2004ApJ...606L.115T

Query : 2004ApJ...606L.115T

2004ApJ...606L.115T - Astrophys. J., 606, L115-L118 (2004/May-2)

Detection of sub-TeV gamma rays from the Galactic Center direction by CANGAROO-II.

TSUCHIYA K., ENOMOTO R., KSENOFONTOV L.T., MORI M., NAITO T., ASAHARA A., BICKNELL G.V., CLAY R.W., DOI Y., EDWARDS P.G., GUNJI S., HARA S., HARA T., HATTORI T., HAYASHI S., ITOH C., KABUKI S., KAJINO F., KATAGIRI H., KAWACHI A., KIFUNE T., KUBO H., KURIHARA T., KUROSAKA R., KUSHIDA J., MATSUBARA Y., MIYASHITA Y., MIZUMOTO Y., MORO H., MURAISHI H., MURAKI Y., NAKASE T., NISHIDA D., NISHIJIMA K., OHISHI M., OKUMURA K., PATTERSON J.R., PROTHEROE R.J., SAKAMOTO N., SAKURAZAWA K., SWABY D.L., TANIMORI T., TANIMURA H., THORNTON G., TOKANAI F., UCHIDA T., WATANABE S., YAMAOKA T., YANAGITA S., YOSHIDA T. and YOSHIKOSHI T.

Abstract (from CDS):

We have detected sub-TeV gamma-ray emission from the direction of the Galactic center (GC) using the CANGAROO-II Imaging Atmospheric Cerenkov Telescope. We detected a statistically significant excess at energies greater than 250 GeV. The flux was 1 order of magnitude lower than that of the Crab Nebula at 1 TeV with a soft spectrum proportional to E^–4.6±0.5. The signal centroid is consistent with the GC direction, and the observed profile is consistent with a pointlike source. Our data suggest that the GeV source 3EG J1746-2851 is identical to this TeV source, and we study the combined spectra to determine the possible origin of the gamma-ray emission. We also obtain an upper limit on the cold dark matter density in the Galactic halo.

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Journal keyword(s): Galaxy: Center - Gamma Rays: Observations

Simbad objects: 7

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Number of rows : 7

N	Identifier	Otype	ICRS (J2000) RA	ICRS (J2000) DEC	Mag U	Mag B	Mag V	Mag R	Mag I	Sp type	#ref 1850 - 2026	#notes
1	M 1	SNR	05 34 31.8	+22 01 03						~	6516	1
2	V* CM Tau	Psr	05 34 31.9474694616	+22 00 52.153698024						~	5476	0
3	3FHL J1746.2-2852	LXB	17 44 33.09	-28 44 27.0						~	559	0
4	NAME Galactic Center	reg	17 45 39.60213	-29 00 22.0000						~	16269	0
5	NAME Sgr A*	X	17 45 40.03599	-29 00 28.1699						~	4970	3
6	NAME Sgr A East	SNR	17 45 41	-29 00.8						~	523	2
7	V* X Sgr	cC*	17 47 33.6239490288	-27 49 50.835778896	5.84	5.34	4.54	6.03	3.661	F7II	354	0

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