We report on VERITAS very-high-energy (VHE; E>100 GeV) observations of six
blazars selected from the Fermi Large Area Telescope First Source Catalog
(1FGL). The gamma-ray emission from 1FGL sources was extrapolated up to the VHE
band, taking gamma-ray absorption by the extragalactic background light into
account. This allowed the selection of six bright, hard-spectrum blazars that
were good candidate TeV emitters. Spectroscopic redshift measurements were
attempted with the Keck Telescope for the targets without Sloan Digital Sky
Survey (SDSS) spectroscopic data. No VHE emission is detected during the
observations of the six sources described here. Corresponding TeV upper limits
are presented, along with contemporaneous Fermi observations and non-concurrent
Swift UVOT and XRT data. The blazar broadband spectral energy distributions
(SEDs) are assembled and modeled with a single-zone synchrotron self-Compton
model. The SED built for each of the six blazars show a synchrotron peak
bordering between the intermediate- and high-spectrum-peak classifications,
with four of the six resulting in particle-dominated emission regions.
Description
[1210.7224] VERITAS Observations of Six Bright, Hard-Spectrum Fermi-LAT Blazars
%0 Generic
%1 aliu2012veritas
%A Aliu, E.
%A Archambault, S.
%A Arlen, T.
%A Aune, T.
%A Beilicke, M.
%A Benbow, W.
%A Bottcher, M.
%A Bouvier, A.
%A Buckley, J. H.
%A Bugaev, V.
%A Cesarini, A.
%A Ciupik, L.
%A Collins-Hughes, E.
%A Connolly, M. P.
%A Cui, W.
%A Dickherber, R.
%A Duke, C.
%A Dumm, J.
%A Errando, M.
%A Falcone, A.
%A Federici, S.
%A Feng, Q.
%A Finley, J. P.
%A Finnegan, G.
%A Fortson, L.
%A Furniss, A.
%A Galante, N.
%A Gall, D.
%A Godambe, S.
%A Griffin, S.
%A Grube, J.
%A Gyuk, G.
%A Hanna, D.
%A Holder, J.
%A Huan, H.
%A Kaaret, P.
%A Karlsson, N.
%A Khassen, Y.
%A Kieda, D.
%A Krawczynski, H.
%A Krennrich, F.
%A Lee, K.
%A Madhavan, A. S
%A Maier, G.
%A Majumdar, P.
%A McArthur, S.
%A McCann, A.
%A Moriarty, P.
%A Mukherjee, R.
%A Nelson, T.
%A de Bhroithe, A. O'Faolain
%A Ong, R. A.
%A Orr, M.
%A Otte, A. N.
%A Park, N.
%A Perkins, J. S.
%A Pichel, A.
%A Pohl, M.
%A Prokoph, H.
%A Quinn, J.
%A Ragan, K.
%A Reyes, L. C.
%A Reynolds, P. T.
%A Roache, E.
%A Saxon, D. B.
%A Sembroski, G. H.
%A Staszak, D.
%A Telezhinsky, I.
%A Tesic, G.
%A Theiling, M.
%A Thibadeau, S.
%A Tsurusaki, K.
%A Varlotta, A.
%A Vassiliev, V. V.
%A Vincent, S.
%A Vivier, M.
%A Wakely, S. P.
%A Weekes, T. C.
%A Weinstein, A.
%A Welsing, R.
%A Williams, D. A.
%A Zitzer, B.
%A Fortin, P.
%A Horan, D.
%A Fumagalli, M.
%A Kaplan, K.
%A Prochaska, J. X.
