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The ground-based technique for imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes became a rapidly developing and powerful branch of science. Thanks to this technique, over 250 very high-energy gamma-ray sources of galactic and extragalactic origin…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-06-24 Razmik Mirzoyan

We outline the science prospects for gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) with the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA), the next-generation ground-based gamma-ray observatory operating at energies above few tens of GeV. With its low energy threshold, large…

The remarkable Crab Nebula is powered by an energetic pulsar whose relativistic wind interacts with the inner parts of the Supernova Remnant SN1054. Despite low-intensity optical and X-ray variations in the inner Nebula, the Crab has been…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-06-07 Marco Tavani

We show that the mysterious, rapidly variable emission at ~400 MeV observed from the Crab Nebula by the AGILE and Fermi experiments could be the result of a sudden drop in the mass-loading of the pulsar wind. The current required to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-11-29 John G. Kirk , Gwenael Giacinti

The giant gamma-ray flares of the Crab nebula discovered by AGILE and Fermi observatories came as a surprise and have challenged the existing models of pulsar wind nebulae. We have carried out an analysis of 10.5 years of Fermi-LAT…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-11-23 M. S. Pshirkov , B. A. Nizamov , A. M. Bykov , Yu. A. Uvarov

The recent discovery of PeV electrons from the Crab nebula, produced on rapid time scales of one day or less with a sharply peaked gamma-ray spectrum without hard X-rays, challenges traditional models of diffusive shock acceleration…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-04 Peter Sturrock , Markus J. Aschwanden

We report on the extremely intense and fast gamma-ray are above 100 MeV detected by AGILE from the Crab Nebula in mid-April 2011. This event is the fourth of a sequence of reported major gamma-ray flares produced by the Crab Nebula in the…

Routine observations of the Crab Nebula for a total of about 250 hrs, performed with the HEGRA stereoscopic system of 5 imaging atmospheric Cerenkov telescopes in the standard operational mode, have proven the energy threshold of the system…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 F. Lucarelli , A. Konopelko , F. Aharonian , W. Hofmann , A. Kohnle , H. Lampeitl , V. Fonseca

The Crab nebula was observed with the H.E.S.S. stereoscopic Cherenkov-telescope array between October 2003 and January 2005 for a total of 22.9 hours (after data quality selection). Observations were made with three operational telescopes…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 The HESS Collaboration , F. Aharonian

The Large Area Telescope on board the Fermi satellite observed a gamma-ray flare in the Crab nebula lasting for approximately nine days in April of 2011. The source, which at optical wavelengths has a size of ~11 ly across, doubled its…

The Crab pulsar and its nebula are very luminous and variable. Since 1982, random fluctuations of the dispersion measure (DM) have been recorded. Also in 2011, Fermi-LAT telescope detected $\gamma$-ray flux variation of the Crab nebula. No…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-05-16 Nagisa Hiroshima , Kazunori Kohri

The hunt for cosmic TeV particle accelerators is prospering through Imaging Atmospheric Cerenkov Telescopes. We face challenges such as low light levels and MHz trigger rates, and the need to distinguish between particle air showers…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. M. Bradbury

Flaring episodes from Crab Nebula have been observed. A new mechanism of emission is explored. Particles in Crab pulsar are accelerated to multiple Tev energies, by some mechanisms, described in the paper and they are the reason of observed…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-04-10 Beka Tevdorashvili

The next-generation ground-based gamma-ray Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO) will consist of imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes (IACTs) of three different sizes distributed in two sites. The Large-Sized Telescopes will…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-09-21 Daniel Morcuende , Rubén López-Coto , Abelardo Moralejo , Seiya Nozaki , Thomas Vuillaume

The window of TeV Gamma-Ray Astrophysics was opened less than two decades ago, when the Crab Nebula was detected for the first time. After several years of development, the technique used by imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes like…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-01-21 M. Ribo

Due to the strong and steady TeV gamma-ray emission from the Crab Nebula supernova remnant, its measured flux and energy spectrum can be used to verify the calibration and data reduction methods applied to IACT data acquired over many…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-09-28 VERITAS Collaboration , J. Grube

