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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…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 5 cited

Gamma-ray blazar spectra with H.E.S.S. II mono analysis: the case of PKS 2155-304 and PG 1553+113

D. Zaborov, A. M. Taylor, D. A. Sanchez +2

The addition of a 28 m Cherenkov telescope (CT5) to the H.E.S.S. array extended the experiment's sensitivity to lower energies, providing new opportunities for studies of Active Ga…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 38 cited

Gamma-ray blazar spectra with H.E.S.S. II mono analysis: the case of PKS 2155-304 and PG 1553+113

H. E. S. S. Collaboration, :, H. Abdalla +332

The addition of a 28 m Cherenkov telescope (CT5) to the H.E.S.S. array extended the experiment's sensitivity to lower energies. The lowest energy threshold is obtained using monosc…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 57 cited

H.E.S.S. limits on line-like dark matter signatures in the 100 GeV to 2 TeV energy range close to the Galactic Centre

H. E. S. S. Collaboration, H. Abdalla, A. Abramowski +246

A search for dark matter line-like signals was performed in the vicinity of the Galactic Centre by the H.E.S.S. experiment on observational data taken in 2014. An unbinned likeliho…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 314 cited

Search for dark matter annihilations towards the inner Galactic halo from 10 years of observations with H.E.S.S

H. E. S. S. Collaboration, :, H. Abdallah +245

The inner region of the Milky Way halo harbors a large amount of dark matter (DM). Given its proximity, it is one of the most promising targets to look for DM. We report on a searc…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 17 cited

A search for very high-energy flares from the microquasars GRS 1915+105, Circinus X-1, and V4641 Sgr using contemporaneous H.E.S.S. and RXTE observations

H. E. S. S. Collaboration, H. Abdalla, A. Abramowski +244

Microquasars are potential -ray emitters. Indications of transient episodes of -ray emission were recently reported in at least two systems: Cyg X-1 and Cyg X-3. The identifi…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 20 cited

Extended VHE gamma-ray emission towards SGR1806-20, LBV1806-20, and stellar cluster Cl*1806-20

H. Abdalla, A. Abramowski, F. Aharonian +241

Using the High Energy Spectroscopic System (H.E.S.S.) telescopes we have discovered a steady and extended very high-energy (VHE) gamma-ray source towards the luminous blue variable…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 512 cited

Acceleration of petaelectronvolt protons in the Galactic Centre

H. E. S. S. collaboration, :, A. Abramowski +229

Galactic cosmic rays reach energies of at least a few Peta-electronvolts (1 PeV = electron volts). This implies our Galaxy contains PeV accelerators (PeVatrons), bu…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 30 cited

Detailed spectral and morphological analysis of the shell type SNR RCW 86

H. E. S. S. Collaboration, A. Abramowski, F. Aharonian +232

Aims: We aim for an understanding of the morphological and spectral properties of the supernova remnant RCW~86 and for insights into the production mechanism leading to the RCW~86…

astro-ph.HE2015★ 37 cited

Discovery of variable VHE gamma-ray emission from the binary system 1FGL J1018.6-5856

H. E. S. S. Collaboration, :, A. Abramowski +230

Re-observations with the H.E.S.S. telescope array of the very-high-energy (VHE) source HESS J1018-589 A coincident with the Fermi-LAT -ray binary 1FGL J1018.6-5856 have resulted…

astro-ph.HE2015★ 50 cited

Constraints on an Annihilation Signal from a Core of Constant Dark Matter Density around the Milky Way Center with H.E.S.S

HESS Collaboration, A. Abramowski, F. Aharonian +223

An annihilation signal of dark matter is searched for from the central region of the Milky Way. Data acquired in dedicated ON/OFF observations of the Galactic center region with H.…

astro-ph.HE2015★ 155 cited

The exceptionally powerful TeV gamma-ray emitters in the Large Magellanic Cloud

H. E. S. S. Collaboration, :, A. Abramowski +226

The Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way, has been observed with the High Energy Stereoscopic System (H.E.S.S.) above an energy of 100 billion electron volts…

astro-ph.HE2015★ 70 cited

The 2012 flare of PG 1553+113 seen with H.E.S.S. and Fermi-LAT

A. Abramowski, F. Aharonian, F. Ait Benkhali +224

Very high energy (VHE, 100 GeV) -ray flaring activity of the high-frequency peaked BL Lac object \pg\ has been detected by the \hess\ telescopes. The flux of the source incr…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 30 cited

