CHEP Particle Astrophysics Seminar

Out of Africa:The latest results from the H.E.S.S. telescopes array

Anthony M. Brown

Durham University

Located in the Khomas Highland region of Namibia, phase one of the High Energy Stereoscopic System (H.E.S.S.) has been completed and fully operation for the last 2 years. Through the use of the Imaging Air Cherenkov Technique, H.E.S.S. allows us to view the non-thermal Universe in the 100 GeV - 10s TeV regime; a region of the electromagnetic spectrum that only now is becoming readily accessable to the astronomy community. Over the last two years, H.E.S.S. has dramatically increase the catalogue of known VHE sources giving us some surprises along the way. Reviewing these sources can give us insights into the most extreme environments of our Universe, something we can't reproduce on Earth.