Gamma-ray astronomy with imaging atmospheric Čerenkov telescopes

Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle Science

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 273-314

  Aharonian, Felix A ^a   Akerlof, Carl W ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR KERNPHYSIK   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

AGNs; Air showers; Cosmic gamma rays; Imaging technique; Observational cosmology; Pulsars; SNRs

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031283849     PISSN: 01638998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.nucl.47.1.273     Document Type: Article

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