Publications (75)
Unusual Flaring Activity in the Blazar PKS 1424-418 during 2008-2011
S. Buson, F. Longo, S. Larsson +24
Context. Blazars are a subset of active galactic nuclei (AGN) with jets that are oriented along our line of sight. Variability and spectral energy distribution (SED) studies are cr…
H.E.S.S. constraints on Dark Matter annihilations towards the Sculptor and Carina Dwarf Galaxies
HESS Collaboration, A. Abramowski, F. Acero +192
The Sculptor and Carina Dwarf spheroidal galaxies were observed with the H.E.S.S. Cherenkov telescope array between January 2008 and December 2009. The data sets consist of a total…
The First Look of Gaia: Daily data quality and instrument health assessment with automated early warnings
M. Altmann, Z. Balog, W. Löffler +15
The ESA Gaia mission is a 10+ year astrometric whole-sky scan, demanding consistent data quality over the whole timespan of operations Aims. The Gaia First Look (FL) is a system wh…
The ZEUS Forward Plug Calorimeter with Lead-Scintillator Plates and WLS Fiber Readout
A. Bamberger, S. Böttcher, I. Bohnet +31
A Forward Plug Calorimeter (FPC) for the ZEUS detector at HERA has been built as a shashlik lead-scintillator calorimeter with wave length shifter fiber readout. Before installatio…
Evidence of breakdown of the spin symmetry in diluted 2D electron gases
P. Giudici, A. R. Goñi, P. G. Bolcatto +4
Recent claims of an experimental demonstration of spontaneous spin polarisation in dilute electron gases \cite{young99} revived long standing theoretical discussions \cite{ceper99,…
Multiwavelength monitoring of the enigmatic Narrow-Line Seyfert 1 PMN J0948+0022 in March-July 2009
LAT Collaboration, E. Angelakis, C. Bailyn +39
Following the recent discovery of gamma rays from the radio-loud narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxy PMN J0948+0022 (z=0.5846), we started a multiwavelength campaign from radio to gamma r…
Evidence of spontaneous spin polarization in the two-dimensional electron gas
A. R. Goñi, P. Giudici, F. A. Reboredo +4
Density-functional calculations using an exact exchange potential for a two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) formed in a GaAs single quantum well predict the existence of a spin-pol…
HESS J1943+213: a candidate extreme BL Lacertae object
H. E. S. S. Collaboration, :, A. Abramowski +200
We report on a newly detected point-like source, HESS J1943+213 located in the Galactic plane. This source coincides with an unidentified hard X-ray source IGR J19443+2117, which w…
Clustering of the Diffuse Infrared Light from the COBE DIRBE maps. I. and limits on the near-IR background
A. Kashlinsky, J. C. Mather, S. Odenwald +1
This paper is devoted to studying the CIB through its correlation properties. We studied the limits on CIB anisotropy in the near IR (1.25, 2.2, and 3.5 \um, or ) bands…
Gaia Data Release 3: Reflectance spectra of Solar System small bodies
Gaia Collaboration, L. Galluccio, M. Delbo +444
The Gaia mission of the European Space Agency (ESA) has been routinely observing Solar System objects (SSOs) since the beginning of its operations in August 2014. The Gaia data rel…
Gaia Early Data Release 3: Acceleration of the solar system from Gaia astrometry
Gaia Collaboration, S. A. Klioner, F. Mignard +414
Context. Gaia Early Data Release 3 (Gaia EDR3) provides accurate astrometry for about 1.6 million compact (QSO-like) extragalactic sources, 1.2 million of which have the best-quali…
Gaia Data Release 2: The astrometric solution
L. Lindegren, J. Hernandez, A. Bombrun +87
Gaia Data Release 2 (Gaia DR2) contains results for 1693 million sources in the magnitude range 3 to 21 based on observations collected by the European Space Agency Gaia satellite…
Discovery of VHE γ-ray emission and multi-wavelength observations of the BL Lac object 1RXS J101015.9-311909
HESS Collaboration, A. Abramowski, F. Acero +191
