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1. Constraining Possible γ-Ray Burst Emission from GW230529 Using Swift-BAT and Fermi-GBM

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Samuele Ronchini, Suman Bala, Joshua Wood, James Delaunay, Simone Dichiara, Jamie A. Kennea, Tyler Parsotan, Gayathri Raman, Aaron Tohuvavohu, Naresh Adhikari, Narayana P. Bhat, Sylvia Biscoveanu, Elisabetta Bissaldi, Eric Burns, Sergio Campana, Koustav Chandra, William H. Cleveland, Sarah Dalessi, Massimiliano De Pasquale, Juan García-Bellido, Claudio Gasbarra, Misty M. Giles, Ish Gupta, Dieter Hartmann, Boyan A. Hristov, Michelle C. Hui, Rahul Kashyap, Daniel Kocevski, Bagrat Mailyan, Christian Malacaria, Hiroyuki Nakano, Giacomo Principe, Oliver J. Roberts, Bangalore Sathyaprakash, Lijing Shao, Eleonora Troja, Péter Veres, and Colleen A. Wilson-Hodge

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High energy astrophysics, Gamma-ray astronomy, Gamma-ray bursts, Gravitational waves, Astrophysics, QB460-466
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GW230529 is the first compact binary coalescence detected by the LIGO–Virgo–KAGRA collaboration with at least one component mass confidently in the lower mass gap, corresponding to the range 3–5 M _⊙ . If interpreted as a neutron star–black hole merger, this event has the most symmetric mass ratio detected so far and therefore has a relatively high probability of producing electromagnetic (EM) emission. However, no EM counterpart has been reported. At the merger time t _0 , Swift-BAT and Fermi-GBM together covered 100% of the sky. Performing a targeted search in a time window [ t _0 − 20 s, t _0 + 20 s], we report no detection by the Swift-BAT and Fermi-GBM instruments. Combining the position-dependent γ -ray flux upper limits and the gravitational-wave posterior distribution of luminosity distance, sky localization, and inclination angle of the binary, we derive constraints on the characteristic luminosity and structure of the jet possibly launched during the merger. Assuming a top-hat jet structure, we exclude at 90% credibility the presence of a jet that has at the same time an on-axis isotropic luminosity ≳10 ^48 erg s ^−1 in the bolometric band 1 keV–10 MeV and a jet opening angle ≳15°. Similar constraints are derived by testing other assumptions about the jet structure profile. Excluding GRB 170817A, the luminosity upper limits derived here are below the luminosity of any GRB observed so far.

Published
2024
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2. GRB 221009A: The BOAT

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Eric Burns, Dmitry Svinkin, Edward Fenimore, D. Alexander Kann, José Feliciano Agüí Fernández, Dmitry Frederiks, Rachel Hamburg, Stephen Lesage, Yuri Temiraev, Anastasia Tsvetkova, Elisabetta Bissaldi, Michael S. Briggs, Sarah Dalessi, Rachel Dunwoody, Cori Fletcher, Adam Goldstein, C. Michelle Hui, Boyan A. Hristov, Daniel Kocevski, Alexandra L. Lysenko, Bagrat Mailyan, Joseph Mangan, Sheila McBreen, Judith Racusin, Anna Ridnaia, Oliver J. Roberts, Mikhail Ulanov, Peter Veres, Colleen A. Wilson-Hodge, and Joshua Wood

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Gamma-ray bursts, Gamma-ray transient sources, Gamma-ray sources, Jets, Core-collapse supernovae, Astrophysics, QB460-466
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GRB 221009A has been referred to as the brightest of all time (BOAT). We investigate the veracity of this statement by comparing it with a half century of prompt gamma-ray burst observations. This burst is the brightest ever detected by the measures of peak flux and fluence. Unexpectedly, GRB 221009A has the highest isotropic-equivalent total energy ever identified, while the peak luminosity is at the ∼99th percentile of the known distribution. We explore how such a burst can be powered and discuss potential implications for ultralong and high-redshift gamma-ray bursts. By geometric extrapolation of the total fluence and peak flux distributions, GRB 221009A appears to be a once-in-10,000-year event. Thus, it is almost certainly not the BOAT over all of cosmic history; it may be the brightest gamma-ray burst since human civilization began.

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2023
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3. Fermi Constraints on the Ejecta Speed and Prompt Emission Region of the Distant GRB 220101A

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Lorenzo Scotton, Frédéric Piron, Nicola Omodei, Niccolò Di Lalla, and Elisabetta Bissaldi

Subjects
Gamma-ray bursts, High energy astrophysics, Astrophysics, QB460-466
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At redshift z = 4.618, GRB 220101A is the most distant gamma-ray burst (GRB) detected by Fermi/LAT to date. It is also a very energetic event, with an equivalent isotropic energy of 3.6 × 10 ^54 erg. We jointly analyzed the Fermi/GBM and LAT observations of GRB 220101A with two independent approaches and found a significant spectral break at sub-100 MeV energies during the prompt emission. The fast variability of the emission suggests that this spectral attenuation is caused by internal opacity to pair creation. Regardless of the nature of the emission processes assumed in the spectral analysis, we infer a moderate value for the jet Lorentz factor, Γ ∼ 110, and find that all of the high-energy emission was produced above and near the photosphere, at a distance of ∼10 ^14 cm from the central engine. We compare these results with the four other LAT-detected GRBs with similar properties.

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2023
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6. Characterization and development of NUV SiPMs for INFN optical modules for the SCT Medium Size Telescope proposed for the CTA Observatory.

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Giovanni Ambrosi, M. Ambrosio, Carla Aramo, B. Bertucci, Elisabetta Bissaldi, M. Bitossri, A. Boiano, Carmela Bonavolontà, M. Caprai, Leonardo Di Venere, E. Fiandrini, N. Giglietto, Francesco Giordano, Maria Ionica, Francesco Licciulli, Serena Loporchio, V. Masone, M. Mongelli, Francesca R. Pantaleo, R. Paoletti, A. Rugliancich, L. Stiaccini, L. Tosti, Valerio Vagelli, and M. Valentino

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2019
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7. In Search of Short Gamma-ray Burst Optical Counterparts with the Zwicky Transient Facility

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Tomas Ahumada, Shreya Anand, Michael W Coughlin, Igor Andreoni, Erik C Kool, Harsh Kumar, Simeon Reusch, Ana Sagues-Carracedo, Robert Stein, S Bradley Cenko, Mansi M Kasliwal, Leo P Singer, Rachel Dunwoody, Joseph Mangan, Varun Bhalerao, Mattia Bulla, Eric Burns, Matthew J Graham, David L Kaplan, Daniel A Perley, Mouza Almualla, Joshua S Bloom, Virginia A Cunningham, Kishalay De, Pradip Gatkine, Anna Y Q Ho, Viraj Karambelkar, Albert K H Kong, Yuhan Yao, G C Anupama, Sudhanshu Barwey, Shaon Ghosh, Ryosuke Itoh, Sheila McBreen, Eric C Bellm, Christoffer Fremling, Russ R Laher, Ashish A Mahabal, Reed L Riddle, Philippe Rosnet, Benjamin Rusholme, Roger Smith, Jesper Sollerman, Elisabetta Bissaldi, Corinne Fletcher, Rachel Hamburg, Bagrat Mailyan, Christian Malacaria, and Oliver Roberts

Subjects
Astronomy
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The Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM) triggers on-board in response to∼40 short gamma-ray bursts (SGRBs) per year; however, their large localization regions have made the search for optical counterparts a challenging endeavour. We have developed and executed an extensive program with the wide field of view of the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) camera, mounted on the Palomar 48 inch Oschin telescope (P48), to perform target-of-opportunity (ToO) observations on 10Fermi-GBM SGRBsduring 2018 and 2020-2021. Bridging the large sky areas with small field of view optical telescopesin order to track the evolution of potential candidates, we look for the elusive SGRB afterglows andkilonovae (KNe) associated with these high-energy events. No counterpart has yet been found, eventhough more than 10 ground based telescopes, part of the Global Relay of Observatories WatchingTransients Happen (GROWTH) network, have taken part in these efforts. The candidate selectionprocedure and the follow-up strategy have shown that ZTF is an efficient instrument for searchingfor poorly localized SGRBs, retrieving a reasonable number of candidates to follow-up and showingpromising capabilities as the community approaches the multi-messenger era. Based on the medianlimiting magnitude of ZTF, our searches would have been able to retrieve a GW170817-like event upto∼200 Mpc and SGRB afterglows to z = 0.16 or 0.4, depending on the assumed underlying energymodel. Future ToOs will expand the horizon to z = 0.2 and 0.7 respectively.

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2022
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8. Development of a 16-channel matrix of photodetection sensors for medical imaging and astrophysical applications.

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Giovanni Ambrosi, M. Ambrosio, Carla Aramo, Elisabetta Bissaldi, A. Boiano, Carmela Bonavolontà, C. de Lisio, Leonardo Di Venere, E. Fiandrini, N. Giglietto, Francesco Giordano, Maria Ionica, Francesco Licciulli, Serena Loporchio, V. Masone, M. Mongelli, R. Paoletti, V. Postolache, A. Rugliancich, Valerio Vagelli, and M. Valentino

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2017
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9. Photodetectors for Gamma-Ray Astronomy

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Elisabetta Bissaldi, Carlo Fiorini, and Alexey Uliyanov

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Silicon drift detectors, Avalanche photodiodes, Readout electronics, Scintillators, Photomultiplier tubes, Photodiodes, Avalanche photodiodes, Silicon photomultipliers, Silicon drift detectors, Scintillators, Readout electronics, Silicon photomultipliers, Photomultiplier tubes, Photodiodes
Published
2023

10. Design and performance of the prototype Schwarzschild-Couder telescope camera

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Colin B. Adams, Giovanni Ambrosi, Michelangelo Ambrosio, Carla Aramo, Timothy Arlen, Wystan Benbow, Bruna Bertucci, Elisabetta Bissaldi, Jonathan Biteau, Massimiliano Bitossi, Alfonso Boiano, Carmela Bonavolontà, Richard Bose, Aurelien Bouvier, Mario Buscemi, Aryeh Brill, Anthony M. Brown, James H. Buckley, Rodolfo Canestrari, Massimo Capasso, Mirco Caprai, Paolo Coppi, Corbin E. Covault, Davide Depaoli, Leonardo Di Venere, Manel Errando, Stephan Fegan, Qi Feng, Emanuele Fiandrini, Amy Furniss, Markus Garczarczyk, Alasdair Gent, Nicola Giglietto, Francesco Giordano, Enrico Giro, Robert Halliday, Olivier Hervet, Gareth Hughes, Simone Incardona, Thomas B. Humensky, Maria Ionica, Weidong Jin, Caitlin A. Johnson, David Kieda, Frank Krennrich, Andrey Kuznetsov, Jon Lapington, Francesco Licciulli, Serena Loporchio, Giovanni Marsella, Vincenzo Masone, Kevin Meagher, Thomas Meures, Brent A. W. Mode, Samuel A. I. Mognet, Reshmi Mukherjee, Akira Okumura, Francesca R. Pantaleo, Riccardo Paoletti, Federico Di Pierro, Deivid Ribeiro, Luca Riitano, Emmet Roache, Duncan Ross, Julien Rousselle, Andrea Rugliancich, Marcos Santander, Michael Schneider, Harm Schoorlemmer, Ruo-Yu Shang, Brandon Stevenson, Leonardo Stiaccini, Hiroyasu Tajima, Leslie P. Taylor, Julian Thornhill, Luca Tosti, Giovanni Tripodo, Valerio Vagelli, Massimo Valentino, Justin Vandenbroucke, Vladimir V. Vassiliev, Scott P. Wakely, Jason J. Watson, Richard White, Patrick Wilcox, David A. Williams, Matthew Wood, Peter Yu, Adrian Zink, Adams C.B., Ambrosi G., Ambrosio M., Aramo C., Arlen T., Benbow W., Bertucci B., Bissaldi E., Biteau J., Bitossi M., Boiano A., Bonavolonta C., Bose R., Bouvier A., Buscemi M., Brill A., Brown A.M., Buckley J.H., Canestrari R., Capasso M., Caprai M., Coppi P., Covault C.E., Depaoli D., Di Venere L., Errando M., Fegan S., Feng Q., Fiandrini E., Furniss A., Garczarczyk M., Gent A., Giglietto N., Giordano F., Giro E., Halliday R., Hervet O., Hughes G., Incardona S., Humensky T.B., Ionica M., Jin W., Johnson C.A., Kieda D., Krennrich F., Kuznetsov A., Lapington J., Licciulli F., Loporchio S., Marsella G., Masone V., Meagher K., Meures T., Mode B.A.W., Mognet S.A.I., Mukherjee R., Okumura A., Pantaleo F.R., Paoletti R., Di Pierro F., Ribeiro D., Riitano L., Roache E., Ross D., Rousselle J., Rugliancich A., Santander M., Schneider M., Schoorlemmer H., Shang R.-Y., Stevenson B., Stiaccini L., Tajima H., Taylor L.P., Thornhill J., Tosti L., Tripodo G., Vagelli V., Valentino M., Vandenbroucke J., Vassiliev V.V., Wakely S.P., Watson J.J., White R., Wilcox P., Williams D.A., Wood M., Yu P., and Zink A.

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imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes, instrumentation, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, very-high-energy gamma-ray astronomy, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Mechanical Engineering, Settore FIS/01 - Fisica Sperimentale, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det), Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, Cherenkov telescope array, Space and Planetary Science, Control and Systems Engineering, ddc:530, prototype Schwarzschild-Couder telescope, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), silicon photomultipliers
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Journal of astronomical telescopes, instruments, and systems 8(01), 014007-1 (2022). doi:10.1117/1.JATIS.8.1.014007, The prototype Schwarzschild-Couder Telescope (pSCT) is a candidate for a medium-sized telescope in the Cherenkov Telescope Array. The pSCT is based on a novel dual mirror optics design which reduces the plate scale and allows for the use of silicon photomultipliers as photodetectors. The prototype pSCT camera currently has only the central sector instrumented with 25 camera modules (1600 pixels), providing a 2.68$^{\circ}$ field of view (FoV). The camera electronics are based on custom TARGET (TeV array readout with GSa/s sampling and event trigger) application specific integrated circuits. Field programmable gate arrays sample incoming signals at a gigasample per second. A single backplane provides camera-wide triggers. An upgrade of the pSCT camera is in progress, which will fully populate the focal plane. This will increase the number of pixels to 11,328, the number of backplanes to 9, and the FoV to 8.04$^{\circ}$. Here we give a detailed description of the pSCT camera, including the basic concept, mechanical design, detectors, electronics, current status and first light., Published by SPIE, [Bellingham, Wash.]

Published
2022

11. Cosmological Fast Optical Transients with the Zwicky Transient Facility: A Search for Dirty Fireballs

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Anna Y. Q. Ho, Daniel A. Perley, Yuhan Yao, Dmitry Svinkin, A. de Ugarte Postigo, R. A. Perley, D. Alexander Kann, Eric Burns, Igor Andreoni, Eric C. Bellm, Elisabetta Bissaldi, Joshua S. Bloom, Thomas G. Brink, Richard Dekany, Andrew J. Drake, José Feliciano Agüí Fernández, Alexei V. Filippenko, Dmitry Frederiks, Matthew J. Graham, Boyan A. Hristov, Mansi M. Kasliwal, S. R. Kulkarni, Harsh Kumar, Russ R. Laher, Alexandra L. Lysenko, Bagrat Mailyan, Christian Malacaria, A. A. Miller, S. Poolakkil, Reed Riddle, Anna Ridnaia, Ben Rusholme, Volodymyr Savchenko, Jesper Sollerman, Christina Thöne, Anastasia Tsvetkova, Mikhail Ulanov, Andreas von Kienlin, Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (España), and European Commission

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High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Space and Planetary Science, FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
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Full list of authors: Ho, Anna Y. Q.; Perley, Daniel A.; Yao, Yuhan; Svinkin, Dmitry; Postigo, A. de Ugarte; Perley, R. A.; Kann, D. Alexander; Burns, Eric; Andreoni, Igor; Bellm, Eric C.; Bissaldi, Elisabetta; Bloom, Joshua S.; Brink, Thomas G.; Dekany, Richard; Drake, Andrew J.; Fernandez, Jose Feliciano Agui; Filippenko, Alexei, V; Frederiks, Dmitry; Graham, Matthew J.; Hristov, Boyan A.; Kasliwal, Mansi M.; Kulkarni, S. R.; Kumar, Harsh; Laher, Russ R.; Lysenko, Alexandra L.; Mailyan, Bagrat; Malacaria, Christian; Miller, A. A.; Poolakkil, S.; Riddle, Reed; Ridnaia, Anna; Rusholme, Ben; Savchenko, Volodymyr; Sollerman, Jesper; Thoene, Christina; Tsvetkova, Anastasia; Ulanov, Mikhail; von Kienlin, Andreas.--This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited., Dirty fireballs are a hypothesized class of relativistic massive-star explosions with an initial Lorentz factor Γinit below the Γinit ∼ 100 required to produce a long-duration gamma-ray burst (LGRB), but which could still produce optical emission resembling LGRB afterglows. Here we present the results of a search for on-axis optical afterglows using the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF). Our search yielded seven optical transients that resemble on-axis LGRB afterglows in terms of their red colors (g − r > 0 mag), faint host galaxies (r > 23 mag), rapid fading (dr/dt > 1 mag day−1), and in some cases X-ray and radio emission. Spectroscopy of the transient emission within a few days of discovery established cosmological distances (redshift z = 0.876 to 2.9) for six of the seven events, tripling the number of afterglows with redshift measurements discovered by optical surveys without a γ-ray trigger. A likely associated LGRB (GRB 200524A, GRB 210204A, GRB 210212B, and GRB 210610B) was identified for four events (ZTF 20abbiixp/AT 2020kym, ZTF 21aagwbjr/AT 2021buv, ZTF 21aakruew/AT 2021cwd, and ZTF 21abfmpwn/AT 2021qbd) post facto, while three (ZTF 20aajnksq/AT 2020blt, ZTF 21aaeyldq/AT 2021any, and ZTF 21aayokph/AT 2021lfa) had no detected LGRB counterpart. The simplest explanation for the three "orphan" events is that they were regular LGRBs missed by high-energy satellites owing to detector sensitivity and duty cycle, although it is possible that they were intrinsically subluminous in γ-rays or viewed slightly off-axis. We rule out a scenario in which dirty fireballs have a similar energy per solid angle to LGRBs and are an order of magnitude more common. In addition, we set the first direct constraint on the ratio of the opening angles of the material producing γ-rays and the material producing early optical afterglow emission, finding that they must be comparable. © 2022. The Author(s). Published by the American Astronomical Society., D.A.P.'s contribution was performed in part at the Aspen Center for Physics, which is supported by National Science Foundation (NSF) grant PHY-1607611. This work was partially supported by a grant from the Simons Foundation. D.F., A.T., and M.U. acknowledge support from RSF grant 21-12-00250. D.A.K. and J.F.A.F acknowledges support from Spanish National Research Project RTI2018-098104-J-I00 (GRBPhot). H.K. thanks the LSSTC Data Science Fellowship Program, which is funded by LSSTC, NSF Cybertraining Grant #1829740, Brinson and Moore Foundations. J.F.A.F. acknowledges support from the Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades through the grant PRE2018-086507. A.V.F.'s group at U.C. Berkeley is grateful for assistance from the Christopher R. Redlich Fund and many individual donors., With funding from the Spanish government through the Severo Ochoa Centre of Excellence accreditation SEV-2017-0709.

Published
2022

12. All-sky Medium Energy Gamma-ray Observatory eXplorer mission concept

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Regina Caputo, Marco Ajello, Carolyn A. Kierans, Jeremy S. Perkins, Judith L. Racusin, Luca Baldini, Matthew G. Baring, Elisabetta Bissaldi, Eric Burns, Nicholas Cannady, Eric Charles, Rui M. Curado da Silva, Ke Fang, Henrike Fleischhack, Chris Fryer, Yasushi Fukazawa, J. Eric Grove, Dieter Hartmann, Eric J. Howell, Manoj Jadhav, Christopher M. Karwin, Daniel Kocevski, Naoko Kurahashi, Luca Latronico, Tiffany R. Lewis, Richard Leys, Amy Lien, Lea Marcotulli, Israel Martinez-Castellanos, Mario Nicola Mazziotta, Julie McEnery, Jessica Metcalfe, Kohta Murase, Michela Negro, Lucas Parker, Bernard Phlips, Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, Soebur Razzaque, Peter S. Shawhan, Yong Sheng, Tom A. Shutt, Daniel Shy, Clio Sleator, Amanda L. Steinhebel, Nicolas Striebig, Yusuke Suda, Donggeun Tak, Hiro Tajima, Janeth Valverde, Tonia M. Venters, Zorawar Wadiasingh, Richard S. Woolf, Eric A. Wulf, Haocheng Zhang, and Andreas Zoglauer

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multimessenger, gamma ray telescope, high-energy astrophysics, gamma ray mission, Space and Planetary Science, Control and Systems Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, gamma ray telescope, multimessenger, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation, gamma ray mission, high-energy astrophysics, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
Published
2022

13. Searching for very-high-energy electromagnetic counterparts to gravitational-wave events with the Cherenkov Telescope Array

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Jarred Gershon Green, Brian Humensky, Susumu Inoue, Fabian Schüssler, Julien Lefaucheur, G. Cella, Lara Nava, G. Stratta, Giancarlo Ghirlanda, M. Razzano, Andrea Adelfio, Francesco Longo, Tristano Di Girolamo, Ambra Di Piano, Andrea Bulgarelli, Stefano Covino, Antonio Circiello, Elisabetta Bissaldi, Alessandro Carosi, Alessio Berti, S. D. Vergani, Antonio Stamerra, Ivan Agudo, Barbara Patricelli, Halim Ashkar, Olga Sergijenko, Miroslav Filipovic, Thomas Gasparetto, Monica Seglar-Arroyo, D. Ribeiro, API (FNWI), High Energy Astrophys. & Astropart. Phys (API, FNWI), GRAPPA (ITFA, IoP, FNWI), Laboratoire d'Annecy de Physique des Particules (LAPP), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB [Université de Savoie] [Université de Chambéry])-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, Laboratoire Univers et Théories (LUTH (UMR_8102)), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Galaxies, Etoiles, Physique, Instrumentation (GEPI), Laboratoire d'Etude du Rayonnement et de la Matière en Astrophysique et Atmosphères = Laboratory for Studies of Radiation and Matter in Astrophysics and Atmospheres (LERMA), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-CY Cergy Paris Université (CY), CTA Consortium, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL), Laboratoire d'Etude du Rayonnement et de la Matière en Astrophysique (LERMA (UMR_8112)), and Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-CY Cergy Paris Université (CY)

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High energy, neutron star: binary, Photon, Cherenkov Telescope Array, media_common.quotation_subject, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, FOS: Physical sciences, astro-ph.HE, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, gamma ray: burst, GeV, VHE, X-ray, Germanium compounds, HESS, MAGIC (telescope), LIGO, Cosmic rays, media_common, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Physics, Gravitational wave, Gamma rays, photon, Gravitational effects, gravitational radiation, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astronomy, sensitivity, Stars, MAGIC, Cosmology, Neutron star, electromagnetic, VIRGO, 13. Climate action, Sky, Telescopes, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Event (particle physics)
Abstract

The detection of electromagnetic (EM) emission following the gravitational wave (GW) event GW170817 opened the era of multi-messenger astronomy with GWs and provided the first direct evidence that at least a fraction of binary neutron star (BNS) mergers are progenitors of short Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs). GRBs are also expected to emit very-high energy (VHE, > 100 GeV) photons, as proven by the recent MAGIC and H.E.S.S. observations. One of the challenges for future multi-messenger observations will be the detection of such VHE emission from GRBs in association with GWs. In the next years, the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) will be a key instrument for the EM follow-up of GW events in the VHE range, owing to its unprecedented sensitivity, rapid response, and capability to monitor a large sky area via scan-mode operation. We present the CTA GW follow-up program, with a focus on the searches for short GRBs possibly associated with BNS mergers. We investigate the possible observational strategies and we outline the prospects for the detection of VHE EM counterparts to transient GW events., PoS: Proceedings of Science, 395, ISSN:1824-8039, Proceedings of 37th International Cosmic Ray Conference

Published
2022

14. First detection of VHE gamma-ray emission from TXS 1515-273, study of its X-ray variability and spectral energy distribution

