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Table D.1.
Results from the Monte Carlo tests following the prescription from Tombesi et al. (2010), that are used to assess the chance probability (and related significance) of observing a spectral feature on top of the measured VHE gamma-ray spectrum described by an LP.
| Measured VHE spectrum | MC: 40 × 10 000 spectral fits | MC: 10 000 spectral fits with  |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Functional hypothesis for the feature |  |
pvalue (significance) |  |
pvalue (significance) |
EP with β = 9.1 ( ) |
39 | 9.7 × 10−5 (3.9σ) | 26 | 2.6 × 10−3 (3.0σ) |
EP with variable curvature ( ) |
21 | 5.2 × 10−5 (4.0σ) | 15 | 1.5 × 10−3 (3.2σ) |
Gauss with variable width ( ) |
32 | 8.0 × 10−5 (3.9σ) | 18 | 1.8 × 10−3 (3.1σ) |
Notes. See text in Appendix D for further details.
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