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Contribution Oral
Detection of very high energy gamma-rays from the BL Lac object PG 1553+113 with the MAGIC telescope
Speakers
- Dr. Robert WAGNER
Primary authors
- Dr. Robert WAGNER (Max-Planck-Institute for Physics)
Co-authors
- Daniela DORNER (Universität Würzburg)
- Masaaki HAYASHIDA (Max-Planck-Institute for Physics)
- Thomas HENGSTEBECK (Humboldt University, Berlin)
- Dr. Daniel KRANICH (ETH Zurich)
- Daniel MAZIN (Max-Planck-Institute for Physics)
- Diego TESCARO (IFAE Barcelona)
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Abstract content
The MAGIC telescope has observed very high energy gamma-ray emission from the BL Lac object PG 1553+113 in 2005 and 2006 at an overall significance is 8.8 sigma in 18.8h. The light curve shows no significant flux variations on a daily time-scale. The flux level during 2005 was, however, significantly higher compared to 2006. The differential energy spectrum between ~90 GeV and 500 GeV is well described by a power law with a spectral index of -4.2+-0.3. The inferred photon energy spectrum allows to pose an upper limit on the (yet undetermined) redshift of the PG 1553+113.
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Reference
Proceedings of the 30th International Cosmic Ray Conference; Rogelio Caballero, Juan Carlos D'Olivo, Gustavo Medina-Tanco, Lukas Nellen, Federico A. Sánchez, José F. Valdés-Galicia (eds.); Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico, 2008; Vol. 3 (OG part 2), pages 889-892