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astro-ph.HE2014★ 30 cited

H.E.S.S. detection of TeV emission from the interaction region between the supernova remnant G349.7+0.2 and a molecular cloud

H. E. S. S. Collaboration, :, A. Abramowski +224

G349.7+0.2 is a young Galactic supernova remnant (SNR) located at the distance of 11.5 kpc and observed across the entire electromagnetic spectrum from radio to high energy (HE) Ga…

astro-ph.HE2014

Estimating Galactic gas content using different tracers: Compatibility of results, dark gas, and unidentified TeV sources

Giovanna Pedaletti, Emma de Oña Wilhelmi, Diego F. Torres +1

A large fraction of Galactic very-high energy (VHE; E100 GeV) -ray sources is cataloged as unidentified. In this work we explore the possibility that these unidentified…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 37 cited

Star-forming galaxies as the origin of the IceCube PeV neutrinos

Xiao-Chuan Chang, Ruo-Yu Liu, Xiang-Yu Wang

Star-forming galaxies, due to their high star-formation rates and hence large number of supernova remnants therein, are huge reservoirs of cosmic rays (CRs). These CRs collide with…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 29 cited

H.E.S.S. reveals a lack of TeV emission from the supernova remnant Puppis A

H. E. S. S. Collaboration, :, A. Abramowski +224

Puppis A is an interesting ~4 kyr-old supernova remnant (SNR) that shows strong evidence of interaction between the forward shock and a molecular cloud. It has been studied in deta…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 105 cited

Diffuse Galactic gamma-ray emission with H.E.S.S

H. E. S. S. Collaboration, :, A. Abramowski +225

Diffuse -ray emission is the most prominent observable signature of celestial cosmic-ray interactions at high energies. While already being investigated at GeV energies over sev…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 53 cited

Modelling of the Spectral Energy Distribution of Fornax A: Leptonic and Hadronic Production of High Energy Emission from the Radio Lobes

B. McKinley, R. Yang, M. López-Caniego +52

We present new low-frequency observations of the nearby radio galaxy Fornax A at 154 MHz with the Murchison Widefield Array, microwave flux-density measurements obtained from WMAP…

astro-ph.HE2014

Cosmic-ray driven winds

Heinrich J. Völk

The theory of Galactic Winds, driven by the cosmic-ray pressure gradient, is reviewed both on the magnetohydrodynamic and on the kinetic level. In this picture the magnetic field o…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 27 cited

Discovery of the VHE gamma-ray source HESS J1832-093 in the vicinity of SNR G22.7-0.2

H. E. S. S. Collaboration, :, A. Abramowski +218

The region around the supernova remnant (SNR) W41 contains several TeV sources and has prompted the H.E.S.S. Collaboration to perform deep observations of this field of view. This…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 44 cited

Detection of persistent gamma-ray emission toward SS433/W50

Pol Bordas, Ruizhi Yang, Ervin Kafexhiu +1

The microquasar SS433 features the most energetic jets known in our Galaxy. A large fraction of the jet kinetic power is delivered to the surrounding W50 nebula at the jet terminat…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 42 cited

A Monte Carlo Bayesian Search for the Plausible Source of the Telescope Array Hotspot

Hao-Ning He, Alexander Kusenko, Shigehiro Nagataki +3

The Telescope Array (TA) collaboration has reported a hotspot of 19 ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs). Using a universal model with one source and energy-dependent magnetic def…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 33 cited

The high-energy -ray emission of AP Librae

H. E. S. S. Collaboration, Fermi-LAT collaborations

The -ray spectrum of the low-frequency-peaked BL Lac (LBL) object AP Librae is studied, following the discovery of very-high-energy (VHE; ) -ray emission up…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 112 cited

Search for dark matter annihilation signatures in H.E.S.S. observations of Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxies

H. E. S. S. Collaboration, :, A. Abramowski +229

Dwarf spheroidal galaxies of the Local Group are close satellites of the Milky Way characterized by a large mass-to-light ratio and are not expected to be the site of non-thermal h…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 79 cited

The origin of ultra-fast outflows in AGN: Monte-Carlo simulations of the wind in PDS 456

