FERMI LARGE AREA TELESCOPE GAMMA-RAY DETECTION OF THE RADIO GALAXY M87

被引:152
作者
Abdo, A. A. [1 ]
Ackermann, M. [2 ,3 ]
Ajello, M. [2 ,3 ]
Atwood, W. B. [4 ,5 ]
Axelsson, M. [6 ,7 ]
Baldini, L. [8 ]
Ballet, J. [9 ]
Barbiellini, G. [10 ,11 ]
Bastieri, D. [12 ,13 ]
Bechtol, K. [2 ,3 ]
Bellazzini, R. [8 ]
Berenji, B. [2 ,3 ]
Blandford, R. D. [2 ,3 ]
Bloom, E. D. [2 ,3 ]
Bonamente, E. [14 ,15 ]
Borgland, A. W. [2 ,3 ]
Bregeon, J. [8 ]
Brez, A. [8 ]
Brigida, M. [16 ,17 ]
Bruel, P. [18 ]
Burnett, T. H. [19 ]
Caliandro, G. A. [16 ,17 ]
Cameron, R. A. [2 ,3 ]
Cannon, A. [21 ]
Caraveo, P. A. [22 ]
Casandjian, J. M. [9 ]
Cavazzuti, E. [23 ]
Cecchi, C. [14 ,15 ]
Celik, Oe [20 ,24 ]
Charles, E. [2 ,3 ]
Cheung, C. C. [1 ]
Chiang, J. [2 ,3 ]
Ciprini, S. [14 ,15 ]
Claus, R. [2 ,3 ]
Cohen-Tanugi, J. [25 ]
Colafrancesco, S. [23 ]
Conrad, J. [7 ,26 ]
Costamante, L. [2 ,3 ]
Cutini, S. [23 ]
Davis, D. S. [24 ]
Dermer, C. D. [1 ]
de Angelis, A. [27 ,28 ]
de Palma, F. [16 ,17 ]
Digel, S. W. [2 ,3 ]
Donato, D.
do Couto e Silva, E. [2 ,3 ]
Drell, P. S. [2 ,3 ]
Dubois, R. [2 ,3 ]
Dumora, D. [29 ,30 ]
Edmonds, Y. [2 ,3 ]
机构
[1] USN, Div Space Sci, Res Lab, Washington, DC 20375 USA
[2] Stanford Univ, Dept Phys, WW Hansen Expt Phys Lab, Kavli Inst Particle Astrophys & Cosmol, Stanford, CA 94305 USA
[3] Stanford Univ, SLAC Natl Accelerator Lab, Stanford, CA 94305 USA
[4] Univ Calif Santa Cruz, Dept Phys, Santa Cruz Inst Particle Phys, Santa Cruz, CA 95064 USA
[5] Univ Calif Santa Cruz, Dept Astron & Astrophys, Santa Cruz, CA 95064 USA
[6] Stockholm Univ, Dept Astron, SE-10691 Stockholm, Sweden
[7] Oskar Klein Ctr Cosmoparticle Phys, SE-10691 Stockholm, Sweden
[8] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Pisa, I-56127 Pisa, Italy
[9] Univ Paris Diderot, CEA Saclay, Serv Astrophys, Lab AIM,CEA IRFU,CNRS, F-91191 Gif Sur Yvette, France
[10] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Trieste, I-34127 Trieste, Italy
[11] Univ Trieste, Dipartmento Fis, I-34127 Trieste, Italy
[12] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Padova, I-35131 Padua, Italy
[13] Univ Padua, Dipartimento Fis G Galilei, I-35131 Padua, Italy
[14] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Perugia, I-06123 Perugia, Italy
[15] Univ Perugia, Dipartimento Fis, I-06123 Perugia, Italy
[16] Univ & Politecn Bari, Dipartimento Fis M Merlin, I-70126 Bari, Italy
[17] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Bari, I-70126 Bari, Italy
[18] Ecole Polytech, CNRS, Lab Leprince Ringuet, IN2P3, F-91128 Palaiseau, France
[19] Univ Washington, Dept Phys, Seattle, WA 98195 USA
[20] NASA, Goddard Space Flight Ctr, CRESST, Greenbelt, MD 20771 USA
[21] Univ Coll Dublin, Dublin 4, Ireland
[22] Ist Astrofis Spaziale & Fis Cosm, INAF, I-20133 Milan, Italy
[23] Agenzia Spaziale Italiana ASI Sci Data Ctr, I-00044 Frascati, Roma, Italy
[24] Univ Maryland Baltimore Cty, Baltimore, MD 21250 USA
[25] Univ Montpellier 2, CNRS, IN2P3, Lab Phys Theor & Astroparticules, Montpellier, France
[26] Stockholm Univ, Dept Phys, SE-10691 Stockholm, Sweden
[27] Univ Udine, Dipartimento Fis, I-33100 Udine, Italy
[28] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Trieste, Grp Collegato Udine, I-33100 Udine, Italy
[29] Univ Bordeaux, Ctr Etud Nucl Bordeaux Gradignan, UMR 5797, F-33175 Gradignan, France
