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Canonical Name:M 87
TeVCat Name:TeV J1230+123
Other Names:1ES 1228+126
1H 1226+128
Source Type:FRI
R.A.:12 30 47.2 (hh mm ss)
Dec.:+12 23 51 (dd mm ss)
Gal Long: 283.74 (deg)
Gal Lat: 74.49 (deg)
Distance: z=0.0044
Flux:0.075 (Crab Units)
Energy Threshold:730 GeV
Spectral Index:
Extended:No
Discovery Date:2003-05
Discovered By: HEGRA
TeVCat SubCat:Default Catalog

Source Notes:

Source position and its uncertainty:
From Acciari et al. (2008):
- RA (J2000): 12h 30m 46s +/- 4s(stat) +/ 6s(syst)
- Dec (J2000): +12d 23' 21" +/- 50"(stat) +/- 1'30"(syst)
From Aharonian et al. (2006) - position used in main table:
- RA (J2000): 12h30m47.2s +/- 1.4s(stat) +/-20s(syst)
- Dec (J2000): +12d23'51" +/- 19"(stat) +/- 20"(syst)
From Aharonian et al. (2003):
- RA (J2000): 12h30m54.4s +/- 6.9s(stat) +/- 1.7s(syst)
- Dec (J2000): 12d24'17" +/- 1.7'(stat) +/- 0.4'(syst)

Source Distance:
Nominal distance is 16 Mpc

Spectral Information and Flux:
From MAGIC Collaboration (2020):
- "The integral flux level between 2012 and 2015 is compatible with
those observed with H.E.S.S. in 2004 (Aharonian et al. 2006) and with
MAGIC between 2005 and 2007 (Aleksic et al. 2012), when the source
was in a low emission state in the TeV band, which can be defined as
some 5-10% of the Crab Nebula flux at energies 400 GeV < E < 1 TeV."
- We therefore quote a flux of 7.5% Crab in TeVCat.
- "The low emission state is clearly separated from the flaring periods
in 2005, 2008 and 2010 ( 2009; Abramowski et al. 2012;
Beilicke & VERITAS Collaboration 2012)."

- "Mean integral flux above 300 GeV observed with MAGIC between 2012
and 2015 obtained from a fit with a constant to the approx. 20-day
binned light curves (F>300 GeV [10-12 cm-2 s-1]):"
... 2012: 1.18 +/- 0.25
... 2013: 1.72 +/- 0.30
... 2014: 1.49 +/- 0.22
... 2015: 1.25 +/- 0.33
... 2012-2015: 1.44 +/- 0.13

- The authors also compiled the flux and spectral information for other TeV observations:
... "Comparison of the integral fluxes (400 GeV < E < 1 TeV), spectral
indices (A) and differential fluxes observed in 2004-2005 with
H.E.S.S. (Aharonian et al. 2006), 2005-2007 with MAGIC (Aleksic et al. 2012),
in 2007 and 2010 with VERITAS (Acciari et al. 2008; Aliu et al. 2012),
in 2008 with MAGIC (Albert et al. 2008) and between 2012 and 2015 with
MAGIC (this work). The integral fluxes are extrapolated from the
simple power-law fits to the observed spectra. The differential flux
is compared for the decorrelation energy of 784 GeV obtained for the
data of this work, adopting the parameters of the individual fits. The
values shown include statistical errors only and are obtained by error
propagation assuming the errors of the flux normalization and the
spectral index to be uncorrelated."

Array Year F 400 GeV A f E=784 GeV
[10-12 cm-2 s-1] [10-12 TeV-1cm-2s-1]
H.E.S.S. 2004 0.51 +/- 0.22 -2.62 +/- 0.35 0.46 +/- 0.15
H.E.S.S. 2005 1.97 +/- 0.44 -2.22 +/- 0.15 2.01 +/- 0.28
MAGIC 2005 - 2007 0.90 +/- 0.44 -2.21 +/- 0.21 0.92 +/- 0.24
VERITAS 2007 1.31 +/- 0.38 -2.31 +/- 0.17 1.30 +/- 0.23
MAGIC 2008 5.09 +/- 1.00 -2.30 +/- 0.11 5.06 +/- 0.66
VERITAS 2010 7.82 +/- 0.80 -2.19 +/- 0.07 8.03 +/- 0.51
MAGIC 2012 - 2015 0.74 +/- 0.08 -2.41 +/- 0.07 0.71 +/- 0.06


From Aleksic et al.(2012):
- Spectral index: 2.21 +/- 0.21
From Acciari et al. (2008):
- Spectral index: 2.31 +/- 0.17 (stat) +/- 0.2 (syst)
From Aharonian et al. (2006):
- Spectral index (2005 data): 2.22 +/- 0.15 (stat) +/- 0.1 (syst)
- Spectral index (2004 data): 2.63 +/- 0.35 (stat) +/- 0.1 (syst)
From Aharonian et al. (2003):
- Spectral index: 2.9 +/- 0.8(stat) +/- 0.08(syst)

Classification:

From Albert et al. (2008):
- "M87 is a giant elliptical radio galaxy (RG) of Fanaroff Riley I
type (FR I; Fanaroff & Riley 1974)"


Seen by: HEGRA, H.E.S.S., VERITAS, MAGIC, HAWC
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