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2016Report
The BL Lacertae object 1ES 1440+122 was observed in the energy range from 85 GeV to 30 TeV by the VERITAS array of imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes. The observa-tions, taken between 2008 May and 2010 June and totalling 53 h, resulted in the discovery of γ-ray emission from the blazar, which has a redshift z = 0.163. 1ES 1440+122 is detected at a statistical significance of 5.5 standard deviations above the background with an integral flux of (2.8 ± 0.7 $_{stat}$±0.8$_{sys}$) × 10$^{−12}$ cm$^{−2}$ s$^{−1}$ (1.2 per cent of the Crab Nebula’s flux) above 200 GeV. The measured spectrum is described well by a power law from 0.2 to 1.3 TeV with a photon index of 3.1 ± 0.4$_{stat}$ ± 0.2$_{sys}$. Quasi-simultaneous multiwavelength data from the Fermi Large Area Telescope (0.3–300 GeV) and the Swift X-ray Telescope (0.2–10 keV) are additionally used to model the properties of the emission region. A synchrotron self-Compton model produces a good representation of the multiwavelength data. Adding an external-Compton or a hadronic component also adequately describes the data.
