[144.06] TeV Astrophysics with HESS

AAS 207th Meeting, 8-12 January 2006
Session 144 Dark Energy, Cosmology and TeV Sources
HEAD Oral, Wednesday, 2:00-3:30pm, January 11, 2006, Ballroom/Salon 2

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[144.06] TeV Astrophysics with HESS

F.A. Aharonian (MPI-K, Heidelberg)

The exciting discoveries of many TeV gamma-ray sources by the High Energy Stereoscopic System (HESS) of imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes elevated the status of the field from an "Astronomy with a few sources" to a truly observational discipline with a great potential for spectrometric, morphological and temporal studies of objects representing several nonthermal galactic and extragalactic source populations. I will highlight the recent observations of HESS, and discuss the astrophysical and cosmological implications of these results.

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