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Title: | Very high-energy γ-ray observations of novae and dwarf novae with the MAGIC telescopes | Authors: | Ahnen, M. L. Ansoldi, S. ANTONELLI, Lucio Angelo Antoranz, P. Babic, A. Banerjee, B. Bangale, P. Barres de Almeida, U. Barrio, J. A. Becerra González, J. Bednarek, W. Bernardini, E. Biasuzzi, B. Biland, A. Blanch, O. Bonnefoy, S. Bonnoli, G. Borracci, F. Bretz, T. Carmona, E. Carosi, A. Chatterjee, A. Clavero, R. Colin, P. Colombo, E. Contreras, J. L. Cortina, J. COVINO, Stefano Da Vela, P. Dazzi, F. De Angelis, A. De Caneva, G. De Lotto, B. de Oña Wilhelmi, E. Delgado Mendez, C. Di Pierro, F. Dominis Prester, D. Dorner, D. Doro, M. Einecke, S. Eisenacher Glawion, D. Elsaesser, D. Fernández-Barral, A. Fidalgo, D. Fonseca, M. V. Font, L. Frantzen, K. Fruck, C. Galindo, D. García López, R. J. Garczarczyk, M. Garrido Terrats, D. Gaug, M. Giammaria, P. Godinović, N. González Muñoz, A. Guberman, D. Hanabata, Y. Hayashida, M. Herrera, J. Hose, J. Hrupec, D. Hughes, G. Idec, W. Kellermann, H. Kodani, K. Konno, Y. Kubo, H. Kushida, J. LA BARBERA, ANTONINO Lelas, D. Lewandowska, N. Lindfors, E. Lombardi, S. Longo, F. López, M. López-Coto, R. López-Oramas, A. Lorenz, E. Majumdar, P. Makariev, M. Mallot, K. Maneva, G. Manganaro, M. Mannheim, K. Maraschi, L. Marcote, B. Mariotti, M. Martínez, M. Mazin, D. Menzel, U. Miranda, J. M. Mirzoyan, R. Moralejo, A. Nakajima, D. Neustroev, V. Niedzwiecki, A. Nievas Rosillo, M. Nilsson, K. Nishijima, K. Noda, K. Orito, R. Overkemping, A. Paiano, S. Palacio, J. Palatiello, M. Paneque, D. Paoletti, R. Paredes, J. M. Paredes-Fortuny, X. PERSIC, Massimo Poutanen, J. Prada Moroni, P. G. PRANDINI, ELISA Puljak, I. Reinthal, R. Rhode, W. Ribó, M. Rico, J. Rodriguez Garcia, J. Saito, T. Saito, K. Satalecka, K. Scapin, V. Schultz, C. Schweizer, T. Sillanpää, A. Sitarek, J. Snidaric, I. Sobczynska, D. STAMERRA, Antonio Steinbring, T. Strzys, M. Takalo, L. Takami, H. TAVECCHIO, Fabrizio Temnikov, P. Terzić, T. Tescaro, D. Teshima, M. Thaele, J. Torres, D. F. Toyama, T. Treves, A. Verguilov, V. Vovk, I. Will, M. Zanin, R. Desiante, R. Hays, E. |
Issue Date: | 2015 | Journal: | ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS | Number: | 582 | First Page: | A67 | Abstract: | Context. In the last five years the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) instrument detected GeV γ-ray emission from five novae. The GeV emission can be interpreted in terms of an inverse Compton process of electrons accelerated in a shock. In this case it is expected that protons in the same conditions can be accelerated to much higher energies. Consequently they may produce a second component in the γ-ray spectrum at TeV energies. <BR /> Aims: We aim to explore the very high-energy domain to search for γ-ray emission above 50 GeV and to shed light on the acceleration process of leptons and hadrons in nova explosions. <BR /> Methods: We have performed observations, with the MAGIC telescopes of the classical nova V339 Del shortly after the 2013 outburst; optical and subsequent GeV γ-ray detections triggered the MAGIC observations. We also briefly report on VHE observations of the symbiotic nova YY Her and the dwarf nova ASASSN-13ax. We complement the TeV MAGIC observations with the analysis of contemporaneous Fermi-LAT data of the sources. The TeV and GeV observations are compared in order to evaluate the acceleration parameters for leptons and hadrons. <BR /> Results: No significant TeV emission was found from the studied sources. We computed upper limits on the spectrum and night-by-night flux. The combined GeV and TeV observations of V339 Del limit the ratio of proton to electron luminosities to L<SUB>p</SUB> ≲ 0.15 L<SUB>e</SUB>. <P />Appendix A is available in electronic form at <A href="http://www.aanda.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201526478/olm">http://www.aanda.org</A> | Acknowledgments: | The MAGIC Collaboration would like to thank the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias for the excellent working conditions at the Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos in La Palma. The financial support of the German BMBF and MPG, the Italian INFN and INAF, the Swiss National Fund SNF, the ERDF under the Spanish MINECO, and the Japanese JSPS and MEXT is gratefully acknowledged. This work was also supported by the Centro de Excelencia Severo Ochoa SEV-2012-0234, CPAN CSD2007-00042, and MultiDark CSD2009-00064 projects of the Spanish Consolider-Ingenio 2010 programme, by grant 268740 of the Academy of Finland, by the Croatian Science Foundation (HrZZ) Project 09/176 and the University of Rijeka Project 13.12.1.3.02, by the DFG Collaborative Research Centers SFB823/C4 and SFB876/C3, and by the Polish MNiSzW grant 745/N-HESS-MAGIC/2010/0 and NCN 2011/01/B/ST9/00411. J.S. is supported by Fundacja UŁ. We thank M.A. Pérez-Torres for the information about nova ASASSN-13ax. The Fermi -LAT Collaboration acknowledges generous ongoing support from a number of agencies and institutes that have supported both the development and the operation of the LAT as well as scientific data analysis. These include the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the Department of Energy in the United States, the Commissariat à l’Énergie Atomique and the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique/Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules in France, the Agenzia Spaziale Italiana and the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare in Italy, the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT), High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK) and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) in Japan, and the K. A. Wallenberg Foundation, the Swedish Research Council and the Swedish National Space Board in Sweden. Additional support for science analysis during the operations phase is gratefully acknowledged from the Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica in Italy and the Centre National d’Études Spatiales in France. Authors would like to thank S. N. Shore for scientific discussions and providing an optical spectrum of V339 Del and UV spectrum of OS And. We would also like to thank the anonymous referee for comments that helped to improve the paper. | URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12386/23225 | URL: | https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2015/10/aa26478-15/aa26478-15.html | ISSN: | 0004-6361 | DOI: | 10.1051/0004-6361/201526478 | Bibcode ADS: | 2015A&A...582A..67A | Fulltext: | open |
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