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Cosmic very high-energy gamma rays

R. Plaga

astro-pharXiv:astro-ph/9811081

Abstract

The article gives a brief overview, aimed at nonspecialists, about the goals and selected recent results of the detection of very-high energy gamma-rays (energies above 100 GeV) with ground based detectors. The stress is on the physics questions, especially the origin of Galactic Cosmic Rays and the emission of TeV gamma-radiation from active galaxies. Moreover some particle-physics questions which are addressed in this area are discussed.

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