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H.E.S.S. is an array of five Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes (IACTs) located 1800 m above sea level in the Khomas Highland of Namibia and is sensitive to very-high-energy (VHE) gamma rays between tens of GeV to tens of TeV. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 D. Lennarz , P. M. Chadwick , W. Domainko , R. D. Parsons , G. Rowell , P. H. T. Tam

The High Energy Stereoscopic System (H.E.S.S.) - is a system of four, 107 m^2 mirror area, imaging Cherenkov telescopes under construction in the Khomas Highland of Namibia (1800 m asl). The H.E.S.S. system is characterised by a low…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 J. A. Hinton

Global expansion of the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) will see the strategic addition of antennas at new geographical locations, transforming the sensitivity and imaging fidelity of the $\lambda \sim 1$\,mm EHT array. A possible South…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-11 Senkhosi Simelane , Roger Deane , Athol Kemball , Roelf Botha , Roufurd Julie , Keitumetse Molamu , Adrian Tiplady , Aletha de Witt

The High Energy Stereoscopic System H.E.S.S. is an array of Cherenkov Telescopes located in the Khomas Highlands in Namibia. H.E.S.S. started operations in 2003 and has been operated very successfully since then. With its location in the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-24 Gerd Pühlhofer , Fabian Leuschner , Heiko Salzmann

The construction of the H.E.S.S. (High Energy Stereoscopic System), a superior system of four 12 m imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes, has been completed recently in the Namib desert close to Windhoek, at 1800 m above sea level. This…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. Konopelko

The H.E.S.S. experiment in Namibia, Africa, is a high energy gamma ray tele- scope sensitive in the energy range from 100 Gev to a few tens of TeV, via the use of the atmospheric Cherenkov technique. To minimize the systematic errors on the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-04 J. Bregeon , M. Compin , S. Rivoire , M. Sanguillon , G. Vasileiadis

The H.E.S.S. instrument consists of four 13 m (H.E.S.S. I) and one 28 m diameter (H.E.S.S. II) Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes (ACTs) located in the Khomas Highland in Namibia, 1800 m above sea level. The H.E.S.S. I array began operations…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-03-13 Berrie Giebels , H. E. S. S. Collaboration

The government of South Africa has identified astronomy as a field in which their country has a strategic advantage and is consequently investing very significantly in astronomical infrastructure. South Africa now operates a 10-m class…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Patricia A. Whitelock

The High Energy Stereoscopic System (H.E.S.S.) is a system of Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes (IACTs) located in the Khomas Highland in Namibia. It measures cosmic gamma rays of very high energies (VHE; >100 GeV) using the Earth's…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-12-18 A. Balzer , M. Füßling , M. Gajdus , D. Göring , A. Lopatin , M. de Naurois , S. Schlenker , U. Schwanke , C. Stegmann

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.) is an array of imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes (IACTs) located in the Khomas Highland in Namibia. It consists of four 12-m telescopes (CT1-4), which started operations in 2003, and a…

The High Energy Stereoscopic System (H.E.S.S.) is an array of five Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes located in the Khomas Highland of Namibia. H.E.S.S. observes gamma rays above tens of GeV by detecting the Cherenkov light that is…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-06 Sylvia J. Zhu , Tim Lukas Holch , Thomas Murach , Stefan Ohm , Matthias Fuessling , Mathieu de Naurois , Fabian Krack , Klemens Mosshammer , Rico Lindemann

The H.E.S.S. (High Energy Stereoscopic System) phase I is comprised of four Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes, for observation of galactic and cosmic sources of very high energy gamma rays. Its installation in the Khomas highlands,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 M. Punch , the HESS Collaboration

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) will be the next high-energy gamma-ray observatory. Selection of the sites, one in each hemisphere, is not obvious since several factors have to be taken into account. Among them, and probably the most…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-02-06 K. Louedec , M. Will

Astronomy plays a major role in the scientific landscape of Namibia. Because of its excellent sky conditions, Namibia is home to ground-based observatories like the High Energy Spectroscopic System (H.E.S.S.), in operation since 2002.…

We have constructed an optical photometer with microsecond time resolution, which is currently being operated on one of the H.E.S.S. telescopes. H.E.S.S. is an array of four Cherenkov telescopes, each with a 107 m^2 mirror, located in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-11 C. Deil , W. Domainko , G. Hermann

In July 2012, as the four ground-based gamma-ray telescopes of the H.E.S.S. (High Energy Stereoscopic System) array reached their tenth year of operation in Khomas Highlands, Namibia, a fifth telescope took its first data as part of the…

The H.E.S.S. experiment in Namibia, Africa, is designed to study the origin of high energy cosmic rays from 100 Gev to few tens of TeV, using the Cherenkov technique. To minimize the systematic errors on the derived fluxes of the measured…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-11-18 M. Bourgeat , M. Compin , S. Rivoire , G. Vasileiadis

Astronomy plays a major role in the scientific landscape of Namibia and Southern Africa. Considerable progress has been achieved scientifically as well as in terms of human capacity development in the field. In all wavelength regimes…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-06 M. Backes , R. Evans , E. K. Kasai , R. Steenkamp

The High Energy Stereoscopic System (H.E.S.S.) is an array of ground-based imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes in Namibia. For the first time, the H.E.S.S. collaboration is releasing a small dataset of event lists and instrument…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-10-11 H. E. S. S. Collaboration
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