Search for very high energy gamma-ray emission with H.E.S.S. from the young and massive stellar cluster Westerlund 1

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Beteiligte Personen:
  • Caballero, Rogelio
  • D'Olivo, Juan Carlos
  • Medina-Tanco, Gustavo
  • Nellen, Lukas
  • Sánchez, Federico A.
  • Valdés-Galicia, José F.
Verlag/Körperschaft:
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Erscheinungsjahr:
2008
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  • Westerlund 1 is a unique case of a massive young cluster with at least 11 Wolf-Rayet stars driving strong stellar winds. It is possible that various configurations of these stellar winds (wind-wind interaction, superposition of stellar winds etc.) can convert a fraction of the kinetic energy of the wind into accelerated particles. Observations of spatially extended non-thermal X-ray emission from the highly reddened and nearby stellar cluster Westerlund 1 suggest that indeed stars are able to accelerate at least electrons to TeV energies which then produce X-ray synchrotron emission. We report on the results of H.E.S.S. observations of the Westerlund 1 cluster.
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  • info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess
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Forschungsinformationssystem der UHH

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