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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★ 11 cited

First limits on the very-high energy gamma-ray afterglow emission of a fast radio burst: H.E.S.S. observations of FRB 150418

H. E. S. S. Collaboration, :, H. Abdalla +265

Aims: Following the detection of the fast radio burst FRB150418 by the SUPERB project at the Parkes radio telescope, we aim to search for very-high energy gamma-ray afterglow emiss…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 59 cited

Deeper H.E.S.S. observations of Vela Junior (RX J0852.04622): Morphology studies and resolved spectroscopy

H. E. S. S. Collaboration, H. Abdalla, A. Abramowski +260

Aims. We study gamma-ray emission from the shell-type supernova remnant (SNR) RX J0852.04622 to better characterize its spectral properties and its distribution over the SNR. Me…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 5 cited

Target of Opportunity observations of blazars with H.E.S.S.

M. Cerruti, M. Böttcher, N. Chakraborty +10

The very high energy (VHE, E > 100 GeV) sky is dominated by blazars, radio-loud active galactic nuclei whose relativistic jet is closely aligned with the line of sight. Blazars are…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 1 cited

Contributions of the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) to the 6th International Symposium on High-Energy Gamma-Ray Astronomy (Gamma 2016)

The CTA Consortium, :, A. Abchiche +1387

List of contributions from the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) Consortium presented at the 6th International Symposium on High-Energy Gamma-Ray Astronomy (Gamma 2016), July 11-15,…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 50 cited

Characterizing the gamma-ray long-term variability of PKS 2155-304 with H.E.S.S. and Fermi-LAT

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

Studying the temporal variability of BL Lac objects at the highest energies provides unique insights into the extreme physical processes occurring in relativistic jets and in the v…

astro-ph.IM2016★ 10 cited

Open high-level data formats and software for gamma-ray astronomy

Christoph Deil, Catherine Boisson, Karl Kosack +22

In gamma-ray astronomy, a variety of data formats and proprietary software have been traditionally used, often developed for one specific mission or experiment. Especially for grou…

astro-ph.IM2016★ 1 cited

Inauguration and First Light of the GCT-M Prototype for the Cherenkov Telescope Array

J. J. Watson, A. De Franco, A. Abchiche +66

The Gamma-ray Cherenkov Telescope (GCT) is a candidate for the Small Size Telescopes (SSTs) of the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA). Its purpose is to extend the sensitivity of CTA…

astro-ph.IM2016

The Gamma-ray Cherenkov Telescope for the Cherenkov Telescope Array

L. Tibaldo, A. Abchiche, D. Allan +67

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is a forthcoming ground-based observatory for very-high-energy gamma rays. CTA will consist of two arrays of imaging atmospheric Cherenkov teles…

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★ 43 cited

On the black hole mass of the gamma-ray emitting narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxy 1H 0323+342

H. Landt, M. J. Ward, M. Balokovic +6

Narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxies have been identified by the Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope as a rare class of gamma-ray emitting active galactic nuclei (AGN). The lowest-redshift c…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 46 cited

The supernova remnant W49B as seen with H.E.S.S. and Fermi-LAT

H. E. S. S. Collaboration, H. Abdalla, A. Abramowski +253

The supernova remnant (SNR) W49B originated from a core-collapse supernova that occurred between one and four thousand years ago, and subsequently evolved into a mixed-morphology r…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 116 cited

H.E.S.S. observations of RX J1713.7-3946 with improved angular and spectral resolution; evidence for gamma-ray emission extending beyond the X-ray emitting shell

H. E. S. S. Collaboration, :, H. Abdalla +252

Supernova remnants exhibit shock fronts (shells) that can accelerate charged particles up to very high energies. In the past decade, measurements of a handful of shell-type superno…

astro-ph.IM2016★ 3 cited

The GCT camera for the Cherenkov Telescope Array

Anthony M. Brown, A. Abchiche, D. Allan +63

The Gamma-ray Cherenkov Telescope (GCT) is proposed for the Small-Sized Telescope component of the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA). GCT's dual-mirror Schwarzschild-Couder (SC) opti…

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★ 55 cited

An innovative blazar classification based on radio jet kinematics

Olivier Hervet, Catherine Boisson, Hélène Sol

Blazars are usually classified following their synchrotron peak frequency ( scale) as high, intermediate, low frequency peaked BL Lacs (HBLs, IBLs, LBLs), and flat spectrum…

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.IM2016★ 2 cited

IVOA Provenance data model: hints from the CTA Provenance prototype

Michèle Sanguillon, Mathieu Servillat, Mireille Louys +3

We present the last developments on the IVOA Provenance data model, mainly based on the W3C PROV concept. In the context of the Cherenkov astronomy, the data processing stages impl…