Variability studies and modeling of the blazar PKS 2155-304 in the light of a decade of multi-wavelength observations [HEAP]

http://arxiv.org/abs/1901.01743


The variability of the high-frequency peaked BL Lac object PKS 2155-304 is studied using almost 10 years of optical, X-ray and gamma-rays data. Publicly available data have been gathered and analyzed with the aim to characterize the variability and to search for log-normality or periodic behavior. The optical and X-ray range follow a log-normal process; a hint for a periodicity of about 700 days is found in optical and in the high energy (100 MeV <E<300 GeV) range. A one zone, time-dependent, synchrotron self-Compton model is successfully used to reproduce the evolution with energy of the variability and the tentatively reported periodicity.

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J. Chevalier, D. Sanchez, P. Serpico, et. al.
Tue, 8 Jan 19
7/99

Comments: 12 pages, 9 figures