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20162025
most citedMulti-messenger observations of a flaring blazar coincident with high-energy neutrino IceCube-170922A

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86 papers

astro-ph.HE2025

The most distant -ray flare to date: a multiwavelength campaign on the blazar GB6 B1428+4217

Andrea Gokus, Manel Errando, Ivan Agudo +12

In November 2023, the Fermi Large Area Telescope detected a -ray flare from the high-redshift blazar GB6 B1428+4217 (). We initiated a multi-wavelength follow-up campai…

astro-ph.HE2024

A gamma-ray flare from TXS 1508+572: characterizing the jet of a blazar in the early Universe

Andrea Gokus, Markus Böttcher, Manel Errando +13

Blazars can be detected from very large distances due to their high luminosity. However, the detection of -ray emission of blazars beyond has only been confirmed for a sma…

astro-ph.HE2024

Rapid Variability of Mrk 421 During Extreme Flaring as Seen Through the Eyes of XMM-Newton

A. Gokus, J. Wilms, M. Kadler +31

By studying the variability of blazars across the electromagnetic spectrum, it is possible to resolve the underlying processes responsible for rapid flux increases, so-called flare…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 129 cited

The Fourth Catalog of Active Galactic Nuclei Detected by the Fermi Large Area Telescope -- Data Release 3

LAT collaboration, Marco Ajello, Luca Baldini +100

An incremental version of the fourth catalog of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) detected by the Fermi-Large Area Telescope is presented. This version (4LAC-DR3) derives from the thir…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 56 cited

ASTRI Mini-Array Core Science at the Observatorio del Teide

S. Vercellone, C. Bigongiari, A. Burtovoi +84

The ASTRI (Astrofisica con Specchi a Tecnologia Replicante Italiana) Project led by the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF) is developing and will deploy at the Obse…

astro-ph.HE2021

Locating the -ray emitting region in the quasar 4C +01.28

F. Rösch, M. Kadler, E. Ros +5

Determining the location of -ray emission in blazar jets is a challenging task. Pinpointing the exact location of -ray production within a relativistic jet can place strong c…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 13 cited

Searching for TeV gamma-ray emission from SGR\,1935+2154 during its 2020 X-ray and radio bursting phase

H. E. S. S. Collaboration, :, H. Abdalla +251

Magnetar hyperflares are the most plausible explanation for fast radio bursts (FRB) -- enigmatic powerful radio pulses with durations of several milliseconds and high brightness te…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 2 cited

KM3NeT/ARCA expectations in view of a novel multimessenger study of starburst galaxies

Antonio Marinelli, Antonio Ambrosone, Walid Idrissi Ibnsalih +4

Starburst galaxies (SBGs) and more in general starforming galaxies represent a class of galaxies with a high star formation rate (up to 100 solar masses/year). Despite their low lu…

hep-ex2021★ 1 cited

Combined dark matter searches towards dwarf spheroidal galaxies with Fermi-LAT, HAWC, H.E.S.S., MAGIC, and VERITAS

Celine Armand, Eric Charles, Mattia di Mauro +13

Cosmological and astrophysical observations suggest that 85\% of the total matter of the Universe is made of Dark Matter (DM). However, its nature remains one of the most challengi…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 2 cited

Search for dark matter annihilation signals from the Galactic Center with the H.E.S.S. Inner Galaxy Survey

A. Montanari, E. Moulin, D. Malyshev

The presence of dark matter (DM) is suggested by a wealth of astrophysical and cosmological measurements. However, its underlying nature is yet unknown. Among the most promising ca…

physics.ins-det2021

The Calibration Units of KM3NeT

R. Le Breton, M. Billault, C. Boutonnet +16

KM3NeT is a deep-sea infrastructure composed of two neutrino telescopes being deployed in the Mediterranean Sea: ARCA, near Sicily in Italy, designed for neutrino astronomy, and OR…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 2 cited

