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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 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.) is an array of five imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes (IACTs) to study gamma-ray emission from astrophysical objects in the Southern hemisphere. It is the only hybrid array of IACTs,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-19 S. Ohm , S. Wagner

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

The High Energy Stereoscopic System (H.E.S.S.) is an array of five Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes (IACTs) designed to detect cosmogenic gamma-rays with very high energies. Originally consisting of just four identical IACTs (CT1-4)…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 M. Holler , A. Balzer , R. Chalmé-Calvet , M. de Naurois , D. Zaborov

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 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 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 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 High Energy Stereoscopic System (H.E.S.S.) is an array of five imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes in Namibia observing gamma-rays in the energy range from a few tens of GeV to a few tens of TeV. The Cherenkov signal detected by…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-15 Justus Zorn , H. E. S. S. Collaboration

For the current generation of Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes (IACTs), with their large mirrors and their cameras with fine segmentation of photodetectors, the focusing capability is a relevant issue. The optical system of an IACT…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 C. Trichard , A. Fiasson , G. Maurin , G. Lamanna

H.E.S.S. is a system of Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes (IACTs) measuring cosmic gamma-rays with very high energies in Namibia. Extending the array with a fifth telescope with a mirror area of 600 m$^2$ leads to a lower energy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 M. Holler , A. Balzer , Y. Becherini , S. Klepser , T. Murach , M. de Naurois , R. Parsons

In 2015/16, the photomultiplier cameras of the H.E.S.S. Cherenkov telescopes CT1-4 have undergone a major upgrade. The entire electronics has been replaced, using NECTAr chips for the front-end readout. A new ventilation system has been…

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 one of the currently operating Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes. H.E.S.S. operates in the broad energy range from a few tens of GeV to more than 50 TeV reaching its best sensitivity…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-09 Iryna Lypova , David Berge , Stefan Klepser , Dmitriy Kostunin , Stefan Ohm , Stefan Wagner

H.E.S.S. -- the High Energy Stereoscopic System -- is a new system of large imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes, with about 100 m^2 mirror area for each of four telescopes, and photomultiplier cameras with a large field of view (5…

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 Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescope (IACT) works by imaging the very short flash of Cherenkov radiation generated by the cascade of relativistic charged particles produced when a TeV gamma ray strikes the atmosphere. This energetic…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 F. Krayzel , G. Maurin , L. Brunetti , J. -M. Dubois , A. Fiasson , L. Journet , G. Lamanna , T. Leflour , B. Lieunard , I. Monteiro , S. Rosier-Lees

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
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