TY - JOUR
T1 - Multiwavelength study of different flaring and low-activity states of blazar 4C+21.35
AU - Bhattacharya, Debbijoy
AU - Mohana A, Krishna
AU - Bhattacharyya, Subir
AU - Bhatt, Nilay
AU - Stalin, C. S.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 The Author(s) Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society.
Copyright:
Copyright 2021 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2021/1/1
Y1 - 2021/1/1
N2 - Blazars, a class of active galactic nuclei, emit over the entire accessible electromagnetic spectrum and modelling of their broad-band spectral energy distribution (SED) is the key to constrain the underlying emission mechanisms. Here we report the results on the one-zone leptonic emission modelling carried out on the blazar 4C+21.35 using multiwavelength data spanning over the period 2008-2018. Broad-band SED modelling using γ-ray data from Fermi-Large Area Telescope, X-ray data from Swift-XRT and AstroSat, and UV-optical data from Swift-UVOT, AstroSat, and Catalina Real-Time Transient Survey was carried out at seven different epochs, including three γ-ray flaring episodes and four quiescent periods (three long-term averaged ones and one during AstroSat observing period). Our SED modelling suggests that two compact emission regions originating at a different time outside the broad-line region and moving away from the core with variation primarily in the jet electron spectra can explain the emission from the high-, moderate-, and low-activity periods. The emissions from high- and first low-activity states are likely to have originated in the first region. The moderate- and second low-activity states are likely due to the second emission region with fresh particle acceleration/injection at a later time.
AB - Blazars, a class of active galactic nuclei, emit over the entire accessible electromagnetic spectrum and modelling of their broad-band spectral energy distribution (SED) is the key to constrain the underlying emission mechanisms. Here we report the results on the one-zone leptonic emission modelling carried out on the blazar 4C+21.35 using multiwavelength data spanning over the period 2008-2018. Broad-band SED modelling using γ-ray data from Fermi-Large Area Telescope, X-ray data from Swift-XRT and AstroSat, and UV-optical data from Swift-UVOT, AstroSat, and Catalina Real-Time Transient Survey was carried out at seven different epochs, including three γ-ray flaring episodes and four quiescent periods (three long-term averaged ones and one during AstroSat observing period). Our SED modelling suggests that two compact emission regions originating at a different time outside the broad-line region and moving away from the core with variation primarily in the jet electron spectra can explain the emission from the high-, moderate-, and low-activity periods. The emissions from high- and first low-activity states are likely to have originated in the first region. The moderate- and second low-activity states are likely due to the second emission region with fresh particle acceleration/injection at a later time.
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U2 - 10.1093/mnras/staa2958
DO - 10.1093/mnras/staa2958
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85099803692
SN - 0035-8711
VL - 500
SP - 1127
EP - 1138
JO - Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
JF - Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
IS - 1
ER -