HESS and Fermi-LAT discovery of gamma-rays from the blazar 1ES 1312-423Vise andre og tillknytning
2013 (engelsk)Inngår i: Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, ISSN 0035-8711, E-ISSN 1365-2966, Vol. 434, nr 3, s. 1889-1901Artikkel i tidsskrift (Fagfellevurdert) Published
Abstract [en]
A deep observation campaign carried out by the High Energy Stereoscopic System (HESS) on Centaurus A enabled the discovery of gamma-rays from the blazar 1ES 1312-423, 2 degrees away from the radio galaxy. With a differential flux at 1 TeV of phi(1 TeV) = (1.9 +/- 0.6(stat) +/- 0.4(sys)) x 10(-13) cm(-2) s(-1) TeV-1 corresponding to 0.5 per cent of the Crab nebula differential flux and a spectral index Gamma = 2.9 +/- 0.5(stat) +/- 0.2(sys), 1ES 1312-423 is one of the faintest sources ever detected in the very high energy (E > 100 GeV) extragalactic sky. A careful analysis using three and a half years of Fermi Large Area Telescope (Fermi-LAT) data allows the discovery at high energies (E > 100 MeV) of a hard spectrum (Gamma = 1.4 +/- 0.4(stat) +/- 0.2(sys)) source coincident with 1ES 1312-423. Radio, optical, UV and X-ray observations complete the spectral energy distribution of this blazar, now covering 16 decades in energy. The emission is successfully fitted with a synchrotron self-Compton model for the non-thermal component, combined with a blackbody spectrum for the optical emission from the host galaxy.
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2013. Vol. 434, nr 3, s. 1889-1901
Emneord [en]
radiation mechanisms: non-thermal, galaxies: active, BL Lacertae objects: individual: 1ES 1312-423, galaxies: jets, gamma-rays: galaxies
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Identifikatorer
URN: urn:nbn:se:su:diva-94182DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stt1081ISI: 000323639900006Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-84884306761OAI: oai:DiVA.org:su-94182DiVA, id: diva2:652594
Prosjekter
HESS Collaboration
Merknad
AuthorCount:216;
Funding Agencies:
German Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF); Max Planck Society; French Ministry for Research; CNRS-IN2P3; Astroparticle Interdisciplinary Programme of the CNRS; UK Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council (PPARC); IPNP of the Charles University; South African Department of Science and Technology; National Research Foundation; University of Namibia; Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica in Italy; Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales in France; Commonwealth of Australia; NASA NNH09ZDA001N; NASA post-doctoral Programme at the Goddard Space Flight Center
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