Rui-zhi Yang, Narek Sahakyan, Emma de Ona Wilhelmi, Felix Aharonian, Frank Rieger
The detection of high energy (HE) {\gamma}-ray emission up to about 3 GeV
from the giant lobes of the radio galaxy Centaurus A has been recently reported
by the Fermi-LAT Collaboration based on ten months of all-sky survey
observations. A data set more than three times larger is used here to study the
morphology and photon spectrum of the lobes with higher statistics. The larger
data set results in the detection of HE {\gamma}-ray emission (up to about 6
GeV) from the lobes with a significance of more than 10 and 20 {\sigma} for the
North and the South lobe, respectively. Based on a detailed spatial analysis
and comparison with the associated radio lobes, we report evidence for a
substantial extension of the HE {\gamma}-ray emission beyond the WMAP radio
image in the case of the Northern lobe of Cen A. We reconstruct the spectral
energy distribution (SED) of the lobes using radio (WMAP) and Fermi-LAT data
from the same integration region. The implications are discussed in the context
of hadronic and leptonic scenarios.
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http://arxiv.org/abs/1201.1217
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