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Is PKS 0625-354 another variable TeV active galactic nucleus?
- Source :
- Scopus-Elsevier
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- Sissa Medialab, 2021.
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Abstract
- The majority of the active galactic nuclei (AGN) detected at very-high-energies above 100 GeV belong to the class of blazars with a small angle between the jet-axis and the line-of-sight. Only about 10 percent of the gamma-ray AGN are objects with a larger viewing angle resulting in a smaller Doppler boosting of the emission. Originally, it was believed that gamma-ray emission can only be observed from blazars and those are variable in its brightness. Instead, the last years have shown that non-blazar active galaxies also show a fascinating variability behaviour which provide important new insights into the physical processes responsible for the gamma-ray production and especially for flaring events. Here, we report on the observation of gamma-ray variability of the active galaxy PKS 0625−354 detected with the H.E.S.S. telescopes in November 2018. The classification of PKS 0625−354 is a still matter of debate. The H.E.S.S. measurements were performed as part of a flux observing program and showed in the first night of the observation a detection of the object with > 5σ. A denser observation campaign followed for the next nine nights resulting in a decrease of the gamma-ray flux. Those observations were accompanied with Swift in the X-ray and UV/optical band allowing for the reconstruction of a multi-band broad-band spectral energy distribution. We will discuss the implications of the gamma-ray variability of the object.
- Subjects :
- Physics
Brightness
Active galactic nucleus
Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Flux
Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Viewing angle
Variable (computer science)
symbols.namesake
symbols
Spectral energy distribution
Blazar
Doppler effect
Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics
Subjects
Details
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Proceedings of 37th International Cosmic Ray Conference — PoS(ICRC2021)
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....326ba332f920b60fc9a7f6fa002b6ee1
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.22323/1.395.0814