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Furniss, A.; Noda, K.; Boggs, S.; Chiang, J.; Christensen, F.; Craig, W.; Giommi, P.; Hailey, C.; Harisson, F.; Madejski, G.; Nalewajko, K.; Perri, M.; Stern, D.; Urry, M.; Verrecchia, F.; Zhang, W.; The NuSTAR Team; Ahnen, M. L.; Ansoldi, S.; Antonelli, L. A.; Antoranz, P.; Babic, A.; Banerjee, B.; Bangale, P.; Barres de Almeida, U.; Barrio, J. A.; Becerra González, J.; Bednarek, W.; Bernardini, E.; Biasuzzi, B.; Biland, A.; Blanch, O.; Bonnefoy, S.; Bonnoli, G.; Borracci, F.; Bretz, T.; Carmona, E.; Carosi, A.; Chatterjee, A.; Clavero, R.; Colin, P.; Colombo, E.; Contreras, J. L.; Cortina, J.; Covino, S.; Da Vela, P.; Dazzi, F.; De Angelis, A.; De Caneva, G.; De Lotto, B.; de Oña Wilhelmi, E.; Delgado Mendez, C.; Di Pierro, F.; Dominis Prester, D.; Dorner, D.; Doro, M.; Einecke, S.; Eisenacher Glawion, D.; Elsaesser, D.; Fernández-Barral, A.; Fidalgo, D.; Fonseca, M. V.; Font, L.; Frantzen, K.; Fruck, C.; Galindo, D.; García López, R. J.; Garczarczyk, M.; Garrido Terrats, D.; Gaug, M.; Giammaria, P.; Godinovic´, N.; González Muñoz, A.; Guberman, D.; Hanabata, Y.; Hayashida, M.; Herrera, J.; Hose, J.; Hrupec, D.; Hughes, G.; Idec, W.; Kellermann, H.; Kodani, K.; Konno, Y.; Kubo, H.; Kushida, J.; La Barbera, A.; Lelas, D.; Lewandowska, N.; Lindfors, E.; Lombardi, S.; Longo, F.; López, M.; López-Coto, R.; López-Oramas, A.; Lorenz, E.; Majumdar, P.; Makariev, M.; Mallot, K.; Maneva, G. et al.
Bibliographical reference
The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 812, Issue 1, article id. 65, 22 pp. (2015).
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Description
We report on simultaneous broadband observations of the TeV-emitting
blazar Markarian 501 between 2013 April 1 and August 10, including the
first detailed characterization of the synchrotron peak with Swift and
NuSTAR. During the campaign, the nearby BL Lac object was observed in
both a quiescent and an elevated state. The broadband campaign includes
observations with NuSTAR, MAGIC, VERITAS, the Fermi Large Area
Telescope, Swift X-ray Telescope and UV Optical Telescope, various
ground-based optical instruments, including the GASP-WEBT program, as
well as radio observations by OVRO, Metsähovi, and the F-Gamma
consortium. Some of the MAGIC observations were affected by a sand layer
from the Saharan desert, and had to be corrected using event-by-event
corrections derived with a Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) facility.
This is the first time that LIDAR information is used to produce a
physics result with Cherenkov Telescope data taken during adverse
atmospheric conditions, and hence sets a precedent for the current and
future ground-based gamma-ray instruments. The NuSTAR instrument
provides unprecedented sensitivity in hard X-rays, showing the source to
display a spectral energy distribution (SED) between 3 and 79 keV
consistent with a log-parabolic spectrum and hard X-ray variability on
hour timescales. None (of the four extended NuSTAR observations) show
evidence of the onset of inverse-Compton emission at hard X-ray
energies. We apply a single-zone equilibrium synchrotron self-Compton
(SSC) model to five simultaneous broadband SEDs. We find that the SSC
model can reproduce the observed broadband states through a decrease in
the magnetic field strength coinciding with an increase in the
luminosity and hardness of the relativistic leptons responsible for the
high-energy emission.
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The MAGIC Collaboration is integrated by 20 research institutes and university departments from Armenia, Bulgaria, Finland, Germany, Italy, Poland, Spain, Switzerland and USA. The collaboration comprises two 17m diameter telescopes, located at the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory, designed to measure the Cherenkov radiation associated with
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