Bruno Rossi Prize Honours Studies of Very High Energy Gamma Rays

摘要

The American Astronomical Society (AAS) has awarded the 2010 Bruno Rossi Prize to Felix Aharonian (Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, Ireland), Werner Hofmann Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics, Heidelberg, Germany) and Heinz Voelk (also of the MPIK) for their outstanding contributions to imaging of very high energy (TeV) gamma rays as their work addresses fundamental questions related to particle acceleration and the origin of cosmic rays through the study of supernova remnants, pulsar wind nebulae and nearby active galactic nuclei. The 2010 Rossi Prize has also been awarded to the High Energy Stereoscopic System (HESS) team. HESS is a cluster of imaging atmospheric Cerenkov telescopes, located in Namibia, that are investigating cosmic gamma rays in the 100 GeV to 100 TeV energy range. Germany and France are the major financial contributors in the HESS collaboration.