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Titolo: | Mrk 421 after the Giant X-Ray Outburst in 2013 | Autori: | Kapanadze, B. Dorner, D. ROMANO, Patrizia VERCELLONE, STEFANO Kapanadze, S. Tabagari, L. |
Data pubblicazione: | 2017 | Rivista: | THE ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL | Numero: | 848 | Fascicolo: | 2 | Abstract: | We present the results of the Swift observations of the nearby BL Lac object Mrk 421 during 2013 November-2015 June. The source exhibited a strong long-term variability in the 0.3-10 keV band, with a maximum-to-minimum flux ratio of 13, and underwent X-ray flares by a factor of 1.8-5.2 on timescales of a few weeks or shorter. The source showed 48 instances of intraday flux variability in this period, which sometimes was observed within the 1 ks observational run. It was characterized by fractional amplitudes of 1.5(0.3)%-38.6(0.4)% and flux doubling/halving times of 2.6-20.1 hr. The X-ray flux showed a lack of correlation with the TeV flux on some occasions (strong TeV flares were not accompanied by comparable X-ray activity and vice versa), indicating that the high-energy emission in Mrk 421 was generated from an emission region more complex than a single zone. The best fits of the 0.3-10 keV spectra were mainly obtained using the log-parabola model, showing a strong spectral variability that generally followed a “harder-when-brighter” trend. The position of the synchrotron spectral energy distribution peak showed an extreme range from a few eV to ∼10 keV that happens rarely in blazars. | URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12386/28540 | URL: | https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/aa8ea6 | ISSN: | 0004-637X | DOI: | 10.3847/1538-4357/aa8ea6 | Bibcode ADS: | 2017ApJ...848..103K | Fulltext: | open |
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