Blazar 3C 66A: Another extragalactic source of ultra-high-energy gamma-ray photons

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Mar 1998

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Astronomy Letters, Volume 24, Issue 2, March 1998, pp.134-138; Pis'ma v Astronomicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 24, p. 167

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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he observations of the object 3C 66A which were carried out with the GT-48 gamma-ray telescope at the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory in November-December 1996 revealed a flux of ultra-high-energy (>10^12 eV) gamma-ray photons from this blazar. According to preliminary estimates, the photon flux is (31) 10^11 photons cm^-2 s^-1. The blazar 3C 66A is the third extragalactic object from which a flux of ultra- high-energy gamma-ray photons was detected. Fluxes of gamma-ray photons were previously detected from the galaxies Mk 421 and Mk 501 at the Whipple observatory. This result provides further evidence that active processes proceed in blazars which are accompanied by the generation of cosmic rays responsible for the emission of gamma-ray photons.

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