Galaxies (Nov 2016)
Multiwavelength Picture of the Blazar S5 0716+714 during Its Brightest Outburst
- Marina Manganaro,
- Giovanna Pedaletti,
- Marlene Doert,
- Denis Bastieri,
- Vandad Fallah Ramazani,
- Dario Gasparrini,
- Elina Lindfors,
- Benoit Lott,
- Mireia Nievas,
- Bindu Rani,
- David J. Thompson,
- Emmanouil Angelakis,
- George Borman,
- Mark Gurwell,
- Talvikki Hovatta,
- Ryosuke Itoh,
- Svetlana Jorstad,
- Alex Kraus,
- Thomas P. Krichbaum,
- Paul Kuin,
- Anne Lähteenmäki,
- Valeri Larionov,
- Amy Yarleen Lien,
- Ioannis Myserlis,
- Merja Tornikoski,
- Ivan Troitsky,
- J. Anton Zensus,
- the MAGIC and -LAT Collaborations
Affiliations
- Marina Manganaro
- Inst. de Astrofísica de Canarias, E-38200 La Laguna, and Universidad de La Laguna, Dpto. Astrofísica, E-38206 La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain
- Giovanna Pedaletti
- Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), D-15738 Zeuthen, Germany
- Marlene Doert
- Department of Physics, Technical University of Dortmund, Dortmund D-44221, Germany
- Denis Bastieri
- INFN Padova, I-35131 Padova, Italy
- Vandad Fallah Ramazani
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Turku, 20500 Turku, Finland
- Dario Gasparrini
- ASI Science Data Center and INFN, 06123 Perugia, Italy
- Elina Lindfors
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Turku, 20500 Turku, Finland
- Benoit Lott
- CEN Bordeaux-Gradignan, 33170 Gradignan, France
- Mireia Nievas
- Department of Atomic Molecular and Nuclear Physics, Universidad Complutense, E-28040 Madrid, Spain
- Bindu Rani
- NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA
- David J. Thompson
- NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA
- Emmanouil Angelakis
- Max Planck Institut für Radioastronomie (MPIfR), 53121 Bonn, Germany
- George Borman
- Crimean Astrophysics Observatory, 98409 Nauchny, Crimea, Russia
- Mark Gurwell
- Harvard-Smithsonian CfA, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
- Talvikki Hovatta
- Metsähovi Radio Observatory, Aalto University, FI-02540 Kylmälä, Finland
- Ryosuke Itoh
- Department of Physical Science, Hiroshima University, Higashi-hiroshima 739-8526, Japan
- Svetlana Jorstad
- Institute for Astrophysical Research, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215, USA
- Alex Kraus
- Max Planck Institut für Radioastronomie (MPIfR), 53121 Bonn, Germany
- Thomas P. Krichbaum
- Max Planck Institut für Radioastronomie (MPIfR), 53121 Bonn, Germany
- Paul Kuin
- Mullard Space Science Lab., University College London, RH5 6NT Dorking, UK
- Anne Lähteenmäki
- Metsähovi Radio Observatory, Aalto University, FI-02540 Kylmälä, Finland
- Valeri Larionov
- Astronomical Institute, St.-Petersburg State University, St.-Petersburg 198504, Russia
- Amy Yarleen Lien
- NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA
- Ioannis Myserlis
- Max Planck Institut für Radioastronomie (MPIfR), 53121 Bonn, Germany
- Merja Tornikoski
- Metsähovi Radio Observatory, Aalto University, FI-02540 Kylmälä, Finland
- Ivan Troitsky
- Astronomical Institute, St.-Petersburg State University, St.-Petersburg 198504, Russia
- J. Anton Zensus
- Max Planck Institut für Radioastronomie (MPIfR), 53121 Bonn, Germany
- the MAGIC and -LAT Collaborations
- Inst. de Astrofísica de Canarias, E-38200 La Laguna, and Universidad de La Laguna, Dpto. Astrofísica, E-38206 La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.3390/galaxies4040069
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 4,
no. 4
p. 69
Abstract
S5 0716+714 is a well known BL Lac object, and one of the brightest and most active blazars. The discovery in the Very High Energy band (VHE, E > 100 GeV) by MAGIC happened in 2008. In January 2015, the source went through the brightest optical state ever observed, triggering MAGIC follow-up and a VHE detection with ∼ 13 σ significance (ATel ♯ 6999 ). Rich multiwavelength coverage of the flare allowed us to construct the broad-band spectral energy distribution of S5 0716+714 during its brightest outburst. In this work, we will present the preliminary analysis of MAGIC and Fermi-LAT data of the flaring activity in January and February 2015 for the HE (0.1 < HE < 300 GeV) and VHE band, together with radio (Metsähovi, OVRO, VLBA, Effelsberg), sub-millimeter (SMA), optical (Tuorla, Perkins, Steward, AZT-8+ST7, LX-200, Kanata), X-ray and UV (Swift-XRT and UVOT), in the same time-window and discuss the time variability of the multiwavelength light curves during this impressive outburst.
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