Dr
Orlando Elena
(Stanford University/KIPAC)
20/06/2012, 17:15
Galactic cosmic rays (CR), interstellar gamma-ray emission and radio emission
are related topics. CR electrons propagate in the Galaxy and interact with
the interstellar medium, producing inverse Compton and bremsstrahlung
emission measured in gamma rays, and synchrotron emission measured in
radio. After giving an overview of the latest results with Fermi on
interstellar gamma-ray...
andrea belfiore
(UCSC-SCIPP INAF-IASF)
20/06/2012, 18:05
The Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) has opened a new era for pulsar astronomy. Besides improving our understanding of known pulsars and triggering the discovery of new radio pulsars, it has uncovered a whole population of radio-quiet gamma-ray pulsars. I will describe the techniques used to find such pulsars from gamma-ray data alone and review the results obtained so far with these...
Dr
vito sguera
(INAF-IASF Bologna)
20/06/2012, 18:30
In the last few years Fermi and AGILE observations have indicated the existence of a possible population of gamma-ray transients located on the galactic plane and characterized by fast flares lasting only a very few days. Notably, no blazar-like counterparts are known within their error boxes so they could represent a completely new class of galactic fast gamma-ray transients. The task of...
Dr
Giuseppe Andrea Caliandro
(CSIC)
20/06/2012, 18:55
In the last decade Cherenkov telescopes on the ground and space-based gamma-ray instruments have identified a new class of high mass X-ray binaries (HMXB), whose emission is dominated by gamma rays. To date only five of these systems are known. All of them are detected by Cherenkov telescopes in the TeV energy range, while at GeV energies there is still one (HESS J0632+057) that has no...
