Issue |
A&A
Volume 402, Number 2, May I 2003
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Page(s) | 443 - 455 | |
Section | Extragalactic astronomy | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20030247 | |
Published online | 14 April 2003 |
Evidence of TeV gamma-ray emission from the nearby starburst galaxy NGC 253
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Faculty of Science, Ibaraki University, Mito, Ibaraki 310-8512, Japan
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Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, Univ. of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8582, Japan
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Department of Physics, Kyoto University, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan
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MSSSO, Australian National University, ACT 2611, Australia
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Department of Physics and Math. Physics, University of Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia
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Institute for Space and Aeronautical Science, Sagamihara, Kanagawa 229-8510, Japan
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Department of Physics, Yamagata University, Yamagata, Yamagata 990-8560, Japan
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Department of Physics, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 152-8551, Japan
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Faculty of Management Information, Yamanashi Gakuin University, Kofu,Yamanashi 400-8575, Japan
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Department of Physics, Tokai University, Hiratsuka, Kanagawa 259-1292, Japan
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Department of Physics, Konan University, Hyogo 658-8501, Japan
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Faculty of Engineering, Shinshu University, Nagano, Nagano 380-8553, Japan
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STE Laboratory, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Aichi 464-8601, Japan
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National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, Mitaka, Tokyo 181-8588, Japan
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Department of Radiological Sciences, Ibaraki Prefectural University of Health Sciences, Ibaraki 300-0394, Japan
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Department of Physics, Osaka City University, Osaka, Osaka 558-8585, Japan
Corresponding author: R. Enomoto, enomoto@icrr.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Received:
5
November
2002
Accepted:
14
February
2003
TeV gamma-rays were recently detected from the nearby normal spiral galaxy NGC 253 (Itoh et al. [CITE]). Observations to detect the Cherenkov light images initiated by gamma-rays from the direction of NGC 253 were carried out in 2000 and 2001 over a total period of ~150 hours. The orientation of images in gamma-ray–like events is not consistent with emission from a point source, and the emission region corresponds to a size greater than 10 kpc in radius. Here, detailed descriptions of the analysis procedures and techniques are given.
Key words: gamma rays: observation / galaxies: starburst / galaxies: individual: NGC 253 / galaxies: halos / ISM: cosmic rays
© ESO, 2003
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