Detection of a Gamma-Ray Flare from the High-redshift Blazar DA 193
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2019-02-01
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Vaidehi S. Paliya, M. Ajello, R. Ojha, R. Angioni, C. C. Cheung, K. Tanada, T. Pursimo, P. Galindo, I. R. Losada, L. Siltala, A. A. Djupvik, L. Marcotulli, and D. Hartmann, Detection of a Gamma-Ray Flare from the High-redshift Blazar DA 193, https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/aafa10
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High-redshift (z > 2) blazars are the most powerful members of the blazar family. Yet, only a handful of them have both X-ray and γ-ray detection, thereby making it difficult to characterize the energetics of the most luminous jets. Here, we report, for the first time, the Fermi-Large Area Telescope detection of the significant γ-ray emission from the high-redshift blazar DA 193 (z = 2.363). Its time-averaged γ-ray spectrum is soft (γ-ray photon index = 2.9 ± 0.1), and together with a relatively flat hard X-ray spectrum (14–195 keV photon index = 1.5 ± 0.4), DA 193 presents a case to study a typical high-redshift blazar with inverse Compton peak being located at MeV energies. An intense GeV flare was observed from this object in the first week of 2018 January, a phenomenon rarely observed from high-redshift sources. What makes this event a rare one is the observation of an extremely hard γ-ray spectrum (photon index = 1.7 ± 0.2), which is somewhat unexpected because high-redshift blazars typically exhibit a steep falling spectrum at GeV energies. The results of our multifrequency campaign, including both space- (Fermi, NuSTAR, and Swift) and ground-based (Steward and Nordic Optical Telescope) observatories are presented, and this peculiar γ-ray flare is studied within the framework of a single-zone leptonic emission scenario.