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We present here, follow-up observations of four Binary black hole BBH events performed with the High Energy Stereoscopic System (H.E.S.S.) in the Very High Energy (VHE) gamma-ray domain during the second and third LIGO/Virgo observation…

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The unexpectedly hard spectra measured by HESS for the BLLacs 1ES 1101-232 and H 2356-309 has allowed an upper limit on the Extragalactic Background Light (EBL) to be derived in the optical/near-infrared range, which is very close to the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 L. Costamante

Multi-frequency observations are a powerful tool of astrophysical investigation. Not only is data in each wavelength band providing different clues to the objects nature, but taken simultaneously, these data can reveal the mechanisms at…

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The H.E.S.S. Imaging Air Cherenkov Telescope system is, due to its fast reaction time and its comparably low energy threshold, very well suited to perform follow-up observations of detections at other wavelengths or other messengers like…

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

Recent observations of binary systems obtained with the H.E.S.S. telescopes are providing crucial information on the physics of relativistic outflows and the engines powering them. We report here on new H.E.S.S. results on HESS J0632+057,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 Pol Bordas , Hélène Laffon , Mathieu de Naurois , Stefan Ohm , Emma de Oña Wilhelmi , Iurii Sushch , Francesca Volpe , Víctor Zabalza

The H.E.S.S. experiment, the largest Cherenkov telescope array to date, has been observing the sky at TeV energies for the past 16 years. Its location in the Southern hemisphere provides H.E.S.S. with equally good access to Galactic and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-10-22 Andreas Zech , H. E. S. S. Collaboration

We present results from the High Energy Stereoscopic System (H.E.S.S.) follow-up observations of Gamma-ray Bursts (GRBs) between 2004 and 2019. We are focusing on non-detections and providing the most extensive set of very-high-energy (VHE,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-22 E. Ruiz-Velasco , C. Arcaro , M. de Bony de Lavergne , Z. Huang , D. Sanchez , M. Senniappan , S. Wagner , S. Zhu , the H. E. S. S. Collaboration

The vast majority of extragalactic sources detected in the very high energy (E> 100 GeV) domaine are active galactic nuclei (AGN) located at cosmological distances. During their travel towards Earth, the emitted gamma-rays suffer from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-15 C. Romoli , D. A. Sanchez , M. Lorentz , P. Brun

The ground-based EAS array is usually operated with a high duty cycle (> 90%) and a large field of view (~2 sr), which can continuously monitor the sky. It is essential and irreplaceable to understand the gamma-ray emission mechanism and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-05-20 SongZhan CHEN

An extended observation campaign of the gamma-ray binary system PSR B1259$-$63 has been conducted with the H.E.S.S. (High Energy Stereoscopic System) II 5-telescope array during the system's periastron passage in 2014. We report on the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 C. Romoli , P. Bordas , C. Mariaud , T. Murach , F. Aharonian , M. de Naurois , G. Pühlhofer , U. Schwanke , B. van Soelen , I. Sushch , V. Zabalza

Since 2015, the direct detection of Gravitational Waves (GWs) became possible with ground-based interferometers like LIGO and Virgo. GWs became the center of attention of the astronomical community and electromagnetic observatories took a…

The H.E.S.S. Imaging Air Cherenkov Telescope system is very well suited to perform follow-up observations of detections at other wavelengths or messengers due to its fast reaction and its comparably low energy threshold. These advantages…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 F. Schüssler

The H.E.S.S. Galactic Plane Survey (HGPS), carried out between 2004 and 2013, is the most extensive survey of our Galaxy at very-high energies that covers the southern sky. Since the first HPGS catalogue release, the new observations…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-21 Q. Remy

The Einstein Telescope (ET) is going to bring a revolution for the future of multi-messenger astrophysics. In order to detect the counterparts of binary neutron star (BNS) mergers at high redshift, the high-energy observations will play a…

X-ray selected BL Lac objects dominate the population of extragalactic sources detected in the very high energy (VHE; photon energies >100GeV) gamma-ray regime with ground-based Cherenkov Telescopes. These are not the only extragalactic VHE…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 L. Stawarz

The scientific discoveries made by H.E.S.S. during its first year of operation encourage a reexamination of the open problems in high energy astrophysics and of the capabilities of the atmospheric Cherenkov technique, which could be…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. Vassiliev , S. Fegan

The goal of this talk is to give an overview of the current status of the development of the Einstein Telescope and Cosmic Explorer ground based gravitational wave (GW) detectors and of their foreseen scientific goals. These detectors will…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-23 Matteo Di Giovanni

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 BL Lac type object Mrk 501 was observed at very high energies (E > 100 GeV) in 2014 with the upgraded H.E.S.S. (High Energy Stereoscopic System) phase 2 array. The data collected with the central 28m telescope allow for a broader energy…