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M. I. Martínez, V. Neustroev, Francesco Longo, Maria-Isabel Bernardos, Alessandro Marchini, Alicia Fattorini, Tomohiko Oka, Katsuaki Asano, U. Barres de Almeida, Damir Lelas, Adrian Biland, D. Hadasch, D. Miceli, Sanae Inoue, Giacomo D'Amico, Yating Chai, Stefan Cikota, Pawel Gliwny, I. Vovk, David A. Green, R. J. García López, Narek Sahakyan, Stefano Covino, Lea Heckmann, Francesco Gabriele Saturni, J. Becerra González, Armin Nabizadeh, F. D'Ammando, J. Rico, M. Vazquez Acosta, Nicola Giglietto, Alexander Hahn, Nikola Godinovic, Dorota Sobczyńska, G. Ferrara, G. Busetto, E. Molina, Satoshi Fukami, Shunsuke Sakurai, Jarred Gershon Green, Elisabetta Bissaldi, C. Perennes, D. Strom, Yusuke Suda, E. Colombo, Lab Saha, Alice Donini, Kazuma Ishio, Massimo Persic, L. A. Antonelli, Martin Makariev, Dominik Baack, P. G. Prada Moroni, J. Kushida, Ivica Puljak, Victor Moreno, Oscar Blanch, S. Ventura, C. Nigro, Carlo Vigorito, F. Leone, D. Dominis Prester, Alessandra Lamastra, J. A. Barrio, John Hoang, V. Verguilov, Tomoki Saito, J. M. Paredes, Antonio Stamerra, Giovanni Ceribella, Rodolfo Carosi, I. Jiménez, V. D'Elia, Pratik Majumdar, M. V. Fonseca, Daniel Morcuende, Jose Luis Contreras, Jenni Jormanainen, Vincenzo Vitale, T. Schweizer, A. Arbet Engels, S. Loporchio, A. Rugliancich, Marina Manganaro, A. De Angelis, M. Karjalainen, Sargis Gasparyan, Stefano Menchiari, Y. Kajiwara, Fabrizio Tavecchio, M. Palatiello, Manuela Mallamaci, Masahiro Teshima, S. Paiano, Luca Tosti, I. Snidaric, Mosè Mariotti, Martin Will, M. Orienti, S. Mićanović, Ashot Chilingarian, Wolfgang Rhode, Lluis Font, B. Machado de Oliveira Fraga, Tihomir Surić, Manuel Artero, Juan Cortina, Toshiaki Inada, Yuki Iwamura, Stefano Truzzi, D. Zarić, Saverio Lombardi, Francesco Dazzi, Simone Mender, E. Do Souto Espiñeira, Tomislav Terzić, Dario Hrupec, Pablo Peñil, Konstancja Satalecka, L. Maraschi, Giacomo Bonnoli, Sidika Merve Colak, Elina Lindfors, Marcos López-Moya, G. Maneva, Karl Mannheim, Wlodek Bednarek, L. Di Venere, Mitsunari Takahashi, Michele Doro, J. van Scherpenberg, Stefano Ansoldi, Daniel Mazin, Riccardo Paoletti, Christian Fruck, Ivana Batković, E. Prandini, Wrijupan Bhattacharyya, Julian Sitarek, Santiago Ubach, Y. Kobayashi, F. Di Pierro, Jürgen Besenrieder, Lorenzo Bellizzi, Francesco Giordano, Antonio Tutone, J. Otero-Santos, K. Nishijima, Jose Miguel Miranda, Kai Phillip Schmidt, A. Berti, Yoshiki Ohtani, Tjark Miener, David Paneque, D. Elsaesser, Jordi Delgado, Ž. Bošnjak, Matteo Cerruti, Chiara Righi, V. Fallah Ramazani, V. A. Acciari, P. Temnikov, P. Da Vela, Manuel Delfino, Lovro Pavletić, Moritz Hütten, Chaitanya Priyadarshi, Carolin Wunderlich, Ana Babić, C. Delgado Mendez, M. Strzys, Kari Nilsson, Camilla Maggio, Daniela Dorner, Gaia Vanzo, M. Gaug, J. Herrera, Koji Noda, Elisa Bernardini, Alessia Spolon, Léa Jouvin, A. López-Oramas, S. Cutini, Daniel Kerszberg, Marc Ribó, B. De Lotto, S. Nozaki, Andrés Baquero, Hidetoshi Kubo, Abelardo Moralejo, E. Moretti, D. Depaoli, Bernd Schleicher, M. Minev, R. Mirzoyan, Ciro Bigongiari, M. Garczarczyk, R. López-Coto, German Research Foundation, Swiss National Science Foundation, Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades (España), Department of Atomic Energy (India), Institute for Cosmic Ray Research (Japan), University of Tokyo, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (Japan), Ministry of Education and Research (Romania), Academy of Finland, La Caixa, Croatian Science Foundation, University of Rijeka, Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange, European Commission, Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (España), Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica, Acciari, Va, Ansoldi, S, Antonelli, La, Engels, Aa, Artero, M, Asano, K, Baack, D, Babic, A, Baquero, A, de Almeida, Ub, Barrio, Ja, Batkovic, I, Gonzalez, Jb, Bednarek, W, Bellizzi, L, Bernardini, E, Bernardos, M, Berti, A, Besenrieder, J, Bhattacharyya, W, Bigongiari, C, Biland, A, Blanch, O, Bosnjak, Z, Busetto, G, Carosi, R, Ceribell, G, Cerruti, M, Chai, Y, Chilingarian, A, Cikota, S, Colak, Sm, Colombo, E, Contreras, Jl, Cortina, J, Covino, S, D'Amico, G, D'Elia, V, Da Vela, P, Dazzi, F, De Angelis, A, De Lotto, B, Delfino, M, Delgado, J, Mendez, Cd, Depaoli, D, Di Pierro, F, Di Venere, L, Espineira, Ed, Prester, Dd, Donini, A, Dorner, D, Doro, M, Elsaesser, D, Ramazani, Vf, Fattorini, A, Ferrara, G, Fonseca, Mv, Font, L, Fruck, C, Fukami, S, Lopez, Rjg, Garczarczyk, M, Gasparyan, S, Gaug, M, Giglietto, N, Giordano, F, Gliwny, P, Godinovic, N, Green, Jg, Green, D, Hadasch, D, Hahn, A, Heckmann, L, Herrera, J, Hoang, J, Hrupec, D, Hutten, M, Inada, T, Inoue, S, Ishio, K, Iwamura, Y, Jimenez, I, Jormanainen, J, Jouvin, L, Kajiwara, Y, Karjalainen, M, Kerszberg, D, Kobayashi, Y, Kubo, H, Kushida, J, Lamastra, A, Lelas, D, Leone, F, Lindfors, E, Lombardi, S, Longo, F, Lopez-Coto, R, Lopez-Moya, M, Lopez-Oramas, A, Loporchio, S, Fraga, Bmd, Maggio, C, Majumdar, P, Makariev, M, Mallamaci, M, Maneva, G, Manganaro, M, Mannheim, K, Maraschi, L, Mariotti, M, Martinez, M, Mazin, D, Menchiari, S, Mender, S, Micanovic, S, Miceli, D, Miener, T, Minev, M, Miranda, Jm, Mirzoyan, R, Molina, E, Moralejo, A, Morcuende, D, Moreno, V, Moretti, E, Neustroev, V, Nigro, C, Nilsson, K, Nishijima, K, Noda, K, Nozaki, S, Ohtani, Y, Oka, T, Otero-Santos, J, Paiano, S, Palatiello, M, Paneque, D, Paoletti, R, Paredes, Jm, Pavletic, L, Penil, P, Perennes, C, Moroni, Pgp, Prandini, E, Priyadarshi, C, Puljak, I, Rhode, W, Ribo, M, Rico, J, Righi, C, Rugliancich, A, Saha, L, Sahakyan, N, Saito, T, Sakurai, S, Satalecka, K, Saturni, Fg, Schleicher, B, Schmidt, K, Schweizer, T, Sitarek, J, Snidaric, I, Sobczynska, D, Spolon, A, Stamerra, A, Strom, D, Strzys, M, Suda, Y, Suric, T, Takahashi, M, Tavecchio, F, Temnikov, P, Terzic, T, Teshima, M, Tosti, L, Truzzi, S, Tutone, A, Ubach, S, Vanscherpenberg, J, Vanzo, G, Acosta, Mv, Ventura, S, Verguilov, V, Vigorito, Cf, Vitale, V, Vovk, I, Will, M, Wunderlich, C, Zaric, D, Bissaldi, E, Bonnoli, G, Cutini, S, D'Ammando, F, Nabizadeh, A, Marchini, A, and Orienti, M

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Photon, 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, active [Galaxies], Radiation mechanisms: non-thermal, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, galaxies: active, Objects: individual: TXS 1515–273, FOS: Physical sciences, Flux, Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, 7. Clean energy, law.invention, law, objects: individual: TXS 1515-273, 0103 physical sciences, individual: TXS 1515-273 [Objects], MAGIC (telescope), Blazar, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Physics, non-thermal [Radiation mechanisms], individual: TXS 1515–273 [objects], Gamma ray, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Synchrotron, Crab Nebula, Space and Planetary Science, ddc:520, Spectral energy distribution, Física nuclear, objects: individual: TXS 1515–273, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract

Full list of authors: Acciari, V. A.; Ansoldi, S.; Antonelli, L. A.; Arbet Engels, A. ; Artero, M.; Asano, K.; Baack, D.; Babić, A.; Baquero, A.; Barres de Almeida, U.; Barrio, J. A.; Batković, I.; Becerra González, J.; Bednarek, W.; Bellizzi, L.; Bernardini, E.; Bernardos, M.; Berti, A.; Besenrieder, J.; Bhattacharyya, W.; Bigongiari, C.; Biland, A.; Blanch, O.; Bošnjak, Ž.; Busetto, G.; Carosi, R.; Ceribella, G.; Cerruti, M.; Chai, Y.; Chilingarian, A.; Cikota, S.; Colak, S. M.; Colombo, E.; Contreras, J. L.; Cortina, J.; Covino, S.; D'Amico, G.; D'Elia, V.; da Vela, P.; Dazzi, F.; de Angelis, A.; de Lotto, B.; Delfino, M.; Delgado, J.; Delgado Mendez, C.; Depaoli, D.; Pierro, F. Di; Venere, L. Di; Do Souto Espiñeira, E.; Dominis Prester, D.; Donini, A.; Dorner, D.; Doro, M.; Elsaesser, D.; Fallah Ramazani, V.; Fattorini, A.; Ferrara, G.; Fonseca, M. V.; Font, L.; Fruck, C.; Fukami, S.; García López, R. J.; Garczarczyk, M.; Gasparyan, S.; Gaug, M.; Giglietto, N.; Giordano, F.; Gliwny, P.; Godinović, N.; Green, J. G.; Green, D.; Hadasch, D.; Hahn, A.; Heckmann, L.; Herrera, J.; Hoang, J.; Hrupec, D.; Hütten, M.; Inada, T.; Inoue, S.; Ishio, K.; Iwamura, Y.; Jiménez, I.; Jormanainen, J.; Jouvin, L.; Kajiwara, Y.; Karjalainen, M.; Kerszberg, D.; Kobayashi, Y.; Kubo, H.; Kushida, J.; Lamastra, A.; Lelas, D.; Leone, F.; Lindfors, E.; Lombardi, S.; Longo, F.; López-Coto, R.; López-Moya, M.; López-Oramas, A.; Loporchio, S.; Machado de Oliveira Fraga, B.; Maggio, C.; Majumdar, P.; Makariev, M.; Mallamaci, M.; Maneva, G.; Manganaro, M.; Mannheim, K.; Maraschi, L.; Mariotti, M.; Martínez, M.; Mazin, D.; Menchiari, S.; Mender, S.; Mićanović, S.; Miceli, D.; Miener, T.; Minev, M.; Miranda, J. M.; Mirzoyan, R.; Molina, E.; Moralejo, A.; Morcuende, D.; Moreno, V.; Moretti, E.; Neustroev, V.; Nigro, C.; Nilsson, K.; Nishijima, K.; Noda, K.; Nozaki, S.; Ohtani, Y.; Oka, T.; Otero-Santos, J.; Paiano, S.; Palatiello, M.; Paneque, D.; Paoletti, R.; Paredes, J. M.; Pavletić, L.; Peñil, P.; Perennes, C.; Persic, M.; Prada Moroni, P. G.; Prandini, E.; Priyadarshi, C.; Puljak, I.; Rhode, W.; Ribó, M.; Rico, J.; Righi, C.; Rugliancich, A.; Saha, L.; Sahakyan, N.; Saito, T.; Sakurai, S.; Satalecka, K.; Saturni, F. G.; Schleicher, B.; Schmidt, K.; Schweizer, T.; Sitarek, J.; Šnidarić, I.; Sobczynska, D.; Spolon, A.; Stamerra, A.; Strom, D.; Strzys, M.; Suda, Y.; Surić, T.; Takahashi, M.; Tavecchio, F.; Temnikov, P.; Terzić, T.; Teshima, M.; Tosti, L.; Truzzi, S.; Tutone, A.; Ubach, S.; van Scherpenberg, J.; Vanzo, G.; Vazquez Acosta, M.; Ventura, S.; Verguilov, V.; Vigorito, C. F.; Vitale, V.; Vovk, I.; Will, M.; Wunderlich, C.; Zarić, D.; Bissaldi, E.; Bonnoli, G.; Cutini, S.; D'Ammando, F.; Nabizadeh, A.; Marchini, A.; Orienti, M.; MAGIC Collaboration., We report here on the first multiwavelength (MWL) campaign on the blazar TXS 1515-273, undertaken in 2019 and extending from radio to very-high-energy gamma-rays (VHE). Up until now, this blazar had not been the subject of any detailed MWL observations. It has a rather hard photon index at GeV energies and was considered a candidate extreme high-synchrotron-peaked source. MAGIC observations resulted in the first-time detection of the source in VHE with a statistical significance of 7.6σ. The average integral VHE flux of the source is 6 ± 1 per cent of the Crab nebula flux above 400 GeV. X-ray coverage was provided by Swift-XRT, XMM-Newton, and NuSTAR. The long continuous X-ray observations were separated by ∼9 h, both showing clear hour scale flares. In the XMM-Newton data, both the rise and decay time-scales are longer in the soft X-ray than in the hard X-ray band, indicating the presence of a particle cooling regime. The X-ray variability time-scales were used to constrain the size of the emission region and the strength of the magnetic field. The data allowed us to determine the synchrotron peak frequency and classify the source as a flaring high, but not extreme synchrotron-peaked object. Considering the constraints and variability patterns from the X-ray data, we model the broad-band spectral energy distribution. We applied a simple one-zone model, which could not reproduce the radio emission and the shape of the optical emission, and a two-component leptonic model with two interacting components, enabling us to reproduce the emission from radio to VHE band. © 2021 The Author(s) Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Royal Astronomical Society., The financial support of the German BMBF, MPG, and HGF; the Italian INFN and INAF; the Swiss National Fund SNF; the ERDF under the Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovacion (MICINN) (FPA201787859-P, FPA2017-85668-P, FPA2017-82729-C6-5-R, FPA201790566-REDC, PID2019-104114RB-C31, PID2019-104114RB-C32, PID2019-105510GB-C31, PID2019-107847RB-C41, PID2019107847RB-C42, PID2019-107847RB-C44, PID2019-107988GBC22); the Indian Department of Atomic Energy; the Japanese ICRR, the University of Tokyo, JSPS, and MEXT; the Bulgarian Ministry of Education and Science, National RI Roadmap Project DO1268/16.12.2019 and the Academy of Finland grant nr. 317637 and 320045 are gratefully acknowledged. This work was also supported by the Spanish Centro de Excelencia `Severo Ochoa' SEV-20160588, SEV-2017-0709 and CEX2019-000920-S, and `Maria de Maeztu' CEX2019-000918-M, the Unidad de Excelencia `Maria de Maeztu' MDM-2015-0509-18-2 and the `la Caixa' Foundation (fellowshipLCF/BQ/PI18/11630012), by the Croatian Science Foundation (HrZZ) Project IP-2016-06-9782 and the University of Rijeka Project 13.12.1.3.02, by the DFG Collaborative Research Centers SFB823/C4 and SFB876/C3, the Polish National Research Centre grant UMO-2016/22/M/ST9/00382 and by the Brazilian MCTIC, CNPq, and FAPERJ. The Fermi-LAT Collaboration acknowledges generous ongoing support from a number of agencies and institutes that have supported both the development and the operation of the LAT as well as scientific data analysis. These include the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the Department of Energy in the United States, theCommissariat à l'Energie Atomique and the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique/Institut National de Physique Nucleaire et de Physique des Particules in France, the Agenzia Spaziale Italiana and the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare in Italy, the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT), High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK) and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) in Japan, and the K. A. Wallenberg Foundation, the Swedish Research Council and the Swedish National Space Board in Sweden. Additional support for science analysis during the operations phase from the following agencies is also gratefully acknowledged: the Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica in Italy and the Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales in France.

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2021

15. Detection of the Crab Nebula by the prototype Schwarzschild-Couder Telescope

Author

G. Pareschi, Manel Errando, Corbin Covault, F. Di Pierro, S. I. Mognet, V. Masone, N. Giglietto, D. B. Kieda, L. Di Venere, E. Roache, M. Ambrosio, Julien Rousselle, Justin Vandenbroucke, D. Ribeiro, N. Otte, Maria Ionica, Alasdair E. Gent, F. R. Pantaleo, Enrico Giro, A. Boiano, K. Meagher, Serena Loporchio, E. Fiandrini, H. Tajima, Valerio Vagelli, Atsushi Okumura, Marcos Santander, B. A. W. Mode, Luca Tosti, S. Incardona, L. P. Taylor, E. Pueschel, G. Ambrosi, David A. Williams, M. Capasso, V. V. Vassiliev, M. Bitossi, P. I. Batista, Bruna Bertucci, J. H. Buckley, A. Brill, A. M. Brown, G. Tripodo, W. Jin, G. Marsella, Wystan Benbow, C. Bonavolontà, S. J. Fegan, Richard Bose, R. Shang, D. Depaoli, R. Paoletti, Jamie Holder, Rodolfo Canestrari, F. Licciulli, Andrea Rugliancich, Thomas Meures, M. Valentino, Amy Furniss, Olivier Hervet, C. B. Adams, Carla Aramo, R. A. Cameron, Q. Feng, T. B. Humensky, Elisabetta Bissaldi, L. Stiaccini, A. Zink, Reshmi Mukherjee, G. H. Tovmassian, L. Riitano, Ferdinando Giordano, R. Halliday, and M. Caprai

Subjects
astro-ph.HE, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Pixel, business.industry, Computer science, FOS: Physical sciences, Field of view, Cherenkov Telescope Array, law.invention, Telescope, Crab Nebula, Silicon photomultiplier, Optics, law, Observatory, Angular resolution, business, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, astro-ph.IM, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
Abstract

The Schwarzschild-Couder Telescope (SCT) is a medium-sized telescope technology proposed for the Cherenkov Telescope Array. It uses a novel dual-mirror optical design that removes comatic aberrations across its entire field of view. The SCT camera employs high-resolution silicon photomultiplier (SiPM) sensors with a pixel size of 4 arcminutes. A prototype SCT (pSCT) has been constructed at the Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory in Arizona, USA. An observing campaign in 2020, with a partial camera of 1600 pixels (2.7 degrees by 2.7 degrees field of view) resulted in detection of the Crab Nebula at 8.6 sigma statistical significance. Work on the pSCT camera and optical system is ongoing to improve performance and prepare for an upcoming camera upgrade. The pSCT camera upgrade will replace the current camera modules with improved SiPMs and readout electronics and will expand the camera to its full design field of view of 8 degrees in diameter (11,328 pixels). The fully upgraded pSCT will enable next-generation very-high-energy gamma-ray astrophysics through excellent background rejection and angular resolution. In this presentation we describe first results from the successful operation of the pSCT and future plans., 9 pages, 3 figures, 2 tables, contribution to ICRC 2021, similar to 10.1016/j.astropartphys.2021.102562 (arXiv:2012.08448)

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2021

16. Development of a portable SiPM scintillator tracker for cosmic rays

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M. Rizzi, S. De Gaetano, C. Pastore, Roberta Pillera, F. Maiorano, N. Lacalamita, S. Loporchio, M. Franco, D. Serini, L. Di Venere, F. Gargano, Corrado Altomare, F. Licciulli, Elisabetta Bissaldi, M. Mongelli, G. De Robertis, P. Dipinto, R. Triggiani, F. Loparco, M. G. Papagni, S. Martiradonna, Mn Mazziotta, and Ferdinando Giordano

Subjects
Physics, Silicon photomultiplier, Optics, business.industry, Cosmic ray, Scintillator, business
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2021

17. Discovering cosmic rays with OCRA: outreach activities for students and teachers

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Nicola Tomassetti, Giuseppe Vacca, D. Rozza, Valerio Bocci, Gabriella Cataldi, Carmelo Evoli, Sabine Hemmer, Riccardo Paoletti, Riccardo Munini, M. Buscemi, Marco Schioppa, Silvia Miozzi, Alessia Giampaoli, Bianca Bottino, Federico Di Pierro, Elisabetta Bissaldi, Francesco Dimiccoli, Fabio Morsani, Alessandro Menegolli, E. Vannuccini, Carla Aramo, and Lorenzo Caccianiga

Subjects
Outreach, Medical education, Cosmic ray
Abstract

The Outreach Cosmic Ray Activities (OCRA) project offers a platform for all outreach activities focusing on cosmic rays within the Italian Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN). Created in 2018, OCRA now counts 21 of the institute’s divisions all over Italy as members. The project’s core activity is the participation of all its members in the International Cosmic Day, organized by DESY, and inviting high school students to carry out hands-on measurements of the cosmic ray flux and learn about the related physics background. Two students from each division are then selected to participate in the annual OCRA science camp, a three-day full immersion into the life of a physicist. The national activities are complemented by local initiatives of the OCRA member groups: workshops and tutorship programs, science competitions and the development of new detectors for outreach activities offer a multitude of possibilities for students to engage with our researchers and to explore the world of cosmic rays. Since spring of 2020 OCRA also offers a series of online laboratories on its website https://web.infn.it/OCRA/, designed not only to be used by students individually but also to be used in the classroom by teachers. Here we will give an overview on all activities offered by OCRA with a particular focus on the 2020 online event organized in occasion of the International Cosmic Day, that saw the participation of more than 3000 students.

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2021

18. Fermi Large Area Telescope Performance After 10 Years Of Operation

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Soebur Razzaque, R. Buehler, T. A. Porter, J. Li, Peter F. Michelson, Marcello Giroletti, L. Tibaldo, F. Piron, Denis Bastieri, N. Saggini, N. Di Lalla, G. Tosti, Dario Gasparrini, Francesco Longo, A. Fiori, Stefan Larsson, J. G. Thayer, Ioannis Liodakis, F. Fana Dirirsa, W. B. Atwood, Luca Baldini, J. S. Perkins, M. Ceccanti, Alessandro Brez, D. Serini, Sylvain Guiriec, Stefano Ciprini, Mn Mazziotta, S. Rainò, Tsunefumi Mizuno, G. Foglia, M. Razzano, Johann Cohen-Tanugi, J. Bregeon, Sina Chen, L. Di Venere, Michele Pinchera, T. J. Johnson, Seth Digel, Elliott D. Bloom, F. Loparco, M. N. Lovellette, M.-H. Grondin, F. Gargano, Hiroyasu Tajima, R. Primavera, Ronaldo Bellazzini, J. E. Grove, Yasushi Fukazawa, E. Orlando, M. Lemoine-Goumard, Marco Ajello, E. Rapposelli, Roopesh Ojha, Denise A. Smith, E. Hays, P. M. Saz Parkinson, E. J. Siskind, G. Principe, Manuel Meyer, P. Fusco, N. Menon, Diego F. Torres, Melissa Pesce-Rollins, J. Valverde, Matthew Kerr, Elisabetta Bissaldi, H. Poon, M. Orienti, S. Buson, Vaidehi S. Paliya, D. J. Thompson, D. Fabiani, Carmelo Sgrò, Riccardo Rando, Magnus Axelsson, A. Reimer, Massimo Minuti, S. Maldera, J. J. Russell, Warit Mitthumsiri, R. Bagagli, S. Griffin, F. D'Ammando, T. Kamae, G. Martí-Devesa, Z. Pei, E. Cavazzuti, E. Nuss, David Paneque, P. Spinelli, T. Glanzman, M. Bagni, F. de Palma, Alessandro Paccagnella, M. Kuss, Aaron Dominguez, M. Mongelli, Luca Latronico, Igor V. Moskalenko, Gloria Spandre, N. Scolieri, R. A. Cameron, G. Jóhannesson, Gabrijela Zaharijas, Alberto Manfreda, L. Vigiani, Bindu Rani, P. Bruel, Ismaël Cognard, Olaf Reimer, D. Horan, P. de la Torre Luque, L. Guillemot, M. E. Monzani, F. Bellardi, Elizabeth C. Ferrara, David A. Green, I. Mereu, P. Caraveo, S. Cutini, D. J. Suson, C. C. Cheung, R. Bonino, P. Lubrano, M. Gustafsson, J. L. Racusin, M. Negro, Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie (LPSC), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP ), Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA), Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet (LLR), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École polytechnique (X)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3), Laboratoire de Physique et Chimie de l'Environnement et de l'Espace (LPC2E), Observatoire des Sciences de l'Univers en région Centre (OSUC), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université d'Orléans (UO)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université d'Orléans (UO)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Centre National d’Études Spatiales [Paris] (CNES), Unité Scientifique de la Station de Nançay (USN), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire des Sciences de l'Univers en région Centre (OSUC), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université d'Orléans (UO)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université d'Orléans (UO), Laboratoire Univers et Particules de Montpellier (LUPM), Université Montpellier 2 - Sciences et Techniques (UM2)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire d'Annecy de Physique des Particules (LAPP), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB [Université de Savoie] [Université de Chambéry])-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centre d'Etudes Nucléaires de Bordeaux Gradignan (CENBG), Université Sciences et Technologies - Bordeaux 1-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Bordeaux [Pessac] (LAB), Université de Bordeaux (UB)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Ajello, M., Atwood, W. B., Axelsson, M., Bagagli, R., Bagni, M., Baldini, L., Bastieri, D., Bellardi, F., Bellazzini, R., Bissaldi, E., Bloom, E. D., Bonino, R., Bregeon, J., Brez, A., Bruel, P., Buehler, R., Buson, S., Cameron, R. A., Caraveo, P. A., Cavazzuti, E., Ceccanti, M., Chen, S., Cheung, C. C., Ciprini, S., Cognard, I., Cohen-Tanugi, J., Cutini, S., D???ammando, F., de la Torre Luque, P., de Palma, F., Digel, S. W., Dirirsa, F., Di Lalla, N., Di Venere, L., Dom??nguez, A., Fabiani, D., Ferrara, E. C., Fiori, A., Foglia, G., Fukazawa, Y., Fusco, P., Gargano, F., Gasparrini, D., Giroletti, M., Glanzman, T., Green, D., Griffin, S., Grondin, M. -H., Grove, J. E., Guillemot, L., Guiriec, S., Gustafsson, M., Hays, E., Horan, D., J??hannesson, G., Johnson, T. J., Kamae, T., Kerr, M., Kuss, M., Larsson, S., Latronico, L., Lemoine-Goumard, M., Li, J., Liodakis, I., Longo, F., Loparco, F., Lovellette, M. N., Lubrano, P., Maldera, S., Manfreda, A., Mart??-Devesa, G., Mazziotta, M. N., Menon, N., Mereu, I., Meyer, M., Michelson, P. F., Minuti, M., Mitthumsiri, W., Mizuno, T., Mongelli, M., Monzani, M. E., Moskalenko, I. V., Negro, M., Nuss, E., Ojha, R., Orienti, M., Orlando, E., Paccagnella, A., Paliya, V. S., Paneque, D., Pei, Z., Perkins, J. S., Pesce-Rollins, M., Pinchera, M., Piron, F., Poon, H., Porter, T. A., Primavera, R., Principe, G., Racusin, J. L., Rain??, S., Rando, R., Rani, B., Rapposelli, E., Razzano, M., Razzaque, S., Reimer, A., Reimer, O., Russell, J. J., Saggini, N., Saz Parkinson, P. M., Scolieri, N., Serini, D., Sgr??, C., Siskind, E. J., Smith, D. A., Spandre, G., Spinelli, P., Suson, D. J., Tajima, H., Thayer, J. G., Thompson, D. J., Tibaldo, L., Torres, D. F., Tosti, G., Valverde, J., Vigiani, L., and Zaharijas, G.

