Present status of very high energy gamma ray astronomy and plans for an imaging gamma ray telescope in India.
Abstract
This paper gives an overview of the contemporary observational scene in the ground-based gamma-ray astronomy. It closes with an introduction to TACTIC, the first Indian Imaging gamma-ray telescope, presently under-development.
- Publication:
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Bulletin of the Astronomical Society of India
- Pub Date:
- September 1993
- Bibcode:
- 1993BASI...21..313B
- Keywords:
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- Cataclysmic Variables;
- Cerenkov Radiation;
- Crab Nebula;
- Gamma Ray Astronomy;
- Gamma Ray Telescopes;
- India;
- Energy Spectra;
- Gamma Ray Spectra;
- Light Curve;
- Radiant Flux Density;
- Astronomy