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Long periodicity of Blazar with RXTE ASM, TA and HEGRA

Astrophysics 2007-05-23 v2

Abstract

Long periodicity for Mkn501 during a large flare in 1997 have been reported by TA, HEGRA group. Here, we establish this periodicity with archival data of RXTE All Sky Monitor(ASM), Telescope Array(TA) and HEGRA with a chance probability less than 10510^{-5}. We also find that an origin of 23 day periodicity is related with a change of either a gamma factor of electrons γ\gamma or the magnetic field or a beaming factor. And, in order to search for a category which have a long periodicity, we make a periodicity analysis for ten H.B.L. with RXTE ASM. We find a long periodicity for three TeV detected source, Mkn501, Mkn421 and PKS2155-304. There may exist a relation between an origin of a long periodicity and an electron acceleration to a TeV range.

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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0211640,
  title  = {Long periodicity of Blazar with RXTE ASM, TA and HEGRA},
  author = {S. Osone and M. Teshima},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0211640},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

7 pages, 11 figures, To appear in 'The Universe Viewed in Gamma-Rays'