Detection of very high energy gamma-ray emission from IC 310 by the MAGIC telescopes

Authors :: Julian Sitarek
Fabio Zandanel
S. Lombardi
Dmitri Semikoz
Francisco Prada
A. Neronov
Christoph Pfrommer
Anders Pinzke
Source :: Proceedings of 25th Texas Symposium on Relativistic Astrophysics — PoS(Texas 2010).
Publication Year :: 2011
Publisher :: Sissa Medialab, 2011.
Abstract: We report on the detection of very high energy emission (> 300 GeV) from IC310 with the MAGIC telescopes. IC 310 is a head-tail radio galaxy located in the Perseus galaxy cluster, and has been recently detected by the Fermi-LAT instrument. The spectrum observed by the MAGIC telescopes is hard (spectral index −2.00± 0.14). Strong hints of variability are seen in the data. We discuss the possible origin of the very high energy gamma-ray emission.

Subjects :: Physics
Spectral index
High energy
Radio galaxy
Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Magic (programming)
Gamma ray
Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics
Galaxy cluster

Database :: OpenAIRE
Journal :: Proceedings of 25th Texas Symposium on Relativistic Astrophysics — PoS(Texas 2010)
Accession number :: edsair.doi...........e32e87f6e3f46907517872f126f50249

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