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In this paper, we review the prospects for studies of active galactic nuclei (AGN) using the envisioned future Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA). This review focuses on jetted AGN, which constitute the vast majority of AGN detected at…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-08-30 A. Reimer , M. Boettcher

We report the detection of a new TeV gamma-ray source, VER J0521+211, based on observations made with the VERITAS imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescope array. These observations were motivated by the discovery of a cluster of >30GeV…

The next generation of Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes (IACTs) will open the regime between approx. 30 GeV and 200 GeV to ground-based gamma observations with unprecedented point source sensitivity and source location accuracy. I…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-23 Dirk Petry

Imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes (IACTs) that are sensitive to potential $\gamma$-ray signals from dark matter (DM) annihilation above $\sim50$ GeV will soon be superseded by the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA). CTA will have a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-10-11 Csaba Balázs , Jan Conrad , Ben Farmer , Thomas Jacques , Tong Li , Manuel Meyer , Farinaldo S. Queiroz , Miguel A. Sánchez-Conde

The ANTARES telescope is well-suited for detecting astrophysical transient neutrino sources as it can observe a full hemisphere of the sky at all times with a high duty cycle. The background due to atmospheric particles can be drastically…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-08-08 S. Adrián-Martínez , A. Albert , M. André , G. Anton , M. Ardid , J. -J. Aubert , B. Baret , J. Barrios-Martí , S. Basa , V. Bertin , S. Biagi , C. Bogazzi , R. Bormuth , M. Bou-Cabo , M. C. Bouwhuis , R. Bruijn , J. Brunner , J. Busto , A. Capone , L. Caramete , J. Carr , T. Chiarusi , M. Circella , R. Coniglione , H. Costantini , P. Coyle , A. Creusot , I. Dekeyser , A. Deschamps , G. De Bonis , C. Distefano , C. Donzaud , D. Dornic , D. Drouhin , A. Dumas , T. Eberl , D. Elsässer , A. Enzenhöfer , K. Fehn , I. Felis , P. Fermani , F. Folger , L. A. Fusco , S. Galatà , P. Gay , S. Geißelsöder , K. Geyer , V. Giordano , A. Gleixner , R. Gracia-Ruiz , K. Graf , H. van Haren , A. J. Heijboer , Y. Hello , J. J. Hernández-Rey , A. Herrero , J. Hößl , J. Hofestädt , C. Hugon , C. W James , M. de Jong , M. Kadler , O. Kalekin , U. Katz , D. Kießling , P. Kooijman , A. Kouchner , I. Kreykenbohm , V. Kulikovskiy , R. Lahmann , G. Lambard , D. Lattuada , D. Lefèvre , E. Leonora , S. Loucatos , S. Mangano , A. Margiotta , J. A. Martínez-Mora , S. Martini , A. Mathieu , T. Michael , P. Migliozzi , A. Moussa , C. Mueller , M. Neff , E. Nezri , G. E. Păvălaş , C. Pellegrino , C. Perrina , P. Piattelli , V. Popa , T. Pradier , C. Racca , G. Riccobene , R. Richter , K. Roensch , A. Rostovtsev , M. Saldaña , D. F. E. Samtleben , M. Sanguineti , P. Sapienza , J. Schmid , J. Schnabel , S. Schulte , F. Schüssler , T. Seitz , C. Sieger , M. Spurio , J. J. M. Steijger , Th. Stolarczyk , A. Sánchez-Losa , M. Taiuti , C. Tamburini , A. Trovato , M. Tselengidou , C. Tönnis , D. Turpin , B. Vallage , C. Vallée , V. Van Elewyck , E. Visser , D. Vivolo , S. Wagner , J. Wilms , J. D. Zornoza , J. Zúñiga

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

The next generation of TeV detectors is expected to have a significantly enhanced performance. It is therefore constructive to search for new TeV candidates for observation. This paper focuses on TeV candidates among the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-09-06 K. R. Zhu , S. J. Kang , R. X. Zhou , Y. G. Zheng

In its first four years of operation, the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) detected 3033 $\gamma$-ray emitting sources. In the Fermi-LAT Third Source Catalogue (3FGL) about 50% of the sources have no clear association with a likely…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-07-19 David Salvetti , Graziano Chiaro , Giovanni La Mura , David J. Thompson

The current generation of Imaging Atmospheric telescopes (IACTs) has demonstrated the power of the technique in an energy range between ~100 GeV up to several tens of TeV. At the high-energy end, these instruments are limited by photon…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-01-21 S. Funk , J. A. Hinton

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

We reconsider the emission properties of the BL Lac objects emitting in the high-energy gamma-ray band exploiting the new information in the MeV-GeV band obtained by the Large Area Telescope (LAT) onboard the Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-14 F. Tavecchio , G. Ghisellini , G. Ghirlanda , L. Foschini , L. Maraschi

This paper reports the results from three targeted searches of Milagro TeV sky maps: two extragalactic point source lists and one pulsar source list. The first extragalactic candidate list consists of 709 candidates selected from the…

Variable emission is one of the defining characteristic of active galactic nuclei (AGN). While providing precious information on the nature and physics of the sources, variability is often challenging to observe with time- and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-08 Matteo Giomi , Lucie Gerard , Gernot Maier

Our Galaxy is filled with cosmic-ray particles and more than 98% of them are atomic nuclei. In order to clarify their origin and acceleration mechanism, chemical composition measurements of these cosmic rays with wide energy coverage play…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-01-22 Michiko Ohishi , Takanori Yoshikoshi , Tatsuo Yoshida

As TeV gamma-ray astronomy progresses into the era of the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA), there is a desire for the capacity to instantaneously follow up on transient phenomena and continuously monitor gamma-ray flux at energies above…

During its first four years of scientific observations, the Fermi Large Area Telescope (Fermi-LAT) detected 3033 $\gamma$-ray sources above a 4$\sigma$ significance level. Although most of the extra-Galactic sources are active galactic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-15 G. La Mura , G. Chiaro , S. Ciroi , P. Rafanelli , D. Salvetti , M. Berton , V. Cracco

The Fermi Large Area Telescope (Fermi-LAT) 3FHL catalog is the latest catalog of >10 GeV sources and will remain an important resource for the high-energy community for the foreseeable future. Therefore, it is crucial that this catalog is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-10-14 Ross Silver , Stefano Marchesi , Lea Marcotulli , Aman Kaur , Meenakshi Rajagopal , Marco Ajello

Telescopes based on the imaging atmospheric Cherenkov technique (IACTs) detect images of the atmospheric showers generated by gamma rays and cosmic rays as they are absorbed by the atmosphere. The much more frequent cosmic-ray events form…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 D. Nieto , A. Brill , B. Kim , T. B. Humensky

The high energy end of gamma-ray source spectra might provide important clues regarding the nature of the processes involved in gamma-ray emission. Several galactic sources with hard emission spectra extending up to more than 30TeV have…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Pierre Colin , Stephan LeBohec , Jamie Holder

We recently started a systematic search of low-energy counterparts of the unidentified gamma-ray sources (UGSs) listed in the Fermi-Large Area Telescope (LAT) First Source Catalog (1FGL) and the Fermi-LAT 2-Year Source Catalog (2FGL).} The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-24 F. Massaro , M. Landoni , R. D'Abrusco , D. Milisavljevic , A. Paggi , N. Masetti , Howard A. Smith , G. Tosti