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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 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 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 a southern hemisphere array of four Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes observing the sky in the very high energy gamma-ray range (E $>$ 100 GeV). VHE observations are an invaluable…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-06-25 U. Barres de Almeida

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 H.E.S.S. Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescope Array is currently the most sensitive instrument for Very High Energy (VHE) gamma-ray observations in the energy range of about 0.1-10 TeV. During more than two years of operation with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Christopher van Eldik

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. Since 2003 it has been operating in the configuration of four 12 m telescopes complemented in 2012 by a much bigger 28 m telescope…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 I. Sushch

The High Energy Stereoscopic System (H.E.S.S.) phase I instrument was an array of four $100\,\mathrm{m}^2$ mirror area Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes (IACTs) that has very successfully mapped the sky at photon energies above $\sim…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 M. Holler , D. Berge , C. van Eldik , J. -P. Lenain , V. Marandon , T. Murach , M. de Naurois , R. D. Parsons , H. Prokoph , 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 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 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 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

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

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. 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

The H.E.S.S. collaboration continues to run an array of five Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes to observe the Southern sky in very high energy gamma-rays. In this presentation, recent highlight results obtained with H.E.S.S. are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-07-01 Gerd Pühlhofer

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

Recent observational efforts using imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes (IACTs) have led to firm detections of very-high-energy (VHE) signals from bright gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), often at moderate redshifts. This work presents 15 years…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-24 A. Acharyya , F. Aharonian , C. Arcaro , H. Ashkar , M. Backes , V. Barbosa Martins , R. Batzofin , Y. Becherini , D. Berge , K. Bernlöhr , M. Böttcher , C. Boisson , J. Bolmont , J. Borowska , F. Brun , B. Bruno , C. Burger-Scheidlin , S. Casanova , J. Celic , M. Cerruti , S. Chandra , A. Chen , M. Chernyakova , J. O. Chibueze , O. Chibueze , T. Collins , B. Cornejo , G. Cotter , J. Damascene Mbarubucyeye , I. D. Davids , 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 , J. Djuvsland , A. Dmytriiev , K. Egberts , K. Egg , J. -P. Ernenwein , C. Escañuela Nieves , M. D. Filipovic , G. Fontaine , S. Funk , S. Gabici , Y. A. Gallant , M. Genaro , J. F. Glicenstein , J. Glombitza , M. -H. Grondin , L. Heckmann , B. Heß , J. A. Hinton , W. Hofmann , T. L. Holch , M. Holler , D. Horns , Z. Huang , M. Jamrozy , F. Jankowsky , I. Jaroschewski , D. Jimeno Sanchez , I. Jung-Richardt , E. Kasai , K. Kasprzak , K. Katarzyński , D. Kerszberg , B. Khélifi , W. Kluzniak , N. Komin , K. Kosack , D. Kostunin , R. G. Lang , S. Lazarević , M. Lemoine-Goumard , J. -P. Lenain , P. Liniewicz , A. Luashvili , J. Mackey , D. Malyshev , D. Malyshev , V. Marandon , M. Mayer , A. Mehta , A. Mikhno , A. M. W. Mitchell , R. Moderski , M. O. Moghadam , L. Mohrmann , A. Montanari , E. Moulin , J. Niemiec , P. O'Brien , L. Olivera-Nieto , S. Panny , M. Panter , R. D. Parsons , U. Pensec , P. Pichard , S. Pita , G. Pühlhofer , M. Punch , A. Quirrenbach , M. Regeard , A. Reimer , O. Reimer , I. Reis , H. Ren , B. Reville , F. Rieger , G. Rowell , B. Rudak , E. Ruiz-Velasco , K. Sabri , V. Sahakian , H. Salzmann , D. A. Sanchez , A. Santangelo , M. Sasaki , F. Schüssler , M. Senniappan , J. N. S. Shapopi , W. Si Said , H. Sol , S. Spencer , Ł. Stawarz , S. Steinmassl , T. Tanaka , A. M. Taylor , G. L. Taylor , R. Terrier , M. Tsirou , T. Unbehaun , C. van Eldik , M. Vecchi , C. Venter , J. Vink , T. Wach , S. J. Wagner , A. Wierzcholska , M. Zacharias , A. A. Zdziarski , W. Zhong , S. J. Zhu , A. Zech
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