{"paper":{"title":"Discovery of very-high-energy emission from RGB J2243+203 and derivation of its redshift upper limit","license":"http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/","headline":"","cross_cats":[],"primary_cat":"astro-ph.HE","authors_text":"A. Archer, A. Falcone, A. Furniss, A. N. Otte, A. Petrashyk, A. Popkow, A. U. Abeysekara, A. Weinstein, A. Wilhelm, B. Zitzer, C. A. Johnson, C. Rulten, D. A. Williams, D. Hanna, D. Kieda, D. Nieto, D. Staszak, E. Puesche, E. Roache, F. Krennrich, G. H. Gillanders, G. H. Sembroski, G. Maier, G. T. Richards, H. Fleischhack, I. Sadeh, I. Telezhinsky, J. Grube, J. H. Buckley, J. Holder, J. P. Finley, J. Quinn, J. Tyler, K. Ragan, K. Shahinyan, L. Fortson, M. Buchovecky, M. Cerruti, M. Hutten, M. J. Lang, M. Kertzman, M. Krause, M. P. Connolly, M. Poh, M. Santander, N. Kelley-Hoskins, N. Park, O. Hervet, O. M. Weiner, P. Kaaret, P. Kar, P. Moriarty, P. T. Reynolds, P. Wilcox, Q. Feng, R. A. Ong, R. Bird, R. Brose, R. Mukherjee, S. Archambault, S. Griffin, S. Kumar, S. McArthur, S. OBrien, S. P. Wakely, T. B. Humensky, V. Bugaev, V. V. Vassiliev, W. Benbow, W. Cui","submitted_at":"2017-09-15T20:58:10Z","abstract_excerpt":"Very-high-energy (VHE; $>$ 100 GeV) gamma-ray emission from the blazar RGB J2243+203 was discovered with the VERITAS Cherenkov telescope array, during the period between 21 and 24 December 2014. The VERITAS energy spectrum from this source can be fit by a power law with a photon index of $4.6 \\pm 0.5$, and a flux normalization at 0.15 TeV of $(6.3 \\pm 1.1) \\times 10^{-10} ~ \\textrm{cm}^{-2} \\textrm{s}^{-1} \\textrm{TeV}^{-1}$. The integrated \\textit{Fermi}-LAT flux from 1 GeV to 100 GeV during the VERITAS detection is $(4.1 \\pm 0.8) \\times 10^{\\textrm{-8}} ~\\textrm{cm}^{\\textrm{-2}}\\textrm{s}^{"},"claims":{"count":0,"items":[],"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"source":{"id":"1709.05403","kind":"arxiv","version":1},"verdict":{"id":null,"model_set":{},"created_at":null,"strongest_claim":"","one_line_summary":"","pipeline_version":null,"weakest_assumption":"","pith_extraction_headline":""},"references":{"count":0,"sample":[],"resolved_work":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57","internal_anchors":0},"formal_canon":{"evidence_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"author_claims":{"count":0,"strong_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"builder_version":"pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1"}