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A new strategy to select candidate blazars for VHE observations, that gives an inherently complete sample from an all-sky compilation (excluding a narrow region around the galactic plane) of GeV-bright blazars is presented. The strategy is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-09-01 Bagmeet Behera , Stefan J. Wagner

As TeV gamma-ray astronomy progresses into the era of the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA), instantaneously following up on gamma-ray transients is becoming more important than ever. To this end, a worldwide network of Imaging Atmospheric…

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) will be the next generation of ground-based instrument for Very High Energy gamma-ray astronomy. It will improve the sensitivity of current telescopes by up to an order of magnitude and provide energy…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-04 P. Cumani , T. Hassan , L. Arrabito , K. Bernlöhr , J. Bregeon , G. Maier , A. Moralejo

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) observatory will probe the non-thermal universe above 20 GeV up to several hundreds of TeV with a significant improvement in sensitivity and angular resolution compared to current experiments. Its…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-10-25 Julien Lefaucheur , Catherine Boisson , Zeljka Bosnjak , Matteo Cerruti , Christoph Deil , Jean-Philippe Lenain , Santiago Pita , Andreas Zech

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) will be the major global observatory for VHE gamma-ray astronomy over the next decade and beyond. It will be an explorer of the extreme universe, with a broad scientific potential: from understanding the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-07-22 Ulisses Barres de Almeida

Gamma-ray emitting narrow-line Seyfert 1 ($\gamma$-NLS1) galaxies possibly harbour relatively low-mass black holes (10$^6$-10$^8$ M$_{\odot}$) accreting close to the Eddington limit, and share many characteristics with their sibling…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-03-11 P. Romano , M. Böttcher , L. Foschini , C. Boisson , S. Vercellone , M. Landoni

Active Galactic Nuclei (hereafter AGN) produce powerful outflows which offer excellent conditions for efficient particle acceleration in internal and external shocks, turbulence, and magnetic reconnection events. The jets as well as…

Extensions of the Standard Model of particles commonly predict the existence of axion(-like) particles (ALPs) that could be detected through their coupling to photons in external magnetic fields. This coupling could lead to modifications of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-12-11 M. Meyer , J. Conrad

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) will be able to perform unprecedented observations of the transient very high-energy sky. An on-line science alert generation (SAG) pipeline, with a required 30 second latency, will allow the discovery or…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-19 Valentina Fioretti , Deivid Ribeiro , Thomas B. Humensky , Andrea Bulgarelli , Gernot Maier , Abelardo Moralejo , Cosimo Nigro

We present the 1-100 GeV spectral energy distribution for a population of 148 high-synchrotron-peaked blazars (HSPs) recently detected with Fermi-LAT as part of the First Brazil-ICRANet Gamma-ray Blazar catalogue (1BIGB). Most of the 1BIGB…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-08-08 B. Arsioli , U. Barres de Almeida , E. Prandini , B. Fraga , L. Foffano

The {\it Fermi} Large Area Telescope (LAT) has been routinely gathering science data since August 2008, surveying the full sky every three hours. The first Fermi-LAT catalog of sources detected above 10 GeV (1FHL) relied on three years of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 M. Ajello , A. Domínguez , D. Gasparrini , S. Cutini

The Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) Collaboration has recently released a catalog of 360 sources detected above 50 GeV (2FHL). This catalog was obtained using 80 months of data re-processed with Pass 8, the newest event-level analysis,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-20 LAT Collaboration

The Cherenkov Telescopic Array (CTA), the next-generation ground-based gamma-ray observatory, will have unprecedented sensitivity, providing answers to open questions in gamma-ray cosmology and fundamental physics. Using simulations of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-18 Ievgen Vovk , Jonathan Biteau , Humberto Martinez-Huerta , Manuel Meyer , Santiago Pita

The density-based clustering algorithm DBSCAN has been applied to the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) dataset of $ E_{\gamma} \geqslant 100$ GeV events with $\lvert b\rvert>10^{\circ}$, in order to search for new very high energy (VHE)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-08-04 Thomas Armstrong , Anthony M. Brown , Paula M. Chadwick , S. J. Nolan

We report on VERITAS very-high-energy (VHE; E>100 GeV) observations of six blazars selected from the Fermi Large Area Telescope First Source Catalog (1FGL). The gamma-ray emission from 1FGL sources was extrapolated up to the VHE band,…

The recently identified source class of pulsar halos may be populated and bright enough at TeV energies to constitute a large fraction of the sources that will be observed with the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA), especially in the context…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-10-03 Christopher Eckner

In the last few years, the Fermi-LAT telescope has discovered over a 100 pulsars at energies above 100 MeV, increasing the number of known gamma-ray pulsars by an order of magnitude. In parallel, imaging Cherenkov telescopes, such as MAGIC…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 T. Hassan , S. Bonnefoy , M. Lopez , N. Mirabal , J. A. Barrio , J. L. Contreras , R. de los Reyes , E. O. Wilhelmi , B. Rudak

We present the First Cosmic Gamma-ray Horizon (1CGH) catalogue, featuring $\gamma$-ray detections above 10 GeV based on 16 years of observations with the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) satellite. After carefully selecting a sample of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-03-14 Bruno Arsioli , Yu-Ling Chang , Luca Ighina

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) will be the next generation of ground based gamma-ray telescopes allowing us to study very high energy phenomena in the Universe. CTA aims to gain about a factor of ten in sensitivity compared to current…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-05-23 S. Mangano

Very high energy (VHE, energy $E \gtrsim 100$\,GeV) \gamma-rays from cosmological sources are attenuated due to the interaction with photons of the extragalactic background light (EBL) in the ultraviolet to infrared wavelength band. The…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-09-05 Manuel Meyer , Martin Raue , Daniel Mazin , Dieter Horns