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Origin of the in-orbit instrumental background of the Hard X-ray Imager onboard Hitomi
Kouichi Hagino, Hirokazu Odaka, Goro Sato +43
Understanding and reducing the in-orbit instrumental backgrounds are essential to achieving high sensitivity in hard X-ray astronomical observations. The observational data of the…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
Particle Transport within the Pulsar Wind Nebula HESS J1825-137
H. E. S. S. Collaboration, H. Abdalla, F. Aharonian +225
Aims: We present a detailed view of the pulsar wind nebula (PWN) HESS J1825-137. We aim to constrain the mechanisms dominating the particle transport within the nebula, accounting…
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…
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…
Detection of polarized gamma-ray emission from the Crab nebula with Hitomi Soft Gamma-ray Detector
Hitomi Collaboration, Felix Aharonian, Hiroki Akamatsu +191
We present the results from the Hitomi Soft Gamma-ray Detector (SGD) observation of the Crab nebula. The main part of SGD is a Compton camera, which in addition to being a spectrom…
First Ground-based Measurement of Sub-20 GeV to 100 GeV -rays from the Vela Pulsar with H.E.S.S. II
H. E. S. S. Collaboration, H. Abdalla, F. Aharonian +230
We report on the measurement and investigation of pulsed high-energy -ray emission from the Vela pulsar, PSR B083345, based on 40.3 hours of observations with the largest tel…
The -ray spectrum of the core of Centaurus A as observed with H.E.S.S. and Fermi-LAT
H. E. S. S. Collaboration, H. Abdalla, A. Abramowski +249
Centaurus A (Cen A) is the nearest radio galaxy discovered as a very-high-energy (VHE; 100 GeV-100 TeV) -ray source by the High Energy Stereoscopic System (H.E.S.S.). It is a fa…
The starburst galaxy NGC 253 revisited by H.E.S.S. and Fermi-LAT
H. E. S. S. Collaboration, H. Abdalla, F. Aharonian +231
(Abridged) Context. NGC 253 is one of only two starburst galaxies found to emit -rays from hundreds of MeV to multi-TeV energies. Accurate measurements of the very-high-energy (…
In-orbit performance and calibration of the Hard X-ray Imager onboard Hitomi (ASTRO-H)
Kouichi Hagino, Kazuhiro Nakazawa, Goro Sato +37
The Hard X-ray Imager (HXI) onboard Hitomi (ASTRO-H) is an imaging spectrometer covering hard X-ray energies of 5-80 keV. Combined with the hard X-ray telescope, it enables imaging…
Imaging and spectral performance of CdTe double-sided strip detectors for the Hard X-ray Imager onboard ASTRO-H
Kouichi Hagino, Hirokazu Odaka, Goro Sato +20
The imaging and spectral performance of CdTe double-sided strip detectors (CdTe-DSDs) was evaluated for the ASTRO-H mission. The charcterized CdTe-DSDs have a strip pitch of 0.25 m…
Modeling of proton-induced radioactivation background in hard X-ray telescopes: Geant4-based simulation and its demonstration by Hitomi's measurement in a low Earth orbit
Hirokazu Odaka, Makoto Asai, Kouichi Hagino +47
Hard X-ray astronomical observatories in orbit suffer from a significant amount of background due to radioactivation induced by cosmic-ray protons and/or geomagnetically trapped pr…
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…
Hitomi X-ray Observation of the Pulsar Wind Nebula G21.50.9
Hitomi Collaboration, Felix Aharonian, Hiroki Akamatsu +194
We present results from the Hitomi X-ray observation of a young composite-type supernova remnant (SNR) G21.50.9, whose emission is dominated by the pulsar wind nebula (PWN) cont…
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…
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…
Temperature Structure in the Perseus Cluster Core Observed with Hitomi
Hitomi Collaboration, Felix Aharonian, Hiroki Akamatsu +192
The present paper investigates the temperature structure of the X-ray emitting plasma in the core of the Perseus cluster using the 1.8--20.0 keV data obtained with the Soft X-ray S…
Atomic data and spectral modeling constraints from high-resolution X-ray observations of the Perseus cluster with Hitomi
Hitomi Collaboration, Felix Aharonian, Hiroki Akamatsu +192
The Hitomi SXS spectrum of the Perseus cluster, with 5 eV resolution in the 2-9 keV band, offers an unprecedented benchmark of the atomic modeling and database for hot collis…