Kouichi Hagino, Hirokazu Odaka, Chris Done +4

Ultra-fast outflows (UFOs) are seen in many AGN, giving a possible mode for AGN feedback onto the host galaxy. However, the mechanism(s) for the launch and acceleration of these ou…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 37 cited

Fermi-LAT observations of the Sagittarius B complex

Rui-zhi Yang, David I. Jones, Felix Aharonian

Aims. We use 5 years of Fermi-LAT data towards the Galactic-centre giant molecular cloud complex, Sagittarius B, to test questions of how well-mixed the Galactic component of cosmi…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 35 cited

Discovery of Recombining Plasma in the Supernova Remnant 3C 391

Tamotsu Sato, Katsuji Koyama, Tadayuki Takahashi +2

Recent X-ray study of middle-aged supernova remnants (SNRs) reveals strong radiative recombination continua (RRCs) associated with overionized plasmas, of which the origin still re…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 31 cited

Long-term monitoring of PKS 2155304 with ATOM and H.E.S.S.: investigation of optical/-ray correlations in different spectral states

A. Abramowski, F. Aharonian, F. Ait Benkhali +225

In this paper we report on the analysis of all the available optical and very high-energy -ray (200 GeV) data for the BL Lac object PKS 2155304, collected simultaneously w…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 14 cited

The host galaxy and Fermi-LAT counterpart of HESS J1943+213

D. Peter, W. Domainko, D. A. Sanchez +2

The very-high energy (VHE, E > 100 GeV) gamma-ray sky shows diverse Galactic and extragalactic source populations. For some sources the astrophysical object class could not be iden…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 47 cited

Discovery of the hard spectrum VHE gamma-ray source HESS J1641-463

H. E. S. S. Collaboration, :, A. Abramowski +230

This letter reports the discovery of a remarkably hard spectrum source, HESS J1641-463, by the High Energy Stereoscopic System (H.E.S.S.) in the very-high energy (VHE) domain. HESS…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 354 cited

Parametrization of gamma-ray production cross-sections for pp interactions in a broad proton energy range from the kinematic threshold to PeV energies

Ervin Kafexhiu, Felix Aharonian, Andrew M. Taylor +1

Using publicly available Monte Carlo codes as well as compilation of published data on p--p interactions for proton kinetic energy below 2 GeV, we parametrize the energy spectra an…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 29 cited

Probing the gamma-ray emission from HESS J1834-087 using H.E.S.S. and Fermi LAT observations

The H. E. S. S. Collaboration, :, A. Abramowski +228

Previous observations with HESS have revealed the existence of an extended very-high-energy (VHE; E>100 GeV) gamma-ray source, HESS J1834-087, coincident with the SNR W41. The orig…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 109 cited

Hadronic gamma-rays from RX J1713.7-3946?

Stefano Gabici, Felix A. Aharonian

RXJ1713.7-3946 is a key object to check the supernova remnant paradigm of the origin of Galactic cosmic rays. While the origin of its gamma-ray emission (hadronic versus leptonic)…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 20 cited

Fermi Large Area Telescope observations of the supernova remnant HESS J1731-347

Rui-zhi Yang, Xiao Zhang, Qiang Yuan +1

Context: HESS J1731-347 has been identified as one of the few TeV-bright shell-type supernova remnants (SNRs). These remnants are dominated by nonthermal emission, and the nature o…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 251 cited

Search for TeV Gamma-ray Emission from GRB 100621A, an extremely bright GRB in X-rays, with H.E.S.S

H. E. S. S. Collaboration, A. Abramowski, F. Aharonian +213

The long gamma-ray burst (GRB) 100621A, at the time the brightest X-ray transient ever detected by Swift-XRT in the keV range, has been observed with the H.E.S.S…

astro-ph.HE2014

Investigation of Dense Gas Towards Relativistic Outflow Sources

J. Hawkes, G. Rowell, B. Dawson +10

We probe the interstellar medium towards the objects Circinus X-1, a low-mass X-ray binary with relativistic jets; and the highly energetic Westerlund 2 stellar cluster, which is l…