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arxiv: 1201.2634 · v1 · submitted 2012-01-12 · 🌌 astro-ph.HE · astro-ph.CO

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Discovery of VHE gamma-ray emission from the BL Lac object B3 2247+381 with the MAGIC telescopes

The MAGIC Collaboration: J. Aleksi\'c (1) , E. A. Alvarez (2) , L. A. Antonelli (3) , P. Antoranz (4) , M. Asensio (2) , M. Backes (5) , J. A. Barrio (2) , D. Bastieri (6)
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We study the non-thermal jet emission of the BL Lac object B3 2247+381 during a high optical state. The MAGIC telescopes observed the source during 13 nights between September 30th and October 30th 2010, collecting a total of 14.2 hours of good quality very high energy (VHE) $\gamma$-ray data. Simultaneous multiwavelength data was obtained with X-ray observations by the Swift satellite and optical R-band observations at the KVA-telescope. We also use high energy $\gamma$-ray (HE, 0.1 GeV-100 GeV) data from the Fermi satellite. The BL Lac object B3 2247+381 (z=0.119) was detected, for the first time, at VHE $\gamma$-rays at a statistical significance of 5.6 $\sigma$. A soft VHE spectrum with a photon index of -3.2 $\pm$ 0.6 was determined. No significant short term flux variations were found. We model the spectral energy distribution using a one-zone SSC-model, which can successfully describe our data.

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