TeV gamma rays from PSR 1706-44
Astrophysics
2009-10-30 v1
Abstract
Observations made with the University of Durham Mark 6 atmospheric Cerenkov telescope confirm that PSR B1706-44 is a very high energy gamma-ray emitter. There is no indication from our dataset that the very high energy gamma-rays are pulsed, in contrast to the findings at < 20 GeV, which indicate that more than 80% of the flux is pulsed. The flux at E > 300 GeV is estimated to be (3.9 +/- 0.7 (statistical)) x 10^-11 cm^-2 s^-1.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/9804224,
title = {TeV gamma rays from PSR 1706-44},
author = {P. M. Chadwick and M. R. Dickinson and N. A. Dipper and J. Holder and T. R. Kendall and T. J. L. McComb and K. J. Orford and J. L. Osborne and S. M. Rayner and I. D. Roberts and S. E. Shaw and K. E. Turver},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/9804224},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
9 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication in Astroparticle Physics