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most citedA very-high-energy component deep in the Gamma-ray Burst afterglow

274 citations · 2.2k across the 60 of their papers we have counts for

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62 papers

astro-ph.HE2023★ 31 cited

Discovery of a Radiation Component from the Vela Pulsar Reaching 20 Teraelectronvolts

The H. E. S. S. Collaboration, :, F. Aharonian +178

Gamma-ray observations have established energetic isolated pulsars as outstanding particle accelerators and antimatter factories in the Galaxy. There is, however, no consensus rega…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 3 cited

Joint searches by FACT, H.E.S.S., MAGIC and VERITAS for VHE gamma-ray emission associated with neutrinos detected by IceCube

Fabian Schüssler, Halim Ashkar, Elisa Bernardini +11

The sources of the astrophysical flux of high-energy neutrinos detected by IceCube are still largely unknown, but searches for temporal and spatial correlation between neutrinos an…

astro-ph.IM2023★ 3 cited

tilepy: rapid tiling strategies in mid/small FoV observatories

Fabian Schüssler, Halim Ashkar, Mathieu de Bony de Lavergne +1

The challenges inherent to time-domain multi-messenger astronomy require strategic actions so that adapted, optimized follow-up observations are performed efficiently. In particula…

astro-ph.HE2023

Joint H.E.S.S. and Fermi-LAT analysis of the region around PSR J1813-1749

T. Wach, A. M. W. Mitchell, V. Joshi +1

HESS J1813-178 is one of the brightest sources detected during the first HESS Galactic Plane survey. The compact source, also detected by MAGIC, is believed to be a pulsar wind neb…

astro-ph.HE2023

Modelling of highly extended Gamma-ray emission around the Geminga Pulsar as detected with H.E.S.S

A. M. W. Mitchell, S. Caroff

Geminga is an enigmatic radio-quiet gamma-ray pulsar located at a mere 250 pc distance from Earth. Extended very-high-energy gamma-ray emission around the pulsar has been detected…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 9 cited

Constraining the cosmic-ray pressure in the inner Virgo Cluster using H.E.S.S. observations of M 87

H. E. S. S. Collaboration, :, F. Aharonian +160

The origin of the gamma-ray emission from M87 is currently a matter of debate. This work aims to localize the VHE (100 GeV-100 TeV) gamma-ray emission from M87 and probe a potentia…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 29 cited

Detection of extended gamma-ray emission around the Geminga pulsar with H.E.S.S

H. E. S. S. Collaboration, :, F. Aharonian +165

Geminga is an enigmatic radio-quiet gamma-ray pulsar located at a mere 250 pc distance from Earth. Extended very-high-energy gamma-ray emission around the pulsar was discovered by…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 14 cited

Search for the evaporation of primordial black holes with H.E.S.S

H. E. S. S. collaboration, :, F. Aharonian +146

Primordial Black Holes (PBHs) are hypothetical black holes predicted to have been formed from density fluctuations in the early Universe. PBHs with an initial mass around $10^{14}-…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 50 cited

A deep spectromorphological study of the -ray emission surrounding the young massive stellar cluster Westerlund 1

F. Aharonian, H. Ashkar, M. Backes +156

Young massive stellar clusters are extreme environments and potentially provide the means for efficient particle acceleration. Indeed, they are increasingly considered as being res…

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…

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…

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★ 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…

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…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 172 cited

Revealing x-ray and gamma ray temporal and spectral similarities in the GRB 190829A afterglow

H. E. S. S. Collaboration

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), which are bright flashes of gamma rays from extragalactic sources followed by fading afterglow emission, are associated with stellar core collapse events.…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 19 cited

Search for dark matter annihilation in the dwarf irregular galaxy WLM with H.E.S.S

H. E. S. S. Collaboration, H. Abdallah, R. Adam +232

We search for an indirect signal of dark matter through very high-energy gamma rays from the Wolf-Lundmark-Melotte (WLM) dwarf irregular galaxy. The pair annihilation of dark matte…