Status of the TAIGA Experiment: From Cosmic-Ray Physics to Gamma Astronomy in Tunka Valley

• Published in: Physics of Atomic Nuclei
• Main Authors: Budnev, N., Astapov, I., Dyachok, A., Fedorov, O., Gafarov, A., Garmash, A., Grebenyuk, V., Gress, O., Gress, T., Grinyuk, A., Grishin, O., Haungs, A., Bezyazeekov, P., Horns, D., Huege, T., Ivanova, A., Kalmykov, N., Kazarina, Y., Kindin, V., Kiryuhin, V., Kleifges, M., Kokoulin, R., Kompaniets, K., Bonvech, A., Korosteleva, E., Kostyunin, D., Kozhin, V., Kravchenko, E., Kryukov, A., Kuzmichev, L., Lagutin, A., Lemeshev, Yu., Lenok, V., Lubsandorzhiev, B., Borodin, A., Lubsandorzhiev, N., Malakhov, S., Marshalkina, T., Mirgazov, R., Mirzoyan, R., Monkhoev, R., Osipova, E., Pakhorukov, A., Pan, A., Panasyuk, M., Brueckner, M., Pankov, L., Petrukhin, A., Podgrudkov, D., Poleschuk, V.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: AIP 2020
• Subjects: info:eu-repo/classification/ddc/530; cosmic radiation; observatory; gamma ray: energy spectrum; hybrid; taiga
• Online Access: https://bib-pubdb1.desy.de/record/455951; https://bib-pubdb1.desy.de/search?p=id:%22PUBDB-2021-01242%22

The importance and advantages of the hybrid approach developed within the TAIGA project for studying the high-energy section of the spectrum of gamma radiation in the Universe are discussed. The pilot complex of the TAIGA gamma observatory with an area of 1 km${}^{2}$ is briefly described along with the lines of its development, and the first results obtained on this basis are given.