Masahiro Teshima
(MPI Munich, Germany)
6/20/07, 5:15 PM
Gamma-ray astronomy is a newly emerging and very successful branch of astronomy and astrophysics. Exciting results have been obtained by the current generation Cherenkov telescope systems such as H.E.S.S., MAGIC, VERITAS and CANGAROO. The development of the very large Cherenkov telescope array system (CTA) with a sensitivity and an angular resolution about an order of magnitude better than...
Marco Tavani
(INAF and Univ. Tor Vergata, Roma, Italy)
6/20/07, 5:40 PM
The AGILE satellite is devoted to high-energy astrophysic and combines optimal imaging and large field of view for a simultaneous detection in the energy bands 15-60 keV and 30 MeV - 30 GeV. The satellite is an ASI space mission with participation by INAF, INFN, several Universities, and the Italian space industry. The satellite was successfully launched to an optimal equatorial orbit on April...
Alexander Moiseev
(CRESST/NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, USA)
6/20/07, 6:05 PM
The new Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST) is scheduled for launch at the end of 2007. It contains the high-energy gamma-ray telescope LAT (Large Area Telescope) which covers the energy range from 20 MeV to > 300 GeV, and the GBM (GLAST Burst Monitor), covering 8 keV – 30 MeV. The GLAST science objectives include understanding the mechanism of charged particle acceleration in active...
Pietro Ubertini
(Istituto Astrofisica Spaziale Roma, INAF)
6/20/07, 6:30 PM
After almost 5 years of operation, ESA’s INTEGRAL Space Observatory has unveiled a new soft Gamma ray sky and produced a remarkable portfolio of results, ranging from the inventory of the high energy sources, to the discovery of dozens of variable sources to the mapping of the Al and annihilation line in the Galaxy. INTEGRAL is continuing the deep observations of the Galactic Plane and of the...
