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Evidence for tev gamma ray emission from tev j2032+4130 in whipple archival data

Lang, M. J.
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Carter-Lewis, D. A.
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Fegan, D. J.
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Fegan, S. J.
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Hillas, A. M.
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Lamb, R. C.
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Punch, M.
; 
Reynolds, P. T.
; 
Weekes, T. C.
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http://hdl.handle.net/10379/9426
 https://doi.org/10.13025/24648
Publication Date
2004-08-01
Keywords
gamma rays : observations, energies, cygnus, search
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Lang, M. J. Carter-Lewis, D. A.; Fegan, D. J.; Fegan, S. J.; Hillas, A. M.; Lamb, R. C.; Punch, M.; Reynolds, P. T.; Weekes, T. C. (2004). Evidence for tev gamma ray emission from tev j2032+4130 in whipple archival data. Astronomy & Astrophysics 423 (2), 415-419
Abstract
A reanalysis of data taken on the Cygnus region in 1989-90 using the Whipple Observatory atmospheric Cherenkov imaging telescope confirms the existence of the TeV J2032+4130 source reported by the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory and published by the HEGRA Collaboration. The significance at the a priori HEGRA position is 3.3sigma. The peak signal was found at RA = 20h32m, Dec = +41degrees33'. This is 0.6degrees north of Cygnus X-3 which was the original target of the observations. The flux level (12% of the level of the Crab Nebula) is intermediate between the two later observations and suggests that the TeV source is variable.
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