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| Author(s): | A. Carramiñana, O. Reimer and D. J. Thompson (Eds) |
| Publisher: | Kluwer |
| ISBN: | 1402000103 |
| Format: | hardback |
| 354pp | |
| Price: | £82.00, $119.00, €130 |
| Review Date: | 20 March 2002 |
| Review: | These are papers from the workshop held in Mexico in October 2000. The experts take a detailed look at the nature of galactic high-energy gamma-ray sources, both from a theoretical and an observational perspective and discussed schemes for future studies. The Energetic Gamma-Ray Experiment telescope (EGRET) at NASA’s Compton Gamma Ray Observatory provided its Third Catalogue of High Energy Gamma-Ray Sources, identifying a large number of blazers, some pulsars, the Large Magellanic Cloud and a solar flare. It discovered more than 270 sources of high-energy protons, more than half of which have not been identified with known celestial objects. Most of these objects belong to the Milky Way and there is more than one class of source. Identifying these objects requires a combination of instruments – radio and optical telescopes; x-ray satellites, and the next generation of space and ground-based gamma-ray telescopes. These papers include strategies for identifying objects with the current instruments and look towards future generations of gamma-ray telescopes. |