Status of space-based gamma-ray astronomy
arXiv:1509.00012
Abstract
Gamma-ray observations give us a direct view into the most extreme environments of the universe. They help us to study astronomical particle accelerators as supernovae remnants, pulsars, active galaxies or gamma-ray bursts and help us to understand the propagation of cosmic rays through our Milky Way. This article summarizes the status of gamma-ray observations from space; it is the write-up of a rapporteur talk given at the 34th ICRC in The Hague, The Netherlands. The primary instrument used in the presented studies is the Large Area Telescope on-board the Fermi Spacecraft, which images the whole gamma-ray sky at photon energies between 20 MeV and 2 TeV. The Fermi mission is currently in its 8th year of observations. This article will review many of the exciting discoveries made in this time, focusing on the most recent ones.
This article is the write-up of a rapporteur talk on "Space based gamma-ray astronomy" given at the 34th International Cosmic Ray Conference (19 pages, 10 figures). Accompanying articles summarize the status of related fields of cosmic-ray research discussed at this conference (references in the text)
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