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    Abramowski, A; Acero, F; Aharonian, F; Akhperjanian, A G; Anton, G; Balenderan, S; Balzer, A; Barnacka, A; Becherini, Y; Tjus, J Becker; Krueger, P P; Laffon, H; Lamanna, G; Lenain, J-P; Lennarz, D; Lohse, T; Lopatin, A; Lu, C-C; Marandon, V; Marcowith, A; Bernlohr, K; Masbou, J; Maurin, G; Maxted, N; Mayer, M; McComb, T J L; Medina, M C; Mehault, J; Menzler, U; Moderski, R; Mohamed, M; Birsin, E; Moulin, E; Naumann, C L; Naumann-Godo, M; de Naurois, M; Nedbal, D; Nguyen, N; Niemiec, J; Nolan, S J; Ohm, S; Wilhelmi, E de Ona; Biteau, J; Opitz, B; Ostrowski, M; Oya, I; Panter, M; Parsons, D; Arribas, M Paz; Pekeur, N W; et. al

    Astronomy and astrophysics (Berlin), 12/2012, Letnik: 548
    Journal Article

    Vela X is a region of extended radio emission in the western part of the Vela constellation: one of the nearest pulsar wind nebulae, and associated with the energetic Vela pulsar. A deeper observation of the entire Vela X nebula region, also including larger offsets from the cocoon, has been performed with HESS. This re-observation was carried out in order to probe the extent of the non-thermal emission from the Vela X region at TeV energies and to investigate its spectral properties. To increase the sensitivity to the faint gamma -ray emission from the very extended Vela X region, a multivariate analysis method combining three complementary reconstruction techniques of Cherenkov-shower images is applied for the selection of gamma -ray events. The Vela X region exhibits almost uniform gamma -ray spectra over its full extent: the differential energy spectrum can be described by a power-law function with a hard spectral index ... and an exponential cutoff at an energy of TeV.(ProQuest: ... denotes formulae/symbols omitted.)