Research report 2006 - Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics
New results of gamma-ray astronomy
Authors
Völk, Heinrich J.
Departments
Hochenergie-Neutrinoastronomie mit IceCube (DFG, Emmy-Noether) (Dr. Elisa Resconi)
MPI für Kernphysik, Heidelberg
Summary
Gamma-ray astronomy measures the highest-energy photons from the Universe and thus the most energetic objects and processes which generate them. The H.E.S.S. experiment in Namibia investigates the sky at those energies. Several of the new results and their interpretation are reported here.