Unprecedented study of the broadband emission of Mrk 421 during flaring activity in March 2010

2014/12/31 by The MAGIC Collaboration, J. Aleksić, S. Ansoldi +251 · 5 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations #Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena #BL Lac object #Blazar #Broadband #Emission spectrum #Energy distribution #Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae #Spectral energy distribution #Spectral line #Ultraviolet astronomy #astro-ph.HE

paper · pdf · doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201424811

published as A&A 578, A22 (2015) · Published in A&A, 30 pages, 15 figures, 6 tables. Online-data: multi-wavelength light curves (data in Fig. 1) and broadband spectral energy distributions (the data in Figs. 6, and B1-B4) are available at the CDS via anonymous ftp to cdsarc.u-strasbg.fr (130.79.128.5) or via http://cdsarc.u-strasbg.fr/viz-bin/qcat?J/A+A/578/A22. Corresponding authors: David Paneque ([email protected]), Shangyu Sun ([email protected]), Hajime Takami ([email protected])

openalex publication_date 2015/03/27 · arxiv created 2015/06/15 · arxiv updated 2015/06/16 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05

Abstract

Context. Because of its proximity, Mrk 421 is one of the best sources on which to study the nature of BL Lac objects. Its proximity allows us to characterize its broadband spectral energy distribution (SED).

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