| HAL : in2p3-00124806, version 1 |
| arXiv : astro-ph/0607569 |
| DOI : 10.1051/0004-6361:20054732 |
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| Astronomy and Astrophysics 455 (2006) 461-466 |
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| Discovery of Very High Energy Gamma-Ray Emission from the BL Lac Object H2356-309 with the H.E.S.S. Cherenkov Telescopes |
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| F. AharonianA. G. Akhperjanian |
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| HESS Collaboration(s) |
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| The extreme synchrotron BL Lac object H2356-309, located at a redshift of z = 0.165, was observed from June to December 2004 with a total exposure of approx. 40 h live-time with the H.E.S.S. (High Energy Stereoscopic System) array of atmospheric-Cherenkov telescopes (ACTs). Analysis of this data set yields, for the first time, a strong excess of 453 gamma-rays (10 standard deviations above background) from H2356-309, corresponding to an observed integral flux above 200 GeV of I(>200GeV) = (4.1+-0.5) 10^12 cm^-2.s^-1 (statistical error only). The differential energy spectrum of the source between 200 GeV and 1.3 TeV is well-described by a power law with a normalisation (at 1 TeV) of N_0 = (3.00 +- 0.80_stat +- 0.31_sys) 10^-13 cm^-2.s^-1.TeV^-1 and a photon index of Gamma = 3.09 +- 0.24_stat +- 0.10_sys. H2356-309 is one of the most distant BL Lac objects detected at very-high-energy gamma-rays so far. Results from simultaneous observations from ROTSE-III (optical), RXTE (X-rays) and NRT (radio) are also included and used together with the H.E.S.S. data to constrain a single-zone homogeneous synchrotron self-Compton (SSC) model. This model provides an adequate fit to the H.E.S.S. data when using a reasonable set of model parameters. |
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| 1 : | Centre d'étude spatiale des rayonnements (CESR) |
| CNRS : UMR5187 – Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées – INSU – Université Paul Sabatier [UPS] - Toulouse III | |
| 2 : | Laboratoire Univers et Théories (LUTH) |
| CNRS : UMR8102 – INSU – Observatoire de Paris – Université Paris VII - Paris Diderot | |
| 3 : | Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet (LLR) |
| CNRS : UMR7638 – IN2P3 – Polytechnique - X | |
| 4 : | AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC) |
| CNRS : UMR7164 – IN2P3 – Observatoire de Paris – Université Paris VII - Paris Diderot – CEA : DSM/IRFU | |
| 5 : | Laboratoire de Physique Théorique et Astroparticules (LPTA) |
| CNRS : UMR5207 – IN2P3 – Université Montpellier II - Sciences et techniques | |
| 6 : | Département d'Astrophysique, de physique des Particules, de physique Nucléaire et de l'Instrumentation Associée (DAPNIA) |
| CEA : DSM/DAPNIA | |
| 7 : | Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Grenoble (LAOG) |
| CNRS : UMR5571 – OSUG – INSU – Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble I | |
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| APC - AHE |
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| Thème(s) | : | Physique/Astrophysique/Cosmologie et astrophysique extra-galactique Planète et Univers/Astrophysique/Cosmologie et astrophysique extra-galactique Planète et Univers/Astrophysique |
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| gamma rays: observations – galaxies: active – galaxies: BL Lacertae objects: individual: H 2356-309 |
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| Contributeur : Simone Lantz | |
| Soumis le : Mardi 12 Juin 2007, 15:53:20 | |
| Dernière modification le : Samedi 17 Mars 2012, 14:33:00 | |