2015ApJ...802...65A


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2015ApJ...802...65A - Astrophys. J., 802, 65 (2015/March-3)

The 2012 flare of PG 1553+113 seen with H.E.S.S. and Fermi-LAT.

ABRAMOWSKI A., AHARONIAN F., AIT BENKHALI F., AKHPERJANIAN A.G., ANGUNER E.O., BACKES M., BALENDERAN S., BALZER A., BARNACKA A., BECHERINI Y., BECKER TJUS J., BERGE D., BERNHARD S., BERNLOHR K., BIRSIN E., BITEAU J., BOTTCHER M., BOISSON C., BOLMONT J., BORDAS P., BREGEON J., BRUN F., BRUN P., BRYAN M., BULIK T., CARRIGAN S., CASANOVA S., CHADWICK P.M., CHAKRABORTY N., CHALME-CALVET R., CHAVES R.C.G., CHRETIEN M., COLAFRANCESCO S., COLOGNA G., CONRAD J., COUTURIER C., CUI Y., DALTON M., DAVIDS I.D., DEGRANGE B., DEIL C., DEWILT P., DJANNATI-ATAI A., DOMAINKO W., DONATH A., DRURY L.O'C., DUBUS G., DUTSON K., DYKS J., DYRDA M., EDWARDS T., EGBERTS K., EGER P., ESPIGAT P., FARNIER C., FEGAN S., FEINSTEIN F., FERNANDES M.V., FERNANDEZ D., FIASSON A., FONTAINE G., FORSTER A., FUSSLING M., GABICI S., GAJDUS M., GALLANT Y.A., GARRIGOUX T., GIAVITTO G., GIEBELS B., GLICENSTEIN J.F., GOTTSCHALL D., GRONDIN M.-H., GRUDZINSKA M., HADSCH D., HAFFNER S., HAHN J., HARRIS J., HEINZELMANN G., HENRI G., HERMANN G., HERVET O., HILLERT A., HINTON J.A., HOFMANN W., HOFVERBERG P., HOLLER M., HORNS D., IVASCENKO A., JACHOLKOWSKA A., JAHN C., JAMROZY M., JANIAK M., JANKOWSKY F., JUNG I., KASTENDIECK M.A., KATARZYNSKI K., KATZ U., KAUFMANN S., KHELIFI B., KIEFFER M., KLEPSER S., KLOCHKOV D., KLUZNIAK W., KOLITZUS D., KOMIN NU., KOSACK K., KRAKAU S., KRAYZEL F., KRUGER P.P., LAFFON H., LAMANNA G., LEFAUCHEUR J., LEFRANC V., LEMIERE A., LEMOINE-GOUMARD M., LENAIN J.-P., LOHSE T., LOPATIN A., LU C.-C., MARANDON V., MARCOWITH A., MARX R., MAURIN G., MAXTED N., MAYER M., McCOMB T.J.L., MEHAULT J., MEINTJES P.J., MENZLER U., MEYER M., MITCHELL A.M.W., MODERSKI R., MOHAMED M., MORA K., MOULIN E., MURACH T., DE NAUROIS M., NIEMIEC J., NOLAN S.J., OAKES L., ODAKA H., OHM S., OPITZ B., OSTROWSKI M., OYA I., PANTER M., PARSONS R.D., PAZ ARRIBAS M., PEKEUR N.W., PELLETIER G., PEREZ J., PETRUCCI P.-O., PEYAUD B., PITA S., POON H., PUHLHOFER G., PUNCH M., QUIRRENBACH A., RAAB S., REICHARDT I., REIMER A., REIMER O., RENAUD M., DE LOS REYES R., RIEGER F., ROB L., ROMOLI C., ROSIER-LEES S., ROWELL G., RUDAK B., RULTEN C.B., SAHAKIAN V., SALEK D., SANCHEZ D.A., SANTANGELO A., SCHLICKEISER R., SCHUSSLER F., SCHULZ A., SCHWANKE U., SCHWARZBURG S., SCHWEMMER S., SOL H., SPANIER F., SPENGLER G., SPIES F., STAWARZ L., STEENKAMP R., STEGMANN C., STINZING F., STYCZ K., SUSHCH I., TAVERNET J.-P., TAVERNIER T., TAYLOR A.M., TERRIER R., TLUCZYKONT M., TRICHARD C., VALERIUS K., VAN ELDIK C., VAN SOELEN B., VASILEIADIS G., VEH J., VENTER C., VIANA A., VINCENT P., VINK J., VOLK H.J., VOLPE F., VORSTER M., VUILLAUME T., WAGNER P., WAGNER R.M., WARD M., WEIDINGER M., WEITZEL Q., WHITE R., WIERZCHOLSKA A., WILLMANN P., WORNLEIN A., WOUTERS D., YANG R., ZABALZA V., ZABOROV D., ZACHARIAS M., ZDZIARSKI A.A., ZECH A., ZECHLIN H.-S. (The HESS Collaboration)

Abstract (from CDS):

Very high energy (VHE, E > 100 GeV) γ-ray flaring activity of the high-frequency peaked BL Lac object PG 1553+113 has been detected by the H.E.S.S. telescopes. The flux of the source increased by a factor of 3 during the nights of 2012 April 26 and 27 with respect to the archival measurements with a hint of intra-night variability. No counterpart of this event has been detected in the Fermi-Large Area Telescope data. This pattern is consistent with VHE γ-ray flaring being caused by the injection of ultrarelativistic particles, emitting γ-rays at the highest energies. The dataset offers a unique opportunity to constrain the redshift of this source at z = 0.49±0.04 using a novel method based on Bayesian statistics. The indication of intra-night variability is used to introduce a novel method to probe for a possible Lorentz invariance violation (LIV), and to set limits on the energy scale at which Quantum Gravity (QG) effects causing LIV may arise. For the subluminal case, the derived limits are EQG,1> 4.10x1017 GeV and EQG,2> 2.10x1010 GeV for linear and quadratic LIV effects, respectively.

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Journal keyword(s): BL Lacertae objects: individual: PG 1553+113 - galaxies: active - galaxies: distances and redshifts - gamma rays: galaxies

Simbad objects: 5

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Number of rows : 5
N Identifier Otype ICRS (J2000)
RA
ICRS (J2000)
DEC
Mag U Mag B Mag V Mag R Mag I Sp type #ref
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1 Mrk 421 BLL 11 04 27.3140835504 +38 12 31.798495872   13.50 12.90 8.31   ~ 2686 1
2 QSO B1553+113 BLL 15 55 43.0440048528 +11 11 24.365649948 14.91 14.72 14.57 13.99   ~ 574 1
3 7C 165211.80+395026.00 BLL 16 53 52.21668403 +39 45 36.6088754 14.09 14.15 13.29 8.26   ~ 2175 2
4 QSO B2155-304 BLL 21 58 52.0652249880 -30 13 32.118447792   13.36 13.09 12.62   ~ 1741 1
5 GRB 090510 gB 22 14 12.60 -26 35 51.1           ~ 498 1

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