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Primary particle acceleration above 100 TeV in the shell-type supernova remnant RX J1713.7-3946 with deep HESS observations

F. Aharonian, A. G. Akhperjanian, A. R. Bazer‐Bachi, M. Beilicke, W. Benbow, D. Berge, K. Bernlöhr, C. Boisson, O. Bolz, V. Borrel,

Astronomy and Astrophysics · 2006 · 329 citations · 20 references

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Aims.We present deep HESS observations of the supernova remnant (SNR) RX J1713.7-3946. Combining data of three years – from 2003 to 2005 – we obtain significantly increased statistics and energy coverage as compared to earlier 2003 and 2004 results.

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