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G349.7+0.2 is a young Galactic supernova remnant (SNR) located at the distance of 11.5 kpc and observed across the entire electromagnetic spectrum from radio to high energy (HE) Gamma-rays. Radio and infrared observations indicate that the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-02-04 H. E. S. S. Collaboration , : , A. Abramowski , F. Aharonian , F. Ait Benkhali , A. G. Akhperjanian , E. O. Angüner , M. Backes , S. Balenderan , A. Balzer , A. Barnacka , Y. Becherini , J. Becker Tjus , D. Berge , S. Bernhard , K. Bernlöhr , E. Birsin , J. Biteau , M. Böttcher , C. Boisson , J. Bolmont , P. Bordas , J. Bregeon , F. Brun , P. Brun , M. Bryan , T. Bulik , S. Carrigan , S. Casanova , P. M. Chadwick , N. Chakraborty , R. Chalme-Calvet , R. C. G. Chaves , M. Chrétien , S. Colafrancesco , G. Cologna , J. Conrad , C. Couturier , Y. Cui , I. D. Davids , B. Degrange , C. Deil , P. deWilt , A. Djannati-Ataï , W. Domainko , A. Donath , L. O'C. Drury , G. Dubus , K. Dutson , J. Dyks , M. Dyrda , T. Edwards , K. Egberts , P. Eger , P. Espigat , C. Farnier , S. Fegan , F. Feinstein , M. V. Fernandes , D. Fernandez , A. Fiasson , G. Fontaine , A. Förster , M. Füßling , S. Gabici , M. Gajdus , Y. A. Gallant , T. Garrigoux , G. Giavitto , B. Giebels , J. F. Glicenstein , D. Gottschall , M. -H. Grondin , M. Grudzińska , D. Hadasch , S. Häffner , J. Hahn , J. Harris , G. Heinzelmann , G. Henri , G. Hermann , O. Hervet , A. Hillert , J. A. Hinton , W. Hofmann , P. Hofverberg , M. Holler , D. Horns , A. Ivascenko , A. Jacholkowska , C. Jahn , M. Jamrozy , M. Janiak , F. Jankowsky , I. Jung-Richardt , M. A. Kastendieck , K. Katarzyński , U. Katz , S. Kaufmann , B. Khélifi , M. Kieffer , S. Klepser , D. Klochkov , W. Kluźniak , D. Kolitzus , Nu. Komin , K. Kosack , S. Krakau , F. Krayzel , P. P. Krüger , H. Laffon , G. Lamanna , J. Lefaucheur , V. Lefranc , A. Lemière , M. Lemoine-Goumard , J. -P. Lenain , T. Lohse , A. Lopatin , C. -C. Lu , V. Marandon , A. Marcowith , R. Marx , G. Maurin , N. Maxted , M. Mayer , T. J. L. McComb , J. Méhault , P. J. Meintjes , U. Menzler , M. Meyer , A. M. W. Mitchell , R. Moderski , M. Mohamed , K. Morå , E. Moulin , T. Murach , M. de Naurois , J. Niemiec , S. J. Nolan , L. Oakes , H. Odaka , S. Ohm , B. Opitz , M. Ostrowski , I. Oya , M. Panter , R. D. Parsons , M. Paz Arribas , N. W. Pekeur , G. Pelletier , P. -O. Petrucci , B. Peyaud , S. Pita , H. Poon , G. Pühlhofer , M. Punch , A. Quirrenbach , S. Raab , I. Reichardt , A. Reimer , O. Reimer , M. Renaud , R. de los Reyes , F. Rieger , C. Romoli , S. Rosier-Lees , G. Rowell , B. Rudak , C. B. Rulten , V. Sahakian , D. Salek , D. A. Sanchez , A. Santangelo , R. Schlickeiser , F. Schüssler , A. Schulz , U. Schwanke , S. Schwarzburg , S. Schwemmer , H. Sol , F. Spanier , G. Spengler , F. Spies , Ł. Stawarz , R. Steenkamp , C. Stegmann , F. Stinzing , K. Stycz , I. Sushch , J. -P. Tavernet , T. Tavernier , A. M. Taylor , R. Terrier , M. Tluczykont , C. Trichard , K. Valerius , C. van Eldik , B. van Soelen , G. Vasileiadis , J. Veh , C. Venter , A. Viana , P. Vincent , J. Vink , H. J. Völk , F. Volpe , M. Vorster , T. Vuillaume , S. J. Wagner , P. Wagner , R. M. Wagner , M. Ward , M. Weidinger , Q. Weitzel , R. White , A. Wierzcholska , P. Willmann , A. Wörnlein , D. Wouters , R. Yang , V. Zabalza , D. Zaborov , M. Zacharias , A. A. Zdziarski , A. Zech , H. -S. Zechlin

