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Unidentified galactic high-energy sources as ancient pulsar wind nebulae in the light of new high energy observations and the new code
(AIP, 2012)
In a Pulsar Wind Nebula (PWN), the lifetime of inverse Compton (IC) emitting e− exceeds the lifetime of its progenitor pulsar (as well as its shell-type remnant), but it also exceeds the age of those that emit via synchrotron ...
A search for new supernova remnant shells in the Galactic plane with H.E.S.S.
(EDP Sciences, 2018)
A search for new supernova remnants (SNRs) has been conducted using TeV γ-ray data from the H.E.S.S. Galactic plane survey. As an identification criterion, shell morphologies that are characteristic for known resolved TeV ...
Constraints on the emission geometries and spin evolution of gamma-ray millisecond pulsars
(IOP Publishing, 2014)
Millisecond pulsars (MSPs) are a growing class of gamma-ray emitters. Pulsed gamma-ray signals have been
detected from more than 40 MSPs with the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT). The wider radio beams and more
compact ...
A search for optical counterparts of the complex Vela X system
(South African Institute of Physics, 2015)
The pulsar wind nebula (PWN) associated with the Vela pulsar is a bright source
in the radio, X-ray and gamma-ray bands, but not in the optical. This source is very near,
lying at a distance of 290 pc, as inferred from ...
The anatomy of γ-ray pulsar light curves
(South African Institute of Physics, 2014)
To obtain constraints on the inclination and observer angles, <i>α</i> and <i>ζ</i>, of a <i>γ</i>-ray pulsar from its observed light curve (LC), we make use of geometric models detailing the position and extent of emission ...
Discovery of the hard spectrum VHE γ-ray source HESS J1641-463
(IOP Publishing, 2014)
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 J1641–463 remained unnoticed by the usual ...
Search for extended γ-ray emission around AGN with H.E.S.S. and Fermi-LAT
(EDP Sciences, 2014)
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 extragalactic background light (EBL). ...
HESS J1818-154, a new composite supernova remnant discovered in TeV gamma rays and X-rays
(EDP Sciences, 2014)
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-like shock front and from a pulsar wind ...
Flux upper limits for 47 AGN observed with H.E.S.S. in 2004-2011
(EDP Sciences, 2014)
Context. About 40% of the observation time of the High Energy Stereoscopic System (H.E.S.S.) is dedicated to studying active galactic nuclei
(AGN), with the aim of increasing the sample of known extragalactic very-high-energy ...
Long-term monitoring of PKS2155-304 with ATOM and H.E.S.S.: investigation of optical/y-ray correlations in different spectral states
(EDP Sciences, 2014)
In this paper we report on the analysis of all the available optical and very high-energy
y-ray (>200 GeV) data for the BL Lac object PKS 2155-304,
collected simultaneously with the ATOM and H.E.S.S. telescopes from ...