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Proposal ID 0220146
Obs ID 02201460001, 02201460002, 02201460003, 02201460004, 02201460005
Title High Energy Variability and Particle Acceleration in the Quasar 3C273
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DOI https://doi.org/10.57780/esa-hz6vrhq
Author McHardy
Abstract 3C273 is the brightest active galaxy in the sky, in almost allwavebands from radio to low energy gamma-rays (eg Courvoisier \etal1990). The large majority of its emission comes from a relativisticjet oriented towards the observer. The radio through optical emissionis synchrotron emission and the X- and Gamma-ray emission almostcertainly comes from Compton scattering of low energy seed photons byrelativistic particles in the jet. However the origin of the seedphotons, and the way in which the scattering particles are acceleratedin the jet are unknown. INTEGRAL spectral quasi-monitoringobservations of 3C273 (10 observations of 50ksec each separated by 5days, during one observing window), coupled withdaily X-ray monitoring with RXTE, and ground based monitoring ofthe low energy synchrotron continuum, provide the idea way to answerthese questions. Previous Gamma-ray observations have been completelyinadequate. Although not a major part of this proposal, we will also be able to detect red and blue shiftedannihilation lines which will enable us to determine what the jet isactually made of.
Publications
Temporal Coverage 2004-12-20T19:06:20Z / 2005-01-08T09:02:59Z
Version 1.0
Mission Description The INTEGRAL (International Gamma-Ray Astrophysics Laboratory) mission, launched by the European Space Agency (ESA) on October 17, 2002, was designed to study high-energy phenomena in the universe. INTEGRAL was operating until february 2025 and it was equipped with three high-energy instruments: the Imager on Board the INTEGRAL Satellite (IBIS), the Spectrometer on INTEGRAL (SPI), and the JEM-X (Joint European Monitor for X-rays). Its Optical Monitoring Camera (OMC) provided optical V-band magnitude measurements, complementing the high-energy observations.
Creator Contact https://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/integral/helpdesk
Date Published 2026-03-05T13:05:52Z
Keywords INTEGRAL gamma-ray data, ESA INTEGRAL mission dataset, gamma-ray astronomy observations, high-energy astrophysics data, IBIS imaging data, SPI spectrometer data, JEM-X X-ray monitoring data, OMC optical monitoring data, coded mask telescope observations, gamma-ray spectroscopy dataset, MeV astrophysics data, keV–MeV photon observations, gamma-ray burst observations dataset, black hole gamma-ray data, neutron star high-energy observations, positron annihilation 511 keV line data, Galactic Center gamma-ray emission dataset, supernova nucleosynthesis gamma-ray lines, active galactic nuclei high-energy data, transient astrophysical source monitoring, calibrated photon event lists, gamma-ray light curves, high-energy spectra data, sky maps gamma-ray, time-series astrophysical observations, long-term gamma-ray monitoring dataset
Publisher And Registrant European Space Agency
Credit Guidelines European Space Agency, McHardy, 2026, 'High Energy Variability and Particle Acceleration in the Quasar 3C273', 1.0, European Space Agency, https://doi.org/10.57780/esa-hz6vrhq