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X-Ray Analysis and SED Fitting for the Flaring Radio Galaxy IC 310

Semester: Summer 2024


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Radio galaxies are active galactic nuclei with jets misaligned with respect to the line of sight, making them a good laboratory for studying jet structure. Only a handful of radio galaxies have been detected at TeV gamma-ray energies. IC 310, a radio galaxy in the Perseus cluster known to exhibit fast TeV gamma-ray variability, was detected at an elevated TeV gamma-ray flux in March 2024 by the LHAASO gamma-ray observatory. Multi-wavelength follow-up observations of IC 310 during the flaring state were organized. We analyzed the X-Ray follow-up observations from the NuSTAR and Swift-XRT telescopes and constructed a broadband spectral energy distribution (SED) using contemporaneous optical and gamma-ray data for IC 310. We also fit the SED with one-zone and two-zone synchrotron self-Compton (SSC) models in order to gain insight to the underlying physics in extreme environments in the universe.

Presenter Name: Dylan Mendoza
Presentation Type: Poster
Presentation Format: In Person
Presentation #56
College: Science
School / Department: Physics & Astronomy
Research Mentor: Qi Feng
Time: 11:00 AM
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