1RXS J101015.9-311909 is a galaxy located at a redshift of z=0.14 hosting an active nucleus belonging to the class of bright BL Lac objects. Observations at high (HE, E > 100 MeV)…
Search for a Dark Matter annihilation signal from the Galactic Center halo with H.E.S.S
H. E. S. S. Collaboration, :, A. Abramowski +193
A search for a very-high-energy (VHE; >= 100 GeV) gamma-ray signal from self-annihilating particle Dark Matter (DM) is performed towards a region of projected distance r ~ 45-150 p…
First results with the ORPHEUS dark matter detector
K. Borer, G. Czapek, F. Hasenbalg +8
The ORPHEUS dark matter detector is operating at our underground laboratory in Bern (70 m.w.e.). The detector relies on measuring the magnetic flux variation produced by weakly int…
Revisiting the Westerlund 2 Field with the H.E.S.S. Telescope Array
The HESS Collaboration, A. Abramowski, F. Acero +194
Aims. Previous observations with the H.E.S.S. telescope array revealed the existence of extended very-high-energy (VHE; E>100 GeV) γ-ray emission, HESS J1023-575, coincident with…
A new SNR with TeV shell-type morphology: HESS J1731-347
HESS Collaboration, A. Abramowski, F. Acero +195
The recent discovery of the radio shell-type supernova remnant (SNR), G353.6-0.7, in spatial coincidence with the unidentified TeV source HESS J1731-347 has motivated further obser…
Discovery of extended VHE γ-ray emission from the vicinity of the young massive stellar cluster Westerlund 1
HESS Collaboration, A. Abramowski, F. Acero +198
Results obtained in very-high-energy (VHE; E > 100 GeV) γ-ray observations performed with the H.E.S.S. telescope array are used to investigate particle acceleration processes in t…
Simultaneous multi-wavelength campaign on PKS 2005-489 in a high state
The H. E. S. S. Collaboration, the Fermi LAT Collaboration, : +345
The high-frequency peaked BL Lac object PKS 2005-489 was the target of a multi-wavelength campaign with simultaneous observations in the TeV gamma-ray (H.E.S.S.), GeV gamma-ray (Fe…
Enabling Technologies for Silicon Microstrip Tracking Detectors at the HL-LHC
C. Barth, C. A. Betancourt, I. Bloch +38
While the tracking detectors of the ATLAS and CMS experiments have shown excellent performance in Run 1 of LHC data taking, and are expected to continue to do so during LHC operati…
First detection of VHE gamma-rays from SN 1006 by H.E.S.S
HESS Collaboration, F. Acero, F. Aharonian +175
Recent theoretical predictions of the lowest very high energy (VHE) luminosity of SN 1006 are only a factor 5 below the previously published H.E.S.S. upper limit, thus motivating f…
Gaia Data Release 3: Pulsations in main sequence OBAF-type stars
Gaia Collaboration, J. De Ridder, V. Ripepi +445
The third Gaia data release provides photometric time series covering 34 months for about 10 million stars. For many of those stars, a characterisation in Fourier space and their v…
Gaia Data Release 1: Astrometry - one billion positions, two million proper motions and parallaxes
L. Lindegren, U. Lammers, U. Bastian +80
Gaia Data Release 1 (Gaia DR1) contains astrometric results for more than 1 billion stars brighter than magnitude 20.7 based on observations collected by the Gaia satellite during…
Unexpected finite-bias visibility dependence in an electronic Mach Zehnder interferometer
E. Bieri, M. Weiss, O. Goktas +4
We use an electronic Mach-Zehnder interferometer to explore the non-equilibrium coherence of the electron waves within the edge-states that form in the integral quantum Hall effect…
The first gamma-ray outburst of a Narrow-Line Seyfert 1 Galaxy: the case of PMN J0948+0022 in July 2010
L. Foschini, G. Ghisellini, Y. Y. Kovalev +24
We report on a multiwavelength campaign on the radio-loud Narrow-Line Seyfert 1 (NLS1) Galaxy PMN J0948+0022 (z=0.5846) performed in 2010 July-September and triggered by a high-ene…
