Rejection of the hypothesis that Markarian 501 TeV photons are pure Bose-Einstein condensates

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 543, Issue 1 PART 2, 2000, Pages

  Aharonian, F ^a   Akhperjanian, A ^b   Barrio, J ^c,d   Bernlohr K ^a   Borst H ^e   Bojahr, H ^f   Bolz, O ^a   Contreras, J ^c   Cortina, J ^c   Denninghoff, S ^c   Fonseca, V ^d   Gonzalez, J ^d   Gotting N ^g   Heinzelmann, G ^g   Hermann, G ^a   Heusler, A ^a   Hofmann, W ^a   Horns, D ^g   Ibarra, A ^d   Iserlohe, C ^f   Jung, I ^a   Kankanyan, R ^a,b   Kestel, M ^c   Kettler, J ^a   Kohnle, A ^a   Konopelko, A ^a   Kornmeyer, H ^c   Kranich, D ^c   Krawczynski, H ^a   Lampeitl, H ^a   Lorenz, E ^c   Lucarelli, F ^d   Magnussen, N ^f   Mang, O ^e   Meyer, H ^f   Mirzoyan, R ^c   Moralejo, A ^d   Padilla, L ^d   Panter, M ^a   Plaga, R ^c   Plyasheshnikov, A ^a,h   Prahl, J ^g   Puhlhofer G ^a   Rohring A ^g   Rhode, W ^f   Rowell, G ^a   Sahakian, V ^b   Samorski, M ^e   Schilling, M ^e   Schroder F ^f   Siems, M ^e   Stamm, W ^e   Tluczykont, M ^g   Volk H J ^a   Wiedner, C A ^a   Wittek, W ^b   more..

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR KERNPHYSIK   (Germany)

^b YEREVAN PHYSICS INSTITUTE   (Armenia)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR PHYSIK   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^e UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF WUPPERTAL   (Germany)

^g UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^h ALTAI STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

BL lacertae objects: Individual (markarian 501); Diffuse radiation; Gamma rays: Observations; Intergalactic medium

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034311298     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/318171     Document Type: Article

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