2006A&A...455..461A

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2006A&A...455..461A - Astronomy and Astrophysics, volume 455461-466 (2006/8-4)

Discovery of very high energy γ-ray emission from the BL Lacertae object H2356-309 with the HESS Cherenkov telescopes.

AHARONIAN F., AKHPERJANIAN A.G., BAZER-BACHI A.R., BEILICKE M., BENBOW W., BERGE D., BERNLOEHR K., BOISSON C., BOLZ O., BORREL V., BRAUN I., BREITLING F., BROWN A.M., BUEHLER R., BUESCHING I., CARRIGAN S., CHADWICK P.M., CHOUNET L.-M., CORNILS R., COSTAMANTE L., DEGRANGE B., DICKINSON H.J., DJANNATI-ATAIE A., DRURY L.O'C., DUBUS G., EGBERTS K., EMMANOULOPOULOS D., ESPIGAT P., FEINSTEIN F., FERRERO E., FONTAINE G., FUNK SEB., FUNK S., GALLANT Y.A., GIEBELS B., GLICENSTEIN J.F., GORET P., HADJICHRISTIDIS C., HAUSER D., HAUSER M., HEINZELMANN G., HENRI G., HERMANN G., HINTON J.A., HOFMANN W., HOLLERAN M., HORNS D., JACHOLKOWSKA A., DE JAGER O.C., KHELIFI B., KOMIN N., KONOPELKO A., LATHAM I.J., LE GALLOU R., LEMIERE A., LEMOINE-GOUMARD M., LOHSE T., MARTIN J.M., MARTINEAU-HUYNH O., MARCOWITH A., MASTERSON C., McCOMB T.J.L., DE NAUROIS M., NEDBAL D., NOLAN S.J., NOUTSOS A., ORFORD K.J., OSBORNE J.L., OUCHRIF M., PANTER M., PELLETIER G., PITA S., PUEHLHOFER G., PUNCH M., RAUBENHEIMER B.C., RAUE M., RAYNER S.M., REIMER A., REIMER O., RIPKEN J., ROB L., ROLLAND L., ROWELL G., SAHAKIAN V., SAUGE L., SCHLENKER S., SCHLICKEISER R., SCHWANKE U., SOL H., SPANGLER D., SPANIER F., STEENKAMP R., STEGMANN C., SUPERINA G., TAVERNET J.-P., TERRIER R., THEORET C.G., TLUCZYKONT M., VAN ELDIK C., VASILEIADIS G., VENTER C., VINCENT P., VOELK H.J., WAGNER S.J. and WARD M.

Abstract (from CDS):

The extreme synchrotron BL Lac object H2356-309, located at a redshift of z=0.165, was observed from June to December 2004 with a total exposure of ≃40h live-time with the HESS (High Energy Stereoscopic System) array of atmospheric-Cherenkov telescopes (ACTs). Analysis of this data set yields, for the first time, a strong excess of 453 γ-rays (10 standard deviations above background) from H2356-309, corresponding to an observed integral flux above 200GeV of I(>200GeV)=(4.1±0.5)x10–12/cm2/s (statistical error only). The differential energy spectrum of the source between 200GeV and 1.3TeV is well-described by a power law with a normalisation (at 1TeV) of N0=(3.00±0.80stat+/-0.31sys)x10–13/cm2/s/TeV and a photon index of Γ=3.09±0.24stat±0.10sys. H2356-309 is one of the most distant BL Lac objects detected at very-high-energy γ-rays so far.
Result. from simultaneous observations from ROTSE-III (optical), RXTE (X-rays) and NRT (radio) are also included and used together with the HESS data to constrain a single-zone homogeneous synchrotron self-Compton (SSC) model. This model provides an adequate fit to the HESS data when using a reasonable set of model parameters.

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Journal keyword(s): gamma rays: observations - galaxies: active - galaxies: BL Lacertae objects: individual: H2356-309

Simbad objects: 5

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Number of rows : 5
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 PMN J1103-2329 BLL 11 03 37.6150845072 -23 29 31.203773520   17.00 16.55 16.61   ~ 405 1
2 Z 184-50 BLL 11 04 27.3140835504 +38 12 31.798495872   13.50 12.90 8.31   ~ 2841 1
3 M 87 AGN 12 30 49.42338414 +12 23 28.0436859 10.16 9.59 8.63   7.49 ~ 7815 3
4 PKS J2158-3013 BLL 21 58 52.0652249880 -30 13 32.118447792   13.36 13.09 12.62   ~ 1829 1
5 QSO B2356-309 BLL 23 59 07.9034996184 -30 37 40.671098544   18.414 16.44 16.795   ~ 318 2

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