Clustering of Diffuse Infrared Background Light
A. Kashlinsky, J. C. Mather, S. Odenwald +1
The cosmic infrared background from galaxies should have a minimum fluctuation of the order of 10\% on angular scales probed by the DIRBE (Diffuse Infrared Background Experiment) o…
Fermi/LAT discovery of gamma-ray emission from the flat-spectrum radio quasar PKS 1454-354
LAT Collaboration, A. A. Abdo, P. G. Edwards +4
We report the discovery by the Large Area Telescope (LAT) onboard the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope of high-energy gamma-ray (GeV) emission from the flat-spectrum radio quasar PK…
Relativistic jets in Narrow-Line Seyfert 1
L. Foschini, E. Angelakis, G. Bonnoli +20
Narrow-Line Seyfert 1 (NLS1) class of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) is generally radio-quiet, but a small percent of them are radio-loud. The recent discovery by Fermi/LAT of high-…
Spectral analysis and interpretation of the γ-ray emission from the Starburst galaxy NGC 253
H. E. S. S. Collaboration, A. Abramowski, F. Acero +192
Very-high-energy (VHE; E >100 GeV) and high-energy (HE; 100 MeV < E < 100 GeV) data from γ-ray observations performed with the H.E.S.S. telescope array and the Fermi-LAT instrumen…
H.E.S.S. discovery of VHE gamma-rays from the quasar PKS 1510-089
H. E. S. S. Collaboration, A. Abramowski, F. Acero +204
The quasar PKS 1510-089 (z=0.361) was observed with the H.E.S.S. array of imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes during high states in the optical and GeV bands, to search for ve…
Gaia Data Release 1. Testing the parallaxes with local Cepheids and RR Lyrae stars
Gaia Collaboration, G. Clementini, L. Eyer +588
Parallaxes for 331 classical Cepheids, 31 Type II Cepheids and 364 RR Lyrae stars in common between Gaia and the Hipparcos and Tycho-2 catalogues are published in Gaia Data Release…
Search for Dark Matter Annihilation Signals from the Fornax Galaxy Cluster with H.E.S.S
HESS Collaboration, A. Abramowski, F. Acero +195
The Fornax galaxy cluster was observed with the High Energy Stereoscopic System (H.E.S.S.) for a total live time of 14.5 hours, searching for very-high-energy (VHE, E>100 GeV) gamm…
Gaia Data Release 2: Observational Hertzsprung-Russell diagrams
Gaia Collaboration, C. Babusiaux, F. van Leeuwen +450
We highlight the power of the Gaia DR2 in studying many fine structures of the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram (HRD). Gaia allows us to present many different HRDs, depending in partic…
Characterization, Simulation and Test Beam Data Analysis of Stitched Passive CMOS Strip Sensors
I. Zatocilova, J. -H. Arling, M. Baselga +19
In the passive CMOS Strips Project, strip sensors were designed at the University of Bonn and produced by LFoundry in 150 nm technology, with an additional backside processing from…
Gaia Early Data Release 3: The astrometric solution
L. Lindegren, S. A. Klioner, J. Hernández +94
Gaia Early Data Release 3 (Gaia EDR3) contains results for 1.812 billion sources in the magnitude range G = 3 to 21 based on observations collected by the European Space Agency Gai…
A multiwavelength view of the flaring state of PKS 2155-304 in 2006
HESS Collaboration, A. Abramowski, F. Acero +208
Multiwavelength (MWL) observations of the blazar PKS 2155-304 during two weeks in July and August 2006, the period when two exceptional flares at very high energies (VHE, E>= 100 G…
Discovery of VHE emission towards the Carina arm region with the H.E.S.S. telescope array: HESS J1018-589
HESS Collaboration, A. Abramowski, F. Acero +195
The observational coverage with HESS of the Carina region in VHE gamma-rays benefits from deep exposure (40 h) of the neighboring open cluster Westerlund 2. The observations have r…
Discovery of VHE gamma-rays from the BL Lac object PKS 0548-322
H. E. S. S. collaboration, :, F. Aharonian +168
