Fermi-LAT detection of enhanced gamma-ray activity from the blazar PMN J1830-4441
ATel #15925; Adithiya Dinesh (UC Madrid), Janeth Valverde (UMBC / NASA GSFC), Simone Garrappa (Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum), on behalf of the Fermi Large Area Telescope Collaboration
on 3 Mar 2023; 17:01 UT
Credential Certification: Janeth Valverde (valverde@llr.in2p3.fr)
Subjects: Gamma Ray, >GeV, Request for Observations, AGN, Blazar
The Large Area Telescope (LAT), one of the two instruments on the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, has observed enhanced gamma-ray activity from a source positionally consistent with the blazar PMN J1830â4441 (also known as 4FGL J1830.2-4443), with coordinates R.A. = 277.503500 deg, Decl. = -44.686583 deg (J2000; Healey et al. 2007, ApJS, 171, 61).
Preliminary analysis indicates that this source was in an elevated gamma-ray emission state on 2023 March 1, with a daily averaged gamma-ray flux (E>100MeV) of (0.5+/-0.1) X 10^-6 photons cm^-2 s^-1 (statistical uncertainty only). This corresponds to a flux increase of a factor of 20 relative to the average flux reported in the fourth Fermi-LAT catalog (4FGL-DR3, Abdollahi, S., et al. for the Fermi-LAT collaboration 2022, ApJS, 260, 53). This is the highest LAT daily flux ever observed for this source. The photon index of 2.1+/-0.2 corresponds to a harder spectrum than the 4FGL-DR3 value of 2.57 +/- 0.04.
Because Fermi normally operates in an all-sky scanning mode, regular gamma-ray monitoring of this source will continue. Preliminary Fermi-LAT light curves can be accessed via the Fermi-LAT Light-Curve Repository at https://fermi.gsfc.nasa.gov/ssc/data/access/lat/LightCurveRepository/source.html?source_name=4FGL_J1830.2-4443. We encourage multifrequency observations of this source. For this source, the Fermi-LAT contact person is Adithiya Dinesh (adinesh@ucm.es).
The Fermi-LAT is a pair conversion telescope designed to cover the energy band from 20 MeV to greater than 300 GeV. It is the product of an international collaboration between NASA and DOE in the U.S. and many scientific institutions across France, Italy, Japan and Sweden.
