High Energy Gamma-Ray Astronomy
Astrophysics
2009-11-10 v2
Abstract
The physics results of high energy gamma-ray astronomy are reported, emphasizing recent achievements with ground-based detectors. This includes some of the instrumental developments and latest projects. The fundamental contribution of the field to the question of Cosmic Ray origin is highlighted.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0401122,
title = {High Energy Gamma-Ray Astronomy},
author = {H. J. Voelk},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0401122},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
10 pages, 12 figures, to appear as Plenary Paper, Proceedings of the Eigth International Workshop on Topics in Astroparticle and Underground Physics (TAUP2003), University of Washington, Seattle, USA, 5-9 September 2003. High quality versions of the manuscript (ps-file) and of figures 2 and 12 can be found at http://edoc.mpg.de/60181. Replacement corrects typos, adds reference