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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Aharonian, F.
• Akhperjanian, A.
• Beilicke, M.
• Bernlöhr, K.
• Börst, H.-G.
• Bojahr, H.
• Bolz, O.
• Coarasa, T.
• Contreras, J.
• Cortina, J.
• Denninghoff, S.
• Fonseca, V.
• Girma, M.
• Götting, N.
• Heinzelmann, G.
• Hermann, G.
• Heusler, A.
• Hofmann, W.
• Horns, D.
• Jung, I.
• Kankanyan, R.
• Kestel, M.
• Kohnle, A.
• Konopelko, A.
• Kranich, D.
• Lampeitl, H.
• Lopez, M.
• Lorenz, E.
• Lucarelli, F.
• Mang, O.
• Mazin, D.
• Meyer, H.
• Mirzoyan, R.
• Moralejo, A.
• Oña-Wilhelmi, E.
• Panter, M.
• Plyasheshnikov, A.
• Pühlhofer, G.
• R. de los Reyes
• Rhode, W.
• Ripken, J.
• Rowell, G. P.
• Sahakian, V.
• Samorski, M.
• Schilling, M.
• Siems, M.
• Sobzynska, D.
• Stamm, W.
• Tluczykont, M.
• Vitale, V.
• Völk, H. J.
• Wiedner, C. A.
• Wittek, W.

Titel

The unidentified TeV source (TeV J2032+4130) and surrounding field: Final HEGRA IACT-System results

Ist Teil von

• Astronomy and astrophysics (Berlin), 2005-02, Vol.431 (1), p.197-202

Ort / Verlag

EDP Sciences

Erscheinungsjahr

2005

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

EZB Electronic Journals Library

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The unidentified TeV source in Cygnus is now confirmed by follow-up observations from 2002 with the HEGRA stereoscopic system of Cherenkov Telescopes. Using all data (1999 to 2002) we confirm this new source as steady in flux over the four years of data taking, extended with radius 6.2′ (±$1.2^\prime_{\rm stat}$ ± $0.9^\prime_{\rm sys}$) and exhibiting a hard spectrum with photon index -1.9. It is located in the direction of the dense OB stellar association, Cygnus OB2. Its integral flux above energies $E>1$ TeV amounts to ~5% of the Crab assuming a Gaussian profile for the intrinsic source morphology. There is no obvious counterpart at radio, optical nor X-ray energies, leaving TeV J2032+4130 presently unidentified. Observational parameters of this source are updated here and some astrophysical discussion is provided. Also included are upper limits for a number of other interesting sources in the FoV, including the famous microquasar Cygnus X-3.