We report the results of our analysis of the publicly available data obtained by the Large Area Telescope (LAT) on board of the Fermi satellite towards the direction of the young massive star cluster Westerlund 2. We found significant…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-04-04 Rui-zhi Yang , Emma de Oña Wilhelmi , Felix Aharonian

The Galactic TeV $\gamma$-ray source HESS$\,$J1804$-$216 is currently an unidentified source. In an attempt to unveil its origin, we present here the most detailed study of interstellar gas using data from the Mopra Southern Galactic Plane…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-03-22 K. Feijen , G. Rowell , S. Einecke , C. Braiding , M. G. Burton , N. Maxted , F. Voisin , G. F. Wong

Observations of the HBL blazar 1RXS J023832.6-311658 were made in 2013, 2015 and 2016 with the High Energy Stereoscopic System (H.E.S.S.). An excess of very high energy (VHE: > 100 GeV) gamma rays is clearly observed. The spectral energy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 Florian Gaté

The recent detection of extended $\gamma$-ray emission around middle-aged pulsars is interpreted as inverse-Compton scattering of ambient photons by electron-positron pairs escaping the pulsar wind nebula, which are confined near the system…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-11-12 S. Abdollahi , F. Acero , A. Acharyya , A. Adelfio , M. Ajello , L. Baldini , J. Ballet , C. Bartolini , J. Becerra Gonzalez , R. Bellazzini , E. Bissaldi , R. Bonino , P. Bruel , R. A. Cameron , P. A. Caraveo , D. Castro , E. Cavazzuti , C. C. Cheung , N. Cibrario , S. Ciprini , G. Cozzolongo , P. Cristarella Orestano , A. Cuoco , S. Cutini , F. D'Ammando , N. Di Lalla , A. Dinesh , L. Di Venere , A. Domínguez , A. Fiori , S. Funk , P. Fusco , F. Gargano , C. Gasbarra , D. Gasparrini , S. Germani , F. Giacchino , N. Giglietto , M. Giliberti , F. Giordano , M. Giroletti , D. Green , I. A. Grenier , L. Guillemot , S. Guiriec , R. Gupta , M. Hashizume , E. Hays , J. W. Hewitt , D. Horan , X. Hou , T. Kayanoki , M. Kuss , A. Laviron , M. Lemoine-Goumard , A. Liguori , J. Li , I. Liodakis , P. Loizzo , F. Longo , F. Loparco , L. Lorusso , M. N. Lovellette , P. Lubrano , S. Maldera , D. Malyshev , G. Martí-Devesa , P. Martin , M. N. Mazziotta , I. Mereu , P. F. Michelson , N. Mirabal , W. Mitthumsiri , T. Mizuno , P. Monti-Guarnieri , M. E. Monzani , A. Morselli , I. V. Moskalenko , M. Negro , N. Omodei , M. Orienti , E. Orlando , D. Paneque , G. Panzarini , M. Persic , M. Pesce-Rollins , R. Pillera , T. A. Porter , S. Rainò , R. Rando , M. Razzano , A. Reimer , O. Reimer , M. Rocamora Bernal , M. Sánchez-Conde , P. M. Saz Parkinson , D. Serini , C. Sgrò , E. J. Siskind , D. A. Smith , G. Spandre , P. Spinelli , A. W. Strong , D. J. Suson , H. Tajima , J. B. Thayer , D. F. Torres , J. Valverde , Z. Wadiasingh , K. Wood , G. Zaharijas

HESS J1825-137 is a pulsar wind nebula (PWN) whose TeV emission extends across ~1 deg. Its large asymmetric shape indicates that its progenitor supernova interacted with a molecular cloud located in the north of the PWN as detected by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-04-04 F. Voisin , G. Rowell , M. G. Burton , A. Walsh , Y. Fukui , F. Aharonian

Observations of the Galactic Plane performed by the H.E.S.S. telescope array have revealed a significant excess at very-high-energies (VHE; E>0.1 TeV) from the direction of PSR J1459-60, a rather old gamma-ray pulsar (64 kyr) with a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 R. de los Reyes , A. Zajczyk , R. C. G. Chaves

The High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) gamma-ray observatory is carrying out a detailed survey of the northern sky at TeV energies. 2HWC J2006+341 is a newly discovered source reported by the point source search in the 2HWC HAWC…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-07-25 Miguel Araya

The BL Lac object RGB J0152+017 (z = 0.080) was predicted to be a very high-energy (VHE; > 100 GeV) gamma-ray source, due to its high X-ray and radio fluxes. We report recent observations of this source made in late October and November…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 J. -P. Lenain , D. Nedbal , M. Raue , S. Kaufmann , L. Gérard , M. Hauser , B. Giebels

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…

We report the discovery of 70.5 ms pulsations from the X-ray source AX J1838.0-0655 using the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE). PSR J1838-0655 is a rotation-powered pulsar with spin-down luminosity Edot = 5.5e36 ergs/s, characteristic age…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 E. V. Gotthelf , J. P. Halpern

