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astro-ph.HE2013★ 50 cited

Long-term TeV and X-ray Observations of the Gamma-ray Binary HESS J0632+057

VERITAS Collaboration, E. Aliu, S. Archambault +297

HESS J0632+057 is the only gamma-ray binary known so far whose position in the sky allows observations with ground-based observatories both in the northern and southern hemispheres…

astro-ph.HE2013★ 165 cited

Constraints on axionlike particles with H.E.S.S. from the irregularity of the PKS 2155-304 energy spectrum

H. E. S. S. Collaboration, A. Abramowski, F. Acero +211

Axionlike particles (ALPs) are hypothetical light (sub-eV) bosons predicted in some extensions of the Standard Model of particle physics. In astrophysical environments comprising h…

astro-ph.HE2013★ 58 cited

Spectroscopy of High Energy BL Lac Objects with X-shooter on the VLT

Santiago Pita, Paolo Goldoni, Catherine Boisson +6

Context. The study of BL Lac objects (BLL) detected in gamma-rays gives insights on the acceleration mechanisms in play in such systems and is also a valuable tool to constrain the…

astro-ph.HE2013★ 54 cited

H.E.S.S. Observations of the Crab during its March 2013 GeV Gamma-Ray Flare

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

Context. On March 4, 2013, the Fermi-LAT and AGILE reported a flare from the direction of the Crab Nebula in which the high-energy (HE; E > 100 MeV) flux was six times above its qu…

astro-ph.HE2013★ 15 cited

HESS J1818-154, a new composite supernova remnant discovered in TeV gamma rays and X-rays

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

Composite supernova remnants (SNRs) constitute a small subclass of the remnants of massive stellar explosions where non-thermal radiation is observed from both the expanding shell-…

astro-ph.HE2013★ 32 cited

Discovery of very high energy gamma-ray emission from the BL Lac object PKS 0301-243 with H.E.S.S

H. E. S. S. Collaboration, A. Abramowski, F. Acero +211

The active galactic nucleus PKS 0301-243 (z=0.266) is a high-synchrotron-peaked BL Lac object that is detected at high energies (HE, 100 MeV < E < 100 GeV) by Fermi/LAT. This paper…

astro-ph.HE2013★ 7 cited

CTA contributions to the 33rd International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC2013)

The CTA Consortium, :, O. Abril +1102

Compilation of CTA contributions to the proceedings of the 33rd International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC2013), which took place in 2-9 July, 2013, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

astro-ph.HE2013

Search for Very-high-energy gamma-ray emission from Galactic globular clusters with H.E.S.S

P. Eger, C. van Eldik

Globular clusters (GCs) are established emitters of high-energy (HE, 100 MeV<E<100 GeV) γ-ray radiation which could originate from the cumulative emission of the numerous milliseco…

astro-ph.HE2013★ 38 cited

H.E.S.S and Fermi-LAT discovery of gamma rays from the blazar 1ES 1312-423

H. E. S. S. Collaboration, A. Abramowski, F. Acero +214

A deep observation campaign carried out by the High Energy Stereoscopic System (H.E.S.S.) on Centaurus A enabled the discovery of gamma rays from the blazar 1ES 1312-423, two degre…

astro-ph.HE2013★ 27 cited

Constraining the parameter space of the one-zone synchrotron-self-Compton model for GeV-TeV detected BL Lac objects

Matteo Cerruti, Catherine Boisson, Andreas Zech

The one-zone synchrotron-self-Compton (SSC) model aims to describe the spectral energy distribution (SED) of BL Lac objects via synchrotron emission by a non-thermal population of…

astro-ph.HE2013★ 75 cited

Gamma-ray blazars near equipartition and the origin of the GeV spectral break in 3C 454.3

Matteo Cerruti, Charles D. Dermer, Benoit Lott +2

Observations performed with the Fermi-LAT telescope have revealed the presence of a spectral break in the GeV spectrum of flat-spectrum radio quasars (FSRQs) and other low- and int…

astro-ph.HE2013★ 102 cited

H.E.S.S. discovery of VHE gamma-rays from the quasar PKS 1510-089

H. E. S. S. Collaboration, A. Abramowski, F. Acero +204

The quasar PKS 1510-089 (z=0.361) was observed with the H.E.S.S. array of imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes during high states in the optical and GeV bands, to search for ve…

astro-ph.HE2013★ 66 cited

Active Galactic Nuclei under the scrutiny of CTA

H. Sol, A. Zech, C. Boisson +24

Active Galactic Nuclei (hereafter AGN) produce powerful outflows which offer excellent conditions for efficient particle acceleration in internal and external shocks, turbulence, a…

astro-ph.HE2013★ 108 cited

Equipartition Gamma-Ray Blazars and the Location of the Gamma-Ray Emission Site in 3C 279

Charles D. Dermer, Matteo Cerruti, Benoit Lott +2

Blazar spectral models generally have numerous unconstrained parameters, leading to ambiguous values for physical properties like Doppler factor delta or fluid magnetic field B'. T…

astro-ph.HE2013★ 26 cited

Discovery of high and very high-energy emission from the BL Lac object SHBL J001355.9-185406

H. E. S. S. Collaboration, :, A. Abramowski +210

The detection of the high-frequency peaked BL Lac object (HBL) SHBL J001355.9-185406 (=0.095) at high (HE; 100 MeVE300 GeV) and very high-energy (VHE; )…

astro-ph.HE2013★ 39 cited

Discovery of TeV gamma-ray emission from PKS 0447-439 and derivation of an upper limit on its redshift

H. E. S. S. Collaboration, :, A. Abramowski +204

Very high-energy gamma-ray emission from PKS 0447-439 was detected with the H.E.S.S. Cherenkov telescope array in December 2009. This blazar is one of the brightest extragalactic o…

astro-ph.HE2013★ 46 cited

H.E.S.S. Observations of the Binary System PSR B1259-63/LS 2883 around the 2010/2011 Periastron Passage

H. E. S. S. Collaboration, :, A. Abramowski +203

Aim. In this paper we present very high energy (VHE; E>100 GeV) data from the γ-ray binary system PSR B1259-63/LS 2883 taken around its periastron passage (15th of December 2010) w…

astro-ph.HE2013★ 20 cited

Search for Very-high-energy γ-ray emission from Galactic globular clusters with H.E.S.S

H. E. S. S. Collaboration, :, A. Abramowski +203

Globular clusters (GCs) are established emitters of high-energy (HE, 100 MeV<E<100 GeV) γ-ray radiation which could originate from the cumulative emission of the numerous milliseco…

astro-ph.HE2013★ 251 cited

Search for photon line-like signatures from Dark Matter annihilations with H.E.S.S

H. E. S. S. Collaboration, :, A. Abramowski +201

Gamma-ray line signatures can be expected in the very-high-energy (VHE; E_γ> 100 GeV) domain due to self-annihilation or decay of dark matter (DM) particles in space. Such a signal…