Scans of the TeV Gamma-Ray Sky with the HEGRA Sys- tem of Cherenkov Telescopes
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Between 1997 and the end of the detector operation in fall 2002, about 5500 hours of observational data were recorded with the HEGRA system of Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes (IACT). Besides dedicated scan observations of extended sky regions, a considerable fraction of the sky has been looked at as a side effect during the observations of selected source candidates. Altogether, more than 3% of the total sky has been observed with the HEGRA IACT system. We report on a search for possible new TeV sources within this entire data set.
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