The Crab Nebula is a unique laboratory for studying the acceleration of electrons and positrons through their non-thermal radiation. Observations of very-high-energy $\gamma$ rays from the Crab Nebula have provided important constraints for…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-06-26 F. Aharonian , F. Ait Benkhali , J. Aschersleben , H. Ashkar , M. Backes , A. Baktash , V. Barbosa Martins , R. Batzofin , Y. Becherini , D. Berge , K. Bernlöhr , B. Bi , M. Böttcher , C. Boisson , J. Bolmont , M. de Bony de Lavergne , J. Borowska , F. Bradascio , M. Breuhaus , R. Brose , A. Brown , F. Brun , B. Bruno , T. Bulik , C. Burger-Scheidlin , T. Bylund , S. Caroff , S. Casanova , R. Cecil , J. Celic , M. Cerruti , P. Chambery , T. Chand , S. Chandra , A. Chen , J. Chibueze , O. Chibueze , G. Cotter , P. Cristofari , J. Devin , A. Djannati-Ataï , J. Djuvsland , A. Dmytriiev , S. Einecke , J. -P. Ernenwein , S. Fegan , K. Feijen , M. Filipović , G. Fontaine , M. Füßling , S. Funk , S. Gabici , Y. A. Gallant , G. Giavitto , D. Glawion , J. F. Glicenstein , J. Glombitza , P. Goswami , G. Grolleron , M. -H. Grondin , L. Haerer , J. A. Hinton , W. Hofmann , T. L. Holch , M. Holler , D. Horns , M. Jamrozy , F. Jankowsky , V. Joshi , E. Kasai , K. Katarzyński , R. Khatoon , B. Khélifi , W. Kluźniak , Nu. Komin , K. Kosack , D. Kostunin , A. Kundu , R. G. Lang , S. Le Stum , F. Leitl , A. Lemière , M. Lemoine-Goumard , J. -P. Lenain , F. Leuschner , A. Luashvili , J. Mackey , D. Malyshev , D. Malyshev , V. Marandon , P. Marinos , G. Martí-Devesa , R. Marx , A. Mehta , M. Meyer , A. Mitchell , R. Moderski , L. Mohrmann , A. Montanari , E. Moulin , T. Murach , M. de Naurois , J. Niemiec , P. O'Brien , S. Ohm , L. Olivera-Nieto , E. de Ona Wilhelmi , M. Ostrowski , S. Panny , M. Panter , R. D. Parsons , G. Peron , D. A. Prokhorov , G. Pühlhofer , M. Punch , A. Quirrenbach , M. Regeard , P. Reichherzer , A. Reimer , O. Reimer , H. Ren , M. Renaud , B. Reville , F. Rieger , G. Roellinghoff , B. Rudak , V. Sahakian , H. Salzmann , M. Sasaki , F. Schüssler , H. M. Schutte , J. N. S. Shapopi , A. Specovius , S. Spencer , Ł. Stawarz , R. Steenkamp , S. Steinmassl , C. Steppa , K. Streil , I. Sushch , H. Suzuki , T. Takahashi , T. Tanaka , R. Terrier , M. Tluczykont , N. Tsuji , T. Unbehaun , C. van Eldik , M. Vecchi , J. Veh , C. Venter , J. Vink , T. Wach , S. J. Wagner , A. Wierzcholska , M. Zacharias , D. Zargaryan , A. A. Zdziarski , A. Zech , S. Zouari , N. Żywucka , A. Harding

Gamma rays at rest frame energies as high as 90 GeV have been reported from gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) by the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT). There is considerable hope that a confirmed GRB detection will be possible with the upcoming…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-03 Rudy C. Gilmore , Aurelien Bouvier , Valerie Connaughton , Adam Goldstein , Nepomuk Otte , Joel R. Primack , David A. Williams

Current Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes for Very High Energy $\gamma$-ray astrophysics are pointing instruments with a Field of View up to a few tens of sq deg. We propose to build an array of two non-steerable (drift) telescopes.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-26 J. Cortina , R. López-Coto , A. Moralejo