Discovery of extended VHEγ-ray emission from the vicinity of the young massive stellar cluster Westerlund 1

2011/10/20 by HESS Collaboration, A. Abramowski, F. Acero +206
Physics and Astronomy · #Acceleration #Astronomy #Astrophysics #Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena #Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies #Cluster (spacecraft) #Engineering physics #Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae #High energy #Particle acceleration #Physics #Telescope #astro-ph.GA #astro-ph.HE

paper · pdf · doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201117928

published as A&A 537, A114 (2012) · 11 pages, 6 figures, accepted for publication in A&A

openalex publication_date 2011/10/20 · arxiv created 2011/11/09 · arxiv updated 2012/01/19 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05

Abstract

Aims. Results obtained in very-high-energy (VHE; E ≥ 100 GeV) γ-ray observations performed with the H.E.S.S. telescope array are used to investigate particle acceleration processes in the vicinity of the young massive stellar cluster Westerlund 1 (Wd 1).

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