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High-Energy Gamma-Ray Astronomy. Results on Fundamental Questions after 30 Years of Ground-Based Observations.
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Abstract
- Summary: This volume celebrates the 30th anniversary of the first very-high energy (VHE) gamma-ray Source detection: the Crab Nebula, observed by the pioneering ground-based Cherenkov telescope Whipple, at teraelectronvolts (TeV) energies, in 1989. As we entered a new era in TeV astronomy, with the imminent start of operations of the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) and new facilities such as LHAASO and the proposed Southern Wide-Field Gamma-ray Observatory (SWGO), we conceived of this volume as a broad reflection on how far we have evolved in the astrophysics topics that dominated the field of TeV astronomy for much of recent history.In the past two decades, H.E.S.S., MAGIC and VERITAS pushed the field of TeV astronomy, consolidating the field of TeV astrophysics, from few to hundreds of TeV emitters. Today, this is a mature field, covering almost every topic of modern astrophysics. TeV astrophysics is also at the center of the multi-messenger astrophysics revolution, as the extreme photon energies involved provide an effective probe in cosmic-ray acceleration, propagation and interaction, in dark matter and exotic physics searches. The improvement that CTA will carry forward and the fact that CTA will operate as the first open observatory in the field, mean that gamma-ray astronomy is about to enter a new precision and productive era.This book aims to serve as an introduction to the field and its state of the art, presenting a series of authoritative reviews on a broad range of topics in which TeV astronomy provided essential contributions, and where some of the most relevant questions for future research lie.
- Subjects :
- Mathematics & science
Research & information: general
Cherenkov telescopes
Crab Nebula
Galactic cosmic rays
Gamma-ray bursts
IACT
IACT technology
IACTs
INTEGRAL legacy data base
ISM: individual objects-Crab Nebula
ISM: supernova remnants
Lorentz invariance violation
MHD
Milky Way
PeVatron
Quantum Gravity
TeV gamma-rays
acceleration of particles
alerts
angular resolution
astroparticle physics
astrophysical plasmas
atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes
axion-like particles
background radiation
bayes
cosmic rays
data format
electromagnetic cascades
energy spectral distribution
galaxies
gamma ray astronomy
gamma rays
gamma rays: general
gamma-ray astronomy
gamma-rays
ground-based gamma-ray astrophysics
high energy astrophysics
high-energy
high-energy gamma rays
high-energy gamma-ray astrophysics
imaging atmospheric Cherenkov technique
imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescope
imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes
intergalactic magnetic fields
interstellar medium
keV-TeV cosmic sources
likelihood
modified photon interactions
multi-messenger
n/a
non-thermal emission
non-thermal radiation
open science
pair production
pevatrons
photon-photon interaction
pulsars: general
radiation mechanisms: non-thermal
radiation mechanisms: nonthermal
radiative processes
real-time
relativistic astrophysics
source catalogues
statistical analysis
time of flight
very high energy gamma-ray telescope
very-high energy Gamma-rays
very-high-energy gamma-ray astronomy
very-high-energy gamma-ray astrophysics
very-high-energy γ-ray astronomy
γ-ray astronomy
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- Language :
- English
- ISBN :
- 9783036557274
9783036557281
books978-3-0365-5728-1 - ISBNs :
- 9783036557274, 9783036557281, and 9783036557281
- Database :
- Jio Institute Digital Library OPAC
- Journal :
- High-Energy Gamma-Ray Astronomy Results on Fundamental Questions after 30 Years of Ground-Based Observations
- Notes :
- 004393, New Energy, Open Access star Unrestricted online access, Creative Commons https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ cc https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, English
- Publication Type :
- eBook
- Accession number :
- jio.Koha.JDL.2186
- Document Type :
- Book; Electronic document