2006 TeV Particle Astrophysics II - TeV Presenter Detailed Abstract

First Name:Dieter
Last Name:Horns
Working Group Presenter
Title:Study of galactic sources with HESS
Presentation Type:Talk
Presentation Work Group:Gamma Astronomy
Abstract:The H.E.S.S. imaging air Cherenkov telescope array has performed a blind survey of parts of the Galactic plane as well as dedicated (deeper) observations of gamma-ray source candidates. With a threshold energy of 100 GeV and a sensitivity which probes sources with a gamma ray luminosity of 10^31 erg/s at 1 kpc distance, new sources including shell type super-nova remnants, pulsar-wind nebulae, binary systems, cosmic ray illuminated molecular clouds, as well as unidentified sources have been found. In this contribution, an overview of the recent results is given.