Published December 24, 2008 | Version v1
Journal article

The unidentified source HESS J1908+063/MGRO J1908+06

  • 1. Laboratoire d'Astroparticule et Cosmologie-APC, CNRS, Paris (France)
  • 2. Max-Planck Institut fur Kernphysik, Heidelberg (Germany)

Description

The extended H.E.S.S. Galactic Plane Survey overlaps with some regions covered by the water Cherenkov detector Milagro sky survey. The latter experiment has reported 3 new sources and 4 hot spots, including MGRO J1908+06 above 12 TeV. The H.E.S.S. observations around 40 degrees of longitude confirm this detection. We take advantage of the superior sensitivity of H.E.S.S. above 0.2 TeV and its better energy and angular resolution to study in detail the morphology, spectrum and possible counterparts for this source.

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Identifiers

Publishing Information

Journal Title
AIP Conference Proceedings
Journal Volume
1085
Journal Issue
1
Journal Page Range
p. 273-276
ISSN
0094-243X
CODEN
APCPCS

Conference

Title
4. international meeting on high energy gamma-ray astronomy
Dates
7-11 Jul 2008
Place
Heidelberg (Germany)

INIS

Country of Publication
United States
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
41005746
Subject category
S46: INSTRUMENTATION RELATED TO NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY;
Resource subtype / Literary indicator
Conference
Descriptors DEI
CHERENKOV COUNTERS; GAMMA ASTRONOMY; HOT SPOTS; MORPHOLOGY; RESOLUTION; SENSITIVITY; TELESCOPES; TEV RANGE 10-100
Descriptors DEC
ASTRONOMY; ENERGY RANGE; MEASURING INSTRUMENTS; RADIATION DETECTORS; TEV RANGE

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Notes
(c) 2009 American Institute of Physics
Collaborations
H.E.S.S. Collaboration