[30] CEN Bordeaux Gradignan, CNRS, IN2P3, UMR 5797, F-33175 Gradignan, France
[31] Hiroshima Univ, Dept Phys Sci, Hiroshima 7398526, Japan
[32] Univ Maryland, College Pk, MD 20742 USA
[33] INAF Ist Radioastron, I-40129 Bologna, Italy
[34] Univ Alabama, Huntsville, AL 35899 USA
[35] Tokyo Inst Technol, Dept Phys, Meguro, Tokyo 1528551, Japan
[36] Waseda Univ, Shinjuku Ku, Tokyo 1698050, Japan
[37] RIKEN, Cosm Radiat Lab, Inst Phys & Chem Res, Wako, Saitama 3510198, Japan
[38] UPS, Ctr Etud Spatiale Rayonnements, CNRS, F-31028 Toulouse 4, France
[39] George Mason Univ, Fairfax, VA 22030 USA
[40] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Roma Tor Vergata, I-00133 Rome, Italy
[41] Univ Denver, Dept Phys & Astrophys, Denver, CO 80208 USA
[42] Max Planck Inst Extraterr Phys, D-85748 Garching, Germany
[43] JAXA, Inst Space & Astronaut Sci, Sagamihara, Kanagawa 2298510, Japan
[44] Leopold Franzens Univ Innsbruck, Inst Astro & Teilchenphys, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria
[45] Leopold Franzens Univ Innsbruck, Inst Theoret Phys, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria
[46] CSIC, IEEC, Inst Ciencies Espai, Barcelona 08193, Spain
[47] Royal Inst Technol KTH, Dept Phys, SE-10691 Stockholm, Sweden
[48] Ohio State Univ, Dept Phys, Ctr Cosmol & Astroparticle Phys, Columbus, OH 43210 USA
[49] NASA, Ames Res Ctr, Div Space Sci, Moffett Field, CA 94035 USA
[50] Purdue Univ Calumet, Dept Chem & Phys, Hammond, IN 46323 USA
基金
美国国家科学基金会;
关键词
galaxies: active; galaxies: individual (M87); galaxies: jets; gamma rays: observations; radiation mechanisms: non-thermal; ACTIVE GALACTIC NUCLEI; SYNCHROTRON-PROTON BLAZAR; SUPERMASSIVE BLACK-HOLE; TEV EMISSION; UNIFIED SCHEMES; LAC OBJECTS; SOURCE LIST; EGRET DATA; JET; VARIABILITY;
D O I
10.1088/0004-637X/707/1/55
中图分类号
P1 [天文学];
学科分类号
0704 ;
摘要
We report the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) discovery of high-energy (MeV/GeV) gamma-ray emission positionally consistent with the center of the radio galaxy M87, at a source significance of over 10 sigma in 10 months of all-sky survey data. Following the detections of Cen A and Per A, this makes M87 the third radio galaxy seen with the LAT. The faint point-like gamma-ray source has a >100 MeV flux of 2.45 (+/-0.63) x 10(-8) photons cm(-2) s(-1) (photon index = 2.26 +/- 0.13) with no significant variability detected within the LAT observation. This flux is comparable with the previous EGRET upper limit (<2.18 x 10-8 photons cm(-2) s(-1), 2 sigma), thus there is no evidence for a significant MeV/GeV flare on decade timescales. Contemporaneous Chandra and Very Long Baseline Array data indicate low activity in the unresolved X-ray and radio core relative to previous observations, suggesting M87 is in a quiescent overall level over the first year of Fermi-LAT observations. The LAT gamma-ray spectrum is modeled as synchrotron self-Compton (SSC) emission from the electron population producing the radio-to-X-ray emission in the core. The resultant SSC spectrum extrapolates smoothly from the LAT band to the historical-minimum TeV emission. Alternative models for the core and possible contributions from the kiloparsec-scale jet in M87 are considered, and cannot be excluded.
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