Status and Selected Recent Results of the HEGRA Imaging Air Cherenkov Telescopes
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The status of the HEGRA imaging air Cherenkov telescopes is summarized. We present results from a survey of the Galactic plane for point sources with a limiting flux of approximately a third of the flux seen from the Crab Nebula. For Mkn 421 (z = 0.031) we present the detection of spectral variability correlated with the flux. Finally, we summarize results of observations carried out on the most distant known TeV Blazar H1426+428 (z = 0.129) in the years 1999, 2000, and 2002.
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تاریخ انتشار 2002