Speaker
Jim Hinton
(Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics)
Description
The field of ground-based gamma-ray astronomy is flourishing, with the current generation of instruments providing a rich and complex picture of non-thermal astrophysics in the TeV-PeV domain. At the same time a new generation of instruments is planned or already in construction, promising a fundamental step forward in our understanding of many astrophysical systems as well as deep searches for new physics. I will briefly review the status of these instruments and emphasise the complementarity between ground-level particle based detection systems and imaging Cherenkov telescope arrays. Finally I will address some of the emerging concepts which hold promise for the field beyond the horizon of the major new systems.
Primary author
Jim Hinton
(Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics)