Subjects
Calibration (statistics), Gamma-ray telescopes, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, FOS: Physical sciences, 030226 pharmacology & pharmacy, 01 natural sciences, 7. Clean energy, law.invention, Telescope, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, law, 0103 physical sciences, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Condensed Matter::Quantum Gases, Physics, Gamma-ray astronomy, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astronomy, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Space and Planetary Science, [SDU]Sciences of the Universe [physics], Calibration, Condensed Matter::Strongly Correlated Electrons, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope
Abstract

The Large Area Telescope (LAT), the primary instrument for the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope (Fermi) mission, is an imaging, wide field-of-view, high-energy gamma-ray telescope, covering the energy range from 30 MeV to more than 300 GeV. We describe the performance of the instrument at the 10-year milestone. LAT performance remains well within the specifications defined during the planning phase, validating the design choices and supporting the compelling case to extend the duration of the Fermi mission. The details provided here will be useful when designing the next generation of high-energy gamma-ray observatories., 60 pages, 28 figures. Published in ApJS

Published
2021

19. Revealing x-ray and gamma ray temporal and spectral similarities in the GRB 190829A afterglow

Author

K. Egberts, Davit Zargaryan, Axel Donath, A. W. Chen, G. Pühlhofer, M. de Bony de Lavergne, V. Poireau, P. T. O'Brien, P. A. Evans, Riaan Steenkamp, A. Lemiere, F. Eichhorn, Nu. Komin, J. Schäfer, Włodek Kluźniak, A. S. Seyffert, N. Shafi, Natalia Żywucka, Sebastian Panny, R. J. White, Domenico Tiziani, D. Malyshev, T. Chand, Jhilik Majumdar, V. Baghmanyan, Clemens Hoischen, A. A. Zdziarski, Jacco Vink, Alison Mitchell, Joachim Hahn, M. Füßling, C. van Eldik, J.F. Glicenstein, Lei Sun, P. Reichherzer, Jim Davies, A. Carosi, Zorawar Wadiasingh, Q. Remy, Anna Barnacka, A. Djannati-Ataï, A. Montanari, E. Moulin, M. de Naurois, Alexandre Marcowith, Arnaud Mares, Christoph Deil, Sabrina Casanova, Christo Venter, G. Peron, Garret Cotter, M. Hörbe, Dmitriy Kostunin, E. Ruiz-Velasco, Mohanraj Senniappan, Thomas Bylund, E. O. Angüner, S. Raab, Tadayuki Takahashi, F. Brun, R. J. Tuffs, B. Bi, H. Prokoph, C. van Rensburg, A. Zech, J. Muller, Monica Barnard, B. Peyaud, Kirsty Feijen, R. Rauth, Pierre Brun, Victor Doroshenko, Michael Punch, E. Kasai, Konrad Bernlöhr, M. Curyło, Stefano Gabici, Gianluca Giavitto, Frank M. Rieger, Michael Backes, Stefan Klepser, J.-P. Ernenwein, A. Dmytriiev, Mischa Breuhaus, J. Dyks, G. Emery, L. Olivera-Nieto, Tim Holch, S. Fegan, Samuel Zouari, M.-H. Grondin, L. Mohrmann, Stefan Ohm, I. Jung-Richardt, Markus Böttcher, K. Kosack, A. Reimer, G. Hermann, Marek Jamrozy, Regis Terrier, S. Pita, Markus Holler, Felix Jankowsky, Armelle Jardin-Blicq, E. de Ona Wilhelmi, A.M. Taylor, Carlo Romoli, J. Damascene Mbarubucyeye, Hester Schutte, Dieter Horns, Jonathan Mackey, Tom Armstrong, Helene Sol, Sylvia Zhu, P. J. Meintjes, Hambeleleni Ndiyavala, G. Fontaine, H. Odaka, Felix Aharonian, V. Barbosa Martins, Andreas Specovius, Michal Ostrowski, Johannes Veh, D. J. van der Walt, Yu Wun Wong, L. Oakes, C. Moore, J. Bolmont, D. Jankowsky, M. Seglar-Arroyo, Paolo Marchegiani, Rachel Simoni, R. Marx, S. Steinmassl, D. Glawion, Łukasz Stawarz, Manuel Meyer, Tomasz Bulik, Lente Dreyer, Andreas Quirrenbach, Sabrina Einecke, Iryna Lypova, Constantin Steppa, D. A. Prokhorov, M. Zacharias, Christopher J. Duffy, A. Wierzcholska, M. Tluczykont, Christian Stegmann, Stefan Wagner, Yasunobu Uchiyama, F. Schüssler, Yvonne Becherini, Jimmy N.S. Shapopi, C. Levy, Werner Hofmann, G. Lamanna, M. A. Kastendieck, James E. M. Watson, Ullrich Schwanke, G. Vasileiadis, Isak Delberth Davids, Misao Sasaki, Bruno Khelifi, M. Büchele, M. Lemoine-Goumard, J. Zorn, Elisabetta Bissaldi, Roberta Zanin, F. Ait Benkhali, L. Rinchiuso, M. Scalici, Y. A. Gallant, J. Devin, Jim Hinton, D. Berge, V. Sahakian, F. Werner, Andrea Santangelo, Stefan Funk, S. Sailer, Dmitry Khangulyan, Michael Kreter, Jacek Niemiec, D. A. Sanchez, A. Priyana Noel, C. Arcaro, Fabian Leuschner, J. H. E. Thiersen, M. Panter, U. Katz, K. Nakashima, Olaf Reimer, G. Martí-Devesa, H. Ashkar, Q. Piel, P. Morris, Gavin Rowell, M. Bryan, Kleopas Shiningayamwe, A. Yusafzai, Thomas Murach, G. Maurin, Maria Haupt, Heinrich J. Völk, M. Renaud, R. D. Parsons, Samuel Timothy Spencer, Lenka Tomankova, T. Tam, G. Fichet de Clairfontaine, A. Sinha, J.-P. Lenain, D. Huber, Rafal Moderski, S. Caroff, B. van Soelen, S. Chandra, R. Konno, L. Dirson, M. Tsirou, B. Rudak, V. Joshi, Thomas Lohse, L. Giunti, A. Nayerhoda, Hassan Abdalla, A. Fiasson, M. Spir-Jacob, V. Marandon, K. Katarzyński, P. Vincent, T. Tavernier, K. L. Page, Heiko Salzmann, Celine Armand, Catherine Boisson, Centre de Physique des Particules de Marseille (CPPM), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire d'Annecy de Physique des Particules (LAPP), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB [Université de Savoie] [Université de Chambéry])-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, Laboratoire Univers et Théories (LUTH (UMR_8102)), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire et de Hautes Énergies (LPNHE (UMR_7585)), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité), Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet (LLR), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-École polytechnique (X)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire Univers et Particules de Montpellier (LUPM), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centre d'Etudes Nucléaires de Bordeaux Gradignan (CENBG), Université Sciences et Technologies - Bordeaux 1 (UB)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), H.E.S.S., Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Paris (UP), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Paris (UP), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École polytechnique (X)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3), Université Montpellier 2 - Sciences et Techniques (UM2)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Sciences et Technologies - Bordeaux 1-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Gravitation and Astroparticle Physics Amsterdam, High Energy Astrophys. & Astropart. Phys (API, FNWI), H.E.S.S. Collaboration, and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Montpellier 2 - Sciences et Techniques (UM2)

Subjects
Photon, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, gamma ray: burst, 01 natural sciences, Luminosity, HESS, 0103 physical sciences, High Energy Stereoscopic System, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Physics, energy: high, Multidisciplinary, X-ray: energy spectrum, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, photon, Gamma ray, trigger, Light curve, redshift, Redshift, Afterglow, collapse, gamma ray: VHE, HESS - Abteilung Hinton, spectral, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Gamma-ray burst, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], absorption
Abstract

An intrinsic gamma-ray burst afterglow Long gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are emitted by relativistic jets generated during the collapse of a massive star in a distant galaxy. The GRB itself lasts only a few seconds but is followed by an afterglow that can persist for hours or days. The H.E.S.S. Collaboration observed the afterglow of GRB 190829A, a nearby long GRB. The proximity of this burst allowed it to be detected at tera–electron volt energies that would otherwise be absorbed in the intergalactic medium. By analyzing the spectrum and light curve at x-ray and gamma-ray wavelengths, the authors show that the afterglow cannot be explained by standard models. Science , abe8560, this issue p. 1081

Published
2021

20. Technical and scientific performance of the prototype Schwarzschild-Couder Telescope for CTA

Author

Mirco Caprai, Olivier Hervet, Robert Halliday, Giovanni Pareschi, Qi Feng, Massimo Capasso, Richard G. Bose, Peter Y. Yu, Daniel Nieto, Luca Tosti, L. P. Taylor, Hiroyasu Tajima, Samuel A. Mognet, Maria Ionica, Wystan Benbow, David Kieda, Julien Rousselle, Francesca R. Pantaleo, Corbin Covault, Massimo Valentino, Vincenzo Masone, Leonardo Di Venere, Rodolfo Canestrari, Massimiliano Bitossi, Andrea Rugliancich, Gagik Tovmassian, Jamie Holder, D. Ross, Leonardo Stiaccini, Enrico Giro, Emanuale Fiandrini, Riccardo Paoletti, Pedro I. Batista, Giovanni Ambrosi, Valerio Vagelli, Carla Aramo, Richard White, Simone Incardona, Federico Di Pierro, Anthony M. Brown, Francesco Giordano, Nicola Giglietto, A. Zink, Ruo-Yu Shang, K. Meagher, Jason J. Watson, J. H. Buckley, N. Otte, B. A. W. Mode, Bruna Bertucci, Thomas Meures, Marcos Santander, Michelangelo Ambrosio, Vladimir V. Vassiliev, Luca Riitano, Reshmi Mukherjee, Stephen Fegan, W. Jin, Alfonso Boiano, Colin B. Adams, Akira Okumura, Justin Vanderbrouke, Carmela Bonavolontà, Giovanni Tripodo, Manel Errando, David A. Williams, A. Brill, E. Roache, D. Ribeiro, Giovanni Marsella, Francesco Licciulli, Elisa Pueschel, Elisabetta Bissaldi, Davide Depaoli, Thomas B. Humensky, Amy Furniss, Serena Loporchio, and Alasdair E. Gent

Subjects
Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Computer science, business.industry, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Gamma rays, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Imaging Cherenkov telescopes, Silicon photomultipliers, Field of view, Cherenkov Telescope Array, law.invention, Telescope, Cardinal point, Upgrade, Optics, Silicon photomultiplier, Crab Nebula, Observatory, law, Schwarzschild-Couder telescope, Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, Aplanatic optical system, business
Abstract

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is the next-generation ground-based observatory for very-high-energy gamma rays. One candidate design for CTA's medium-sized telescopes consists of the Schwarzschild-Couder Telescope (SCT), featuring innovative dual-mirror optics. The SCT project has built and is currently operating a 9.7-m prototype SCT (pSCT) at the Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory (FLWO); such optical design enables the use of a compact camera with state-of-the art silicon photomultiplier detectors. A partially-equipped camera has recently successfully detected the Crab Nebula with a statistical significance of 8.6 standard deviations. A funded upgrade of the pSCT focal plane sensors and electronics is currently ongoing, which will bring the total number of channels from 1600 to 11328 and the telescope field of view from about 2.7° to 8° . In this work, we will describe the technical and scientific performance of the pSCT.

Published
2021

21. First fermi-LAT solar flare catalog

Author

Sara Buson, F. D'Ammando, T. A. Porter, L. Di Venere, S. Rainò, F. Piron, Yasushi Fukazawa, J. W. Hewitt, J. Li, Luca Baldini, E. J. Siskind, Marcello Giroletti, S. Maldera, D. Gasparrini, P. Lubrano, P. Fusco, Sylvain Guiriec, F. Fana Dirirsa, Seb. Funk, E. Cavazzuti, Gloria Spandre, Nicola Omodei, Mn Mazziotta, P. F. Michelson, S. J. Fegan, Soebur Razzaque, E. Hays, Ferdinando Giordano, M. N. Lovellette, D. Costantin, Carmelo Sgrò, F. Longo, Marco Ajello, K. S. Wood, F. de Palma, E. Troja, T. Mizuno, Regina Caputo, G. Zaharijas, F. Gargano, David Paneque, N. Di Lalla, Elisabetta Bissaldi, D. Green, R. Rando, C. C. Cheung, J. Valverde, Bindu Rani, M. Kuss, Luca Latronico, D. Tak, D. Bastieri, R. Bonino, G. Jóhannesson, E. Orlando, M. Negro, A. Berretta, A. Reimer, Z. Pei, G. Chiaro, P. Spinelli, M. E. Monzani, Melissa Pesce-Rollins, Vahé Petrosian, Giacomo Principe, D. Serini, Alberto Manfreda, S. Larsson, Massimo Persic, M. Orienti, M. Razzano, Miloš Kovačević, A. Morselli, R. A. Cameron, G. Martí-Devesa, P. Bruel, S. Cutini, R. Desiante, J. L. Racusin, I. Mereu, Roger Blandford, Igor V. Moskalenko, Olaf Reimer, D. Horan, R. Bellazzini, Ajello, M., Baldini, L., Bastieri, D., Bellazzini, R., Berretta, A., Bissaldi, E., Blandford, R. D., Bonino, R., Bruel, P., Buson, S., Cameron, R. A., Caputo, R., Cavazzuti, E., Cheung, C. C., Chiaro, G., Costantin, D., Cutini, S., D'Ammando, F., De Palma, F., Desiante, R., Di Lalla, N., Di Venere, L., Fana Dirirsa, F., Fegan, S. J., Fukazawa, Y., Funk, S., Fusco, P., Gargano, F., Gasparrini, D., Giordano, F., Giroletti, M., Green, D., Guiriec, S., Hays, E., Hewitt, J. W., Horan, D., Johannesson, G., Kovac'Evic, M., Kuss, M., Larsson, S., Latronico, L., Li, J., Longo, F., Lovellette, M. N., Lubrano, P., Maldera, S., Manfreda, A., Marti-Devesa, G., Mazziotta, M. N., Mereu, I., Michelson, P. F., Mizuno, T., Monzani, M. E., Morselli, A., Moskalenko, I. V., Negro, M., Omodei, N., Orienti, M., Orlando, E., Paneque, D., Pei, Z., Persic, M., Pesce-Rollins, M., Petrosian, V., Piron, F., Porter, T. A., Principe, G., Racusin, J. L., Raino, S., Rando, R., Rani, B., Razzano, M., Razzaque, S., Reimer, A., Reimer, O., Serini, D., Sgro, C., Siskind, E. J., Spandre, G., Spinelli, P., Tak, D., Troja, E., Valverde, J., Wood, K., Zaharijas, G., Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet (LLR), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École polytechnique (X)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3), Laboratoire Univers et Particules de Montpellier (LUPM), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Montpellier 2 - Sciences et Techniques (UM2), D???ammando, F., de Palma, F., J??hannesson, G., Kovac???evic???, M., Mart??-Devesa, G., Rain??, S., and Sgr??, C.

Subjects
Solar gamma-ray emission, Gamma-ray telescopes, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Population, Astrophysics, Solar flares, Gamma-ray sources, Catalogs, 01 natural sciences, law.invention, Telescope, law, 0103 physical sciences, Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, 010306 general physics, education, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Physics, education.field_of_study, Solar flare, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Solar flares, Solar gamma-ray emission, Gamma-ray sources, Gamma-ray telescopes, Catalogs, Solar physics, Light curve, Solar cycle, Gamma-ray source, 13. Climate action, Space and Planetary Science, Physics::Space Physics, Gamma-ray telescope, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, Flare
Abstract

We present the first Fermi - Large Area Telescope (LAT) solar flare catalog covering the 24 th solar cycle. This catalog contains 45 Fermi -LAT solar flares (FLSFs) with emission in the gamma-ray energy band (30 MeV - 10 GeV) detected with a significance greater than 5 sigma over the years 2010-2018. A subsample containing 37 of these flares exhibit delayed emission beyond the prompt-impulsive hard X-ray phase with 21 flares showing delayed emission lasting more than two hours. No prompt-impulsive emission is detected in four of these flares. We also present in this catalog the observations of GeV emission from 3 flares originating from Active Regions located behind the limb (BTL) of the visible solar disk. We report the light curves, spectra, best proton index and localization (when possible) for all the FLSFs. The gamma-ray spectra is consistent with the decay of pions produced by >300 MeV protons. This work contains the largest sample of high-energy gamma-ray flares ever reported and provides the unique opportunity to perform population studies on the different phases of the flare and thus allowing to open a new window in solar physics.

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2021

22. The Fermi GBM Gamma-Ray Burst Spectral Catalog: 10 Years of Data

Author

S. Poolakkil, Eric Burns, Robert D. Preece, C. A. Wilson-Hodge, Adam Goldstein, Peter Vereš, Elisabetta Bissaldi, B. Mailyan, Misty Giles, W. S. Paciesas, C. Malacaria, P. N. Bhat, Oliver J. Roberts, C. Fletcher, A. von Kienlin, Dan Kocevski, S. Lesage, Michael S. Briggs, W. H. Cleveland, and C. M. Hui

Subjects
Physics, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Space and Planetary Science, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrophysics, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Gamma-ray burst, Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope
Abstract

We present the systematic spectral analyses of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) detected by the Fermi Gamma-Ray Burst Monitor during its first ten years of operation. This catalog contains two types of spectra: time-integrated spectral fits and spectral fits at the brightest time bin, from 2297 GRBs, resulting in a compendium of over 18,000 spectra. The four different spectral models used for fitting the spectra were selected based on their empirical importance to the shape of many GRBs. We describe in detail our procedure and criteria for the analyses, and present the bulk results in the form of parameter distributions both in the observer frame and in the GRB rest frame. 941 GRBs from the first four years have been refitted using the same methodology as that of the 1356 GRBs in years five through ten. The data files containing the complete results are available from the High-Energy Astrophysics Science Archive Research Center.

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2021
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23. Discovery of TXS 1515-273 at VHE gamma-rays and modelling of its Spectral Energy Distribution

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Daniel Kerszberg, Marie Karjalainen, Katsuaki Asano, Alexander Hahn, Davide Depaoli, Tomohiko Oka, Monica Orienti, Sara Cutini, Daniel Morcuende, Maria Victoria Fonseca, Marc Ribó, Jose Luis Contreras, Marine Pihet, Kyoshi Nishijima, Juan Cortina, Nikola Godinovic, Abelardo Moralejo, Hidetoshi Kubo, Tomohiro Inada, Tihomir Surić, Pratik Majumdar, Leonardo Di Venere, Jürgen Besenrieder, Hendrik Bökenkamp, Martin Will, Jorge Otero-Santos, Francesco Giordano, Antonio Tutone, Seiya Nozaki, Dominik Elsaesser, Juan Abel Barrio, Stefano Covino, Stefano Menchiari, Lena Linhoff, Davide Miceli, Dario Hrupec, Mitsunari Takahashi, Narek Sahakyan, Razmik Mirzoyan, Damir Lelas, Lluis Font, Lea Heckmann, Alessia Spolon, Léa Jouvin, Matteo Cerruti, Satoshi Fukami, Carlos Delgado Mendez, Alice Donini, Karl Mannheim, D. Dominis Prester, Bernd Schleicher, Edgar Molina, Jordi Delgado, Takeshi Nakamori, Jenni Jormanainen, Francesco Gabriele Saturni, Manuel Delfino, Ulisses Barres de Almeida, Dorota Sobczyńska, Zeljka Bosnjak, Armin Nabizadeh, Maria-Isabel Bernardos, Giovanni Ceribella, Vassil Verguilov, Bernardo Machado de Oliveira Fraga, Marcel Strzys, Simone Mender, Javier Herrera, Yusuke Suda, Barbara De Lotto, Kevin Schmidt, Yasushi Fukazawa, Alicia López-Oramas, John Hoang, Carlo Vigorito, Camilla Maggio, Daniela Dorner, Lara Nava, Ana Babić, Sidika Merve Colak, Gaia Vanzo, Elisabetta Bissaldi, Ivica Puljak, Ciro Bigongiari, Manuela Mallamaci, Simona Paiano, Thomas Schweizer, Fabrizio Tavecchio, Monica Vazquez Acosta, Eduardo Colombo, Sargis Gasparyan, Junko Kushida, Alessio Berti, Ievgen Vovk, Ramon J. García López, Ryuji Takeishi, D. M. Strom, Stefano Ansoldi, Masahiro Teshima, Alicia Fattorini, Manuel Artero, Riccardo Paoletti, Markus Gaug, Lovro Pavletić, L. Maraschi, Kari Nilsson, Marcos López-Moya, Axel Arbet Engels, M. I. Martínez, Elina Lindfors, Vandad Fallah Ramazani, Josep M. Paredes, Daniel Mazin, Tomislav Terzić, Julian Sitarek, Antonio Stamerra, Francesco Longo, Massimo Persic, Giacomo D'Amico, Daniela Hadasch, Francesco Dazzi, Roberto Carosi, Wolfgang Rhode, Giovanni Busetto, Serena Loporchio, Lorenzo Bellizzi, Cosimo Nigro, Yoshiki Ohtani, Wlodek Bednarek, Federico Di Pierro, Ruben Lopez-Coto, Sofia Ventura, Elia Do Souto Espiñeira, Jarred Gershon Green, Juliane van Scherpenberg, Irene Jiménez Martínez, F. D'Ammando, Andrés Baquero, Jose Miguel Miranda, Martin Makariev, Yating Chai, Oscar Blanch, Paolo Da Vela, Giacomo Bonnoli, Stefan Cikota, Pawel Gliwny, Nicola Giglietto, David H. Green, P. G. Prada Moroni, Victoria Moreno, Darko Zarić, Santiago Ubach, Shunsuke Sakurai, Alessandra Lamastra, Vincenzo Vitale, Francesco Leone, Stefano Truzzi, Pablo Peñil, Saša Mićanović, Mosè Mariotti, Ivana Batković, Chiara Righi, Chaitanya Priyadarshi, Adrian Biland, Saverio Lombardi, Andrea Rugliancich, Javier Rico, Tokonatsu Yamamoto, Vitaly Neustroev, Luca Tosti, Valerio D'Elia, G. Maneva, Victor A. Acciari, Moritz Hütten, Kazuma Ishio, Wrijupan Bhattacharyya, Elisa Prandini, Louis Antonelli, Carolin Wunderlich, Ashot Chilingarian, Josefa González, Takashi Saito, Dominik Baack, Yukiho Kobayashi, Christian Fruck, Yuki Iwamura, Markus Garczarczyk, Michele Palatiello, Iva Šnidarić, Tjark Miener, David Paneque, Jelena Strišković, Marina Manganaro, Elena Moretti, Konstancja Satalecka, Michele Doro, Petar Temnikov, Koji Noda, Elisa Bernardini, and Alessandro De Angelis

Subjects
Physics, law, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Broadband, Gamma ray, Spectral energy distribution, Astrophysics, MAGIC (telescope), Peak location, Blazar, Synchrotron, law.invention
Abstract

In February 2019, a flaring state of the extreme blazar candidate TXS 1515-273 was registered by the Fermi-LAT, which triggered observations with the MAGIC telescopes and the X-ray satellites Swift, XMM-Newton and NuStar. The observations led to the discovery of the source at very-high-energy (VHE, 100 GeV < E < $ 100 TeV) gamma-ray energies and the detection of short time scales of variability (1 h) in several X-ray bands. The analysis of the observed variability helped us to constrain the physical parameters of the emission region. Thanks to the high-quality X-ray data, the synchrotron peak location was determined. The source was classified as a high synchrotron peaked source during the flaring activity. We constructed the broadband spectral energy distribution from radio to TeV. We interpreted it assuming leptonic emission and taking into account the constraints from the X-ray variability. We tested two scenarios: a simple one-zone model and a two-component model. Both models were found to describe the data well from X-ray to VHE gamma ray, but the two-zone model allows for a more accurate modelling of the emission at radio and optical energies.

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2021

24. The Fermi Masterclass Online Edition 2020

Author

S. Rainò, F. Loparco, Sara Cutini, Francesco Longo, D. Serini, F. Gargano, Luca Latronico, P. Lubrano, Leonardo Di Venere, P. Fusco, M. N. Mazziotta, D. Gasparrini, Elisabetta Bissaldi, Francesco de Palma, R. Bonino, and Isabella Mereu

Subjects
Outreach, Event (computing), Political science, Library science, Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope
Abstract

The Fermi Masterclass is an international outreach event designed to give high-school students the unique opportunity to discover the world of High-Energy Astrophysics. Since 2017, following analogous experiences previously proposed mostly in France, various Italian universities and research institutes, guided by the National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN), organized a "full immersion" day of dedicated lectures and exercises in which students analysed real data collected by the LAT experiment aboard the Fermi satellite. Over the years, foreign institutes from Slovenia, Sweden and the U.S. also joined the effort, giving the students the unique opportunity to interact with each other as in real international collaborations. The 4$^{th}$ edition of the Fermi Masterclass was scheduled to take place in April 2020. However, due to the pandemic emergency, the Masterclass was initially postponed, and finally took place as an online edition on December 10th, 2020. Here we present the structure and organization of this first virtual event, including an interactive part of exercises accessible to the students through dedicated web platforms.

