1. GAMMA-RAY EXCESS FROM A STACKED SAMPLE OF HIGH- AND INTERMEDIATE-FREQUENCY PEAKED BLAZARS OBSERVED WITH THE MAGIC TELESCOPE
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Daniel Ferenc, M. Camara, Jose Luis Contreras, H. Vankov, Ilana M. Braun, Daniel Nieto, D. Bose, Dominik Elsaesser, Juan Cortina, Diego F. Torres, M. Pasanen, Pratik Majumdar, A. Sillanpää, M. V. Fonseca, Dorota Sobczyńska, J. M. Paredes, Antonio Stamerra, M. Rissi, Daniela Dorner, Abelardo Moralejo, Javier Moldon, Stefano Covino, J. C. Struebig, S. Spiro, E. Lorenz, Ivica Puljak, Pierre Colin, Dario Hrupec, Thomas Bretz, S. N. Shore, Roberta Zanin, B. Steinke, M. López, J. Rico, D. Dominis Prester, A. De Angelis, R. K. Bock, Petar Temnikov, D. Tescaro, A. La Barbera, Elisa Bernardini, B. De Lotto, S. Klepser, D. Hildebrand, L. Peruzzo, Mariano Moles, E. Prandini, Kari Nilsson, Marc Ribó, Valentí Bosch-Ramon, Francisco Prada, L. A. Antonelli, S. Rügamer, Juan Abel Barrio, M. T. Costado, Ignasi Reichardt, M. I. Martínez, A. Herrero, V. Scapin, D. Borla Tridon, A. Laille, O. Tibolla, R. J. García López, Denis Bastieri, Q. Weitzel, Riccardo Paoletti, Tihomir Surić, Giacomo Bonnoli, Igor Oya, Fabrizio Tavecchio, F. De Sabata, Daniel Kranich, L. Maraschi, Ll. Font, V. Scalzotto, Elina Lindfors, Andrei Berdyugin, T. Jogler, Pol Bordas, K. Berger, G. Maneva, Daniel Mazin, D. Pascoli, Agnieszka Sierpowska-Bartosik, A. Saggion, S. Paiano, R. G. Pegna, Karl Mannheim, Masahiro Teshima, Adrian Biland, Markus Gaug, C. Delgado Mendez, L. O. Takalo, R. de los Reyes, R. Mirzoyan, C. Schultz, Manel Errando, J. Becerra González, Felix Spanier, Wolfgang Rhode, Jelena Ninkovic, Miguel A. Pérez-Torres, E. Carmona, Markus Garczarczyk, Mosè Mariotti, Mario Meucci, Francesco Dazzi, Fabio Zandanel, Takashi Saito, Massimo Persic, C. C. Hsu, E. Leonardo, D. Britzger, Nikola Godinovic, Tomislav Terzić, Reiko Orito, M. Sánchez-Conde, M. De Maria, Aaron Dominguez, Felicitas Pauss, Saverio Lombardi, Victor Zabalza, T. Schweizer, N. Puchades, T. Krähenbühl, M. Salvati, M. Shayduk, E. De Cea del Pozo, P. Antoranz, Nijil Mankuzhiyil, S. Partini, Francesco Longo, D. Höhne-Mönch, Oscar Blanch, Robert Wagner, M. Doert, Michael Backes, Konstancja Satalecka, Michele Doro, Hiroko Miyamoto, Jelena Aleksić, C. Baixeras, Julian Sitarek, J. Hose, Daniela Hadasch, S. Commichau, Wlodek Bednarek, Alessandro Carosi, Jose Miguel Miranda, J., Aleksic, L. A., Antonelli, P., Antoranz, M., Backe, C., Baixera, J. A., Barrio, D., Bastieri, Gonzalez, J., W., Bednarek, A., Berdyugin, K., Berger, E., Bernardini, A., Biland, O., Blanch, R. K., Bock, G., Bonnoli, P., Borda, Tridon, D., V., Bosch Ramon, D., Bose, I., Braun, T., Bretz, D., Britzger, M., Camara, E., Carmona, A., Carosi, P., Colin, S., Commichau, J. L., Contrera, J., Cortina, M. T., Costado, S., Covino, F., Dazzi, Angelis, A., Cea, E., Los, R., Lotto, B., Maria, M., Sabata, F., Mendez, C., M., Doert, A., Dom\inguez, Prester, D., D., Dorner, M., Doro, D., Elsaesser, M., Errando, D., Ferenc, M. V., Fonseca, L., Font, R. J., Garc\ia, M., Garczarczyk, M., Gaug, N., Godinovic, D., Hadasch, A., Herrero, D., Hildebrand, D., H\ohne