Particle Acceleration in Stellar Remnants

A White Paper submitted to Astro2010: The Astronomy and Astrophysics Decadal Survey based in part on " The Status and Future of Ground-based TeV Gamma-ray Astronomy " , a White Paper prepared at the request of the Division of Astrophysics of the American Physical Society to summarize the status and future of ground-based γ-ray astronomy. The images above illustrate the richness available to future very high energy gamma-ray instruments. The top panel shows a TeV map of the inner Galaxy at the resolution and sensitivity of current TeV telescopes. The bottom panel shows a simulated sky map as would be observed with a future atmospheric Cherenkov telescope with improved sensitivity and angular resolution that could be constructed during the coming decade. The images are from Funk, Hinton, Hermann, and Digel, arXiv:0901.1885.