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Ground-based Gamma-ray Astronomy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 April 2016

R.W. Clay  and
B.R. DawSOn
R.W. Clay
Affiliation:
Department of Physics and Mathematical Physics, University of Adelaide, GPO Box 498, Adelaide SA 5001
B.R. DawSOn
Affiliation:
Department of Physics and Mathematical Physics, University of Adelaide, GPO Box 498, Adelaide SA 5001
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Abstract

Ground-based gamma-ray astronomy has slowly developed over the past quarter of a century to a position now where a number of sources are known to produce gamma-rays in the energy range 1011eV to 1018eV. The observations are difficult, with exceptional signal to noise problems, but improved techniques are now allowing observers to proceed with confidence. In this paper the physical bases of the observations are emphasised to show the important issues in the field and the present state of the observations is indicated.

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Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia , Volume 10 , Issue 3 , 1993 , pp. 183 - 188
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Copyright © Astronomical Society of Australia 1993

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