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A new population of very high energy gamma-ray sources in the Milky Way
F Aharonian1, A G Akhperjanian, K-M Aye
1Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, Post Office Box 103980, D-69029 Heidelberg, Germany.
Abstract:
Very high energy gamma-rays probe the long-standing mystery of the origin of cosmic rays. Produced in the interactions of accelerated particles in astrophysical objects, they can be used to image cosmic particle accelerators. A first sensitive survey of the inner part of the Milky Way with the High Energy Stereoscopic System (HESS) reveals a population of eight previously unknown firmly detected sources of very high energy gamma-rays. At least two have no known radio or x-ray counterpart and may be representative of a new class of "dark" nucleonic cosmic ray sources.
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