Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope Observations of the Gamma-ray Outburst from 3C454.3 in November 2010

A. A. Abdo Markus Ackermann Marco Ajello A. Allafort Luca Baldini J. Ballet 1 Guido Barbiellini D. Bastieri R. Bellazzini B. Berenji R. D. Blandford E. D. Bloom E. Bonamente A. W. Borgland A. Bouvier J. Bregeon M. Brigida P. Bruel 2 R. Buehler S. Buson G. A. Caliandro R. A. Cameron P. A. Caraveo J. M. Casandjian 1 E. Cavazzuti C. Cecchi E. Charles A. Chekhtman C. C. Cheung J. Chiang S. Ciprini R. Claus J. Conrad S. Cutini F. D'Ammando A. De Angelis F. De Palma C. D. Dermer S. W. Digel E. Do Couto E Silva P. S. Drell R. Dubois D. Dumora 3 L. Escande 3 C. Favuzzi S. J. Fegan 2 E. C. Ferrara P. Fortin 2 Y. Fukazawa P. Fusco F. Gargano D. Gasparrini N. Gehrels S. Germani N. Giglietto P. Giommi F. Giordano M. Giroletti T. Glanzman G. Godfrey I. A. Grenier 1 J. E. Grove S. Guiriec D. Hadasch M. Hayashida E. Hays D. Horan 2 R. Itoh G. J'Ohannesson A. S. Johnson T. Kamae H. Katagiri J. Kataoka J. Kn¨odlseder 4 M. Kuss J. Lande S. Larsson L. Latronico S.-H. Lee F. Longo F. Loparco B. Lott 3 M. N. Lovellette P. Lubrano G. M. Madejski A. Makeev M. N. Mazziotta W. Mcconville J. E. Mcenery P. F. Michelson W. Mitthumsiri T. Mizuno A. A. Moiseev C. Monte M. E. Monzani A. Morselli I. V. Moskalenko S. Murgia M. Naumann-Godo 1 S. Nishino P. L. Nolan J. P. Norris E. Nuss 5 T. Ohsugi A. Okumura E. Orlando J. F. Ormes D. Paneque V. Pelassa M. Pesce-Rollins M. Pierbattista 1 F. Piron 5 T.A. Porter S. Rain'O R. Rando S. Razzaque A. Reimer O. Reimer S. Ritz M. Roth H. F.-W. Sadrozinski D. Sanchez 2 J. D. Scargle T. L. Schalk C. Sgr'O E. J. Siskind P. D. Smith G. Spandre P. Spinelli M. S. Strickman H. Takahashi T. Takahashi T. Tanaka Y. Tanaka J. G. Thayer J. B. Thayer D. J. Thompson L. Tibaldo D. F. Torres G. Tosti A. Tramacere E. Troja J. Vandenbroucke V. Vasileiou 5 G. Vianello N. Vilchez 6 V. Vitale A. P. Waite P. Wang B. L. Winer K. S. Wood Z. Yang M. Ziegler
1 AIM - UMR 7158 - UMR E 9005 - Astrophysique Interactions Multi-échelles
2 LLR - Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet
3 GLAST
CENBG - Centre d'Etudes Nucléaires de Bordeaux Gradignan
4 CESR - Centre d'étude spatiale des rayonnements
5 LPTA - Laboratoire de Physique Théorique et Astroparticules
6 IRAP - Institut de recherche en astrophysique et planétologie
Abstract : The flat-spectrum radio quasar 3C454.3 underwent an extraordinary 5 day γ -ray outburst in 2010 November when the daily flux measured with the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) at photon energies E > 100 MeV reached (66 ± 2) × 10−6 photons cm−2 s−1. This is a factor of three higher than its previous maximum flux recorded in 2009 December and 5 times brighter than the Vela pulsar, which is normally the brightest source in the γ -ray sky. The 3 hr peak flux was (85 ± 5)×10−6 photons cm−2 s−1, corresponding to an apparent isotropic luminosity of (2.1 ± 0.2)×1050 erg s−1, the highest ever recorded for a blazar. In this Letter, we investigate the features of this exceptional event in the γ -ray band of the Fermi-LAT. In contrast to previous flares of the same source observed with the Fermi-LAT, clear spectral changes are observed during the flare.
Keywords : galaxies: active
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The Astrophysical journal letters, Bristol : IOP Publishing, 2011, 733, pp.L26. <10.1088/2041-8205/733/2/L26>
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A. A. Abdo, Markus Ackermann, Marco Ajello, A. Allafort, Luca Baldini, et al.. Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope Observations of the Gamma-ray Outburst from 3C454.3 in November 2010. The Astrophysical journal letters, Bristol : IOP Publishing, 2011, 733, pp.L26. <10.1088/2041-8205/733/2/L26>. <in2p3-00657732>

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