Conveners
Future missions
- Elisa Pueschel
Future missions
- Elisa Pueschel
Dr
Denis Bernard
(LLR Ecole Polytechnique)
25/01/2019, 10:40
Main track
Talk
Present sub-GeV gamma-ray telescopes are afflicted by the multiple scattering of the electron and of the positron in their tungsten converters. Due to the same reason, the gamma-ray polarimetry of cosmic sources has never been achieved.
We have first characterised by simulations the potential of low-density homogeneous detectors for high-performance gamma-ray astronomy. We have shown that...
Dr
Paolo Soffitta
(IAPS/INAF)
25/01/2019, 11:30
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Talk
IXPE the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry explorer is the next SMEX NASA mission to be launched on 2021 with a large hardware contribution from ASI. It will re-open, after more than 40 years, the window of X-ray polarimetry for a number of celestial X-ray sources among almost all classes. In this talk we present the mission status and its astrophysical perspectives.
Dr
Giovanni La Mura
(Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas)
25/01/2019, 11:50
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Talk
The era of Multi-Messenger Astrophysics has been officially inaugurated thanks to the detection of a High Energy neutrino event from a gamma-ray flaring Fermi-LAT blazar, together with the combined gamma-ray and gravitational signal from an identified cosmic source. Given the extreme and transient nature of the underlying processes, it has become clear that monitoring the sky in Very High...
Dr
Ulisses Barres de Almeida
(Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Físicas)
25/01/2019, 12:10
Main track
Talk
The Fermi-LAT sources and specially the high-energy catalogues, 2FHL and 3FHL, provide the best unbiased proxy to the very-high energy (VHE, E > 100 GeV) extragalactic sky. Meaningful extrapolations can be derived therefrom, as to what are the expectations for future studies in this extreme observational window. Recent observational data in hard X-rays support the existence of a population of...
