Veritas observations of a very high energy γ-ray flare from the blazar 3C66A

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 693, Issue 2, 2009, Pages

  Acciari, V A ^a   Aliu, E ^b   Arlen, T ^c   Beilicke, M ^d   Benbow, W ^e   Bottcher M ^f   Bradbury, S M ^g   Buckley, J H ^d   Bugaev, V ^d   Butt, Y ^e   Byrum, K ^h   Cannon, A ⁱ   Celik, O ^c   Cesarini, A ^j   Chow, Y C ^c   Ciupik, L ^k   Cogan, P ^l   Cui, W ^m   Daniel, M K ^g,ac   Dickherber, R ^d   Ergin, T ^e   Falcone, A ⁿ   Fegan, S J ^c   Finley, J P ^m   Fortin, P ^o   Fortson, L ^k   Furniss, A ^p   Gall, D ^m   Gibbs, K ^e   Gillanders, G H ^j   Godambe, S ^q   Grube, J ⁱ   Guenette, R ^l   Gyuk, G ^k   Hanna, D ^l   Hays, E ^r   Holder, J ^b   Horan, D ^s   Hui, C M ^q   Humensky, T B ^t   Imran, A ^u   Kaaret, P ^v   Karlsson, N ^k   Kertzman, M ^w   Kieda, D ^q   Kildea, J ^e   Konopelko, A ^x   Krawczynski, H ^d   Krennrich, F ^u   Lang, M J ^j   Lebohec, S ^q   Maier, G ^l   McCann, A ^l   McCutcheon, M ^l   Millis, J ^y   Moriarty, P ^a   Mukherjee, R ^o   Nagai, T ^u   Ong, R A ^c   Otte, A N ^p   Pandel, D ^v   Perkins, J S ^e   Petry, D ^z   Pizlo, F ^m   Pohl, M ^u   Quinn, J ⁱ   Ragan, K ^l   Reyes, L C ^aa   Reynolds, P T ^ab   Roache, E ^e   Rose, H J ^g   Schroedter, M ^u   Sembroski, G H ^m   Smith, A W ^h   Steele, D ^k   Swordy, S P ^t   Theiling, M ^e   Toner, J A ^j   Varlotta, A ^m   Vassiliev, V V ^c   Wagner, R G ^h   Wakely, S P ^t   Ward, J E ⁱ   Weekes, T C ^e   Weinstein, A ^c   Williams, D A ^p   Wissel, S ^t   Wood, M ^c   Zitzer, B ^m   more..

^a Atlantic Technological University Sligo   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^f OHIO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^h ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^j NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

^k ADLER PLANETARIUM   (United States)

^l MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^m PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

ⁿ PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^o Barnard College of Columbia University   (United States)

^p UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA CRUZ   (United States)

^q UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^r NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^s LABORATOIRE LEPRINCE RINGUET   (France)

^t UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^u IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^v UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^w DEPAUW UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^x PITTSBURG STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^y ANDERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^z EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY   (Germany)

^aa UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^ab Munster Technological University   (Ireland)

^ac DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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Author keywords

BL Lacertae objects: individual (3C 66A); Galaxies: active; Gamma rays: observations

Indexed keywords

EID: 64849092339     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/693/2/L104     Document Type: Article

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