{"id":179858,"date":"2024-01-05T01:25:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-05T07:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/breaking-astrophysical-boundaries-lst-1-discovers-most-distant-high-energy-agn"},"modified":"2024-01-05T01:25:00","modified_gmt":"2024-01-05T07:25:00","slug":"breaking-astrophysical-boundaries-lst-1-discovers-most-distant-high-energy-agn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/breaking-astrophysical-boundaries-lst-1-discovers-most-distant-high-energy-agn","title":{"rendered":"Breaking Astrophysical Boundaries: LST-1 Discovers Most Distant High-Energy AGN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/breaking-astrophysical-boundaries-lst-1-discovers-most-distant-high-energy-agn2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>LST-1\u2019s discovery of the distant quasar OP 313 at high energies marks a milestone in astronomy, highlighting the telescope\u2019s advanced capabilities in exploring the farthest reaches of the universe.<\/p>\n<p>On December 15, the Large-Sized Telescope (LST) Collaboration announced through an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.astronomerstelegram.org\/?read=16381\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Astronomer\u2019s Telegram (ATel)<\/a> the detection of the source OP 313 at very high energies with the LST-1. Although OP 313 was known at lower energies, it had never been detected above 100 GeV, making this the LST-1\u2019s first scientific discovery. With these results, OP 313 becomes the most distant <a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/astronomy-astrophysics-101-active-galactic-nucleus\/\">Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN)<\/a> ever detected by a Cherenkov telescope, further showcasing the LST prototype\u2019s exceptional performance while it is being commissioned on the CTAO-North site on the island of La Palma, Spain.<\/p>\n<p>The Nature and Observation of OP 313.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LST-1\u2019s discovery of the distant quasar OP 313 at high energies marks a milestone in astronomy, highlighting the telescope\u2019s advanced capabilities in exploring the farthest reaches of the universe. On December 15, the Large-Sized Telescope (LST) Collaboration announced through an Astronomer\u2019s Telegram (ATel) the detection of the source OP 313 at very high energies with [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-179858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179858\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}