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2021

25. Gamma Rays from Fast Black-hole Winds

Author

M. Razzano, Francesco Longo, J. Zrake, S. Buson, Junyao Li, A. Franckowiak, Elisabetta Bissaldi, Diego F. Torres, N. Di Lalla, Luca Baldini, Aaron Dominguez, M. E. Monzani, Sylvain Guiriec, Mn Mazziotta, C. Karwin, Alberto Manfreda, Bindu Rani, Denis Bastieri, Nicola Omodei, F. D'Ammando, G. Jóhannesson, P. M. Saz Parkinson, A. Desai, S. Marchesi, D. Costantin, Peter F. Michelson, Marcello Giroletti, M. Orienti, Marco Ajello, Damiano Caprioli, A. Berretta, Sina Chen, A. Reimer, Igor V. Moskalenko, Olaf Reimer, Carmelo Sgrò, Riccardo Rando, Miloš Kovačević, Z. Pei, A. Morselli, Melissa Pesce-Rollins, Rebecca Diesing, Stefan Larsson, J. L. Racusin, David Paneque, G. Chiaro, M. Kuss, Vaidehi S. Paliya, P. Spinelli, L. Marcotulli, T. A. Porter, G. Principe, S. Maldera, P. Fusco, G. Martí-Devesa, F. de Palma, Francesco Giordano, M. Negro, Dario Gasparrini, J. Ballet, Roger Blandford, I. Mereu, F. Loparco, Matthew Kerr, E. Orlando, S. J. Fegan, Dieter H. Hartmann, S. Cutini, David A. Green, Stefan Funk, D. Horan, George Chartas, Massimo Persic, Regina Caputo, Ronaldo Bellazzini, D. Serini, R. A. Cameron, Nicola Giglietto, P. Lubrano, I. A. Grenier, Guido Barbiellini, P. Bruel, D. Tak, M. N. Lovellette, Ioannis Liodakis, S. Rainò, Tsunefumi Mizuno, Yasushi Fukazawa, Gabrijela Zaharijas, K. S. Wood, E. Troja, Elliott D. Bloom, R. Bonino, E. J. Siskind, D. J. Suson, Luca Latronico, C. C. Cheung, P. de la Torre Luque, F. Gargano, E. Cavazzuti, Gloria Spandre, F. Dirirsa, L. Di Venere, M. Lemoine-Goumard, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (US), Astrophysique Interprétation Modélisation (AIM (UMR_7158 / UMR_E_9005 / UM_112)), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7), Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet (LLR), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École polytechnique (X)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3), Laboratoire d'Annecy de Physique des Particules (LAPP), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB [Université de Savoie] [Université de Chambéry])-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centre d'Etudes Nucléaires de Bordeaux Gradignan (CENBG), Université Sciences et Technologies - Bordeaux 1-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Fermi-LAT, Ajello, M., Baldini, L., Ballet, J., Barbiellini, G., Bastieri, D., Bellazzini, R., Berretta, A., Bissaldi, E., Blandford, R. D., Bloom, E. D., Bonino, R., Bruel, P., Buson, S., Cameron, R. A., Caprioli, D., Caputo, R., Cavazzuti, E., Chartas, G., Chen, S., Cheung, C. C., Chiaro, G., Costantin, D., Cutini, S., D'Ammando, F., De La Torre Luque, P., De Palma, F., Desai, A., Diesing, R., Di Lalla, N., Dirirsa, F., Di Venere, L., Dominguez, A., Fegan, S. J., Franckowiak, A., Fukazawa, Y., Funk, S., Fusco, P., Gargano, F., Gasparrini, D., Giglietto, N., Giordano, F., Giroletti, M., Green, D., Grenier, I. A., Guiriec, S., Hartmann, D., Horan, D., Johannesson, G., Karwin, C., Kerr, M., Kovacevic, M., Kuss, M., Larsson, S., Latronico, L., Lemoine-Goumard, M., Li, J., Liodakis, I., Longo, F., Loparco, F., Lovellette, M. N., Lubrano, P., Maldera, S., Manfreda, A., Marchesi, S., Marcotulli, L., Marti-Devesa, G., Mazziotta, M. N., Mereu, I., Michelson, P. F., Mizuno, T., Monzani, M. E., Morselli, A., Moskalenko, I. V., Negro, M., Omodei, N., Orienti, M., Orlando, E., Paliya, V., Paneque, D., Pei, Z., Persic, M., Pesce-Rollins, M., Porter, T. A., Principe, G., Racusin, J. L., Rain, S., Rando, R., Rani, B., Razzano, M., Reimer, A., Reimer, O., Saz Parkinson, P. M., Serini, D., Sgr, C., Siskind, E. J., Spandre, G., Spinelli, P., Suson, D. J., Tak, D., Torres, D. F., Troja, E., Wood, K., Zaharijas, G., Zrake, J., Astrophysique Interprétation Modélisation (AIM (UMR7158 / UMR_E_9005 / UM_112)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-École polytechnique (X)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Sciences et Technologies - Bordeaux 1 (UB)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), D???ammando, F., de la Torre Luque, P., de Palma, F., Dom??nguez, A., J??hannesson, G., Kova??evi??, M., Mart??-Devesa, G., Rain??, S., and Sgr??, C.

Subjects
Physics, Active galactic nuclei, Black hole, Black holes, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Gamma ray, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Galaxies, Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, Galaxie, Space and Planetary Science, Galactic winds, Galactic Winds, Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Gamma-rays, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics
Abstract

Massive black holes at the centers of galaxies can launch powerful wide-angle winds that, if sustained over time, can unbind the gas from the stellar bulges of galaxies. These winds may be responsible for the observed scaling relation between the masses of the central black holes and the velocity dispersion of stars in galactic bulges. Propagating through the galaxy, the wind should interact with the interstellar medium creating a strong shock, similar to those observed in supernovae explosions, which is able to accelerate charged particles to high energies. In this work we use data from the Fermi Large Area Telescope to search for the γ-ray emission from galaxies with an ultrafast outflow (UFO): a fast (v ∼ 0.1 c), highly ionized outflow, detected in absorption at hard X-rays in several nearby active galactic nuclei (AGN). Adopting a sensitive stacking analysis we are able to detect the average γ-ray emission from these galaxies and exclude that it is due to processes other than UFOs. Moreover, our analysis shows that the γ-ray luminosity scales with the AGN bolometric luminosity and that these outflows transfer ∼0.04% of their mechanical power to γ-rays. Interpreting the observed γ-ray emission as produced by cosmic rays (CRs) accelerated at the shock front, we find that the γ-ray emission may attest to the onset of the wind-host interaction and that these outflows can energize charged particles up to the transition region between galactic and extragalactic CRs., Ajello, M., et al., M.A. and C.K. acknowledge support from NSF and NASA through grants AST-1715256, 80NSSC21K1915, and 80NSSC18K1718. R.D. and D.C. acknowledge the Eugene & Niesje Parker Fellowship Fund, NASA (grants NNX17AG30G, 80NSSC18K1218, and 80NSSC18K1726) and the NSF (grants AST-1714658, AST-1909778). G.C. acknowledges financial support from NASA grants 80NSSC20K0438 and 80NSSC19K095.

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2021

26. Detection of the Crab Nebula with the 9.7 m prototype Schwarzschild-Couder telescope

Author

Gagik Tovmassian, F. Di Pierro, V. Masone, M. Ambrosio, C. B. Adams, N. La Palombara, A. Brill, Amy Furniss, K. Meagher, Marcos Santander, Nicola Giglietto, Olivier Hervet, Wystan Benbow, C. Bonavolontà, S. I. Mognet, Maria Ionica, A. Bouvier, S. P. Wakely, Vladimir Vassiliev, F. R. Pantaleo, Fernando Garfias, Alasdair E. Gent, Akira Okumura, S. Loporchio, A. Kuznetsov, J. Thornhill, J. H. Buckley, R. A. Cameron, L. Stiaccini, E. Fiandrini, E. Pueschel, S. Schlenstedt, R. J. White, L. Di Venere, Thomas Meures, G. Ambrosi, Arturo Iriarte, Daniel Nieto, M. Valentino, Riccardo Paoletti, Q. Feng, S. J. Fegan, A. Boiano, V. J. Guarino, David Kieda, G. Hughes, Julien Rousselle, G. Sironi, Justin Vandenbroucke, V. Vagelli, R. Shang, Enrico Giro, B. A. W. Mode, T. B. Humensky, A. Petrashyk, W. Jin, Maria Magdalena González, N. Otte, M. Caprai, Stefan Funk, M. Bitossi, D. Ribeiro, Karen Byrum, B. Bertucci, G. Pareschi, Andrea Rugliancich, Manel Errando, D. Depaoli, E. Roache, J. Ruíz-Díaz-Soto, T. C. Arlen, Michael Schneider, Jason John Watson, T. Nguyen, B. Stevenson, Jonathan Biteau, L. Tosti, Reshmi Mukherjee, David A. Williams, Jonathan S. Lapington, P. Kaaret, C. A. Johnson, Elisabetta Bissaldi, Gordon T. Richards, P. Fortin, Carla Aramo, Francesco Giordano, Salvo Scuderi, G. M. Foote, Hiroyasu Tajima, Richard Bose, Jamie Holder, R. Halliday, P. Yu, Rodolfo Canestrari, Ruben Alfaro, D. Ross, A. Zink, P. Wilcox, P. I. Batista, Matthew Wood, P. T. Reynolds, B. Kim, F. Licciulli, L. P. Taylor, A. M. Brown, M. Capasso, Corbin Covault, Laboratoire de Physique des 2 Infinis Irène Joliot-Curie (IJCLab), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet (LLR), and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École polytechnique (X)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)

Subjects
Cherenkov Telescope Array, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, FOS: Physical sciences, Cosmic ray, Field of view, 01 natural sciences, law.invention, Telescope, Primary mirror, law, Observatory, pixel, 0103 physical sciences, optical, Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, photomultiplier: silicon, [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det], mirror, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), Cherenkov radiation, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Physics, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astronomy, resolution, Astronomy and Astrophysics, radiation: Cherenkov, aberration, cascade, observatory, Crab Nebula, gamma ray: emission, cosmic radiation, atmosphere, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], statistical
Abstract

The Schwarzschild-Couder Telescope (SCT) is a telescope concept proposed for the Cherenkov Telescope Array. It employs a dual-mirror optical design to remove comatic aberrations over an $8^{\circ}$ field of view, and a high-density silicon photomultiplier camera (with a pixel resolution of 4 arcmin) to record Cherenkov emission from cosmic ray and gamma-ray initiated particle cascades in the atmosphere. The prototype SCT (pSCT), comprising a 9.7 m diameter primary mirror and a partially instrumented camera with 1536 pixels, has been constructed at the Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory. The telescope was inaugurated in January 2019, with commissioning continuing throughout 2019. We describe the first campaign of observations with the pSCT, conducted in January and February of 2020, and demonstrate the detection of gamma-ray emission from the Crab Nebula with a statistical significance of $8.6\sigma$., Comment: 13 pages, 12 figures, 3 tables, submitted to Astroparticle Physics

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2021

27. Rapid Spectral Variability of a Giant Flare from a Magnetar in NGC 253

Author

A. J. van der Horst, Rachel Hamburg, Daniela Huppenkothen, J. A. Kennea, Chryssa Kouveliotou, A. Tohuvavohu, Colleen A. Wilson-Hodge, Dale D. Kocevski, S. I. Chastain, Ersin Gogus, Matthew G. Baring, Eric Burns, George Younes, Sylvain Guiriec, Elisabetta Bissaldi, Oliver J. Roberts, J. J. DeLaunay, J. D. Linford, P. N. Bhat, Michael S. Briggs, and Péter Veres

Subjects
Physics, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Multidisciplinary, 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Local Group, FOS: Physical sciences, Plasma, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Magnetar, 01 natural sciences, Spectral line, Galaxy, law.invention, Neutron star, Relativistic plasma, law, 0103 physical sciences, Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, Flare
Abstract

Magnetars are neutron stars with extremely strong magnetic fields (1013 to 1015 gauss)1,2, which episodically emit X-ray bursts approximately 100 milliseconds long and with energies of 1040 to 1041 erg. Occasionally, they also produce extremely bright and energetic giant flares, which begin with a short (roughly 0.2 seconds), intense flash, followed by fainter, longer-lasting emission that is modulated by the spin period of the magnetar3,4 (typically 2 to 12 seconds). Over the past 40 years, only three such flares have been observed in our local group of galaxies3–6, and in all cases the extreme intensity of the flares caused the detectors to saturate. It has been proposed that extragalactic giant flares are probably a subset7–11 of short γ-ray bursts, given that the sensitivity of current instrumentation prevents us from detecting the pulsating tail, whereas the initial bright flash is readily observable out to distances of around 10 to 20 million parsecs. Here we report X-ray and γ-ray observations of the γ-ray burst GRB 200415A, which has a rapid onset, very fast time variability, flat spectra and substantial sub-millisecond spectral evolution. These attributes match well with those expected for a giant flare from an extragalactic magnetar12, given that GRB 200415A is directionally associated13 with the galaxy NGC 253 (roughly 3.5 million parsecs away). The detection of three-megaelectronvolt photons provides evidence for the relativistic motion of the emitting plasma. Radiation from such rapidly moving gas around a rotating magnetar may have generated the rapid spectral evolution that we observe. Observations of a giant flare associated with the starburst galaxy NGC 253 suggest that the flare is probably associated with relativistic plasma in the magnetic field of a magnetar.

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28. Sensitivity of the Cherenkov Telescope Array for probing cosmology and fundamental physics with gamma-ray propagation

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J.-P. Lenain, A. Domínguez, Jonathan Ivor Davies, T. Armstrong, A. A. Zdziarski, F. Gianotti, M. Balbo, E. O. Angüner, M. Marculewicz, Alasdair E. Gent, Alice Donini, Olivier Hervet, Henry Przybilski, Giacomo Principe, G. Leto, M. Peresano, Stefano Covino, P. A. Caraveo, Gianpiero Tagliaferri, D. de Martino, V. V. Vassiliev, D. Cauz, F. R. Pantaleo, U. Barres de Almeida, Pietro Bruno, E. Lindfors, M. Zavrtanik, G. Hughes, Miriam Lucio Martinez, P. Bordas, Y. Suda, G. S. Varner, R. Rando, K. Cerny, S. Pita, Csaba Balázs, E. Fiandrini, Michael Backes, Tomohiko Oka, Massimo Persic, Andrea Chiavassa, Johannes Veh, A. Stamerra, Fabrizio Tavecchio, B. Biasuzzi, Michael Punch, Soebur Razzaque, F. D'Ammando, P. I. Batista, Bruna Bertucci, F. Longo, Francesco Gabriele Saturni, Michael G. Burton, Bohdan Hnatyk, P. Sangiorgi, E. M. Santos, D. Nosek, Gagik Tovmassian, J. L. Dournaux, Pedro L. Luque-Escamilla, A. Aguirre-Santaella, M. Orienti, Lluis Font, Andreas Quirrenbach, Philippe Laporte, Ralf Kissmann, Francesco Lucarelli, K. Noda, I. Jiménez Martínez, G. Romeo, Wystan Benbow, P. Romano, B. Bi, J. Grube, H.-S. Zechlin, Giacomo Bonnoli, Martin White, J. P. Osborne, Enrico Cascone, Marek Jamrozy, C. Alispach, Miroslav Pech, O. Cuevas, Petr Schovanek, K. Hayashi, V. I. Zhdanov, Javier Coronado-Blázquez, D. Medina Miranda, Barbara Balmaverde, E. de Ona Wilhelmi, Frank M. Rieger, A. Shalchi, J. M. Paredes, Ruben Alfaro, N. Giglietto, Diego Falceta-Gonçalves, Helene Sol, Rodolfo Carosi, Ayan Acharyya, Dominik Elsässer, S. Vercellone, D. Pimentel, T. Mizuno, Alessandro Bruno, Juan Abel Barrio, K. Kosack, Mauro Orlandini, Rodrigo Guedes Lang, P. Marquez, Adrian Biland, Y. Kobayashi, Nicholas F. H Tothill, M. de Naurois, Daniele Spiga, Lili Yang, L. Tibaldo, Pavel Horvath, M. Lopez, I. Sadeh, Marek Nikolajuk, F. Schüssler, Reshmi Mukherjee, Gianpaolo Vettolani, Jürgen Knödlseder, Daniel Nieto, R. Hnatyk, German Martinez, Diego F. Torres, Farinaldo S. Queiroz, N. Parmiggiani, G. Lamanna, Marcos Santander, S. Fegan, I. Vovk, M. Sánchez-Conde, Wiphu Rujopakarn, Norita Kawanaka, R. C. Shellard, Michael C. B. Ashley, J. Jurysek, Francisco J. Franco, Samuel Timothy Spencer, E. Rebert, J. Morales Merino, M. Pecimotika, Marco Berton, Regis Terrier, G. A. Beck, Carlos Díaz, J. L. Contreras, G. Zaharijas, R. Moderski, José-María Martí, A. Insolia, D. Zavrtanik, K. Kohri, Ladislav Chytka, T. Grabarczyk, A. Zech, M. Garczarczyk, Anastasia Sokolenko, J. Lefaucheur, R. A. Cameron, Moritz Hütten, S. Karkar, K. Pfrang, V. Poireau, Asaf Pe'er, A. Reimer, Fabio Acero, L. Freixas Coromina, David Sánchez, Jonathan S. Lapington, Konstantinos N. Gourgouliatos, J.R. Hörandel, Mario Buscemi, Francesco Dazzi, Abelardo Moralejo, J. Bolmont, R. White, A. Rosales de Leon, J. 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CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Sciences et Technologies - Bordeaux 1 (UB)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Abdalla H., Abe H., Acero F., Acharyya A., Adam R., Agudo I., Aguirre-Santaella A., Alfaro R., Alfaro J., Alispach C., Aloisio R., Batista R.A., Amati L., Amato E., Ambrosi G., Anguner E.O., Araudo A., Armstrong T., Arqueros F., Arrabito L., Asano K., Ascasibar Y., Ashley M., Backes M., Balazs C., Balbo M., Balmaverde B., Larriva A.B., Martins V.B., Barkov M., Baroncelli L., De Almeida U.B., Barrio J.A., Batista P.-I., Gonzalez J.B., Becherini Y., Beck G., Tjus J.B., Belmont R., Benbow W., Bernardini E., Berti A., Berton M., Bertucci B., Beshley V., Bi B., Biasuzzi B., Biland A., Bissaldi E., Biteau J., Blanch O., Bocchino F., Boisson C., Bolmont J., Bonanno G., Arbeletche L.B., Bonnoli G., Bordas P., Bottacini E., Bottcher M., Bozhilov V., Bregeon J., Brill A., Brown A.M., Bruno P., Bruno A., Bulgarelli A., Burton M., Buscemi M., Caccianiga A., Cameron R., Capasso M., Caprai M., Caproni A., Capuzzo-Dolcetta R., Caraveo P., Carosi R., Carosi A., Casanova S., Cascone E., Cauz D., Cerny K., Cerruti M., Chadwick P., Chaty S., Chen A., Chernyakova M., Chiaro G., Chiavassa A., Chytka L., Conforti V., Conte F., Contreras J.L., Coronado-Blazquez J., Cortina J., Costa A., Costantini H., Covino S., Cristofari P., Cuevas O., D'Ammando F., Daniel M.K., Davies J., Dazzi F., Angelis A.D., De Lavergne M.D.B., Caprio V.D., De Dos Anjos R.C., De Gouveia Dal Pino E.M., Lotto B.D., Martino D.D., De Naurois M., Wilhelmi E.D.O., Palma F.D., De Souza V., Delgado C., Ceca R.D., Volpe D.D., Depaoli D., Girolamo T.D., Pierro F.D., Diaz C., Diaz-Bahamondes C., Diebold S., Djannati-Atai A., Dmytriiev A., Dominguez A., Donini A., Dorner D., Doro M., Dournaux J., Dwarkadas V.V., Ebr J., Eckner C., Einecke S., Ekoume T.R.N., Elsasser D., Emery G., Evoli C., Fairbairn M., Falceta-Goncalves D., Fegan S., Feng Q., Ferrand G., Fiandrini E., Fiasson A., Fioretti V., Foffano L., Fonseca M.V., Font L., Fontaine G., Franco F.J., Coromina L.F., Fukami S., Fukazawa Y., Fukui Y., Gaggero D., Galanti G., Gammaldi V., Garcia E., Garczarczyk M., Gascon D., Gaug M., Gent A., Ghalumyan A., Ghirlanda G., Gianotti F., Giarrusso M., Giavitto G., Giglietto N., Giordano F., Glicenstein J., Goldoni P., Gonzalez J.M., Gourgouliatos K., Grabarczyk T., Grandi P., Granot J., Grasso D., Green J., Grube J., Gueta O., Gunji S., Halim A., Harvey M., Collado T.H., Hayashi K., Heller M., Cadena S.H., Hervet O., Hinton J., Hiroshima N., Hnatyk B., Hnatyk R., Hoffmann D., Hofmann W., Holder J., Horan D., Horandel J., Horvath P., Hovatta T., Hrabovsky M., Hrupec D., Hughes G., Hutten M., Iarlori M., Inada T., Inoue S., Insolia A., Ionica M., Iori M., Jacquemont M., Jamrozy M., Janecek P., Martinez I.J., Jin W., Jung-Richardt I., Jurysek J., Kaaret P., Karas V., Karkar S., Kawanaka N., Kerszberg D., Khelifi B., Kissmann R., Knodlseder J., Kobayashi Y., Kohri K., Komin N., Kong A., Kosack K., Kubo H., Palombara N.L., Lamanna G., Lang R.G., Lapington J., Laporte P., Lefaucheur J., Lemoine-Goumard M., Lenain J., Leone F., Leto G., Leuschner F., Lindfors E., Lloyd S., Lohse T., Lombardi S., Longo F., Lopez A., Lopez M., Lopez-Coto R., Loporchio S., Lucarelli F., Luque-Escamilla P.L., Lyard E., Maggio C., Majczyna A., Makariev M., Mallamaci M., Mandat D., Maneva G., Manganaro M., Manico G., Marcowith A., Marculewicz M., Markoff S., Marquez P., Marti J., Martinez O., Martinez M., Martinez G., Martinez-Huerta H., Maurin G., Mazin D., Mbarubucyeye J.D., Miranda D.M., Meyer M., Micanovic S., Miener T., Minev M., Miranda J.M., Mitchell A., Mizuno T., Mode B., Moderski R., Mohrmann L., Molina E., Montaruli T., Moralejo A., Merino J.M., Morcuende-Parrilla D., Morselli A., Mukherjee R., Mundell C., Murach T., Muraishi H., Nagai A., Nakamori T., Nemmen R., Niemiec J., Nieto D., Nievas M., Nikolajuk M., Nishijima K., Noda K., Nosek D., Nozaki S., O'Brien P., Ohira Y., Ohishi M., Oka T., Ong R.A., Orienti M., Orito R., Orlandini M., Orlando E., Osborne J.P., Ostrowski M., Oya I., Pagliaro A., Palatka M., Paneque D., Pantaleo F.R., Paredes J.M., Parmiggiani N., Patricelli B., Pavletic L., Pe'Er A., Pech M., Pecimotika M., Peresano M., Persic M., Petruk O., Pfrang K., Piatteli P., Pietropaolo E., Pillera R., Pilszyk B., Pimentel D., Pintore F., Pita S., Pohl M., Poireau V., Polo M., Prado R.R., Prast J., Principe G., Produit N., Prokoph H., Prouza M., Przybilski H., Pueschel E., Puhlhofer G., Pumo M.L., Punch M., Queiroz F., Quirrenbach A., Rando R., Razzaque S., Rebert E., Recchia S., Reichherzer P., Reimer O., Reimer A., Renier Y., Reposeur T., Rhode W., Ribeiro D., Ribo M., Richtler T., Rico J., Rieger F., Rizi V., Rodriguez J., Fernandez G.R., Ramirez J.C.R., Vazquez J.J.R., Romano P., Romeo G., Roncadelli M., Rosado J., De Leon A.R., Rowell G., Rudak B., Rujopakarn W., Russo F., Sadeh I., Saha L., Saito T., Greus F.S., Sanchez D., Sanchez-Conde M., Sangiorgi P., Sano H., Santander M., Santos E.M., Sanuy A., Sarkar S., Saturni F.G., Sawangwit U., Scherer A., Schleicher B., Schovanek P., Schussler F., Schwanke U., Sciacca E., Scuderi S., Arroyo M.S., Sergijenko O., Servillat M., Seweryn K., Shalchi A., Sharma P., Shellard R.C., Siejkowski H., Sinha A., Sliusar V., Slowikowska A., Sokolenko A., Sol H., Specovius A., Spencer S., Spiga D., Stamerra A., Stanic S., Starling R., Stolarczyk T., Straumann U., Striskovic J., Suda Y., Swierk P., Tagliaferri G., Takahashi H., Takahashi M., Tavecchio F., Taylor L., Tejedor L.A., Temnikov P., Terrier R., Terzic T., Testa V., Tian W., Tibaldo L., Tonev D., Torres D.F., Torresi E., Tosti L., Tothill N., Tovmassian G., Travnicek P., Truzzi S., Tuossenel F., Umana G., Vacula M., Vagelli V., Valentino M., Vallage B., Vallania P., Eldik C.V., Varner G.S., Vassiliev V., Acosta M.V., Vecchi M., Veh J., Vercellone S., Vergani S., Verguilov V., Vettolani G.P., Viana A., Vigorito C.F., Vitale V., Vorobiov S., Vovk I., Vuillaume T., Wagner S.J., Walter R., Watson J., White M., White R., Wiemann R., Wierzcholska A., Will M., Williams D.A., Wischnewski R., Wolter A., Yamazaki R., Yanagita S., Yang L., Yoshikoshi T., Zacharias M., Zaharijas G., Zaric D., Zavrtanik M., Zavrtanik D., Zdziarski A.A., Zech A., Zechlin H., Zhdanov V.I., Zivec M., ITA, USA, GBR, FRA, DEU, ESP, AUS, BRA, BGR, CHL, HRV, FIN, JPN, IRL, MEX, NAM, NLD, POL, CZE, SVN, SWE, CHE, UKR, Astronomy, High Energy Astrophys. & Astropart. Phys (API, FNWI), and Université Montpellier 2 - Sciences et Techniques (UM2)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)

