IPA 2013

Session

TeV Gamma-Ray Astronomy

14 May 2013, 10:10

Union South

25. Overview and History of TeV Gamma Ray Astronomy

trevor weekes (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)

14/05/2013, 10:10

Trevor Weekes - TeV Gamma-Ray Astronomy

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...