High Energy Gamma-Ray Astronomy:: International Symposium

High Energy Gamma-Ray Astronomy

Felix A. Aharonian, Max-Planck-Institut fur Kernphysik, Heidelberg, GERMANY

Conference Location and Date: Heidelberg, GERMANY, 26-30 June 2000

Subseries: Astronomy and Astrophysics

Published ; ISBN 1-56396-990-4 One Volume, Print; 899 pages; 6 3/8 x 9 1/4 inches;

Readership: Researchers and graduate students in high energy astrophysics, particle physics, plasma physics as well as observational cosmology

This conference was attended by leading experts in the field of gamma-ray astronomy as well as students and postdocs from around the world. The symposium concerned the basic observational and theoretical topics and the objectives of the rapidly developing field of gamma-ray astronomy in the energy range above 10 Ge V, with emphasis on the connections between physics at Ge V and Te V energies by which the most violent processes in the universe manifest themselves. The topics ranged from particle acceleration in different astrophysical environments, the origin of cosmic rays, and the relativistic astrophysics of jets and winds from compact galactic objects and active galactic nuclei, to observational cosmology. They comprised almost all known and expected gamma-ray populations and their contributions to the non-thermal inventory of the Universe. The symposium was primarily concerned with the scientific aspects of the field and less with the development of instrumentation.

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