Subjects
Gamma ray Astronomy, Cherenkov Telescope Array, axions, MATÉRIA ESCURA, redshift: dependence, Astronomy, Gamma ray experiments, gamma ray experiments, Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, Cosmology, Observatory, cosmological model: parameter space, gamma ray experiment, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), astro-ph.HE, Physics, Cherenkov telescopes, IACT technique, Gamma rays, Cosmic rays, new physics, 4. Education, Settore FIS/01 - Fisica Sperimentale, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Gamma-ray astronomy, violation: Lorentz, 3. Good health, observatory, Extragalactic background light, astro-ph.CO, axion-like particles, Física nuclear, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics, gamma ray: propagation, Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), Active galactic nucleus, Axions, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Dark matter, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, invariance: Lorentz, jet: relativistic, dark matter: halo, 0103 physical sciences, active galactic nuclei, extragalactic magnetic fields, AGN, Blazar, background, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Física, Astronomy and Astrophysics, sensitivity, axion, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], absorption, statistical, Blazars, Telescopes
Abstract

Full list of authors: Abdalla, H.; Abe, H.; Acero, F.; Acharyya, A.; Adam, R.; Agudo, I; Aguirre-Santaella, A.; Alfaro, R.; Alfaro, J.; Alispach, C.; Aloisio, R.; Batista, R. Alves; Amati, L.; Amato, E.; Ambrosi, G.; Anguner, E. O.; Araudo, A.; Armstrong, T.; Arqueros, F.; Arrabito, L.; Asano, K.; Ascasibar, Y.; Ashley, M.; Backes, M.; Balazs, C.; Balbo, M.; Balmaverde, B.; Baquero Larriva, A.; Martins, V. Barbosa; Barkov, M.; Baroncelli, L.; de Almeida, U. Barres; Barrio, J. A.; Batista, P-, I; Becerra Gonzalez, J.; Becherini, Y.; Beck, G.; Tjus, J. Becker; Belmont, R.; Benbow, W.; Bernardini, E.; Berti, A.; Berton, M.; Bertucci, B.; Beshley, V; Bi, B.; Biasuzzi, B.; Biland, A.; Bissaldi, E.; Biteau, J.; Blanch, O.; Bocchino, F.; Boisson, C.; Bolmont, J.; Bonanno, G.; Arbeletche, L. Bonneau; Bonnoli, G.; Bordas, P.; Bottacini, E.; Bottcher, M.; Bozhilov, V; Bregeon, J.; Brill, A.; Brown, A. M.; Bruno, P.; Bruno, A.; Bulgarelli, A.; Burton, M.; Buscemi, M.; Caccianiga, A.; Cameron, R.; Capasso, M.; Caprai, M.; Caproni, A.; Capuzzo-Dolcetta, R.; Caraveo, P.; Carosi, R.; Carosi, A.; Casanova, S.; Cascone, E.; Cauz, D.; Cerny, K.; Cerruti, M.; Chadwick, P.; Chaty, S.; Chen, A.; Chernyakova, M.; Chiaro, G.; Chiavassa, A.; Chytka, L.; Conforti, V; Conte, F.; Contreras, J. L.; Coronado-Blazquez, J.; Cortina, J.; Costa, A.; Costantini, H.; Covino, S.; Cristofari, P.; Cuevas, O.; D'Ammando, F.; Daniel, M. K.; Davies, J.; Dazzi, F.; De Angelis, A.; de Lavergne, M. de Bony; De Caprio, V; dos Anjos, R. de Cassia; Dal Pino, E. M. de Gouveia; De Lotto, B.; De Martino, D.; de Naurois, M.; Wilhelmi, E. de Ona; De Palma, F.; de Souza, V; Delgado, C.; Della Ceca, R.; della Volpe, D.; Depaoli, D.; Di Girolamo, T.; Di Pierro, F.; Diaz, C.; Diaz-Bahamondes, C.; Diebold, S.; Djannati-Atai, A.; Dmytriiev, A.; Dominguez, A.; Donini, A.; Dorner, D.; Doro, M.; Dournaux, J.; Dwarkadas, V. V.; Ebr, J.; Eckner, C.; Einecke, S.; Ekoume, T. R. N.; Elsaesser, D.; Emery, G.; Evoli, C.; Fairbairn, M.; Falceta-Goncalves, D.; Fegan, S.; Feng, Q.; Ferrand, G.; Fiandrini, E.; Fiasson, A.; Fioretti, V; Foffano, L.; Fonseca, M., V; Font, L.; Fontaine, G.; Franco, F. J.; Freixas Coromina, L.; Fukami, S.; Fukazawa, Y.; Fukui, Y.; Gaggero, D.; Galanti, G.; Gammaldi, V; Garcia, E.; Garczarczyk, M.; Gascon, D.; Gaug, M.; Gent, A.; Ghalumyan, A.; Ghirlanda, G.; Gianotti, F.; Giarrusso, M.; Giavitto, G.; Giglietto, N.; Giordano, F.; Glicenstein, J.; Goldoni, P.; Gonzalez, J. M.; Gourgouliatos, K.; Grabarczyk, T.; Grandi, P.; Granot, J.; Grasso, D.; Green, J.; Grube, J.; Gueta, O.; Gunji, S.; Halim, A.; Harvey, M.; Collado, T. Hassan; Hayashi, K.; Heller, M.; Cadena, S. Hernandez; Hervet, O.; Hinton, J.; Hiroshima, N.; Hnatyk, B.; Hnatyk, R.; Hoffmann, D.; Hofmann, W.; Holder, J.; Horan, D.; Horandel, J.; Horvath, P.; Hovatta, T.; Hrabovsky, M.; Hrupec, D.; Hughes, G.; Hutten, M.; Iarlori, M.; Inada, T.; Inoue, S.; Insolia, A.; Ionica, M.; Iori, M.; Jacquemont, M.; Jamrozy, M.; Janecek, P.; Jimenez Martinez, I; Jin, W.; Jung-Richardt, I; Jurysek, J.; Kaaret, P.; Karas, V; Karkar, S.; Kawanaka, N.; Kerszberg, D.; Khelifi, B.; Kissmann, R.; Knodlseder, J.; Kobayashi, Y.; Kohri, K.; Komin, N.; Kong, A.; Kosack, K.; Kubo, H.; La Palombara, N.; Lamanna, G.; Lang, R. G.; Lapington, J.; Laporte, P.; Lefaucheur, J.; Lemoine-Goumard, M.; Lenain, J.; Leone, F.; Leto, G.; Leuschner, F.; Lindfors, E.; Lloyd, S.; Lohse, T.; Lombardi, S.; Longo, F.; Lopez, A.; Lopez, M.; Lopez-Coto, R.; Loporchio, S.; Lucarelli, F.; Luque-Escamilla, P. L.; Lyard, E.; Maggio, C.; Majczyna, A.; Makariev, M.; Mallamaci, M.; Mandat, D.; Maneva, G.; Manganaro, M.; Manico, G.; Marcowith, A.; Marculewicz, M.; Markoff, S.; Marquez, P.; Marti, J.; Martinez, O.; Martinez, M.; Martinez, G.; Martinez-Huerta, H.; Maurin, G.; Mazin, D.; Mbarubucyeye, J. D.; Miranda, D. Medina; Meyer, M.; Micanovic, S.; Miener, T.; Minev, M.; Miranda, J. M.; Mitchell, A.; Mizuno, T.; Mode, B.; Moderski, R.; Mohrmann, L.; Molina, E.; Montaruli, T.; Moralejo, A.; Morales Merino, J.; Morcuende-Parrilla, D.; Morselli, A.; Mukherjee, R.; Mundell, C.; Murach, T.; Muraishi, H.; Nagai, A.; Nakamori, T.; Nemmen, R.; Niemiec, J.; Nieto, D.; Nievas, M.; Nikolajuk, M.; Nishijima, K.; Noda, K.; Nosek, D.; Nozaki, S.; Ohira, Y.; Ohishi, M.; Oka, T.; Ong, R. A.; Orienti, M.; Orito, R.; Orlandini, M.; Orlando, E.; Osborne, J. P.; Ostrowski, M.; Oya, I; Pagliaro, A.; Palatka, M.; Paneque, D.; Pantaleo, F. R.; Paredes, J. M.; Parmiggiani, N.; Patricelli, B.; Pavletic, L.; Pe'er, A.; Pech, M.; Pecimotika, M.; Peresano, M.; Persic, M.; Petruk, O.; Pfrang, K.; Piatteli, P.; Pietropaolo, E.; Pillera, R.; Pilszyk, B.; Pimentel, D.; Pintore, F.; Pita, S.; Pohl, M.; Poireau, V; Polo, M.; Prado, R. R.; Prast, J.; Principe, G.; Produit, N.; Prokoph, H.; Prouza, M.; Przybilski, H.; Pueschel, E.; Puehlhofer, G.; Pumo, M. L.; Punch, M.; Queiroz, F.; Quirrenbach, A.; Rando, R.; Razzaque, S.; Rebert, E.; Recchia, S.; Reichherzer, P.; Reimer, O.; Reimer, A.; Renier, Y.; Reposeur, T.; Rhode, W.; Ribeiro, D.; Ribo, M.; Richtler, T.; Rico, J.; Rieger, F.; Rizi, V; Rodriguez, J.; Fernandez, G. Rodriguez; Ramirez, J. C. Rodriguez; Rodriguez Vazquez, J. J.; Romano, P.; Romeo, G.; Roncadelli, M.; Rosado, J.; de Leon, A. Rosales; Rowell, G.; Rudak, B.; Rujopakarn, W.; Russo, F.; Sadeh, I; Saha, L.; Saito, T.; Greus, F. Salesa; Sanchez, D.; Sanchez-Conde, M.; Sangiorgi, P.; Sano, H.; Santander, M.; Santos, E. M.; Sanuy, A.; Sarkar, S.; Saturni, F. G.; Sawangwit, U.; Scherer, A.; Schleicher, B.; Schovanek, P.; Schussler, F.; Schwanke, U.; Sciacca, E.; Scuderi, S.; Arroyo, M. Seglar; Sergijenko, O.; Servillat, M.; Seweryn, K.; Shalchi, A.; Sharma, P.; Shellard, R. C.; Siejkowski, H.; Sinha, A.; Sliusar, V; Slowikowska, A.; Sokolenko, A.; Sol, H.; Specovius, A.; Spencer, S.; Spiga, D.; Stamerra, A.; Starling, R.; Stolarczyk, T.; Straumann, U.; Striskovic, J.; Suda, Y.; Tagliaferri, G.; Takahashi, H.; Takahashi, M.; Tavecchio, F.; Taylor, L.; Tejedor, L. A.; Temnikov, P.; Terrier, R.; Terzic, T.; Testa, V; Tian, W.; Tibaldo, L.; Tonev, D.; Torres, D. F.; Torresi, E.; Tosti, L.; Tothill, N.; Tovmassian, G.; Travnicek, P.; Truzzi, S.; Tuossenel, F.; Umana, G.; Vacula, M.; Vagelli, V.; Valentino, M.; Vallage, B.; Vallania, P.; van Eldik, C.; Varner, G. S.; Vassiliev, V.; Vazquez Acosta, M.; Vecchi, M.; Veh, J.; Vercellone, S.; Vergani, S.; Verguilov, V.; Vettolani, G. P.; Viana, A.; Vigorito, C. F.; Vitale, V.; Vorobiov, S.; Vovk, I; Vuillaume, T.; Wagner, S. J.; Walter, R.; Watson, J.; White, M.; White, R.; Wiemann, R.; Wierzcholska, A.; Will, M.; Williams, D. A.; Wischnewski, R.; Wolter, A.; Yamazaki, R.; Yanagita, S.; Yang, L.; Yoshikoshi, T.; Zacharias, M.; Zaharijas, G.; Zaric, D.; Zavrtanik, M.; Zavrtanik, D.; Zdziarski, A. A.; Zech, A.; Zechlin, H.; Zhdanov, V., I; Zivec, M., The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA), the new-generation ground-based observatory for γ astronomy, provides unique capabilities to address significant open questions in astrophysics, cosmology, and fundamental physics. We study some of the salient areas of γ cosmology that can be explored as part of the Key Science Projects of CTA, through simulated observations of active galactic nuclei (AGN) and of their relativistic jets. Observations of AGN with CTA will enable a measurement of γ absorption on the extragalactic background light with a statistical uncertainty below 15% up to a redshift z=2 and to constrain or detect γ halos up to intergalactic-magnetic-field strengths of at least 0.3 pG . Extragalactic observations with CTA also show promising potential to probe physics beyond the Standard Model. The best limits on Lorentz invariance violation from γ astronomy will be improved by a factor of at least two to three. CTA will also probe the parameter space in which axion-like particles could constitute a significant fraction, if not all, of dark matter. We conclude on the synergies between CTA and other upcoming facilities that will foster the growth of γ cosmology. © 2021 IOP Publishing Ltd and Sissa Medialab., We gratefully acknowledge financial support from the following agencies and organizations: State Committee of Science of Armenia, Armenia; The Australian Research Council, Astronomy Australia Ltd, The University of Adelaide, Australian National University, Monash University, The University of New South Wales, The University of Sydney, Western Sydney University, Australia; Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research, and Innsbruck University, Austria; Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq), Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (FAPERJ), Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP), Ministry of Science, Technology, Innovations and Communications (MCTIC), Brasil; Ministry of Education and Science, National RI Roadmap Project DO1-153/28.08.2018, Bulgaria; The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada and the Canadian Space Agency, Canada; CONICYT-Chile grants CATA AFB 170002, ANID PIA/APOYO AFB 180002, ACT 1406, FONDECYT-Chile grants, 1161463, 1170171, 1190886, 1171421, 1170345, 1201582, Gemini-ANID 32180007, Chile; Croatian Science Foundation, Rudjer Boskovic Institute, University of Osijek, University of Rijeka, University of Split, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture, University of Zagreb, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, Croa tia; Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports, MEYS M2015046, LM2018105, LTT17006, EU/MEYS CZ.02.1.01/0.0/0.0/16_013/0001403, CZ.02.1.01/0.0/0.0/18_046/0016007 and CZ.02.1.01/0.0/0.0/16_019/0000754, Czech Republic; Academy of Finland (grant nr.317636 and 320045), Finland; Ministry of Higher Education and Research, CNRS-INSU and CNRS-IN2P3, CEA-Irfu, ANR, Regional Council Ile de France, Labex ENIGMASS, OCEVU, OSUG2020 and P2IO, France; Max Planck Society, BMBF, DESY, Helmholtz Association, Germany; Department of Atomic Energy, Department of Science and Technology, India; Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF), Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), MIUR, Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF-OABRERA) Grant Fondazione Cariplo/Regione Lombardia ID 2014-1980/RST_ERC, Italy; ICRR, University of Tokyo, JSPS, MEXT, Japan; Netherlands Research School for Astronomy (NOVA), Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO), Netherlands; University of Oslo, Norway; Ministry of Science and Higher Education, DIR/WK/2017/12, the National Centre for Research and Development and the National Science Centre, UMO-2016/22/M/ST9/00583, Poland; Slovenian Research Agency, grants P1-0031, P1-0385, I0-0033, J1-9146, J1-1700, N1-0111, and the Young Researcher program, Slovenia; South African Department of Science and Technology and National Research Foundation through the South African Gamma-Ray Astronomy Programme, South Africa; The Spanish groups acknowledge the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation and the Spanish Research State Agency (AEI) through grants AYA2016-79724-C4-1-P, AYA2016-80889-P, AYA2016-76012-C3-1-P, BES-2016-076342, FPA2017-82729-C6-1-R, FPA2017-82729-C6-2-R, FPA2017-82729-C6-3-R, FPA2017-82729-C6-4-R, FPA2017-82729-C6-5-R, FPA2017-82729-C6-6-R, PGC2018-095161-B-I00, PGC2018-095512-B-I00, PID2019-107988GB-C22; the “Centro de Excelencia Severo Ochoa” program through grants no. SEV-2016-0597, SEV-2016-0588, SEV-2017-0709, CEX2019-000920-S; the “Unidad de Excelencia María de Maeztu” program through grant no. MDM-2015-0509; the “Ramón y Cajal” programme through grants RYC-2013-14511, RYC-2017-22665; and the MultiDark Consolider Network FPA2017-90566-REDC. They also acknowledge the Atracción de Talento contract no. 2016-T1/TIC-1542 granted by the Comunidad de Madrid; the “Postdoctoral Junior Leader Fellowship” programme from La Caixa Bank ing Foundation, grants no. LCF/BQ/LI18/11630014 and LCF/BQ/PI18/11630012; the “Programa Operativo” FEDER 2014-2020, Consejería de Economía y Conocimiento de la Junta de Andalucía (Ref. 1257737), PAIDI 2020 (Ref. P18-FR-1580) and Universidad de Jaén; “Programa Operativo de Crecimiento Inteligente” FEDER 2014-2020 (Ref. ESFRI-2017-IAC-12), Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación, 15% co-financed by Consejería de Economía, Industria, Comercio y Conocimiento del Gobierno de Canarias; the Spanish AEI EQC2018-005094-P FEDER 2014-2020; the European Union’s “Horizon 2020” research and innovation programme under Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement no. 665919; and the ESCAPE project with grant no. GA:824064; Swedish Research Council, Royal Physiographic Society of Lund, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, The Swedish National Infrastructure for Computing (SNIC) at Lunarc (Lund), Sweden; State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI) and Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF), Switzerland; Durham University, Leverhulme Trust, Liverpool University, University of Leicester, University of Oxford, Royal Soci ety, Science and Technology Facilities Council, UK; U.S. National Science Foundation, U.S. Department of Energy, Argonne National Laboratory, Barnard College, University of California, University of Chicago, Columbia University, Georgia Institute of Technology, Institute for Nuclear and Particle Astrophysics (INPAC-MRPI program), Iowa State University, the Smithsonian Institution, Washington University McDonnell Center for the Space Sciences, The University of Wisconsin and the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, USA. The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) under grant agreements No 262053 and No 317446. This project is receiving funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programs under agreement No 676134. The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement GammaRayCascades No 843800. The Fermi LAT Collaboration acknowledges generous ongoing support from a number of agencies and institutes that have supported both the development and the operation of the LAT as well as scientific data analysis. These include the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the Department of Energy in the United States, the Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique and the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique / Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules in France, the Agenzia Spaziale Italiana and the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare in Italy, the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT), High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK) and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) in Japan, and the K. A. Wallenberg Foundation, the Swedish Research Council and the Swedish National Space Board in Sweden. Additional support for science analysis during the operations phase is gratefully acknowledged from the Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica in Italy and the Centre National d’Études Spatiales in France. This work performed in part under DOE Contract DE-AC02-76SF00515.

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29. Prototype Schwarzschild-Couder Telescope for the Cherenkov Telescope Array: Commissioning the Optical System

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M. Valentino, M. Capasso, R. A. Cameron, Q. Feng, Valerio Vagelli, L. P. Taylor, Daniel Nieto, K. Meagher, F. R. Pantaleo, N. Otte, F. Di Pierro, V. Masone, R. Shang, F. Licciulli, W. Jin, T. B. Humensky, R. Halliday, Andrea Rugliancich, P. I. Batista, Bruna Bertucci, Wystan Benbow, C. Bonavolontà, Serena Loporchio, L. Stiaccini, A. Boiano, D. Depaoli, R. Paoletti, G. Marsella, A. Brill, Maria Ionica, David R. Williams, Olivier Hervet, B. A. W. Mode, Richard Bose, Corbin Covault, M. Ambrosio, Carla Aramo, M. Caprai, Luca Tosti, Thomas Meures, Peter Y. Yu, E. Roache, Reshmi Mukherjee, N. Giglietto, Rodolfo Canestrari, V. V. Vassiliev, Elisabetta Bissaldi, G. Ambrosi, G. H. Tovmassian, L. Riitano, Marcos Santander, Ferdinando Giordano, E. Pueschel, D. Ribeiro, G. Tripodo, S. J. Fegan, Amy Furniss, G. Pareschi, Manel Errando, S. I. Mognet, Alasdair E. Gent, E. Fiandrini, S. Incardona, D. B. Kieda, J. Vandenbroucke, Julien Rousselle, Enrico Giro, J. H. Buckley, M. Bitossi, C. Adams, Atsushi Okumura, and L. Di Venere

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High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Physics, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy, Cherenkov Telescope Array, law.invention, Telescope, law, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), Schwarzschild radius, Physics - Optics, Optics (physics.optics)
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A prototype Schwarzschild-Couder Telescope (pSCT) has been constructed at the Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory as a candidate for the medium-sized telescopes of the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO). CTAO is currently entering early construction phase of the project and once completed it will vastly improve very high energy gamma-ray detection component in multi-wavelength and multi-messenger observations due to significantly improved sensitivity, angular resolution and field of view comparing to the current generation of the ground-based gamma-ray observatories H.E.S.S., MAGIC and VERITAS. The pSCT uses a dual aspheric mirror design with a $9.7$ m primary mirror and $5.4$ m secondary mirror, both of which are segmented. The Schwarzschild-Couder (SC) optical system (OS) selected for the prototype telescope achieves wide field of view of $8$ degrees and simultaneously reduces the focal plane plate scale allowing an unprecedented compact ($0.78$m diameter) implementation of the high-resolution camera ($6$mm/ $0.067$deg per imaging pixel with $11,328$ pixels) based on the silicon photo-multipliers (SiPMs). The OS of the telescope is designed to eliminate spherical and comatic aberrations and minimize astigmatism to radically improve off-axis imaging and consequently angular resolution across all the field of view with respect to the conventional single-mirror telescopes. Fast and high imaging resolution OS of the pSCT comes with the challenging submillimeter-precision custom alignment system, which was successfully demonstrated with an on-axis point spread function (PSF) of $2.9$ arcmin prior to the first-light detection of the Crab Nebula in 2020. Ongoing and future commissioning activities are reported.

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30. On the Existence of the Plateau Emission in High-Energy Gamma-Ray Burst LightCurves observed byFermi-LAT

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Giacomo Vianello, Vahé Petrosian, Shigehiro Nagataki, Nicola Omodei, M. G. Dainotti, Richard Willingale, Gokul P. Srinivasaragavan, F. Longo, P. T. O'Brien, X. Hernandez, Magnus Axelsson, Elisabetta Bissaldi, Z. Nuygen, Dainotti, M. G., Omodei, N., Srinivasaragavan, G. P., Vianello, G., Willingale, R., O???brien, P., Nagataki, S., Petrosian, V., Nuygen, Z., Hernandez, X., Axelsson, M., Bissaldi, E., and Longo, F.

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High energy, 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Plateau (mathematics), 01 natural sciences, 7. Clean energy, law.invention, Telescope, Spitzer Space Telescope, law, 0103 physical sciences, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, Physics, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Light curve, On board, 13. Climate action, Space and Planetary Science, Gamma-ray bursts, Gamma-ray burst, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope
Abstract

The Large Area Telescope (LAT) on board the \Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope (\Fermi) shows long-lasting high-energy emission in many gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), similar to X-ray afterglows observed by the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory \citep[\textit{Swift};][]{gehrels2004}. Some LAT light curves (LCs) show a late-time flattening reminiscent of X-ray plateaus. We explore the presence of plateaus in LAT temporally extended emission analyzing GRBs from the second \lat GRB Catalog \citep[2FLGC;][]{Ajello2019apj} from 2008 to May 2016 with known redshifts, and check whether they follow closure relations corresponding to 4 distinct astrophysical environments predicted by the external forward shock (ES) model. We find that three LCs can be fit by the same phenomenological model used to fit X-ray plateaus \citep{Willingale2007} and show tentative evidence for the existence of plateaus in their high-energy extended emission. The most favorable scenario is a slow cooling regime, whereas the preferred density profile for each GRBs varies from a constant density ISM to a $r^{-2}$ wind environment. We also compare the end time of the plateaus in $\gamma$-rays and X-rays using a statistical comparison with 222 \textit{Swift} GRBs with plateaus and known redshifts from January 2005 to August 2019. Within this comparison, the case of GRB 090510 shows an indication of chromaticity at the end time of the plateau. Finally, we update the 3-D fundamental plane relation among the rest frame end time of the plateau, its correspondent luminosity, and the peak prompt luminosity for 222 GRBs observed by \textit{Swift}. We find that these three LAT GRBs follow this relation., Comment: 28 pages, 10 pictures, 3 Tables to appear on ApJ Supplement

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2021
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31. Magnetar giant flare in NGC 253 seen by Fermi-GBM

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Ersin Gogus, Elisabetta Bissaldi, Oliver J. Roberts, Rachel Hamburg, Sarah I. Chastain, Daniela Huppenkothen, J. A. Kennea, Chryssa Kouveliotou, P. Naryana Bhat, Eric Burns, Peter Vereš, Matthew G. Baring, Alexander J. van der Horst, D. Kocevski, James DeLaunay, J. D. Linford, Michael S. Briggs, C. A. Wilson-Hodge, George Younes, A. Tohuvavohu, and Sylvain Guiriec

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Physics, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics, Magnetar, Galaxy, law.invention, Neutron star, law, Gamma-ray burst, Interplanetary spaceflight, Event (particle physics), Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Flare, Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope
Abstract

Magnetar giant flares (MGFs) are enormous eruptions likely triggered by surface disruptions in magnetars, neutron stars with the strongest-known magnetic fields. Such events can be detected in both X- and gamma-ray bands, but are very rare. Almost 30 magnetars have been cataloged in our Galaxy, exhibiting occasional X-ray activity, but only two have produced giant flares to date. The most recent one, emitted by SGR 1806-20 in 2004, showed an initial very short and bright main spike, causing the saturation of the observing instruments and thus precluding reliable flux measurements. Here we report the observation and analysis of GRB 200415A, a very short and bright Gamma- Ray Burst detected by the Fermi Gamma-Ray Burst Monitor (GBM) as well as by several other instruments participating in the InterPlanetary Network (IPN) system, which located it in a region spatially coincident with the nearby galaxy NGC 253. Analysis of the event revealed peculiar spectral and temporal properties, which are not typically seen in GRBs: a very short rise time of the initial hard spike, strong submillisecond variability, a flat spectrum, and an unusually low isotropic energy release. A mild hint of periodicity in the event’s tail was also detected. Therefore we concluded that GRB 200415A is not a classical short GRB due to the merger of two binary neutron stars, but rather a MGF produced by an extragalactic magnetar.

