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The Sun Yat-sen University (SYSU) 80 cm telescope is a new generation near-infrared (NIR) facility in China dedicated to time-domain astronomy, while also serving as a testbed for emerging NIR cameras. Commissioned in October 2024 at the…

An integrated approach has been developed to study radio signals induced by cosmic rays entering the Earth's atmosphere. An engineering array will be co-located with the infill array of the Pierre Auger Observatory. Our R&D effort includes…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-01 A. M. van den Berg

The All-sky Medium Energy Gamma-ray Observatory (AMEGO) is a Probe-class mission concept that will provide essential contributions to multimessenger astrophysics in the next decade. AMEGO operates both as a Compton and pair telescope to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-11 Carolyn A. Kierans , the AMEGO Team

The gamma-ray sky from several hundred keV to $\sim$ a hundred MeV has remained largely unexplored due to the challenging nature of detecting gamma rays in this regime. At lower energies, Compton scattering is the dominant interaction…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-13 Sean Griffin , the AMEGO Team

The Pierre Auger Observatory has by now achieved an exposure of order $10^5~{\rm km}^2$ sr yr, exploring about 85% of the sky. In this talk, I will review some of the recent results, including the detailed measurements of the features in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-10-11 Esteban Roulet

The gamma-ray sky from several hundred keV to $\sim$ a hundred MeV has remained largely unexplored due to the challenging nature of detecting gamma rays in this regime. At lower energies, Compton scattering is the dominant interaction…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-26 Sean Griffin , the AMEGO Team

Measurements of Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays achieved remarkable progress in the last 10 years. Physicists, gathered from around the world in the symposium UHECR-2012 held at CERN on February 13-16 2012, reported their most up-to-date…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-15 M. Fukushima

The High-Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) Observatory is a ground-based TeV gamma-ray observatory in the state of Puebla, Mexico at an altitude of 4100 m above sea level. Its $\sim$22,000 m$^2$ instrumented area, wide field of view (2 sr),…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-01-08 Joshua Wood

With its excellent sensitivity, large field of view, broad energy coverage, and good per-photon angular resolution, the Large Area Telescope aboard the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope satellite provides us with an unprecedented view of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-03-02 Jürgen Knödlseder

LHAASO-WCDA is a large ground-based water Cherenkov detector array planned to be built at Shangri-La, Yunnan Province, China. As a major component of LHAASO project, the main purpose of LHAASO-WCDA is to survey the northern sky for…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-08-14 Gao Bo , Chen Ming-Jun , Gu Ming-Hao , Hao Xin-Jun , Li Hui-Cai , Wu Han-Rong , Yao Zhi-Guo , You Xiao-Hao , Zhou Bin

The LAT instrument on the Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope is performing an all-sky survey from 20 MeV to 300 GeV with unprecedented statistics and angular resolution. This is providing a wealth of new information on the non-thermal emission…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 A. W. Strong

The small mission A-STAR (All-Sky Transient Astrophysics Reporter) aims to locate the X-ray counterparts to ALIGO and other gravitational wave detector sources, to study the poorly-understood low luminosity gamma-ray bursts, and to find a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 J. P. Osborne , P. O'Brien , P. Evans , G. W. Fraser , A. Martindale , J. -L. Atteia , B. Cordier , S. Mereghetti

GRANDProto300, the mid-scale prototype of the GRAND experiment, is a planned radio array of 300 antennas over $200\, \rm km^{2}$ that will be deployed in the radio-quiet location of Xiao Dushan (China) by $\sim 2026$. The array will act as…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-09-05 Simon Chiche

This work discusses the prospects of antiparticle flux measurements with the proposed PEBS detector. The project foresees long duration balloon flights at one of Earth's poles at an altitude of 40 km. The sky coverage of flights at the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-09-15 Ph. von Doetinchem , H. Gast , St. Schael

The measurement of cosmic ray energy spectra, in particular for individual species, is an essential approach in finding their origin. Locating the "knees" of the spectra is an important part of the approach and has yet to be achieved. Here…

Precise measurements of the spectra of secondary and primary cosmic rays are crucial for understanding the origin and propagation of those energetic particles. The High Energy cosmic-Radiation Detection (HERD) facility onboard China`s Space…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-19 Zhi-Hui Xu , Qiang Yuan , Zhi-Cheng Tang , Xiao-Jun Bi

The Auger Engineering Radio Array (AERA) is an extension of the Pierre Auger Cosmic-Ray Observatory. It is used to detect radio emission from extensive air showers with energies beyond $10^{17}~$eV in the $30 - 80~$MHz frequency band. After…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-03-20 Christian Glaser

GLAST, a detector for cosmic gamma rays in the range from 20 MeV to 300 GeV, will be launched in space in 2005. Breakthroughs are expected in particular in the study of particle acceleration mechanisms in space and of gamma ray bursts, and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-03 Alessandro de Angelis

The Large Area Telescope (LAT) on the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope provides both direct and indirect measurements of Galactic cosmic rays (CR). The LAT high-statistics observations of the 7 GeV - 1 TeV electron plus positron spectrum and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-03-19 David J. Thompson , Luca Baldini , Yasunobu Uchiyama