Study of blazar activity in 10 year fermi-lat data and implications for TeV neutrino expectationsShow others and affiliations
2021 (English)In: Revista mexicana de astronomía y astrofísica, ISSN 0185-1101, Vol. 57, no 2, p. 251-268
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Abstract [en]
Blazars are the most active extragalactic gamma-ray sources. They show sporadic bursts of activity, lasting from hours to months. In this work we present a 10-year analysis of a sample of bright sources detected by Fermi-LAT (100 MeV - 300 GeV). Using 2-week binned light curves (LC) we estimate the duty cycle (DC): fraction of time that the source spends in an active state. The objects show different DC values, with an average of 22.74% and 23.08% when considering (or not) the extragalactic background light (EBL). Additionally, we study the so-called "blazar sequence" trend for the sample of selected blazars in the ten years of data. This analysis constrains a possible counterpart of sub-PeV neutrino emission during the quiescent states, leaving open the possibility to explain the observed IceCube signal during the flaring states.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 2021. Vol. 57, no 2, p. 251-268
Keywords [en]
BL Lacertae objects: general, galaxies active, gamma-rays: galaxies, neutrinos
National Category
Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-473564DOI: 10.22201/ia.01851101p.2021.57.02.01ISI: 000782660100001OAI: oai:DiVA.org:uu-473564DiVA, id: diva2:1655218
2022-05-022022-05-022024-01-15Bibliographically approved