2022ApJ...929..125A

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2022ApJ...929..125A - Astrophys. J., 929, 125-125 (2022/April-3)

Long-term Spectra of the Blazars Mrk 421 and Mrk 501 at TeV Energies Seen by HAWC.

ALBERT A., ALFARO R., ALVAREZ C., ANGELES CAMACHO J.R., ARTEAGA-VELAZQUEZ J.C., ARUNBABU K.P., AVILA ROJAS D., AYALA SOLARES H.A., BAGHMANYAN V., BELMONT-MORENO E., CABALLERO-MORA K.S., CAPISTRAN T., CARRAMINANA A., CASANOVA S., COTTI U., COTZOMI J., COUTINO DE LEON S., DE LA FUENTE E., DIAZ HERNANDEZ R., DUVERNOIS M.A., DUROCHER M., DIAZ-VELEZ J.C., ENGEL K., ESPINOZA C., FAN K.L., FERNANDEZ ALONSO M., FRAIJA N., GARCIA D., GARCIA-GONZALEZ J.A., GARFIAS F., GONZALEZ M.M., GOODMAN J.A., HARDING J.P., HONA B., HUANG D., HUEYOTL-ZAHUANTITLA F., HUNTEMEYER P., IRIARTE A., JOSHI V., LARA A., LEE W.H., LEE J., LEON VARGAS H., LINNEMAN J.T., LONGINOTTI A.L., LUIS-RAYA G., MALONE K., MARTINEZ O., MARTINEZ-CASTRO J., MATTHEWS J.A., MIRANDA-ROMAGNOLI P., MORENO E., MOSTAFA M., NAYERHODA A., NELLEN L., NEWBOLD M., NORIEGA-PAPAQUI R., PEISKER A., PEREZ ARAUJO Y., PEREZ-PEREZ E.G., RHO C.D., ROSA-GONZALEZ D., SALAZAR H., SALESA GREUS F., SANDOVAL A., SCHNEIDER M., SERNA-FRANCO J., SMITH A.J., SPRINGER R.W., TOLLEFSON K., TORRES I., TORRES-ESCOBEDO R., URENA-MENA F., VILLASENOR L., WANG X., WEISGARBER T., WILLOX E., ZHOU H., DE LEON C. (The HAWC Collaboration)

Abstract (from CDS):

The High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) Gamma-Ray Observatory surveys the very high-energy sky in the 300 GeV to >100 TeV energy range. HAWC has detected two blazars above 11σ, Markarian 421 (Mrk 421) and Markarian 501 (Mrk 501). The observations are comprised of data taken in the period between 2015 June and 2018 July, resulting in ∼1038 days of exposure. In this work, we report the time-averaged spectral analyses for both sources, above 0.5 TeV. Taking into account the flux attenuation due to the extragalactic background light, the intrinsic spectrum of Mrk 421 is described by a power law with an exponential energy cutoff with index \alpha =2.26\pm {\left(0.12\right)}_{\mathrm{stat}}{\left({}_{-0.2}^{+0.17}\right)}_{\mathrm{sys}} and energy cutoff {E}_{c}=5.1\pm {\left(1.6\right)}_{\mathrm{stat}}{\left({}_{-2.5}^{+1.4}\right)}_{\mathrm{sys}} TeV, while the intrinsic spectrum of Mrk 501 is better described by a simple power law with index \alpha =2.61\pm {\left(0.11\right)}_{\mathrm{stat}}{\left({}_{-0.07}^{+0.01}\right)}_{\mathrm{sys}}. The maximum energies at which the Mrk 421 and Mrk 501 signals are detected are 9 and 12 TeV, respectively. This makes these some of the highest energy detections to date for spectra averaged over years-long timescales. Since the observation of gamma radiation from blazars provides information about the physical processes that take place in their relativistic jets, it is important to study the broadband spectral energy distributions (SEDs) of these objects. For this purpose, contemporaneous data in the gamma-ray band to the X-ray range, and literature data in the radio to UV range, were used to build time-averaged SEDs that were modeled within a synchrotron-self Compton leptonic scenario.

Abstract Copyright: © 2022. The Author(s). Published by the American Astronomical Society.

Journal keyword(s): Active galactic nuclei - BL Lacertae objects - Gamma-ray sources

Simbad objects: 2

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Number of rows : 2
N Identifier Otype ICRS (J2000)
RA 		ICRS (J2000)
DEC 		Mag U Mag B Mag V Mag R Mag I Sp type #ref
1850 - 2026 		#notes
1 Z 184-50 BLL 11 04 27.3140835504 +38 12 31.798495872   13.50 12.90 8.31   ~ 2841 1
2 Z 225-7 BLL 16 53 52.21668403 +39 45 36.6088754 14.09 14.15 13.29 8.26   ~ 2304 2

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