Hadronic-origin orphan TeV flare from 1ES 1959+650

Sarira Sahu, Andres Felipe Osorio Oliveros, and Juan Carlos Sanabria
Phys. Rev. D 87, 103015 – Published 31 May 2013

Abstract

The 1ES 1959+650 is a high-peaked BL Lacertae object. On the 4th of June, 2002, it exhibited a strong TeV flare without any low energy counterpart, providing for the first time an example of an orphan flare from a blazar. Observation of this orphan flare is in striking disagreement with the predictions of the leptonic models thus challenging the conventional synchrotron self-Compton interpretation of the TeV emission. Here we propose that the low energy tail of the synchrotron self-Compton photons in the blazar jet serve as the target for the Fermi-accelerated high energy protons of energy 100TeV within the jet to produce the TeV photons through the decay of neutral pions from the delta resonance. Our model explains very nicely the observed TeV flux from this orphan flare and we also estimate the high energy neutrino flux from this flaring event.

  • Received 26 March 2012

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.87.103015

© 2013 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

Sarira Sahu1, Andres Felipe Osorio Oliveros2, and Juan Carlos Sanabria2

  • 1Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Circuito Exterior, Ciudad Universitaria, Apartado Postal 70-543, 04510 Mexico DF, Mexico
  • 2Universidad de Los Andes, Bogota, Colombia

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Vol. 87, Iss. 10 — 15 May 2013

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