Astronomy: Discovery of very high energy gamma rays associated with an X-ray binary

Science

Volumn 309, Issue 5735, 2005, Pages 746-749

  Aharonian, F ^a   Akhperjanian, A C ^b   Aye, K M ^c   Bazer Bachi, A R ^d   Beilicke, M ^e   Benbow, W ^a   Berge, D ^a   Berghaus, P ^f,t   Bernlohr K ^a,g   Boisson, C ^h   Bolz, O ^a   Borrel, V ^d   Braun, I ^a   Breitling, F ^g   Brown, A M ^c   Gordo, J Bussons ⁱ   Chadwick, P M ^c   Chounet, L M ^j   Cornils, R ^e   Costamante, L ^a   Degrange, B ^j   Dickinson, H J ^c   Djannati Atai A ^f   Drury, L O'C ^k   Dubus, G ^j   Emmanoulopoulos, D ^l   Espigat, P ^f   Feinstein, F ⁱ   Fleury, P ^j   Fontaine, C ^j   Fuchs, Y ^m   Funk, S ^a   Gallant, Y A ⁱ   Giebels, B ^j   Gillessen, S ^a   Glicenstein, J F ⁿ   Goret, P ⁿ   Hadjichristidis, C ^c   Hauser, M ^l   Heinzelmann, G ^e   Henri, G ^m   Hermann, G ^a   Hinton, J A ^a   Hofmann, W ^a   Holleran, M ^o   Horns, D ^a   Jacholkowska, A ⁱ   De Jager, O C ^o   Khelifi B ^a   Komin, Nu ^g   Konopelko, A ^a,g   Latham, I J ^c   Le Gallou, R ^c   Lemiere A ^f   Lemoine Goumard, M ^j   Leroy, N ^j   Lohse, T ^g   Marcowith, A ^d   Martin, J M ^h   Martineau Huynh, O ^p   Masterson, C ^a   McComb, T J L ^c   De Naurois, M ^p   Nolan, S J ^c   Noutsos, A ^c   Orford, K J ^c   Osborne, J L ^c   Ouchrif, M ^p   Panter, M ^a   Pelletier, G ^m   Pita, S ^f   Puhlhofer G ^a,l   Punch, M ^f   Raubenheimer, B C ^o   Raue, M ^e   Raux, J ^p   Rayner, S M ^c   Reimer, A ^q   Reimer, O ^q   Ripken, J ^e   Rob, L ^r   Rolland, L ^p   Rowell, G ^a   Sahakian, V ^b   Sauge L ^m   Schlenker, S ^g   Schlickeiser, R ^q   Schuster, C ^q   Schwanke, U ^g   Siewert, M ^q   Sol, H ^h   Spangler, D ^c   Steenkamp, R ^s   Stegmann, C ^g   Tavernet, J P ^p   Terrier, R ^f   Theoret C G ^f   Tluczykont, M ^j   Vasileiadis, G ⁱ   Venter, C ^o   Vincent, P ^p   Volk H J ^a   Wagner, S J ^l   more..

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR KERNPHYSIK   (Germany)

^b YEREVAN PHYSICS INSTITUTE   (Armenia)

^c DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d CNRS   (France)

^e UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DIDEROT   (France)

^g HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^h OBSERVATOIRE DE PARIS   (France)

ⁱ UNIVERSITÉ MONTPELLIER II   (France)

^j ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE   (France)

^k DUBLIN INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Ireland)

^l UNIVERSITÄT HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^m UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

ⁿ CEA SACLAY   (France)

^o NORTH WEST UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^p UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DIDEROT   (France)

^q RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^r CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^s UNIVERSITY OF NAMIBIA   (Namibia)

^t UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTROPHYSICS; GALAXIES; HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS; X RAYS;

BLACK HOLE; HIGH ENERGY GAMMA RAYS; MICROQUASARS; STELLAR MASS;

GAMMA RAYS;

ASTRONOMY; GAMMA RAY RADIATION;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; COSMIC RADIATION; ENERGY; GAMMA RADIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION ENERGY; SPECTROSCOPY; X RAY ANALYSIS;

EID: 23044437063     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1113764     Document Type: Article

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31. The support of the Namibian authorities and of the University of Namibia in facilitating the construction and operation of HESS is gratefully acknowledged, as is the support of the German Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF), the Max Planck Society, the French Ministry for Research, the CNRS-IN2P3 and the Astroparticle Interdisciplinary Programme of the CNRS, the UK Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council (PPARC), the IPNP of Charles University, the South African Department of Science and Technology and National Research Foundation, and the University of Namibia. We appreciate the excellent work of the technical support staff in Berlin, Durham, Hamburg, Heidelberg, Palaiseau, Paris, Saclay, and Namibia in the construction and operation of the equipment L.C., C.M., M.O., and M.T. are also affiliated with the European Associated Laboratory for Gamma-Ray Astronomy, jointly supported by CNRS and the Max Planck Society.