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most citedGammapy: A Python package for gamma-ray astronomy

98 citations · 207 across the 26 of their papers we have counts for

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27 papers

astro-ph.HE2026

H.E.S.S. observations of composite Seyfert-starburst galaxies

H. E. S. S. Collaboration, A. Acharyya, F. Aharonian +119

Context: Composite galaxies that contain both Seyfert and starburst components may produce very high-energy (VHE; >100 GeV) gamma-ray emission at a wide range of spatial scales, fr…

astro-ph.HE2026

The second H.E.S.S. gamma-ray burst catalogue: 15 years of observations with the H.E.S.S. telescopes

A. Acharyya, F. Aharonian, C. Arcaro +143

Recent observational efforts using imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes (IACTs) have led to firm detections of very-high-energy (VHE) signals from bright gamma-ray bursts (GRBs…

astro-ph.HE2026

Scrutinizing the 2020 multiwavelength outburst of PKS 0903-57 through observations with H.E.S.S

A. Acharyya, F. Aharonian, F. Ait Benkhali +138

The blazar PKS 0903-57 has recently been classified as a flat spectrum radio quasar at a redshift of . In March and April 2020, Fermi-LAT and AGILE reported tremendous ac…

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★ 3 cited

Prospects for dark matter observations in dwarf spheroidal galaxies with the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory

K. Abe, S. Abe, J. Abhir +491

The dwarf spheroidal galaxies (dSphs) orbiting the Milky Way are widely regarded as systems supported by velocity dispersion against self-gravity, and as prime targets for the sear…

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★ 3 cited

Science Prospects for the Southern Wide-field Gamma-ray Observatory: SWGO

SWGO Collaboration, P. Abreu, R. Alfaro +303

Ground-based gamma-ray astronomy is now well established as a key observational approach to address critical topics at the frontiers of astroparticle physics and high-energy astrop…

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★ 7 cited

Galactic transient sources with the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory

Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory Consortium

A wide variety of Galactic sources show transient emission at soft and hard X-ray energies: low- and high-mass X-ray binaries containing compact objects, isolated neutron stars exh…

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…

hep-ph2024★ 18 cited

Dark Matter Line Searches with the Cherenkov Telescope Array

S. Abe, J. Abhir, A. Abhishek +562

Monochromatic gamma-ray signals constitute a potential smoking gun signature for annihilating or decaying dark matter particles that could relatively easily be distinguished from a…

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.HE2023

Chasing Gravitational Waves with the Cherenkov Telescope Array

Jarred Gershon Green, Alessandro Carosi, Lara Nava +563

The detection of gravitational waves from a binary neutron star merger by Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo (GW170817), along with the discovery of the electromagnetic counterparts…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 14 cited

Prospects for a survey of the Galactic plane with the Cherenkov Telescope Array

CTA Consortium

Approximately one hundred sources of very-high-energy (VHE) gamma rays are known in the Milky Way. A survey of the entire Galactic Plane in the energy range from a few tens of GeV…

astro-ph.IM2023★ 1 cited

Interpolation of Instrument Response Functions for the Cherenkov Telescope Array in the Context of pyirf

Rune Michael Dominik, Maximilian Linhoff, Julian Sitarek

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) will be the next generation ground-based very-high-energy gamma-ray observatory, constituted by tens of Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes…

astro-ph.HE2023

Variability studies of active galactic nuclei from the long-term monitoring program with the Cherenkov Telescope Array

Guillaume Grolleron, Josefa Becerra González, Jonathan Biteau +13

Blazars are active galactic nuclei (AGN) with a relativistic jet oriented toward the observer. This jet is composed of accelerated particles which can display emission over the ent…

astro-ph.IM2023

Performance update of an event-type based analysis for the Cherenkov Telescope Array

Juan Bernete, Orel Gueta, Tarek Hassan +3

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) will be the next-generation observatory in the field of very-high-energy (20 GeV to 300 TeV) gamma-ray astroparticle physics. The traditional ap…

astro-ph.HE2023

Dark matter searches in dwarf spheroidal galaxies with the Cherenkov Telescope Array

Francesco Gabriele Saturni, Michele Doro, Aldo Morselli +1

Dark matter (DM) is one of the major components in the Universe. However, at present its existence is still only inferred through indirect astronomical observations. DM particles c…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 9 cited

Prospects for -ray observations of the Perseus galaxy cluster with the Cherenkov Telescope Array

The Cherenkov Telescope Array Consortium, :, K. Abe +564

Galaxy clusters are expected to be dark matter (DM) reservoirs and storage rooms for the cosmic-ray protons (CRp) that accumulate along the cluster's formation history. Accordingly…

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…