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Titolo: | Radio-to-UV monitoring of AO 0235+164 by the WEBT and Swift during the 2006-2007 outburst | Autori: | RAITERI, Claudia Maria VILLATA, Massimo Larionov, V. M. Aller, M. F. Bach, U. Gurwell, M. Kurtanidze, O. M. Lähteenmäki, A. Nilsson, K. Volvach, A. Aller, H. D. Arkharov, A. A. Bachev, R. Berdyugin, A. Böttcher, M. BUEMI, CARLA SIMONA Calcidese, P. Cozzi, E. DI PAOLA, Andrea DOLCI, Mauro Fan, J. H. Forné, E. FOSCHINI, LUIGI Gupta, A. C. Hagen-Thorn, V. A. Hooks, L. Hovatta, T. Joshi, M. Kadler, M. Kimeridze, G. N. Konstantinova, T. S. Kostov, A. Krichbaum, T. P. LANTERI, Luciano Larionova, L. V. Lee, C. -U. LETO, PAOLO Lindfors, E. Montagni, F. Nesci, R. Nieppola, E. Nikolashvili, M. G. Ohlert, J. Oksanen, A. Ovcharov, E. Pääkkönen, P. Pasanen, M. Pursimo, T. Ros, J. A. Semkov, E. Sigua, L. A. SMART, Richard Laurence Strigachev, A. Takalo, L. O. Torii, K. Torniainen, I. Tornikoski, M. TRIGILIO, CORRADO Tsunemi, H. UMANA, Grazia Maria Gloria Valcheva, A. |
Data pubblicazione: | 2008 | Rivista: | ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS | Numero: | 480 | Fascicolo: | 2 | Da pagina:: | 339 | Abstract: | Context: The blazar <ASTROBJ>AO 0235+164</ASTROBJ> was claimed to show a quasi-periodic behaviour in the radio and optical bands in the past, with the main outbursts repeating every 5-6 years. However, the predicted 2004 outburst did not occur, and further analysis suggested a longer time scale, according to which the next event would have occurred in the 2006-2007 observing season. Moreover, an extra emission component contributing to the UV and soft X-ray flux was detected, whose nature is not yet clear. An optical outburst was observed in late 2006-early 2007, which triggered a Whole Earth Blazar Telescope (WEBT) campaign as well as target of opportunity (ToO) observations by the Swift satellite. <BR />Aims: In this paper, we present the radio-to-optical data taken by the WEBT together with the UV data acquired by the UltraViolet and Optical Telescope (UVOT) instrument onboard Swift to investigate both the outburst behaviour at different wavelengths and the nature of the extra emission component. <BR />Methods: Multifrequency light curves have been assembled with data from 27 observatories; optical and UV fluxes have been cleaned from the contamination of the southern active galactic nucleus (AGN). We have analysed spectral energy distributions at different epochs, corresponding to different brightness states; extra absorption by the foreground galaxy has been taken into account. <BR />Results: We found the optical outburst to be as strong as the big outbursts of the past: starting from late September 2006, a brightness increase of ~5 mag led to the outburst peak in February 19-21, 2007. We also observed an outburst at mm and then at cm wavelengths, with an increasing time delay going toward lower frequencies during the rising phase. Cross-correlation analysis indicates that the 1 mm and 37 GHz flux variations lagged behind the R-band ones by about 3 weeks and 2 months, respectively. These short time delays suggest that the corresponding jet emitting regions are only slightly separated and/or misaligned. In contrast, during the outburst decreasing phase the flux faded contemporaneously at all cm wavelengths. This abrupt change in the emission behaviour may suggest the presence of some “shutdown” mechanism of intrinsic or geometric nature. The behaviour of the UV flux closely follows the optical and near-IR one. By separating the synchrotron and extra component contributions to the UV flux, we found that they correlate, which suggests that the two emissions have a common origin. | URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12386/33045 | URL: | https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2008/11/aa9044-07/aa9044-07.html | ISSN: | 0004-6361 | DOI: | 10.1051/0004-6361:20079044 | Bibcode ADS: | 2008A&A...480..339R | Fulltext: | open |
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