Discovery of very high energy gamma rays from PKS 1424+240 and multiwavelength constraints on ITS redshift

We report the first detection of very high energy 83 Gamma-ray emission above 100 GeV. (VHE) gamma-ray emission above 140 GeV from PKS1424+240, a BL Lac object with an unknown redshift. The photon spectrum above 140 GeV measured by VERITAS is well described by a power law with a photon index of 3.8...

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Publicado: 2010
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Gamma rays: observations
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spelling paper:paper_20418205_v708_n2PART2_pL100_Acciari2023-06-08T16:33:12Z Discovery of very high energy gamma rays from PKS 1424+240 and multiwavelength constraints on ITS redshift Gamma rays: observations We report the first detection of very high energy 83 Gamma-ray emission above 100 GeV. (VHE) gamma-ray emission above 140 GeV from PKS1424+240, a BL Lac object with an unknown redshift. The photon spectrum above 140 GeV measured by VERITAS is well described by a power law with a photon index of 3.8 0.5 stat 0.3 syst and a flux normalization at 200 GeV of (5.1 0.9 stat 0.5 syst ) × 10 -11 TeV -1 cm -2 s -1 , where stat and syst denote the statistical and systematical uncertainties, respectively. The VHE flux is steady over the observation period between MJD 54881 and 55003 (from 2009 February 19 to June 21). Flux variability is also not observed in contemporaneous high-energy observations with the Fermi Large Area Telescope. Contemporaneous X-ray and optical data were also obtained from the Swift XRT and MDM observatory, respectively. The broadband spectral energy distribution is well described by a one-zone synchrotron self-Compton model favoring a redshift of less than 0.1. Using the photon index measured with Fermi in combination with recent extragalactic background light absorption models it can be concluded from the VERITAS data that the redshift of PKS 1424+240 is less than 0.66. © 2010. The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved. 2010 https://bibliotecadigital.exactas.uba.ar/collection/paper/document/paper_20418205_v708_n2PART2_pL100_Acciari http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12110/paper_20418205_v708_n2PART2_pL100_Acciari
institution Universidad de Buenos Aires
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collection Biblioteca Digital - Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales (UBA)
topic Gamma rays: observations
spellingShingle Gamma rays: observations
Discovery of very high energy gamma rays from PKS 1424+240 and multiwavelength constraints on ITS redshift
topic_facet Gamma rays: observations
description We report the first detection of very high energy 83 Gamma-ray emission above 100 GeV. (VHE) gamma-ray emission above 140 GeV from PKS1424+240, a BL Lac object with an unknown redshift. The photon spectrum above 140 GeV measured by VERITAS is well described by a power law with a photon index of 3.8 0.5 stat 0.3 syst and a flux normalization at 200 GeV of (5.1 0.9 stat 0.5 syst ) × 10 -11 TeV -1 cm -2 s -1 , where stat and syst denote the statistical and systematical uncertainties, respectively. The VHE flux is steady over the observation period between MJD 54881 and 55003 (from 2009 February 19 to June 21). Flux variability is also not observed in contemporaneous high-energy observations with the Fermi Large Area Telescope. Contemporaneous X-ray and optical data were also obtained from the Swift XRT and MDM observatory, respectively. The broadband spectral energy distribution is well described by a one-zone synchrotron self-Compton model favoring a redshift of less than 0.1. Using the photon index measured with Fermi in combination with recent extragalactic background light absorption models it can be concluded from the VERITAS data that the redshift of PKS 1424+240 is less than 0.66. © 2010. The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved.
title Discovery of very high energy gamma rays from PKS 1424+240 and multiwavelength constraints on ITS redshift
title_short Discovery of very high energy gamma rays from PKS 1424+240 and multiwavelength constraints on ITS redshift
title_full Discovery of very high energy gamma rays from PKS 1424+240 and multiwavelength constraints on ITS redshift
title_fullStr Discovery of very high energy gamma rays from PKS 1424+240 and multiwavelength constraints on ITS redshift
title_full_unstemmed Discovery of very high energy gamma rays from PKS 1424+240 and multiwavelength constraints on ITS redshift
title_sort discovery of very high energy gamma rays from pks 1424+240 and multiwavelength constraints on its redshift
publishDate 2010
url https://bibliotecadigital.exactas.uba.ar/collection/paper/document/paper_20418205_v708_n2PART2_pL100_Acciari
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12110/paper_20418205_v708_n2PART2_pL100_Acciari
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