Conveners
Gamma Rays Detection
- Giovanni Marsella (LE)
Francesco Loparco
(BA)
9/15/15, 8:30 AM
Gamma Rays Detection
The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope was launched into Earth orbit in June 2008. The Large Area Telescope (LAT) is the main instrument onboard the Fermi satellite and is designed to be sensitive to gamma rays in the energy range from about 20 MeV up to more than 300 GeV. During its first seven years of operation, the LAT has provided an increasingly detailed portrait of the Universe's most...
Brian Humensky
(Columbia University)
9/15/15, 9:00 AM
Gamma Rays Detection
VERITAS is a ground-based array of four 12-meter telescopes near Tucson, Arizona and is one of the world's most sensitive detectors of very high energy (VHE, E > 100 GeV) gamma rays. VERITAS has a broad scientific reach that addresses direct studies of cosmic-ray accelerators, the propagation of cosmic rays, and direct measurements of cosmic-ray spectra. Recent results include deep studies of...
Barbara De Lotto
(UD)
9/15/15, 9:30 AM
Gamma Rays Detection
The MAGIC system of two 17 m diameter Atmospheric Gamma-ray Imaging Cherenkov Telescopes has undergone a major upgrade during the last years and is now completing its tenth observations cycle. In this talk I will present the detector’s performance and a selection of scientific highlights.
Dr
Tristano Di Girolamo
(Università "Federico II" and INFN, Napoli)
9/15/15, 10:00 AM
Gamma Rays Detection
The ARGO-YBJ air shower detector has been in stable data taking for five years at the YangBaJing Cosmic Ray Laboratory (Tibet, P.R. China, 4300m a.s.l.) with a duty cycle >86% and an energy threshold of a few hundreds of GeV. With the scaler mode technique, the minimum threshold of 1 GeV can be reached. In this talk a selection of results in gamma ray astronomy will be presented, including...
Prof.
Wayne Springer
(University of Utah)
9/15/15, 10:30 AM
Gamma Rays Detection
HAWC is a continuously operated, wide field of view detector comprised of three hundred 200,000 liter water Cherenkov detectors, each instrumented with four photomultipliers providing charge and timing information. HAWC covers approximately ~22,000 m2 at an altitude of 4100m and reliably estimates the energy and arrival direction of gamma and cosmic rays with significant sensitivity over...
