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DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2107.01425

American Astronomical Society, Astrophysical Journal, 1(917), p. 6, 2021

DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/abf64b

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TeV Emission of Galactic Plane Sources with HAWC and H.E.S.S.

Journal article published in 2021 by M. de Bony de Lavergne, G. Fichet de Clairfontaine, S. Coutiño de León, M. D. B. De Lavergne, J. Damascene Mbarubucyeye, G. F. De Clairfontaine, M. Fuyling, V. Barbosa Martins, M. Horbe, G. Marti-Devesa, A. Chen ORCID, I. D. Davids ORCID, J. Davies ORCID, J. Devin ORCID, T. Chand ORCID and other authors.
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Abstract

The High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) observatory and the High Energy Stereoscopic System (H.E.S.S.) are two leading instruments in the ground-based very-high-energy gamma-ray domain. HAWC employs the water Cherenkov detection (WCD) technique, while H.E.S.S. is an array of Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes (IACTs). The two facilities therefore differ in multiple aspects, including their observation strategy, the size of their field of view and their angular resolution, leading to different analysis approaches. Until now, it has been unclear if the results of observations by both types of instruments are consistent: several of the recently discovered HAWC sources have been followed up by IACTs, resulting in a confirmed detection only in a minority of cases. With this paper, we go further and try to resolve the tensions between previous results by performing a new analysis of the H.E.S.S. Galactic plane survey data, applying an analysis technique comparable between H.E.S.S. and HAWC. Events above 1 TeV are selected for both datasets, the point spread function of H.E.S.S. is broadened to approach that of HAWC, and a similar background estimation method is used. This is the first detailed comparison of the Galactic plane observed by both instruments. H.E.S.S. can confirm the gamma-ray emission of four HAWC sources among seven previously undetected by IACTs, while the three others have measured fluxes below the sensitivity of the H.E.S.S. dataset. Remaining differences in the overall gamma-ray flux can be explained by the systematic uncertainties. Therefore, we confirm a consistent view of the gamma-ray sky between WCD and IACT techniques.