Ground-based Gamma Ray Astronomy

Abstract

This paper is the write-up of a rapporteur talk given by the author at the 33rd International Cosmic Ray Conference in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 2013. It attempts to summarize results and developments in ground-based gamma-ray observations and instrumentation from among the $\sim 300$ submissions to the gamma-ray sessions of the meeting. Satellite observations and theoretical developments were covered by a companion rapporteur. Any review of this nature is unavoidably subjective, and incomplete. Nevertheless, the article should provide a useful status report for those seeking an overview of this exciting and fast-moving field.

References in corpus (12)

• Detection of the Characteristic Pion-Decay Signature in Supernova Remnants
• Discovery of Very-High-Energy Gamma-Rays from the Galactic Centre Ridge
• Fermi-LAT Observations of Markarian 421: the Missing Piece of its Spectral Energy Distribution
• The 2010 very high energy gamma-ray flare & 10 years of multi-wavelength observations of M 87
• An unidentified TeV source in the vicinity of Cygnus OB2
• Detection of very-high energy γ-ray emission from NGC 1275 by the MAGIC telescopes
• Detection of very high energy gamma-ray emission from the Perseus cluster head-tail galaxy IC 310 by the MAGIC telescopes
• The Firm Redshift Lower Limit of the Most Distant TeV-Detected Blazar PKS 1424+240
• Very-high-energy gamma-ray emission from the direction of the Galactic globular cluster Terzan 5
• Very high-energy gamma-ray emission from IC 310
• Rapid Gamma-ray flux variability during the 2013 March Crab Nebula flare
• Constraints on the TeV source population and its contribution to the galactic diffuse TeV emission

Cited by in corpus (5)

• Blazar flares powered by plasmoids in relativistic reconnection
• Multi-band optical variability of three TeV Blazars on Diverse Timescales
• Plasmoid statistics in relativistic magnetic reconnection
• Systematic investigation of X-ray spectral variability of TeV blazars during flares in the $RXTE$ era
• A simulation study on few parameters of Cherenkov photons in extensive air showers of different primaries incident at various zenith angles over a high altitude observation level