High-redshift Blazars through NuSTAR eyes

Marcotulli, L.; Paliya, V. S.; Ajello, M.; Kaur, A.; Hartmann, D. H.; Gasparrini, D.; Greiner, J.; Rau, A.; Schady, P.; Baloković, M.; Stern, D.; Madejski, G.

doi:10.3847/1538-4357/aa6a17

High-redshift Blazars through NuSTAR eyes

Journal Article · Thu Apr 20 04:00:00 EDT 2017 · The Astrophysical Journal (Online)

DOI:https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aa6a17· OSTI ID:1355729

Marcotulli, L. ^[1]; ^[1]; ^[1]; ^[1]; ^[1]; Gasparrini, D. ^[2]; Greiner, J. ^[3]; ^[3]; Schady, P. ^[3]; Baloković, M. ^[4]; ^[4]; Madejski, G. ^[5]

Clemson Univ., Clemson, SC (United States)
Agenzia Spaziale Italiana (ASI) Science Data Center, Roma (Italy); Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Perugia (Italy)
Max Planck Institute fur extraterrestrische Physik, Garching (Germany)
California Inst. of Technology (CalTech), Pasadena, CA (United States)
SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)

The most powerful sources among the blazar family are MeV blazars. Often detected at z > 2, they usually display high X- and γ-ray luminosities, larger-than-average jet powers, and black hole masses ≳10⁹ M_⊙. In the present work, we perform a multiwavelength study of three high-redshift blazars: 3FGL J0325.5+2223 (z = 2.06), 3FGL J0449.0+1121 (z = 2.15), and 3FGL J0453.2–2808 (z = 2.56), analyzing quasi-simultaneous data from GROND, Swift-UVOT and XRT, Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR), and Fermi-LAT. Our main focus is on the hard X-ray band recently unveiled by NuSTAR (3–79 keV) where these objects show a hard spectrum that enables us to constrain the inverse Compton (IC) peak and the jet power. We found that all three targets resemble the most powerful blazars, with the synchrotron peak located in the submillimeter range and the IC peak in the MeV range, and therefore belong to the MeV blazar class. Using a simple one-zone leptonic emission model to reproduce the spectral energy distributions, we conclude that a simple combination of synchrotron and accretion disk emission reproduces the infrared–optical spectra, while the X-ray to γ-ray part is well reproduced by the IC scattering of low-energy photons supplied by the broad-line region. The black hole masses for each of the three sources are calculated to be ≳4 × 10⁸ M_⊙. Finally, the three studied sources have jet power at the level of, or beyond, the accretion luminosity.

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Research Organization:: SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC), Menlo Park, CA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-76SF00515

OSTI ID:: 1355729

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 22663689

Journal Information:: The Astrophysical Journal (Online), Journal Name: The Astrophysical Journal (Online) Journal Issue: 2 Vol. 839; ISSN 1538-4357

Publisher:: Institute of Physics (IOP)Copyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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