Bibcode
Albert, J.; Aliu, E.; Anderhub, H.; Antonelli, L. A.; Antoranz, P.; Backes, M.; Baixeras, C.; Barrio, J. A.; Bartko, H.; Bastieri, D.; Becker, J. K.; Bednarek, W.; Berger, K.; Bernardini, E.; Bigongiari, C.; Biland, A.; Bock, R. K.; Bonnoli, G.; Bordas, P.; Bosch-Ramon, V.; Bretz, T.; Britvitch, I.; Camara, M.; Carmona, E.; Chilingarian, A.; Commichau, S.; Contreras, J. L.; Cortina, J.; Costado, M. T.; Covino, S.; Curtef, V.; Dazzi, F.; DeAngelis, A.; DeCea del Pozo, E.; de los Reyes, R.; DeLotto, B.; DeMaria, M.; DeSabata, F.; Delgado Mendez, C.; Dominguez, A.; Dorner, D.; Doro, M.; Errando, M.; Fagiolini, M.; Ferenc, D.; Fernández, E.; Firpo, R.; Fonseca, M. V.; Font, L.; Galante, N.; García López, R. J.; Garczarczyk, M.; Gaug, M.; Goebel, F.; Hayashida, M.; Herrero, A.; Höhne, D.; Hose, J.; Hsu, C. C.; Huber, S.; Jogler, T.; Kranich, D.; La Barbera, A.; Laille, A.; Leonardo, E.; Lindfors, E.; Lombardi, S.; Longo, F.; López, M.; Lorenz, E.; Majumdar, P.; Maneva, G.; Mankuzhiyil, N.; Mannheim, K.; Maraschi, L.; Mariotti, M.; Martínez, M.; Mazin, D.; Meucci, M.; Meyer, M.; Miranda, J. M.; Mirzoyan, R.; Mizobuchi, S.; Moles, M.; Moralejo, A.; Nieto, D.; Nilsson, K.; Ninkovic, J.; Otte, N.; Oya, I.; Panniello, M.; Paoletti, R.; Paredes, J. M.; Pasanen, M.; Pascoli, D.; Pauss, F.; Pegna, R. G.; Perez-Torres, M. A.; Persic, M.; Peruzzo, L. et al.
Referencia bibliográfica
The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 693, Issue 1, pp. 303-310 (2009).
Fecha de publicación:
3
2009
Revista
Número de citas
120
Número de citas referidas
73
Descripción
The MAGIC collaboration has recently reported the discovery of
γ-ray emission from the binary system LS I +61°303 in the TeV
energy region. Here we present new observational results on this source
in the energy range between 300 GeV and 3 TeV. In total, 112 hr of data
were taken between 2006 September and December covering four orbital
cycles of this object. This large amount of data allowed us to produce
an integral flux light curve covering for the first time all orbital
phases of LS I +61°303. In addition, we also obtained a differential
energy spectrum for two orbital phase bins covering the phase range 0.5
< phi < 0.6 and 0.6 < phi < 0.7. The photon index in the two
phase bins is consistent within the errors with an average index Γ
= 2.6 ± 0.2stat ± 0.2sys. LS I
+61°303 was found to be variable at TeV energies on timescales of
days. These new MAGIC measurements allowed us to search for intranight
variability of the very high energy emission; however, no evidence for
flux variability on timescales down to 30 min was found. To test for
possible periodic structures in the light curve, we apply the formalism
developed by Lomb and Scargle to the LS I +61°303 data taken in 2005
and 2006. We found the LS I +61°303 data set to be periodic with a
period of (26.8 ± 0.2) days (with a post-trial chance probability
of 10-7), close to the orbital period.
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