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High-Energy Gamma-ray Sources and the Quest for their Identification

P. A. Caraveo

astro-pharXiv:astro-ph/0206236

Abstract

The 3rd EGRET catalogue lists 271 sources and provides an identification for 101 of them. Thus, the unidentified sources are the majority in the gamma-ray sky, as we currently know it. Solving the mystery of the unidentified gamma-ray sources is a major challenge for all fields of astronomy. Here we shall review the different approaches towards source identification as well as the results achieved so far.

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