CRIS 2018

Session

Gamma-ray Astronomy

18 Jun 2018, 10:00

Hotel Vittorio, Portopalo di Capo Passero (SR) - Italy

Conveners

Gamma-ray Astronomy

• Miguel Mostafa (Penn State Univ.)

Gamma-ray Astronomy

• Miguel Mostafa (Penn State Univ.)

146. Gamma-rays and their future

Prof. Teresa Montaruli (university of geneva)

18/06/2018, 10:00

I will illustrate current and future technologies and planned observatories and discuss some of the highlight results concerning source observations and multi-messenger programs.

80. 15 years of MAGIC observation of a crowded TeV sky.

Michele Doro (PD)

18/06/2018, 10:45

The 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...

140. Particle Accelerators in Space: Recent News from VERITAS

Brian Humensky (Columbia University)

18/06/2018, 11:15

Our 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...

137. 10 years of the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope

Dr Raffaella Bonino (IFSI-INAF & INFN Torino)

18/06/2018, 12:05

The 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.

46. Cherenkov Telescope Array: overview and Galactic science program

Ms Roberta Zanin (Universitat de Barcelona)

18/06/2018, 12:40

The 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...

37. Highlights from the HAWC Observatory

Thomas Weisgarber (University of Wisconsin--Madison)

18/06/2018, 13:10

The 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,...