VERITAS Observations of a Very High Energy Gamma-ray Flare from the Blazar 3C 66A

Autor:	VERITAS Collaboration, Acciari, V. A., Aliu, E., Arlen, T., Beilicke, M., Benbow, W., Bottcher, M., Bradbury, S. M., Buckley, J. H., Bugaev, V., Butt, Y., Byrum, K., Cannon, A., Celik, O., Cesarini, A., Chow, Y. C., Ciupik, L., Cogan, P., Cui, W., Daniel, M. K., Dickherber, R., Ergin, T., Falcone, A., Fegan, S. J., Finley, J. P., Fortin, P., Fortson, L., Furniss, A., Gall, D., Gibbs, K., Gillanders, G. H., Godambe, S., Grube, J., Guenette, R., Gyuk, G., Hanna, D., Hays, E., Holder, J., Horan, D., Hui, C. M., Humensky, T. B., Imran, A., Kaaret, P., Karlsson, N., Kertzman, M., Kieda, D., Kildea, J., Konopelko, A., Krawczynski, H., Krennrich, F., Lang, M. J., LeBohec, S., Maier, G., McCann, A., McCutcheon, M., Millis, J., Moriarty, P., Mukherjee, R., Nagai, T., Ong, R. A., Otte, A. N., Pandel, D., Perkins, J. S., Petry, D., Pizlo, F., Pohl, M., Quinn, J., Ragan, K., Reyes, L. C., Reynolds, P. T., Roache, E., Rose, H. J., Schroedter, M., Sembroski, G. H., Smith, A. W., Steele, D., Swordy, S. P., Theiling, M., Toner, J. A., Varlotta, A., Vassiliev, V. V., Wagner, R. G., Wakely, S. P., Ward, J. E., Weekes, T. C., Weinstein, A., Williams, D. A., Wissel, S., Wood, M., Zitzer, B.
Rok vydání:	2009
Předmět:	Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena Astrophysics - Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics
Zdroj:	Astrophys.J.693:L104-L108,2009
Druh dokumentu:	Working Paper
DOI:	10.1088/0004-637X/693/2/L104
Popis:	The intermediate-frequency peaked BL Lacertae (IBL) object 3C 66A is detected during 2007 - 2008 in VHE (very high energy: E > 100 GeV) gamma-rays with the VERITAS stereoscopic array of imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes. An excess of 1791 events is detected, corresponding to a significance of 21.2 standard deviations (sigma), in these observations (32.8 hours live time). The observed integral flux above 200 GeV is 6% of the Crab Nebula's flux and shows evidence for variability on the time-scale of days. The measured energy spectrum is characterized by a soft power law with photon index Gamma = 4.1 +- 0.4_stat +- 0.6_sys. The radio galaxy 3C 66B is excluded as a possible source of the VHE emission. Comment: 13 Pages, 4 Figures. Published in ApJL. This new version correctly calculates the intrinsic photon index (see Erratum: ApJL, 721:L203-L204)
Databáze:	arXiv
Externí odkaz:	http://arxiv.org/abs/0901.4527 Zobrazit plný text záznamu View this record from Arxiv