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Multi-wavelength observations of the Blazar 4C +28.07

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena 2022-01-10 v2

Abstract

The active galactic nucleus 4C +28.07 is a flat spectrum radio quasar, one of the brightest at γ\gamma-ray energies. We study its multi-wavelength emission by analysing 12.3\sim12.3 years of \textit{Fermi-LAT} data in the γ\gamma-ray band and \textit{Swift-XRT/UVOT} available data in X-ray and Optical-to-Ultraviolet bands. In the γ\gamma-ray band, five flaring periods have been detected, during which the flux dramatically increases by several times (>5) compared with its average quiescent phase. Quasi-simultaneously with the flaring times, the X-ray and UVOT data detected by \textit{Swift-XRT/UVOT} have also been analysed. In one of the brightest flare periods (Flare 5; observed on Oct 12, 2018) the γ\gamma-ray flux reached (6.7±0.81)×106(6.7\pm0.81)\times 10^{-6} photon/cm^2/s (31×\sim31\times higher than the mean flux over 12.3 years) with detection significance of σ=6.1\sigma=6.1. The apparent γ\gamma-ray luminosity of this flaring corresponds to 3.6×10493.6\times10^{49} erg/s (for a distance of 8.38 Gpc), one of the highest γ\gamma-ray luminosities observed for blazars. Flare 5 has an estimated 2\sim2 hours time block, which can be considered the average γ\gamma-ray variability time. The variability time constrains the γ\gamma-ray emitting region size to <9e14 cm, which is close to the black hole radius. The spectral energy distributions (SEDs) in the γ\gamma-ray band for the 12.3\sim12.3 years of data show an early cut-off at 14\sim14 GeV; beyond 60\sim60 GeV, however, the spectrum hardens and is detected up to 316\sim316 GeV. Similar spectral behaviour is also noticeable for the SEDs of flares, which can be linked to the photon absorption by the emitting region's internal and external narrow-band radiation fields. Considering the significance of the obtained results from 4C\,+28.07, we compared the parameters with 3C\,279 and M87, to motivate further studies.

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@article{arxiv.2109.08752,
  title  = {Multi-wavelength observations of the Blazar 4C +28.07},
  author = {Davit Zargaryan and Jonathan Mackey and Thibault Barnouin and Felix Aharonian},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2109.08752},
  year   = {2022}
}

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Published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society