Speaker
Dr
Jamie Holder
(University of Delaware)
Description
The current generation of imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescope
arrays have been operating for over a decade, and have succeeded in
measuring the high energy emission from almost 200 sources. These
observations probe the mechanisms of particle acceleration in a wide
variety of extreme environments, and over a huge range of spatial
scales - from pulsar magnetospheres to the jets of active galaxies.
While current instruments have demonstrated the power of the
technique, they are far from reaching its limits. A major new facility,
the Cherenkov Telescope Array, promises to achieve sensitivity
improvements of an order of magnitude, with a corresponding explosion
in the source population.
I will discuss some of the highlight results from the past few years
of TeV gamma-ray astronomy, and provide some expectations for the
future
Primary author
Dr
Jamie Holder
(University of Delaware)
