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| author | Nikolić, Lisa Verna, Gaia Manganaro, Marina Bonnoli, Giacomo Agudo, Ivan Silvestri, Giuseppe Cerasole, Davide Schiavone, Francesco Podobnik, Franjo Otero-Santos, Jorge |
| author_facet | Nikolić, Lisa Verna, Gaia Manganaro, Marina Bonnoli, Giacomo Agudo, Ivan Silvestri, Giuseppe Cerasole, Davide Schiavone, Francesco Podobnik, Franjo Otero-Santos, Jorge |
| contents | PKS 2155-304 is a well-known high-frequency peaked BL Lac (HBL) at redshift z=0.116, which has been extensively studied across the electromagnetic spectrum due to its rapid and large-amplitude variability. Several violent outbursts in X-rays and $γ$-rays have been observed in the past, with intra-night variability in very-high-energy $γ$-rays (VHE; E > 100 GeV) detected down to the minute timescale. The alternation of quiescent and enhanced states, observed with a tentative quasi-periodicity of 1.74 $\pm$ 0.13 years in high-energy (HE; 100 MeV < E < 100 GeV) $γ$-rays, makes this source a key target also for ground-based $γ$-ray instruments and in particular for the Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes. Its brightness, proximity, and well-determined redshift make this $γ$-ray source a prime target for fundamental physics studies, including tests of Lorentz Invariance Violation (LIV), searches for axion-like particles (ALPs), and constraints on the distribution of the extragalactic background light (EBL). In the last two years, PKS 2155-304 has been independently monitored by the Major Atmospheric Gamma-ray Imaging Cherenkov (MAGIC) telescopes and the first Large-Sized Telescope (LST-1) of the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO) located at the Roque de Los Muchachos Observatory (La Palma, Spain). The observations were carried out at large zenith angles (LZA; ZA > 55°), and the VHE data have been complemented with simultaneous observations in HE $γ$-rays (Fermi-LAT), X-rays (Swift-XRT) and optical wavelengths (ASAS-SN). |
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| spellingShingle | Recent observations of PKS 2155-304 with MAGIC and LST-1 in a multi-wavelength context Nikolić, Lisa Verna, Gaia Manganaro, Marina Bonnoli, Giacomo Agudo, Ivan Silvestri, Giuseppe Cerasole, Davide Schiavone, Francesco Podobnik, Franjo Otero-Santos, Jorge High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena PKS 2155-304 is a well-known high-frequency peaked BL Lac (HBL) at redshift z=0.116, which has been extensively studied across the electromagnetic spectrum due to its rapid and large-amplitude variability. Several violent outbursts in X-rays and $γ$-rays have been observed in the past, with intra-night variability in very-high-energy $γ$-rays (VHE; E > 100 GeV) detected down to the minute timescale. The alternation of quiescent and enhanced states, observed with a tentative quasi-periodicity of 1.74 $\pm$ 0.13 years in high-energy (HE; 100 MeV < E < 100 GeV) $γ$-rays, makes this source a key target also for ground-based $γ$-ray instruments and in particular for the Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes. Its brightness, proximity, and well-determined redshift make this $γ$-ray source a prime target for fundamental physics studies, including tests of Lorentz Invariance Violation (LIV), searches for axion-like particles (ALPs), and constraints on the distribution of the extragalactic background light (EBL). In the last two years, PKS 2155-304 has been independently monitored by the Major Atmospheric Gamma-ray Imaging Cherenkov (MAGIC) telescopes and the first Large-Sized Telescope (LST-1) of the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO) located at the Roque de Los Muchachos Observatory (La Palma, Spain). The observations were carried out at large zenith angles (LZA; ZA > 55°), and the VHE data have been complemented with simultaneous observations in HE $γ$-rays (Fermi-LAT), X-rays (Swift-XRT) and optical wavelengths (ASAS-SN). |
| title | Recent observations of PKS 2155-304 with MAGIC and LST-1 in a multi-wavelength context |
| topic | High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04803 |