PKS 0548-322 (z=0.069) is a ``high-frequency-peaked'' BL Lac object and a candidate very high energy (VHE, E>100 GeV) gamma-ray emitter, due to its high X-ray and radio flux. Obser…
Coupling of Josephson Currents in Quantum Hall Bilayers
X. Huang, W. Dietsche, M. Hauser +1
We study ring shaped (Corbino) devices made of bilayer two-dimensional electron gases in the total filling factor one quantized Hall phase which is considered to be a coherent BCS-…
H.E.S.S. observations of the Carina nebula and its enigmatic colliding wind binary Eta Carinae
HESS Collaboration, A. Abramowski, F. Acero +191
The massive binary system Eta Carinae and the surrounding HII complex, the Carina Nebula, are potential particle acceleration sites from which very-high-energy (VHE; E > 100 GeV) Î…
Gaia Data Release 3: Chemical cartography of the Milky Way
Gaia Collaboration, A. Recio-Blanco, G. Kordopatis +447
Gaia DR3 opens a new era of all-sky spectral analysis of stellar populations thanks to the nearly 5.6 million stars observed by the RVS and parametrised by the GSP-spec module. The…
H.E.S.S. observations of the globular clusters NGC 6388 and M 15 and search for a Dark Matter signal
HESS Collaboration, A. Abramowski, F. Acero +195
Observations of the globular clusters NGC 6388 and M 15 were carried out by the H.E.S.S. array of Cherenkov telescopes for a live time of 27.2 and 15.2 hours respectively. No gamma…
Very-high-energy gamma-ray emission from the direction of the Galactic globular cluster Terzan 5
HESS Collaboration, A. Abramowski, F. Acero +194
The H.E.S.S. very-high-energy (VHE, E > 0.1 TeV) gamma-ray telescope system has discovered a new source, HESS J1747-248. The measured integral flux is (1.2 +/- 0.3) \times 10^-12 c…
Gaia Early Data Release 3: The Galactic anticentre
Gaia Collaboration, T. Antoja, P. McMillan +417
We aim to demonstrate the scientific potential of the Gaia Early Data Release 3 (EDR3) for the study of the Milky Way structure and evolution. We used astrometric positions, proper…
Gaia Data Release 3: A Golden Sample of Astrophysical Parameters
Gaia Collaboration, O. L. Creevey, L. M. Sarro +445
Gaia Data Release 3 (DR3) provides a wealth of new data products for the astronomical community to exploit, including astrophysical parameters for a half billion stars. In this wor…
Discovery of gamma-ray emission from the extragalactic pulsar wind nebula N157B with the High Energy Stereoscopic System
HESS Collaboration, A. Abramowski, F. Acero +195
We present the significant detection of the first extragalactic pulsar wind nebula (PWN) detected in gamma rays, N157B, located in the large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). Pulsars with hi…
Search for Lorentz Invariance breaking with a likelihood fit of the PKS 2155-304 flare data taken on MJD 53944
HESS Collaboration, A. Abramowski, F. Acero +193
Several models of Quantum Gravity predict Lorentz Symmetry breaking at energy scales approaching the Planck scale (10^{19} GeV). With present photon data from the observations of d…
1ES 0229+200: An extreme blazar with a very high minimum Lorentz factor
S. Kaufmann, S. J. Wagner, O. Tibolla +1
The blazar 1ES 0229+200 is a high frequency peaked BL Lac object with a hard TeV spectrum extending to 10 TeV. Its unusual spectral characteristics make it a frequently used probe…
Discovery of VHE gamma-rays from RGB J0152+017
J. -P. Lenain, D. Nedbal, M. Raue +4
The BL Lac object RGB J0152+017 (z = 0.080) was predicted to be a very high-energy (VHE; > 100 GeV) gamma-ray source, due to its high X-ray and radio fluxes. We report recent obser…
Critical tunneling currents in the regime of bilayer excitons
L. Tiemann, W. Dietsche, M. Hauser +1
We have investigated the tunneling properties of an electron double quantum well system where the lowest Landau level of each quantum well is half filled. This system is expected t…
