Black hole lightning of IC 310 and the days after

Authors
  • D.E. Glawion
  • J. Sitarek
  • K. Mannheim
  • P. Colin
  • MAGIC Collaboration
  • F. Krauss
  • M. Kadler
  • Fermi-LAT Collaboration
  • R. Schulz
  • E. Ros
  • U. Bach
  • J. Wilms
  • T. Beuchert
  • M. Langejahn
  • C. Wendel
Publication date 2017
Host editors
  • F.A. Aharonian
  • W. Hofmann
  • F.M. Rieger
Book title High Energy Gamma-Ray Astronomy
Book subtitle 6th international meeting on high energy gamma-ray astronomy : Heidelberg, Germany, 11-15 July 2016
ISBN
  • 9780735414563
Series AIP Conference Proceedings
Event High Energy Gamma-Ray Astronomy: 6th International Meeting on High Energy Gamma-Ray Astronomy
Article number 050003
Number of pages 6
Publisher Melville, NY: AIP Publishing
Organisations
  • Faculty of Science (FNWI) - Anton Pannekoek Institute for Astronomy (API)
Abstract
In November 2012, the peculiar TeV emitting active galactic nucleus of IC 310 showed an impressively bright gamma-ray flare on variability timescales of minutes. The shock-in-jet model fails to explain the photon flux flickering and the hard energy spectrum, if the source has a viewing angle of 10-20 degrees as radio observations suggest. Preferably, a magnetospheric model for the acceleration of particles and gamma-ray emission is proposed. An extensive multi-wavelength campaign in November 2012 until January 2013 was conducted including instruments from the radio up to the very-high-energy range. Here, we present the status of the results of this campaign and an interpretation consistent with an afterglow from the black hole lightning, with which we associated the 2012 event.
Document type Conference contribution
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4968949
Other links http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2017AIPC.1792e0003G
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