LMC N132D: a mature supernova remnant with a youthful gamma-ray spectrum

Jacco Vink,a,∗ Rachel Simoni,a Nukri Kominb and Dmitry Prokhorova on behalf of the H.E.S.S. Collaboration (a complete list of authors can be found at the end of the proceedings) aUniversity of Amsterdam, Anton Pannekoek Institute & GRAPPA, Science Park 904, 1098 XH, Amsterdam, The Netherlands bUniversity of the Witwatersrand, School of Physics, 1 Jan Smuts Avenue, Braamfontein, Johannesburg, 2050 South Africa E-mail: j.vink@uva.nl, r.simoni@uva.nl, nukri.komin@wits.ac.za,

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