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Search for gamma-ray emission from X-ray-selected Seyfert galaxies with Fermi-lat

  • M. Ackermann
  • , M. Ajello
  • , A. Allafort
  • , L. Baldini
  • , J. Ballet
  • , G. Barbiellini
  • , D. Bastieri
  • , K. Bechtol
  • , R. Bellazzini
  • , B. Berenji
  • , E. D. Bloom
  • , E. Bonamente
  • , A. W. Borgland
  • , J. Bregeon
  • , M. Brigida
  • , P. Bruel
  • , R. Buehler
  • , S. Buson
  • , G. A. Caliandro
  • , R. A. Cameron
  • P. A. Caraveo, J. M. Casandjian, E. Cavazzuti, C. Cecchi, E. Charles, A. Chekhtman, C. C. Cheung, J. Chiang, S. Ciprini, R. Claus, J. Cohen-Tanugi, J. Conrad, S. Cutini, F. D'Ammando, A. De Angelis, F. De Palma, C. D. Dermer, E. Do Couto E Silva, P. S. Drell, A. Drlica-Wagner, T. Enoto, C. Favuzzi, S. J. Fegan, E. C. Ferrara, P. Fortin, Y. Fukazawa, P. Fusco, F. Gargano, D. Gasparrini, N. Gehrels, S. Germani, N. Giglietto, P. Giommi, F. Giordano, M. Giroletti, G. Godfrey, J. E. Grove, S. Guiriec, D. Hadasch, M. Hayashida, E. Hays, R. E. Hughes, G. Jóhannesson, A. S. Johnson, T. Kamae, H. Katagiri, J. Kataoka, J. Knödlseder, M. Kuss, J. Lande, M. Llena Garde, F. Longo, F. Loparco, B. Lott, M. N. Lovellette, P. Lubrano, G. M. Madejski, M. N. Mazziotta, P. F. Michelson, T. Mizuno, C. Monte, M. E. Monzani, A. Morselli, I. V. Moskalenko, S. Murgia, S. Nishino, J. P. Norris, E. Nuss, M. Ohno, T. Ohsugi, A. Okumura, E. Orlando, M. Ozaki, D. Paneque, M. Pesce-Rollins, M. Pierbattista, F. Piron, G. Pivato, T. A. Porter, S. Rainò, R. Rando, M. Razzano, A. Reimer, O. Reimer, S. Ritz, M. Roth, D. A. Sanchez, C. Sbarra, C. Sgrò, E. J. Siskind, G. Spandre, P. Spinelli, Stawarz, A. W. Strong, H. Takahashi, T. Takahashi, T. Tanaka, J. B. Thayer, D. J. Thompson, L. Tibaldo, M. Tinivella, D. F. Torres, G. Tosti, E. Troja, Y. Uchiyama, T. L. Usher, J. Vandenbroucke, V. Vasileiou, G. Vianello, V. Vitale, A. P. Waite, B. L. Winer, K. S. Wood, M. Wood, Z. Yang, S. Zimmer
  • Stanford University
  • Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Pisa
  • Universite Paris-Saclay
  • INFN Sezione di Trieste
  • University of Trieste
  • INFN
  • University of Padova
  • INFN Sezione di Perugia
  • University of Perugia
  • Politecnico di Bari
  • INFN Sezione di Bari
  • University of Sheffield
  • INAF Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica Cosmica, Milan
  • Science and Research Directorate
  • Artep Inc.
  • Naval Research Laboratory
  • National Research Council
  • ASI Science Data Center
  • Laboratoire Univers et Particules de Montpellier
  • Stockholm University
  • Oskar Klein Centre
  • INAF Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica Cosmica di Palermo
  • INAF-IASF
  • and Physics University of Udine
  • NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
  • Hiroshima University
  • INAF Istituto di Radioastronomia
  • Center for Space Plasma and Aeronomic Research
  • Kyoto University
  • The Ohio State University
  • University of Iceland
  • Ibaraki University
  • Waseda University
  • IRAP/CNRS
  • UMR 5797
  • Sezione di Roma
  • Boise State University
  • ISAS/JAXA
  • Max Planck Institut für Extraterrestrische Physik
  • Max-Planck-Institut für Physik
  • University of California at Santa Cruz
  • Medical University of Innsbruck
  • University of Washington
  • Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik
  • NYCB Real-Time Computing Inc.
  • Jagiellonian University
  • Pompeu Fabra University (UPF)
  • Consorzio Interuniversitario per la Fisica Spaziale (CIFS)
  • University of Rome “Tor Vergata”

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We report on a systematic investigation of the γ-ray properties of 120 hard X-ray-selected Seyfert galaxies classified as "radio-quiet" objects, utilizing the three-year accumulation of Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) data. Our sample of Seyfert galaxies is selected using the Swift Burst Alert Telescope 58 month catalog, restricting the analysis to the bright sources with average hard X-ray fluxes F14 - 195 keV ≥ 2.5 × 10-11erg cm-2 s-1at high Galactic latitudes (|b| > 10°). In order to remove "radio-loud" objects from the sample, we use the "hard X-ray radio loudness parameter," R rX, defined as the ratio of the total 1.4 GHz radio to 14-195 keV hard X-ray energy fluxes. Among 120 X-ray bright Seyfert galaxies with R rX <10-4, we did not find a statistically significant γ-ray excess (TS > 25) positionally coincident with any target Seyferts, with possible exceptions of ESO 323-G077 and NGC6814. The mean value of the 95% confidence level γ-ray upper limit for the integrated photon flux above 100MeV from the analyzed Seyferts is ≃ 4 × 10 -9photons cm-2 s-1, and the upper limits derived for several objects reach ≃ 1 × 10-9photons cm-2 s-1. Our results indicate that no prominent γ-ray emission component related to active galactic nucleus activity is present in the spectra of Seyferts around GeV energies. The Fermi-LAT upper limits derived for our sample probe the ratio of γ-ray to X-ray luminosities Lγ/LX < 0.1, and even <0.01 in some cases. The obtained results impose novel constraints on the models for high-energy radiation of "radio-quiet" Seyfert galaxies.

langue originaleAnglais
Numéro d'article104
journalAstrophysical Journal
Volume747
Numéro de publication2
Les DOIs
étatPublié - 10 mars 2012

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