TeV Observations of the Variability and Spectrum of Markarian 501
/ Authors
J. Quinn, I. Bond, P. Boyle, J. Buckley, S. Bradbury, A. Breslin, A. Burdett, J. Gordo, D. Carter-Lewis, M. Catanese
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M. Cawley, D. Fegan, J. Finley, J. Gaidos, A. Hall, A. Hillas, F. Krennrich, R. Lamb, R. Lessard, C. Masterson, J. Mcenery, G. Mohanty, P. Moriarty, A. Rodgers, H. Rose, F. Samuelson, G. Sembroski, Raghavan Srinivasan, TC Weeke, J. Zweerink
/ Abstract
Markarian 501 is only the second extragalactic source to be detected with high statistical certainty at TeV energies; it is similar in many ways to Markarian 421. The Whipple Observatory gamma-ray telescope has been used to observe the AGN Markarian 501 in 1996 and 1997, the years subsequent to its initial detection. The apparent variability on the one-day time-scale observed in TeV gamma rays in 1995 is confirmed and compared with the variability in Markarian 421. Observations at X-ray and optical wavelengths from 1997 are also presented.
Journal: arXiv: Astrophysics