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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Evidence of 100 TeV -ray emission from HESS J1702-420: A new PeVatron candidate
H. Abdalla, F. Aharonian, F. Ait Benkhali +232
The identification of PeVatrons, hadronic particle accelerators reaching the knee of the cosmic ray spectrum (few eV), is crucial to understand the origin of cosmic rays…
Revealing x-ray and gamma ray temporal and spectral similarities in the GRB 190829A afterglow
H. E. S. S. Collaboration
Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), which are bright flashes of gamma rays from extragalactic sources followed by fading afterglow emission, are associated with stellar core collapse events.…
Search for dark matter annihilation in the dwarf irregular galaxy WLM with H.E.S.S
H. E. S. S. Collaboration, H. Abdallah, R. Adam +232
We search for an indirect signal of dark matter through very high-energy gamma rays from the Wolf-Lundmark-Melotte (WLM) dwarf irregular galaxy. The pair annihilation of dark matte…
Observation of a sudden cessation of a very-high-energy gamma-ray flare in PKS 1510-089 with H.E.S.S. and MAGIC in May 2016
H. E. S. S. Collaboration, H. Abdalla, R. Adam +430
The flat spectrum radio quasar (FSRQ) PKS 1510-089 is known for its complex multiwavelength behavior, and is one of only a few FSRQs detected at very high energy (VHE, GeV…