Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2004-09-15
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Invited talk at the XXIV Physics in Collisions Conference (PIC04), Boston, USA, June 2004, 10 pages, LaTeX, 13 eps figures. PS
Scientific paper
The Very High Energy Gamma Ray Astronomy (VHE) is a rapidly evolving branch of modern astronomy, which covers the range from about 50 GeV to several tens of TeV from the ground. In the past years, the second generation instruments firmly established a growing and varied list of sources including plerions, supernova remnants and active galactic nuclei, and started to study some fundamental questions such as the origin of cosmic rays or the emission mechanisms of the active galactic nuclei. New results now include the first VHE unidentified sources as well as more puzzling sources such as the Galactic center. The arrival of new generation instruments (HESS, CANGAROO III, VERITAS, MAGIC) already gives a impressive look at the near future. Here we attempt to summarize the current status of the field. We briefly describe the instruments and analysis techniques, and give an outlook on the sources detected sofar.
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