Steppa, Constantin Beverly
[VerfasserIn]
;
Stegmann, Christian
[AkademischeR BetreuerIn];
Richter, Philipp
[AkademischeR BetreuerIn];
Pohl, Martin
[AkademischeR BetreuerIn];
Eldik, Christopher van
[AkademischeR BetreuerIn]Universität Potsdam
Modelling the galactic population of very-high-energy gamma-ray sources
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Dissertation, Universität Potsdam, 2022
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The current generation of ground-based instruments has rapidly extended the limits of the range accessible to us with very-high-energy (VHE) gamma-rays, and more than a hundred sources have now been detected in the Milky Way. These sources represent only the tip of the iceberg, but their number has reached a level that allows population studies. In this work, a model of the global population of VHE gamma-ray sources based on the most comprehensive census of Galactic sources in this energy regime, the H.E.S.S. Galactic plane survey (HGPS), will be presented. A population synthesis approach was followed in the construction of the model. Particular attention was paid to correcting for the strong observational bias inherent in the sample of detected sources. The methods developed for estimating the model parameters have been validated with extensive Monte Carlo simulations and will be shown to provide unbiased estimates of the model parameters. With these methods, five models for different spatial distributions of sources have been ...