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Acceleration Efficiency in Nonthermal Sources and the Soft Gamma-rays from NGC 4151 Observed by OSSE and SIGMA

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 July 2016

Andrzej Maciołek-Niedźwiecki
Affiliation:
Copernicus Astronomical Center, Bartycka 18, 00-716 Warsaw, POLAND
Andrzej A. Zdziarski
Affiliation:
Copernicus Astronomical Center, Bartycka 18, 00-716 Warsaw, POLAND
Alan P. Lightman
Affiliation:
Dept. of Physics, MIT, Cambridge, MA 02139

Abstract

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We show that the recent observations of the Seyfert galaxy NGC 4151 in hard X-rays and soft γ-rays by the OSSE and SIGMA detectors onboard CGRO and GRANAT, respectively, are well explained by a nonthermal model with acceleration of relativistic electrons at an efficiency of ≲50% and with the remaining power dissipated thermally in the source (the standard nonthermal e± pair model assumed 100% efficiency). Such an acceleration efficiency is generally expected on physical grounds. The resulting model unifies previously proposed purely thermal and purely nonthermal models. The pure nonthermal model for NGC 4151 appears to be ruled out. The pure thermal model gives a worse fit to the data than our hybrid nonthermal/thermal model. Our results are presented in Zdziarski, Lightman, & Maciołek-Niedźwiecki (1993).

Type
Poster Contributions: X-Rays and Higher Energies
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1994 

References

Zdziarski, A. A., Lightman, A. P., & Maciołek-Niedźwiecki, A. 1993, ApJLetters , 414, L93 Google Scholar