DISCOVERY OF VERY HIGH ENERGY GAMMA RAYS FROM PKS 1424+240 AND MULTIWAVELENGTH CONSTRAINTS ON ITS REDSHIFT
DISCOVERY OF VERY HIGH ENERGY GAMMA RAYS FROM PKS 1424+240 AND MULTIWAVELENGTH CONSTRAINTS ON ITS REDSHIFT
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10.1088/2041-8205/708/2/l100
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2009-12
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T. V. C. V. A. Acciari-T.-V.-C.-V.-A.-Acciari-103180749;E. al.;T. F. C. A. A. Abdo-T.-F.-C.-A.-A.-Abdo-102611352;S. Barber;D. Terndrup
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T. V. C. V. A. Acciari-T.-V.-C.-V.-A.-Acciari-103180749;E. al.;T. F. C. A. A. Abdo-T.-F.-C.-A.-A.-Abdo-102611352;S. Barber;D. Terndrup
我们报告的第一次检测到的甚高能量（VHE）的伽马射线发射超过140 GeV的PKS 1424+240，一个BL Lac对象与一个未知的红移。VERITAS测量的140 GeV以上的光子谱由幂律很好地描述，光子指数为3.8 +- 0.5_stat +- 0.3_syst，在200 GeV处的通量归一化为（5.1 +- 0.9_stat +- 0.5_syst）x 10^{-11} TeV^-1 cm^-2 s^-1，其中stat和syst分别表示统计不确定度和系统不确定度。在MJD 54881和55003之间的观测期间（2009年2月19日至6月21日），VHE通量是稳定的。在费米大天区望远镜（LAT）的同期高能观测中也没有观察到通量变化。同时还分别从斯威夫特XRT和MDM天文台获得了X射线和光学数据。宽带光谱能量分布（SED）是很好地描述了一个区域的同步自康普顿（SSC）模型有利于红移小于0.1。使用费米测量的光子指数结合最近的河外背景光（EBL）吸收模型，可以从VERITAS数据得出结论，PKS 1424+240的红移小于0.66。
We report the first detection of very-high-energy (VHE) gamma-ray emission above 140 GeV from PKS 1424+240, a BL Lac object with an unknown redshift. The photon spectrum above 140 GeV measured by VERITAS is well described by a power law with a photon index of 3.8 +- 0.5_stat +- 0.3_syst and a flux normalization at 200 GeV of (5.1 +- 0.9_stat +- 0.5_syst) x 10^{-11} TeV^-1 cm^-2 s^-1, where stat and syst denote the statistical and systematical uncertainty, respectively. The VHE flux is steady over the observation period between MJD 54881 and 55003 (2009 February 19 to June 21). Flux variability is also not observed in contemporaneous high energy observations with the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT). Contemporaneous X-ray and optical data were also obtained from the Swift XRT and MDM observatory, respectively. The broadband spectral energy distribution (SED) is well described by a one-zone synchrotron self-Compton (SSC) model favoring a redshift of less than 0.1. Using the photon index measured with Fermi in combination with recent extragalactic background light (EBL) absorption models it can be concluded from the VERITAS data that the redshift of PKS 1424+240 is less than 0.66.