H.E.S.S.: The High Energy Stereoscopic System
arXiv:2405.11104 · doi:10.1007/978-981-16-4544-0_69-2
Abstract
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 Southern hemisphere, the system provides a privileged view of the Milky Way and the Galactic center region. With H.E.S.S., a large variety of new TeV emitters has been discovered, both in our Galaxy and in extragalactic space. We provide a description of the individual telescopes and of the system as a whole, and review the scientific highlights that have been achieved with the instrument.
38 pages, 4 figures. Appeared in the "Handbook of X-ray and Gamma-ray Astrophysics" by Springer (Eds. C. Bambi and A. Santangelo)
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- Multi-messenger observations of a flaring blazar coincident with high-energy neutrino IceCube-170922A
- Observations of the Crab Nebula with H.E.S.S
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- The energy spectrum of cosmic-ray electrons at TeV energies
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- Acceleration of petaelectronvolt protons in the Galactic Centre
- Discovery of Very-High-Energy Gamma-Rays from the Galactic Centre Ridge
- The H.E.S.S. Galactic plane survey
- Calibration of cameras of the H.E.S.S. detector
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- Discovery of the Binary Pulsar PSR B1259-63 in Very-High-Energy Gamma Rays around Periastron with H.E.S.S
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- A new population of very high energy gamma-ray sources in the Milky Way
- Discovery of very high energy gamma-ray emission coincident with molecular clouds in the W28 (G6.4-0.1) field
- A very-high-energy component deep in the Gamma-ray Burst afterglow
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- A Monte Carlo Template based analysis for Air-Cherenkov Arrays
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- VHE gamma-ray emission of PKS 2155-304: spectral and temporal variability
- The Trigger System of the H.E.S.S. Telescope Array
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- Diffuse Galactic gamma-ray emission with H.E.S.S
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- Multi-wavelength observations of PKS 2155-304 with H.E.S.S
- Search for dark matter annihilation signals in the H.E.S.S. Inner Galaxy Survey
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- Time-resolved hadronic particle acceleration in the recurrent Nova RS Ophiuchi
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- Search for Dark Matter Annihilation Signals from the Fornax Galaxy Cluster with H.E.S.S
- A new SNR with TeV shell-type morphology: HESS J1731-347
- Discovery of the two wings of the Kookaburra complex in VHE gamma -rays with H.E.S.S
- A possible association of the new VHE gamma-ray source HESS J1825--137 with the pulsar wind nebula G18.0--0.7
- Constraints on the multi-TeV particle population in the Coma Galaxy Cluster with H.E.S.S. observations
- Measurement of the EBL spectral energy distribution using the VHE gamma-ray spectra of H.E.S.S. blazars
- Localising the VHE gamma-ray source at the Galactic Centre
- The CAT Imaging Telescope for Very-High-Energy Gamma-Ray Astronomy
- A multiwavelength view of the flaring state of PKS 2155-304 in 2006
- The optical system of the H.E.S.S. imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes, Part II: mirror alignment and point spread function
- Resolving acceleration to very high energies along the Jet of Centaurus A
- Very high energy gamma-ray observations of the galaxy clusters Abell 496 and Abell 85 with H.E.S.S
- The starburst galaxy NGC 253 revisited by H.E.S.S. and Fermi-LAT
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- Searches for gamma-ray lines and `pure WIMP' spectra from Dark Matter annihilations in dwarf galaxies with H.E.S.S
- Very-high-energy gamma-ray emission from the direction of the Galactic globular cluster Terzan 5
- Constraints on the intergalactic magnetic field using Fermi-LAT and H.E.S.S. blazar observations
- Constraints on an Annihilation Signal from a Core of Constant Dark Matter Density around the Milky Way Center with H.E.S.S
- Characterizing the gamma-ray long-term variability of PKS 2155-304 with H.E.S.S. and Fermi-LAT
- A search for new supernova remnant shells in the Galactic plane with H.E.S.S
- Discovery of the hard spectrum VHE gamma-ray source HESS J1641-463
- Constraints on the emission region of 3C 279 during strong flares in 2014 and 2015 through VHE gamma-ray observations with H.E.S.S
- H.E.S.S. observations of the globular clusters NGC 6388 and M 15 and search for a Dark Matter signal
- The supernova remnant W49B as seen with H.E.S.S. and Fermi-LAT
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- First Ground-based Measurement of Sub-20 GeV to 100 GeV -rays from the Vela Pulsar with H.E.S.S. II
- Identification of HESS J1303-631 as a Pulsar Wind Nebula through gamma-ray, X-ray and radio observations
- A young SNR illuminating nearby Molecular Clouds with cosmic rays
- Discovery of variable VHE gamma-ray emission from the binary system 1FGL J1018.6-5856
- Discovery of a dual AGN at z~3.3 with 20kpc separation
- A NECTAr-based upgrade for the Cherenkov cameras of the H.E.S.S. 12-meter telescopes
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- Very high energy -ray emission from two blazars of unknown redshift and upper limits on their distance
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- The vanishing of the primary emission region in PKS 1510-089
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- Simultaneous observations of the blazar PKS2155-304 from Ultra-Violet to TeV energies
- A search for very high-energy flares from the microquasars GRS 1915+105, Circinus X-1, and V4641 Sgr using contemporaneous H.E.S.S. and RXTE observations
- Upper Limits on Very-High-Energy Gamma-ray Emission from Core-Collapse Supernovae Observed with H.E.S.S
- The H.E.S.S. transients follow-up system
- H.E.S.S. follow-up observations of Binary Black Hole Coalescence events during the second and third Gravitational Waves observing runs of Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo
- Performance of the New FlashCam-based Camera in the 28\,m Telescope of H.E.S.S
- Search for dark matter annihilation signals from unidentified Fermi-LAT objects with H.E.S.S
- LMC N132D: A mature supernova remnant with a power-law gamma-ray spectrum extending beyond 8 TeV
- Searching for TeV gamma-ray emission from SGR\,1935+2154 during its 2020 X-ray and radio bursting phase
- Gamma-ray observations of MAXI J1820+070 during the 2018 outburst
- Evidence for gamma-ray emission from the remnant of Kepler's supernova based on deep H.E.S.S. observations
- A Trigger and Readout Scheme for future Cherenkov Telescope Arrays
- Gamma-ray detector and mission design simulations