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Title: | First NuSTAR Observations of Mrk 501 within a Radio to TeV Multi-Instrument Campaign | Authors: | Furniss, A. Noda, K. Boggs, S. Chiang, J. Christensen, F. Craig, W. Giommi, P. Hailey, C. Harisson, F. Madejski, G. Nalewajko, K. PERRI, Matteo Stern, D. Urry, M. VERRECCHIA, Francesco Zhang, W. NuSTAR Team Ahnen, M. L. ANTONELLI, Lucio Angelo Antonelli, L. A. Antoranz, P. Babic, A. Banerjee, B. Bangale, P. Barres de Almeida, U. Barrio, J. A. Becerra González, J. Bednarek, W. Bernardini, E. Biasuzzi, B. Biland, A. Blanch, O. Bonnefoy, S. Bonnoli, G. Borracci, F. Bretz, T. Carmona, E. Carosi, A. Chatterjee, A. Clavero, R. Colin, P. Colombo, E. Contreras, J. L. Cortina, J. COVINO, Stefano Da Vela, P. Dazzi, F. De Angelis, A. De Caneva, G. De Lotto, B. de Oña Wilhelmi, E. Delgado Mendez, C. Di Pierro, F. Dominis Prester, D. Dorner, D. Doro, M. Einecke, S. Eisenacher Glawion, D. Elsaesser, D. Fernández-Barral, A. Fidalgo, D. Fonseca, M. V. Font, L. Frantzen, K. Fruck, C. Galindo, D. García López, R. J. Garczarczyk, M. Garrido Terrats, D. Gaug, M. Giammaria, P. Godinović, N. González Muñoz, A. Guberman, D. Hanabata, Y. Hayashida, M. Herrera, J. Hose, J. Hrupec, D. Hughes, G. Idec, W. Kellermann, H. Kodani, K. Konno, Y. Kubo, H. Kushida, J. LA BARBERA, ANTONINO Lelas, D. Lewandowska, N. Lindfors, E. LOMBARDI, Saverio Longo, F. López, M. López-Coto, R. López-Oramas, A. Lorenz, E. Majumdar, P. Makariev, M. Mallot, K. Maneva, G. Manganaro, M. Mannheim, K. Maraschi, L. Marcote, B. Mariotti, M. Martínez, M. Mazin, D. Menzel, U. Miranda, J. M. Mirzoyan, R. Moralejo, A. Nakajima, D. Neustroev, V. Niedzwiecki, A. Nievas Rosillo, M. Nilsson, K. Nishijima, K. Orito, R. Overkemping, A. PAIANO, Simona Palacio, J. Palatiello, M. Paneque, D. Paoletti, R. Paredes, J. M. Paredes-Fortuny, X. Persic, M. Poutanen, J. Prada Moroni, P. G. PRANDINI, ELISA Puljak, I. Reinthal, R. Rhode, W. Ribó, M. Rico, J. Rodriguez Garcia, J. Saito, T. Saito, K. Satalecka, K. Scapin, V. Schultz, C. Schweizer, T. Shore, S. N. Sillanpää, A. Sitarek, J. Snidaric, I. Sobczynska, D. STAMERRA, Antonio Steinbring, T. Strzys, M. Takalo, L. Takami, H. TAVECCHIO, Fabrizio Temnikov, P. Terzić, T. Tescaro, D. Teshima, M. Thaele, J. Torres, D. F. Toyama, T. Treves, A. Verguilov, V. Vovk, I. Will, M. Zanin, R. MAGIC Collaboration Archer, A. Benbow, W. Bird, R. Biteau, J. Bugaev, V. Cardenzana, J. V. Cerruti, M. Chen, X. Ciupik, L. Connolly, M. P. Cui, W. Dickinson, H. J. Dumm, J. Eisch, J. D. Falcone, A. Feng, Q. Finley, J. P. Fleischhack, H. Fortin, P. Fortson, L. Gerard, L. Gillanders, G. H. Griffin, S. Griffiths, S. T. Grube, J. Gyuk, G. Håkansson, N. Holder, J. Humensky, T. B. Johnson, C. A. Kaaret, P. Kertzman, M. Kieda, D. Krause, M. Krennrich, F. Lang, M. J. Lin, T. T. Y. Maier, G. McArthur, S. McCann, A. Meagher, K. Moriarty, P. Mukherjee, R. Nieto, D. O'Faoláin de Bhróithe, A. Ong, R. A. Park, N. Petry, D. Pohl, M. Popkow, A. Ragan, K. Ratliff, G. Reyes, L. C. Reynolds, P. T. Richards, G. T. Roache, E. Santander, M. Sembroski, G. H. Shahinyan, K. Staszak, D. Telezhinsky, I. Tucci, J. V. Tyler, J. Vassiliev, V. V. Wakely, S. P. Weiner, O. M. Weinstein, A. Wilhelm, A. Williams, D. A. Zitzer, B. VERITAS Collaboration Vince, O. Fuhrmann, L. Angelakis, E. Karamanavis, V. Myserlis, I. Krichbaum, T. P. Zensus, J. A. Ungerechts, H. Sievers, A. F-Gamma Consortium, The Bachev, R. Böttcher, M. Chen, W. P. Damljanovic, G. Eswaraiah, C. Güver, T. Hovatta, T. Hughes, Z. Ibryamov, S. I. Joner, M. D. Jordan, B. Jorstad, S. G. Joshi, M. Kataoka, J. Kurtanidze, O. M. Kurtanidze, S. O. Lähteenmäki, A. Latev, G. Lin, H. C. Larionov, V. M. Mokrushina, A. A. Morozova, D. A. Nikolashvili, M. G. RAITERI, Claudia Maria Ramakrishnan, V. Readhead, A. C. R. Sadun, A. C. Sigua, L. A. Semkov, E. H. Strigachev, A. Tammi, J. Tornikoski, M. Troitskaya, Y. V. Troitsky, I. S. VILLATA, Massimo |
Issue Date: | 2015 | Journal: | THE ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL | Number: | 812 | Issue: | 1 | First Page: | 65 | Abstract: | We report on simultaneous broadband observations of the TeV-emitting blazar Markarian 501 between 2013 April 1 and August 10, including the first detailed characterization of the synchrotron peak with Swift and NuSTAR. During the campaign, the nearby BL Lac object was observed in both a quiescent and an elevated state. The broadband campaign includes observations with NuSTAR, MAGIC, VERITAS, the Fermi Large Area Telescope, Swift X-ray Telescope and UV Optical Telescope, various ground-based optical instruments, including the GASP-WEBT program, as well as radio observations by OVRO, Metsähovi, and the F-Gamma consortium. Some of the MAGIC observations were affected by a sand layer from the Saharan desert, and had to be corrected using event-by-event corrections derived with a Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) facility. This