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VERITAS UPPER LIMIT ON THE VERY HIGH ENERGY EMISSION FROM THE RADIO GALAXY NGC 1275

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V. A. Acciari1,2, E. Aliu3, T. Arlen4, T. Aune5, M. Bautista6, M. Beilicke7, W. Benbow1, D. Boltuch3, S. M. Bradbury8, J. H. Buckley7, V. Bugaev7, K. Byrum9, A. Cannon10, O. Celik4, A. Cesarini11, L. Ciupik12, P. Cogan6, W. Cui13, R. Dickherber7, C. Duke14, S. J. Fegan4, J. P. Finley13, P. Fortin15, L. Fortson12, A. Furniss5, N. Galante1,33, D. Gall13, K. Gibbs1, G. H. Gillanders11, S. Godambe16, J. Grube10, R. Guenette6, G. Gyuk12, D. Hanna6, J. Holder3, D. Horan17, C. M. Hui16, T. B. Humensky18, A. Imran19, P. Kaaret20, N. Karlsson12, M. Kertzman21, D. Kieda16, A. Konopelko22, H. Krawczynski7, F. Krennrich19, M. J. Lang11, S. LeBohec16, G. Maier6, A. McCann6, M. McCutcheon6, J. Millis23, P. Moriarty2, R. Mukherjee15, R. A. Ong4, A. N. Otte5, D. Pandel20, J. S. Perkins1, M. Pohl19, J. Quinn10, K. Ragan6, P. T. Reynolds24, E. Roache1, H. J. Rose8, M. Schroedter19, G. H. Sembroski13, A. W. Smith9, D. Steele12, S. P. Swordy18, M. Theiling1,25, J. A. Toner11, A. Varlotta13, V. V. Vassiliev4, S. Vincent16, R. G. Wagner9, S. P. Wakely18, J. E. Ward10, T. C. Weekes1, A. Weinstein4, T. Weisgarber18, D. A. Williams5, S. Wissel18, M. Wood4, B. Zitzer13, J. Kataoka26, E. Cavazzuti27, C. C. Cheung28, B. Lott29,30, D. J. Thompson28 and G. Tosti31,32

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The recent detection by the Fermi γ-ray space telescope of high-energy γ-rays from the radio galaxy NGC 1275 makes the observation of the very high energy (VHE: E>100 GeV) part of its broadband spectrum particularly interesting, especially for the understanding of active galactic nuclei with misaligned multi-structured jets. The radio galaxy NGC 1275 was recently observed by VERITAS at energies above 100 GeV for about 8 hr. No VHE γ-ray emission was detected by VERITAS from NGC 1275. A 99% confidence level upper limit of 2.1% of the Crab Nebula flux level is obtained at the decorrelation energy of approximately 340 GeV, corresponding to 19% of the power-law extrapolation of the Fermi Large Area Telescope result.


Keywords

galaxies: individual (NGC 1275, 3C 84, Perseus A); galaxies: Seyfert; gamma rays: observations


PACS

98.54.Gr Radio galaxies

95.85.Pw &ggr;-ray

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

95.80.+p Astronomical catalogs, atlases, sky surveys, databases, retrieval systems, archives, etc.

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

Subjects

Instrumentation and measurement

Astrophysics and astroparticles

Dates

Issue 2 (2009 December 1)

Received 2009 July 1, accepted for publication 2009 November 3

Published 2009 November 16



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