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The BL Lac object 3C66A is one of the most luminous extragalactic sources at TeV $\gamma$-rays (VHE, i.e. $E >100$ GeV). Since TeV $\gamma$-ray radiation is absorbed by the extragalactic background light (EBL), it is crucial to know the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-12-27 Juanita Torres-Zafra , Sergio A. Cellone , Alberto Buzzoni , Ileana Andruchow , José G. Portilla

Since its launch in 2008, the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) has detected over 200 -ray pulsars above 100 MeV. This population of pulsars is characterised by a rich diversity of light curve morphologies. Researchers have been using both…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-12-25 M. C. Bezuidenhout , C. Venter , A. S. Seyffert , A. K. Harding

ANNZ is a fast and simple algorithm which utilises artificial neural networks (ANNs), it was known as one of the pioneers of machine learning approaches to photometric redshift estimation decades ago. We enhanced the algorithm by…

This thesis comprises the first three chapters dedicated to providing an overview of Gamma Ray-Bursts (GRBs), their properties, the instrumentation used to detect them, and Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications in the context of GRBs,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-01-30 Riccardo Crupi

Very high energy (VHE, i.e. $\gtrsim 10$ GeV) photons from Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs), as high as 90 GeV in rest frame energy, have been detected by the $Fermi$ Large Area Telescope (LAT). This provides hope for a high statistics GRB detection…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-09-27 Aurelien Bouvier , Rudy Gilmore , Valerie Connaughton , Nepomuk Otte , Joel R. Primack , David A. Williams

The identification of $\gamma$-rays from the predominant hadronic-background is a key aspect in their ground-based detection using Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes (IACTs). While current methods are limited in their ability to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-08 Abhay Mehta , Dan Parsons , Tim Lukas Holch , David Berge , Matthias Weidlich

Several papers have recently highlighted the possibility of measuring redshift space distortions from angular auto-correlations of galaxies in photometric redshift bins. In this work we extend this idea to include as observables the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-10 Jacobo Asorey , Martin Crocce , Enrique Gaztanaga

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) will be the world's leading ground-based gamma-ray observatory allowing us to study very high energy phenomena in the Universe. CTA will produce huge data sets, of the order of petabytes, and the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-02 S. Mangano , C. Delgado , M. Bernardos , M. Lallena , J. J. Rodríguez Vázquez

Gamma rays from extragalactic sources are attenuated by pair-production interactions with diffuse photons of the extragalactic background light (EBL). Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are a source of high-redshift photons above 10 GeV, and could be…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Rudy C. Gilmore , Francisco Prada , Joel R. Primack

Context. The study of BL Lac objects (BLL) detected in gamma-rays gives insights on the acceleration mechanisms in play in such systems and is also a valuable tool to constrain the density of the extragalactic background light. As their…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-05-08 Santiago Pita , Paolo Goldoni , Catherine Boisson , Jean-Philippe Lenain , Michael Punch , Lucie Gérard , François Hammer , Lex Kaper , Hélène Sol

We study a sample of 30 high-redshift blazars ($z>2.5$) by means of spectra and the radiation mechanism with Fermi Large Area Telescope $\gamma$-ray observations spanning 15 years. Three models -- the power law, power law with an…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-27 Fan Wu , Benzhong Dai

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are intense, short-lived bursts of gamma-ray radiation observed up to a high redshift ($z \sim 10$) due to their luminosities. Thus, they can serve as cosmological tools to probe the early Universe. However, we need…

Active Galaxies with a jet pointing towards us, so-called blazars, play an important role in the field of high-energy astrophysics. One of the most important features in the classification scheme of blazars is the peak frequency of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-07-11 Theo Glauch , Tobias Kerscher , Paolo Giommi

Large fraction of studies of active galactic nuclei objects is based on performing follow-up observations using high-sensitivity instruments of high flux states observed by monitoring instruments (the so-called Target of Opportunity, ToO).…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-27 Tomasz Fidor , Julian Sitarek

The high redshift 21-cm signal promises to be a crucial probe of the state of the intergalactic medium (IGM). Understanding the connection between the observed 21-cm power spectrum and the physical quantities intricately associated with the…

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) detected at high redshift can be used to trace the cosmic expansion history. However, the calibration of their luminosity distances is not an easy task in comparison to Type Ia Supernovae (SNeIa). To calibrate these…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-20 Celia Escamilla-Rivera , Maryi Carvajal , Cristian Zamora , Martin Hendry

Variable \gama-ray emission from blazars, one of the most powerful classes of astronomical sources featuring relativistic jets, is a widely discussed topic. In this work, we present the results of a variability study of a sample of 20…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-09-22 Jaroslaw Duda , Gopal Bhatta

Ground based gamma-ray observations with Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes (IACTs) play a significant role in the discovery of very high energy (E > 100 GeV) gamma-ray emitters. The analysis of IACT data demands a highly efficient…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-07 Idan Shilon , Manuel Kraus , Matthias Büchele , Kathrin Egberts , Tobias Fischer , Tim Lukas Holch , Thomas Lohse , Ullrich Schwanke , Constantin Steppa , Stefan Funk

The recently published fourth Fermi Large Area Telescope source catalog (4FGL) reports 5065 gamma-ray sources in terms of direct observational gamma-ray properties. Among the sources, the largest population is the Active Galactic Nuclei…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-01-08 Shi-Ju Kang , Enze Li , Wujing Ou , Kerui Zhu , Jun-Hui Fan , Qingwen Wu , Yue Yin

High-redshift blazars are one of the most powerful monsters in the universe and $\gamma$-ray variability carries crucial information of their relativistic jets. In this work we present results of the first systematical temporal analysis of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-02-14 Shang Li , Zi-Qing Xia , Yun-Feng Liang , Neng-Hui Liao , Yi-Zhong Fan