M\onch, J., Hose, D., Hrupec, C. C., Hsu, T., Jogler, S., Klepser, T., Kr\ahenb\uhl, D., Kranich, Barbera, A., A., Laille, E., Leonardo, E., Lindfor, S., Lombardi, Longo, Francesco, M., Lopez, E., Lorenz, P., Majumdar, G., Maneva, N., Mankuzhiyil, K., Mannheim, L., Maraschi, M., Mariotti, M., Mart\inez, D., Mazin, M., Meucci, J. M., Miranda, R., Mirzoyan, H., Miyamoto, J., Moldon, M., Mole, A., Moralejo, D., Nieto, K., Nilsson, J., Ninkovic, R., Orito, I., Oya, S., Paiano, R., Paoletti, J. M., Parede, S., Partini, M., Pasanen, D., Pascoli, F., Pau, R. G., Pegna, M. A., Perez Torre, M., Persic, L., Peruzzo, F., Prada, E., Prandini, N., Puchade, I., Puljak, I., Reichardt, W., Rhode, M., Ribo, J., Rico, M., Rissi, S., R\ugamer, A., Saggion, T. Y., Saito, M., Salvati, M., Sanchez Conde, K., Satalecka, V., Scalzotto, V., Scapin, C., Schultz, T., Schweizer, M., Shayduk, S. N., Shore, A., Sierpowska Bartosik, A., Sillanp\a\a, J., Sitarek, D., Sobczynska, F., Spanier, S., Spiro, A., Stamerra, B., Steinke, J. C., Struebig, T., Suric, L., Takalo, F., Tavecchio, P., Temnikov, T., Terzic, D., Tescaro, M., Teshima, O., Tibolla, D. F., Torre, H., Vankov, R. M., Wagner, Q., Weitzel, V., Zabalza, F., Zandanel, and R., Zanin
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CHERENKOV TELESCOPE ,Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena ,FOS: Physical sciences ,Flux ,Astrophysics ,Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics ,01 natural sciences ,Standard deviation ,BL-LAC OBJECTS ,HESS ,gamma rays: galaxies ,0103 physical sciences ,BL lacertae objects ,Blazar ,010303 astronomy & astrophysics ,astro-ph.HE ,High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE) ,Physics ,Range (particle radiation) ,BL Lacertae objects: general ,010308 nuclear & particles physics ,general [BL Lacertae objects] ,Gamma ray ,CONSTRAINTS ,Astronomy and Astrophysics ,Redshift ,CRAB-NEBULA ,MODEL ,Crab Nebula ,gamma rays: observations ,Intermediate frequency ,Space and Planetary Science ,JET ,DISCOVERY ,galaxies [gamma rays] ,RADIATION ,Electrónica ,Física nuclear ,EMISSION ,Electricidad ,Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena - Abstract
14 páginas, 6 figuras, 4 tablas.-- El Pdf del artículo es la versión pre-print: arXiv:1002.2951v3.-- MAGIC Collaboration: et al., Between 2004 and 2009, a sample of 28 X-ray selected high- and intermediate-frequency peaked blazars with an X-ray flux larger than 2 μJy at 1 keV in the redshift range from 0.018 to 0.361 was observed with the MAGIC telescope at energies above 100 GeV. Seven among them were detected and the results of these observations are discussed elsewhere. Here we concentrate on the remaining 21 blazars which were not detected during this observation campaign and present the 3σ (99.7%) confidence upper limits on their flux. The individual flux upper limits lie between 1.6% and 13.6% of the integral flux from the Crab Nebula. Applying a stacking method to the sample of non-detections with a total of 394.1 hr exposure time, we find evidence for an excess with a cumulative significance of 4.9 standard deviations. It is not dominated by individual objects or flares, but increases linearly with the observation time as for a constant source with an integral flux level of ~1.5% of that observed from the Crab Nebula above 150 GeV., The support of the German BMBF and MPG, the Italian INFN, the Swiss National Fund SNF, and the Spanish MICINN is gratefully acknowledged. This work was also supported by the Polish MNiSzW Grant N N203 390834, by the YIP of the Helmholtz Gemeinschaft, and by grant DO02-353 of the the Bulgarian National Science Fund.
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