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Analysis of the H.E.S.S. public data release with ctools
Jürgen Knödlseder, Luigi Tibaldo, Domenico Tiziani +13
The ctools open-source software package was developed for the scientific analysis of astronomical data from Imaging Air Cherenkov Telescopes (IACTs), such as H.E.S.S., VERITAS, MAG…
The population point of view on the evolution of TeV pulsar wind nebulae
S. Klepser, Y. Gallant, M. Mayer +1
To investigate the nature and evolution of TeV pulsar wind nebulae, we examine the firmly identified PWNe in the H.E.S.S. Galactic Plane Survey, along with the few other known dete…
Systematic search for very-high-energy gamma-ray emission from bow shocks of runaway stars
H. E. S. S. Collaboration, :, H. Abdalla +260
Runaway stars form bow shocks by ploughing through the interstellar medium at supersonic speeds and are promising sources of non-thermal emission of photons. One of these objects h…
The second catalog of flaring gamma-ray sources from the Fermi All-sky Variability Analysis
S. Abdollahi, M. Ackermann, M. Ajello +124
We present the second catalog of flaring gamma-ray sources (2FAV) detected with the Fermi All-sky Variability Analysis (FAVA), a tool that blindly searches for transients over the…
Open high-level data formats and software for gamma-ray astronomy
Christoph Deil, Catherine Boisson, Karl Kosack +22
In gamma-ray astronomy, a variety of data formats and proprietary software have been traditionally used, often developed for one specific mission or experiment. Especially for grou…
GammaLib and ctools: A software framework for the analysis of astronomical gamma-ray data
J. Knödlseder, M. Mayer, C. Deil +16
The field of gamma-ray astronomy has seen important progress during the last decade, yet there exists so far no common software framework for the scientific analysis of gamma-ray t…
The 1st Fermi Lat Supernova Remnant Catalog
Fabio Acero, Markus Ackermann, Marco Ajello +156
To uniformly determine the properties of supernova remnants (SNRs) at high energies, we have developed the first systematic survey at energies from 1 to 100 GeV using data from the…
Multiwavelength Evidence for Quasi-periodic Modulation in the Gamma-ray Blazar PG 1553+113
The Fermi LAT collaboration, M. Ackermann, M. Ajello +139
We report for the first time a gamma-ray and multi-wavelength nearly-periodic oscillation in an active galactic nucleus. Using the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) we have discover…
Observer Access to the Cherenkov Telescope Array
Jürgen Knödlseder, Volker Beckmann, Catherine Boisson +5
The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA), a ground-based facility for very-high-energy (VHE) gamma-ray astronomy, will operate as an open observatory, serving a wide scientific communit…
PSR J1906+0722: An Elusive Gamma-ray Pulsar
C. J. Clark, H. J. Pletsch, J. Wu +117
We report the discovery of PSR J1906+0722, a gamma-ray pulsar detected as part of a blind survey of unidentified Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) sources being carried out on the v…
Characterization of the Inner Knot of the Crab: The Site of the Gamma-ray Flares?
A. Rudy, D. Horns, A. DeLuca +18
One of the most intriguing results from the gamma-ray instruments in orbit has been the detection of powerful flares from the Crab Nebula. These flares challenge our understanding…
Discovery of variable VHE gamma-ray emission from the binary system 1FGL J1018.6-5856
H. E. S. S. Collaboration, :, A. Abramowski +230
Re-observations with the H.E.S.S. telescope array of the very-high-energy (VHE) source HESS J1018-589 A coincident with the Fermi-LAT -ray binary 1FGL J1018.6-5856 have resulted…
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…
Deep Broadband Observations of the Distant Gamma-ray Blazar PKS 1424+240
S. Archambault, T. Aune, B. Behera +149
We present deep VERITAS observations of the blazar PKS 1424+240, along with contemporaneous Fermi Large Area Telescope, Swift X-ray Telescope and Swift UV Optical Telescope data be…
Rapid Gamma-ray flux variability during the 2013 March Crab Nebula flare
M. Mayer, R. Buehler, E. Hays +6
We report on a bright flare in the Crab Nebula detected by the Large Area Telescope (LAT) on board the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. The period of significantly increased lumino…
A Population of Teraelectronvolt Pulsar Wind Nebulae in the H.E.S.S. Galactic Plane Survey
S. Klepser, S. Carrigan, E. de Oña Wilhelmi +6
The most numerous source class that emerged from the H.E.S.S. Galactic Plane Survey are Pulsar Wind Nebulae (PWNe). The 2013 reanalysis of this survey, undertaken after almost 10 y…
Associating long-term gamma-ray variability with the superorbital period of LS I 61 303
LAT Collaboration
Gamma-ray binaries are stellar systems for which the spectral energy distribution (discounting the thermal stellar emission) peaks at high energies. Detected from radio to TeV gamm…
Towards a common analysis framework for gamma-ray astronomy
Jürgen Knödlseder, Michael Mayer, Christoph Deil +4
Thanks to the success of current gamma-ray telescopes (Fermi, H.E.S.S., MAGIC, VERITAS), and in view of the prospects of planned observatories such as the Cherenkov Telescope Array…
The Second Fermi Large Area Telescope Catalog of Gamma-ray Pulsars
LAT collaboration
This catalog summarizes 117 high-confidence > 0.1 GeV gamma-ray pulsar detections using three years of data acquired by the Large Area Telescope (LAT) on the Fermi satellite. Half…
The First Fermi LAT Gamma-Ray Burst Catalog
LAT Collaboration
In three years of observations since the beginning of nominal science operations in August 2008, the Large Area Telescope (LAT) on board the Fermi Gamma Ray Space Telescope has obs…
Predicting the X-ray flux of evolved pulsar wind nebulae based on VHE gamma-ray observations
M. Mayer, J. Brucker, M. Holler +3
Energetic pulsars power winds of relativistic leptons which produce photon nebulae (so- called pulsar wind nebulae, PWNe). Their spectral energy distribution has a double-humped st…
Discovery of hard-spectrum γ-ray emission from the BL Lac object 1ES 0414+009
The HESS Collaboration, A. Abramowski, F. Acero +199
1ES 0414+009 (z = 0.287) is a distant high-frequency-peaked BL Lac object, and has long been considered a likely emitter of very-high energy (VHE, E>100 GeV) gamma-rays due to its…
Discovery of extended VHE γ-ray emission from the vicinity of the young massive stellar cluster Westerlund 1
HESS Collaboration, A. Abramowski, F. Acero +198
Results obtained in very-high-energy (VHE; E > 100 GeV) γ-ray observations performed with the H.E.S.S. telescope array are used to investigate particle acceleration processes in th…