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A new upper limit on the redshift of PG 1553+113 from observations with\n the MAGIC Telescope

2009/07/01 by E. Prandini, Daniela Dorner, Prandini, Elisa +7
Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena #Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO) #FOS: Physical sciences #Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae #High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE) #Particle Accelerators and Free-Electron Lasers

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.0907.0157

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Abstract

Very high energy gamma ray emission from the active galactic nucleus PG\n1553+113 was observed during 2005 and 2006 by the MAGIC collaboration, for a\ntotal observation time of 18.8 hours. Here we present the results of follow up\nobservations: more than 20 hours of good quality data collected by the MAGIC\nTelescope during the 2007 and 2008 campaigns. The obtained spectra are compared\nand combined with previous measurements, and corrected for absorption adopting\ndifferent EBL models. Upper limits on the unknown source redshift are derived\nby assuming the absence of a break in the intrinsic spectrum, or alternatively\nby constraining the hardness of the intrinsic source spectrum.\n

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