Physics
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Aug 2001
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Proceedings of the 27th International Cosmic Ray Conference. 07-15 August, 2001. Hamburg, Germany. Under the auspices of the Int
Physics
Scientific paper
Amongst others, the Whipple Telescope has been used extensively over the past decade to search for VHE emission from active galaxies. Different criteria have been used in target selection. Here we report on a new candidate, 4C 39.12, a radio selected source in the 408 MHz B2 survey which includes the BL Lac objects Mkn 421 and Mkn 501. Given its low redshift (z=0.02) and the recent identification of a relativistic jet at a small angle with respect to the line of sight, 4C 39.12 is a fair candidate for VHE observations. This object has not been catalogued by EGRET but was detected by ROSAT at a level consistent with non-thermal emission from the core. Over a period of 5 months 4C 39.12 was monitored for evidence of γ-ray emission with the Whipple Telescope, which has an effective energy threshold of 390 GeV. A 99.9% confidence upper limit to the flux of 21 × 10-12 cm-2 s-1 is derived from these observations.
de La Calle Ignacio
VERITAS Collaboration
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