Detection of gamma rays around 1 TeV from RX J0852.0-4622 by CANGAROO-II

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2005

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Katagiri, H.
Enomoto, R.
Ksenofontov, L.
Mori, M.
Adachi, Y.
Asahara, A.
Bicknell, G.
Clay, R.
Doi, Y.
Edwards, P.

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The Astrophysical Journal (ApJ), 2005; 619(2):L163-L166

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H. Katagiri, R. Enomoto, L. T. Ksenofontov, M. Mori, Y. Adachi, A. Asahara, G. V. Bicknell, R. W. Clay, Y. Doi, P. G. Edwards, S. Gunji, S. Hara, T. Hara, T. Hattori, Sei. Hayashi, C. Itoh, S. Kabuki, F. Kajino, A. Kawachi, T. Kifune, R. Kiuchi, H. Kubo, T. Kurihara, R. Kurosaka, J. Kushida, Y. Matsubara, Y. Miyashita, Y. Mizumoto, H. Muraishi, Y. Muraki, T. Naito, T. Nakamori, T. Nakase, D. Nishida, K. Nishijima, M. Ohishi, K. Okumura, J. R. Patterson, R. J. Protheroe, N. Sakamoto, Y. Sakamoto, D. L. Swaby, T. Tanimori, H. Tanimura, G. J. Thornton, K. Tsuchiya, S. Watanabe, T. Yamaoka, S. Yanagita, T. Yoshida, and T. Yoshikoshi

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We have detected gamma-ray emission at the 6 j level at energies greater than 500 GeV from the supernova remnant RX J0852.0 4622 (G266.2 1.2) using the CANGAROO-II imaging atmospheric Cerenkov telescope. The flux was 0.12 times that of Crab at 1 TeV. The signal centroid is consistent with the peak of the X-ray emission in the northwest rim of the remnant.

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