Temporal variability and estimation of jet parameters for Ton 599
Abstract
The TeV blazar Ton 599 has exhibited a peculiar flare in 2017 November. The temporal variation of the source is studied using simultaneous -ray data from 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 -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 -ray emission region to lie near outer edge or outside the broad line region of size 0.08 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.
Cite
@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}
}
Comments
34 pages, 15 figures, Accepted for publication in ApJ