Observations of the blazar 1ES 2344+514 with RXTE, Swift, and VERITAS
Abstract
We present multiwavelength observations of the high-frequency peaked blazar 1ES 2344+514 from October 2007 to January 2008. Very high energy (VHE) γ-ray observations with VERITAS resulted in strong detections on several nights, showing nightly variability in the integral flux above 300 GeV Near simultaneous X-ray observations with RXTE PCA and Swift XRT revealed moderately correlated flux variability between the X-ray and VHE γ-ray bands. Swift UVOT and XRT observations showed a significant shift to higher synchrotron peak energies at increased peak fluxes. Results are discussed from Synchrotron Self-Compton modeling of the near-simultaneous UV to TeV γ-ray spectral energy distributions.
- Publication:
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American Institute of Physics Conference Series
- Pub Date:
- December 2008
- DOI:
- 10.1063/1.3076740
- Bibcode:
- 2008AIPC.1085..585G
- Keywords:
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- 98.54.Aj;
- 95.85.Pw;
- 98.62.Py;
- Quasars;
- gamma-ray;
- Distances redshifts radial velocities;
- spatial distribution of galaxies