Identification of HESS J1303-631 as a Pulsar Wind Nebula through gamma-ray, X-ray and radio observations
The H. E. S. S. Collaboration, :, A. Abramowski +196
The previously unidentified very high-energy (VHE; E > 100 GeV) γ-ray source HESS J1303-631, discovered in 2004, is re-examined including new data from the H.E.S.S. Cherenkov tele…
Gaia Data Release 3: The extragalactic content
Gaia Collaboration, C. A. L. Bailer-Jones, D. Teyssier +444
The Gaia Galactic survey mission is designed and optimized to obtain astrometry, photometry, and spectroscopy of nearly two billion stars in our Galaxy. Yet as an all-sky multi-epo…
Long-term monitoring of PKS 0537-441 with Fermi-LAT and multiwavelength observations
F. D'Ammando, E. Antolini, G. Tosti +21
We report on multiwavelength observations of the blazar PKS 0537-441 (z = 0.896) obtained from microwaves through gamma rays by SMA, REM, ATOM, Swift and Fermi during 2008 August-2…
Prototyping of petalets for the Phase-II Upgrade of the silicon strip tracking detector of the ATLAS Experiment
S. Kuehn, V. BenÃtez, J. Fernández-Tejero +31
In the high luminosity era of the Large Hadron Collider, the HL-LHC, the instantaneous luminosity is expected to reach unprecedented values, resulting in about 200 proton-proton in…
Broadband multi-wavelength campaign on PKS 2005-489
S. Kaufmann, M. Hauser, K. Kosack +7
The spectral energy distribution (SED) of high-frequency peaked BL Lac objects (HBL) is characterized by two peaks: one in the UV-X-ray and one in the GeV-TeV regime. An interestin…
Multi-wavelength Observations of H 2356-309
HESS Collaboration, A. Abramowski, F. Acero +184
AIMS: The properties of the broad-band emission from the high-frequency peaked BL Lac H 2356-309 (z=0.165) are investigated. METHODS: Very High Energy (VHE; E > 100 GeV) observatio…
Discovery and follow-up studies of the extended, off-plane, VHE gamma-ray source HESS J1507-622
H. E. S. S. Collaboration, F. Acero, F. Aharonian +167
Context: The detection of gamma-rays in the very-high-energy (VHE) range (100 GeV-100 TeV) offers the possibility of studying the parent population of ultrarelativistic particles f…
Gaia Data Release 3: Summary of the content and survey properties
Gaia Collaboration, A. Vallenari, A. G. A. Brown +453
We present the third data release of the European Space Agency's Gaia mission, GDR3. The GDR3 catalogue is the outcome of the processing of raw data collected with the Gaia instrum…
Gaia Early Data Release 3: The celestial reference frame (Gaia-CRF3)
Gaia Collaboration, S. A. Klioner, L. Lindegren +448
Gaia-CRF3 is the celestial reference frame for positions and proper motions in the third release of data from the Gaia mission, Gaia DR3 (and for the early third release, Gaia EDR3…
Gaia Data Release 3: Mapping the asymmetric disc of the Milky Way
Gaia Collaboration, R. Drimmel, M. Romero-Gomez +453
With the most recent Gaia data release the number of sources with complete 6D phase space information (position and velocity) has increased to well over 33 million stars, while ste…
Discovery of VHE emission from PKS 0447-439 with H.E.S.S. and MWL studies
A. Zech, B. Behera, Y. Becherini +13
Very-high energy (VHE) emission has been detected from PKS 0447-439 with the H.E.S.S. Cherenkov telescope array. This blazar is one of the brightest hard-spectrum extragalactic obj…
Constraints on the gamma-ray emission from the cluster-scale AGN outburst in the Hydra A galaxy cluster
HESS Collaboration, A. Abramowski, F. Acero +193
In some galaxy clusters powerful AGN have blown bubbles with cluster scale extent into the ambient medium. The main pressure support of these bubbles is not known to date, but cosm…
Gaia Early Data Release 3: The Gaia Catalogue of Nearby Stars
Gaia Collaboration, R. L. Smart, L. M. Sarro +420
