Discovery of very high energy gamma-ray emission from the blazar 1ES 1727+502 with the MAGIC Telescopes

Motivated by the Costamante & Ghisellini (2002) predictions we investigated if the blazar 1ES 1727+502 (z = 0.055) is emitting very high energy(VHE, E>100GeV) rays.We observed the BL Lac object 1ES 1727+502 in stereoscopic mode with the two MAGIC telescopes during 14 nightsbetween May 6t...

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Main Authors: Aleksic, J., Antonelli, L., Antoranz, P., Asensio, M., Backes, M., Barres de Almeida, U., Barrio, J., Becerra, J., Bednarek, W., Berger, K., Bernardini, E., Biland, A., Blanch Bigas, O., Bock, R., Boller, A., Bonnefoy, S., Bonnoli, G., Borla Tridon, D., Borracci, F., Bretz, T., Carmona, E., Carosi, A., Carreto Fidalgo, D., Colin, P., Colombo, E., Contreras, J., Cortina, J., Cossio, L., Covino, S., Da Vela, P., Dazzi, F., de Angelis, A., De Caneva, G., De Lotto, B., Delgado, C., Doert, M., Dominguez, A., Dominis Prester, D., Dorner, D., Doro, M., Eisenacher, D., Elsaesser, D., Farina, E., Ferenc, D., Fonseca, M., Font, L., Fruck, C., Garcia López, R., Garczarczyk, M., Garrido Terrats, D., Gaug, M., Giavitto, G., Godinovic, N., González Muñoz, A., Gozzini, S., Hadamek, A., Hadasch, D., Häfner, D., Herrero, A., Hose, J., Hrupec, D., Idec, W., Jankowski, F., Kadenius, V., Klepser, S., Knoetig, M., Krähenbühl, T., Krause, J., Kushida, J., La Barbera, A., Lelas, D., Lewandowska, N., Lindfors, E., Lombardi, S., López, M., López-Coto, R., López-Oramas, A., Lorenz, E., Lozano, I., Makariev, M., Mallot, K., Maneva, G., Mankuzhiyil, N., Mannheim, K., Maraschi, L., Marcote, B., Mariotti, M., Martínez, M., Masbou, J., Mazin, D., Meucci, M., Miranda, J., Mirzoyan, R., Moldon, J., Moralejo Olaizola, A., Munar-Adrover, P., Nakajima, D., Niedzwiecki, A., Nilsson, K., Nowak, N., Orito, R., Paiano, S., Palatiello, M., Paneque, D., Paoletti, R., Paredes, J., Partini, S., Persic, M., Prada, F., Prada Moroni, P., Prandini, E., Puljak, I., Reichardt, I., Reinthal, R., Rhode, W., Ribo, M., Rico, J., Rugamer, S., Saggion, A., Saito, K., Saito, T., Salvati, M., Satalecka, K., Scalzotto, V., Scapin, V., Schultz, C., Schweizer, T., Shore, S., Sillanpää, A., Sitarek, J., Snidaric, I., Sobczynska, D., Spanier, F., Spiro, S., Stamatescu, V., Stamerra, A., Steinke, B., Storz, J., Sun, S., Suric, T., Takalo, L., Takami, H., Tavecchio, F., Temnikov, P., Terzic, T., Tescaro, D., Teshima, M., Tibolla, Omar, Torres, D., Toyama, T., Treves, A., Uellenbeck, M., Vogler, P., Wagner, R., Weitzel, Q., Zandanel, F., Zanin, R., Buson, S.
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Published: EDP Sciences 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/33071
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Summary:Motivated by the Costamante & Ghisellini (2002) predictions we investigated if the blazar 1ES 1727+502 (z = 0.055) is emitting very high energy(VHE, E>100GeV) rays.We observed the BL Lac object 1ES 1727+502 in stereoscopic mode with the two MAGIC telescopes during 14 nightsbetween May 6th and June 10th 2011, for a total effective observing time of 12.6 hours. For the study of the multiwavelength spectral energydistribution (SED) we use simultaneous optical R-band data from the KVA telescope, archival UV/optical and X-ray observations by instrumentsUVOT and XRT on board of the Swift satellite and high energy (HE, 0.1GeV - 100GeV) –ray data from the Fermi-LAT instrument. We detect,for the first time, VHE –ray emission from 1ES 1727+502 at a statistical significance of 5.5. The integral flux above 150 GeV is estimated tobe (2.1 ± 0.4)% of the Crab Nebula flux and the de-absorbed VHE spectrum has a photon index of (2.7 ± 0.5). No significant short-term variabilitywas found in any of the wavebands presented here. We model the SED using a one-zone synchrotron self-Compton model obtaining parameterstypical for this class of sources.