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20192026
most citedA very-high-energy component deep in the Gamma-ray Burst afterglow

274 citations · 1.1k across the 33 of their papers we have counts for

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34 papers

astro-ph.HE2026

H.E.S.S. detection of the PSR J0855-4644 nebula

F. Aharonian, H. Ashkar, M. Backes +131

HESS J0852-463 is a TeV γ-ray source located in the Galactic plane. The region consists of a supernova remnant (SNR, RX J0852.0-4622) with a shell-like morphology, commonly referre…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 31 cited

Discovery of a Radiation Component from the Vela Pulsar Reaching 20 Teraelectronvolts

The H. E. S. S. Collaboration, :, F. Aharonian +178

Gamma-ray observations have established energetic isolated pulsars as outstanding particle accelerators and antimatter factories in the Galaxy. There is, however, no consensus rega…

astro-ph.HE2023

Joint H.E.S.S. and Fermi-LAT analysis of the region around PSR J1813-1749

T. Wach, A. M. W. Mitchell, V. Joshi +1

HESS J1813-178 is one of the brightest sources detected during the first HESS Galactic Plane survey. The compact source, also detected by MAGIC, is believed to be a pulsar wind neb…

astro-ph.HE2023

Modelling of highly extended Gamma-ray emission around the Geminga Pulsar as detected with H.E.S.S

A. M. W. Mitchell, S. Caroff

Geminga is an enigmatic radio-quiet gamma-ray pulsar located at a mere 250 pc distance from Earth. Extended very-high-energy gamma-ray emission around the pulsar has been detected…

astro-ph.IM2023★ 98 cited

Gammapy: A Python package for gamma-ray astronomy

Axel Donath, Régis Terrier, Quentin Remy +42

In this article, we present Gammapy, an open-source Python package for the analysis of astronomical -ray data, and illustrate the functionalities of its first long-term-support…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 29 cited

Detection of extended gamma-ray emission around the Geminga pulsar with H.E.S.S

H. E. S. S. Collaboration, :, F. Aharonian +165

Geminga is an enigmatic radio-quiet gamma-ray pulsar located at a mere 250 pc distance from Earth. Extended very-high-energy gamma-ray emission around the pulsar was discovered by…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 22 cited

Sensitivity of the Cherenkov Telescope Array to spectral signatures of hadronic PeVatrons with application to Galactic Supernova Remnants

The Cherenkov Telescope Array Consortium, F. Acero, A. Acharyya +356

The local Cosmic Ray (CR) energy spectrum exhibits a spectral softening at energies around 3~PeV. Sources which are capable of accelerating hadrons to such energies are called hadr…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 23 cited

HESS J1809193: a halo of escaped electrons around a pulsar wind nebula?

H. E. S. S. Collaboration, :, F. Aharonian +151

Context. HESS J1809193 is an unassociated very-high-energy -ray source located on the Galactic plane. While it has been connected to the nebula of the energetic pulsar PSR J1…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 4 cited

Constraining leptonic emission scenarios for the PeVatron candidate HESS J1702-420 with deep XMM-Newton observations

L. Giunti, F. Acero, B. Khelifi +3

The unidentified TeV source HESS J1702-420 has recently been proposed as a new hadronic PeVatron candidate, based on the discovery of a small-scale emission sub-region with extreme…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 50 cited

A deep spectromorphological study of the -ray emission surrounding the young massive stellar cluster Westerlund 1

F. Aharonian, H. Ashkar, M. Backes +156

Young massive stellar clusters are extreme environments and potentially provide the means for efficient particle acceleration. Indeed, they are increasingly considered as being res…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 92 cited

Time-resolved hadronic particle acceleration in the recurrent Nova RS Ophiuchi

H. E. S. S. Collaboration, F. Aharonian, F. Ait Benkhali +171

Recurrent Novae are repeating thermonuclear explosions in the outer layers of white dwarfs, due to the accretion of fresh material from a binary companion. The shock generated by e…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 15 cited

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

H. E. S. S. collaboration, :, H. Abdalla +151

We report on the observations of four well-localized binary black hole (BBH) mergers by the High Energy Stereoscopic System (H.E.S.S.) during the second and third observing runs of…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 13 cited

