1. PG 1553+113: five years of observations with MAGIC
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R. Reinthal, Dominik Elsaesser, Damir Lelas, S. Spiro, E. Lorenz, Dorota Sobczyńska, F. D'Ammando, M. I. Martínez, Michael Backes, T. Krähenbühl, S. Klepser, Kari Nilsson, D. Tescaro, N. Strah, P. G. Prada Moroni, Denis Bastieri, Q. Weitzel, Tihomir Surić, J. Moldón, M. Pilia, Andrei Berdyugin, M. Salvati, Gianluca Giavitto, D. Dominis Prester, Karl Mannheim, A. Boller, L. Cossio, E. Colombo, O. Tibolla, E. Prandini, Jose Luis Contreras, Francisco Prada, Artemio Herrero, Juan Cortina, Aldo Treves, Daniel Ferenc, K. Saito, Hiroko Miyamoto, A. La Barbera, Daniela Dorner, C. Schultz, V. Scapin, Silvia Pardo, P. Temnikov, H. Vankov, Ilana M. Braun, Fabio Zandanel, K. Berger, J. Krause, A. Cañellas, Ivica Puljak, Pierre Colin, B. De Lotto, Victor Stamatescu, S. Partini, D. Höhne-Mönch, Jelena Aleksić, M. Shayduk, Aaron Dominguez, Tomislav Terzić, A. López-Oramas, Abelardo Moralejo, Dario Hrupec, Stefano Covino, Wlodek Bednarek, Alessandro Carosi, Patrick Vogler, J. Becerra González, Elisa Bernardini, Nijil Mankuzhiyil, D. Horan, H. Kellermann, P. Munar-Adrover, M. A. Lopez, V. Scalzotto, Felix Spanier, Riccardo Paoletti, Masahiro Teshima, Mario Meucci, Felicitas Pauss, Victor Zabalza, D. Garrido, Thomas Bretz, Julian Sitarek, D. Hildebrand, L. Peruzzo, Ralph Bock, S. N. Shore, J. Hose, Marc Ribó, M. Uellenbeck, Jose Miguel Miranda, J. M. Paredes, Martin Makariev, G. De Caneva, Daniela Hadasch, Antonio Stamerra, S. Buson, Oscar Blanch, T. Jogler, E. A. Alvarez, L. O. Takalo, J. Storz, Wolfgang Rhode, Nikola Godinovic, B. Huber, E. Carmona, Giacomo Bonnoli, E. De Cea del Pozo, Francesco Dazzi, Diego F. Torres, M. Pasanen, Hajime Takami, R. J. García López, Ignasi Reichardt, David Paneque, E. Leonardo, T. Schweizer, L. Maraschi, Elina Lindfors, Daniel Mazin, P. Antoranz, M. Doert, S. Larsson, Massimo Persic, M. Asensio, Daniel Nieto, G. Maneva, Konstancja Satalecka, Michele Doro, A. Saggion, A. Diago Ortega, Robert Wagner, Adrian Biland, Mosè Mariotti, J. Rico, A. De Angelis, Saverio Lombardi, J. Pochon, D. Häfner, R. Mirzoyan, Markus Garczarczyk, Takashi Saito, L. A. Antonelli, R. Zanin, Igor Oya, Fabrizio Tavecchio, Ll. Font, Reiko Orito, M. A. Perez-Torres, A. Sillanpää, M. V. Fonseca, Christian Fruck, B. Steinke, S. Rügamer, Juan Abel Barrio, D. Borla Tridon, C. Delgado Mendez, Aleksic J, Alvarez EA, Antonelli LA, Antoranz P, Asensio M, Backes M, Barrio JA, Bastieri D, Gonzalez JB, Bednarek W, Berdyugin A, Berger K, Bernardini E, Biland A, Blanch O, Bock RK, Boller A, Bonnoli G, Tridon DB, Braun I, Bretz T, Canellas A, Carmona E, Carosi A, Colin P, Colombo E, Contreras JL, Cortina J, Cossio L, Covino S, Dazzi F, De Angelis A, De Caneva G, del Pozo ED, De Lotto B, Mendez CD, Ortega AD, Doert M, Dominguez A, Prester DD, Dorner D, Doro M, Elsaesser D, Ferenc D, Fonseca MV, Font L, Fruck C, Lopez RJG, Garczarczyk M, Garrido D, Giavitto G, Godinovic N, Hadasch D, Hafner D, Herrero A, Hildebrand D, Ohne-Monch DH, Hose J, Hrupec D, Huber B, Jogler T, Kellermann H, Klepser S, Krahenbuhl T, Krause J, La Barbera A, Lelas D, Leonardo E, Lindfors E, Lombardi S, Lopez M, Lopez-Oramas A, Lorenz E, Makariev M, Maneva G, Mankuzhiyil N, Mannheim K, Maraschi L, Mariotti M, Martinez M, Mazin D, Meucci M, Miranda JM, Mirzoyan R, Miyamoto H, Moldon