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    • The 2010 very high energy γ-ray flare and 10 years of multi-wavelength observations of M 87 

      Abramowski, A.; Büsching, I.; De Jager, O.C.; Sheidaei, F.; Venter, C.; Vorster, M.; H.E.S.S. Collaboration (IOP Publishing, 2012)
      The giant radio galaxy M 87 with its proximity (16 Mpc), famous jet, and very massive black hole ((3 – 6) × 109 M☉) provides a unique opportunity to investigate the origin of very high energy (VHE; E > 100 GeV) γ-ray ...
    • The 2014 TeV γ-ray flare of Mrk 501 seen with H.E.S.S.: temporal and spectral constraints on Lorentz invariance violation 

      Abdalla, H.; Arcaro, C.; Backes, M.; Barnard, M.; Böttcher, M.; Chandra, S.; Krüger, P.P.; Ndiyavala, H.; Seyffert, A.S.; Spanier, F.; Van der Walt, D.J.; Van Rensburg, C.; Venter, C.; Wadiasingh, Z.; Zacharias, M. (IOP Publishing, 2019)
      The blazar Mrk 501 (z = 0.034) was observed at very-high-energy (VHE, E gsim 100 GeV) gamma-ray wavelengths during a bright flare on the night of 2014 June 23–24 (MJD 56832) with the H.E.S.S. phase-II array of Cherenkov ...
    • The ablation of gas clouds by blazar jets 

      Heil, Jonathan; Zacharias, Michael (EDP Sciences, 2020)
      Context. Flaring activity in blazars can last for vastly different timescales, and it may be the result of density enhancements in the jet flow that result from the intrusion of an interstellar cloud into the jet. Aims. ...
    • Cascading constraints from neutrino-emitting blazars: the case of TXS 0506+056 

      Reimer, Anita; Böttcher, Markus; Buson, Sara (IOP Publishing, 2019)
      We present a procedure to generally constrain the environments of neutrino-producing sites in photomeson production models of jetted active galactic nuclei (AGNs) where any origin of the dominant target photon field can ...
    • Characterizing the γ-ray long-term variability of PKS 2155-304 with H.E.S.S. and Fermi-LAT 

      Abdalla, H.; Barnard, M.; Böttcher, M.; Davids, I.D.; Garrigoux, T.; Ivascenko, A.; Krüger, P.P.; Pekeur, N.W.; Seyffert, A.S.; Spanier, F.; Sushch, I.; Van der Walt, D.J.; Van Rensburg, C.; Venter, C.; Wadiasingh, Z.; H.E.S.S. Collaboration (EDP Sciences, 2017)
      Studying the temporal variability of BL Lac objects at the highest energies provides unique insights into the extreme physical processes occurring in relativistic jets and in the vicinity of super-massive black holes. To ...
    • Discovery of a new TeV gamma-ray source: Ver J0521+211 

      Archambault, S.; Böttcher, M.; Arlen, T.; Aune, T.; Behera, B. (IOP Science, 2013)
      We report the detection of a new TeV gamma-ray source, VER J0521+211, based on observations made with the VERITAS imaging atmospheric Cherenkov Telescope Array. These observations were motivated by the discovery of a cluster ...
    • Discovery of VHE y-ray emission and multi-wavelength observations of the BL Lacertae object 1RXS J101015.9-311909 

      Abramowski, A.; Büsching, I.; Casanova, S.; De Jager, O.C.; Pekeur, N.W.; Sheidaei, F.; Venter, C.; Vorster, M.; H.E.S.S. Collaboration (EDP Science, 2012)
      1RXS J101015.9 − 311909 is a galaxy located at a redshift of z = 0.14 hosting an active nucleus (called AGN) belonging to the class of bright BL Lac objects. Observations at high (HE, E > 100 MeV) and very high (VHE, E > ...
    • Flux upper limits for 47 AGN observed with H.E.S.S. in 2004-2011 

      Abramowski, A.; Casanova, S.; Davids, I.D.; Krüger, P.P.; Pekeur, N.W.; Sushch, I.; Venter, C.; Vorster, M.; H.E.S.S. Collaboration (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 ...
    • Gamma-gamma absorption in the broad line region radiation fields of gamma-ray blazars 

      Böttcher, Markus; Els, Paul (IOP Publishing, 2016)
      The expected level of γγ absorption in the Broad Line Region (BLR) radiation field of γ-ray loud Flat Spectrum Radio Quasars (FSRQs) is evaluated as a function of the location of the γ-ray emission region. This is done ...
    • Gamma-ray blazar spectra with H.E.S.S. II mono analysis: the case of PKS 2155-304 and PG 1553+113 

      Abdalla, H.; Barnard, M.; Böttcher, M.; Davids, I.D.; Garrigoux, T.; Ivascenko, A.; Krüger, P.P.; Pekeur, N.W.; Seyffert, A.S.; Spanier, F.; Sushch, I.; Van der Walt, D.J.; Venter, C.; Wadiasingh, Z.; H.E.S.S. Collaboration (EDP Sciences, 2017)
      Context. The addition of a 28 m Cherenkov telescope (CT5) to the H.E.S.S. array extended the experiment’s sensitivityto lower energies. The lowest energy threshold is obtained using monoscopic analysis of data taken with ...