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KVN observations reveal multiple γ-ray emission regions in 3C 84?

Journal

MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 475, Issue 1, Pages 368-378

Publisher

OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stx3041

Keywords

galaxies: active; quasars: individual: 3C 84; gamma-rays: galaxies; radio continuum: galaxies

Funding

  1. KREONET (Korean Research Environment Open NETwork)
  2. Korea Research Fellowship Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) - Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning [NRF-2015H1D3A1066561]
  3. National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) [NRF-2015R1D1A1A01056807]
  4. NRF [2014H1A2A1018695]
  5. National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) grant - Korea government (MSIP) [NRF-2016R1C1B2006697]
  6. Smithsonian Institution
  7. Academia Sinica
  8. National Aeronautics and Space Administration
  9. Department of Energy in the United States
  10. Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique
  11. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique / Institut National de Physique Nucleaire et de Physique des Particules in France
  12. Agenzia Spaziale Italiana
  13. Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare in Italy
  14. Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT)
  15. Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) in Japan
  16. K.A. Wallenberg Foundation
  17. Swedish Research Council
  18. Swedish National Space Board in Sweden
  19. High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK)
  20. National Research Council of Science & Technology (NST), Republic of Korea [2018186002] Funding Source: Korea Institute of Science & Technology Information (KISTI), National Science & Technology Information Service (NTIS)
  21. National Research Foundation of Korea [2015R1D1A1A01056807] Funding Source: Korea Institute of Science & Technology Information (KISTI), National Science & Technology Information Service (NTIS)

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3C 84 (NGC 1275) is a well-studied misaligned sctive galactic nucleus (AGN), which has been active in gamma-rays since at least 2008. We have monitored the source at four wavelengths (14, 7, 3, and 2mm) using the Korean VLBI network (KVN) since 2013 as part of the interferometric monitoring of gamma-ray bright AGN (iMOGABA) programme, and it exhibits bright radio emission both near the central SMBH and in a slowly moving feature located to the south known as C3. Other facilities have also detected these short-term variations above a slowly rising trend at shorter wavelengths, such as in gamma-ray and 1-mm total intensity light curves. We find that the variations in the gamma-rays and 1-mm total intensity light curves are correlated, with the gamma-ray leading and lagging the radio emission. Analysis of the 2-mm KVN data shows that both the gamma-rays and 1-mm total intensity short-term variations are better correlated with the SMBH region than C3, likely placing the short-term variations in Cl. We interpret the emission as being due to the random alignment of spatially separated emission regions. We place the slowly rising trend in C3, consistent with previous results. Spectral analysis of the gamma-ray data shows that the gamma-ray flaring is inconsistent with blazar-like gamma-ray emission. Additionally, we report that since mid-2015, a large mm-wave radio flare has been occurring in C3, with a large gamma-ray flare coincident with the onset of this flare at all radio wavelengths.

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