Simultaneous observations of the blazar PKS 2155-304 from ultra-violet to TeV energies

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Publication date 07-2020
Journal Astronomy & Astrophysics
Article number A42
Volume | Issue number 639
Number of pages 13
Organisations
  • Faculty of Science (FNWI) - Anton Pannekoek Institute for Astronomy (API)
  • Faculty of Science (FNWI)
Abstract
Here we report the results of the first ever contemporaneous multi-wavelength observation campaign on the BL Lac object PKS 2155−304 involving Swift, NuSTAR, Fermi-LAT, and H.E.S.S. The use of these instruments allows us to cover a broad energy range, which is important for disentangling the different radiative mechanisms. The source, observed from June 2013 to October 2013, was found in a low flux state with respect to previous observations but exhibited highly significant flux variability in the X-rays. The high-energy end of the synchrotron spectrum can be traced up to 40 keV without significant contamination by high-energy emission. A one-zone synchrotron self-Compton model was used to reproduce the broadband flux of the source for all the observations presented here but failed for previous observations made in April 2013. A lepto-hadronic solution was then explored to explain these earlier observational results.
Document type Article
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201936900
Other links https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2020A&A...639A..42A/abstract
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