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A Three-year Multi-wavelength Study of the Very-high-energy γ-Ray Blazar 1ES 0229+200
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2014 (English)In: Astrophysical Journal, ISSN 0004-637X, E-ISSN 1538-4357, Vol. 782, no 1, article id 13Article in journal (Refereed) Published
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The high-frequency-peaked BL Lacertae object 1ES 0229+200 is a relatively distant (z = 0.1396), hard-spectrum (Γ ~ 2.5), very-high-energy (VHE; E > 100 GeV) emitting γ-ray blazar. VHE measurements of this active galactic nucleus have been used to place constraints on the intensity of the extragalactic background light and the intergalactic magnetic field (IGMF). A multi-wavelength study of this object centered around VHE observations by Very Energetic Radiation Imaging Telescope Array System (VERITAS) is presented. This study obtained, over a period of three years, an 11.7 standard deviation detection and an average integral flux F(E > 300 GeV) = (23.3 ± 2.8stat ± 5.8sys× 10–9 photons m–2 s–1, or 1.7% of the Crab Nebula's flux (assuming the Crab Nebula spectrum measured by H.E.S.S). Supporting observations from Swift and RXTE are analyzed. TheSwift observations are combined with previously published Fermi observations and the VHE measurements to produce an overall spectral energy distribution which is then modeled assuming one-zone synchrotron-self-Compton emission. The χ2probability of the TeV flux being constant is 1.6%. This, when considered in combination with measured variability in the X-ray band, and the demonstrated variability of many TeV blazars, suggests that the use of blazars such as 1ES 0229+200 for IGMF studies may not be straightforward and challenges models that attribute hard TeV spectra to secondary γ-ray production along the line of sight.

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2014. Vol. 782, no 1, article id 13
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BL Lacertae objects: general, BL Lacertae objects: individual: 1ES 0229+200 VER J0232+202, diffuse radiation, galaxies: active, gamma rays: general, magnetic fields
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URN: urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-42785DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/782/1/13OAI: oai:DiVA.org:lnu-42785DiVA, id: diva2:807554
Available from: 2015-04-23 Created: 2015-04-23 Last updated: 2017-12-04Bibliographically approved

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