The H.E.S.S. Galactic plane survey
H.E.S.S. Collaboration

TL;DR
This comprehensive H.E.S.S. survey of the Galactic plane in VHE gamma-rays identified 78 sources, including 16 new discoveries, providing detailed maps, a catalog, and insights into source types and characteristics.
Contribution
The paper presents the first extensive VHE gamma-ray survey of the Galactic plane with a new source detection and characterization method, including a catalog of 78 sources and discovery of 16 new sources.
Findings
Discovered 16 new VHE gamma-ray sources.
Cataloged 78 VHE sources with detailed properties.
Identified 31 sources as PWNe, SNRs, or binaries.
Abstract
We present the results of the most comprehensive survey of the Galactic plane in very high-energy (VHE) gamma-rays, including a public release of Galactic sky maps, a catalog of VHE sources, and the discovery of 16 new sources of VHE gamma-rays. The High Energy Spectroscopic System (H.E.S.S.) Galactic plane survey (HGPS) was a decade-long observation program carried out by the H.E.S.S. I array of Cherenkov telescopes in Namibia from 2004 to 2013. The observations amount to nearly 2700 h of data, covering the Galactic plane at longitudes from l = 250 deg to 65 deg and latitudes |b| < 3 deg. In addition to the unprecedented spatial coverage, the HGPS also features a relatively high angular resolution (0.08 deg), sensitivity (1.5% Crab flux for point-like sources), and energy range (0.2-100 TeV). We constructed a source catalog with a systematic procedure for both source detection and…
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