Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
1999-06-14
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
7 pages, 3 figures
Scientific paper
Very-high-energy astronomy studies the Universe at energies between 30 GeV and 100 TeV. The past decade has seen enormous progress in this field. There are now at least seven known sources of VHE photons. By studying these objects in the VHE regime one can begin to understand the environments surrounding these objects, and how particle acceleration is realized in nature. In addition the photon beams from the extragalactic gamma-ray sources can be used to study the electromagnetic fields in the intervening space. This recent progress can be traced to the development of a new class of detector with the ability to differentiate between air showers produced by gamma rays and those produced by the much more numerous hadronic cosmic-ray background. Much more sensitive instruments are currently in the design phase and two new types of instruments are beginning to take data. In this paper we will discuss the physics of these sources and describe the existing and planned detectors.
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