A new population of very high energy gamma-ray sources in the Milky Way

Details A new population of very high energy gamma-ray sources in the Milky Way A new population of very high energy gamma-ray sources in the Milky Way

2005-04-18

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0504380v1

Science 307 (2005) 1938-1942

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

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10.1126/science.1108643

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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