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ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
Volume 746, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/746/1/80
Keywords
binaries: general; gamma rays: general; stars: individual (LS I+61 degrees 303); X-rays: binaries; X-rays: individual (LS I+61 degrees 303)
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Funding
- German BMBF
- MPG
- Italian INFN
- Swiss National Fund SNF
- Spanish MICINN
- Marie Curie
- CPAN [CSD2007-00042]
- MultiDark [CSD2009-00064]
- Bulgarian NSF [DO02-353]
- Academy of Finland [127740]
- YIP of the Helmholtz Gemeinschaft
- DFG Cluster of Excellence Origin and Structure of the Universe,
- Polish MNiSzW [N203 390834]
- ICREA Funding Source: Custom
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [22840030] Funding Source: KAKEN
- Academy of Finland (AKA) [127740, 127740] Funding Source: Academy of Finland (AKA)
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We present very high energy (E > 100 GeV) gamma-ray observations of the gamma-ray binary system LS I +61 degrees 303 obtained with the MAGIC stereo system between 2009 October and 2010 January. We detect a 6.3 sigma gamma-ray signal above 400 GeV in the combined data set. The integral flux above an energy of 300 GeV is F(E > 300 GeV) = (1.4 +/- 0.3(stat) +/- 0.4(syst)) x 10(-12) cm(-2) s(-1), which corresponds to about 1.3% of the Crab Nebula flux in the same energy range. The orbit-averaged flux of LS I +61 degrees 303 in the orbital phase interval 0.6-0.7, where a maximum of the TeV flux is expected, is lower by almost an order of magnitude compared to our previous measurements between 2005 September and 2008 January. This provides evidence for a new low-flux state in LS I +61 degrees 303. We find that the change to the low-flux state cannot be solely explained by an increase of photon-photon absorption around the compact star.
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