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Temporal variability and estimation of jet parameters for Ton 599

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena 2018-10-24 v1

Abstract

The TeV blazar Ton 599 has exhibited a peculiar flare in 2017 November. The temporal variation of the source is studied using simultaneous γ\gamma-ray data from Fermi\textit{Fermi} Large Area Telescope and radio data from Owens Valley Radio Observatory's 40 m telescope, over the period of nine years. Four major flaring periods are observed in the γ\gamma-ray energy band of 0.1-300 GeV. These periods are studied on a shorter timescale and modeled with a time-dependent function containing exponential rising and decaying components. The physical parameters of the jet are estimated numerically and compared with those reported in the literature. During the fourth flare a bunch of high energy photons (>>10 GeV) were detected. The two highest energy photons having an energy of 76.9 GeV and 61.9 GeV are detected on MJD 58059.0 and 58073.3, respectively. This observation possibly constrains the γ\gamma-ray emission region to lie near outer edge or outside the broad line region of size \sim0.08 pc. The variation of equivalent width of a Mg-II line is studied using the spectroscopic data from Steward observatory. It was observed that the equivalent width of the line varies inversely with the underlying power-law continuum.

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@article{arxiv.1809.05269,
  title  = {Temporal variability and estimation of jet parameters for Ton 599},
  author = {S. R. Patel and V. R. Chitnis and A. Shukla and A. R. Rao and B. J. Nagare},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1809.05269},
  year   = {2018}
}

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34 pages, 15 figures, Accepted for publication in ApJ

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