A New Population of Very High Energy Gamma-Ray Sources in the Milky Way
A New Population of Very High Energy Gamma-Ray Sources in the Milky Way
Very high energy gamma-rays probe the long-standing mystery of the origin of cosmic rays. Produced in the interactions of accelerated particles in astrophysical objects, they can be used to image cosmic particle accelerators. A first sensitive survey of the inner part of the Milky Way with the High Energy Stereoscopic …