SS-433/W50 at TeV Energies
Abstract
The HEGRA CT-System was used to search for TeV gamma-rays from the microquasar and supernova remnant combination SS-433/W50 over the 1998 and 1999 observing seasons, resulting in about 20 hours of useful data. An analysis of various extended sources of location guided by X-Ray observations reveals no evidence for TeV emission at photon energies above 1 TeV, with resulting 99% upper limits in the range 8 to 10 of the Crab flux. For one of these locations, the eastern jet termination, a model predicting a presently detectable TeV gamma-ray flux via the inverse Compton upscattering of microwave background photons is now somewhat constrained. The results and model contraints are briefly discussed.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0104288,
title = {SS-433/W50 at TeV Energies},
author = {G. P. Rowell and HEGRA Collaboration},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0104288},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
8 pages, 2 figures, to appear in proceedings of 'Similarities and Universality in Relativistic Flows' Mykonos, Greece, Oct 2000 (http://pluto.mpi-hd.mpg.de/theory/surf/)