Speaker
trevor weekes
(Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)
Description
More than fifty years ago simple experiments aimed at the
detection of TeV gamma rays were attempted in the hope of
finding the origin os the cosmic radiation. These efforts
were partially motivated by the hope that they might prove
to be also sources of neutrinos which would establish the
progenitor particles as hadrons. The detection of more than
150 sources of TeV gamma-ray sources has been established
in the last decade as the relatively simple early
experiments have been replaced by sophisticated telescopes.
A wide variety of sources categories have been established
including supernovae remnants, pulsar wind nebulae, pulsars,
binaries, blazars, starburst galaxies and radio galaxies.
The nature of the progenitors in many of these sources is
ambiguous and many of them can be explained with simple
Compton-synchrotron models.
Primary author
trevor weekes
(Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)
