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Discovery of gamma-ray emission from the shell-type supernova remnant RCW 86 with H.E.S.S

S. Hoppe, M. Lemoine-Goumard, J. Vink, Felix A. Aharonian, Werner Hofmann, Frank Rieger
2008 AIP Conference Proceedings  

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The shell-type supernova remnant (SNR) RCW 86, possibly associated with the historical supernova SN 185, with its relatively large size (about 40 in diameter) and the presence of nonthermal X-rays is a promising target for γ -ray observations. The high sensitivity, good angular resolution of a few arcminutes and the large field of view of the High Energy Stereoscopic System (HESS) make it ideally suited for the study of γ -ray morphology of such extended sources. HESS observations have indeed
more » ... d to the discovery of the SNR RCW 86 in very high energy (VHE; E > 100 GeV) γ -rays. With 31 hr of observation time, the source is detected with a statistical significance
doi:10.1063/1.3076674 fatcat:lyogdbyotfcdtd5ofmvqxnx77u
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S. Hoppe, M. Lemoine-Goumard, J. Vink, Felix A. Aharonian, Werner Hofmann, Frank Rieger. "Discovery of gamma-ray emission from the shell-type supernova remnant RCW 86 with H.E.S.S." AIP Conference Proceedings (2008)