Speaker
Mr
Peter Eger
(Erlangen Centre for Astroparticle Physics, Univ. Erlangen-Nuernberg)
Description
The H.E.S.S. array of Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes continues to observe the southern sky with unprecedented sensitivity at very-high-energy (VHE, E>100 GeV) gamma-rays. This lead to a steady increase in the number of detected VHE gamma-ray sources as well as the discovery of sources with fluxes of only a few percent of the flux of the Crab nebula. Up to now, well more than 100 VHE gamma-ray sources are known, which allows to study not only individual objects, but also whole populations of source classes, such as pulsar wind nebulae and shell-type supernova remnants. This talk focuses on Galactic sources, highlighting some aspects of the recent progress in this field.
Primary author
Mr
Peter Eger
(Erlangen Centre for Astroparticle Physics, Univ. Erlangen-Nuernberg)
Co-author
HESS Collaboration
(HESS Collaboration)