We produce a clean and well-characterised catalogue of objects within 100\,pc of the Sun from the \G\ Early Data Release 3. We characterise the catalogue through comparisons to the…
Gaia Early Data Release 3: Structure and properties of the Magellanic Clouds
Gaia Collaboration, X. Luri, L. Chemin +417
We compare the Gaia DR2 and Gaia EDR3 performances in the study of the Magellanic Clouds and show the clear improvements in precision and accuracy in the new release. We also show…
The 2010 very high energy gamma-ray flare & 10 years of multi-wavelength observations of M 87
The H. E. S. S. Collaboration, :, A. Abramowski +442
Abridged: The giant radio galaxy M 87 with its proximity, famous jet, and very massive black hole provides a unique opportunity to investigate the origin of very high energy (VHE;…
Discovery of VHE and HE emission from the blazar 1ES 0414+009 with H.E.S.S and Fermi-LAT
F. Volpe, S. Ohm, M. Hauser +5
The high energy peaked BL Lac (HBL) object 1ES 0414+009 (z=0.287) is a distant very high-energy (VHE, E > 100 GeV) blazars with well-determined redshift. This source was detected w…
Gaia Data Release 3: Stellar multiplicity, a teaser for the hidden treasure
Gaia Collaboration, F. Arenou, C. Babusiaux +447
The Gaia DR3 Catalogue contains for the first time about eight hundred thousand solutions with either orbital elements or trend parameters for astrometric, spectroscopic and eclips…
VHE gamma-ray emission of PKS 2155-304: spectral and temporal variability
HESS Collaboration, A. Abramowski, F. Acero +185
Observations of very high energy gamma-rays from blazars provide information about acceleration mechanisms occurring in their innermost regions. Studies of variability in these obj…
Discovery of the source HESS J1356-645 associated with the young and energetic PSR J1357-6429
HESS Collaboration, A. Abramowski, F. Acero +195
Several newly discovered very-high-energy (VHE; E > 100 GeV) gamma-ray sources in the Galaxy are thought to be associated with energetic pulsars. Among them, middle-aged (> 1E+4 yr…
Detection of very-high-energy gamma-ray emission from the vicinity of PSR B1706-44 and G343.1-2.3 with H.E.S.S
H. E. S. S. Collaboration, :, A. Abramowski +198
The gamma-ray pulsar PSR B1706-44 and the adjacent supernova remnant (SNR) candidate G343.1-2.3 were observed by H.E.S.S. during a dedicated observation campaign in 2007. As a resu…
The July 2010 outburst of the NLS1 PMN J0948+0022
L. Foschini, G. Ghisellini, L. Maraschi +23
We report about the multiwavelength campaign on the Narrow-Line Seyfert 1 (NLS1) Galaxy PMN J0948+0022 (z = 0.5846) performed in 2010 July-September and triggered by high activity…
Gaia Early Data Release 3: Summary of the contents and survey properties
Gaia Collaboration, A. G. A Brown, A. Vallenari +423
We present the early installment of the third Gaia data release, Gaia EDR3, consisting of astrometry and photometry for 1.8 billion sources brighter than magnitude 21, complemented…
Gaia Data Release 1. Open cluster astrometry: performance, limitations, and future prospects
Gaia Collaboration, F. van Leeuwen, A. Vallenari +589
Context. The first Gaia Data Release contains the Tycho-Gaia Astrometric Solution (TGAS). This is a subset of about 2 million stars for which, besides the position and photometry,…
Discovery of hard-spectrum γ-ray emission from the BL Lac object 1ES 0414+009
The HESS Collaboration, A. Abramowski, F. Acero +199
1ES 0414+009 (z = 0.287) is a distant high-frequency-peaked BL Lac object, and has long been considered a likely emitter of very-high energy (VHE, E>100 GeV) gamma-rays due to its…
Electron spin polarization by isospin ordering in correlated two-layer quantum Hall systems
L. Tiemann, W. Wegscheider, M. Hauser
Enhancement of the electron spin polarization in a correlated two-layer two-dimensional electron system at a total Landau level filling factor of one is reported. Using resistively…