X-ray Spectral Properties of Four Classical TeV Blazars using Simultaneous Observations from NICER and NuSTAR
Riya Bhowmick, Alok C. Gupta
astro-ph.HE
Submitted: 2026-07-08
Comments: Accepted for publication in ApJ, 22 Pages, 8 Figures (1 in Appendix), 2 Tables
License: http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
The gist: We present a detailed study of X-ray spectral properties observed in 4 classical TeV (tera-electron volt) photon-emitting high synchrotron-peaked BL Lacertae objects using the simultaneous data of
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Abstract
We present a detailed study of X-ray spectral properties observed in 4 classical TeV (tera-electron volt) photon-emitting high synchrotron-peaked BL Lacertae objects using the simultaneous data of NICER and NuSTAR satellites. We analyzed 13 spectra in total from four BL Lacertae objects: Mrk 421, Mrk 501, PG 1553+113, and PKS 2155-304. We fitted all the spectra using the absorbed Log-Parabolic (LP) model first. While 7 spectra were fitted well using the absorbed LP model, we observed that 4 spectra of Mrk 421 and 2 spectra of Mrk 501 were not fitted satisfactorily using the absorbed LP model. The investigation of the flux states of the sources revealed that Mrk 421 was in a moderate to low-flux state during the 4 epochs and Mrk 501 was in a low-flux state during the 2 epochs. We concluded that there was a contribution from the disk in these 6 spectra. The moderate to low-flux state can justify the contribution of disk emission in the X-ray spectra. In the case of 4 spectra of Mrk 421, we observed a Gaussian feature between 1.42 and 1.70 keV.
Sources
- Detection of Gamma-Rays above 1.5 TeV from Mkn 501
- Extra-galactic jets: a hard X-ray view
- The Complex 0.1-100 keV X-Ray Spectrum of PKS2155-304
- NICER Perspective on TeV Blazar Mrk~421: X-ray Variability and Particle Acceleration
- X-ray/TeV-gamma-ray observations of several strong flares of Mkn 501 during 1997 and implications
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