Dr
Michele Doro
(Universitat Autonoma Barcelona)
5/26/11, 2:30 PM
The MAGIC telescope experiment was designed primarily to reach the lowest possible energy threshold with the ground-based gamma-ray Cherenkov technique, in order to fill the gap between MeV-GeV gamma-ray satellite experiments and TeV ground-based installations. The construction of a second MAGIC telescope, and the subsequent use of the stereoscopic operation mode, has already proven the...
Dr
Matthias Beilicke
(Washington University in St.Louis)
5/26/11, 2:50 PM
The galactic center (GC) has long been a region of interest for high-energy and very-high-energy (VHE) observations. Many potential sources of GeV/TeV gamma-ray emission have been suggested for the GC
region, e.g., the accretion of matter onto the black hole, cosmic rays from a nearby shell-type supernova remnant, or the annihilation of dark matter. The GC has been detected at MeV/GeV...
Mr
Peter Eger
(Erlangen Centre for Astroparticle Physics, Univ. Erlangen-Nuernberg)
5/26/11, 3:10 PM
The H.E.S.S. array of Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes continues to observe the southern sky with unprecedented sensitivity at very-high-energy (VHE, E>100 GeV) gamma-rays. This lead to a steady increase in the number of detected VHE gamma-ray sources as well as the discovery of sources with fluxes of only a few percent of the flux of the Crab nebula. Up to now, well more than 100 VHE...
