radiation in extragalactic sources. Also in applied research GPS sources are useful as compact stationary radio sources in the sky for astrometric purposes. This paper presents the results of a multifrequency GPS study based on quasi-simultaneous measurements with the RATAN-600 radio telescope during the 2006-2017. The catalog containing spectral flux densities measured at six fr…