J, Moralejo A, Munar-Adrover P, Nieto D, Nilsson K, Orito R, Oya I, Paneque D, Paoletti R, Pardo S, Paredes JM, Partini S, Pasanen M, Pauss F, Perez-Torres MA, Persic M, Peruzzo L, Pilia M, Pochon J, Prada F, Moroni PGP, Prandini E, Puljak I, Reichardt I, Reinthal R, Rhode W, Ribo M, Rico J, Rugamer S, Saggion A, Saito K, Saito TY, Salvati M, Satalecka K, Scalzotto V, Scapin V, Schultz C, Schweizer T, Shayduk M, Shore SN, Sillanpaa A, Sitarek J, Sobczynska D, Spanier F, Spiro S, Stamatescu V, Stamerra A, Steinke B, Storz J, Strah N, Suric T, Takalo L, Takami H, Tavecchio F, Temnikov P, Terzic T, Tescaro D, Teshima M, Tibolla O, Torres DF, Treves A, Uellenbeck M, Vankov H, Vogler P, Wagner RM, Weitzel Q, Zabalza V, Zandanel F, Zanin R, Buson S, Horan D, Larsson S, and DAmmando F
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Flux ,Astrophysics ,01 natural sciences ,Raigs gamma ,MAGIC (telescope) ,010303 astronomy & astrophysics ,astro-ph.HE ,Physics ,High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE) ,TEV BLAZARS ,Gamma ray ,radiation mechanisms: non-thermal ,gamma-rays: observations ,BL Lacertae objects: individual (PG 1553+113) ,astro-ph.CO ,BL LACERTAE OBJECTS ,Spectral energy distribution ,Electrónica ,Física nuclear ,Electricidad ,Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena ,BL Lac object ,Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics ,ACTIVE GALACTIC NUCLEI ,Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO) ,TELESCOPE ,Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena ,FOS: Physical sciences ,gamma ray astronomy ,Cosmic rays ,IMAGING CHERENKOV DETECTOR ,FERMI ,0103 physical sciences ,Blazar ,MULTIWAVELENGTH OBSERVATIONS ,BL Lacertae objects: individual (PG 1553+113) – gamma rays: galaxies – radiation mechanisms: non-thermal ,010308 nuclear & particles physics ,Gamma rays ,Astronomy and Astrophysics ,Galaxies ,Galàxies ,EXTRAGALACTIC BACKGROUND LIGHT ,Crab Nebula ,Space and Planetary Science ,LAC OBJECTS ,ddc:520 ,SKY SURVEY ,GAMMA-RAY EMISSION ,Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope - Abstract
We present the results of five years (2005-2009) of MAGIC observations of the BL Lac object PG 1553+113 at very high energies (VHEs, E > 100 GeV). Power law fits of the individual years are compatible with a steady mean photon index ��= 4.27 $\pm$ 0.14. In the last three years of data, the flux level above 150 GeV shows a clear variability (probability of constant flux < 0.001%). The flux variations are modest, lying in the range from 4% to 11% of the Crab Nebula flux. Simultaneous optical data also show only modest variability that seems to be correlated with VHE gamma ray variability. We also performed a temporal analysis of (all available) simultaneous Fermi/LAT data of PG 1553+113 above 1 GeV, which reveals hints of variability in the 2008-2009 sample. Finally, we present a combination of the mean spectrum measured at very high energies with archival data available for other wavelengths. The mean spectral energy distribution can be modeled with a one-zone Synchrotron Self Compton (SSC) model, which gives the main physical parameters governing the VHE emission in the blazar jet., 11 pages, 6 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ
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- 2012
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