Status of Identification of VHE gamma-ray sources
arXiv:astro-ph/0609586 · doi:10.1007/s10509-007-9428-5
Abstract
With the recent advances made by Cherenkov telescopes such as H.E.S.S., the field of very high-energy (VHE) gamma-ray astronomy has recently entered a new era in which for the first time populations of Galactic sources such as e.g. Pulsar wind nebulae (PWNe) or Supernova remnants (SNRs) can be studied. However, while some of the new sources can be associated by positional coincidence as well as by consistent multi-wavelength data to a known counterpart at other wavelengths, most of the sources remain not finally identified. In the following, the population of Galactic H.E.S.S. sources will be used to demonstrate the status of the identifications, to classify them into categories according to this status and to point out outstanding problems.
arXiv commentTo appear in Astrophysics and Space Science (Proceedings of "The multimessenger approach to unidentified gamma-ray sources"
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