Detection of TeV gamma rays from the BL Lacertae object 1ES 1959+650 with the Whipple 10 meter telescope

被引：75

作者：

Holder, J ^{[1
]}

Bond, IH

Boyle, PJ

Bradbury, SM

Buckley, JH

Carter-Lewis, DA

Cui, W

Dowdall, C

Duke, C

Perez, ID

Falcone, A

Fegan, DJ

Fegan, SJ

Finley, JP

Fortson, L

Gaidos, JA

Gibbs, K

Gammell, S

Hall, J

Hall, TA

Hillas, AM

Horan, D

Jordan, M

Kertzman, M

Kieda, D

Kildea, J

Knapp, J

Kosack, K

Krawczynski, H

Krennrich, F

LeBohec, S

Linton, ET

Lloyd-Evans, J

Moriarty, P

Müller, D

Nagai, TN

Ong, R

Page, M

Pallassini, R

Petry, D

Power-Mooney, B

Quinn, J

Rebillot, P

Reynolds, PT

Rose, HJ

Schroedter, M

Sembroski, GH

Swordy, SP

Vassiliev, VV

Wakely, SP

机构：

[1] Univ Leeds, Dept Phys, Leeds LS2 9JT, W Yorkshire, England

[2] Univ Chicago, Enrico Fermi Inst, Chicago, IL 60637 USA

[3] Washington Univ, Dept Phys, St Louis, MO 63130 USA

[4] Iowa State Univ Sci & Technol, Dept Phys & Astron, Ames, IA 50011 USA

[5] Purdue Univ, Dept Phys, W Lafayette, IN 47907 USA

[6] Galway Mayo Inst Technol, Sch Sci, Galway, Ireland

[7] Grinnell Coll, Dept Phys, Grinnell, IA 50112 USA

[8] Natl Univ Ireland, Dept Phys, Dublin 4, Ireland

[9] Harvard Smithsonian Ctr Astrophys, Fred Lawrence Whipple Observ, Amado, AZ 85645 USA

[10] Univ Arizona, Dept Phys, Tucson, AZ 85721 USA

[11] Univ Utah, High Energy Astrophys Inst, Salt Lake City, UT 84112 USA

[12] Univ Arkansas, Dept Phys & Astron, Little Rock, AR 72204 USA

[13] Depauw Univ, Dept Phys, Greencastle, IN 46135 USA

[14] Univ Calif Los Angeles, Dept Phys, Los Angeles, CA 90095 USA

[15] NASA, Goddard Space Flight Ctr, Greenbelt, MD 20771 USA

[16] Cork Inst Technol, Dept Phys, Cork, Ireland

来源：

ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL | 2003年 / 583卷 / 01期

基金：

美国国家科学基金会;

关键词：

BL Lacertae objects : individual (1ES 1959+650); gamma rays : observations;

D O I：

10.1086/367816

中图分类号：

P1 [天文学];

学科分类号：

0704 ;

摘要：

We present the first strong detection of very high energy gamma-rays from the close (z=0.048) X-ray-selected BL Lacertae object 1ES 1959+650. Observations were made with the Whipple 10 m telescope on Mount Hopkins, Arizona, using the atmospheric Cerenkov imaging technique. The flux between 2002 May and July was highly variable, with a mean of 0.64+/-0.03 times the steady flux from the Crab Nebula and reaching a maximum of 5 crab, with variability on timescales as short as 7 hr.

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页码：L9 / L12

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