2001/02/19 by Stephen Fegan, Fegan, Stephen
Physics and Astronomy · #Astrophysics (astro-ph) #FOS: Physical sciences #astro-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0102324
13 pages, 5 figures. To appear in the proceedings of The nature of unidentified galactic high-energy gamma-ray sources, Tonantzintla, Mexico, 2000
arxiv created 2001/02/19 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01
A review of very high energy gamma-ray astronomy is presented. Particular attention is paid to the atmospheric Cherenkov imaging technique whose employment has resulted in detections of both galactic and extra-galactic objects at energies above 300GeV. Next generation ground-based telescopes promise to increase our knowledge of extreme astrophysical objects as they begin to operate over the next few years.