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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

The H.E.S.S. experiment in Namibia is a high-energy gamma-ray telescope sensitive in the energy range from 30 GeV to a several tens of TeV, that uses the atmospheric Cherenkov technique to detect showers developed within the atmosphere. The…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-23 J. Devin , J. Bregeon , G. Vasileiadis , Y. A. Gallant

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.), 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 technique of gamma-ray astronomy at very high energies (VHE: > 100 GeV) with ground-based imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes is described, the H.E.S.S. array in Namibia serving as example. Mainly a discussion of the physical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-24 Heinrich J. Voelk , Konrad Bernloehr

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

H.E.S.S. (High Energy Stereoscopic System), which is designed to detect TeV gamma-rays, is a system of four Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes situated in Namibia. The system has been shown to be very successful in detecting and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-10-21 P. H. Tam , S. J. Wagner , G. Pühlhofer , the HESS Collaboration

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 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 H.E.S.S. experiment is an array of four imaging Cherenkov telescopes located in the Khomas Highlands of Namibia. It has been operating in its full configuration since December 2003 and detects very-high-energy (VHE) gamma rays ranging…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-03-19 Mathieu de Naurois

The High Energy Stereoscopic System (H.E.S.S.) experiment, a ground-based gamma-ray Cherenkov telescope array located in Namibia, has now detected many extragalactic objects, which redshifts range from z=0.00183 up to z=0.2, possibly more.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-09-12 Jean-Philippe Lenain

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

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

The High Energy Stereoscopic System (H.E.S.S.) is an array of four imaging atmospheric-Cherenkov telescopes located in Namibia and designed to detect extensive air showers initiated by gamma-rays in the very-high-energy domain. It is an…

The H.E.S.S. experiment (High Energy Stereoscopic System) is a new generation atmospheric Cherenkov detector measuring high-energy (>100 GeV) gamma radiation from the Universe. This paper briefly explains the imaging Cherenkov technique and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 U. Schwanke

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 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

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

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…

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