The Crab Nebula and pulsar between 500 GeV and 80 TeV: Observations with the HEGRA stereoscopic air Cerenkov telescopes

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 614, Issue 2 I, 2004, Pages 897-913

  Aharonian, F ^a   Akhperjanian, A ^b   Beilicke, M ^c   Bernlohr K ^a,d   Borst H G ^e   Bojahr, H ^f   Bolz, O ^a   Coarasa, T ^g   Contreras, J L ^h   Cortina, J ^g,i   Denninghoff, S ^g   Fonseca, M V ^h   Girma, M ^a   Gotting N ^c   Heinzelmann, G ^c   Hermann, G ^a   Heuseer, A ^a   Hofmann, W ^a   Horns, D ^a   Jung, I ^a   Kankanyan, R ^a   Kestel, M ^g   Kohnle, A ^a   Konopelko, A ^a,d   Kranich, D ^g   Lampeitl, H ^c   Lopez, M ^h   Lorenz, E ^g   Lucarelli, F ^h   Mang, O ^e   Mazin, D ^g   Meyer, H ^f   Mirzoyan, R ^g   Moralejo, A ^h   Ona Wilhelmi E ^h   Panter, M ^a   Plyasheshnikov, A ^a,j   Puhlhofer G ^a,k   De Los Reyes, R ^h   Rhode, W ^f   Ripken, J ^c   Rowell, G ^a   Sahakian, V ^b   Samorski, M ^e   Schilling, M ^e   Siems, M ^e   Sobzynska, D ^g,l   Stamm, W ^e   Tluczykont, M ^c,m   Vitale, V ^g   Volk H J ^a   Wiedner, C A ^a   Wittek, W ^g   more..

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR KERNPHYSIK   (Germany)

^b YEREVAN PHYSICS INSTITUTE   (Armenia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^d HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF WUPPERTAL   (Germany)

^g MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR PHYSIK   (Germany)

^h UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

ⁱ UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^j ALTAI STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^k UNIVERSITÄT HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^l UNIVERSITY OF LODZ   (Poland)

^m ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE   (France)

more..

Author keywords

Acceleration of particles; Gamma rays: observations; Gamma rays: theory; ISM: individual (Crab Nebula); Pulsars: individual (Crab pulsar)

Indexed keywords

EID: 10044281820     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/423931     Document Type: Article

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