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Title: | Multiwavelength behaviour of the blazar OJ 248 from radio to γ-rays | Authors: | CARNERERO MARTIN, Maria Isabel RAITERI, Claudia Maria VILLATA, Massimo Acosta-Pulido, J. A. D'AMMANDO, FILIPPO Smith, P. S. Larionov, V. M. Agudo, I. Arévalo, M. J. Arkharov, A. A. Bach, U. Bachev, R. Benítez, E. Blinov, D. A. Bozhilov, V. BUEMI, CARLA SIMONA Bueno Bueno, A. Carosati, D. Casadio, C. Chen, W. P. Damljanovic, G. DI PAOLA, Andrea Efimova, N. V. Ehgamberdiev, Sh. A. GIROLETTI, MARCELLO Gómez, J. L. González-Morales, P. A. Grinon-Marin, A. B. Grishina, T. S. Gurwell, M. A. Hiriart, D. Hsiao, H. Y. Ibryamov, S. Jorstad, S. G. Joshi, M. Kopatskaya, E. N. Kurtanidze, O. M. Kurtanidze, S. O. Lähteenmäki, A. Larionova, E. G. Larionova, L. V. Lázaro, C. LETO, PAOLO Lin, C. S. Lin, H. C. Manilla-Robles, A. I. Marscher, A. P. McHardy, I. M. Metodieva, Y. Mirzaqulov, D. O. Mokrushina, A. A. Molina, S. N. Morozova, D. A. Nikolashvili, M. G. ORIENTI, Monica Ovcharov, E. Panwar, N. Pastor Yabar, A. Puerto Giménez, I. Ramakrishnan, V. Richter, G. M. Rossini, M. Sigua, L. A. Strigachev, A. Taylor, B. Tornikoski, M. TRIGILIO, CORRADO Troitskaya, Yu. V. Troitsky, I. S. UMANA, Grazia Maria Gloria Valcheva, A. Velasco, S. Vince, O. Wehrle, A. E. Wiesemeyer, H. |
Issue Date: | 2015 | Journal: | MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY | Number: | 450 | Issue: | 3 | First Page: | 2677 | Abstract: | We present an analysis of the multiwavelength behaviour of the blazar OJ 248 at z = 0.939 in the period 2006-2013. We use low-energy data (optical, near-infrared, and radio) obtained by 21 observatories participating in the Gamma-Ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST)-AGILE Support Program of the Whole Earth Blazar Telescope, as well as data from the Swift (optical-UV and X-rays) and Fermi (γ-rays) satellites, to study flux and spectral variability and correlations among emissions in different bands. We take into account the effect of absorption by the Damped Lyman α intervening system at z = 0.525. Two major outbursts were observed in 2006-2007 and in 2012-2013 at optical and near-IR wavelengths, while in the high-frequency radio light curves prominent radio outbursts are visible peaking at the end of 2010 and beginning of 2013, revealing a complex radio-optical correlation. Cross-correlation analysis suggests a delay of the optical variations after the γ-ray ones of about a month, which is a peculiar behaviour in blazars. We also analyse optical polarimetric and spectroscopic data. The average polarization percentage P is less than 3 per cent, but it reaches ∼19 per cent during the early stage of the 2012-2013 outburst. A vague correlation of P with brightness is observed. There is no preferred electric vector polarization angle and during the outburst the linear polarization vector shows wide rotations in both directions, suggesting a complex behaviour/structure of the jet and possible turbulence. The analysis of 140 optical spectra acquired at the Steward Observatory reveals a strong Mg II broad emission line with an essentially stable flux of 6.2 × 10<SUP>- 15</SUP> erg cm<SUP>- 2</SUP> s<SUP>- 1</SUP> and a full width at half-maximum of 2053 km s<SUP>- 1</SUP>. | Acknowledgments: | We thank the referee, Vasiliki Pavlidou, for useful comments and suggestions. This article is partly based on observations made with the telescopes IAC80 and TCS operated by the Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias in the Spanish Observatorio del Teide on the island of Tenerife. Most of the observations were taken under the rutinary observation program. The IAC team acknowledges the support from the group of support astronomers and telescope operators of the Observatorio del Teide. St. Petersburg University team acknowledges support from Russian RFBR grant 15-02-00949 and St. Petersburg University research grant 6.38.335.2015. AZT-24 observations are made within an agreement between Pulkovo, Rome, and Teramo observatories. The Abastumani team acknowledges financial support of the project FR/638/6-320/12 by the Shota Rustaveli National Science Foundation under contract 31/77. This paper is partly based on observations carried out at the German-Spanish Calar Alto Observatory, which is jointly operated by the MPIA and the IAA-CSIC. Acquisition and reduction of the MAPCAT and IRAM 30 m data is supported in part by MINECO (Spain) grant and AYA2010-14844, and by CEIC (Andalucía) grant P09-FQM-4784. This paper is partly based on observations carried out at the IRAM 30 m Telescope, which is supported by INSU/CNRS (France), MPG (Germany), and IGN (Spain). The SMA is a joint project between the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory and the Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics and is funded by the Smithsonian Institution and the Academia Sinica. The Steward Observatory spectropolarimetric monitoring project is supported by the Fermi Guest Investigator grants NNX08AW56G and NNX09AU10G. The research at Boston University (BU) was funded in part by NASA Fermi Guest Investigator grants NNX11AQ03G and NNX13AO99G. The PRISM camera at Lowell Observatory was developed by K. Janes et al. at BU and Lowell Observatory, with funding from the NSF, BU, and Lowell Observatory. The Liverpool Telescope is operated on the island of La Palma by Liverpool John Moores University in the Spanish Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos of the Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias, with funding from the UK Science and Technology Facilities Council. The Metsähovi team acknowledges the support from the Academy of Finland to our observing projects (numbers 212656, 210338, 121148, and others). Partly based on observations with the Medicina and Noto telescopes operated by INAF – Istituto di Radioastronomia. EB acknowledge financial support from UNAM-DGAPA-PAPIIT through grant IN111514. GD and OV did the observations/investigations in line with Projects No. 176011 (Dynamics and Kinematics of Celestial Bodies and Systems), 176021 (Visible and Invisible Matter in Nearby Galaxies: Theory and Observations), and 176004 (Stellar Physics) which are supported by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development of the Republic of Serbia. The Torino team acknowledges financial support by INAF through contract PRIN-INAF 2011. | URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12386/23260 | URL: | https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/450/3/2677/1069738 http://arxiv.org/abs/1505.00916v1 |
ISSN: | 0035-8711 | DOI: | 10.1093/mnras/stv823 | Bibcode ADS: | 2015MNRAS.450.2677C | Fulltext: | open |
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