The young massive stellar cluster Westerlund 1 in rays as seen with H.E.S.S

Lars Mohrmann, Andreas Specovius, Romed Rauth +2

Massive stellar clusters have recently been hypothesised as candidates for the acceleration of hadronic cosmic rays up to PeV energies. Previously, the H.E.S.S. Collaboration has r…

astro-ph.HE2021

Evidence of 100 TeV -ray emission from HESS J1702-420: A new PeVatron candidate

L. Giunti, B. Khelifi, K. Kosack +1

The identification of active PeVatrons, hadronic particle accelerators reaching the knee of the cosmic-ray spectrum (at the energy of few PeV), is crucial to understand the origin…

astro-ph.IM2021

Science verification of the new FlashCam-based camera in the 28m telescope of H.E.S.S

Gerd Pühlhofer, Konrad Bernlöhr, Baiyang Bi +13

In October 2019 the central 28m telescope of the H.E.S.S. experiment has been upgraded with a new camera. The camera is based on the FlashCam design which has been developed in vie…

astro-ph.HE2021

Detection of extended TeV emission around the Geminga pulsar with H.E.S.S

A. M. W. Mitchell, S. Caroff, J. Hinton +1

Highly extended gamma-ray emission around the Geminga pulsar was discovered by Milagro and verified by HAWC. Despite many observations with Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 3 cited

Detection of new Extreme BL Lac objects with H.E.S.S. and Swift XRT

Mathieu de Bony de Lavergne, Tomas Bylund, Manuel Meyer +2

Extreme high synchrotron peaked blazars (EHBLs) are amongst the most powerful accelerators found in nature. Usually the synchrotron peak frequency of an EHBL is above Hz…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 1 cited

Multi-wavelength study of Mrk 421 during a TeV flare

A. Gokus, A. Kreikenbohm, K. Leiter +31

The blazar Mrk 421 shows frequent, short flares in the TeV energy regime. Due to the fast nature of such episodes, we often fail to obtain sufficient simultaneous information about…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 13 cited

LMC N132D: A mature supernova remnant with a power-law gamma-ray spectrum extending beyond 8 TeV

H. E. S. S. Collaboration, :, H. Abdalla +233

We analyzed 252 hours of High Energy Stereoscopic System (H.E.S.S.) observations towards the supernova remnant (SNR) LMC N132D that were accumulated between December 2004 and March…

astro-ph.IM2021

Astronomy outreach in Namibia: H.E.S.S. and beyond

Hannah Dalgleish, Heike Prokoph, Sylvia Zhu +6

Astronomy plays a major role in the scientific landscape of Namibia. Because of its excellent sky conditions, Namibia is home to ground-based observatories like the High Energy Spe…

hep-ex2021★ 1 cited

Comparison of the measured atmospheric muon rate with Monte Carlo simulations and sensitivity study for detection of prompt atmospheric muons with KM3NeT

Piotr Kalaczyński

The KM3NeT Collaboration has successfully deployed the first detection units of the next generation undersea neutrino telescopes in the Mediterranean Sea at the two sites in Italy…

astro-ph.HE2021

The Blazar Hadronic Code Comparison Project

Matteo Cerruti, Michael Kreter, Maria Petropoulou +15

Blazar hadronic models have been developed in the past decades as an alternative to leptonic ones. In hadronic models the gamma-ray emission is associated with synchrotron emission…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 28 cited

TeV emission of Galactic plane sources with HAWC and H.E.S.S

H. Abdalla, F. Aharonian, F. Ait Benkhali +318

The High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) observatory and the High Energy Stereoscopic System (H.E.S.S.) are two leading instruments in the ground-based very-high-energy gamma-ray d…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 14 cited

Search for dark matter annihilation signals from unidentified Fermi-LAT objects with H.E.S.S

H. E. S. S. Collaboration, H. Abdallah, F. Aharonian +226

Cosmological -body simulations show that Milky Way-sized galaxies harbor a population of unmerged dark matter subhalos. These subhalos could shine in gamma-rays and be eventuall…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 24 cited

Evidence of 100 TeV -ray emission from HESS J1702-420: A new PeVatron candidate

H. Abdalla, F. Aharonian, F. Ait Benkhali +232

The identification of PeVatrons, hadronic particle accelerators reaching the knee of the cosmic ray spectrum (few eV), is crucial to understand the origin of cosmic rays…