Insight into the Jet Emission Properties from Long-Term Monitoring of the TeV Blazar PG 1553+113
PG 1553+113 is a distant TeV blazar known for its ~2.2-year periodic gamma-ray signal detected with Fermi-LAT. We present results from a decade-long, multiwavelength monitoring campaign of this source. Our analysis confirms the periodicity in gamma-ray and optical bands; however, no significant periodicity is found at TeV and X-ray energies, based on observations with MAGIC and Swift-XRT, respectively. These findings, combined with a study of variability on different timescales, support a multi-zone emission scenario, as further corroborated by recent IXPE observations. We test a two-zone, synchrotron self-Compton model on 2019 multi-frequency flare data. The long- and short-term variability, along with inter-band correlations from the monitoring, serve as key inputs to constrain the model, reducing the large degrees of freedom. Based on this approach, we propose a set of parameters that effectively describe the PG 1553+113 emitting region responsible for the observed radiation.
Authors
- E. Prandini (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4502-9053)
- Karl J. Friston
Publication Details
- Published
- 2025-09-24
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.22323/1.501.0813
- Primary Topic
- Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- Centres de Recerca de Catalunya
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
- Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology
- Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung
- Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung
- Generalitat de Catalunya
- Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico
- Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
- Hrvatska Zaklada za Znanost
- Fundação Carlos Chagas Filho de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro
- Ministério da Ciência, Tecnologia, Inovações e Comunicações
- Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias
- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
- European Regional Development Fund
- Agencia Estatal de Investigación
- Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, University of Tokyo