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T 302: Kosmische Strahlung IV

T 302.9: Talk

Friday, March 4, 2005, 18:30–18:45, TU H106

Observations of the Galactic Centre Region with H.E.S.S. — •Jim Hinton — Max-Planck-Institut fuer Kernphysik, Postfach 10 39 80, 69029 Heidelberg

H.E.S.S. is an array of imaging Cherenkov telescopes designed for high sensitivity measurements of astrophysical gamma ray sources in the 100 GeV to 10 TeV regime. Its southern hemisphere location (in the Khomas Highlands of Namibia) makes it an ideal instrument for the study of the complex region close to the centre of our galaxy. Observations of the galactic centre region have been made with H.E.S.S.during 2003 (with two telescopes) and 2004 (with the full four telescope array). The unprecedented angular resolution and pointing precision of H.E.S.S. have allowed us to make the most precise measurements so far of the very high energy signal from the galactic centre.