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1 HESS Highlights and Status Karl Kosack Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik Heidelberg, Germany SLAC Summer Institute, August 2008
2 HESS Phase II The Instrument Overview Technique Specifications Goals Scientific Results The Galactic Plane Survey Galactic Sources Extra-galactic Sources Other Future and Status
3 H.E.S.S. High Energy Stereoscopic System MPI Kernphysik, Heidelberg Humboldt-Univ. Berlin Ruhr-Univ. Bochum Univ. Erlangen-Nürnberg Univ. Hamburg Landessternwarte Heidelberg Univ. Tübingen Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau APC Paris Univ. Paris VI-VII Paris Observatory, Meudon LAPP Annecy LAOG Grenoble LPTA Montpellier CEA Saclay CESR Toulouse Durham Univ. Univ. Leeds Dublin Inst. for Adv. Studies Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw Jagiellonian Univ., Cracow Charles Univ., Prague Yerewan Physics Inst. Univ. Adelaide North-West Univ., Potchefstroom Univ. of Namibia, Windhoek Germany France United Kingdom Ireland Poland Czech Republic Armenia Australia South Africa Namibia
4 Wide energy range H.E.S.S. Details Very High Energy 100 GeV TeV Angular Res: <0.1 per event improves with telescope multiplicity and shower intensity Effective Area: > 10 5 m 2 Energy Res: 15 % Pointing accurate within hrs observation/year Fully operational since 2003
5 4 Telescopes 120 m spacing 107 m2 mirror 13m Cherenkov Cameras 960 pixels, 0.16 / pixel 5 Field of View Central Array Trigger Requires 2 telescope coincidence Better sensitivity + ang. resolution
6 VHE Gamma-ray Camera Interaction in atmosphere generates an Air Shower (e+, e-) ( ) θ c = cos ( ) = cos 1 ( 1 Figure 2 Cherenkov Radiation "10 km n), and n βn, ) Energy total signal (Calorimeter) ~ 100 m
7 Sensitivity 1 Crab 5 sigma 50 hours > 10 events Crab-like spectrum hard cuts 10% Crab % Crab Obs. Time 1% Crab MAGIC I ICRC 2005 GLAST (steady sources) 100% 30 s HESS HESS I (predicted)) HESS I (achieved) 5% 1 h 1% 25 h
8 The Instrument Overview Technique Specifications Goals Scientific Results The Galactic Plane Survey Galactic Sources Other Future and Status HESS Phase II
9 Goal: Identify and study the sources of cosmic rays Which processes can accelerate particles up to ev? VHE (GeV-TeV) Gamma rays provide a direct view of VHE parent particle population
10 Predicted VHE Sources Active Galactic Nuclei Shell-type Supernova Remnants Pular Wind Nebulae Supermassive Black Holes Microquasars/Binaries Star forming Regions +Wolf-Rayet Stars Gamma-ray Bursts Galaxy Clusters,...
11 Shock acceleration produces relativistic particles Acceleration Mechanisms Electron population: + B-field synchrotron emission (Radio X-ray) Inverse-Compton scattering produces VHE Gamma Proton population: + target material produces Pions +... "0 -decay produces VHE gammas # 0 # ± $% ± +2&$e ± +'
12 What do we expect? So far nearly all VHE sources can be explained with electrons leptonic sources exhibit 2-humped spectrum dn dedadt VHE Gamma E 2 Radio + X-ray Synchrotron Inverse- Compton Radio X-ray GeV Gamma Ray TeV Gamma Ray E
13 What do we expect? Proton scenario produces the following: Relative height depends on target density, distance to source, B-field dn dedadt VHE Gamma E 2 Synchrotron from secondary leptons 0 -decay + Bremsstrahlung Radio X-ray GeV Gamma Ray TeV Gamma Ray E
14 VHE Spectra Spectra we measure in the VHE energy range have very few features No lines at these energies* Only get: Flux, Spectral slope Cutoff energy (sometimes) Peak energy (rarely) Multi-wavelength data are crucial for understanding the sources *unless we detect dark matter, e.g. annihilating Neutralinos
15 HESS Phase II The Instrument Overview Technique Specifications Goals Scientific Results The Galactic Plane Survey Galactic Sources Extra-galactic Sources Other Future and Status
16 VHE Astronomy in the recent past... Only a handful of sources No extended sources, morphological studies Focused on AGN Science
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19 The Galaxy is full of VHE Gamma-ray Sources
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22 Shell-type Supernova Remnants Pulsar Wind Nebulae Galactic Sources Microquasars The Galactic Center Diffuse Emission Unidentified sources Molecular Cloud associations
23 Supernova Remnants v Shock
24 Supernova Remnants Vela Jr A&A, 437, L7 (2005) RX J1713 Aharonian et al., 2004, Nature, 432, 75 First resolved extended TeV source Correspondance with X-Ray morphology: implies gamma/x-ray production mechanism linked
