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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…
The ASTRO-H X-ray Astronomy Satellite
Tadayuki Takahashi, Kazuhisa Mitsuda, Richard Kelley +250
The joint JAXA/NASA ASTRO-H mission is the sixth in a series of highly successful X-ray missions developed by the Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (ISAS), with a planne…
ASTRO-H White Paper - Shock and Acceleration
F. Aharonian, Y. Uchiyama, D. Khangulyan +4
We discuss the prospects for a progress to be brought by ASTRO-H in the understanding of the physics of particle acceleration in astrophysical environments. Particular emphasis wil…
ASTRO-H White Paper - Stellar-Mass Black Holes
J. M. Miller, S. Mineshige, A. Kubota +10
Thanks to extensive observations with X-ray missions and facilities working in other wavelengths, as well as rapidly--advancing numerical simulations of accretion flows, our knowle…
ASTRO-H White Paper - Plasma Diagnostic and Dynamics of the Galactic Center Region
K. Koyama, J. Kataoka, M. Nobukawa +16
The most characteristic high-energy phenomena in the Galactic center (GC) region is the presence of strong K-shell emission lines from highly ionized Si, S, Ar, Ca, Fe and Ni, whic…
ASTRO-H White Paper - Young Supernova Remnants
J. P. Hughes, S. Safi-Harb, A. Bamba +23
Thanks to the unprecedented spectral resolution and sensitivity of the Soft X-ray Spectrometer (SXS) to soft thermal X-ray emission, ASTRO-H will open a new discovery window for un…
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…
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…
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…
Detection of persistent gamma-ray emission toward SS433/W50
Pol Bordas, Ruizhi Yang, Ervin Kafexhiu +1
The microquasar SS433 features the most energetic jets known in our Galaxy. A large fraction of the jet kinetic power is delivered to the surrounding W50 nebula at the jet terminat…
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…
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…
Fermi-LAT observations of the Sagittarius B complex
Rui-zhi Yang, David I. Jones, Felix Aharonian
Aims. We use 5 years of Fermi-LAT data towards the Galactic-centre giant molecular cloud complex, Sagittarius B, to test questions of how well-mixed the Galactic component of cosmi…
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…
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…
Parametrization of gamma-ray production cross-sections for pp interactions in a broad proton energy range from the kinematic threshold to PeV energies
Ervin Kafexhiu, Felix Aharonian, Andrew M. Taylor +1
Using publicly available Monte Carlo codes as well as compilation of published data on p--p interactions for proton kinetic energy below 2 GeV, we parametrize the energy spectra an…
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…
Hadronic gamma-rays from RX J1713.7-3946?
Stefano Gabici, Felix A. Aharonian
RXJ1713.7-3946 is a key object to check the supernova remnant paradigm of the origin of Galactic cosmic rays. While the origin of its gamma-ray emission (hadronic versus leptonic)…
Deep sea tests of a prototype of the KM3NeT digital optical module
S. Adrián-Martínez, M. Ageron, F. Aharonian +247
The first prototype of a photo-detection unit of the future KM3NeT neutrino telescope has been deployed in the deep waters of the Mediterranean Sea. This digital optical module has…
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…
Investigation of Dense Gas Towards Relativistic Outflow Sources
J. Hawkes, G. Rowell, B. Dawson +10
We probe the interstellar medium towards the objects Circinus X-1, a low-mass X-ray binary with relativistic jets; and the highly energetic Westerlund 2 stellar cluster, which is l…
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…
A Galactic Halo Origin of the Neutrinos Detected by IceCube
Andrew M. Taylor, Stefano Gabici, Felix Aharonian
Recent IceCube results suggest that the first detection of very high energy astrophysical neutrinos have been accomplished. We consider these results at face value in a Galactic or…
HESS J1640-465 - an exceptionally luminous TeV gamma-ray supernova remnant
H. E. S. S. Collaboration, A. Abramowski, F. Aharonian +218
The results of follow-up observations of the TeV gamma-ray source HESSJ 1640-465 from 2004 to 2011 with the High Energy Stereoscopic System (H.E.S.S.) are reported in this work. Th…