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Background Modelling in Very-High-Energy gamma-ray Astronomy

Ground based Cherenkov telescope systems measure astrophysical gamma-ray emission against a background of cosmic-ray induced air showers. The subtraction of this background is a major challenge for the extraction of spectra and morphology…

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Ultrahigh Energy Cosmic Rays and Prompt TeV Gamma Rays from Gamma Ray Bursts

Gamma Ray Bursts (GRBs) have been proposed as one {\it possible} class of sources of the Ultrahigh Energy Cosmic Ray (UHECR) events observed up to energies $\gsim10^{20}\ev$. The synchrotron radiation of the highest energy protons…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Pijushpani Bhattacharjee , Nayantara Gupta

HESS J0632+057 : A new gamma-ray binary?

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…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-12-18 J. A. Hinton , J. L. Skilton , S. Funk , J. Brucker , F. A. Aharonian , G. Dubus , A. Fiasson , Y. Gallant , W. Hofmann , A. Marcowith , O. Reimer

H.E.S.S. searches for TeV gamma rays associated to high-energy neutrinos

The detection of an astrophysical flux of high-energy neutrinos by IceCube is a major step forward in the search for the origin of cosmic rays, as this emission is expected to originate in hadronic interactions taking place in or near…

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Detection of very-high-energy gamma-ray emission from the vicinity of PSR B1706-44 with H.E.S.S

The energetic pulsar PSR B1706-44 and the adjacent supernova remnant (SNR) candidate G 343.1-2.3 were observed by H.E.S.S. during a dedicated observational campaign in 2007. A new source of very-high-energy (VHE; E > 100 GeV) gamma-ray…

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Discovery and follow-up studies of the extended, off-plane, VHE gamma-ray source HESS J1507-622

Context: The detection of gamma-rays in the very-high-energy (VHE) range (100 GeV-100 TeV) offers the possibility of studying the parent population of ultrarelativistic particles found in astrophysical sources, so it is useful for…

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Latest results on dark matter searches with H.E.S.S

The nature of Dark Matter (DM) is one of the most debated questions of contemporary physics. Ground-based arrays of Cherenkov telescopes such as the High Energy Spectroscopic System (H.E.S.S.) search for DM signatures through the detection…

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H.E.S.S. observations of composite Seyfert-starburst galaxies

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Ground-Based Gamma-Ray Astronomy at Energies Above 10 TeV: Searching for Galactic PeV Cosmic-Ray Accelerators

The origin of Galactic CRs up the knee energy remains unanswered and provides strong motivation for the study of gamma-ray sources at energies above 10 TeV. We discuss recent results from ground-based gamma-ray Cherenkov imaging systems at…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Rowell , F. Aharonian , A. Plyasheshnikov

The case of the missing VHE GRBs: A retrospective study of Swift gamma-ray bursts with Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are particle acceleration sites that can emit photons in the very high-energy (VHE) domain through non-thermal processes. From 2004 until 2018, the current generation of Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-02-27 Halim Ashkar , Aurélie Sangaré , Stephen Fegan , Jean Damascene Mbarubucyeye , Edna Ruiz-Velasco , Sylvia J. Zhu

High Energy Gamma Rays

The Very High Energy Gamma Ray Astronomy (VHE) is a rapidly evolving branch of modern astronomy, which covers the range from about 50 GeV to several tens of TeV from the ground. In the past years, the second generation instruments firmly…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Mathieu de Naurois

H.E.S.S. observations of the Galactic Center region and their possible dark matter interpretation

The detection of gamma-rays from the source HESS J1745-290 in the Galactic Center (GC) region with the H.E.S.S. array of Cherenkov telescopes in 2004 is presented. After subtraction of the diffuse gamma-ray emission from the GC ridge, the…

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Prospects for the Detection of High-Redshift Gamma-Ray Bursts in the Era of EP and SVOM

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are a promising probe of the high-redshift Universe, but their detection remains observationally challenging. In this work, we explore the detectability of high-$z$ GRBs by the Wide-field X-ray Telescope (WXT) aboard…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-21 Jun-Jie Wei , Xue-Feng Wu

Long-term gamma-ray observations of the binary HESS J0632+057 with H.E.S.S., MAGIC and VERITAS

The gamma-ray binary HESS J0632+057 has been observed at very-high energies (E $>$ 100 GeV) for more than ten years by the major systems of imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes. We present a summary of results obtained with the…

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The H.E.S.S. Gravitational Wave and Gamma-Ray Burst Follow-Up Programs

Multi-wavelength and multi-messenger astrophysics have experienced rapid growth over the past decade, seeking a complete picture of different cosmic phenomena. Transient sources, in particular, benefit from the input of multi-messenger…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-06 Bernardo Cornejo , Halim Ashkar , Matteo Cerruti , Ilja Jaroschewski , Pierre Pichard , Santiago Pita , Fabian Schussler

HEGS : Revisiting a decade of H.E.S.S. extragalactic observations

During its first phase, from 2004 up to the end of 2012, the H.E.S.S. (High Energy Stereoscopic System) experiment observed the extragalactic skies for more than 2700 hours. These data have been re-analysed in a single consistent framework,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-19 François Brun , David Sanchez , Andrew M. Taylor , Matteo Cerruti , Jean-Philippe Lenain

H.E.S.S. discovery of very-high-energy gamma-ray emission of PKS 1440-389

Blazars are the most abundant class of known extragalactic very-high-energy (VHE, E>100 GeV) gamma-ray sources. However, one of the biggest difficulties in investigating their VHE emission resides in their limited number, since less than 60…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 H. Prokoph , Y. Becherini , M. Böttcher , C. Boisson , J. -P. Lenain , I. Sushch

Discovery of two candidate pulsar wind nebulae in very-high-energy gamma rays

We present the discovery of two very-high-energy gamma-ray sources in an ongoing systematic search for emission above 100 GeV from pulsar wind nebulae in survey data from the H.E.S.S. telescope array. Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov…

Astrophysics · Physics 2012-08-27 H. E. S. S. Collaboration , : , F. Aharonian

Discovery of a VHE gamma-ray source coincident with the supernova remnant CTB 37A

The supernova remnant (SNR) complex CTB 37 is an interesting candidate for observations with Very High Energy (VHE) gamma-ray telescopes such as H.E.S.S. In this region, three SNRs are seen. One of them is potentially associated with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 HESS Collaboration , F Aharonian