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2021ApJ...919..110I - Astrophys. J., 919, 110-110 (2021/October-1)

The study of X-ray flux variability of M87.

IMAZAWA R., FUKAZAWA Y. and TAKAHASHI H.

Abstract (from CDS):

We searched for a short-term X-ray variability of the M87 core and jet from archival X-ray data with long exposure data taken by the Suzaku, Chandra, and NuSTAR telescopes. We found the intraday variability for the Suzaku data obtained in 2006, and for the Chandra core obtained in 2017. The intraday variability suggested a minute emission region about the size of the Schwarzschild radius of the M87 supermassive black hole. Suzaku could not resolve a core and HST-1; however, in 2006, HST-1 was much brighter than the core, and thus, the variability is likely due to the HST-1. Since the photon index in 2006 was 2.38, the emission was possibly synchrotron emission from the local shock region in the HST-1, indicating that the particle acceleration of TeV electrons occurred far away (∼100 pc) from the core. Assuming the fading time to be equal to the synchrotron cooling time, the magnetic field is constrained to be B ∼ 1.94 δ1/3 mG. Moreover, the photon index of the core in 2017 was approximately 1.96; thus, the possible emission was from the radiative inefficiency accretion flow of the core or inverse Compton scattering in the jet. Intraday time variability prefers the latter possibility.

Abstract Copyright: © 2021. The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved.

Journal keyword(s): X-ray active galactic nuclei - X-ray astronomy - Radio galaxies

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