Conveners
Session Ia: High-Energy experiments: reports and connections with Gravitational Waves
- Luca Baldini (PI)
Dr
Nicola Omodei
(Stanford University/KIPAC)
18/10/2016, 09:55
High-energy experiments: results and connections with Gravitational Waves
Talk
A new era for astronomy has begun as the first detection of Gravitation Wave (GW) event arising from the coalescence of two stellar-mass Black Holes (BH) was announced by LIGO/VIRGO. Searches for electromagnetic (EM) counterpart of GW event is of fundamental importance, as it increases the confidence in the GW detection and helps characterize the parameters of the merger. The Fermi gamma-ray...
Dr
Immacolata Donnarumma
(INAF-IAPS)
18/10/2016, 10:20
High-energy experiments: results and connections with Gravitational Waves
Talk
We will present the AGILE capabilities to detect the electromagnetic counterparts of Gravitational Wave (GW) sources recently discovered by LIGO. The follow-up of the events discovered so far and the perspective for future discoveries will be discussed.
The combination of Tracker, miniCalorimeter, Anti Coincidence as a gamma-ray imager, makes the AGILE-GRID an optimal instrument for...
Dr
Andreas von Kienlin
(MPE)
18/10/2016, 11:15
High-energy experiments: results and connections with Gravitational Waves
Talk
The Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM) is an all-sky, hard X-ray/soft gamma-ray monitor, ideally suited to detect rare and unpredictable transient events. In the first eight years since the launch of Fermi in 2008 it has triggered on more than 5000 transients, including nearly 1900 gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), many solar flares, bursts from magnetars, and terrestrial gamma-ray flashes (TGFs)....
Dr
Pietro Ubertini
(ROMA2, IAPS-INAF)
18/10/2016, 11:40
High-energy experiments: results and connections with Gravitational Waves
Talk
ESA’s INTEGRAL Space Observatory was launched on 17 October 2002 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome (Kazakistan) aboard a Proton rocket as part of the Russian contribution to the mission. To date the spacecraft, ground segment and scientific payload are in excellent state-of-health, and INTEGRAL is continuing its scientific operations. In view of its 14 years successful science outcome, ESA is...
Dr
Philip Evans
(University of Leicester)
18/10/2016, 12:05
High-energy experiments: results and connections with Gravitational Waves
Talk
With the recent discoveries of astrophysical neutrinos by IceCube, and Gravitational Waves by Advanced LIGO, we live on the cusp of a new era of astronomical research. Combining these messengers with EM data is vital to maximise the scientific gain, but is challenging. The large position uncertainties, particularly from Gravitational Wave detections, make follow-up difficult, and the chances...
Mr
Alberto Manfreda
(Università di Pisa, INFN sezione di Pisa)
18/10/2016, 12:30
High-energy experiments: results and connections with Gravitational Waves
Talk
We present an updated measurement of the cosmic-ray electron and positron spectrum between 7 GeV and 2 TeV, based on 7 years of data collected with the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT). The LAT is the first space-based instrument to directly explore the region above 1 TeV. At such high energies, the shape of the spectrum can provide useful information about the origin and propagation of...
Domenico D'Urso
(ROMA2)
18/10/2016, 12:50
High-energy experiments: results and connections with Gravitational Waves
Talk
DAMPE (DArk Matter Particle Explorer) is one of the five satellite missions in the framework of the Strategic Pioneer Research Program in Space Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). Launched on December 17th 2015 at 08:12 Beijing time, it is taking data into a sun-synchronous orbit, at the altitude of 500 km. The main scientific objective of DAMPE is to detect electrons and photons...
