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Joint Astrophysics Colloquium

Joint Astrophysics Seminar

Very high energy gamma-ray astronomy with HESS

Jim Hinton

Max Planck Institut für Kernphysik
Heidelberg

The HESS project currently under construction in Namibia is a next-generation system of Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes for the investigation of cosmic gamma rays in the 100 GeV energy range. Two of the four telescopes of this system have now been completed. The status of the experiment and the first astrophysics results will be presented.

Tuesday, April 22nd 2003, 12:30
Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E.Bell Conference Room (room 103)