Hess and fermi-lat discovery of γ-rays from the blazar 1ES 1312-423

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A deep observation campaign carried out by the High Energy Stereoscopic System (HESS) on Centaurus A enabled the discovery of γ-rays from the blazar 1ES 1312-423, 2° away from the radio galaxy. With a differential flux at 1 TeV of f(1 TeV) = (1.9 ± 0.6stat ± 0.4sys) × 10-13 cm-2 s-1 TeV-1 corresponding to 0.5 per cent of the Crab nebula differential flux and a spectral index γ = 2.9 ± 0.5stat ± 0.2sys, 1ES 1312-423 is one of the faintest sources ever detected in the very high energy (E <100 GeV) extragalactic sky. A careful analysis using three and a half years of Fermi Large Area Telescope (Fermi-LAT) data allows the discovery at high energies (100 < E MeV) of a hard spectrum (γ =1.4±0.4stat ±0.2sys) source coincident with 1ES 1312-423. Radio, optical, UV and X-ray observations complete the spectral energy distribution of this blazar, now covering 16 decades in energy. The emission is successfully fitted with a synchrotron self-Compton model for the non-thermal component, combined with a blackbody spectrum for the optical emission from the host galaxy. © 2013 The Authors. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society.

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Abramowski, A., Acero, F., Aharonian, F., Akhperjanian, A. G., Angüner, E., Anton, G., … Kadler, M. (2013). Hess and fermi-lat discovery of γ-rays from the blazar 1ES 1312-423. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 434(3), 1889–1901. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stt1081

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