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

274 citations · 1.4k across the 36 of their papers we have counts for

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36 papers

astro-ph.IM2024★ 4 cited

CTC and CT5TEA: an advanced multi-channel digitizer and trigger ASIC for imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes

Benjamin Schwab, Adrian Zink, Davide Depaoli +12

We have developed a new set of Application-Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs) of the TARGET family (CTC and CT5TEA), designed for the readout of signals from photosensors in came…

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

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.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★ 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★ 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…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 31 cited

Observation of a sudden cessation of a very-high-energy gamma-ray flare in PKS 1510-089 with H.E.S.S. and MAGIC in May 2016

H. E. S. S. Collaboration, H. Abdalla, R. Adam +430

The flat spectrum radio quasar (FSRQ) PKS 1510-089 is known for its complex multiwavelength behavior, and is one of only a few FSRQs detected at very high energy (VHE, GeV…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 17 cited

An extreme particle accelerator in the Galactic plane: HESS J1826130

H. E. S. S. Collaboration, H. Abdalla, R. Adam +236

The unidentified very-high-energy (VHE; E 0.1 TeV) -ray source, HESS J1826130, was discovered with the High Energy Stereoscopic System (HESS) in the Galactic plane. The a…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 59 cited

Search for dark matter signals towards a selection of recently-detected DES dwarf galaxy satellites of the Milky Way with H.E.S.S

H. E. S. S. Collaboration, :, H. Abdallah +227

Dwarf spheroidal galaxy satellites of the Milky Way are prime targets for indirect detection of dark matter with gamma rays due to their proximity, high dark matter content and abs…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 18 cited

Probing the magnetic field in the GW170817 outflow using H.E.S.S. observations

H. E. S. S. Collaboration, :, H. Abdalla +230

The detection of the first electromagnetic counterpart to the binary neutron star (BNS) merger remnant GW170817 established the connection between short -ray bursts and BNS merg…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 24 cited

Very high energy -ray emission from two blazars of unknown redshift and upper limits on their distance

H. E. S. S. Collaboration, H. Abdalla, R. Adam +225

We report on the detection of very-high-energy (VHE; GeV) -ray emission from the BL Lac objects KUV 00311-1938 and PKS 1440-389 with the High Energy Stereoscopic Syste…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 274 cited

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

H. Abdalla R. Adam F. Aharonian F. Ait Benkhali E. O. Anguener M. Arakawa, C. Arcaro, C. Armand +219

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are brief flashes of gamma rays, considered to be the most energetic explosive phenomena in the Universe. The emission from GRBs comprises a short (typicall…

astro-ph.IM2019★ 2 cited

Sensitivity Improvements of Very-High-Energy Gamma-Ray Detection with the Upgraded H.E.S.S. I Cameras using Full Waveform Processing

Justus Zorn, H. E. S. S. Collaboration

The High Energy Stereoscopic System (H.E.S.S.) is an array of five imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes in Namibia observing gamma-rays in the energy range from a few tens of G…

astro-ph.IM2019

Commissioning and Performance of CHEC-S -- a compact high-energy camera for the Cherenkov Telescope Array

Jason John Watson, Justus Zorn

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) will present the next leap forward in gamma-ray astronomy, pushing beyond the present energy frontier to probe beyond 300 TeV. This capability i…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 47 cited

Constraints on the emission region of 3C 279 during strong flares in 2014 and 2015 through VHE gamma-ray observations with H.E.S.S

H. E. S. S. Collaboration, H. Abdalla, R. Adam +224

The flat spectrum radio quasar 3C 279 is known to exhibit pronounced variability in the high-energy (MeVGeV) -ray band, which is continuously monitored with Fer…

physics.ins-det2019

A photomultiplier tube test stand and on-site measurements to characterise the performance of Photonis XP3062 photomultiplier tubes at increased background light conditions and lower gain

J. Zorn, K. Daumiller, R. Engel +4

Photomultiplier tubes (PMTs) are widely used in astroparticle physics experiments to detect light flashes (e.g. fluorescence or Cherenkov light) from extensive air showers (EASs) i…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 33 cited

H.E.S.S. and Suzaku observations of the Vela X pulsar wind nebula

H. E. S. S. Collaboration

Pulsar Wind Nebulae (PWNe) represent the most prominent population of Galactic very-high-energy gamma-ray sources and are thought to be an efficient source of leptonic cosmic rays.…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 16 cited

Upper Limits on Very-High-Energy Gamma-ray Emission from Core-Collapse Supernovae Observed with H.E.S.S

H. E. S. S. Collaboration, :, H. Abdalla +225

Young core-collapse supernovae with dense-wind progenitors may be able to accelerate cosmic-ray hadrons beyond the knee of the cosmic-ray spectrum, and this may result in measurabl…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 66 cited

The 2014 TeV Gamma-ray Flare of Mrk 501 Seen with H.E.S.S.: Temporal and Spectral Constraints on Lorentz Invariance Violation

H. E. S. S. Collaboration, :, H. Abdalla +232

The blazar Mrk 501 (z=0.034) was observed at very-high-energy (VHE, ~GeV) gamma-ray wavelengths during a bright flare on the night of 2014 June 23-24 (MJD 56832) with…

astro-ph.HE2018★ 88 cited

Particle Transport within the Pulsar Wind Nebula HESS J1825-137

H. E. S. S. Collaboration, H. Abdalla, F. Aharonian +225

Aims: We present a detailed view of the pulsar wind nebula (PWN) HESS J1825-137. We aim to constrain the mechanisms dominating the particle transport within the nebula, accounting…

astro-ph.HE2018★ 4 cited

VHE -ray discovery and multi-wavelength study of the blazar 1ES 2322-409

H. E. S. S. Collaboration, :, H. Abdalla +232

A hotspot at a position compatible with the BL Lac object 1ES 2322-409 was serendipitously detected with H.E.S.S. during observations performed in 2004 and 2006 on the blazar PKS 2…

astro-ph.HE2018★ 56 cited

Searches for gamma-ray lines and `pure WIMP' spectra from Dark Matter annihilations in dwarf galaxies with H.E.S.S

H. E. S. S. Collaboration, :, H. Abdalla +234

Dwarf spheroidal galaxies are among the most promising targets for detecting signals of Dark Matter (DM) annihilations. The H.E.S.S. experiment has observed five of these systems f…