Issue |
A&A
Volume 610, February 2018
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Article Number | L8 | |
Number of page(s) | 4 | |
Section | Letters to the Editor | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201732338 | |
Published online | 20 February 2018 |
Letter to the Editor
Investigating source confusion in PMN J1603–4904
1
GRAPPA & Anton Pannekoek Institute for Astronomy, University of Amsterdam,
Science Park 904,
1098 XH
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
e-mail: Felicia.Krauss@uva.nl
2
Institut für Theoretische Physik und Astrophysik, Universität Würzburg,
Emil-Fischer-Str. 31,
97074
Würzburg, Germany
3
Department of Astrophysics/IMAPP, Radboud University Nijmegen,
Heyendaalseweg 135,
6525 AJ
Nijmegen, The Netherlands
4
Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center, Polish Academy of Sciences,
Bartycka 18,
00-716
Warszawa, Poland
5
Center for Astrophysics & Space Science, University of California,
San Diego, La Jolla,
CA
92093-0424, USA
6
Dr. Remeis Sternwarte & ECAP, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg,
Sternwartstrasse 7,
96049
Bamberg, Germany
7
Department of Physics, University of Washington,
Seattle,
WA
98195-1560, USA
8
NASA, Goddard Space Flight Center, Astrophysics Science Division,
Code 661,
Greenbelt,
MD
20771, USA
Received:
22
November
2017
Accepted:
3
January
2018
PMN J1603–4904 is a likely member of the rare class of γ-ray emitting young radio galaxies. Only one other source, PKS 1718–649, has been confirmed so far. These objects, which may transition into larger radio galaxies, are a stepping stone to understanding AGN evolution. It is not completely clear how these young galaxies, seen edge-on, can produce high-energy γ rays. PMN J1603–4904 has been detected by TANAMI Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) observations and has been followed-up with multiwavelength observations. A Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope Large Area Telescope (Fermi-LAT) γ-ray source has been associated with this young galaxy in the LAT catalogs. We have obtained Chandra observations of the source to consider the possibility of source confusion due to the relatively large positional uncertainty of Fermi-LAT. The goal was to investigate the possibility of other X-ray bright sources in the vicinity of PMN J1603–4904 that could be counterparts to the γ-ray emission. With Chandra/ACIS, we find no other sources in the uncertainty ellipse of Fermi-LAT data, which includes an improved localization analysis of eight years of data. We further study the X-ray fluxes and spectra. We conclude that PMN J1603–4904 is indeed the second confirmed γ-ray bright young radio galaxy.
Key words: galaxies: active / galaxies: jets / Galaxy: abundances / galaxies: individual: PMN J1603–4904
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