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Name: Observations of Mrk 421 in its active state with INTEGRAL
Published: 2025-03-25T09:54:32Z

Proposal ID	0320076
Obs ID	03200760001, 03200760002, 03200760003, 03200760004
Title	Observations of Mrk 421 in its active state with INTEGRAL
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.57780/esa-k1tp507
Author	Lichti
Abstract	Mrk 421, one of the brightest TeV gamma-ray sources in the sky, is one of five BL Lac objects which have two broad emission maxima at higher energies than normal BL Lac objects show, one at X-ray energies and one at TeV energies. Both maxima are separated by a deep and sharp minimum which lies exactly in the energy range of INTEGRAL and which is nearly unexplored. Both emission components are believed to be connected via a common particle population which creates both emission components by different physical emission processes (Synchrotron and inverse Compton). This conjecture can be tested by simultaneous observations at different wavelengths looking for time correlations of the measured intensities. In addition with INTEGRAL the transition region can be explored for the first time. It is the aim of this proposal to observe Mrk 421 with INTEGRAL when it is in an active state together with radiotelescopes, IR and optical telescopes and with Cherenkov telescopes.In its quiescent state Mrk 421 is too weak to be observable by the two main instruments (IBIS and SPI) of INTEGRAL in the r^ant energy range. Therefore an observation of this source with INTEGRAL makes only sense when it is in an active state. So we ask for a ToO observation of this source when it is active.
Publications	236 Minima Timings of Eclipsing Binaries Observed by Integral OMC - Sobotka, P., (2007-12-01) http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2007IBVS.5809....1S A comprehensive analysis of the hard X-ray spectra of bright Seyfert galaxies - Lubinski, P., Beckmann, V.,Gibaud, L.,Paltani, S.,Papadakis, I. E.,Ricci, C.,Soldi, S.,Turler, M.,Walter, R.,Zdziarski, A. A. (2016-05-01) http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2016MNRAS.458.2454L A description of sources detected by INTEGRAL during the first 4 years of observations - Bodaghee, A., Courvoisier, T. J. -L.,Rodriguez, J.,Beckmann, V.,Produit, N.,Hannikainen, D.,Kuulkers, E.,Willis, D. R.,Wendt, G. (2007-05-01) http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2007A&A...467..585B Analysis and interpretation of inner-heliospheric SEP events with the ESA Standard Radiation Environment Monitor (SREM) onboard the INTEGRAL and Rosetta Missions - Georgoulis, Manolis K., Papaioannou, Athanasios,Sandberg, Ingmar,Anastasiadis, Anastasios,Daglis, Ioannis A.,Rodriguez-Gasen, Rosa,Aran, Angels,Sanahuja, Blai,Nieminen, Petteri (2018-09-01) http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2018JSWSC...8A..40G An asymmetric distribution of positrons in the Galactic disk revealed by γ-rays - Weidenspointner, Georg, Skinner, Gerry,Jean, Pierre,Knodlseder, Jurgen,von Ballmoos, Peter,Bignami, Giovanni,Diehl, Roland,Strong, Andrew W.,Cordier, Bertrand,Schanne, Stephane,Winkler, Christoph (2008-01-01) http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2008Natur.451..159W Blazars and INTEGRAL - Hudec, R., Munz, F.,Kubanek, P.,Pian, E. (2006-12-01) http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2006ChJAS...6a.114H Constraints on positron annihilation kinematics in the inner Galaxy - Siegert, Thomas, Crocker, Roland M.,Diehl, Roland,Krause, Martin G. H.,Panther, Fiona H.,Pleintinger, Moritz M. M.,Weinberger, Christoph (2019-07-01) http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2019A&A...627A.126S Contribution of the Accretion Disk, Hot Corona, and Obscuring Torus to the Luminosity of Seyfert Galaxies: INTEGRAL and Spitzer Observations - Sazonov, S., Willner, S. P.,Goulding, A. D.,Hickox, R. C.,Gorjian, V.,Werner, M. W.,Churazov, E.,Krivonos, R.,Revnivtsev, M.,Sunyaev, R.,Jones, C.,Murray, S. S.,Vikhlinin, A.,Fabian, A. C.,Forman, W. R. (2012-10-01) http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2012ApJ...757..181S Diffuse Emission Measurement with the SPectrometer on INTEGRAL as an Indirect Probe of Cosmic-Ray Electrons and Positrons - Bouchet, Laurent, Strong, Andrew