| Literature DB >> 15790849 |
F Aharonian1, A G Akhperjanian, K-M Aye, A R Bazer-Bachi, M Beilicke, W Benbow, D Berge, P Berghaus, K Bernlöhr, C Boisson, O Bolz, C Borgmeier, I Braun, F Breitling, A M Brown, J Bussons Gordo, P M Chadwick, L-M Chounet, R Cornils, L Costamante, B Degrange, A Djannati-Ataï, L O'C Drury, G Dubus, T Ergin, P Espigat, F Feinstein, P Fleury, G Fontaine, S Funk, Y A Gallant, B Giebels, S Gillessen, P Goret, C Hadjichristidis, M Hauser, G Heinzelmann, G Henri, G Hermann, J A Hinton, W Hofmann, M Holleran, D Horns, O C de Jager, I Jung, B Khélifi, Nu Komin, A Konopelko, I J Latham, R Le Gallou, A Lemière, M Lemoine, N Leroy, T Lohse, A Marcowith, C Masterson, T J L McComb, M de Naurois, S J Nolan, A Noutsos, K J Orford, J L Osborne, M Ouchrif, M Panter, G Pelletier, S Pita, G Pühlhofer, M Punch, B C Raubenheimer, M Raue, J Raux, S M Rayner, I Redondo, A Reimer, O Reimer, J Ripken, L Rob, L Rolland, G Rowell, V Sahakian, L Saugé, S Schlenker, R Schlickeiser, C Schuster, U Schwanke, M Siewert, H Sol, R Steenkamp, C Stegmann, J-P Tavernet, R Terrier, C G Théoret, M Tluczykont, D J van der Walt, G Vasileiadis, C Venter, P Vincent, B Visser, H J Völk, S J Wagner.
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 (HESS) 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.Entities:
Year: 2005 PMID： 15790849 DOI： 10.1126/science.1108643
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Science ISSN： 0036-8075 Impact factor: 47.728