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Gamma rays: general

2014

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Observations Of The Unidentified Gamma-Ray Source Tev J2032+4130 By Veritas, P. T. Reynolds, Et. Al. Mar 2014

Observations Of The Unidentified Gamma-Ray Source Tev J2032+4130 By Veritas, P. T. Reynolds, Et. Al.

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TeV J2032+4130 was the first unidentified source discovered at very high energies (VHEs; E > 100 GeV), with no obvious counterpart in any other wavelength. It is also the first extended source to be observed in VHE gamma rays. Following its discovery, intensive observational campaigns have been carried out in all wavelengths in order to understand the nature of the object, which have met with limited success. We report here on a deep observation of TeV J2032+4130 based on 48.2 hr of data taken from 2009 to 2012 by the Very Energetic Radiation Imaging Telescope Array System experiment. The source is …


A Three-Year Multi-Wavelength Study Of The Very-High-Energy Gamma-Ray Blazar 1es 0229+200, P. T. Reynolds, Et. Al. Feb 2014

A Three-Year Multi-Wavelength Study Of The Very-High-Energy Gamma-Ray Blazar 1es 0229+200, P. T. Reynolds, Et. Al.

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The high-frequency-peaked BL Lacertae object 1ES 0229+200 is a relatively distant (z = 0.1396), hard-spectrum (Γ ~ 2.5), very-high-energy (VHE; E > 100 GeV) emitting γ-ray blazar. VHE measurements of this active galactic nucleus have been used to place constraints on the intensity of the extragalactic background light and the intergalactic magnetic field (IGMF). A multi-wavelength study of this object centered around VHE observations by Very Energetic Radiation Imaging Telescope Array System (VERITAS) is presented. This study obtained, over a period of three years, an 11.7 standard deviation detection and an average integral flux F(E > 300 GeV) = (23.3 ± 2.8stat …