{"paper":{"title":"Multiwavelength Observations of the Previously Unidentified Blazar RX J0648.7+1516","license":"http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/","headline":"","cross_cats":[],"primary_cat":"astro-ph.HE","authors_text":"A. Bouvier, A. Cannon, A. Cesarini, A. Falcone, A. Furniss, A. McCann, A. N. Otte, A. Pichel, A. Varlotta, A. Weinstein, A. W. Smith, B. Hivick, B. Zitzer (The VERITAS Collaboration), C. Duke, C. M. Hui, C. Skole, D. A. Williams, D. B. Saxon, D. Gall, D. Hanna, D. Kieda, D. Paneque, D. Staszak, E. Aliu, E. Roache, F. Krennrich, G. Decerprit, G. Finnegan, G. Gyuk, G. H. Gillanders, G. H. Sembroski, G. Hughes, G. Maier, G. Tesic, H. Huan, H. J. Rose, H. Krawczynski, H. Prokoph, J. Grube, J. H. Buckley, J. Holder, J. Quinn, J. Ruppel, J. S. Perkins, J. Tyler, J. X. Prochaska, K. Kaplan, K. Ragan, K. Tsurusaki, L. Ciupik, L. C. Reyes, L. Fortson, M. Beilicke, M. B\\\"ottcher, M. Errando, M. Fumagalli, M. Kertzman, M. Orr, M. P. Connolly, M. Pohl, M. Theiling, N. Galante, N. Karlsson, N. Park, P. Kaaret, P. Majumdar, P. Moriarty, P. T. Reynolds, Q. Feng, R. A. Ong, R. Dickherber, R. Mukherjee, S. Ciprini, S. Godambe, S. Griffin, S. M. Bradbury, S. McArthur, S. P. Wakely, S. Thibadeau, T. Aune, T. B. Humensky, T. C. Weekes, T. Nelson, V. Bugaev, V. V. Vassiliev, W. Benbow, W. Cui","submitted_at":"2011-10-26T23:52:56Z","abstract_excerpt":"We report on the VERITAS discovery of very-high-energy (VHE) gamma- ray emission above 200 GeV from the high-frequency-peaked BL Lac object RXJ0648.7+1516 (GBJ0648+1516), associated with 1FGLJ0648.8+1516. The photon spectrum above 200 GeV is fit by a power law dN/dE = F0(E/E0)-{\\Gamma} with a photon index {\\Gamma} of 4.4 {\\pm} 0.8stat {\\pm}0.3syst and a flux normalization F0 of (2.3 {\\pm}0.5stat {\\pm} 1.2sys) {\\times} 10-11 TeV-1cm-2s-1 with E0 = 300 GeV. No VHE vari- ability is detected during VERITAS observations of RXJ0648.7+1516 between 2010 March 4 and April 15. Following the VHE discover"},"claims":{"count":0,"items":[],"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"source":{"id":"1110.5949","kind":"arxiv","version":2},"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"}