A Search for TeV Emission from Unidentified Sources in the Galactic Plane
Astrophysics
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
The ~70 unidentified sources of the EGRET sky survey may be one of its most important legacies. The identification of these sources at other wavelengths is critical to understanding their nature. Many have flat spectra out to 10 GeV which, if extrapolated to TeV energies, would be easily detectable relative to the steeply falling diffuse background. The Whipple Observatory gamma-ray telescope has been used to observe a number of these which were selected based on their position, intensity and spectrum and in some cases based on a possible association with a supernova remnant or pulsar. No significant emission has been detected from these sources, and upper limits are given.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/9706178,
title = {A Search for TeV Emission from Unidentified Sources in the Galactic Plane},
author = {J. H. Buckley and P. J. Boyle and S. M. Bradbury and A. M. Burdett and J. Bussons Gordo and D. A. Carter-Lewis and M. Catanese and M. F. Cawley and D. J. Fegan and J. P. Finley and J. A. Gaidos and A. M. Hillas and F. Krennrich and R. C. Lamb and R. W. Lessard and C. Masterson and J. E. McEnery and G. Mohanty and J. Quinn and A. J. Rodgers and H. J. Rose and A. C. Rovero and F. W. Samuelson and G. H. Sembroski and R. Srinivasan and T. C. Weekes and J. Zweerink},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/9706178},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
4 pages, 1 figure, to appear in proceedings of 25th ICRC (Durban)