is the first time that LIDAR information is used to produce a physics result with Cherenkov Telescope data taken during adverse atmospheric conditions, and hence sets a precedent for the current and future ground-based gamma-ray instruments. The NuSTAR instrument provides unprecedented sensitivity in hard X-rays, showing the source to display a spectral energy distribution (SED) between 3 and 79 keV consistent with a log-parabolic spectrum and hard X-ray variability on hour timescales. None (of the four extended NuSTAR observations) show evidence of the onset of inverse-Compton emission at hard X-ray energies. We apply a single-zone equilibrium synchrotron self-Compton (SSC) model to five simultaneous broadband SEDs. We find that the SSC model can reproduce the observed broadband states through a decrease in the magnetic field strength coinciding with an increase in the luminosity and hardness of the relativistic leptons responsible for the high-energy emission. | Acknowledgments: | This work was supported under NASA Contract No. NNG08FD60C, and made use of data from the NuSTAR mission, a project led by the California Institute of Technology, managed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and funded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. We thank the NuSTAR Operations, Software and Calibration teams for support with the execution and analysis of these observations. This research has made use of the NuSTAR Data Analysis Software (NuSTARDAS) jointly developed by the ASI Science Data Center (ASDC, Italy) and the California Institute of Technology (USA). The MAGIC Collaboration would like to thank the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias for the excellent working conditions at the Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos in La Palma. The financial support of the German BMBF and MPG, the Italian INFN and INAF, the Swiss National Fund SNF, the ERDF under the Spanish MINECO, and the Japanese JSPS and MEXT is gratefully acknowledged. This work was also supported by the Centro de Excelencia Severo Ochoa SEV-2012-0234, CPAN CSD2007-00042, and MultiDark CSD2009-00064 projects of the Spanish Consolider-Ingenio 2010 programme, by grant 268740 of the Academy of Finland, by the Croatian Science Foundation (HrZZ) Project 09/176 and the University of Rijeka Project 13.12.1.3.02, by the DFG Collaborative Research Centers SFB823/C4 and SFB876/C3, and by the Polish MNiSzW grant 745/N-HESS-MAGIC/2010/0. This research is also supported by grants from the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science, the U.S. National Science Foundation, and the Smithsonian Institution, by NSERC in Canada, by Science Foundation Ireland (SFI 10/RFP/AST2748), and by STFC in the U.K. We acknowledge the excellent work of the technical support staff at the Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory and at the collaborating institutions in the construction and operation of the VERITAS instrument. The VERITAS Collaboration is grateful to Trevor Weekes for his seminal contributions and leadership in the field of VHE gamma-ray astrophysics, which made this study possible. The Fermi LAT Collaboration acknowledges generous ongoing support from a number of agencies and institutes that have supported both the development and the operation of the LAT as well as scientific data analysis. These include the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the Department of Energy in the United States, the Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique and the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique/Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules in France, the Agenzia Spaziale Italiana and the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare in Italy, the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT), High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK) and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) in Japan, and the K. A. Wallenberg Foundation, the Swedish Research Council and the Swedish National Space Board in Sweden. Additional support for science analysis during the operations phase is gratefully acknowledged from the Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica in Italy and the Centre National d’Études Spatiales in France. We thank the Swift team duty scientists and science planners and we acknowledge the use of public data from the Swift data archive. This research has made use of the Swift XRT Data Analysis Software (XRTDAS) developed under the responsibility of the ASI Science Data Center (ASDC), Italy. | URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12386/23176 | URL: | https://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/812/1/65 | ISSN: | 0004-637X | DOI: | 10.1088/0004-637X/812/1/65 | Bibcode ADS: | 2015ApJ...812...65F | Fulltext: | open |
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