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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.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★ 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…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 23 cited

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…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 12 cited

Gamma-ray observations of MAXI J1820+070 during the 2018 outburst

H. Abe, S. Abe, V. A. Acciari +439

MAXI J1820+070 is a low-mass X-ray binary with a black hole as a compact object. This binary underwent an exceptionally bright X-ray outburst from March to October 2018, showing ev…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 92 cited

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…

astro-ph.HE2021

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…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 13 cited

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…

astro-ph.HE2021

Making cosmic particle accelerators visible and audible

Stefan Ohm, Konrad Rappaport, Carsten Nicolai +5

In a collaboration between astroparticle physicists, animation artists from the award-winning Science Communication Lab, and musician Carsten Nicolai (a.k.a. Alva Noto), two cosmic…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 14 cited

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…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 19 cited

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…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 31 cited

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…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 17 cited

An extreme particle accelerator in the Galactic plane: HESS J1826130

H. E. S. S. Collaboration, H. Abdalla, R. Adam +236

The unidentified very-high-energy (VHE; E 0.1 TeV) -ray source, HESS J1826130, was discovered with the High Energy Stereoscopic System (HESS) in the Galactic plane. The a…

astro-ph.HE2019

H.E.S.S. searches for TeV gamma rays associated to high-energy neutrinos

Fabian Schüssler, Halim Ashkar, Michael Backes +12

The detection of an astrophysical flux of high-energy neutrinos by IceCube is a major step forward in the search for the origin of cosmic rays, as this emission is expected to orig…

astro-ph.HE2019

Searches for counterparts of gravitational waves at very high energies with H.E.S.S

Monica Seglar-Arroyo, Halim Ashkar, Simon Bonnefoy +10

The recent milestones in multi-messenger astronomy have opened new ways to study the Unverse. The unprecedented gravitational wave (GW) follow-up campaigns established the power th…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 47 cited

Constraints on the emission region of 3C 279 during strong flares in 2014 and 2015 through VHE gamma-ray observations with H.E.S.S

H. E. S. S. Collaboration, H. Abdalla, R. Adam +224

The flat spectrum radio quasar 3C 279 is known to exhibit pronounced variability in the high-energy (MeVGeV) -ray band, which is continuously monitored with Fer…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 16 cited

Upper Limits on Very-High-Energy Gamma-ray Emission from Core-Collapse Supernovae Observed with H.E.S.S

H. E. S. S. Collaboration, :, H. Abdalla +225

Young core-collapse supernovae with dense-wind progenitors may be able to accelerate cosmic-ray hadrons beyond the knee of the cosmic-ray spectrum, and this may result in measurabl…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 66 cited

The 2014 TeV Gamma-ray Flare of Mrk 501 Seen with H.E.S.S.: Temporal and Spectral Constraints on Lorentz Invariance Violation

H. E. S. S. Collaboration, :, H. Abdalla +232

The blazar Mrk 501 (z=0.034) was observed at very-high-energy (VHE, ~GeV) gamma-ray wavelengths during a bright flare on the night of 2014 June 23-24 (MJD 56832) with…

astro-ph.HE2018★ 4 cited

VHE -ray discovery and multi-wavelength study of the blazar 1ES 2322-409

H. E. S. S. Collaboration, :, H. Abdalla +232

A hotspot at a position compatible with the BL Lac object 1ES 2322-409 was serendipitously detected with H.E.S.S. during observations performed in 2004 and 2006 on the blazar PKS 2…

astro-ph.HE2018★ 56 cited

Searches for gamma-ray lines and `pure WIMP' spectra from Dark Matter annihilations in dwarf galaxies with H.E.S.S

H. E. S. S. Collaboration, :, H. Abdalla +234

Dwarf spheroidal galaxies are among the most promising targets for detecting signals of Dark Matter (DM) annihilations. The H.E.S.S. experiment has observed five of these systems f…