Conveners
Gamma-ray Astronomy
- Miguel Mostafa (Penn State Univ.)
Gamma-ray Astronomy
- Miguel Mostafa (Penn State Univ.)
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Prof. Teresa Montaruli (university of geneva)18/06/2018, 10:00I will illustrate current and future technologies and planned observatories and discuss some of the highlight results concerning source observations and multi-messenger programs.Go to contribution page
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Michele Doro (PD)18/06/2018, 10:45The first MAGIC telescope was built in 2003, and operated as a standalone instrument until 2009, when the addition of a second twin telescope allowed stereoscopic observations. Since then, we have acquired more than 40 extragalactic and more than 10 galactic sources of very high energy gamma rays. The portfolio of physics that can be done with such observations is wide: it includes accretion...Go to contribution page
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Brian Humensky (Columbia University)18/06/2018, 11:15Our universe carries a small but important population of highly energetic denizens: supernova remnants with fast shocks, pulsars with powerful winds, intensely-interacting binary systems built from a compact object and a massive star, relativistic jets launched by supermassive black holes. All of these environments conspire to generate populations of nonthermal particles, and observations of...Go to contribution page
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Dr Raffaella Bonino (IFSI-INAF & INFN Torino)18/06/2018, 12:05The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope was launched 10 years ago and since then it has dramatically changed our knowledge of the gamma-ray sky. The status of the observatory, and in particular of the Large Area Telescope, and the main results of these first ten years of data taking will be presented, with particular attention to the multi-messenger context.Go to contribution page
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Ms Roberta Zanin (Universitat de Barcelona)18/06/2018, 12:40The Cherenkov Telescope Array is the next generation ground-based gamma-ray observatory designed to detect photons in the 0.02 to 300 TeV energy range. With a sensitivity improvement of one order of magnitude over currently operating facilities, coupled with significantly better angular resolution, the array will be used to address many open questions in gamma-ray and cosmic-ray...Go to contribution page
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Thomas Weisgarber (University of Wisconsin--Madison)18/06/2018, 13:10The High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) observatory is a wide-field survey instrument sensitive to cosmic rays and gamma rays in the energy range from a few hundred GeV to >100 TeV. Located in the state of Puebla, Mexico at 4100 m above sea level, HAWC has been fully operational for over 3 years, since its inauguration in March 2015. In this talk, I will highlight recent results from HAWC,...Go to contribution page