A radio, optical, UV and X-ray view of the enigmatic changing look Active Galactic Nucleus 1ES~1927+654 from its pre- to post-flare states (original) (raw)
2022
The nearby type-II AGN 1ES1927+654 went through a violent changing-look (CL) event beginning December 2017 during which the optical and UV fluxes increased by four magnitudes over a few months, and broad emission lines newly appeared in the optical/UV. By July 2018 the X-ray coronal emission had completely vanished, only to reappear a few months later. In this work we report the evolution of the radio, optical, UV and X-rays from the pre-flare state through mid-2021 with new and archival data from the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA), the European VLBI Network, the Very Large Array (VLA), the Telescopio Nazionale Galileo (TNG), Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC), The Neil Gehrels Swift observatory and XMM-Newton. The main results from our work are: (1) The source has returned to its pre-CL state in optical, UV, and X-ray; the disk-corona relation has been re-established as has been in the pre-CL state, with an alpharmOXsim1.02\alpha_{\rm OX}\sim 1.02alpharmOXsim1.02. The optical spectra are dominated by narrow emission lines. (2) The UV light curve follows a shallower slope of proptot−0.91pm0.04\propto t^{-0.91\pm 0.04}proptot−0.91pm0.04 compared to that predicted by a tidal disruption event. We conjecture that a magnetic flux inversion event is the possible cause for this enigmatic event. (3) The compact radio emission which we tracked in the pre-CL (2014), during CL (2018) and post-CL(2021) at spatial scales <1<1<1 pc was at its lowest level during the changing look event in 2018, nearly contemporaneous with a low 2−102-102−10 keV emission. The radio to X-ray ratio of the compact source LrmRadio/LrmX−raysim10−5.5L_{\rm Radio}/L_{\rm X-ray}\sim 10^{-5.5}LrmRadio/LrmX−raysim10−5.5, follows the Gudel-Benz relation, typically found in coronally active stars, and several AGN. (4) We do not detect any presence of nascent jets at the spatial scales of sim5−10\sim 5-10sim5−10 pc.
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