A new population of very high energy gamma-ray sources in the Milky Way
- Aharonian, F.
- Akhperjanian, A.G.
- Aye, K.-M.
- Bazer-Bachi, A.R.
- Beilicke, M.
- Benbow, W.
- Berge, D.
- Berghaus, P.
- Bernlöhr, K.
- Boisson, C.
- Bolz, O.
- Borgmeier, C.
- Braun, I.
- Breitling, F.
- Brown, A.M.
- Bussons Gordo, J.
- Chadwick, P.M.
- Chounet, L.-M.
- Cornils, R.
- Costamante, L.
- Degrange, B.
- Djannati-Ataï, A.
- O'C. Drury, L.
- Dubus, G.
- Ergin, T.
- Espigat, P.
- Feinstein, F.
- Fleury, P.
- Fontaine, G.
- Funk, S.
- Gallant, Y.A.
- Giebels, B.
- Gillessen, S.
- Goret, P.
- Hadjichristidis, C.
- Hauser, M.
- Heinzelmann, G.
- Henri, G.
- Hermann, G.
- Hinton, J.A.
- Hofmann, W.
- Holleran, M.
- Horns, D.
- de Jager, O.C.
- Jung, I.
- Khélifi, B.
- Komin, Nu.
- Konopelko, A.
- Latham, I.J.
- Le Gallou, R.
- Lemière, A.
- Lemoine, M.
- Leroy, N.
- Lohse, T.
- Marcowith, A.
- Masterson, C.
- Mccomb, T. J. L.
- de Naurois, M.
- Nolan, S.J.
- Noutsos, A.
- Orford, K.J.
- Osborne, J.L.
- Ouchrif, M.
- Panter, M.
- Pelletier, G.
- Pita, S.
- Pühlhofer, G.
- Punch, M.
- Raubenheimer, B.C.
- Raue, M.
- Raux, J.
- Rayner, S.M.
- Redondo, I.
- Reimer, A.
- Reimer, O.
- Ripken, J.
- Rob, L.
- Rolland, L.
- Rowell, G.
- Sahakian, V.
- Saugé, L.
- Schlenker, S.
- Schlickeiser, R.
- Schuster, C.
- Schwanke, U.
- Siewert, M.
- Sol, H.
- Steenkamp, R.
- Stegmann, C.
- Tavernet, J.-P.
- Terrier, R.
- Théoret, C.G.
- Tluczykont, M.
- van Der Walt, D.J.
- Vasileiadis, G.
- Venter, C.
- Vincent, P.
- Visser, B.
- Völk, H.J.
- Wagner, S.J.
Publication date
January 2005
DOI Publisher
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)Abstract
Very high energy gamma-rays probe the long-standing mystery of the origin of cosmic rays. Produced in the interactions of accelerated particles in astrophysical objects, they can be used to image cosmic particle accelerators. A first sensitive survey of the inner part of the Milky Way with the High Energy Stereoscopic System (H.E.S.S.) reveals a population of eight previously unknown firmly detected sources of very high energy gamma-rays. At least two have no known radio or X-ray counterpart and may be representative of a new class of `dark' nucleonic cosmic ray sources
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