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author Liu, Mingjun
Zhang, Yijia
Wang, Yun
Xue, Rui
Buckley, David
Howell, D. Andrew
Jin, Chichuan
Li, Wenxiong
Monageng, Itumeleng
Pan, Haiwu
Sun, Ning-Chen
Tinyanont, Samaporn
Wang, Lingzhi
Yuan, Weimin
An, Jie
Andrews, Moira
Anutarawiramkul, Rungrit
Butpan, Pathompong
Cheng, Huaqing
Dai, Cui-Yuan
Dai, Lixin
Farah, Joseph
Feng, Hua
Fu, Shaoyu
Guo, Zhen
Jiang, Shuaiqing
Li, An
Li, Dongyue
Liang, Yifang
Liu, Heyang
Liu, Xing
Liu, Yuan
Mao, Jirong
McCully, Curtis
Newsome, Megan
Gonzalez, Estefania Padilla
Pan, Xin
Sun, Xinxiang
Terreran, Giacomo
Wang, Ze-Rui
Wu, Qinyu
Xiao, Hubing
Xiong, Dingrong
Xu, Dong
Xu, Xinpeng
Xue, Suijian
Yang, Haonan
Yang, Jun
Zhang, Jin
Zhang, Wenda
Zhang, Wenjie
Zou, Hu
author_facet Liu, Mingjun
Zhang, Yijia
Wang, Yun
Xue, Rui
Buckley, David
Howell, D. Andrew
Jin, Chichuan
Li, Wenxiong
Monageng, Itumeleng
Pan, Haiwu
Sun, Ning-Chen
Tinyanont, Samaporn
Wang, Lingzhi
Yuan, Weimin
An, Jie
Andrews, Moira
Anutarawiramkul, Rungrit
Butpan, Pathompong
Cheng, Huaqing
Dai, Cui-Yuan
Dai, Lixin
Farah, Joseph
Feng, Hua
Fu, Shaoyu
Guo, Zhen
Jiang, Shuaiqing
Li, An
Li, Dongyue
Liang, Yifang
Liu, Heyang
Liu, Xing
Liu, Yuan
Mao, Jirong
McCully, Curtis
Newsome, Megan
Gonzalez, Estefania Padilla
Pan, Xin
Sun, Xinxiang
Terreran, Giacomo
Wang, Ze-Rui
Wu, Qinyu
Xiao, Hubing
Xiong, Dingrong
Xu, Dong
Xu, Xinpeng
Xue, Suijian
Yang, Haonan
Yang, Jun
Zhang, Jin
Zhang, Wenda
Zhang, Wenjie
Zou, Hu
contents Blazars are often observed to flare across multiple wavelengths. Orphan flares from blazars have been only detected a few times, providing an opportunity to understand the structure of the jet in the accreting system. We report a remarkable orphan X-ray flare from a blazar candidate EP240709a, detected by Einstein Probe (EP) in July 2024. The multi-band spectral properties and variability support EP240709a as a high-energy peaked BL Lacertae-type object. The flux in 0.5-10 keV increases by at least 28 times to the value of low state in 2020, with non-detection of remarkable flaring in other bands during the same period. EP240709a exhibits the harder-when-brighter tendency in the X-ray band during the orphan flare, while its infrared-optical spectra are featureless. We employ one-zone and two-zone leptonic synchrotron self-Compton models to perform the spectral energy distribution fitting. Detecting this rare orphan flare shows the potential of EP in discovering peculiar activities from AGN in high-cadence X-ray sky surveys.
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spellingShingle Detection of an Orphan X-ray Flare from a Blazar Candidate EP240709a with Einstein Probe
Liu, Mingjun
Zhang, Yijia
Wang, Yun
Xue, Rui
Buckley, David
Howell, D. Andrew
Jin, Chichuan
Li, Wenxiong
Monageng, Itumeleng
Pan, Haiwu
Sun, Ning-Chen
Tinyanont, Samaporn
Wang, Lingzhi
Yuan, Weimin
An, Jie
Andrews, Moira
Anutarawiramkul, Rungrit
Butpan, Pathompong
Cheng, Huaqing
Dai, Cui-Yuan
Dai, Lixin
Farah, Joseph
Feng, Hua
Fu, Shaoyu
Guo, Zhen
Jiang, Shuaiqing
Li, An
Li, Dongyue
Liang, Yifang
Liu, Heyang
Liu, Xing
Liu, Yuan
Mao, Jirong
McCully, Curtis
Newsome, Megan
Gonzalez, Estefania Padilla
Pan, Xin
Sun, Xinxiang
Terreran, Giacomo
Wang, Ze-Rui
Wu, Qinyu
Xiao, Hubing
Xiong, Dingrong
Xu, Dong
Xu, Xinpeng
Xue, Suijian
Yang, Haonan
Yang, Jun
Zhang, Jin
Zhang, Wenda
Zhang, Wenjie
Zou, Hu
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Blazars are often observed to flare across multiple wavelengths. Orphan flares from blazars have been only detected a few times, providing an opportunity to understand the structure of the jet in the accreting system. We report a remarkable orphan X-ray flare from a blazar candidate EP240709a, detected by Einstein Probe (EP) in July 2024. The multi-band spectral properties and variability support EP240709a as a high-energy peaked BL Lacertae-type object. The flux in 0.5-10 keV increases by at least 28 times to the value of low state in 2020, with non-detection of remarkable flaring in other bands during the same period. EP240709a exhibits the harder-when-brighter tendency in the X-ray band during the orphan flare, while its infrared-optical spectra are featureless. We employ one-zone and two-zone leptonic synchrotron self-Compton models to perform the spectral energy distribution fitting. Detecting this rare orphan flare shows the potential of EP in discovering peculiar activities from AGN in high-cadence X-ray sky surveys.
title Detection of an Orphan X-ray Flare from a Blazar Candidate EP240709a with Einstein Probe
topic High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.18463