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astro-ph.HE2019★ 2 cited

Monte Carlo study of a single SST-1M prototype for the Cherenkov Telescope Array

Jakub Jurysek, Imen Al Samarai, Cyril Alispach +56

The SST-1M telescope was developed as a prototype of a Small-Size-Telescope for the Cherenkov Telescope Array observatory and it has been extensively tested in Krakow since 2017. I…

astro-ph.HE2017

Development of a strategy for calibrating the novel SiPM camera of the SST-1M telescope proposed for the Cherenkov Telescope Array

I. Al Samarai, C. Alispach, F. Cadoux +36

CTA will comprise a sub-array of up to 70 small size telescopes (SSTs) at the southern array. The SST-1M project, a 4 m-diameter Davies Cotton telescope with 9 degrees FoV and a 12…

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★ 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.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★ 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★ 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★ 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…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 63 cited

Search for Extended γ-ray Emission around AGN with H.E.S.S. and Fermi-LAT

H. E. S. S. Collaboration, A. Abramowski, F. Aharonian +218

Context: Very-high-energy (VHE; E>100 GeV) γ-ray emission from blazars inevitably gives rise to electron-positron pair production through the interaction of these γ-rays with the E…

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

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★ 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★ 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…