%D 2012
%K Fermi blazar veritas
%T VERITAS Observations of Six Bright, Hard-Spectrum Fermi-LAT Blazars
%U http://arxiv.org/abs/1210.7224
%X We report on VERITAS very-high-energy (VHE; E>100 GeV) observations of six
blazars selected from the Fermi Large Area Telescope First Source Catalog
(1FGL). The gamma-ray emission from 1FGL sources was extrapolated up to the VHE
band, taking gamma-ray absorption by the extragalactic background light into
account. This allowed the selection of six bright, hard-spectrum blazars that
were good candidate TeV emitters. Spectroscopic redshift measurements were
attempted with the Keck Telescope for the targets without Sloan Digital Sky
Survey (SDSS) spectroscopic data. No VHE emission is detected during the
observations of the six sources described here. Corresponding TeV upper limits
are presented, along with contemporaneous Fermi observations and non-concurrent
Swift UVOT and XRT data. The blazar broadband spectral energy distributions
(SEDs) are assembled and modeled with a single-zone synchrotron self-Compton
model. The SED built for each of the six blazars show a synchrotron peak
bordering between the intermediate- and high-spectrum-peak classifications,
with four of the six resulting in particle-dominated emission regions.
@misc{aliu2012veritas,
abstract = {We report on VERITAS very-high-energy (VHE; E>100 GeV) observations of six
blazars selected from the Fermi Large Area Telescope First Source Catalog
(1FGL). The gamma-ray emission from 1FGL sources was extrapolated up to the VHE
band, taking gamma-ray absorption by the extragalactic background light into
account. This allowed the selection of six bright, hard-spectrum blazars that
were good candidate TeV emitters. Spectroscopic redshift measurements were
attempted with the Keck Telescope for the targets without Sloan Digital Sky
Survey (SDSS) spectroscopic data. No VHE emission is detected during the
observations of the six sources described here. Corresponding TeV upper limits
are presented, along with contemporaneous Fermi observations and non-concurrent
Swift UVOT and XRT data. The blazar broadband spectral energy distributions
(SEDs) are assembled and modeled with a single-zone synchrotron self-Compton
model. The SED built for each of the six blazars show a synchrotron peak
bordering between the intermediate- and high-spectrum-peak classifications,
with four of the six resulting in particle-dominated emission regions.},
added-at = {2012-10-29T15:06:28.000+0100},
author = {Aliu, E. and Archambault, S. and Arlen, T. and Aune, T. and Beilicke, M. and Benbow, W. and Bottcher, M. and Bouvier, A. and Buckley, J. H. and Bugaev, V. and Cesarini, A. and Ciupik, L. and Collins-Hughes, E. and Connolly, M. P. and Cui, W. and Dickherber, R. and Duke, C. and Dumm, J. and Errando, M. and Falcone, A. and Federici, S. and Feng, Q. and Finley, J. P. and Finnegan, G. and Fortson, L. and Furniss, A. and Galante, N. and Gall, D. and Godambe, S. and Griffin, S. and Grube, J. and Gyuk, G. and Hanna, D. and Holder, J. and Huan, H. and Kaaret, P. and Karlsson, N. and Khassen, Y. and Kieda, D. and Krawczynski, H. and Krennrich, F. and Lee, K. and Madhavan, A. S and Maier, G. and Majumdar, P. and McArthur, S. and McCann, A. and Moriarty, P. and Mukherjee, R. and Nelson, T. and de Bhroithe, A. O'Faolain and Ong, R. A. and Orr, M. and Otte, A. N. and Park, N. and Perkins, J. S. and Pichel, A. and Pohl, M. and Prokoph, H. and Quinn, J. and Ragan, K. and Reyes, L. C. and Reynolds, P. T. and Roache, E. and Saxon, D. B. and Sembroski, G. H. and Staszak, D. and Telezhinsky, I. and Tesic, G. and Theiling, M. and Thibadeau, S. and Tsurusaki, K. and Varlotta, A. and Vassiliev, V. V. and Vincent, S. and Vivier, M. and Wakely, S. P. and Weekes, T. C. and Weinstein, A. and Welsing, R. and Williams, D. A. and Zitzer, B. and Fortin, P. and Horan, D. and Fumagalli, M. and Kaplan, K. and Prochaska, J. X.},
biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/25f597ebc417587bc20da834fa8e47dc3/miki},
description = {[1210.7224] VERITAS Observations of Six Bright, Hard-Spectrum Fermi-LAT Blazars},
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note = {cite arxiv:1210.7224},
timestamp = {2012-10-29T15:06:28.000+0100},
title = {VERITAS Observations of Six Bright, Hard-Spectrum Fermi-LAT Blazars},
url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/1210.7224},
year = 2012
}