A Radio, Optical, UV, and X-Ray View of the Enigmatic Changing-look Active Galactic Nucleus 1ES 1927+654 from Its Pre- to Postflare States
| Autor: | Sibasish Laha, Eileen Meyer, Agniva Roychowdhury, Josefa Becerra Gonzalez, J. A. Acosta–Pulido, Aditya Thapa, Ritesh Ghosh, Ehud Behar, Luigi C. Gallo, Gerard A. Kriss, Francesca Panessa, Stefano Bianchi, Fabio La Franca, Nicolas Scepi, Mitchell C. Begelman, Anna Lia Longinotti, Elisabeta Lusso, Samantha Oates, Matt Nicholl, S. Bradley Cenko |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Laha, Sibasish, Meyer, Eileen, Roychowdhury, Agniva, Becerra Gonzalez, Josefa, Acosta–pulido, J. A., Thapa, Aditya, Ghosh, Ritesh, Behar, Ehud, Gallo, Luigi C., Kriss, Gerard A., Panessa, Francesca, Bianchi, Stefano, La Franca, Fabio, Scepi, Nicola, Begelman, Mitchell C., Longinotti, Anna Lia, Lusso, Elisabeta, Oates, Samantha, Nicholl, Matt, Cenko, S. Bradley |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2022 |
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High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO) Space and Planetary Science Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA) Active Galactic Nuclei Black Holes FOS: Physical sciences Astronomy and Astrophysics Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics |
| Popis: | The nearby type-II AGN 1ES1927+654 went through a violent changing-look (CL) event beginning December 2017 during which the optical and UV fluxes increased by four magnitudes over a few months, and broad emission lines newly appeared in the optical/UV. By July 2018 the X-ray coronal emission had completely vanished, only to reappear a few months later. In this work we report the evolution of the radio, optical, UV and X-rays from the pre-flare state through mid-2021 with new and archival data from the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA), the European VLBI Network, the Very Large Array (VLA), the Telescopio Nazionale Galileo (TNG), Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC), The Neil Gehrels Swift observatory and XMM-Newton. The main results from our work are: (1) The source has returned to its pre-CL state in optical, UV, and X-ray; the disk-corona relation has been re-established as has been in the pre-CL state, with an $\alpha_{\rm OX}\sim 1.02$. The optical spectra are dominated by narrow emission lines. (2) The UV light curve follows a shallower slope of $\propto t^{-0.91\pm 0.04}$ compared to that predicted by a tidal disruption event. We conjecture that a magnetic flux inversion event is the possible cause for this enigmatic event. (3) The compact radio emission which we tracked in the pre-CL (2014), during CL (2018) and post-CL(2021) at spatial scales $ Comment: Resubmitted to ApJ following minor comments from the referee |
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