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DISCOVERY OF VERY HIGH ENERGY GAMMA-RAY RADIATION FROM THE BL LAC 1ES 0806+524

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V. Acciari1, E. Aliu2, T. Arlen3, M. Bautista4, M. Beilicke5, W. Benbow6, M. Böttcher7, S. M. Bradbury8, J. H. Buckley5, V. Bugaev5, Y. Butt9, K. Byrum10, A. Cannon11, O. Celik3, A. Cesarini12, Y. C. Chow3, L. Ciupik13, P. Cogan4, P. Colin14, W. Cui15, R. Dickherber5, C. Duke16, T. Ergin9, A. Falcone17, S. J. Fegan3, J. P. Finley15, G. Finnegan14, P. Fortin18, L. Fortson13, A. Furniss19, D. Gall15, K. Gibbs6, G. H. Gillanders12, J. Grube11, R. Guenette4, G. Gyuk13, D. Hanna4, E. Hays20, J. Holder2, D. Horan21, C. M. Hui14, T. B. Humensky22, A. Imran23, P. Kaaret24, N. Karlsson13, M. Kertzman25, D. Kieda14, J. Kildea6, A. Konopelko26, H. Krawczynski5, F. Krennrich23, M. J. Lang12, S. LeBohec14, G. Maier4, A. McCann4, M. McCutcheon4, J. Millis27, P. Moriarty1, R. Mukherjee18, T. Nagai23, R. A. Ong3, A. N. Otte19, D. Pandel24, J. S. Perkins6, D. Petry28, M. Pohl23, J. Quinn11, K. Ragan4, L. C. Reyes29, P. T. Reynolds30, E. Roache6, J. Rose8, M. Schroedter23, G. H. Sembroski15, A. W. Smith10, D. Steele13, S. P. Swordy22, M. Theiling6, J. A. Toner12, L. Valcarcel4, A. Varlotta15, V. V. Vassiliev3, R. G. Wagner10, S. P. Wakely22, J. E. Ward11, T. C. Weekes6, A. Weinstein3, R. J. White8, D. A. Williams19, S. Wissel22, M. Wood3 and B. Zitzer15

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The high-frequency-peaked BL Lacertae object 1ES 0806+524, at redshift z = 0.138, was observed in the very high energy (VHE) gamma-ray regime by VERITAS between 2006 November and 2008 April. These data encompass the two- and three-telescope commissioning phases, as well as observations with the full four-telescope array. 1ES 0806+524 is detected with a statistical significance of 6.3 standard deviations from 245 excess events. Little or no measurable variability on monthly timescales is found. The photon spectrum for the period 2007 November to 2008 April can be characterized by a power law with photon index 3.6 ± 1.0stat ± 0.3sys between ~ 300 GeV and ~ 700 GeV. The integral flux above 300 GeV is (2.2 ± 0.5stat ± 0.4sys) × 10–12 cm–2 s–1 which corresponds to 1.8% of the Crab Nebula flux. Non-contemporaneous multiwavelength observations are combined with the VHE data to produce a broadband spectral energy distribution that can be reasonably described using a synchrotron--self-Compton model.


Keywords

BL Lacertae objects: individual (1ES 0806+524); gamma rays: observations; ultraviolet: galaxies; X-rays: galaxies


PACS

98.54.Cm Active and peculiar galaxies and related systems (including BL Lacertae objects, blazars, Seyfert galaxies, Markarian galaxies, and active galactic nuclei)

98.62.Py Distances, redshifts, radial velocities; spatial distribution of galaxies

95.85.Pw &ggr;-ray

95.55.Ka X- and &ggr;-ray telescopes and instrumentation

Subjects

Instrumentation and measurement

Astrophysics and astroparticles

Dates

Issue 2 (2009 January 10)

Received 2008 November 1, accepted for publication 2008 November 19

Published 2008 December 19



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