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Contributions from nearby pulsars to the local cosmic ray electron spectrum
(Elsevier, 2008)
PSR J0437-4715 is one of the closest millisecond pulsars (MSPs) to Earth, lying at a distance of _140 pc. This pulsar has a characteristic age of 4.9 Gyr and a relatively low spindown power of _1034 ergs/s. During its ...
Constraints on the multi-TeV particle population in the Coma galaxy cluster with HESS observations
(EDP Sciences, 2009)
Aims. Galaxy clusters are key targets in the search for ultra high energy particle accelerators. The Coma cluster represents one of the best candidates for such a search owing to its high mass, proximity, and the established ...
Detection of gamma rays from a starburst galaxy
(AAAS, 2009)
Starburst galaxies exhibit in their central regions a highly increased rate of supernovae, the remnants of which are thought to accelerate energetic cosmic rays up to energies of ~1015 electron volts. We report the detection ...
HESS upper limit on the very high energy gammay-ray emission from the globular cluster 47 Tucanae (Research Note)
(EDP sciences, 2009)
Observations of the globular cluster 47 Tucanae (NGC 104), which contains at least 23 ms pulsars, were performed with the HESS telescope
system. The observations lead to an upper limit of F(E > 800 GeV) < 6.7 × 10−13 cm−2 ...
PKS 2005-489 at VHE: four years of monitoring with HESS and simultaneous multi-wavelength observations
(EDP Sciences, 2010)
Aims. Our aim is to study the very high energy (VHE; E>100 GeV) γ-ray emission from BL Lac objects and the evolution in time of their broad-band spectral energy distribution (SED).
Methods. VHE observations of the ...
Spatially resolved XMM-Newton analysis and a model of the nonthermal emission of MSH 15-52
(EDP Sciences, 2010)
We present an X-ray analysis and a model of the nonthermal emission of the pulsar wind nebula (PWN) MSH 15
−
5
2
. We analyzed
XMM-Newton data to obtain the spatially resolved spectral parameters around the pulsar PSR ...
First detection of VHE y-rays from SN 1006 by HESS
(EDP Sciences, 2010)
Aims. Recent theoretical predictions of the lowest very high energy (VHE) luminosity of SN 1006 are only a factor 5 below the previously published HESS upper limit, thus motivating further in-depth observations of this ...
Localizing the VHE y-ray source at the galactic centre
(Oxford University Press, 2010)
The inner 10 pc of our Galaxy contains many counterpart candidates of the very high energy
(VHE; >100 GeV) γ -ray point source HESS J1745−290. Within the point spread function
of the H.E.S.S. measurement, at least three ...
A search for a dark matter annihilation signal toward the Canis Major overdensity with H.E.S.S.
(EDP Sciences, 2009)
A search for a dark matter (DM) annihilation signal into γ -rays toward the direction of the Canis Major (CMa)
overdensity is presented. The nature of CMa is still controversial and one scenario represents it as a dwarf ...