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2021

32. Alignment of the optical system of the 9.7-m prototype Schwarzchild-Coulder Telescope

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Alasdair E. Gent, E. Fiandrini, Arturo Iriarte, Thomas Meures, Olivier Hervet, R. Shang, M. Valentino, Reshmi Mukherjee, K. L. Byrum, Corbin Covault, Nicola Giglietto, S. J. Fegan, G. Hughes, G. H. Tovmassian, A. Petrashyk, Akira Okumura, Wystan Benbow, C. Bonavolontà, G. Pareschi, J. Ruíz-Díaz-Soto, Daniel Nieto, B. Kim, G. Sironi, David Kieda, A. Brill, Ruben Alfaro, M. Caprai, Vladimir Vassiliev, N. La Palombara, Bruna Bertucci, S. Schlenstedt, Carla Aramo, Francesco Giordano, L. P. Taylor, M. J. Martínez González, J. H. Buckley, Elisabetta Bissaldi, R. A. Cameron, A. Boiano, R. Halliday, Q. Feng, Amy Furniss, Richard Bose, Julien Rousselle, B. A. W. Mode, T. B. Humensky, W. Jin, D. Ribeiro, Justin Vandenbroucke, Maria Ionica, P. Wilcox, M. Ambrosio, L. Stiaccini, M. Capasso, S. P. Wakely, P. Kaaret, E. Roache, Valerio Vagelli, Fernando Garfias, F. R. Pantaleo, Andrea Rugliancich, Michele Limon, Marcos Santander, S. Loporchio, L. Di Venere, N. Otte, J. Powell, G. Ambrosi, Luca Tosti, B. Stevenson, M. Bitossi, C. Adams, M. Garczarczyk, Peter Y. Yu, R. Paoletti, Salvo Scuderi, David A. Williams, ITA, USA, FRA, DEU, ESP, JPN, and MEX

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Pixel, business.industry, Computer science, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, media_common.quotation_subject, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Field of view, Gamma-ray astronomy, Cherenkov Telescope Array, law.invention, Telescope, Optics, Crab Nebula, Observatory, Sky, law, Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, business, media_common
Abstract

The novel 9.7m Schwarzschild-Couder Telescope (SCT), utilizing aspheric dual-mirror optical system, has been constructed as a prototype medium size x-ray telescope for the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) observatory. The prototype SCT (pSCT) is designed to achieve simultaneously the wide (>= 8°) field of view and the superior imaging resolution (0.067 per pixel) to significantly improve scientific capabilities of the observatory in conducting the sky surveys, the follow-up observations of multi-messenger transients with poorly known initial localization and the morphology studies of x-ray sources with angular extent. In this submission, we describe the hardware and software implementations of the telescope optical system as well as the methods specifically developed to align its complex optical system, in which both primary and secondary mirrors are segmented. The pSCT has detected Crab Nebula in June 2020 during ongoing commissioning, which was delayed due to worldwide pandemic and is not yet completed. Verification of pSCT performance is continuing and further improvement of optical alignment is anticipated.

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2020

33. Verification of the Optical System of the 9.7-m Prototype Schwarzschild-Couder Telescope

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C. Aramo, Thomas Brian Humensky, Giovanni Pareschi, L. Stiaccini, Carmela Bonavolontà, A. Rugliancich, M. Caprai, E. Fiandrini, David Kieda, Daniel Nieto, A. Furniss, M. Bitossi, G. Sironi, S. J. Fegan, Wystan Benbow, B. Stevenson, C. Adams, Markus Garczarczyk, Justin Vandenbroucke, Riccardo Paoletti, B. Kim, Elisabetta Bissaldi, L. Di Venere, A. Petrashyk, R. A. Cameron, M. Valentino, Vladimir Vassiliev, Gagik Tovmassian, A. Boiano, S. Loporchio, Corbin Covault, Nicola Giglietto, P. Wilcox, A. Iriarte, Francesco Giordano, Reshmi Mukherjee, F. Garfias, A. Brill, S. P. Wakely, T. Meures, P. Kaarat, R. Shang, Michele Limon, K. Powell, Marcos Santander, B. A. W. Mode, F. R. Pantaleo, D. A. Williams, Julien Rousselle, G. Hughes, O. Hervet, V. Masone, R. Halliday, R. Bose, Q. Feng, Jade Powell, J. H. Buckley, Salvo Scuderi, S. Schlenstedt, M. Ambrosio, Peter Y. Yu, M. Capasso, Akira Okumura, F. Licciulli, A. Gent, J. Ruíz-Díaz-Soto, L. P. Taylor, B. Bertucci, M. Ionica, N. Otte, D. Ribeiro, E. Roache, N. La Palombara, Giovanni Ambrosi, W. Jin, Karen Byrum, L. Tosti, Ruben Alfaro, Maria Magdalena González, V. Vagelli, Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet (LLR), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École polytechnique (X)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3), ITA, USA, FRA, DEU, ESP, JPN, and MEX

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Cherenkov Telescope Array, 01 natural sciences, localization, law.invention, High Energy Physics - Experiment, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), law, Observatory, pixel, optical, [PHYS.HEXP]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Experiment [hep-ex], mirror, media_common, Physics, cascade: atmosphere, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, imaging, Active optics, alignment, Schwarzschild, observatory, Aplanatic Optical System, duality, history, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, performance, Gamma Ray, Imaging Cherenkov Telescopes, Aperture, media_common.quotation_subject, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, FOS: Physical sciences, Cherenkov counter: atmosphere, 010309 optics, Telescope, Optics, 0103 physical sciences, Angular resolution, [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det], Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), Cherenkov radiation, business.industry, beam: width, 010401 analytical chemistry, resolution, sensitivity, 0104 chemical sciences, messenger, angular resolution, Sky, gamma ray, business
Abstract

For the first time in the history of ground-based $\gamma$-ray astronomy, the on-axis performance of the dual mirror, aspheric, aplanatic Schwarzschild-Couder optical system has been demonstrated in a $9.7$-m aperture imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescope. The novel design of the prototype Schwarzschild-Couder Telescope (pSCT) is motivated by the need of the next-generation Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) observatory to have the ability to perform wide ($\geq 8^{\circ}$) field-of-view observations simultaneously with superior imaging of atmospheric cascades (resolution of $0.067^{\circ}$ per pixel or better). The pSCT design, if implemented in the CTA installation, has the potential to improve significantly both the $\gamma$-ray angular resolution and the off-axis sensitivity of the observatory, reaching nearly the theoretical limit of the technique and thereby making a major impact on the CTA observatory sky survey programs, follow-up observations of multi-messenger transients with poorly known initial localization, as well as on the spatially resolved spectroscopic studies of extended $\gamma$-ray sources. This contribution reports on the initial alignment procedures and point-spread-function results for the challenging segmented aspheric primary and secondary mirrors of the pSCT., Comment: 19 pages, 11 figures, proceedings for SPIE Optical Engineering + Applications, 2020, Online Only

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2020

34. The Fourth Catalog of Active Galactic Nuclei Detected by the Fermi Large Area Telescope

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Michael Kreter, Carmelo Sgrò, Riccardo Rando, Leonid Petrov, E. Nuss, M. Kuss, Nicola Omodei, M. Orienti, Diego F. Torres, M. Yassine, E. Hays, Francesco Massaro, G. Jóhannesson, L. S. Ojha, S. Harita, Frank K. Schinzel, Marco Ajello, E. Orlando, S. Maldera, B. Lott, R. Itoh, Jean Ballet, S. Garrappa, G. Martí-Devesa, F. Piron, G. M. Madejski, Francesco Longo, Manuel Meyer, Eleonora Torresi, R. Bonino, Giacomo Principe, Stefano Ciprini, J. Li, E. Troja, Marcello Giroletti, Nestor Mirabal, A. Reimer, Stefan Funk, P. van Zyl, Melissa Pesce-Rollins, Eugenio Bottacini, J. F. Ormes, P. Fusco, F. Gargano, Elliott D. Bloom, C. Leto, F. Fana Dirirsa, N. Di Lalla, C. C. Cheung, J. Valverde, Stefan Larsson, Sylvain Guiriec, Alberto Manfreda, Denis Bastieri, Z. Pei, A. Morselli, Igor V. Moskalenko, Soebur Razzaque, P. de la Torre Luque, Mn Mazziotta, Elizabeth C. Ferrara, Olaf Reimer, Justin D. Finke, I. A. Grenier, M. Razzano, F. de Palma, Filippo D'Ammando, D. J. Suson, D. Costantin, Nicola Giglietto, Yutaro Tachibana, Vaidehi S. Paliya, F. Loparco, R. Angioni, E. Cavazzuti, M. N. Lovellette, P. Lubrano, J. Becerra González, H. Poon, Gloria Spandre, E. J. Siskind, Giulia Migliori, Aaron Dominguez, Elisabetta Bissaldi, R. A. Cameron, David A. Green, Rodrigo Nemmen, D. J. Thompson, D. Horan, P. Bruel, Magnus Axelsson, R. de Menezes, Anna Franckowiak, S. Buson, Ioannis Liodakis, S. Rainò, Tsunefumi Mizuno, Yasushi Fukazawa, P. Spinelli, Ronaldo Bellazzini, Francesco Giordano, Fabio Cafardo, Bindu Rani, Dario Gasparrini, Felicia Krauss, Abhishek Desai, Sina Chen, L. Di Venere, Roopesh Ojha, H. A. Peña-Herazo, Massimo Persic, D. Serini, Guido Barbiellini, I. Mereu, S. Cutini, M. E. Monzani, M. Negro, Miloš Kovačević, Astrophysique Interprétation Modélisation (AIM (UMR_7158 / UMR_E_9005 / UM_112)), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7), Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet (LLR), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École polytechnique (X)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3), Centre d'Etudes Nucléaires de Bordeaux Gradignan (CENBG), Université Sciences et Technologies - Bordeaux 1-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire Univers et Particules de Montpellier (LUPM), Université Montpellier 2 - Sciences et Techniques (UM2)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Fermi-LAT, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (US), Department of Energy (US), Commissariat à l'Ènergie Atomique et aux Ènergies Alternatives (France), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (France), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules (France), Agenzia Spaziale Italiana, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (Japan), High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (Japan), Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation, Swedish Research Council, Swedish National Space Board, Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica, Ajello, M., Angioni, R., Axelsson, M., Ballet, J., Barbiellini, G., Bastieri, D., Becerra Gonzalez, J., Bellazzini, R., Bissaldi, E., Bloom, E. 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Subjects
galaxies [Gamma rays], Astrophysics, Blazar, 01 natural sciences, law.invention, observations [Gamma rays], Spitzer Space Telescope, Astrophysical jet, law, Relativistic jet, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS, Quasar, Physics, education.field_of_study, Galaxies: active, Quasars: general, Gamma rays: galaxies, Gamma-ray source, BL Lacertae objects, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Active galactic nucleus, active [Galaxies], Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Population, BL Lacertae objetcs: general, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Gamma rays: observations, Telescope, 0103 physical sciences, Active galactic nuclei, Blazars, Gamma-ray sources, Relativistic jets, Quasars, education, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, general [Quasars], Astronomy and Astrophysics, general [BL Lacertae objetcs], [SDU]Sciences of the Universe [physics], Galaxies: jets, Space and Planetary Science, jets [Galaxies], [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope
Abstract

The fourth catalog of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) detected by the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope Large Area Telescope (4LAC) between 2008 August 4 and 2016 August 2 contains 2863 objects located at high Galactic latitudes (|b| > 10°). It includes 85% more sources than the previous 3LAC catalog based on 4 yr of data. AGNs represent at least 79% of the high-latitude sources in the fourth Fermi-Large Area Telescope Source Catalog (4FGL), which covers the energy range from 50 MeV to 1 TeV. In addition, 344 gamma-ray AGNs are found at low Galactic latitudes. Most of the 4LAC AGNs are blazars (98%), while the remainder are other types of AGNs. The blazar population consists of 24% Flat Spectrum Radio Quasars (FSRQs), 38% BL Lac-type objects, and 38% blazar candidates of unknown types (BCUs). On average, FSRQs display softer spectra and stronger variability in the gamma-ray band than BLQLacs do, confirming previous findings. All AGNs detected by ground-based atmospheric Cerenkov telescopes are also found in the 4LAC., The Fermi LAT Collaboration acknowledges generous ongoing support from a number of agencies and institutes that have supported both the development and the operation of the LAT as well as scientific data analysis. These include the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the Department of Energy in the United States, the Commissariat `a l’Energie Atomique and the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique / Institut National de Physique Nucl´eaire et de Physique des Particules in France, the Agenzia Spaziale Italiana and the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare in Italy, the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT), High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK) and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) in Japan, and the K. A. Wallenberg Foundation, the Swedish Research Council and the Swedish National Space Board in Sweden. Additional support for science analysis during the operations phase is gratefully acknowledged from the Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica in Italy and the Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales in France. This work performed in part under DOE Contract DE- AC02-76SF00515. This research has made use of data obtained from the high-energy Astrophysics Science Archive Research Center (HEASARC) provided by NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center; the SIMBAD database operated at CDS, Strasbourg, France; the NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database (NED) operated by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, under contract with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. This research has made use of data archives, catalogs and software tools from the ASDC, a facility managed by the Italian Space Agency (ASI). Part of this work is based on the NVSS (NRAO VLA Sky Survey). The National Radio Astronomy Observatory is operated by Associated Universities, Inc., under contract with the National Science Foundation. This publication makes use of data products from the Two Micron All Sky Survey, which is a joint project of the University of Massachusetts and the Infrared Processing and Analysis Center/California Institute of Technology, funded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the National Science Foundation. This publication makes use of data products from the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, which is a joint project of the University of California, Los Angeles, and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory/California Institute of Technology, funded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Funding for the SDSS and SDSS-II has been provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the Participating Institutions, the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Department of Energy, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the Japanese Monbukagakusho, the Max Planck Society, and the Higher Education Funding Council for England. The SDSS Web Site is http://www.sdss.org/. The SDSS is managed by the Astrophysical Research Consortium for the Participating Institutions. The Participating Institutions are the American Museum of Natural History, Astrophysical Institute Potsdam, University of Basel, University of Cambridge, Case Western Reserve University, University of Chicago, Drexel University, Fermilab, the Institute for Advanced Study, the Japan Participation Group, Johns Hopkins University, the Joint Institute for Nuclear Astrophysics, the Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, the Korean Scientist Group, the Chinese Academy of Sciences (LAMOST), Los Alamos National Laboratory, the Max-Planck-Institute for Astronomy (MPIA), the Max-Planck-Institute for Astrophysics (MPA), New Mexico State University, Ohio State University, University of Pittsburgh, University of Portsmouth, Princeton University, the United States Naval Observatory, and the University of Washington.

Published
2020

35. Characterization and assembly of near-ultraviolet SiPMs for the Schwarzschild-Couder medium-size telescope proposed for the CTA Observatory

Author

M. Santander, B. Kim, M. Ionica, P. Kaaret, R. Shang, B. Stevenson, Q. Feng, Reshmi Mukherjee, Vladimir Vassiliev, Elisabetta Bissaldi, R. Halliday, A. Boiano, T. B. Humensky, J. Rousselle, N. Otte, J. H. Buckley, A. Gent, M. Valentino, P. Wilcox, Thomas Meures, K. Powell, R. Paoletti, F. R. Pantaleo, B. A. W. Mode, Wystan Benbow, C. Bonavolontà, M. Caprai, Richard Bose, E. Fiandrini, L. P. Taylor, A. Brill, Carla Aramo, A. Rugliancich, L. Di Venere, G. Ambrosi, M. Bitossi, B. Bertucci, C. E. Covault, L. Stiaccini, Justin Vandenbroucke, A. Petrashyk, Daniela Maria Ribeiro, V. Masone, C. Adams, Nicola Giglietto, Francesco Giordano, G. Hughes, O. Hervet, Luca Tosti, F. Licciulli, Akira Okumura, S. Loporchio, W. Jin, M. Ambrosio, David Kieda, J. Powell, David A. Williams, and V. Vagelli

Subjects
Physics, pixel array, Cherenkov Telescope Array, Pixel, business.industry, NUV-HD, SiPM, Photon detection, Schwarzschild-Couder telescope, law.invention, Telescope, Upgrade, Optics, Cardinal point, Silicon photomultiplier, Observatory, law, business, Cherenkov radiation
Abstract

The first prototype of the Schwarzschild Couder Medium Size Telescope (pSCT) proposed for the CTA observatory has been installed in 2018 at the Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory. The pSCT camera is composed of 25 modules with 64 channels each, covering only a small portion of the full focal plane of the telescope. The Italian Institute of Nuclear Physics (INFN) has developed and characterized in collaboration with Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK) a new generation of Silicon Photomultipliers (SiPMs) sensitive to the Near Ultraviolet wavelengths, based on the High Density technology (NUV-HD devices). The latest generation of 6×6 mm2 SiPMs (called NUV-HD3) have been used to equip a subsection of 9 out of 25 modules of the pSCT camera. An upgrade of this camera is foreseen between 2019 and 2020 using the same sensors, aiming to equip the full focal plane with 177 modules, for a total of more than 11000 pixels. We will present a full characterization of the performance of these devices, highlighting why they are suitable for Cherenkov light detection. An overview on the overall behavior of the installed sensors will be also given, providing information on the uniformity of the sensors and of the performance of the camera.

Published
2019

36. Development of a SiPM based camera for Cherenkov Telescope Array

Author

E. Fiandrini, C. de Lisio, Riccardo Paoletti, M. Valentino, M. Ambrosio, Nicola Giglietto, G. Ambrosi, Maria Ionica, D. Simone, Elisabetta Bissaldi, A. Bonavolontà, V. Postolache, A. Boiano, V. Masone, L. Di Venere, Valerio Vagelli, Carla Aramo, Francesco Giordano, Ambrosi, G., Ambrosio, M., Aramo, C., Bissaldi, E., Boiano, A., Bonavolontà, A., de Lisio, C., Di Venere, L., Fiandrini, E., Giglietto, N., Giordano, F., Ionica, M., Masone, V., Paoletti, R., Postolache, V., Simone, D., Vagelli, V., and Valentino, M.

Subjects
Physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Particle physics, Micro cell, Cherenkov Telescope Array, Light detection, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, business.industry, Detector, Gamma-ray astronomy, Silicon Photomultipliers, 01 natural sciences, law.invention, Telescope, Silicon Photomultipliers, Cherenkov Telescope Array, Silicon photomultiplier, Optics, law, 0103 physical sciences, business, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Cherenkov radiation
Abstract

The Italian Institute of Nuclear Physics (INFN) is involved in the development of a prototype for a SiPM-based camera for the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA), a new generation of telescopes for ground - based gamma ray astronomy. In this framework, an R&D program for the development of SiPMs suitable for Cherenkov light detection (Near-Ultraviolet SiPMs) has been carried out. The developed device is a High Density NUV-SiPM based on a micro cell of 30 μ m × 30 μ m and 6 mm × 6 mm area produced by Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK). A full characterisation of the single SiPM will be presented and compared with the old technology (NUV-SiPM) and with other SiPMs commercially available. The NUV-HD SiPM will be tested in the pSCT (Schwarzschild-Couder Telescope prototype) for CTA which is leading to a camera concept based on 8 × 8 NUV-HD SiPM module as detection unit. An update on recent tests on the detectors arranged in this matrix configuration and on the front-end electronics will be given.

Published
2017

37. Erratum: First Fermi-LAT Solar Flare Catalog (2021, ApJS, 252, 13)

Author

E. Hays, G. Jóhannesson, M. Orienti, G. Zaharijas, G. Martí-Devesa, S. Larsson, Massimo Persic, Carmelo Sgrò, Luca Latronico, M. N. Lovellette, E. Troja, E. Orlando, David Paneque, S. Rainò, M. Kuss, Vahé Petrosian, R. Desiante, F. D'Ammando, Giacomo Principe, M. Negro, Miloš Kovačević, D. Green, Sara Buson, J. W. Hewitt, Yasushi Fukazawa, P. Spinelli, Seb. Funk, F. de Palma, J. Li, D. Bastieri, Marcello Giroletti, T. A. Porter, Regina Caputo, A. Morselli, S. Maldera, Luca Baldini, R. A. Cameron, E. Cavazzuti, Nicola Omodei, M. E. Monzani, D. Serini, T. Mizuno, P. Bruel, Gloria Spandre, Marco Ajello, R. Bonino, D. Tak, P. Fusco, Z. Pei, S. Cutini, Sylvain Guiriec, Igor V. Moskalenko, N. Di Lalla, Olaf Reimer, D. Horan, R. Bellazzini, F. Piron, R. Rando, Mn Mazziotta, P. F. Michelson, L. Di Venere, G. Chiaro, D. Gasparrini, C. C. Cheung, P. Lubrano, S. J. Fegan, J. L. Racusin, Ferdinando Giordano, D. Costantin, Soebur Razzaque, J. Valverde, Elisabetta Bissaldi, I. Mereu, Roger Blandford, A. Berretta, A. Reimer, F. Longo, Alberto Manfreda, M. Razzano, F. Gargano, Melissa Pesce-Rollins, E. J. Siskind, F. Fana Dirirsa, Bindu Rani, and K. S. Wood

Subjects
Physics, Solar flare, Space and Planetary Science, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrophysics, Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope
Published
2021

38. Characterization and development of NUV SiPMs for INFN optical modules for the SCT Medium Size Telescope proposed for the CTA Observatory

Author

V. Masone, C. Bonavolontà, M. Valentino, Maria Ionica, Elisabetta Bissaldi, A. Boiano, L. Di Venere, G. Ambrosi, F. Liciulli, Nicola Giglietto, E. Fiandrini, Valerio Vagelli, Carla Aramo, M. Ambrosio, Francesco Giordano, L. Stiaccini, M. Mongelli, L. Tosti, Andrea Rugliancich, R. Paoletti, M. Bitossri, Bruna Bertucci, M. Caprai, F. R. Pantaleo, and S. Loporchio

Subjects
Physics, Schwarzschild-Couder Telescope, Cherenkov Telescope Array, Pixel, business.industry, Silicon Photomultipliers, law.invention, Telescope, Cardinal point, Optics, Silicon photomultiplier, Application-specific integrated circuit, Observatory, law, business, Camera module
Abstract

The third generation of Near Ultraviolet High Density (NUV-HD3) Silicon Photomultipliers (SiPMs) produced by Fondazione Bruno Kessler in collaboration with Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN) have been tested and characterized in INFN laboratories. Arrays of 16 pixels have been assembled to equip the focal plane of the prototype Schwarzschild-Couder Medium Size Telescope (pSCT) proposed for the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory. Each camera module is composed by 4 matrices of 16-pixel optical units coupled with TARGET-7 ASIC front-end electronics for signal amplification and digitization. A total of 9 modules have been successfully integrated on the pSCT camera and are currently taking data. In this contribution we provide a summary of the performances of the HD3 technology as measured in the INFN laboratories. We also report on the laboratory tests performed on the assembled optical units, showing their performances and homogeneity in terms of gain, signal-to-noise ratio and dark count rate.

Published
2019

39. Readout chain validation of INFN modules for the CTA-pSCT camera

Author

Nicola Giglietto, A. Rugliancich, B. Bertucci, Riccardo Paoletti, E. Fiandrini, L. Consiglio, L. Di Venere, M. Ambrosio, V. Masone, M. Bitossi, S. Loporchio, M. Valentino, Carla Aramo, Francesco Giordano, L. Tosti, A. Boiano, G. Ambrosi, V. Vagelli, Carmela Bonavolontà, M. Caprai, Elisabetta Bissaldi, M. Movileanu, and F. Licciulli

Subjects
Physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Pixel, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, business.industry, SiPM, Front-end electronics, Chip, Cherenkov Telescope Array, 01 natural sciences, law.invention, Telescope, Optics, Silicon photomultiplier, Cardinal point, law, Observatory, 0103 physical sciences, Cherenkov Telescopes, Photo detectors, 010306 general physics, business, Instrumentation, Cherenkov radiation
Abstract

The Italian Institute of Nuclear Physics (INFN) is currently involved in the R&D for the integration of Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK) Silicon Photomultipliers (SiPM) in the focal plane camera for the prototype of the Schwarzschild–Couder Telescope (pSCT) proposed to integrate the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) observatory . High density FBK SiPMs optimized for the detection of Near Ultraviolet Cherenkov light (NUV-HD) will be used to equip the camera, coupled to the TARGET-7 readout electronics. A first production of 9 INFN modules is being tested and will be installed on the focal plane of the pSCT camera. Each module consists of 64 6 mm × 6 mm pixels, based on 40 μ m × 40 μ m microcells, arranged in 16-pixel matrices. The front-end electronics is based on the TARGET-7 ASIC, a 16-channel chip for sampling and digitization of the signal. Here we report measurements of the performances of the complete readout chain, including results regarding homogeneity in terms of gain and signal-to-noise ratio .

Published
2019

40. Characterization of FBK NUV-HD SiPMs for the pSCT camera proposed for the Cherenkov Telescope Array

Author

L. Tosti, C. Bonavolontà, Maria Ionica, S. Loporchio, M. Ambrosio, A. Rugliancich, V. Masone, Carla Aramo, Francesco Giordano, A. Boiano, L. Consiglio, M. Caprai, V. Vagelli, G. Ambrosi, E. Fiandrini, Riccardo Paoletti, F. Licciulli, B. Bertucci, M. Bitossi, L. Di Venere, Elisabetta Bissaldi, Nicola Giglietto, and M. Valentino

Subjects
010302 applied physics, Physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, High energy, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, business.industry, SiPM, High density, Cherenkov telescopes, Cherenkov Telescope Array, 01 natural sciences, law.invention, Telescope, FBK NUV-HD, Photo detectors, Optics, Silicon photomultiplier, Cardinal point, law, 0103 physical sciences, business, Instrumentation, Cherenkov radiation
Abstract

Recent developments on Silicon Photomultipliers (SiPMs) have shown that they are particularly adequate to detect fast signal due to low-intensity light. Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK) has optimized these sensors for the Near-Ultraviolet Cherenkov light emitted by high energy gamma-ray showers in the atmosphere. The FBK high density SiPMs (NUV-HD) have been extensively characterized in the laboratories of the Italian Institute of Nuclear Physics (INFN) in view of equipping the focal plane camera of the Schwarzschild–Couder Telescope prototype (pSCT) in the framework of the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA). Here we report the performances of the 6 × 6 mm 2 SiPMs based on 40 × 40 μm 2 cells, in terms of gain and signal-to-noise ratio. We compare the results obtained on devices from the latest generation and grown on different substrates in order to choose the most suitable sensor for the pSCT camera.