Searching for TeV gamma-ray emission from SGR\,1935+2154 during its 2020 X-ray and radio bursting phase

H. E. S. S. Collaboration, :, H. Abdalla +251

Magnetar hyperflares are the most plausible explanation for fast radio bursts (FRB) -- enigmatic powerful radio pulses with durations of several milliseconds and high brightness te…

hep-ex2021★ 1 cited

Combined dark matter searches towards dwarf spheroidal galaxies with Fermi-LAT, HAWC, H.E.S.S., MAGIC, and VERITAS

Celine Armand, Eric Charles, Mattia di Mauro +13

Cosmological and astrophysical observations suggest that 85\% of the total matter of the Universe is made of Dark Matter (DM). However, its nature remains one of the most challengi…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 2 cited

Search for dark matter annihilation signals from the Galactic Center with the H.E.S.S. Inner Galaxy Survey

A. Montanari, E. Moulin, D. Malyshev

The presence of dark matter (DM) is suggested by a wealth of astrophysical and cosmological measurements. However, its underlying nature is yet unknown. Among the most promising ca…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 2 cited

Revisiting the PeVatron candidate MGRO J1908+06 with an updated H.E.S.S. analysis

D. Kostunin, L. Mohrmann, E. de Ona Wilhelmi +6

Detecting and studying galactic gamma-ray sources emitting very-high energy photons sheds light on the acceleration and propagation of cosmic rays presumably created in these sourc…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 2 cited

The young massive stellar cluster Westerlund 1 in rays as seen with H.E.S.S

Lars Mohrmann, Andreas Specovius, Romed Rauth +2

Massive stellar clusters have recently been hypothesised as candidates for the acceleration of hadronic cosmic rays up to PeV energies. Previously, the H.E.S.S. Collaboration has r…

astro-ph.HE2021

Evidence of 100 TeV -ray emission from HESS J1702-420: A new PeVatron candidate

L. Giunti, B. Khelifi, K. Kosack +1

The identification of active PeVatrons, hadronic particle accelerators reaching the knee of the cosmic-ray spectrum (at the energy of few PeV), is crucial to understand the origin…

astro-ph.IM2021

Science verification of the new FlashCam-based camera in the 28m telescope of H.E.S.S

Gerd Pühlhofer, Konrad Bernlöhr, Baiyang Bi +13

In October 2019 the central 28m telescope of the H.E.S.S. experiment has been upgraded with a new camera. The camera is based on the FlashCam design which has been developed in vie…

astro-ph.HE2021

Detection of extended TeV emission around the Geminga pulsar with H.E.S.S

A. M. W. Mitchell, S. Caroff, J. Hinton +1

Highly extended gamma-ray emission around the Geminga pulsar was discovered by Milagro and verified by HAWC. Despite many observations with Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 3 cited

Detection of new Extreme BL Lac objects with H.E.S.S. and Swift XRT

Mathieu de Bony de Lavergne, Tomas Bylund, Manuel Meyer +2

Extreme high synchrotron peaked blazars (EHBLs) are amongst the most powerful accelerators found in nature. Usually the synchrotron peak frequency of an EHBL is above Hz…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 13 cited

LMC N132D: A mature supernova remnant with a power-law gamma-ray spectrum extending beyond 8 TeV

H. E. S. S. Collaboration, :, H. Abdalla +233

We analyzed 252 hours of High Energy Stereoscopic System (H.E.S.S.) observations towards the supernova remnant (SNR) LMC N132D that were accumulated between December 2004 and March…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 28 cited

TeV emission of Galactic plane sources with HAWC and H.E.S.S

H. Abdalla, F. Aharonian, F. Ait Benkhali +318

The High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) observatory and the High Energy Stereoscopic System (H.E.S.S.) are two leading instruments in the ground-based very-high-energy gamma-ray d…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 14 cited

Search for dark matter annihilation signals from unidentified Fermi-LAT objects with H.E.S.S

H. E. S. S. Collaboration, H. Abdallah, F. Aharonian +226

Cosmological -body simulations show that Milky Way-sized galaxies harbor a population of unmerged dark matter subhalos. These subhalos could shine in gamma-rays and be eventuall…