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astro-ph.HE2024

Unveiling extended gamma-ray emission around HESS J1813-178

F. Aharonian, F. Ait Benkhali, J. Aschersleben +147

HESS J1813178 is a very-high-energy -ray source spatially coincident with the young and energetic pulsar PSR J18131749 and thought to be associated with its pulsar wind ne…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 60 cited

Acceleration and transport of relativistic electrons in the jets of the microquasar SS 433

F. Aharonian, F. Ait Benkhali, J. Aschersleben +161

SS 433 is a microquasar, a stellar binary system with collimated relativistic jets. We observed SS 433 in gamma rays using the High Energy Stereoscopic System (H.E.S.S.), finding a…

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

Multiwavelength Observations of the Blazar PKS~0735+178 in Spatial and Temporal Coincidence with an Astrophysical Neutrino Candidate IceCube-211208A

M. Pohl, K. Mori

We report on multiwavelength target-of-opportunity observations of the blazar PKS 0735+178, located 2.2 degrees away from the best-fit position of the IceCube neutrino event 211208…

astro-ph.HE2023

Multiwavelength Observations of the Blazar PKS 0735+178 in Spatial and Temporal Coincidence with an Astrophysical Neutrino Candidate IceCube-211208A

A. Acharyya, C. B. Adams, A. Archer +207

We report on multiwavelength target-of-opportunity observations of the blazar PKS 0735+178, located 2.2 away from the best-fit position of the IceCube neutrino event IceCub…

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…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 172 cited

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.…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 14 cited

The H.E.S.S. Gravitational Wave Rapid Follow-up Program

Halim Ashkar, Francois Brun, Matthias Füßling +6

Gravitational Wave (GW) events are physical processes that significantly perturbate space-time, e.g. compact binary coalescenses, causing the production of GWs. The detection of GW…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 59 cited

Search for dark matter signals towards a selection of recently-detected DES dwarf galaxy satellites of the Milky Way with H.E.S.S

H. E. S. S. Collaboration, :, H. Abdallah +227

Dwarf spheroidal galaxy satellites of the Milky Way are prime targets for indirect detection of dark matter with gamma rays due to their proximity, high dark matter content and abs…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 18 cited

Probing the magnetic field in the GW170817 outflow using H.E.S.S. observations

H. E. S. S. Collaboration, :, H. Abdalla +230

The detection of the first electromagnetic counterpart to the binary neutron star (BNS) merger remnant GW170817 established the connection between short -ray bursts and BNS merg…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 24 cited

Very high energy -ray emission from two blazars of unknown redshift and upper limits on their distance

H. E. S. S. Collaboration, H. Abdalla, R. Adam +225

We report on the detection of very-high-energy (VHE; GeV) -ray emission from the BL Lac objects KUV 00311-1938 and PKS 1440-389 with the High Energy Stereoscopic Syste…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 274 cited

A very-high-energy component deep in the Gamma-ray Burst afterglow

H. Abdalla R. Adam F. Aharonian F. Ait Benkhali E. O. Anguener M. Arakawa, C. Arcaro, C. Armand +219

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are brief flashes of gamma rays, considered to be the most energetic explosive phenomena in the Universe. The emission from GRBs comprises a short (typicall…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 33 cited

H.E.S.S. and Suzaku observations of the Vela X pulsar wind nebula

H. E. S. S. Collaboration

Pulsar Wind Nebulae (PWNe) represent the most prominent population of Galactic very-high-energy gamma-ray sources and are thought to be an efficient source of leptonic cosmic rays.…

astro-ph.HE2018★ 69 cited

Population study of Galactic supernova remnants at very high -ray energies with H.E.S.S.

H. E. S. S. Collaboration, :, H. Abdalla +252

Shell-type supernova remnants (SNRs) are considered prime candidates for the acceleration of Galactic cosmic rays (CRs) up to the knee of the CR spectrum at $\mathrm{E} \approx \ma…

astro-ph.HE2018★ 14 cited

Detection of variable VHE gamma-ray emission from the extra-galactic gamma-ray binary LMC P3

H. E. S. S. Collaboration, H. Abdalla, A. Abramowski +253

Context. Recently, the high-energy (HE, 0.1-100 GeV) -ray emission from the object LMC P3 in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) has been discovered to be modulated with a 10.3-day…

astro-ph.HE2018★ 49 cited

A search for new supernova remnant shells in the Galactic plane with H.E.S.S

H. E. S. S. Collaboration, :, H. Abdalla +263

A search for new supernova remnants (SNRs) has been conducted using TeV gamma-ray data from the H.E.S.S. Galactic plane survey. As an identification criterion, shell morphologies t…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 64 cited

TeV gamma-ray observations of the binary neutron star merger GW170817 with H.E.S.S

H. E. S. S. Collaboration, :, H. Abdalla +250

We search for high-energy gamma-ray emission from the binary neutron star merger GW170817 with the H.E.S.S. Imaging Air Cherenkov Telescopes. The observations presented here have b…

astro-ph.HE2017

GRB Observations with H.E.S.S. II

C. Hoischen, A. Blazer, E. Bissaldi +12

The High Energy Stereoscopic System (H.E.S.S.) has been searching for counterparts of Gamma Ray Bursts (GRBs) for many years. In 2012 the system was upgraded with a fifth m di…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 7 cited

First Results of Eta Car Observations with H.E.S.S.II

E. Leser, S. Ohm, M. Füßling +7

Eta Carinae (or Eta Car) is a colliding-wind binary that shows non-thermal emission from hard X-rays to high-energy -rays. The -ray spectrum exhibits two spectral components,…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 2 cited

H.E.S.S. observations following multi-messenger alerts in real-time

Fabian Schüssler, M. Backes, A. Balzer +12

The H.E.S.S. Imaging Air Cherenkov Telescope system is, due to its fast reaction time and its comparably low energy threshold, very well suited to perform follow-up observations of…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 74 cited

Characterising the VHE diffuse emission in the central 200 parsecs of our Galaxy with H.E.S.S

H. E. S. S. Collaboration, :, H. Abdalla +256

The diffuse very high-energy (VHE, > 100 GeV) gamma-ray emission observed in the central 200 pc of the Milky Way by H.E.S.S. was found to follow the dense matter distribution in th…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 82 cited

A polarized fast radio burst at low Galactic latitude

E. Petroff, S. Burke-Spolaor, E. F. Keane +35

We report on the discovery of a new fast radio burst, FRB 150215, with the Parkes radio telescope on 2015 February 15. The burst was detected in real time with a dispersion measure…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 18 cited

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…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 163 cited

The population of TeV pulsar wind nebulae in the H.E.S.S. Galactic Plane Survey

H. E. S. S. Collaboration, :, H. Abdalla +255

The nine-year H.E.S.S. Galactic Plane Survey (HGPS) yielded the most uniform observation scan of the inner Milky Way in the TeV gamma-ray band to date. The sky maps and source cata…