TY - JOUR
T1 - Study of the Very High Energy Emission of M87 through its Broadband Spectral Energy Distribution
AU - HAWC Collaboration
AU - Alfaro, R.
AU - Alvarez, C.
AU - Arteaga-Velázquez, J. C.
AU - Avila Rojas, D.
AU - Ayala Solares, H. A.
AU - Belmont-Moreno, E.
AU - Capistrán, T.
AU - Carramiñana, A.
AU - Casanova, S.
AU - Cotti, U.
AU - Cotzomi, J.
AU - Coutiño de León, S.
AU - De la Fuente, E.
AU - de León, C.
AU - Diaz Hernandez, R.
AU - DuVernois, M. A.
AU - Durocher, M.
AU - Díaz-Vélez, J. C.
AU - Espinoza, C.
AU - Fan, K. L.
AU - Fernández Alonso, M.
AU - Fraija, N.
AU - García-González, J. A.
AU - Garfias, F.
AU - González, M. M.
AU - Goodman, J. A.
AU - Harding, J. P.
AU - Huang, D.
AU - Hueyotl-Zahuantitla, F.
AU - Hüntemeyer, P.
AU - Joshi, V.
AU - Vargas, H. León
AU - Linnemann, J. T.
AU - Longinotti, A. L.
AU - Luis-Raya, G.
AU - Malone, K.
AU - Martinez, O.
AU - Martínez-Castro, J.
AU - Matthews, J. A.
AU - Miranda-Romagnoli, P.
AU - Moreno, E.
AU - Mostafá, M.
AU - Nayerhoda, A.
AU - Nellen, L.
AU - Noriega-Papaqui, R.
AU - Omodei, N.
AU - Peisker, A.
AU - Pérez-Pérez, E. G.
AU - Rho, C. D.
AU - Rosa-González, D.
N1 - Funding Information:
We acknowledge the support from: the US National Science Foundation (NSF); the US Department of Energy Office of High-Energy Physics; the Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) program of Los Alamos National Laboratory; Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología (CONACyT), Mexico, grants 271051, 232656, 260378, 179588, 254964, 258865, 243290, 132197, A1-S-46288, A1-S-22784, cátedras 873, 1563, 341, 323, Red HAWC, Mexico; DGAPA-UNAM grants IG101320, IN111716-3, IN111419, IA102019, IN110621, IN110521; VIEP-BUAP; PIFI 2012, 2013, PROFOCIE 2014, 2015; the University of Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation; the Institute of Geophysics, Planetary Physics, and Signatures at Los Alamos National Laboratory; Polish Science Centre grant, DEC-2017/27/B/ST9/02272; Coordinación de la Investigación Científica de la Universidad Michoacana; Royal Society-Newton Advanced Fellowship 180385; Generalitat Valenciana, grant CIDEGENT/2018/034; Chulalongkorn University's CUniverse (CUAASC) grant; Coordinación General Académica e Innovación (CGAI-UdeG), PRODEP-SEP UDG-CA-499; Institute of Cosmic Ray Research (ICRR), University of Tokyo, H.F. acknowledges support by NASA under award number 80GSFC21M0002. We also acknowledge the significant contributions over many years of Stefan Westerhoff, Gaurang Yodh, and Arnulfo Zepeda Dominguez, all deceased members of the HAWC collaboration. Thanks to Scott Delay, Luciano Díaz, and Eduardo Murrieta for technical support.
Funding Information:
We acknowledge the support from: the US National Science Foundation (NSF); the US Department of Energy Office of High-Energy Physics; the Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) program of Los Alamos National Laboratory; Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología (CONACyT), Mexico, grants 271051, 232656, 260378, 179588, 254964, 258865, 243290, 132197, A1-S-46288, A1-S-22784, cátedras 873, 1563, 341, 323, Red HAWC, Mexico; DGAPA-UNAM grants IG101320, IN111716-3, IN111419, IA102019, IN110621, IN110521; VIEP-BUAP; PIFI 2012, 2013, PROFOCIE 2014, 2015; the University of Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation; the Institute of Geophysics, Planetary Physics, and Signatures at Los Alamos National Laboratory; Polish Science Centre grant, DEC-2017/27/B/ST9/02272; Coordinación de la Investigación Científica de la Universidad Michoacana; Royal Society–Newton Advanced Fellowship 180385; Generalitat Valenciana, grant CIDEGENT/2018/034; Chulalongkorn University's CUniverse (CUAASC) grant; Coordinación General Académica e Innovación (CGAI-UdeG), PRODEP-SEP UDG-CA-499; Institute of Cosmic Ray Research (ICRR), University of Tokyo, H.F. acknowledges support by NASA under award number 80GSFC21M0002. We also acknowledge the significant contributions over many years of Stefan Westerhoff, Gaurang Yodh, and Arnulfo Zepeda Dominguez, all deceased members of the HAWC collaboration. Thanks to Scott Delay, Luciano Díaz, and Eduardo Murrieta for technical support.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2022. The Author(s). Published by the American Astronomical Society.
PY - 2022/8/1
Y1 - 2022/8/1
N2 - The radio galaxy M87 is the central dominant galaxy of the Virgo Cluster. Very high-energy (VHE, ≳0.1 TeV) emission from M87 has been detected by imaging air Cherenkov telescopes. Recently, marginal evidence for VHE long-term emission has also been observed by the High Altitude Water Cherenkov Observatory, a gamma-ray and cosmic-ray detector array located in Puebla, Mexico. The mechanism that produces VHE emission in M87 remains unclear. This emission originates in its prominent jet, which has been spatially resolved from radio to X-rays. In this paper, we construct a spectral energy distribution from radio to gamma rays that is representative of the nonflaring activity of the source, and in order to explain the observed emission, we fit it with a lepto-hadronic emission model. We found that this model is able to explain nonflaring VHE emission of M87 as well as an orphan flare reported in 2005.
AB - The radio galaxy M87 is the central dominant galaxy of the Virgo Cluster. Very high-energy (VHE, ≳0.1 TeV) emission from M87 has been detected by imaging air Cherenkov telescopes. Recently, marginal evidence for VHE long-term emission has also been observed by the High Altitude Water Cherenkov Observatory, a gamma-ray and cosmic-ray detector array located in Puebla, Mexico. The mechanism that produces VHE emission in M87 remains unclear. This emission originates in its prominent jet, which has been spatially resolved from radio to X-rays. In this paper, we construct a spectral energy distribution from radio to gamma rays that is representative of the nonflaring activity of the source, and in order to explain the observed emission, we fit it with a lepto-hadronic emission model. We found that this model is able to explain nonflaring VHE emission of M87 as well as an orphan flare reported in 2005.
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U2 - 10.3847/1538-4357/ac7b78
DO - 10.3847/1538-4357/ac7b78
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85135710723
SN - 0004-637X
VL - 934
JO - Astrophysical Journal
JF - Astrophysical Journal
IS - 2
M1 - 158
ER -