05559nam 2201225z- 450 991063999750332120231214133050.03-0365-5728-8(CKB)5470000001633378(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/95857(EXLCZ)99547000000163337820202301d2022 |y 0engurmn|---annantxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierHigh-Energy Gamma-Ray AstronomyResults on Fundamental Questions after 30 Years of Ground-Based ObservationsBaselMDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute20221 electronic resource (504 p.)3-0365-5727-X This volume celebrates the 30th anniversary of the first very-high energy (VHE) gamma-ray Source detection: the Crab Nebula, observed by the pioneering ground-based Cherenkov telescope Whipple, at teraelectronvolts (TeV) energies, in 1989. As we entered a new era in TeV astronomy, with the imminent start of operations of the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) and new facilities such as LHAASO and the proposed Southern Wide-Field Gamma-ray Observatory (SWGO), we conceived of this volume as a broad reflection on how far we have evolved in the astrophysics topics that dominated the field of TeV astronomy for much of recent history.In the past two decades, H.E.S.S., MAGIC and VERITAS pushed the field of TeV astronomy, consolidating the field of TeV astrophysics, from few to hundreds of TeV emitters. Today, this is a mature field, covering almost every topic of modern astrophysics. TeV astrophysics is also at the center of the multi-messenger astrophysics revolution, as the extreme photon energies involved provide an effective probe in cosmic-ray acceleration, propagation and interaction, in dark matter and exotic physics searches. The improvement that CTA will carry forward and the fact that CTA will operate as the first open observatory in the field, mean that gamma-ray astronomy is about to enter a new precision and productive era.This book aims to serve as an introduction to the field and its state of the art, presenting a series of authoritative reviews on a broad range of topics in which TeV astronomy provided essential contributions, and where some of the most relevant questions for future research lie.High-Energy Gamma-Ray Astronomy Research & information: generalbicsscMathematics & sciencebicsscgamma ray astronomyimaging atmospheric Cherenkov techniqueTeV gamma-raysnon-thermal radiationkeV-TeV cosmic sourcesINTEGRAL legacy data baserelativistic astrophysicsgamma rayscosmic raysinterstellar mediumMilky Waygalaxiesradiation mechanisms: non-thermalhigh energy astrophysicsbackground radiationphoton-photon interactionpair productionaxion-like particlesgamma-raysIACTsintergalactic magnetic fieldshigh-energy gamma rayselectromagnetic cascadespevatronsGalactic cosmic raysPeVatronCrab Nebulaangular resolutionenergy spectral distributionγ-ray astronomyvery-high-energy gamma-ray astrophysicsastroparticle physicsimaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopesQuantum GravityLorentz invariance violationtime of flightmodified photon interactionsvery-high-energy gamma-ray astronomyopen sciencedata formatmulti-messengerreal-timehigh-energyalertsvery-high-energy γ-ray astronomyatmospheric Cherenkov telescopessource cataloguesgamma-ray astronomyCherenkov telescopesISM: supernova remnantsISM: individual objects-Crab Nebulapulsars: generalradiation mechanisms: nonthermalgamma rays: generalacceleration of particlesastrophysical plasmasMHDhigh-energy gamma-ray astrophysicsGamma-ray burstsnon-thermal emissionradiative processesvery-high energy Gamma-raysstatistical analysislikelihoodbayesimaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopeIACTIACT technologyvery high energy gamma-ray telescopeground-based gamma-ray astrophysicsResearch & information: generalMathematics & sciencede Almeida Ulisses Barresedt1307822Doro Micheleedtde Almeida Ulisses BarresothDoro MicheleothBOOK9910639997503321High-Energy Gamma-Ray Astronomy3029034UNINA