Speaker
Christoph Deil
Description
H.E.S.S. is an imaging Cherenkov telescope array in Namibia that has been observing the TeV sky during the last decade and has accumulated 3000 hours of high-quality data in a Galactic plane survey covering the region l = 250 to 65 deg in longitude and |b| < 3.5 deg in latitude.
A population of over 60 sources was discovered with pulsar wind nebulae and supernova remnants being the largest identified source classes, while about a third of the sources remain without clear identification.
In this talk I will present an overview of the H.E.S.S. Galactic plane survey with a focus on the methods, challenges and first results for a source catalog and population studies that are in preparation as well as a detailed view on the sources and diffuse emission in the Galactic centre region.
