The CANGAROO Project - TeV gamma-ray observations by ground-based telescopes in Australia

by Akiko Kawachi (University of Tokyo, Japan)

Friday 31 Jan 2003, 11:00 → 12:00 Europe/Zurich

INTEGRAL Science Data Centre (isdc.unige.ch)

CANGAROO (the Collaboration of Australia and Nippon (Japan) for a GAmma Ray Observatory in the Outback) project has been exploring the southern sky in the sub-TeV to multi-TeV energy range using the ground-based Cherenkov telescopes located in South Australia. Supernova remnants of non-thermal X-ray detection, rotation-powered pulsars of large dE/dt over d² value, and other galactic unique objects including our Galactic Center have been selected as observation targets, together with some nearby X-ray selected BL Lacs and (starburst) galaxies. Introduction of the project and some recent results will be presented.