Published
2019

41. Assembly and validation of SiPM optical modules for the SCT Medium Size Telescope proposed for the CTA observatory

Author

Maria Ionica, V. Masone, A. Rugliancich, L. Di Venere, L. Consiglio, M. Bitossi, A. Boiano, G. Ambrosi, V. Vagelli, Cta Sct, B. Bertucci, E. Fiandrini, F. R. Pantaleo, Riccardo Paoletti, S. Loporchio, M. Ambrosio, M. Valentino, Carla Aramo, F. Licciulli, Nicola Giglietto, Francesco Giordano, C. Bonavolontà, M. Caprai, L. Tosti, L. Stiaccini, and Elisabetta Bissaldi

Subjects
Physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Particle physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, business.industry, SiPM, Cherenkov Telescope Array, 01 natural sciences, Signal, Photo Detectors, law.invention, Telescope, Silicon photomultiplier, Optics, Upgrade, Cardinal point, Front End Electronics, Observatory, law, 0103 physical sciences, Cherenkov Telescopes, 010306 general physics, business, Cherenkov radiation
Abstract

Silicon Photomultipliers are particularly suitable as optical units of Imaging Air Cherenkov Telescopes to detect the fast and low-intensity Cherenkov signal emitted by high energy atmospheric showers. The third generation of high density NUV SiPMs (NUV-HD3) produced by Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK) in collaboration with INFN have been used to equip optical modules intended to be integrated on a possible upgrade of the focal plane camera of the Schwarzschild-Couder Telescope prototype (pSCT) in the framework of the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) project. NUV-HD3 SiPMs are 6 × 6 mm2 devices based on 40 × 40 μm2 microcells with excellent photo detection efficiency for the NUV wavelengths. Optical modules, each composed of a matrix of 4 × 4 SiPMs, have been assembled and tested in the laboratories of INFN to be integrated on the pSCT camera. In this contribution we report on the development and on the assembly of the optical modules, on their validation and on their integration on the pSCT camera.

Published
2019

42. Multi-Messenger Observations of GRBs: The GW connection

Author

Elisabetta Bissaldi

Subjects
Physics, Gravitation, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Neutron star, Astronomy, Binary number, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Gamma-ray burst, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Coincidence
Abstract

Two years ago, the astronomical community witnessed a historical breakthrough observation: the detection of a short Gamma-Ray Burst (GRB) by gamma-ray instruments in coincidence with the detection of a Gravitation Wave (GW) signal produced by the coalescence of two binary neutron stars. This joint GRB-GW observation paved the way to a new chapter in modern astrophysics: the "Multi-Messenger" era. In this contribution, I will review the main results by gamma-ray experiments obtained from 2015 to 2017 during the first two observational runs of the LIGO-Virgo experiments (O1/O2), and highlight strategies and status during the current run (O3) which will cover a 1-year period starting April 2019. Finally, I will focus on future prospects for gamma-ray missions dedicated to GW counterpart studies., Comment: 15 pages, 6 figures, Highlight Talk, Proceedings of the 36th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC2019)

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2019
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43. Monte Carlo studies for the optimisation of the Cherenkov Telescope Array layout

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Katsuaki Asano, Rodrigo Guedes Lang, M. Cieślar, Nicholas F. H Tothill, Gianpiero Tagliaferri, O. Le Blanc, M. Vazquez Acosta, Nicola Giglietto, S. Mangano, Julien Lefaucheur, Tatsuo Yoshida, D. de Martino, Martin Pohl, A. Shalchi, Y. Renier, B. Biasuzzi, T. B. Humensky, E. Fiandrini, Andreas Quirrenbach, Abelardo Moralejo, Carla Aramo, Vincenzo Rizi, J. Knapp, A. Pagliaro, Andrea Santangelo, Michael Punch, Andreas Specovius, A. M. Lopez, P. Peñil Del Campo, Henry Przybilski, J.-P. Lenain, Agnieszka Slowikowska, Satoshi Fukami, M. H. Grondin, S. Schlenstedt, Marek Nikolajuk, F. Schüssler, Maria Concetta Maccarone, Michael Zacharias, Francesco Giordano, T. Suomijärvi, Lorenzo Amati, J. Becker Tjus, Maxim V. Barkov, H. Prokoph, F.G. Saturni, R. J. White, Nu. Komin, María Isabel Bernardos, M. Orienti, Denis Bastieri, Justin Vandenbroucke, P. Vallania, Diego Falceta-Gonçalves, L. Tibaldo, A. Burtovoi, A. Viana, Takanori Yoshikoshi, Roberto Aloisio, Soebur Razzaque, M. Valentino, P. Da Vela, Pol Bordas, Francesco Longo, N. Otte, V. La Parola, E. O. Angüner, Marco Berton, Elina Lindfors, Salvo Scuderi, Hiroyasu Tajima, M. Prouza, E. Mach, P. Goldoni, C. Alispach, M. I. Martínez, Miroslav Pech, Kai Brügge, G. Vasileiadis, A. Nagai, A. Brill, Dusan Mandat, Geoff Romeo, M. Marculewicz, Cameron B Rulten, Fuyuki Tokanai, Luis Ángel Tejedor, Thomas Lohse, Anderson Caproni, Karol Seweryn, G. Bonnoli, D. Ninci, G. Pareschi, Stefan Kimeswenger, I. Sadeh, Łukasz Stawarz, M. Nöthe, Daniel Mazin, Ruben Alfaro, G. Busetto, Massimo Persic, A. Berti, G. Sironi, Pavel Horvath, Włodek Kluźniak, Pietro Bruno, Petr Travnicek, Daniel Kerszberg, M. Hayashida, Tomasz Szepieniec, A. Rugliancich, Marina Manganaro, Y. Ohtani, Samuel Timothy Spencer, L. Di Venere, S. Karkar, M. Füßling, E. de Oña Wilhelmi, Louis Antonelli, M. Lemoine-Goumard, Benjamin Koch, P.-O. Petrucci, M. de Naurois, Felix Werner, S. Sakurai, J. J. Rodríguez Vázquez, Petr Janecek, L. Dangeon, G. Fontaine, Alison Mitchell, Maria Magdalena González, Francesco Dazzi, Philip Kaaret, Reinaldo Santos-Lima, F. Di Pierro, Tomislav Terzić, Grzegorz Kowal, Stefan Wagner, R. A. Cameron, G. S. Varner, M. Roncadelli, Wystan Benbow, C. Bonavolontà, David Kieda, M. A. Leigui de Oliveira, Ullrich Schwanke, Y. Iwamura, K. Sedlaczek, R. C. Shellard, Q. Feng, David A. Williams, A. De Angelis, T. Nagayoshi, P. Sangiorgi, I. A. Minaya, Etienne Lyard, Juan Abel Barrio, B. De Lotto, S. Nozaki, J. Gironnet, L. Mohrmann, Oscar Blanch, Marcello Giroletti, Jean-Luc Meunier, Valentina Fioretti, S. Masuda, V. Vagelli, Rodolfo Canestrari, L. Freixas Coromina, M. Palatka, T. Di Girolamo, Vincenzo Testa, Tsuguya Naito, J. Becerra González, R. Alves Batista, Samo Stanič, S. D. Vergani, Lorenzo Bellizzi, Catherine Boisson, Olivier Hervet, P. Cumani, Konstancja Satalecka, Stefan Funk, Michele Doro, Pedro L. Luque-Escamilla, P. Romano, E. Fedorova, Carlo Vigorito, M. Zavrtanik, Markus Gaug, Stanislav Stefanik, R. J. García López, F. de Palma, V. Beshley, T.R.N. Ekoume, Enrico Congiu, Pierre Brun, Manuela Mallamaci, Barbara Balmaverde, L. Valore, Gino Tosti, Enrico Cascone, Marek Jamrozy, V. I. Zhdanov, Gavin Rowell, Elisabetta Bissaldi, M. Fiori, M. Capalbi, J. Bregeon, Dario Hrupec, F. Toussenel, R. Paoletti, Fulvio Gianotti, Ayan Acharyya, G. Spengler, P. Majumdar, A.A. Zdziarski, A. López-Oramas, M. Mariotti, Juri Poutanen, G. Ferrand, Paweł Świerk, M. Garczarczyk, S. Rainò, Tsunefumi Mizuno, Diego F. Torres, Ciro Bigongiari, Matteo Cerruti, M. Polo, Csaba Balázs, A. Dmytriiev, T. Gasparetto, D. Dorner, A. W. Chen, Elisa Prandini, Vitalii Sliusar, Helene Sol, Rodolfo Carosi, Jonathan Biteau, Vito Conforti, G. Rodriguez Fernandez, Shanta M. Zimmer, J. M. Paredes, S. Vercellone, Jonathan Granot, Alice Donini, Antonio Stamerra, Jaime Rosado, Michael G. Burton, Bohdan Hnatyk, F. D'Ammando, D. Nosek, M. Heller, Gagik Tovmassian, N. Produit, Petr Schovanek, German Martinez, G. Pühlhofer, S. Fegan, A. Kong, G. Morlino, G. Emery, H.-S. Zechlin, Tomasz Bulik, Antonino D'Ai, Riccardo Rando, Rocco Lico, K. Pfrang, D. Hadasch, R. López-Coto, A. Vollhardt, Pankaj Kushwaha, Petar Temnikov, Emmanuel Moulin, Luca Zampieri, Michiko Ohishi, C. Maggio, V. de Souza, Q. Piel, Marc Ribó, Werner Hofmann, A. Wierzcholska, Luisa Arrabito, Gianpaolo Vettolani, J. Pérez-Romero, Paramita Barai, Sylvain Chaty, N. Parmiggiani, V. Vassiliev, K. Nishijima, D. Cauz, S. Caroff, Giuseppe Leto, J.F. Glicenstein, Maria Ionica, Eva Sciacca, A. Bonardi, Juan Carlos Rodríguez-Ramírez, Marcos Santander, H. Siejkowski, Daniela Maria Ribeiro, Ralph Bird, S. Mićanović, D. Zavrtanik, Carole Mundell, Jan Ebr, Koji Noda, Elisa Bernardini, R. Gnatyk, Pierre Jean, M. Nievas Rosillo, M. López, Olga Sergijenko, R. Walter, Oleh Petruk, M. Del Santo, D. Elsasser, Jakub Juryšek, H. Martínez-Huerta, Andreas Zech, Jose J. Gonzalez, Akira Okumura, M. Iori, A. Ghalumyan, Jacco Vink, David Gascon, Jürgen Knödlseder, Daniel Nieto, R. A. Ong, Sabrina Casanova, B. Khélifi, S. Flis, G. Galanti, H. J. Voelk, Jim Hinton, M. Will, David H. Green, Giuseppe Malaguti, B. Rudak, A. Pe'Er, J. L. Dournaux, Andrea Bulgarelli, Frank M. Rieger, A. Djannati-Ataï, F. De Frondat, Lenka Tomankova, Moritz Hütten, Osvaldo Catalano, Hidetoshi Kubo, Tarek M. Hassan, Tomohiro Inada, Farinaldo S. Queiroz, J. Kushida, Daniel Morcuende, Jose Luis Contreras, F. Salesa Greus, Juan Cortina, Andreu Sanuy, S. Vorobiov, G. Maneva, B. Vallage, N. Maxted, N. Renault-Tinacci, P. Munar, M. Seglar-Arroyo, Fabrizio Tavecchio, Z. Ou, Anatolii Zenin, T. Tam, Miroslav Hrabovsky, G. Ambrosi, Giovanni Bonanno, R. Millul, Anastasia Maria Barbano, T. Grabarczyk, J. Zorn, D. Dominis Prester, R. D. Parsons, Luis H. S. Kadowaki, Elena Amato, M. Lallena Arquillo, I. Oya, Jacek Niemiec, Gianluca Giavitto, Marita Krause, Olaf Reimer, Josep Martí, M. Perri, Maria Chernyakova, Takeshi Nakamori, E. M. de Gouveia Dal Pino, Thomas Murach, P. Cristofari, C. Delgado, Fernando Catalani, G. La Rosa, J. Alfaro, Thomas Armstrong, J. Kocot, Léa Jouvin, Markus Böttcher, Rodrigo Nemmen, J. P. Amans, Utane Sawangwit, Y. Kobayashi, Hidetoshi Sano, D. Jankowsky, Heide Costantini, F. Arqueros, B. Bertucci, Sebastian Diebold, L. P. Taylor, Konstantinos N. Gourgouliatos, A. Fiasson, Miroslav Filipovic, R. Moderski, T. Stolarczyk, B. Patricelli, H. Ashkar, Alessandro Costa, Jonathan Blazek, C. Trichard, M. Vecchi, T. Greenshaw, A. Morselli, V. Vitale, A. M. Brown, S. M. Colak, Lili Yang, C. Díaz, J. Rico, P. Caraveo, S. Loporchio, Orel Gueta, Daniele Gaggero, V. De Caprio, R. Wischnewski, A. Sillanpää, C. J. Todero Peixoto, Takashi Saito, I. Agudo, Yasuo Fukui, Roberto Capuzzo-Dolcetta, F. Cassol, Manuel Meyer, Reiko Orito, G. Umana, M. V. Fonseca, U. Barres de Almeida, Saverio Lombardi, D. della Volpe, Giancarlo Cusumano, M. Ostrowski, T. Montaruli, L. Tosti, Garret Cotter, Konrad Bernlöhr, Reshmi Mukherjee, Fabio Iocco, M. Palatiello, Jonathan S. Lapington, U. Straumann, R. de Cássia dos Anjos, Matteo Balbo, Lab Saha, N. Hiroshima, G. Chiaro, D. Tonev, Ermanno Pietropaolo, Atreyee Sinha, Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (España), European Commission, Centre de Physique des Particules de Marseille (CPPM), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Galaxies, Etoiles, Physique, Instrumentation (GEPI), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire Univers et Particules de Montpellier (LUPM), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Astrophysique Interprétation Modélisation (AIM (UMR7158 / UMR_E_9005 / UM_112)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - 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O., Alfaro, R., Alfaro, J., Alispach, C., Aloisio, R., Alves Batista, R., Amans, J. -P., Amati, L., Amato, E., Ambrosi, G., Antonelli, L. A., Aramo, C., Armstrong, T., Arqueros, F., Arrabito, L., Asano, K., Ashkar, H., Balazs, C., Balbo, M., Balmaverde, B., Barai, P., Barbano, A., Barkov, M., Barres de Almeida, U., Barrio, J. A., Bastieri, D., Becerra Gonzalez, J., Becker Tjus, J., Bellizzi, L., Benbow, W., Bernardini, E., Bernardos, M. I., Bernlohr, K., Berti, A., Berton, M., Bertucci, B., Beshley, V., Biasuzzi, B., Bigongiari, C., Bird, R., Bissaldi, E., Biteau, J., Blanch, O., Blazek, J., Boisson, C., Bonanno, G., Bonardi, A., Bonavolonta, C., Bonnoli, G., Bordas, P., Bottcher, M., Bregeon, J., Brill, A., Brown, A. 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Cherenkov Telescope Array, Astronomy, Monte Carlo method, energy resolution, Monte Carlo simulations, Cherenkov telescopes, IACT technique, gamma rays, cosmic rays, 01 natural sciences, 7. Clean energy, law.invention, Observatory, law, site, Monte Carlo, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Physics, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, observatory, Cosmic rays, Gamma rays, Astronomy and Astrophysics, ddc:540, Física nuclear, Monte carlo studies, Astrophysics::Earth and Planetary Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, performance, FÍSICA DE ALTA ENERGIA, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Gamma ray, FOS: Physical sciences, energy dependence, Telescope, Optics, CTA - Abteilung Hofmann, 0103 physical sciences, Cherenkov counter: imaging, [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det], Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), Monte Carlo simulation, Cherenkov radiation, CTA, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, business.industry, sensitivity, Cosmic ray, Cherenkov telescope, gamma ray: VHE, business, Energy (signal processing), astro-ph.IM
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The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is the major next-generation observatory for ground-based very-high-energy gamma-ray astronomy. It will improve the sensitivity of current ground-based instruments by a factor of five to twenty, depending on the energy, greatly improving both their angular and energy resolutions over four decades in energy (from 20 GeV to 300 TeV). This achievement will be possible by using tens of imaging Cherenkov telescopes of three successive sizes. They will be arranged into two arrays, one per hemisphere, located on the La Palma island (Spain) and in Paranal (Chile). We present here the optimised and final telescope arrays for both CTA sites, as well as their foreseen performance, resulting from the analysis of three different large-scale Monte Carlo productions.© 2019, We gratefully acknowledge financial support from the following agencies and organizations: State Committee of Science of Armenia, Armenia; The Australian Research Council, Astronomy Australia Ltd, The University of Adelaide, Australian National University, Monash University, The University of New South Wales, The University of Sydney, Western Sydney University, Australia; Federal Ministry of Science, Research and Economy, and Innsbruck University, Austria; Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cientifico e Tecnologico (CNPq), Fundacao de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (FAPERJ), Fundacao de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado de Sao Paulo (FAPESP), Ministry of Science, Technology, Innovations and Communications (MCTIC), Brasil; Ministry of Education and Science, National RI Roadmap Project D01-153/28.08.2018, Bulgaria; The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada and the Canadian Space Agency, Canada; CONICYT-Chile grants PFB-06, FB0821, ACT 1406, FONDECYT-Chile grants 3160153, 3150314, 1150411, 1161463, 1170171, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile Vice-Rectory of Research internationalization grant under MINEDUC agreement PUC1566, Chile, Croatian Science Foundation, Rudjer Boskovic Institute, University of Osijek, University of Rijeka, University of Split, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture, University of Zagreb, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, Croatia; Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports, MEYS LM2015046, LTT17006 and EU/MEYS CZ.02.1.01/0.0/0.0/16_013/0001403, CZ.02.1.01/0.0/0.0/17_049/0008422, Czech Republic; Ministry of Higher Education and Research, CNRS-INSU and CNRS-IN2P3, CEA-Irfu, ANR, Regional Council Ile-de France, Labex ENIGMASS, OSUG2020, P210 and OCEVU, France; Max Planck Society, BMBF, DESY, Helmholtz Association, Germany; Department of Atomic Energy, Department of Science and Technology, India; Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF), Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), MIUR, Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF-OABRERA) Grant Fondazione Cariplo/Regione Lombardia ID 2014-1980/RST_ERC, Italy; ICRR, University of Tokyo, JSPS, MEXT, Japan; Netherlands Research School for Astronomy (NOVA), Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO), Netherlands; University of Oslo, Norway; Ministry of Science and Higher Education, DIR/WK/2017/12, the National Centre for Research and Development and the National Science Centre, UMO-2016/22/M/ST9/00583, Poland; Slovenian Research Agency, Slovenia, grants P1-0031, P1-0385, 10-0033, J1-9146; South African Department of Science and Technology and National Research Foundation through the South African Gamma-Ray Astronomy Programme, South Africa; MINECO National R+D+I, Severo Ochoa, Maria de Maeztu, CDTI, PAIDI, UJA, FPA2017-90566-REDC, Spain; Swedish Research Council, Royal Physiographic Society of Lund, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, The Swedish National Infrastructure for Computing (SNIC) at Lunarc (Lund), Sweden; Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF), Ernest Boninchi Foundation, Switzerland; Durham University, Leverhulme Trust, Liverpool University, University of Leicester, University of Oxford, Royal Society, Science and Technology Facilities Council, UK; U.S. National Science Foundation, U.S.Department of Energy, Argonne National Laboratory, Barnard College, University of California, University of Chicago, Columbia University, Georgia Institute of Technology, Institute for Nuclear and Particle Astrophysics (INPAC-MRPI program), Iowa State University, the Smithsonian Institution, Washington University McDonnell Center for the Space Sciences, The University of Wisconsin and the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, USA. The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) under grant agreements no 262053 and no 317446. This project is receiving funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programs under agreement no 676134.

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44. Evaluation of Automated Fermi GBM Localizations of Gamma-ray Bursts

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C. L. Fletcher, Melissa Gibby, Oliver J. Roberts, Bagrat Mailyan, Colleen A. Wilson-Hodge, Michael S. Briggs, Dale D. Kocevski, Eric Burns, Adam Goldstein, William S. Paciesas, Elisabetta Bissaldi, Rachel Hamburg, C. M. Hui, Péter Veres, C. Malacaria, W. H. Cleveland, and A. von Kienlin

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Physics, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Space and Planetary Science, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrophysics, Gamma-ray burst, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope
Abstract

The capability of the Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM) to localize gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) is evaluated for two different automated algorithms: the GBM Team's RoboBA algorithm and the independently developed BALROG algorithm. Through a systematic study utilizing over 500 GRBs with known locations from instruments like Swift and the Fermi LAT, we directly compare the effectiveness of, and accurately estimate the systematic uncertainty for, both algorithms. We show simple adjustments to the GBM Team's RoboBA, in operation since early 2016, yields significant improvement in the systematic uncertainty, removing the long tail identified in the systematic, and improves the overall accuracy. The systematic uncertainty for the updated RoboBA localizations is $1.8^\circ$ for 52% of GRBs and $4.1^\circ$ for the remaining 48%. Both from public reporting by BALROG and our systematic study, we find the systematic uncertainty of $1-2^\circ$ quoted in GCN circulars for bright GRBs localized by BALROG is an underestimate of the true magnitude of the systematic, which we find to be $2.7^\circ$ for 74% of GRBs and $33^\circ$ for the remaining 26%. We show that, once the systematic uncertainty is considered, the RoboBA 90% localization confidence regions can be more than an order of magnitude smaller in area than those produced by BALROG., Comment: Accepted for publication in ApJ. Added Appendix showing localization comparisons for each GRB in the near-realtime public reporting sample

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2019
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45. A Search for Cosmic-ray Proton Anisotropy with the Fermi Large Area Telescope

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Eleonora Troja, Soebur Razzaque, Ronaldo Bellazzini, Giacomo Principe, F. Piron, G. Chiaro, M. Kuss, Abhishek Desai, Kazuhiko Hayashi, Regina Caputo, T. A. Porter, E. Orlando, Dario Gasparrini, Hiroyasu Tajima, Keith Bechtol, S. Maldera, Stefano Ciprini, Ioannis Liodakis, E. J. Siskind, Francesco Longo, G. Martí-Devesa, Marco Ajello, J. B. Thayer, S. Rainò, Tsunefumi Mizuno, Matthew Meehan, Olaf Reimer, D. Horan, V. S. Paliya, D. Serini, Diego F. Torres, M. Razzano, Yasushi Fukazawa, Filippo D'Ammando, A. Reimer, Justin Vandenbroucke, G. Jóhannesson, F. de Palma, Manuel Meyer, Alessandro Cuoco, Guido Barbiellini, P. Fusco, I. Mereu, T. J. Brandt, Melissa Pesce-Rollins, Seth Digel, David A. Green, S. J. Fegan, Elizabeth Hays, Peter F. Michelson, Marcello Giroletti, D. J. Suson, S. Cutini, J. W. Hewitt, Eric Nuss, Sina Chen, Massimo Persic, Carmelo Sgrò, Riccardo Rando, G. Spandre, N. Di Lalla, Luca Baldini, Sylvain Guiriec, Mn Mazziotta, D. Costantin, Stephan Zimmer, David Paneque, Luca Latronico, P. de la Torre Luque, Elisabetta Bissaldi, Stefan Funk, Denis Bastieri, Eugenio Bottacini, Alberto Manfreda, Roger Blandford, Nicola Omodei, Johann Cohen-Tanugi, M. Orienti, L. Di Venere, F. Loparco, Nicola Giglietto, Aaron Dominguez, I. A. Grenier, E. Cavazzuti, M. Yassine, R. Bonino, Nestor Mirabal, P. Lubrano, S. Buson, J. Li, Matteo Negro, A. Morselli, R. A. Cameron, P. Bruel, Warit Mitthumsiri, P. Spinelli, Francesco Giordano, F. Gargano, Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet (LLR), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École polytechnique (X)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3), Laboratoire Univers et Particules de Montpellier (LUPM), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Montpellier 2 - Sciences et Techniques (UM2), Astrophysique Interprétation Modélisation (AIM (UMR_7158 / UMR_E_9005 / UM_112)), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7), Fermi-LAT, Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-École polytechnique (X)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université de Montpellier (UM)-Université Montpellier 2 - Sciences et Techniques (UM2)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Ajello, M., Baldini, L., Barbiellini, G., Bastieri, D., Bechtol, K., Bellazzini, R., Bissaldi, E., Blandford, R. D., Bonino, R., Bottacini, E., Brandt, T. J., Bruel, P., Buson, S., Cameron, R. A., Caputo, R., Cavazzuti, E., Chen, S., Chiaro, G., Ciprini, S., Cohen-Tanugi, J., Costantin, D., Cuoco, A., Cutini, S., D’Ammando, F., de la Torre Luque, P., de Palma, F., Desai, A., Digel, S. W., Di Lalla, N., Di Venere, L., Domínguez, A., Fegan, S. J., Fukazawa, Y., Funk, S., Fusco, P., Gargano, F., Gasparrini, D., Giglietto, N., Giordano, F., Giroletti, M., Green, D., Grenier, I. A., Guiriec, S., Hayashi, K., Hays, E., Hewitt, J. W., Horan, D., Jóhannesson, G., Kuss, M., Latronico, L., Li, J., Liodakis, I., Longo, F., Loparco, F., Lubrano, P., Maldera, S., Manfreda, A., Martí-Devesa, G., Mazziotta, M. N., Meehan, M., Mereu, I., Meyer, M., Michelson, P. F., Mirabal, N., Mitthumsiri, W., Mizuno, T., Morselli, A., Negro, M., Nuss, E., Omodei, N., Orienti, M., Orlando, E., Paliya, V. S., Paneque, D., Persic, M., Pesce-Rollins, M., Piron, F., Porter, T. A., Principe, G., Rainò, S., Rando, R., Razzano, M., Razzaque, S., Reimer, A., Reimer, O., Serini, D., Sgrò, C., Siskind, E. J., Spandre, G., Spinelli, P., Suson, D. J., Tajima, H., Thayer, J. B., Torres, D. F., Troja, E., Vandenbroucke, J., Yassine, M., Zimmer, S., Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Astrophysique Interprétation Modélisation (AIM (UMR7158 / UMR_E_9005 / UM_112)), Fermi-Lat Collaboration, T., D'Ammando, F., De La Torre Luque, P., De Palma, F., Dominguez, A., Johannesson, G., Marti-Devesa, G., Raino, S., Sgro, C., ITA, and USA