H.E.S.S. detection of TeV emission from the interaction region between the supernova remnant G349.7+0.2 and a molecular cloud

H. E. S. S. Collaboration, :, A. Abramowski +224

G349.7+0.2 is a young Galactic supernova remnant (SNR) located at the distance of 11.5 kpc and observed across the entire electromagnetic spectrum from radio to high energy (HE) Ga…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 29 cited

H.E.S.S. reveals a lack of TeV emission from the supernova remnant Puppis A

H. E. S. S. Collaboration, :, A. Abramowski +224

Puppis A is an interesting ~4 kyr-old supernova remnant (SNR) that shows strong evidence of interaction between the forward shock and a molecular cloud. It has been studied in deta…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 105 cited

Diffuse Galactic gamma-ray emission with H.E.S.S

H. E. S. S. Collaboration, :, A. Abramowski +225

Diffuse -ray emission is the most prominent observable signature of celestial cosmic-ray interactions at high energies. While already being investigated at GeV energies over sev…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 27 cited

Discovery of the VHE gamma-ray source HESS J1832-093 in the vicinity of SNR G22.7-0.2

H. E. S. S. Collaboration, :, A. Abramowski +218

The region around the supernova remnant (SNR) W41 contains several TeV sources and has prompted the H.E.S.S. Collaboration to perform deep observations of this field of view. This…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 33 cited

The high-energy -ray emission of AP Librae

H. E. S. S. Collaboration, Fermi-LAT collaborations

The -ray spectrum of the low-frequency-peaked BL Lac (LBL) object AP Librae is studied, following the discovery of very-high-energy (VHE; ) -ray emission up…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 112 cited

Search for dark matter annihilation signatures in H.E.S.S. observations of Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxies

H. E. S. S. Collaboration, :, A. Abramowski +229

Dwarf spheroidal galaxies of the Local Group are close satellites of the Milky Way characterized by a large mass-to-light ratio and are not expected to be the site of non-thermal h…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 31 cited

Long-term monitoring of PKS 2155304 with ATOM and H.E.S.S.: investigation of optical/-ray correlations in different spectral states

A. Abramowski, F. Aharonian, F. Ait Benkhali +225

In this paper we report on the analysis of all the available optical and very high-energy -ray (200 GeV) data for the BL Lac object PKS 2155304, collected simultaneously w…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 47 cited

Discovery of the hard spectrum VHE gamma-ray source HESS J1641-463

H. E. S. S. Collaboration, :, A. Abramowski +230

This letter reports the discovery of a remarkably hard spectrum source, HESS J1641-463, by the High Energy Stereoscopic System (H.E.S.S.) in the very-high energy (VHE) domain. HESS…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 29 cited

Probing the gamma-ray emission from HESS J1834-087 using H.E.S.S. and Fermi LAT observations

The H. E. S. S. Collaboration, :, A. Abramowski +228

Previous observations with HESS have revealed the existence of an extended very-high-energy (VHE; E>100 GeV) gamma-ray source, HESS J1834-087, coincident with the SNR W41. The orig…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 251 cited

Search for TeV Gamma-ray Emission from GRB 100621A, an extremely bright GRB in X-rays, with H.E.S.S

H. E. S. S. Collaboration, A. Abramowski, F. Aharonian +213

The long gamma-ray burst (GRB) 100621A, at the time the brightest X-ray transient ever detected by Swift-XRT in the keV range, has been observed with the H.E.S.S…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 23 cited

TeV γ-ray observations of the young synchrotron-dominated SNRs G1.9+0.3 and G330.2+1.0 with H.E.S.S

H. E. S. S. Collaboration, A. Abramowski, F. Aharonian +217

The non-thermal nature of the X-ray emission from the shell-type supernova remnants (SNRs) G1.9+0.3 and G330.2+1.0 is an indication of intense particle acceleration in the shock fr…