W.,Porter, Troy A.,Moskalenko, Igor V.,Jourdain, Elisabeth,Roques, Jean-Pierre (2011-09-01) http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2011ApJ...739...29B Discovery of the Radio and X-Ray Counterpart of TeV γ-Ray Source HESS J1731-347 - Tian, W. W., Leahy, D. A.,Haverkorn, M.,Jiang, B. (2008-06-01) http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2008ApJ...679L..85T Dose Measured On-Board INTEGRAL After More Than 12 Years in Space - Claret, Arnaud, Laurent, Philippe,Sauvageon, Aymeric,Savchenko, Volodymyr (2015-12-01) http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2015ITNS...62.2784C Extended emission from short gamma-ray bursts detected with SPI-ACS/INTEGRAL - Minaev, P. Yu., Pozanenko, A. S.,Loznikov, V. M. (2010-10-01) http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2010AstL...36..707M Extreme flux states of NGC 4151 observed with INTEGRAL - Lubinski, P., Zdziarski, A. A.,Walter, R.,Paltani, S.,Beckmann, V.,Soldi, S.,Ferrigno, C.,Courvoisier, T. J. -L. (2010-11-01) http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2010MNRAS.408.1851L Extreme relativistic electron fluxes in the Earths outer radiation belt: Analysis of INTEGRAL IREM data - Meredith, Nigel P., Horne, Richard B.,Sandberg, Ingmar,Papadimitriou, Constantinos,Evans, Hugh D. R. (2017-07-01) http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2017SpWea..15..917M Gamma-ray spectroscopy of positron annihilation in the Milky Way - Siegert, Thomas, Diehl, Roland,Khachatryan, Gerasim,Krause, Martin G. H.,Guglielmetti, Fabrizia,Greiner, Jochen,Strong, Andrew W.,Zhang, Xiaoling (2016-02-01) http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2016A&A...586A..84S Global characteristics of GRBs observed with INTEGRAL and the inferred large population of low-luminosity GRBs - Foley, S., McGlynn, S.,Hanlon, L.,McBreen, S.,McBreen, B. (2008-06-01) http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2008A&A...484..143F Hard X-ray properties of magnetic cataclysmic variables - Scaringi, S., Bird, A. J.,Norton, A. J.,Knigge, C.,Hill, A. B.,Clark, D. J.,Dean, A. J.,McBride, V. A.,Barlow, E. J.,Bassani, L.,Bazzano, A.,Fiocchi, M.,Landi, R. (2010-02-01) http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2010MNRAS.401.2207S Hard-X-ray spectra of active galactic nuclei in the INTEGRAL complete sample - Molina, M., Bassani, L.,Malizia, A.,Stephen, J. B.,Bird, A. J.,Bazzano, A.,Ubertini, P. 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G., Bottacini, E.,Ajello, M.,Charlot, P.,Collmar, W.,Falcone, A.,Horan, D.,Huber, S.,von Kienlin, A.,Lahteenmaki, A.,Lindfors, E.,Morris, D.,Nilsson, K.,Petry, D.,Ruger, M.,Sillanpaa, A.,Spanier, F.,Tornikoski, M. (2008-08-01) http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2008A&A...486..721L INTEGRAL/SPI {$gamma$}-ray line spectroscopy. Response and background characteristics - Diehl, Roland, Siegert, Thomas,Greiner, Jochen,Krause, Martin,Kretschmer, Karsten,Lang, Michael,Pleintinger, Moritz,Strong, Andrew W.,Weinberger, Christoph,Zhang, Xiaoling (2018-03-01) http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2018A&A...611A..12D Kinematics of massive star ejecta in the Milky Way as traced by ²⁶Al - Kretschmer, Karsten, Diehl, Roland,Krause, Martin,Burkert, Andreas,Fierlinger, Katharina,Gerhard, Ortwin,Greiner, Jochen,Wang, Wei (2013-11-01) http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2013A&A...559A..99K Leptonic origin of the 100 MeV γ-ray emission from the Galactic centre - Malyshev, D., Chernyakova, M.,Neronov, A.,Walter, R. (2015-10-01) http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2015A&A...582A..11M Masses and accretion rates of supermassive black holes in active galactic nuclei from the INTEGRAL survey - Khorunzhev, G. A., Sazonov, S. Yu.,Burenin, R. A.,Tkachenko, A. Yu. (2012-08-01) http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2012AstL...38..475K New hard X-ray sources discovered in the ongoing INTEGRAL Galactic plane survey after 14 yr of observations - Krivonos, Roman A., Tsygankov, Sergey S.,Mereminskiy, Ilya A.,Lutovinov, Alexander A.,Sazonov, Sergey Yu.,Sunyaev, Rashid A. (2017-09-01) http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2017MNRAS.470..512K On the Morphology of the Electron-Positron Annihilation