The H.E.S.S. view of the Galactic Centre region

✍ Scribed by Christopher van Eldik

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 390 KB
• Volume: 588
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0168-9002
• DOI: 10.1016/j.nima.2008.01.025

✦ Synopsis

Measurements by High Energy Stereoscopic System (H.E.S.S.) provide the first sensitive map of very-high-energy (VHE) g-ray emission from the central few hundred parsecs of our galaxy. These observations are a valuable tool to understand the acceleration and propagation of energetic particles near the Galactic Centre (GC). The data reveal the existence of three discrete VHE g-ray sources and the presence of diffuse g-ray emission correlated with dense molecular clouds.