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Título:
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Detection of VHE gamma-rays from HESS j0632+057 during the 2011 february X-ray outburst with the magic telescopes
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Autores:
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Antoranz Canales, Pedro ;
Barrio Uña, Juan Abel ;
Contreras González, José Luis ;
Fonseca González, Mª Victoria ;
López Moya, Marcos ;
Miranda Pantoja, José Miguel ;
Nieto, Daniel ;
Satalecka, Konstanzja ;
Scapin, Valeria
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Tipo de documento:
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texto impreso
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Editorial:
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IOP Publishing, 2012-07-20
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Dimensiones:
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application/pdf
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Nota general:
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info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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Palabras clave:
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Estado = Publicado
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Materia = Ciencias: Física: Electricidad
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Materia = Ciencias: Física: Electrónica
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Materia = Ciencias: Física: Física nuclear
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Tipo = Artículo
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Resumen:
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The very high energy (VHE) gamma-ray source HESS J0632+057 has recently been confirmed to be a gamma-ray binary. The optical counterpart is the Be star MWC 148, and a compact object of unknown nature orbits it every similar to 321 days with a high eccentricity of similar to 0.8. We monitored HESS J0632+057 with the stereoscopic MAGIC telescopes from 2010 October to 2011 March and detected significant VHE gamma-ray emission during 2011 February, when the system exhibited an X-ray outburst. We find no gamma-ray signal in the other observation periods when the system did not show increased X-ray flux. Thus, HESS J0632+057 exhibits gamma-ray variability on timescales of the order of one to two months possibly linked to the X-ray outburst that takes place about 100 days after the periastron passage. Furthermore, our measurements provide for the first time the gamma-ray spectrum down to about 140 GeV and indicate no turnover of the spectrum at low energies. We compare the properties of HESS J0632+057 with the similar gamma-ray binary LS I +61 degrees 303 and discuss the possible origin of the multi-wavelength emission of the source.
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En línea:
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https://eprints.ucm.es/id/eprint/20733/1/MirandaJM01.pdf
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