Teraelectronvolt Astronomy

Understand

Ground-based gamma-ray astronomy, which provides access to the TeV energy range, is a young and rapidly developing discipline.

• Recent discoveries in this waveband have important consequences for a wide range of topics in astrophysics and astroparticle physics.
• This article is an attempt to review the experimental status of this field and to provide the basic formulae and concepts required to begin the interpretation of TeV observations.