Emission as Seen by Spi/integral - Bouchet, L., Roques, J. P.,Jourdain, E. (2010-09-01) http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2010ApJ...720.1772B Photohadronic origin of {$gamma$} -ray BL Lac emission: implications for IceCube neutrinos - Petropoulou, M., Dimitrakoudis, S.,Padovani, P.,Mastichiadis, A.,Resconi, E. (2015-04-01) http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2015MNRAS.448.2412P Progressive steepening of the SNR RX J1713.7-3946 X-ray spectrum from XMM-Newton to INTEGRAL - Kuznetsova, Ekaterina, Krivonos, Roman,Churazov, Eugene,Lyskova, Natalia,Lutovinov, Alexander (2019-10-01) http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2019MNRAS.489.1828K Radioactive ²⁶Al from the Scorpius-Centaurus association - Diehl, R., Lang, M. G.,Martin, P.,Ohlendorf, H.,Preibisch, Th.,Voss, R.,Jean, P.,Roques, J. -P.,von Ballmoos, P.,Wang, W. (2010-11-01) http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2010A&A...522A..51D Reflection in Seyfert galaxies and the unified model of AGN - Ricci, C., Walter, R.,Courvoisier, T. J. -L.,Paltani, S. (2011-08-01) http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2011A&A...532A.102R Relativistic Reflection in NGC 4151 - Szanecki, Michal, Niedzwiecki, Andrzej,Zdziarski, Andrzej A. (2021-03-01) http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2021ApJ...909..205S Search for 511 keV emission in satellite galaxies of the Milky Way with INTEGRAL/SPI - Siegert, Thomas, Diehl, Roland,Vincent, Aaron C.,Guglielmetti, Fabrizia,Krause, Martin G. H.,Boehm, Celine (2016-10-01) http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2016A&A...595A..25S Search for outbursts in the narrow 511-keV line from compact sources based on INTEGRAL data - Tsygankov, S. S., Churazov, E. M. (2010-04-01) http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2010AstL...36..237T Searching for the 511 keV annihilation line from galactic compact objects with the IBIS gamma ray telescope - De Cesare, G., (2011-07-01) http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2011A&A...531A..56D Spatial clustering and halo occupation distribution modelling of local AGN via cross-correlation measurements with 2MASS galaxies - Krumpe, Mirko, Miyaji, Takamitsu,Coil, Alison L.,Aceves, Hector (2018-02-01) http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2018MNRAS.474.1773K Spectral and intensity variations of Galactic ²⁶Al emission - Wang, W., Lang, M. G.,Diehl, R.,Halloin, H.,Jean, P.,Knodlseder, J.,Kretschmer, K.,Martin, P.,Roques, J. P.,Strong, A. W.,Winkler, C.,Zhang, X. L. 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(2009-10-01) http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2009A&A...505..417B Time Evolution of Flares in GRB 130925A: Jet Precession in a Black Hole Accretion System - Hou, Shu-Jin, Liu, Tong,Gu, Wei-Min,Lin, Da-Bin,Sun, Mou-Yuan,Wu, Xue-Feng,Lu, Ju-Fu (2014-01-01) http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2014ApJ...781L..19H Timing properties of gamma-ray bursts detected by SPI-ACS detector onboard INTEGRAL - Savchenko, V., Neronov, A.,Courvoisier, T. J. -L. (2012-05-01) http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2012A&A...541A.122S Type I X-ray Bursts Detected by the JEM-X Telescope Onboard the INTEGRAL Observatory in 2003-2015 - Chelovekov, I. V., Grebenev, S. A.,Mereminskiy, I. A.,Prosvetov, A. V. (2017-12-01) http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2017AstL...43..781C Water megamaser emission in hard X-ray selected AGN - Panessa, F., Castangia, P.,Malizia, A.,Bassani, L.,Tarchi, A.,Bazzano, A.,Ubertini, P. (2020-09-01) http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2020A&A...641A.162P X-ray absorption in INTEGRAL active galactic nuclei. Host galaxy inclination - Malizia, A., Bassani, L.,Stephen, J. B.,Bazzano, A.,Ubertini, P. (2020-07-01) http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2020A&A...639A...5M
Temporal Coverage	2006-06-14T09:54:21Z / 2006-06-26T02:05:00Z
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	2025-03-25T09:54:32Z
Publisher And Registrant	European Space Agency
Credit Guidelines	European Space Agency, Lichti, 2025, 'Observations of Mrk 421 in its active state with INTEGRAL', 1.0, European Space Agency, https://doi.org/10.57780/esa-k1tp507