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most citedAcceleration and transport of relativistic electrons in the jets of the microquasar SS 433

60 citations · 363 across the 22 of their papers we have counts for

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25 papers

astro-ph.HE2026

Broadband multiwavelength properties of the archetypal blazar 3C 279 during the 2017 Event Horizon Telescope campaign

G. Principe, J. C. Algaba, E. Aviano +529

The archetypal blazar 3C 279 hosts a prominent relativistic jet and exhibits strong broadband variability across the electromagnetic spectrum. In April 2017, the Event Horizon Tele…

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.HE2025★ 1 cited

Prompt Searches for Very-High-Energy γ-Ray Counterparts to IceCube Astrophysical Neutrino Alerts

J. Abhir, A. Biland, K. Brand +817

The search for sources of high-energy astrophysical neutrinos can be significantly advanced through a multi-messenger approach, which seeks to detect the gamma rays that accompany…

astro-ph.HE2025

Constraining the nature of the most extreme Galactic particle accelerator. H.E.S.S. observations of the microquasar V4641 Sgr

A. Acharyya, F. Aharonian, H. Ashkar +131

Microquasars have emerged as promising candidates to explain the cosmic-ray flux at petaelectronvolt energies. LHAASO observations revealed V4641~Sgr as the most extreme example so…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 5 cited

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

LAT Collaboration, S. Abdollahi, L. Baldini +586

Dwarf spheroidal galaxies (dSphs) are excellent targets for indirect dark matter (DM) searches using gamma-ray telescopes because they are thought to have high DM content and a low…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 1 cited

H.E.S.S. programme searching for VHE gamma rays associated with FRBs

F. Aharonian, A. Archaryya, J. Aschersleben +127

Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are highly energetic, extremely short-lived bursts of radio flashes. Despite extensive research, the exact cause of these outbursts remains speculative. Th…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 2 cited

The H.E.S.S. extragalactic sky survey with the first decade of observations

H. E. S. S. Collaboration, F. Aharonian, F. Ait Benkhali +140

The results of the first extragalactic gamma-ray survey by the High Energy Stereoscopic System (H.E.S.S.) are presented. The survey comprises 2720 hours of very high-energy gamma-r…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 3 cited

Detection of very-high-energy gamma-ray emission from Eta Carinae during its 2020 periastron passage

H. E. S. S. Collaboration, F. Aharonian, F. Ait Benkhali +137

The colliding-wind binary system Carinae has been identified as a source of high-energy (HE, below 100\,GeV) and very-high-energy (VHE, above 100\,GeV) gamma rays i…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 20 cited

High-Statistics Measurement of the Cosmic-Ray Electron Spectrum with H.E.S.S

F. Aharonian, F. Ait Benkhali, J. Aschersleben +144

Owing to their rapid cooling rate and hence loss-limited propagation distance, cosmic-ray electrons and positrons (CRe) at very high energies probe local cosmic-ray accelerators an…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 12 cited

Very-high-energy -ray emission from young massive star clusters in the Large Magellanic Cloud

F. Aharonian, F. Ait Benkhali, J. Aschersleben +129

The Tarantula Nebula in the Large Magellanic Cloud is known for its high star formation activity. At its center lies the young massive star cluster R136, providing a significant am…

astro-ph.HE2024

H.E.S.S. observations of the 2021 periastron passage of PSR B1259-63/LS 2883

H. E. S. S. Collaboration, F. Aharonian, F. Ait Benkhali +141

PSR B1259-63 is a gamma-ray binary system that hosts a pulsar in an eccentric orbit, with a 3.4 year period, around an O9.5Ve star. At orbital phases close to periastron passages,…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 34 cited

Broadband Multi-wavelength Properties of M87 during the 2018 EHT Campaign including a Very High Energy Flaring Episode

J. C. Algaba, M. Balokovic, S. Chandra +738

The nearby elliptical galaxy M87 contains one of the only two supermassive black holes whose emission surrounding the event horizon has been imaged by the Event Horizon Telescope (…

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★ 15 cited

Curvature in the very-high energy gamma-ray spectrum of M87

H. E. S. S. Collaboration, F. Aharonian, F. Ait Benkhali +132

The radio galaxy M87 is a variable very-high energy (VHE) gamma-ray source, exhibiting three major flares reported in 2005, 2008, and 2010. Despite extensive studies, the origin of…

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.HE2024

TeV flaring activity of the AGN PKS 0625-354 in November 2018

H. E. S. S. Collaboration, F. Aharonian, F. Ait Benkhali +139

Most -ray detected active galactic nuclei are blazars with one of their relativistic jets pointing towards the Earth. Only a few objects belong to the class of radio galaxies or…

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

The peculiar new state of the blazar PKS 1510-089

H. M. Schutte, M. Zacharias, M. Böttcher +4

Contemporaneous multiwavelength observations with H.E.S.S., SALT, Fermi-LAT, Swift, and ATOM show that the blazar PKS 1510-089 suffered a significant decrease in its optical flux,…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 23 cited

The vanishing of the primary emission region in PKS 1510-089

F. Aharonian, F. Ait Benkhali, J. Aschersleben +152

In July 2021, PKS 1510-089 exhibited a significant flux drop in the high-energy gamma-ray (by a factor 10) and optical (by a factor 5) bands and remained in this low state througho…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 52 cited

Constraints on the intergalactic magnetic field using Fermi-LAT and H.E.S.S. blazar observations

H. E. S. S., Fermi-LAT Collaborations, : +134

Magnetic fields in galaxies and galaxy clusters are believed to be the result of the amplification of intergalactic seed fields during the formation of large-scale structures in th…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 9 cited

Constraining the cosmic-ray pressure in the inner Virgo Cluster using H.E.S.S. observations of M 87

H. E. S. S. Collaboration, :, F. Aharonian +160

The origin of the gamma-ray emission from M87 is currently a matter of debate. This work aims to localize the VHE (100 GeV-100 TeV) gamma-ray emission from M87 and probe a potentia…

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★ 14 cited

Search for the evaporation of primordial black holes with H.E.S.S

H. E. S. S. collaboration, :, F. Aharonian +146

Primordial Black Holes (PBHs) are hypothetical black holes predicted to have been formed from density fluctuations in the early Universe. PBHs with an initial mass around $10^{14}-…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 29 cited

H.E.S.S. follow-up observations of GRB221009A

H. E. S. S. Collaboration, :, F. Aharonian +159

GRB221009A is the brightest gamma-ray burst ever detected. To probe the very-high-energy (VHE, \!100 GeV) emission, the High Energy Stereoscopic System (H.E.S.S.) began observat…