International School of Cosmic Ray Astrophysics

16^th  Course: "Gamma Ray and Cosmic Ray Astrophysics: From below GeV to beyond EeV Energies"

 5-12 July 2008
Ettore Majorana Centre
Erice, Sicily, Italy

Topic: Highlights of High Energy Gamma Ray Astronomy
Lecturer: Masahiro Teshima

The recent development of ground-based gamma-ray Astronomy is enormous. More than 50 galactic sources and 20 AGNs are identified as high energy gamma ray sources. The number of high energy gamma ray sources is exploding. The classes of sources also have a wide variety, Super Nova Remnants, Pulsar Wind Nebulae, Binaries, Un-identified sources in our galaxies and several types of AGNs. Morphological studies of galactic sources, extended diffuse emissions along the galactic plane and very fast flares from AGNs are successfully observed. The highlights of the ground-based gamma-ray astronomy and the future prospects of this field will be discussed.