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Raj Prince
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A multiwavelength temporal and spectral analysis of flares of 3C 279 during November 2017--July 2018 are presented in this work. Three bright gamma-ray flares were observed simultaneously in X-ray and Optical/UV along with a prolonged quiescent state. A harder-when-brighter trend is observed in both gamma-rays and X-rays during the flaring period. The gamma-ray light curve for all the flares are binned in one-day time bins and a day scale variability is observed. Variability time constrains the size and location of the emission region to 2.1$times$10$^{16}$ cm and 4.4$times$10$^{17}$ cm, respectively. The fractional variability reveals that the source is more than 100% variable in gamma-rays and it decreases towards the lower energy. A cross-correlation study of the emission from different wavebands is done using the textit{DCF} method, which shows a strong correlation between them without any time lags. The zero time lag between different wavebands suggest their co-spatial origin. This is the first time 3C 279 has shown a strong correlation between gamma-rays and X-rays emission with zero time lag. A single zone emission model was adopted to model the multiwavelength SEDs by using the publicly available code GAMERA. The study reveals that a higher jet power in electrons is required to explain the gamma-ray flux during the flaring state, as much as, ten times of that required for the quiescent state. However, more jet power in magnetic field has been observed during the quiescent state compared to the flaring state.
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The Flat Spectrum Radio Quasar 3C 279 has been very active since a few years with multiple flaring events occurring at high energies. As part of the H.E.S.S. Target of Opportunity program, 3C 279 was observed multiple times in 2017 and 2018 following high states in optical (February and March 2017) or at high energies as seen with Fermi-LAT (June 2017, January, February and June 2018). While in January 2018 H.E.S.S. detected an unexpected very high energy (VHE) flare at the end of the MeV-GeV flaring state, in June 2018 it was possible to follow almost continuously the decaying part of a strong Fermi-LAT flare, observing with the full array for several nights after the peak of the GeV gamma-ray emission. This has lead to the detection of the source with very high significance. We present here the temporal and spectral results of the H.E.S.S. II dataset together with an overview of the strong multi-wavelength activity seen from 3C 279 between 2017 and 2018.
Long-term 17.6~GHz radio monitoring of the broad absorption line quasar, Mrk,231, detected a strong flare in late 2017. This triggered four epochs of Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) observations from 8.4~GHz to 43~GHz over a 10-week period as well as an X-ray observation with NuSTAR. This was the third campaign of VLBA monitoring that we have obtained. The 43~GHz VLBA was degraded in all epochs with only 7 of 10 antennas available in three epochs and 8 in the first epoch. However, useful results were obtained due to a fortuitous capturing of a complete short 100~mJy flare at 17.6~GHz: growth and decay. This provided useful constraints on the physical model of the ejected plasma that were not available in previous campaigns. We consider four classes of models, discrete ejections (both protonic and positronic) and jetted (protonic and positronic). The most viable model is a dissipative bright knot in a faint background leptonic jet with an energy flux $sim10^{43}$ ergs/sec. Inverse Compton scattering calculations (based on these models) in the ambient quasar photon field explains the lack of a detectable increase in X-ray luminosity measured by NuSTAR. We show that the core (the bright knot) moves towards a nearby secondary at $approx 0.97$c. The background jet is much fainter. Evidently, the high frequency VLBA core does not represent the point of origin of blazar jets, in general, and optical depth core shift estimates of jet points of origin can be misleading.
In this work, I have presented a multi-frequency variability and correlation study of the blazar Ton 599, which was observed first time in flaring state at the end of 2017. Data from textit{Fermi}-LAT, Swift-XRT/UVOT, Steward Observatory, and OVRO (15 GHz) is used, and it is found that the source is more variable in $gamma$-ray and optical/UV than X-ray and radio. Large variations in the degree of polarization (DoP) and position angle (PA) is noticed during the flaring period. Maximum flux during $gamma$-ray flare is found to be 12.63$times$10$^{-7}$ at MJD 58057.5 from the 1-day bin light curve (LC), which is the maximum flux ever achieved by this source. It is further found that all the peaks of flare are very symmetric, which suggests the cooling time of electrons is much smaller than light crossing time. Using 1-day as a fast variability time, the size of the $gamma$-ray emission region is estimated as 1.88$times$10$^{16}$ cm. Two 42 GeV of photons are detected during the flare which puts a constraint on the location of the emission region, and it is found that the $gamma$-ray emitting blob is located at the outer edge or outside the broad line region (BLR). A trend of increasing fractional variability towards higher energies is also seen. Strong correlations were seen between $gamma$-ray, optical/UV, X-ray, and radio (15 GHz) emission. A small time lag between $gamma$-ray and optical/UV suggest their emission to be co-spatial while lag of 27 days between $gamma$-ray and OVRO (15 GHz) suggest two different emission zone separated by a distance of $sim$ 5 pc.
We have monitored the flat spectrum radio quasar, 3C 279, in the optical $B$, $V$, $R$ and $I$ passbands from 2018 February to 2018 July for 24 nights, with a total of 716 frames, to study flux, colour and spectral variability on diverse timescales. 3C,279 was observed using seven different telescopes: two in India, two in Argentina, two in Bulgaria and one in Turkey to understand the nature of the source in optical regime. The source was found to be active during the whole monitoring period and displayed significant flux variations in $B$, $V$, $R$, and $I$ passbands. Variability amplitudes on intraday basis varied from 5.20% to 17.9%. A close inspection of variability patterns during our observation cycle reveals simultaneity among optical emissions from all passbands. During the complete monitoring period, progressive increase in the amplitude of variability with frequency was detected for our target. The amplitudes of variability in $B$, $V$, $R$ and $I$ passbands have been estimated to be 177%, 172%, 171% and 158%, respectively. Using the structure function technique, we found intraday timescales ranging from $sim 23$ minutes to about 115 minutes. We also studied colour-magnitude relationship and found indications of mild bluer-when-brighter trend on shorter timescales. Spectral indices ranged from 2.3 to 3.0 with no clear trend on long term basis. We have also generated spectral energy distributions for 3C,279 in optical $B$, $V$, $R$ and $I$ passbands for 17 nights. Finally, possible emission mechanisms causing variability in blazars are discussed briefly.
The flat spectrum radio quasar 3C 279 is a known $gamma$-ray variable source that has recently exhibited minute-scale variability at energies $>100$ MeV. One-zone leptonic models for blazar emission are severely constrained by the short timescale variability that implies a very compact emission region at a distance of hundreds of Schwarzschild radii from the central black hole. Here, we investigate a hadronic scenario where GeV $gamma$-rays are produced via proton synchrotron radiation. We also take into account the effects of the hadronically initiated electromagnetic cascades (EMC). For a $gamma$-ray emitting region in rough equipartition between particles and kG magnetic fields, located within the broad-line region (BLR), the development of EMC redistributes the $gamma$-ray luminosity to softer energy bands and eventually leads to broad-band spectra that differ from the observed ones. Suppression of EMC and energy equipartition are still possible, if the $gamma$-ray emitting region is located beyond the BLR, is fast moving with Doppler factor ($>70$), and contains strong magnetic fields ($>100$ G). Yet, these conditions cannot be easily met in parsec-scale jets, thus disfavouring a proton synchrotron origin of the Fermi-LAT flare.
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