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The H.E.S.S. Galactic plane scan has revealed a large population of Galactic very high energy (VHE; E > 100 GeV) emitters. The majority of the galactic sources are extended and can typically be associated with pulsar wind nebulae (35%) and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 Karlen Shahinyan

The imaging atmospheric Cherenkov array H.E.S.S. recently discovered an extended source in the 0.4$-$10 TeV energy range, HESS J1303-631. We obtained a 5 ks observation with the ACIS-I array on the Chandra X-ray observatory that does not…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 R. Mukherjee , J. P. Halpern

Very high-energy gamma-rays (VHE; E>100 GeV) have been detected from the direction of the Galactic Centre up to energies E>10 TeV. Up to now, the origin of this emission is unknown due to the limited positional accuracy of the observing…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2010-02-12 A. Abramowski , S. Gillessen , D. Horns , H. -S. Zechlin

We report the discovery of faint very high energy (VHE, E > 100 GeV) gamma-ray emission from the radio galaxy Centaurus A in deep observations performed with the H.E.S.S. experiment. A signal with a statistical significance of 5.0 sigma is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 M. Raue , J. -P. Lenain , F. A. Aharonian , Y. Becherini , C. Boisson , A. -C. Clapson , L. Costamante , L. Gerard , C. Medina , M. de Naurois , M. Punch , F. Rieger , H. Sol , L. Stawarz , A. Zech

The imaging capabilities of the INTEGRAL and HESS observatories allow the study of hard X-ray and TeV sources with unprecedented positional accuracy. Here I review the multiwavelength followup studies which are currently being performed on…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-10-25 N. Masetti

The very-high energy (VHE, E > 100 GeV) gamma-ray sky shows diverse Galactic and extragalactic source populations. For some sources the astrophysical object class could not be identified so far. The nature (Galactic or extragalactic) of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-22 D. Peter , W. Domainko , D. A. Sanchez , A. van der Wel , W. Gässler

HESS J1745-303 is an extended, unidentified VHE (very high energy) gamma-ray source discovered using HESS in the Galactic Plane Survey. Since no obvious counterpart has previously been found in longer-wavelength data, the processes that…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-05-15 HESS Collaboration , F. Aharonian

The view of the gamma-ray universe is being continuously expanded by space high energy (HE) and ground based very-high energy (VHE) observatories. Yet, the angular resolution limitation still precludes a straightforward identification of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-03-17 Paula Benaglia , C. H. Ishwara-Chandra , Josep M. Paredes , Huib T. Intema , Marcelo E. Colazo , Natacha L. Isequilla

The High Energy Stereoscopic System (H.E.S.S.), located in the Khomas Highlands of Namibia, is an array of four imaging atmospheric-Cherenkov telescopes designed to detect gamma-rays in the very high energy (VHE; > 100 GeV) domain. Its high…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-15 S. Hoppe

The High Energy Stereoscopic System (H.E.S.S.) consists of four Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes (IACTs) in Namibia for the detection of cosmic very-high-energy (VHE) gamma-rays. Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are among the potential VHE…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 Pak-Hin Tam , Paula Chadwick , Yves Gallant , Dieter Horns , Gerd Pühlhofer , Gavin Rowell , Stefan Wagner

Aim: We have collected the most complete multi-wavelength ($6.0 - 6.0 \times 10^{-18} cm$) dataset of very high energy (VHE) $\gamma$-ray emitting (TeV) BL Lacs, which are the most numerous extragalactic VHE sources. Using significant…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-12-13 V. Fallah Ramazani , E. Lindfors , K. Nilsson

The nature of the first unidentified VHE gamma-ray source with significant angular offset from the Galactic plane of 3.5 degrees, HESS J1507-622, is explored. Fermi-LAT data in the high-energy (HE, 100 MeV < E < 100 GeV) gamma-ray range…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-04 Wilfried Domainko , Stefan Ohm

The HESS Galactic Plane Survey (HGPS), published in 2018, presented a decade of very-high-energy (VHE) gamma-ray observations along the Galactic plane. This study was accompanied by the release of several maps in FITS format, offering a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-19 François Brun , Baptiste Le Nagat-Neher , Marianne Lemoine-Goumard , Marie-Hélène Grondin , Paul Fauverge

We report the discovery of faint very high energy (VHE, E>100 GeV) gamma-ray emission from the radio galaxy Centaurus A in observations performed with the H.E.S.S. experiment, an imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescope array consisting of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-12-17 HESS Collaboration , F. Aharonian

HESS J0632+057 has been recently identified as a new gamma-ray binary system. The source, located in the Monoceros region and associated with the massive Be star MWC 148, shows variability from radio to very high energy (VHE) gamma-rays,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 Pol Bordas , Gernot Maier

High-energy photons are a powerful probe for astrophysics and for fundamental physics under extreme conditions. During the recent years, our knowledge of the most violent phenomena in the universe has impressively progressed thanks to the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-28 Alessandro De Angelis

HESS J1641-463 is a unique source discovered by the High Energy Stereoscopic System (H.E.S.S.) telescope array in the multi-TeV domain. The source had been previously hidden in the extended tail of emission from the bright nearby source…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 I. Oya , S. Casanova , F. Aharonian , M. Dalton

A new TeV source, HESS J1641-463, has been serendipitously discovered in the Galactic plane by the High Energy Stereoscopic System (H.E.S.S.) at a significance level of 8.6 standard deviations. The observations of HESS J1641-463 were…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-03-07 I. Oya , M. Dalton , B. Behera , P. Bordas , A. Djannati-Ataï , J. Hahn , V. Marandon , U. Schwanke , G. Spengler , H. E. S. S. Collaboration

The unidentified TeV gamma-ray source MGRO J1908+06/HESS J1908+063 was observed with the VERITAS Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Array during October 2007 and May-June 2008. This extended source is located on the galactic plane at a galactic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-13 John E Ward

The High Energy Stereoscopic System (HESS) survey of the Galactic plane has established the existence of a substantial number (~40) of Galactic TeV gamma-ray sources, a large fraction of which remain unidentified. HESS J0632+057 is one of a…