This volume consists of invited lectures and seminars presented at the nato advanced study institute the gamma ray sky with compton gro and sigma which was held at the centre de physique theorique of les houches france in january february 1994. The school has been planned by a scientific organizing committee. It was organized with the aim of providing students and young researchers with an up-to-date account of the high-energy phenomena in the vicinity of compact objets and the diffuse gamma-ray backgrounds after the early results from the gamma-ray telescope sigma and the four instruments onboard compton gro gamma ray observatory : batse burst and transient source experiment comptel compto l telescope egret energetic gamma ray experiment telescope and os se oriented scintillation spectrometer experiment . It was attended by more than sixty researchers from many countries. The lectures and seminars represent a complete coverage of our present knowledge and understanding of: gamma-ray backgrounds gamma-ray burts active galactic nuclei galactic compact objects gamma-ray spectroscopy instrumentation and observation techniques etc ... Most of these lectures are reproduced in this volume. Unfortunately a few lecturers have chosen not to submit their manuscript.
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