Fermi/LAT discovery of gamma-ray emission from the flat-spectrum radio quasar PKS 1454-354
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The Astrophysical Journal. 2009-05-20, vol. 697, p. 934-941
American Astronomical Society
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We report the discovery by the Large Area Telescope (LAT) onboard the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope of high-energy gamma-ray (GeV) emission from the flat-spectrum radio quasar PKS 1454-354 (z=1.424). On 4 September 2008 ...Lire la suite >
We report the discovery by the Large Area Telescope (LAT) onboard the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope of high-energy gamma-ray (GeV) emission from the flat-spectrum radio quasar PKS 1454-354 (z=1.424). On 4 September 2008 the source rose to a peak flux of (3.5 +/- 0.7)x 10^-6 ph cm^-2 s^-1 (E > 100 MeV) on a time scale of hours and then slowly dropped over the following two days. No significant spectral changes occurred during the flare. Fermi/LAT observations also showed that PKS 1454-354 is the most probable counterpart of the unidentified EGRET source 3EG J1500-3509. Multiwavelength measurements performed during the following days (7 September with Swift; 6-7 September with the ground-based optical telescope ATOM; 13 September with the Australia Telescope Compact Array) resulted in radio, optical, UV and X-ray fluxes greater than archival data, confirming the activity of PKS 1454-354.< Réduire
Mots clés en anglais
galaxies: active
gamma rays: observations
quasars: individual (PKS 1454-354)
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