Observation of an Extended Very High Energy Gamma‐Ray Emission from MSH 15‐52 with CANGAROO‐III

Autor:	T. Nakamori, H. Kubo, T. Yoshida, T. Tanimori, R. Enomoto, G. V. Bicknell, R. W. Clay, P. G. Edwards, S. Gunji, S. Hara, T. Hara, T. Hattori, S. Hayashi, Y. Higashi, Y. Hirai, K. Inoue, S. Kabuki, F. Kajino, H. Katagiri, A. Kawachi, T. Kifune, R. Kiuchi, J. Kushida, Y. Matsubara, T. Mizukami, Y. Mizumoto, R. Mizuniwa, M. Mori, H. Muraishi, Y. Muraki, T. Naito, S. Nakano, D. Nishida, K. Nishijima, M. Ohishi, Y. Sakamoto, A. Seki, V. Stamatescu, T. Suzuki, D. L. Swaby, G. Thornton, F. Tokanai, K. Tsuchiya, S. Watanabe, Y. Yamada, E. Yamazaki, S. Yanagita, T. Yoshikoshi, Y. Yukawa
Rok vydání:	2008
Předmět:	Physics High energy Photon Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena Gamma ray Flux Astronomy and Astrophysics Astrophysics Cherenkov Telescope Array Pulsar Space and Planetary Science High Energy Physics::Experiment Spectral analysis Supernova remnant
Zdroj:	The Astrophysical Journal. 677:297-305
ISSN:	1538-4357 0004-637X
DOI:	10.1086/529029
Popis:	We have observed the supernova remnant MSH 15-52 (G320.4-1.2), which contains the gamma-ray pulsar PSR B1509-58, using the CANGAROO-III imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescope array from April to June in 2006. We detected gamma rays above 810 GeV at the 7 sigma level during a total effective exposure of 48.4 hours. We obtained a differential gamma-ray flux at 2.35 TeV of (7.9+/-1.5_{stat}+/-1.7_{sys}) \times 10^{-13} cm^{-2}s^{-1}TeV^{-1} with a photon index of 2.21+/-0.39_{stat}+/-0.40_{sys}, which is compatible with that of the H.E.S.S. observation in 2004. The morphology shows extended emission compared to our Point Spread Function. We consider the plausible origin of the high energy emission based on a multi-wavelength spectral analysis and energetics arguments.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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