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010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, Proton, High-energy astronomy, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Galactic cosmic rays, High-energy astrophysics, Cosmic ray, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, 7. Clean energy, 01 natural sciences, cosmic radiation: anisotropy, GLAST, Galactic cosmic ray, law.invention, Telescope, Primary (astronomy), law, 0103 physical sciences, Nuclear Experiment, Anisotropy, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, Physics, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astronomy, Astronomy and Astrophysics, cosmic radiation: primary, p: energy, 13. Climate action, Space and Planetary Science, p: cosmic radiation, anisotropy: dipole, ddc:520, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope
Abstract

The Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) has amassed a large data set of primary cosmic-ray protons throughout its mission. The LAT's wide field of view and full-sky survey capabilities make it an excellent instrument for studying cosmic-ray anisotropy. As a space-based survey instrument, the LAT is sensitive to anisotropy in both right ascension and declination, while ground-based observations only measure the anisotropy in right ascension. We present the results of the first ever proton anisotropy search using Fermi LAT. The data set uses eight years of data and consists of approximately 179 million protons above 78 GeV, enabling it to probe dipole anisotropy below an amplitude of $10^{-3}$, resulting in the most stringent limits on the declination dependence of the dipole to date. We measure a dipole amplitude $\delta = 3.9\pm1.5 \times 10^{-4}$ with a p-value of 0.01 (pre-trials) for protons with a minimum energy of 78 GeV. We discuss various systematic effects that could give rise to a dipole excess and calculate upper limits on the dipole amplitude as a function of minimum energy. The 95% CL upper limit on the dipole amplitude is $\delta_{UL}=1.3\times 10^{-3}$ for protons with a minimum energy of 78 GeV and $\delta_{UL}=1.2 \times 10^{-3}$ for protons with a minimum energy of 251 GeV., Comment: 15 pages, 11 figures, Contact authors: Matthew Meehan (mrmeehan@wisc.edu) and Justin Vandenbroucke (justin.vandenbroucke@wisc.edu)

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46. Status of the development of NUV SiPMs for INFN optical modules for the SCT medium sized telescope proposed for the CTA observatory

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Nicola Giglietto, D. Riberio, M. Ambrosio, L. Stiaccini, K. Powell, Marcos Santander, J. Rouselle, V. Masone, Maria Ionica, B. Stevenson, Thomas Meures, W. Jin, B. Kim, Corbin Covault, L. Di Venere, L. Tosti, Olivier Hervet, M. Valentino, F. R. Pantaleo, M. Bitossi, Wystan Benbow, J. H. Buckley, C. Bonavolontà, S. Loporchio, Elisabetta Bissaldi, C. Adams, P. Kaaret, A. Petrashyk, G. Hughes, A. Brill, David A. Williams, R. Halliday, Akira Okumura, Riccardo Paoletti, B. Bertucci, Alasdair E. Gent, David Kieda, Vladimir Vassiliev, Carla Aramo, G. Ambrosi, R. Mukherjeek, L. P. Taylor, E. Fiandrini, Francesco Giordano, R. Shang, M. Caprai, Q. Feng, Richard Bose, A. Boiano, T. B. Humensky, V. Vagelli, B. A. W. Mode, Andrea Rugliancich, P. Wilcox, F. Licciulli, Cta pSCT, Justin Vandenbroucke, N. Otte, and J. Powell

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Physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, business.industry, SiPM, Photodetector, Cherenkov telescopes, Cherenkov Telescope Array, 01 natural sciences, Photo detectors, law.invention, Telescope, Optics, Cardinal point, Silicon photomultiplier, Application-specific integrated circuit, law, Observatory, 0103 physical sciences, Electronics, business, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Instrumentation
Abstract

Near UltraViolet High Density (NUV-HD) SiPMs produced by Fondazione Bruno Kessler in collaboration with INFN have been tested and characterized in INFN laboratories. The third generation of these devices (HD3) has proven to be suitable to equip the focal plane of the prototype Schwarzschild–Couder Medium Size Telescope (pSCT) proposed for the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory. Photosensors have been assembled in 4 16-pixel optical units coupled with TARGET–7 ASIC front-end electronics for amplification and digitization of the signal. At present, 9 modules have been successfully integrated on the pSCT camera and are currently taking data. In this contribution we report on the performances of the HD3 technology as single sensor and as assembled optical units, showing their performance and homogeneity in terms of gain and dark count rate.

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2020

47. Fermi GBM Observations of GRB 150101B: A Second Nearby Event with a Short Hard Spike and a Soft Tail

Author

Péter Veres, Oliver J. Roberts, Michael S. Briggs, Nelson Christensen, J. McEnery, William S. Paciesas, Elisabetta Bissaldi, Bagrat Mailyan, T. Dal Canton, Melissa Gibby, M. Stanbro, W. H. Cleveland, Rachel Hamburg, C. M. Hui, Dale D. Kocevski, A. von Kienlin, Eric Burns, Judith Racusin, Colleen A. Wilson-Hodge, K. Siellez, Valerie Connaughton, Adam Goldstein, Astrophysique Relativiste Théories Expériences Métrologie Instrumentation Signaux (ARTEMIS), Université Nice Sophia Antipolis (... - 2019) (UNS), COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur, COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Universities Space Research Association (USRA), Department of Physics and Astronomy [Northfield], Carleton College, GSFC Laboratory for High Energy Astrophysics (LHEA), NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare [Pisa] (INFN), Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), and University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH)

Subjects
[PHYS.ASTR.HE]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena [astro-ph.HE], Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Population, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, 0103 physical sciences, education, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS, Physics, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), education.field_of_study, gamma-ray burst: individual (GRB 150101B), 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Gravitational wave, Gamma-ray burst: general, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Neutron star, Space and Planetary Science, Spike (software development), Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Gamma-ray burst, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Event (particle physics), hormones, hormone substitutes, and hormone antagonists, Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope
Abstract

In light of the joint multimessenger detection of a binary neutron star merger as the gamma-ray burst GRB 170817A and in gravitational waves as GW170817, we reanalyze the Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor data of one of the closest short gamma-ray bursts: GRB 150101B. We find this burst is composed of a short hard spike followed by a comparatively long soft tail. This apparent two-component nature is phenomenologically similar to that of GRB 170817A. While GRB 170817A was distinct from the previously known population of short gamma-ray bursts in terms of its prompt intrinsic energetics, GRB 150101B is not. Despite these differences, GRB 150101B can be modeled as a more on-axis version of GRB 170817A. Identifying a similar signature in two of the closest short gamma-ray bursts suggests the soft tail is common, but generally undetectable in more distant events. If so, it will be possible to identify nearby short gamma-ray bursts from the prompt gamma-ray emission alone, aiding the search for kilonovae., Comment: Accepted for publication in ApJL

Published
2018

48. Search for Spatial Extension in High-Latitude Sources Detected by the Fermi Large Area Telescope

Author

R. Buehler, J. Li, Marcello Giroletti, G. Tosti, I. A. Grenier, Regina Caputo, Soebur Razzaque, M. N. Mazziotta, E. Cavazzuti, Anna Franckowiak, Justin D. Finke, David H. Green, S. Rainò, Tsunefumi Mizuno, Hiroyasu Tajima, Yasushi Fukazawa, P. Fusco, Gloria Spandre, T. J. Brandt, E. Hays, Diego F. Torres, Marco Ajello, J. B. Thayer, M. Vogel, C. C. Cheung, G. Jóhannesson, J. Valverde, P. Lubrano, Jonathan Biteau, T. Reposeur, J. D. Magill, Manuel Meyer, Nicola Omodei, Johann Cohen-Tanugi, L. Di Venere, Melissa Pesce-Rollins, N. Di Lalla, M. Lemoine-Goumard, Luca Baldini, Bindu Rani, M. Palatiello, Stefano Ciprini, Luca Latronico, Sylvain Guiriec, T. A. Porter, F. Piron, R. Bonino, D. Costantin, Abhishek Desai, A. Reimer, Elliott D. Bloom, Vaidehi S. Paliya, L. Guillemot, S. Cutini, F. Loparco, J. F. Ormes, E. Orlando, Igor V. Moskalenko, Eric Charles, Ronaldo Bellazzini, D. J. Suson, K. S. Wood, Olaf Reimer, D. Horan, M. E. Monzani, Dario Gasparrini, J. S. Perkins, Roger Blandford, Eugenio Bottacini, Gabrijela Zaharijas, Alberto Manfreda, Massimo Persic, J. Ballet, C. Favuzzi, Nicola Giglietto, Francesco Longo, Elisabetta Bissaldi, Filippo D'Ammando, S. Kensei, Matteo Negro, A. Morselli, E. J. Siskind, J. Bregeon, J. W. Hewitt, Guido Barbiellini, Denis Bastieri, Julie McEnery, M. Orienti, Markus Ackermann, M. N. Lovellette, P. A. Caraveo, S. Maldera, L. Tibaldo, F. Gargano, Stefan Larsson, M. Di Mauro, P. Spinelli, Francesco Giordano, R. A. Cameron, P. Bruel, Tonia M. Venters, Matthew Wood, Daniel Castro, F. de Palma, G. Chiaro, Carmelo Sgrò, Riccardo Rando, E. Nuss, David Paneque, M. Kuss, Stefan Funk, Giacomo Principe, Astrophysique Interprétation Modélisation (AIM (UMR7158 / UMR_E_9005 / UM_112)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire Univers et Particules de Montpellier (LUPM), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet (LLR), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-École polytechnique (X)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire de Physique et Chimie de l'Environnement et de l'Espace (LPC2E), Observatoire des Sciences de l'Univers en région Centre (OSUC), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université d'Orléans (UO)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université d'Orléans (UO)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Centre National d’Études Spatiales [Paris] (CNES), Unité Scientifique de la Station de Nançay (USN), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université d'Orléans (UO)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centre d'Etudes Nucléaires de Bordeaux Gradignan (CENBG), Université Sciences et Technologies - Bordeaux 1 (UB)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut de recherche en astrophysique et planétologie (IRAP), Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire de l'Accélérateur Linéaire (LAL), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Fermi-LAT, Ackermann, M., Ajello, M., Baldini, L., Ballet, J., Barbiellini, G., Bastieri, D., Bellazzini, R., Bissaldi, E., Blandford, R. D., Bloom, E. D., Bonino, R., Bottacini, E., Brandt, T. J., Bregeon, J., Bruel, P., Buehler, R., Cameron, R. A., Caputo, R., Caraveo, P. A., Castro, D., Cavazzuti, E., Charles, E., Cheung, C. C., Chiaro, G., Ciprini, S., Cohen-Tanugi, J., Costantin, D., Cutini, S., D'Ammando, F., De Palma, F., Desai, A., Di Lalla, N., Di Mauro, M., Di Venere, L., Favuzzi, C., Finke, J., Franckowiak, A., Fukazawa, Y., Funk, S., Fusco, P., Gargano, F., Gasparrini, D., Giglietto, N., Giordano, F., Giroletti, M., Green, D., Grenier, I. A., Guillemot, L., Guiriec, S., Hays, E., Hewitt, J. W., Horan, D., Jóhannesson, G., Kensei, S., Kuss, M., Larsson, S., Latronico, L., Lemoine-Goumard, M., Li, J., Longo, F., Loparco, F., Lovellette, M. N., Lubrano, P., Magill, J. D., Maldera, S., Manfreda, A., Mazziotta, M. N., Mcenery, J. E., Meyer, M., Mizuno, T., Monzani, M. E., Morselli, A., Moskalenko, I. V., Negro, M., Nuss, E., Omodei, N., Orienti, M., Orlando, E., Ormes, J. F., Palatiello, M., Paliya, V. S., Paneque, D., Perkins, J. S., Persic, M., Pesce-Rollins, M., Piron, F., Porter, T. A., Principe, G., Rainò, S., Rando, R., Rani, B., Razzaque, S., Reimer, A., Reimer, O., Reposeur, T., Sgrò, C., Siskind, E. J., Spandre, G., Spinelli, P., Suson, D. J., Tajima, H., Thayer, J. B., Tibaldo, L., Torres, D. F., Tosti, G., Valverde, J., Venters, T. M., Vogel, M., Wood, K., Wood, M., Zaharijas, G., Biteau, J., Astrophysique Interprétation Modélisation (AIM (UMR_7158 / UMR_E_9005 / UM_112)), Université Montpellier 2 - Sciences et Techniques (UM2)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université d'Orléans (UO)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université d'Orléans (UO)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Centre National d’Études Spatiales [Paris] (CNES), Université d'Orléans (UO)-Observatoire des Sciences de l'Univers en région Centre (OSUC), PSL Research University (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Sciences et Technologies - Bordeaux 1-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École polytechnique (X)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire des Sciences de l'Univers en région Centre (OSUC), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université d'Orléans (UO)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université d'Orléans (UO), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11), Université de Montpellier (UM)-Université Montpellier 2 - Sciences et Techniques (UM2)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and ITA

Subjects
catalog, Active galactic nucleus, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, BL Lacertae objects: general, catalogs, gamma rays: general, ISM: H II Regions, ISM: supernova remnants, 01 natural sciences, law.invention, Telescope, law, 0103 physical sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Space and Planetary Science, H II Region [ISM], 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Background radiation, Physics, [SDU.ASTR]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], 010308 nuclear & particles physics, general [BL Lacertae objects], Astronomy and Astrophysic, Supernova, Crab Nebula, [SDU]Sciences of the Universe [physics], ISM: H ii Regions, ddc:520, Intergalactic travel, supernova remnant [ISM], Halo, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, general [gamma rays], Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope
Abstract

The astrophysical journal / Supplement series 237(2), 32 (2018). doi:10.3847/1538-4365/aacdf7, We present a search for spatial extension in high-latitude ($| b| \gt 5^\circ $) sources in recent Fermi point source catalogs. The result is the Fermi High-Latitude Extended Sources Catalog, which provides source extensions (or upper limits thereof) and likelihood profiles for a suite of tested source morphologies. We find 24 extended sources, 19 of which were not previously characterized as extended. These include sources that are potentially associated with supernova remnants and star-forming regions. We also found extended $γ$-ray emission in the vicinity of the Cen A radio lobes and—at GeV energies for the first time—spatially coincident with the radio emission of the SNR CTA 1, as well as from the Crab Nebula. We also searched for halos around active galactic nuclei, which are predicted from electromagnetic cascades induced by the $e^+ e^−$ pairs that are deflected in intergalactic magnetic fields. These pairs are produced when γ-rays interact with background radiation fields. We do not find evidence for extension in individual sources or in stacked source samples. This enables us to place limits on the flux of the extended source components, which are then used to constrain the intergalactic magnetic field to be stronger than $3 × 10^{−16} G$ for a coherence length $λ \gtrsim$ 10 kpc, even when conservative assumptions on the source duty cycle are made. This improves previous limits by several orders of magnitude., Published by IOP, Chicago, Ill. [u.a.]

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2018

49. Investigating the Nature of Late-Time High-Energy GRB Emission Through Joint Fermi\Swift Observations

Author

Daniel Kocevski, Giacomo Principe, Elisabetta Bissaldi, Vaidehi S. Paliya, P. Spinelli, M. E. Monzani, Melissa Pesce-Rollins, Francesco Giordano, G. Tosti, M. Vogel, Matteo Negro, A. Morselli, F. Piron, N. Di Lalla, Luca Baldini, Sylvain Guiriec, Diego F. Torres, D. Costantin, C. Holt, Olaf Reimer, Carmelo Sgrò, Riccardo Rando, Nicola Omodei, G. La Mura, P. Fusco, Stefan Larsson, Aaron Dominguez, G. Jóhannesson, Guido Barbiellini, I. A. Grenier, R. A. Cameron, P. Lubrano, Stefano Ciprini, M. Kuss, David H. Green, P. Bruel, Denis Bastieri, E. J. Siskind, M. Razzano, Soebur Razzaque, Marco Ajello, Gloria Spandre, C. Favuzzi, Dario Gasparrini, Ronaldo Bellazzini, J. B. Thayer, M. N. Mazziotta, Filippo D'Ammando, Stefan Funk, J. Valverde, Regina Caputo, J. D. Magill, Massimo Persic, Francesco Longo, J. S. Perkins, M. Orienti, F. Loparco, Eric Nuss, K. S. Wood, D. Tak, R. Buehler, Nicola Giglietto, Johan Bregeon, S. Maldera, D. Horan, J. L. Racusin, Anna Franckowiak, R. Bonino, A. Reimer, S. Rainò, J. Li, Peter F. Michelson, Marcello Giroletti, Eugenio Bottacini, Tsunefumi Mizuno, P. A. Caraveo, Alberto Manfreda, Johann Cohen-Tanugi, F. Gargano, Roger Blandford, F. de Palma, M. Di Mauro, G. Chiaro, L. Di Venere, Yasushi Fukazawa, E. Orlando, Laboratoire Univers et Particules de Montpellier (LUPM), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet (LLR), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-École polytechnique (X)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Astrophysique Interprétation Modélisation (AIM (UMR7158 / UMR_E_9005 / UM_112)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Fermi-LAT, Université de Montpellier (UM)-Université Montpellier 2 - Sciences et Techniques (UM2)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Astrophysique Interprétation Modélisation (AIM (UMR_7158 / UMR_E_9005 / UM_112)), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7), Raunvísindastofnun (HÍ), Science Institute (UI), Verkfræði- og náttúruvísindasvið (HÍ), School of Engineering and Natural Sciences (UI), Háskóli Íslands (HÍ), University of Iceland (UI), ITA, Ajello, M., Baldini, L., Barbiellini, G., Bastieri, D., Bellazzini, R., Bissaldi, E., Blandford, R. D., Bonino, R., Bottacini, E., Bregeon, J., Bruel, P., Buehler, R., Cameron, R. A., Caputo, R., Caraveo, P. A., Chiaro, G., Ciprini, S., Cohen-Tanugi, J., Costantin, D., D'Ammando, F., De Palma, F., Di Lalla, N., Di Mauro, M., Di Venere, L., Dominguez, A., Favuzzi, C., Franckowiak, A., Fukazawa, Y., Funk, S., Fusco, P., Gargano, F., Gasparrini, D., Giglietto, N., Giordano, F., Giroletti, M., Green, D., Grenier, I. A., Guiriec, S., Holt, C., Horan, D., Jóhannesson, G., Kocevski, D., Kuss, M., Mura, G. La, Larsson, S., Li, J., Longo, F., Loparco, F., Lubrano, P., Magill, J. D., Maldera, S., Manfreda, A., Mazziotta, M. N., Michelson, P. F., Mizuno, T., Monzani, M. E., Morselli, A., Negro, M., Nuss, E., Omodei, N., Orienti, M., Orlando, E., Paliya, V. S., Perkins, J. S., Persic, M., Pesce-Rollins, M., Piron, F., Principe, G., Racusin, J. L., Raino, S., Rando, R., Razzano, M., Razzaque, S., Reimer, A., Reimer, O., Sgro, C., Siskind, E. J., Spandre, G., Spinelli, P., Tak, D., Thayer, J. B., Torres, D. F., Tosti, G., Valverde, J., Vogel, M., Wood, K., Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Montpellier 2 - Sciences et Techniques (UM2), and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École polytechnique (X)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)

Subjects
Sjónaukar, long-lived, Gammageislar, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Population, gamma-ray burst: general, electron: relativistic, FOS: Physical sciences, magnetic field, Gamma-ray burst: general, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Space and Planetary Science, Astrophysics, general [gamma-ray burst], gamma ray: burst, 7. Clean energy, 01 natural sciences, GLAST, law.invention, Telescope, law, 0103 physical sciences, synchrotron, ddc:530, X-ray: emission, energy: density, education, Gamma-ray burst, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Physics, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), education.field_of_study, energy: high, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Gamma ray, Compton scattering, Astronomy and Astrophysic, Synchrotron, Afterglow, electron: spectrum, flux, electron synchrotron, spectral, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], X-ray: detector, Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope
Abstract

Publisher's version (útgefin grein)., We use joint observations by the Swift X-ray Telescope (XRT) and the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) of gamma-ray burst (GRB) afterglows to investigate the nature of the long-lived high-energy emission observed by Fermi LAT. Joint broadband spectral modeling of XRT and LAT data reveals that LAT nondetections of bright X-ray afterglows are consistent with a cooling break in the inferred electron synchrotron spectrum below the LAT and/or XRT energy ranges. Such a break is sufficient to suppress the high-energy emission so as to be below the LAT detection threshold. By contrast, LAT-detected bursts are best fit by a synchrotron spectrum with a cooling break that lies either between or above the XRT and LAT energy ranges. We speculate that the primary difference between GRBs with LAT afterglow detections and the nondetected population may be in the type of circumstellar environment in which these bursts occur, with late-time LAT detections preferentially selecting GRBs that occur in low wind-like circumburst density profiles. Furthermore, we find no evidence of high-energy emission in the LATdetected population significantly in excess of the flux expected from the electron synchrotron spectrum fit to the observed X-ray emission. The lack of excess emission at high energies could be due to a shocked external medium in which the energy density in the magnetic field is stronger than or comparable to that of the relativistic electrons behind the shock, precluding the production of a dominant synchrotron self-Compton (SSC) component in the LAT energy range. Alternatively, the peak of the SSC emission could be beyond the 0.1–100 GeV energy range considered for this analysis., Funding text #1 46 Funded by contract FIRB-2012-RBFR12PM1F from the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research (MIUR). 47 https://fermi.gsfc.nasa.gov/ssc/observations/types/grbs/lat_grbs/ Funding text #2 The Fermi LAT Collaboration acknowledges generous ongoing support from a number of agencies and institutes that have supported both the development and the operation of the LAT, as well as scientific data analysis. These include the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the Department of Energy in the United States; the Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique and the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique/Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules in France; the Agenzia Spaziale Italiana and the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare in Italy; the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT), High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK), and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) in Japan; and the K.A.Wallenberg Foundation, the Swedish Research Council, and the Swedish National Space Board in Sweden. Funding text #3 Additional support for science analysis during the operations phase is gratefully acknowledged from the Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica in Italy and the Centre National d’Études Spatiales in France. This work performed in part under DOE Contract DE-AC02-76SF00515.

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2018
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50. On the Interpretation of the Fermi-GBM Transient Observed in Coincidence with LIGO Gravitational-wave Event GW150914

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Péter Veres, Misty Giles, Adam Goldstein, Michael S. Briggs, Colleen A. Wilson-Hodge, P. Shawhan, Melissa Gibby, M. Stanbro, Nelson Christensen, R. M. Kippen, Charles A. Meegan, Oliver J. Roberts, William S. Paciesas, Dale D. Kocevski, Sheila McBreen, Robert D. Preece, Eric Burns, A. von Kienlin, Judith Racusin, John Veitch, Elisabetta Bissaldi, T. B. Littenberg, P. N. Bhat, W. H. Cleveland, Valerie Connaughton, Lindy Blackburn, J. McEnery, C. M. Hui, Astrophysique Relativiste Théories Expériences Métrologie Instrumentation Signaux (ARTEMIS), Université Nice Sophia Antipolis (... - 2019) (UNS), Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur, Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur, COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Astrophysique Relativiste Théories Expériences Métrologie Instrumentation Signaux ( ARTEMIS ), Université Nice Sophia Antipolis ( UNS ), Université Côte d'Azur ( UCA ) -Université Côte d'Azur ( UCA ) -Institut national des sciences de l'Univers ( INSU - CNRS ) -Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur, and Université Côte d'Azur ( UCA ) -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique ( CNRS )

Subjects
Gamma-ray burst: individual (GW150914-GBM), gravitational waves, methods: data analysis, stars: black holes, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Space and Planetary Science, [ PHYS.ASTR ] Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], FOS: Physical sciences, Binary number, Astrophysics, gamma ray: burst, 01 natural sciences, programming, Coincidence, GLAST, 0103 physical sciences, gamma-ray burst: individual, LIGO, 010306 general physics, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Physics, Gravitational wave, background, gravitational radiation, Sigma, black hole: binary, spectral, Gamma-ray burst, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Event (particle physics), statistical, Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope
Abstract

The weak transient detected by the Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM) 0.4 s after GW150914 has generated much speculation regarding its possible association with the black-hole binary merger. Investigation of the GBM data by Connaughton et al. (2016) revealed a source location consistent with GW150914 and a spectrum consistent with a weak, short Gamma-Ray Burst. Greiner et al. (2016) present an alternative technique for fitting background-limited data in the low-count regime, and call into question the spectral analysis and the significance of the detection of GW150914-GBM presented in Connaughton et al. (2016). The spectral analysis of Connaughton et al. (2016) is not subject to the limitations of the low-count regime noted by Greiner et al. (2016). We find Greiner et al. (2016) used an inconsistent source position and did not follow the steps taken in Connaughton et al. (2016) to mitigate the statistical shortcomings of their software when analyzing this weak event. We use the approach of Greiner et al. (2016) to verify that our original spectral analysis is not biased. The detection significance of GW150914-GBM is established empirically, with a False Alarm Rate (FAR) of $\sim 10^{-4}$~Hz. A post-trials False Alarm Probability (FAP) of $2.2 \times 10^{-3}$ ($2.9 \sigma$) of this transient being associated with GW150914 is based on the proximity in time to the GW event of a transient with that FAR. The FAR and the FAP are unaffected by the spectral analysis that is the focus of Greiner et al. (2016)., Comment: Accepted for publication in ApJL

Published
2018

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