Status of Identification of VHE Gamma-Ray Sources
With the recent advances made by Cherenkov telescopes such as H.E.S.S. the field of very high-energy (VHE) {gamma}-ray astronomy has recently entered a new era in which for the first time populations of Galactic sources such as e.g. Pulsar wind nebulae (PWNe) or Supernova remnants (SNRs) can be studied. However, while some of the new sources can be associated by positional coincidence as well as by consistent multi-wavelength data to a known counterpart at other wavelengths, most of the sources remain not finally identified. In the following, the population of Galactic H.E.S.S. sources will be used to demonstrate the status of the identifications, to classify them into categories according to this status and to point out outstanding problems.
- Research Organization:
- SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC02-76SF00515
- OSTI ID:
- 892599
- Report Number(s):
- SLAC-PUB-12139; astro-ph/0609586; TRN: US200623%%722
- Journal Information:
- Submitted to Astrophys.Space Sci., Conference: To appear in the proceedings of The Multi-Messenger Approach to Unidentified Gamma-Ray Sources: 3rd Workshop on the Nature of Unidentified High-Energy Sources, Barcelona, Spain, 4-7 Jul 2006
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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