High-Energy Gamma-ray Sources and the Quest for their Identification
Astrophysics
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
The 3rd EGRET catalogue lists 271 sources and provides an identification for 101 of them. Thus, the unidentified sources are the majority in the gamma-ray sky, as we currently know it. Solving the mystery of the unidentified gamma-ray sources is a major challenge for all fields of astronomy. Here we shall review the different approaches towards source identification as well as the results achieved so far.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0206236,
title = {High-Energy Gamma-ray Sources and the Quest for their Identification},
author = {P. A. Caraveo},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0206236},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
7 pages, 2 figures. To appear in the proceedings of the XXII Moriond Astrophysics Meeting "The Gamma-Ray Universe" (Les Arcs, March 9-16, 2002), eds. A. Goldwurm, D. Neumann, and J. Tran Thanh Van, The GioiPublishers