Comptes Rendus Physique

Julien Barré

Alain Olivetti

Yoshiyuki Y. Yamaguchi

Landau damping and inhomogeneous reference states

Renaud Delannay

Mickaël Duranteau

Vincent Tournat

Precursors and triggering mechanisms of granular avalanches

Sébastien Renaux-Petel

Primordial non-Gaussianities after <i>Planck 2015</i>: An introductory review

Sylvia Matzen

Stéphane Fusil

Domains and domain walls in multiferroics

Michel Abgrall

Baptiste Chupin

Luigi De Sarlo

Jocelyne Guéna

Philippe Laurent

Yann Le Coq

Rodolphe Le Targat

Jérôme Lodewyck

Michel Lours

Peter Rosenbusch

Giovanni Daniele Rovera

Sébastien Bize

Atomic fountains and optical clocks at SYRTE: Status and perspectives

Martin Lemoine

Guy Pelletier

On the origin of very-high-energy photons in astrophysics: A short introduction to acceleration and radiation physics

Daniel Fournier

Tejinder Virdee

The ATLAS and CMS detectors at the LHC

Dossier Sommaire

Didier Massonnet

Luigi Cacciapuoti

Christophe Salomon

The ACES/PHARAO space mission

Bernard Degrange

Gérard Fontaine

Tome 16 (2015) – No 6–7 
Left: Space-based gamma-ray astronomy. The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope (bottom) and the entire 
gamma-ray sky (1 GeV–100 GeV) in Galactic coordinates, as viewed by the instrument (top).
[Images: NASA/DOE/Fermi LAT Collaboration]
Right: Ground-based gamma-ray astronomy. The H.E.S.S. array (20 GeV–100 TeV) of Cherenkov telescopes 
in Namibia (bottom) and the supernova remnant RX J1713-3946 (1◦ angular diameter), as resolved by 
H.E.S.S. [Images: G. Fontaine (bottom), Astron. Astrophys. & ESO/H.E.S.S. Collaboration (top).]
DOSSIER
Gamma-ray astronomy / Astronomie des rayons gamma
Coordinators / Coordinateurs : Bernard Degrange, Gérard Fontaine
• Introduction to high-energy gamma-ray astronomy
Bernard Degrange, Gérard Fontaine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 587
• Space detectors for gamma rays (100 MeV–100 GeV): From EGRET to Fermi LAT
David J. Thompson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 600
• Ground-based detectors in very-high-energy gamma-ray astronomy
Mathieu de Naurois, Daniel Mazin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 610
• On the origin of very-high-energy photons in astrophysics: A short introduction to acceleration and radiation 
physics
Martin Lemoine, Guy Pelletier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 628
• Gamma-ray pulsars: A gold mine
Isabelle A. Grenier, Alice K. Harding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 641
• Gamma-ray emission from binaries in context
Guillaume Dubus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 661
• Observations of supernova remnants and pulsar wind nebulae at gamma-ray energies
John W. Hewitt, Marianne Lemoine-Goumard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 674
• Gamma rays from the Galactic Centre region
Meng Su, Christopher van Eldik . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 686


Introduction to high-energy gamma-ray astronomy

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