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蟹状星云和脉冲星的VERITAS观测

Observations of the Crab Nebula and Pulsar with VERITAS

O. Celik

摘要:

蟹状星云的观测已被证明是校准和表征切伦科夫望远镜性能的最佳工具。从科学上讲,测量蟹状星云靠近逆康普顿峰的能谱是很有趣的,在300 GeV以上的能量下,预计会偏离幂律。此外,重要的是寻找能量超过EGRET脉冲星探测上限10 GeV的蟹状星云脉冲星的脉冲发射。由于目前的模型预测脉冲发射的截止值在10到100 GeV之间,因此在接近这个范围的能量下进行测量可能有助于区分它们。我们在2006-2007年的季节里,在VERITAS 2-和3-望远镜调试阶段,对螃蟹进行了广泛的观察。利用这些数据,我们重建了蟹状星云信号的初步能谱。我们还测量了光脉冲信号,以验证我们的GPS时间戳和重心技术,并获得了在伽马射线能量的脉冲发射的上限。

英文摘要:

Observations of the Crab Nebula have proven to be the best tool to calibrate and to characterize the performance of a Cherenkov telescope. Scientifically, it is interesting to measure the energy spectrum of the Crab Nebula close to the inverse-Compton peak where a deviation is expected from the power law seen at energies above 300 GeV. Additionally, it is important to search for pulsed emission from the Crab Pulsar at energies beyond the 10 GeV upper limit of the EGRET pulsar detection. Since current models predict a cut-off in pulsed emission between 10 and 100 GeV, measurements at energies close to this range may help to discriminate between them. We observed the Crab extensively in the 2006-2007 season during the VERITAS 2- and 3-telescope commissioning phases. Using this data set we reconstructed a preliminary energy spectrum of the signal from the Crab Nebula. We also measured the optical pulsed signal to validate our GPS time-stamping and barycentering techniques and obtained an upper limit for the pulsed emission at gamma-ray energies.

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