New hard-TeV extreme blazars detected with the MAGIC telescopes
Abstract
Extreme high-frequency peaked BL Lac objects (EHBLs) are blazars which exhibit extremely energetic synchrotron emission. They also feature non-thermal gamma-ray emission whose peak lies in the very high-energy (VHE, E > 100 GeV) range, and in some sources exceeds 1TeV: this is the case of hard-TeV EHBLs such as 1ES 0229+200. With the aim of increasing the EHBL population, ten targets were observed with the MAGIC telescopes from 2010 to 2017, for a total of 262 h of good quality data. The data were complemented by coordinated Swift observations. The X-ray data analysis confirms that all the sources but two are EHBLs. The sources show only a modest variability and a harder-when-brighter behavior, typical for this class of objects. At VHE gamma rays, three new sources were detected and a hint of signal was found for another new source. In each case the intrinsic spectrum is compatible with the hypothesis of a hard-TeV nature of these EHBLs. The broadband spectral energy distributions (SEDs) of all sources are built and modeled in the framework of a single-zone purely leptonic model. The VHE gamma-ray detected sources were also interpreted with a spine-layer and a proton synchrotron models. The three models provide a good description of the SEDs. However, the resulting parameters differ substantially in the three scenarios, in particular the magnetization parameter. This work presents a first mini-catalog of VHE gamma-ray and multi-wavelength observations of EHBLs.
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@article{arxiv.1911.06680,
title = {New hard-TeV extreme blazars detected with the MAGIC telescopes},
author = {MAGIC Collaboration and V. A. Acciari and S. Ansoldi and L. A. Antonelli and A. Arbet Engels and K. Asano and D. Baack and A. Babić and B. Banerjee and U. Barres de Almeida and J. A. Barrio and J. Becerra González and W. Bednarek and L. Bellizzi and E. Bernardini and A. Berti and J. Besenrieder and W. Bhattacharyya and C. Bigongiari and A. Biland and O. Blanch and G. Bonnoli and Ž. Bošnjak and G. Busetto and R. Carosi and G. Ceribella and M. Cerruti and Y. Chai and A. Chilingaryan and S. Cikota and S. M. Colak and U. Colin and E. Colombo and J. L. Contreras and J. Cortina and S. Covino and V. D'Elia and P. Da Vela and F. Dazzi and A. De Angelis and B. De Lotto and M. Delfino and J. Delgado and D. Depaoli and F. Di Pierro and L. Di Venere and E. Do Souto Espiñeira and D. Dominis Prester and A. Donini and D. Dorner and M. Doro and D. Elsaesser and V. Fallah Ramazani and A. Fattorini and G. Ferrara and D. Fidalgo and L. Foffano and M. V. Fonseca and L. Font and C. Fruck and S. Fukami and R. J. García López and M. Garczarczyk and S. Gasparyan and M. Gaug and N. Giglietto and F. Giordano and N. Godinović and D. Green and D. Guberman and D. Hadasch and A. Hahn and J. Herrera and J. Hoang and D. Hrupec and M. Hütten and T. Inada and S. Inoue and K. Ishio and Y. Iwamura and L. Jouvin and D. Kerszberg and H. Kubo and J. Kushida and A. Lamastra and D. Lelas and F. Leone and E. Lindfors and S. Lombardi and F. Longo and M. López and R. López-Coto and A. López-Oramas and S. Loporchio and B. Machado de Oliveira Fraga and C. Maggio and P. Majumdar and M. Makariev and M. Mallamaci and G. Maneva and M. Manganaro and K. Mannheim and L. Maraschi and M. Mariotti and M. Martínez and D. Mazin and S. Mićanović and D. Miceli and M. Minev and J. M. Miranda and R. Mirzoyan and E. Molina and A. Moralejo and D. Morcuende and V. Moreno and E. Moretti and P. Munar-Adrover and V. Neustroev and C. Nigro and K. Nilsson and D. Ninci and K. Nishijima and K. Noda and L. Nogués and S. Nozaki and S. Paiano and M. Palatiello and D. Paneque and R. Paoletti and J. M. Paredes and P. Peñil and M. Peresano and M. Persic and P. G. Prada Moroni and E. Prandini and I. Puljak and W. Rhode and M. Ribó and J. Rico and C. Righi and A. Rugliancich and L. Saha and N. Sahakyan and T. Saito and S. Sakurai and K. Satalecka and K. Schmidt and T. Schweizer and J. Sitarek and I. Šnidarić and D. Sobczynska and A. Somero and A. Stamerra and D. Strom and M. Strzys and Y. Suda and T. Surić and M. Takahashi and F. Tavecchio and P. Temnikov and T. Terzić and M. Teshima and N. Torres-Albà and L. Tosti and V. Vagelli and J. van Scherpenberg and G. Vanzo and M. Vazquez Acosta and C. F. Vigorito and V. Vitale and I. Vovk and M. Will and D. Zarić and C. Arcaro and A. Carosi and F. D'Ammando and F. Tombesi and A. Lohfink},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1911.06680},
year = {2020}
}
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30 pages, 9 figures. Corresponding author: E. Prandini. Main authors: C. Arcaro, V. Fallah Ramazani