25 RCW 86: New VHE Shell? H.E.S.S. Accepted for publication, A&A
26 CTB 37B Chandra + HESS VHE + Non-thermal X-Ray discovery Accepted A&A (May 2008)
27 Breaking News: SN 1006 New VHE SNR?
28 SN 1006 HESS/Chandra Smooth (degrade) Chandra image to the HESS PSF Compare with HESS excess map
29 Pulsar Wind Nebulae
30 Population Studies? correlate HESS scan with PSRs from Parkes survey can start to predict which PSRs will produce VHE PWNe preliminary chance coinc. all detected preliminary Svenja Carrigan, MPI-K
31 Fig. 4. Energy spe radii in steps of Main Figur viewing. The spec For all regions the energy range betw HESS J1825 that this approach to the different di tion of the system threshold changes not start at exactly Fig. 5 summa
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34 Microquasar LS 5039
35 1 AU LS 5039 Periodicity Period: HESS: 3.908(2) d Optical: d Chance probability: <10-15 (incl trials) implies emission region ~1 AU (rules out jets/outflows)
36 The Galactic Center Best Fit HESS J (Aharonian et al ) Best Fit HESS J (van Eldik et al. 2007) - preliminary- Galactic Center Source: Whipple: 4( (26 h) H.E.S.S.: 38( (50h) G SNR Sgr A East Sgr A* PWN Coincident with Sgr A* (supermassive Black Hole)?
37 GC Spectrum 2003
38 Dark Matter? Photon Flux [cm -2 s -1 GeV -1 ] WIMPs Creation/Annihilation processes Neutralino continuum gamma ray flux towards galactic centre - determine density Early Universe: in Equilibrium Later, universe expands: annihilation rate Freeze-out (relic abundance remains) -2.7 Background, E predicted density γ 300 GeV neutralino addedconsistent with 50 GeV neutralino added Dark Matter NFW model, Ω=10-3 sr Photon energy [GeV] Signature: Expect a line (direct annihilation) + continuum (annihilation to quarks) Candidate: Neutralino Stable, Mass in the GeV - 10s of TeV range Would produce gamma-rays via annihilation Intensity * 2 If... Density profile in galaxy has a cusp at GC, could be detected
39 5 TeV 14 TeV 10 TeV search also made for dark matter signal + power-law external signal - no signal detected (upper-limit at 10% source flux) Phys. Rev. Lett. 97 (2006)
40 Courtesy the H.E.S.S. Collaboration Aharonian et al., in preparation Preliminary
41 GC Variability? Simultaneous HESS/ Chandra observation X-ray flare 9x quiescent level 1700 ksec No increase in Gamma flux Preliminary 100% flux increase ruled out at 99% confidence level
42 The Galactic Center Galactic Center Source: Whipple: 4( (26 h) H.E.S.S.: 38( (50h) G SNR
43 not consistent with passive illumination (spectral index 2.3) The Galactic Center GC + G0.9 Subtracted: Diffuse emission Interaction of CRs with molecular clouds
44 GC Diffuse Emission close correlation between "-rays and molecular clouds deficit in TeV "-rays source too young? simulation 10 4 years old GC GC accelerates (nucleonic) cosmic rates Nature 439 (2006)
45 Molecular Cloud Interactions W28 region - old SNR interacting with molecular clouds? age years, propagating into dense clouds e- acceleration inefficient: hadronic cosmic rays
