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Title: The first gamma-ray outburst of a narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxy: The case of PMN J0948+0022 in 2010 July

Abstract

We report on a multiwavelength campaign for the radio-loud narrow-line Seyfert 1 (NLS1) galaxy PMN J0948+0022 (z= 0.5846) performed in 2010 July–September and triggered by a high-energy γ-ray outburst observed by the Large Area Telescope onboard the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. The peak flux in the 0.1–100 GeV energy band exceeded, for the first time in this type of source, the value of ~10–6 photon cm–2 s–1, corresponding to an observed luminosity of ~1048 erg s–1. Although the source was too close to the Sun position to organize a densely sampled follow-up, it was possible to gather some multiwavelength data that confirmed the state of high activity across the sampled electromagnetic spectrum. Furthermore, the comparison of the spectral energy distribution of the NLS1 PMN J0948+0022 with that of a typical blazar – such as 3C 273 – shows that the power emitted at γ-rays is extreme.

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  1. INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera, Merate (LC) (Italy)
  2. Astro Space Center of the Lebedev Physical Institute, Moscow (Russia); Max-Planck-Institut fur Radioastronomie, Bonn (Germany)
  3. Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN (United States)
  4. INAF - IASF-Palermo, Palermo (Italy)
  5. NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), Greenbelt, MD (United States)
  6. ISDC Data Centre for Astrophysics, Versoix (Switzerland)
  7. Max-Planck-Institut fur Radioastronomie, Bonn (Germany)
  8. NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), Greenbelt, MD (United States); Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD (United States)
  9. Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA (United States)
  10. Univ. Heidelberg, Heidelberg (Germany)
  11. Astro Space Center of the Lebedev Physical Institute, Moscow (Russia)
  12. Univ. of Wurzburg, Wurzburg (Germany)
  13. California Inst. of Technology (CalTech), Pasadena, CA (United States)
  14. Max-Planck-Institut fur Radioastronomie, Bonn (Germany); Crimean Astrophysical Observatory, Crimea (Ukraine); Pulkovo Observatory, St. Petersburg (Russia)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE
OSTI Identifier:
1357259
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC02-76SF00515
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 413; Journal Issue: 3; Journal ID: ISSN 0035-8711
Publisher:
Royal Astronomical Society
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
79 ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS; galaxies: individual: PMN J0948+0022; galaxies: jets; galaxies: Seyfert

Citation Formats

Foschini, Luigi, Ghisellini, G., Kovalev, Y. Y., Lister, M. L., D’Ammando, F., Thompson, D. J., Tramacere, A., Angelakis, E., Donato, D., Falcone, A., Fuhrmann, L., Hauser, M., Kovalev, Yu. A., Mannheim, K., Maraschi, L., Max-Moerbeck, W., Nestoras, I., Pavlidou, V., Pearson, T. J., Pushkarev, A. B., Readhead, A. C. S., Richards, J. L., Stevenson, M. A., Tagliaferri, G., Tibolla, O., Tavecchio, F., and Wagner, S. The first gamma-ray outburst of a narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxy: The case of PMN J0948+0022 in 2010 July. United States: N. p., 2011. Web. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2966.2011.18240.x.
Foschini, Luigi, Ghisellini, G., Kovalev, Y. Y., Lister, M. L., D’Ammando, F., Thompson, D. J., Tramacere, A., Angelakis, E., Donato, D., Falcone, A., Fuhrmann, L., Hauser, M., Kovalev, Yu. A., Mannheim, K., Maraschi, L., Max-Moerbeck, W., Nestoras, I., Pavlidou, V., Pearson, T. J., Pushkarev, A. B., Readhead, A. C. S., Richards, J. L., Stevenson, M. A., Tagliaferri, G., Tibolla, O., Tavecchio, F., & Wagner, S. The first gamma-ray outburst of a narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxy: The case of PMN J0948+0022 in 2010 July. United States. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2966.2011.18240.x
Foschini, Luigi, Ghisellini, G., Kovalev, Y. Y., Lister, M. L., D’Ammando, F., Thompson, D. J., Tramacere, A., Angelakis, E., Donato, D., Falcone, A., Fuhrmann, L., Hauser, M., Kovalev, Yu. A., Mannheim, K., Maraschi, L., Max-Moerbeck, W., Nestoras, I., Pavlidou, V., Pearson, T. J., Pushkarev, A. B., Readhead, A. C. S., Richards, J. L., Stevenson, M. A., Tagliaferri, G., Tibolla, O., Tavecchio, F., and Wagner, S. Wed . "The first gamma-ray outburst of a narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxy: The case of PMN J0948+0022 in 2010 July". United States. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2966.2011.18240.x. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1357259.
@article{osti_1357259,
title = {The first gamma-ray outburst of a narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxy: The case of PMN J0948+0022 in 2010 July},
author = {Foschini, Luigi and Ghisellini, G. and Kovalev, Y. Y. and Lister, M. L. and D’Ammando, F. and Thompson, D. J. and Tramacere, A. and Angelakis, E. and Donato, D. and Falcone, A. and Fuhrmann, L. and Hauser, M. and Kovalev, Yu. A. and Mannheim, K. and Maraschi, L. and Max-Moerbeck, W. and Nestoras, I. and Pavlidou, V. and Pearson, T. J. and Pushkarev, A. B. and Readhead, A. C. S. and Richards, J. L. and Stevenson, M. A. and Tagliaferri, G. and Tibolla, O. and Tavecchio, F. and Wagner, S.},
abstractNote = {We report on a multiwavelength campaign for the radio-loud narrow-line Seyfert 1 (NLS1) galaxy PMN J0948+0022 (z= 0.5846) performed in 2010 July–September and triggered by a high-energy γ-ray outburst observed by the Large Area Telescope onboard the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. The peak flux in the 0.1–100 GeV energy band exceeded, for the first time in this type of source, the value of ~10–6 photon cm–2 s–1, corresponding to an observed luminosity of ~1048 erg s–1. Although the source was too close to the Sun position to organize a densely sampled follow-up, it was possible to gather some multiwavelength data that confirmed the state of high activity across the sampled electromagnetic spectrum. Furthermore, the comparison of the spectral energy distribution of the NLS1 PMN J0948+0022 with that of a typical blazar – such as 3C 273 – shows that the power emitted at γ-rays is extreme.},
doi = {10.1111/j.1365-2966.2011.18240.x},
journal = {Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society},
number = 3,
volume = 413,
place = {United States},
year = {Wed May 11 00:00:00 EDT 2011},
month = {Wed May 11 00:00:00 EDT 2011}
}

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