Observations of the Crab Nebula with H.E.S.S. Phase II

Holler M, Berge D, van Eldik C, Lenain JP, Marandon V, Murach T, De Naurois M, Parsons RD, Prokoph H, Zaborov D (2015)

Publication Language: English

Publication Status: Published

Publication Type: Conference contribution, Conference Contribution

Publication year: 2015

Publisher: Proceedings of Science (PoS)

Pages Range: 847

Article Number: 847

Conference Proceedings Title: 34th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC2015)

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Abstract

The High Energy Stereoscopic System (H.E.S.S.) phase I instrument was an array of four 100m2 mirror area Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes (IACTs) that has very successfully mapped the sky at photon energies above 100GeV. Recently, a 600m2 telescope was added to the centre of the existing array, which can be operated either in standalone mode or jointly with the four smaller telescopes. The large telescope lowers the energy threshold for gamma-ray observations to several tens of GeV, making the array sensitive at energies where the Fermi-LAT instrument runs out of statistics. At the same time, the new telescope makes the H.E.S.S. phase II instrument. This is the first hybrid IACT array, as it operates telescopes of different size (and hence different trigger rates) and different field of view. In this contribution we present results of H.E.S.S. phase II observations of the Crab Nebula, compare them to earlier observations, and evaluate the performance of the new instrument with Monte Carlo simulations.

Authors with CRIS profile

Christopher van Eldik Professur für Experimentalphysik

Involved external institutions

University of Amsterdam NL Netherlands (NL) Laboratoire de physique nucléaire et de hautes énergies (LPNHE) FR France (FR) National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia (NAS RA) / Հայաստանի Հանրապետության գիտությունների ազգային ակադեմիա, ՀՀ ԳԱԱ AM Armenia (AM) Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin DE Germany (DE) Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet (LLR) FR France (FR) Linnaeus University (LNU) / Linnéuniversitetet SE Sweden (SE)

How to cite

APA:

Holler, M., Berge, D., van Eldik, C., Lenain, J.P., Marandon, V., Murach, T.,... Zaborov, D. (2015). Observations of the Crab Nebula with H.E.S.S. Phase II. In 34th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC2015) (pp. 847). Proceedings of Science (PoS).

MLA:

Holler, M., et al. "Observations of the Crab Nebula with H.E.S.S. Phase II." Proceedings of the 34th International Cosmic Ray Conference, ICRC 2015 Proceedings of Science (PoS), 2015. 847.

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