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Name: HESS J1507-622: an unique unidentified source off the Galactic Plane
Published: 2012-03-16T00:00:00Z

Proposal ID	065162
Title	HESS J1507-622: an unique unidentified source off the Galactic Plane
Download Data Associated to the proposal	https://nxsa.esac.esa.int/nxsa-sl/servlet/data-action-aio?obsno=0651620101
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5270/esa-yja9jsg
Principal Investigator, PI	Dr Omar Tibolla
Abstract	Galactic VHE gamma-ray sources in the inner Galaxy H.E.S.S. survey clusterwithin 1 deg in latitude around the Galactic plane. HESS J1507-622 instead isunique, since located at latitude of -3.5 degrees. No plausible counterpartshave been detected; and, given its position and hence the absorption almost oneorder of magnitude lower, it is very surprising to not see any counterpartsespecially at X-rays. Its latitude implies that it is either within about 1 kpcor is located well off the Galactic plane. The models reflect the uniqueness ofthis object: a leptonic scenario would locate the source at very large distan-ces, while it would be very close in hadronic scenarios. The high sensitivity ofXMM-Newton will shed light on the nature of this mysterious source.
Publications	XMM-Newton and Chandra X-ray follow-up observations of the VHE gamma-ray source HESS J1507-622 \|Tibolla O. Kaufmann S. \| A&A \| 567-74 \| 2014 \| 2014A&A...567A..74T \| http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2014A&A...567A..74T Serendipitous UV source catalogues for 10 years of XMM and 5 years of Swift \|Yershov V. N. \| Ap&SS \| 354-97 \| 2014 \| 2014Ap&SS.354...97Y \| http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2014Ap&SS.354...97Y Exploring the potential X-ray counterpart of the puzzling TeV gamma-ray source HESS J1507-622 with new Suzaku observations \|Eger P. Domainko W. F. \| MNRAS \| 447-3564 \| 2015 \| 2015MNRAS.447.3564E \| http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2015MNRAS.447.3564E The Million Optical - Radio/X-ray Associations (MORX) Catalogue \|Flesch Eric W. \| PASA \| 33-52 \| 2016 \| 2016PASA...33...52F \| http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2016PASA...33...52F Classification of 4XMM-DR9 sources by machine learning \|Zhang Yanxia Zhao Yongheng \| MNRAS \| 503-5263 \| 2021 \| 2021MNRAS.503.5263Z \| http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2021MNRAS.503.5263Z Robust constraints on feebly interacting particles using XMM-Newton \|Luque Pedro De la Torre Balaji Shyam \| PhRvD \| 109-L101305 \| 2024 \| 2024PhRvD.109j1305L \| http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2024PhRvD.109j1305L Multimessenger search for electrophilic feebly interacting particles from supernovae \|Luque Pedro De la Torre Balaji Shyam \| PhRvD \| 109-103028 \| 2024 \| 2024PhRvD.109j3028L \| http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2024PhRvD.109j3028L Importance of Cosmic-Ray Propagation on Sub-GeV Dark Matter Constraints \|De la Torre Luque Pedro Balaji Shyam \| ApJ \| 968-46 \| 2024 \| 2024ApJ...968...46D \| http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2024ApJ...968...46D New 511 keV Line Data Provide Strongest sub-GeV Dark Matter Constraints \|De la Torre Luque Pedro Balaji Shyam \| ApJ \| 973-L6 \| 2024 \| 2024ApJ...973L...6D \| http://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2024ApJ...973L...6D
Instrument	EMOS1, EMOS2, EPN, OM, RGS1, RGS2
Temporal Coverage	2011-03-02T12:54:14Z/2011-03-02T23:50:39Z
Version	17.56_20190403_1200
Mission Description	The European Space Agencys (ESA) X-ray Multi-Mirror Mission (XMM-Newton) was launched by an Ariane 504 on December 10th 1999. XMM-Newton is ESAs second cornerstone of the Horizon 2000 Science Programme. It carries 3 high throughput X-ray telescopes with an unprecedented effective area, and an optical monitor, the first flown on a X-ray observatory. The large collecting area and ability to make long uninterrupted exposures provide highly sensitive observations. Since Earths atmosphere blocks out all X-rays, only a telescope in space can detect and study celestial X-ray sources. The XMM-Newton mission is helping scientists to solve a number of cosmic mysteries, ranging from the enigmatic black holes to the origins of the Universe itself. Observing time on XMM-Newton is being made available to the scientific community, applying for observational periods on a competitive basis.
Creator Contact	https://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/xmm-newton/xmm-newton-helpdesk
Date Published	2012-03-16T00:00:00Z
Last Update	2025-08-04
Keywords	"XMM", "magnitude lower", "shed light", "leptonic scenario", "XMM-Newton", "counterparts especially", "hess j1507 622", "hadronic scenarios", "distan ces", "xmm newton", "latitude implies", "unidentified source", "inner galaxy", "survey cluster", "galactic plane", "models reflect", "HESS"
Publisher And Registrant	European Space Agency
Credit Guidelines	European Space Agency, Dr Omar Tibolla, 2012, 'HESS J1507-622: an unique unidentified source off the Galactic Plane', 17.56_20190403_1200, European Space Agency, https://doi.org/10.5270/esa-yja9jsg