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

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astro-ph.HE2026

Scrutinizing the 2020 multiwavelength outburst of PKS 0903-57 through observations with H.E.S.S

A. Acharyya, F. Aharonian, F. Ait Benkhali +138

The blazar PKS 0903-57 has recently been classified as a flat spectrum radio quasar at a redshift of . In March and April 2020, Fermi-LAT and AGILE reported tremendous ac…

astro-ph.HE2026★ 3 cited

Estimatingthe Contribution of Galactic Neutrino Sources

Mohadeseh Ozlati Moghadam, Kathrin Egberts, Rowan Batzofin +2

The Milky Way hosts astrophysical accelerators capable of producing high-energy cosmic rays. These cosmic rays can interact with the interstellar medium (ISM) across the Galaxy to…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 1 cited

Prompt Searches for Very-High-Energy γ-Ray Counterparts to IceCube Astrophysical Neutrino Alerts

J. Abhir, A. Biland, K. Brand +817

The search for sources of high-energy astrophysical neutrinos can be significantly advanced through a multi-messenger approach, which seeks to detect the gamma rays that accompany…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 5 cited

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

LAT Collaboration, S. Abdollahi, L. Baldini +586

Dwarf spheroidal galaxies (dSphs) are excellent targets for indirect dark matter (DM) searches using gamma-ray telescopes because they are thought to have high DM content and a low…

astro-ph.HE2025

Runaway stars and the Galactic supernova remnant landscape: non-thermal emission and observational evidence

Rowan Batzofin, Kathrin Egberts, Dominique M. -A. Meyer +1

Context. A significant fraction (~30%) of massive stars in our Galaxy are moving supersonically through the interstellar medium, which strongly governs their location at the time t…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 1 cited

H.E.S.S. programme searching for VHE gamma rays associated with FRBs

F. Aharonian, A. Archaryya, J. Aschersleben +127

Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are highly energetic, extremely short-lived bursts of radio flashes. Despite extensive research, the exact cause of these outbursts remains speculative. Th…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 2 cited

The H.E.S.S. extragalactic sky survey with the first decade of observations

H. E. S. S. Collaboration, F. Aharonian, F. Ait Benkhali +140

The results of the first extragalactic gamma-ray survey by the High Energy Stereoscopic System (H.E.S.S.) are presented. The survey comprises 2720 hours of very high-energy gamma-r…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 3 cited

Detection of very-high-energy gamma-ray emission from Eta Carinae during its 2020 periastron passage

H. E. S. S. Collaboration, F. Aharonian, F. Ait Benkhali +137

The colliding-wind binary system Carinae has been identified as a source of high-energy (HE, below 100\,GeV) and very-high-energy (VHE, above 100\,GeV) gamma rays i…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 20 cited

High-Statistics Measurement of the Cosmic-Ray Electron Spectrum with H.E.S.S

F. Aharonian, F. Ait Benkhali, J. Aschersleben +144

Owing to their rapid cooling rate and hence loss-limited propagation distance, cosmic-ray electrons and positrons (CRe) at very high energies probe local cosmic-ray accelerators an…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 4 cited

Multi-wavelength study of OT 081: broadband modelling of a transitional blazar

MAGIC Collaboration, H. Abe, S. Abe +270

OT 081 is a well-known, luminous blazar that is remarkably variable in many energy bands. We present the first broadband study of the source which includes very-high-energy (VHE, $…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 12 cited

Very-high-energy -ray emission from young massive star clusters in the Large Magellanic Cloud

F. Aharonian, F. Ait Benkhali, J. Aschersleben +129

The Tarantula Nebula in the Large Magellanic Cloud is known for its high star formation activity. At its center lies the young massive star cluster R136, providing a significant am…

astro-ph.HE2024

H.E.S.S. observations of the 2021 periastron passage of PSR B1259-63/LS 2883

H. E. S. S. Collaboration, F. Aharonian, F. Ait Benkhali +141

PSR B1259-63 is a gamma-ray binary system that hosts a pulsar in an eccentric orbit, with a 3.4 year period, around an O9.5Ve star. At orbital phases close to periastron passages,…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 5 cited

The population of Galactic supernova remnants in the TeV range

Rowan Batzofin, Pierre Cristofari, Kathrin Egberts +2

Supernova remnants (SNRs) are likely to be significant sources of cosmic rays up to the knee of the local cosmic-ray (CR) spectrum. They produce gamma-rays in the very-high-energy…

astro-ph.HE2024

Unveiling extended gamma-ray emission around HESS J1813-178

F. Aharonian, F. Ait Benkhali, J. Aschersleben +147

HESS J1813178 is a very-high-energy -ray source spatially coincident with the young and energetic pulsar PSR J18131749 and thought to be associated with its pulsar wind ne…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 15 cited

Curvature in the very-high energy gamma-ray spectrum of M87

H. E. S. S. Collaboration, F. Aharonian, F. Ait Benkhali +132

The radio galaxy M87 is a variable very-high energy (VHE) gamma-ray source, exhibiting three major flares reported in 2005, 2008, and 2010. Despite extensive studies, the origin of…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 60 cited

Acceleration and transport of relativistic electrons in the jets of the microquasar SS 433

F. Aharonian, F. Ait Benkhali, J. Aschersleben +161

SS 433 is a microquasar, a stellar binary system with collimated relativistic jets. We observed SS 433 in gamma rays using the High Energy Stereoscopic System (H.E.S.S.), finding a…

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

Chasing Gravitational Waves with the Cherenkov Telescope Array

Jarred Gershon Green, Alessandro Carosi, Lara Nava +563

The detection of gravitational waves from a binary neutron star merger by Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo (GW170817), along with the discovery of the electromagnetic counterparts…

astro-ph.HE2023

Variability studies of active galactic nuclei from the long-term monitoring program with the Cherenkov Telescope Array

Guillaume Grolleron, Josefa Becerra González, Jonathan Biteau +13

Blazars are active galactic nuclei (AGN) with a relativistic jet oriented toward the observer. This jet is composed of accelerated particles which can display emission over the ent…

astro-ph.HE2023

Dark matter searches in dwarf spheroidal galaxies with the Cherenkov Telescope Array

Francesco Gabriele Saturni, Michele Doro, Aldo Morselli +1

Dark matter (DM) is one of the major components in the Universe. However, at present its existence is still only inferred through indirect astronomical observations. DM particles c…

astro-ph.HE2023

The peculiar new state of the blazar PKS 1510-089

H. M. Schutte, M. Zacharias, M. Böttcher +4

Contemporaneous multiwavelength observations with H.E.S.S., SALT, Fermi-LAT, Swift, and ATOM show that the blazar PKS 1510-089 suffered a significant decrease in its optical flux,…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 9 cited

Prospects for -ray observations of the Perseus galaxy cluster with the Cherenkov Telescope Array

The Cherenkov Telescope Array Consortium, :, K. Abe +564

Galaxy clusters are expected to be dark matter (DM) reservoirs and storage rooms for the cosmic-ray protons (CRp) that accumulate along the cluster's formation history. Accordingly…

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

H.E.S.S. realtime follow-ups of IceCube high-energy neutrino alerts

Federica Bradascio, Halim Ashkar, Jowita Borowska +5

The evidence for multi-messenger photon and neutrino emission from the blazar TXS 0506+056 has demonstrated the importance of realtime follow-up of neutrino events by various groun…