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Joint Astrophysics Colloquium

Joint Astrophysics Seminars

Ground-based Gamma-ray Astronomy with the Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Technique

John Kildea

Physics Department
McGill

Over the past decade the Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Technique (IACT) has been successfully used to identify TeV gamma-rays from a variety of celestial sources. Today the TeV catalog comprises a myriad of galactic and extra-galactic objects; including pulsar wind nebulae, supernova remnants and blazars. In this talk I will describe the IACT, review its current status and provide some details on a recent search for pulsed emission from the Crab pulsar.

Thursday, May 1st 2003, 12:00
Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, room 326