Very-high-energy (VHE, E>100 GeV) gamma-rays provide a unique view of the non-thermal universe, tracing the most violent and energetic phenomena at work inside our Galaxy and beyond. The latest results of the H.E.S.S. Galactic Plane Survey…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 S. Carrigan , F. Brun , R. C. G. Chaves , C. Deil , H. Gast , V. Marandon

We present high-resolution X-ray images taken with the Chandra X-ray Observatory of the field that contains the unidentified TeV gamma-ray source HESS J1804-216. A total of eleven discrete sources were detected with a posteriori…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Wei Cui , Alexander Konopelko

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

Many of the recently discovered TeV gamma-ray sources are associated with pulsar wind nebulae (PWNe). In fact, they represent the most populous class of Galactic sources at TeV energies. In addition, HESS has also discovered, in a survey of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Chulhoon Chang , Alexander Konopelko , Wei Cui

HESS J0632+057 is the only gamma-ray binary that has been detected at TeV energies, but not at GeV energies yet. Based on nearly nine years of Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) Pass 8 data, we report here on a deep search for the gamma-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-09-20 Jian Li , Diego F. Torres , K. -S. Cheng , Emma de Ona Wilhelmi , Peter Kretschmar , Xian Hou , Jumpei Takata

At the center of our Galaxy lies the bright {\gamma}-ray point-like source HESS J1745-290, which is compatible in position with Sgr A star, although an association between the two remains uncertain. Using data obtained between 2004 and 2019…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-12 H. E. S. S. Collaboration , : , A. Acharyya , F. Aharonian , M. Backes , R. Batzofin , D. Berge , K. Bernlöhr , M. Böttcher , C. Boisson , J. Bolmont , F. Brun , B. Bruno , C. Burger-Scheidlin , T. Bylund , J. Celic , M. Cerruti , A. Chen , M. Chernyakova , J. O. Chibueze , O. Chibueze , B. Cornejo , G. Cotter , J. Damascene Mbarubucyeye , J. de Assis Scarpin , M. de Bony de Lavergne , M. de Naurois , E. de Oña Wilhelmi , A. G. Delgado Giler , J. Devin , A. Djannati-Ataï , A. Dmytriiev , K. Egg , J. -P. Ernenwein , C. Escanuela Nieves , P. Fauverge , K. Feijen , M. D. Filipovic , G. Fontaine , S. Funk , S. Gabici , J. F. Glicenstein , J. Glombitza , P. Goswami , L. Heckmann , B. Hess , J. A. Hinton , W. Hofmann , T. L. Holch , M. Holler , D. Horns , M. Jamrozy , F. Jankowsky , I. Jaroschewski , I. Jung-Richardt , D. Kerszberg , B. Khélifi , N. Komin , K. Kosack , D. Kostunin , R. G. Lang , S. Lazarevic , A. Lemière , M. Lemoine-Goumard , J. -P. Lenain , P. Liniewicz , J. Mackey , D. Malyshev , V. Marandon , M. G. F. Mayer , A. Mehta , A. M. W. Mitchell , R. Moderski , L. Mohrmann , A. Montanari , J. Niemiec , L. Olivera-Nieto , M. O. Moghadam , S. Panny , R. D. Parsons8 , U. Pensec , P. Pichard , T. Preis , G. Pühlhofer , M. Punch , A. Quirrenbach , A. Reimer , O. Reimer , I. Reis , H. X. Ren , B. Reville , F. Rieger , G. Rowell , B. Rudak , K. Sabri , V. Sahakian , A. Santangelo , M. Sasaki , F. Schüssler , W. Si Said , H. Sol , L. Stawarz , T. Tanaka , G. L. Taylor , R. Terrier , M. Tsirou , T. Unbehaun , C. van Eldik , M. Vecchi , C. Venter , J. Vink , V. Voitsekhovskyi , T. Wach , S. J. Wagner , A. Wierzcholska , M. Zacharias , A. Zech , W. Zhong , S. Zouari

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

We present the results of current observations of the young compact cluster of massive stars Westerlund 2 with the Mikhail Pavlinsky ART-XC telescope aboard the Spectrum-Roentgen-Gamma (SRG) observatory which we analysed together with the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-09-11 A. M. Bykov , Yu. A. Uvarov , M. E. Kalyashova , D. V. Badmaev , I. Yu. Lapshov , A. A. Lutovinov , I. A. Mereminskiy , A. N. Semena

PSR B1259-63/LS 2883 is a binary system consisting of a 48 ms pulsar orbitting around a Be star with an orbital period of ~3.4 years. The system was detected at very high energies (VHE; E > 100 GeV) by the High Energy Stereoscopic System…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-03-07 I. Sushch , M. de Naurois , U. Schwanke , G. Spengler , P. Bordas