THE STUDY OF TeV VARIABILITY AND THE DUTY CYCLE OF Mrk 421 FROM 3 Yr OF OBSERVATIONS WITH THE MILAGRO OBSERVATORY

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作者
Abdo, A. A. [1 ,2 ]
Abeysekara, A. U. [1 ]
Allen, B. T. [3 ]
Aune, T. [4 ,5 ]
Barber, A. S. [1 ,6 ]
Berley, D. [7 ]
Braun, J. [7 ]
Chen, C. [3 ]
Christopher, G. E. [8 ]
Delay, R. S. [3 ]
DeYoung, T. [9 ]
Dingus, B. L. [10 ]
Ellsworth, R. W. [11 ]
Fraija, N. [12 ]
Gonzalez, M. M. [12 ]
Goodman, J. A. [7 ]
Hays, E. [13 ]
Hoffman, C. M. [10 ]
Huentemeyer, P. H. [14 ]
Imran, A. [10 ]
Kolterman, B. E. [8 ]
Linnemann, J. T. [1 ]
Marinelli, A. [15 ]
McEnery, J. E. [13 ]
Morgan, T. [16 ]
Mincer, A. I. [8 ]
Nemethy, P. [8 ]
Patricelli, B. [12 ]
Pretz, J. [10 ]
Ryan, J. M. [16 ]
Parkinson, P. M. Saz [4 ]
Schneider, M. [4 ]
Shoup, A. [17 ]
Sinnis, G. [10 ]
Smith, A. J. [7 ]
Vasileiou, V. [7 ,18 ]
Walker, G. P. [10 ,19 ]
Williams, D. A. [4 ]
Yodh, G. B. [3 ]
机构
[1] Michigan State Univ, Dept Phys & Astron, E Lansing, MI 48824 USA
[2] Inst Def Anal, Operat Evaluat Div, Alexandria, VA 22311 USA
[3] Univ Calif Irvine, Dept Phys & Astron, Irvine, CA 92697 USA
[4] Univ Calif Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz Inst Particle Phys, Santa Cruz, CA 95064 USA
[5] Univ Calif Los Angeles, Dept Phys & Astron, Los Angeles, CA 90095 USA
[6] Univ Utah, Dept Phys, Salt Lake City, UT 84112 USA
[7] Univ Maryland, Dept Phys, College Pk, MD 20742 USA
[8] NYU, Dept Phys, New York, NY 10003 USA
[9] Penn State Univ, Dept Phys, University Pk, PA 16802 USA
[10] Los Alamos Natl Lab, Grp P23, Los Alamos, NM 87545 USA
[11] George Mason Univ, Dept Phys & Astron, Fairfax, VA 22030 USA
[12] Univ Nacl Autonoma Mexico, Inst Astron, Mexico City 04510, DF, Mexico
[13] NASA, Goddard Space Flight Ctr, Greenbelt, MD 20771 USA
[14] Michigan Technol Univ, Dept Phys, Houghton, MI 49931 USA
[15] Univ Nacl Autonoma Mexico, Inst Fis, Mexico City 04510, DF, Mexico
[16] Univ New Hampshire, Dept Phys, Durham, NH 03824 USA
[17] Ohio State Univ, Lima, OH 45804 USA
[18] Univ Montpellier 2, CNRS, IN2P3, Lab Univers & Particules Montpellier, F-34095 Montpellier 5, France
[19] Natl Secur Technol, Las Vegas, NV 89102 USA
基金
美国国家科学基金会;
关键词
BL Lacertae objects: individual (Markarian 421); gamma rays: general; GAMMA-RAY FLARES; MULTIWAVELENGTH OBSERVATIONS; ENERGY-SPECTRUM; CORRELATED VARIABILITY; BLAZAR MARKARIAN-421; EMISSION; MKN-421; 1ES-1959+650; STATE; MODEL;
D O I
10.1088/0004-637X/782/2/110
中图分类号
P1 [天文学];
学科分类号
0704 ;
摘要
TeV-flaring activity with timescales as short as tens of minutes and an orphan TeV flare have been observed from the blazar Markarian 421 (Mrk 421). The TeV emission from Mrk 421 is believed to be produced by leptonic synchrotron self-Compton (SSC) emission. In this scenario, correlations between the X-ray and the TeV fluxes are expected, TeV orphan flares are hardly explained, and the activity (measured as duty cycle) of the source at TeV energies is expected to be equal to or less than that observed in X-rays if only SSC is considered. To estimate the TeV duty cycle of Mrk 421 and to establish limits on its variability at different timescales, we continuously observed Mrk 421 with the Milagro observatory. Mrk 421 was detected by Milagro with a statistical significance of 7.1 standard deviations between 2005 September 21 and 2008 March 15. The observed spectrum is consistent with previous observations by VERITAS. We estimate the duty cycle of Mrk 421 for energies above 1 TeV for different hypotheses of the baseline flux and for different flare selections and we compared our results with the X-ray duty cycle estimated by Resconi et al. The robustness of the results is discussed.
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