46 More MC Interactions... HESS J : unidentified galatic center source CTB 37a
47 HESS J Coincidence with HI Structure: Forbidden Velocity Wing?
48 Star forming regions?
49 HESS J : Westerlund2 28pc 28pc Publication soon Westerlund 2 (open stellar cluster+hii region) A new type of VHE Gamma-ray emitter: Star-forming region Wolf Rayet star? Wind Blown Bubble? Extension much larger than WR system => bubble blown in ISM? shocks/turbulence in wind-blown bubbles accelerate CRs
50 HESS J Preliminary Possibly associated with W 43 star-forming region (including WR 121a, a Wolf-Rayet star)
51 Milagro H.E.S.S. 10 h of data, 9 sigma significance
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54 Multiwavelenth view RECALL: Two-peaked emission predicted I x /I " 1 We expect VHE sources to have obvious counterparts in Radio and X-rays. ASCA H.E.S.S. sources with no obvious X-ray/Radio counterpart are thus harder to explain...
55 Some Unidentified Sources Aharonian et al 2008, A&A New energetic PSR [Hessels et al, 2008] Recently: Likely new SNR [Tian et al. 2008]
56 Extra- Galactic Active Galactic Nuclei Blazars Variability studies Sources Non-blazars (M87) Variability studies
57 Powerful object at the center of some galaxies Active Galactic Supermassive Black Hole Relativistic Jet Variable emission Nuclei (AGN) Blazars: Jet is pointed at us 15 known TeV blazars as of Observed by HESS 5 Discovered by HESS
58 PKS 2155 Flare First major AGN flare for Southern hemisphere source 15x Crab Nebula flux Variability on 200s timescales (fastest ever in the field) Spectra on same timescales F(>200GeV) in 5 minute bins Aharonian et al ApJL 664, 2007 Very small emission region or very high Lorentz factor
59 Extragalactic Background Light Assume: AGN intrinsically not harder than #=1.5 Measurements of distant AGN provide Upper-Limit on EBL absorption Nature, 440 (2006) HESS measurements imply: EBL lower than previously thought Universe is more transparent to TeV emission - we can see further... Blanch, Martinez Recently discovered by: H.E.S.S. MAGIC 1ES ES show relatively hard spectrum
60 M87 VHE radio Hubble (optical) X-ray (Chandra) A new class of TeV object: a non-blazar AGN
61 M87: Variability Variability (flux doubling) on Day timescales NOTE: no boost from jet Faster in TeV than in other wavebands Emission close to R s Rules out core of Virgo cluster and jet Challenges models Science 314 (2006)
62 Other Results Cosmic Ray Spectrum Electron Spectrum Extended extragalactic objects?
63 Can we measure the Cosmic Ray Iron spectrum with HESS? Direct Cherenkov light: I DC Z 2 I shower E DC-light from Cosmic Rays Technique: Keida, Swordy, Wakely. (2002)
64 The H.E.S.S. Iron spectrum Rolf Bühler, MPI-K Aharonian et al, 2007, Phys Rev D
65 Electron Spectrum Kathrin Egberts, MPI-K + Use random-forest method to develop cuts which select electron events
66 Looking to the Future... Extended Extragalactic Objects? e.g.: Galaxy clusters powerhouses for high E cosmic rays Don t leak out over time as in a galaxy Hadronic interactions with target material seen in X-rays, should produce gamma rays too Not yet detected in VHE gamma rays
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68 Detected VHE Sources Active Galactic Nuclei Shell-type Supernova Remnants + Molecular clouds Pular Wind Nebulae Supermassive Black Holes,,,, *,, * X Microquasars/Binaries Starforming regions/wr Stars Gamma-ray Bursts Galaxy Clusters X * possibly +...?
69 HESS Phase II The Instrument Overview Technique Specifications Goals Scientific Results The Galactic Plane Survey Galactic Sources Extra-galactic Sources Other Future and Status
70 HESS Phase II Single 30m telescope 600m 2 mirror area 3 FOV 2000 pixel camera Rigid steel structure height: 40m weight: 560 tons Construction started First light: end of 2008+
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78 HESS Phase II HESS II Standalone GeV HESS Hybrid ~50 GeV ~100 GeV HESS Phase I possible exploration guaranteed exploration enhanced sensitivity
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80 Conclusions HESS has discovered a wide variety of VHE sources: extended, point-like, diffuse, periodic, variable,... the total number of VHE sources is now greater than 50 (close to 100 including unconfirmed hotspots) VHE astrophysics is in a golden age of discovery ushered in by HESS and other next-gen ACTs Future upgrades and observatories will probe larger energy ranges and deeper
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