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Table · dataset · 2018

W49B with H.E.S.S. and Fermi-LAT

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The supernova remnant (SNR) W49B originated from a core-collapse supernova that occurred between one and four thousand years ago, and subsequently evolved into a mixed-morphology remnant, which is interacting with molecular clouds (MC).

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Gamma-ray observations of SNR-MC associations are a powerful tool to constrain the origin of Galactic cosmic rays, as they can probe the acceleration of hadrons through their interaction with the surrounding medium and subsequent emission of non-thermal photons.

We report the detection of a gamma-ray source coincident with W49B at very high energies (VHE; E>100GeV) with the H.E.S.S. Cherenkov telescopes together with a study of the source with five years of Fermi-LAT high-energy gamma-ray (0.06-300GeV) data. The smoothly connected, combined source spectrum, measured from 60MeV to multi-TeV energies, shows two significant spectral breaks at 304+/-20MeV and 8.4_-2.5_^+2.2^GeV; the latter is constrained by the joint fit from the two instruments.

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The detected spectral features are similar to those observed in several other SNR-MC associations and are found to be indicative of gamma-ray emission produced through neutral-pion decay.

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