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Around 160 gamma-ray pulsars were discovered by the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) since 2008. The most energetic of them, 12 objects with emission above 25 GeV, are suitable candidates for the detection with the current and future…

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The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is the major ground-based gamma-ray observatory planned for the next decade and beyond. Consisting of two large atmospheric Cherenkov telescope arrays (one in the southern hemisphere and one in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-06-12 The CTA Consortium , represented by Rene A. Ong

We show, by using an extensive sample of viable supersymmetric models as templates, that indirect detection of dark matter through gamma rays may have a large potential for identifying the nature of dark matter. This is in particular true…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-03-23 Lars Bergstrom , Torsten Bringmann , Joakim Edsjo

Radio galaxies host relativistic jets oriented away from our line of sight, making them challenging targets for Very High Energy (VHE, E$>$100 GeV) $\gamma$-ray detectors. Indeed, out of $\sim100$ extragalactic sources detected at $E>100$…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-12-04 Roberto Angioni

Blazars are the most numerous type of observed high-energy gamma-ray emitters. However, their emission mechanisms and population properties are still not well-understood. Crucial to this understanding are their cosmological redshifts, which…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-03-24 Eli Kasai , Paolo Goldoni , Santiago Pita , Catherine Boisson , Michael Backes , Garret Cotter , Filippo D'Ammando , Brian van Soelen

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is planned to serve as a ground-based observatory for (very-)high-energy gamma-ray astronomy, open to a wide astrophysics community, providing a deep insight into the non-thermal high-energy universe. It…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-15 M. Renaud

We present the Sommerfeld enhanced Dark Matter (DM) annihilation into gamma ray for a class of three-loop radiative neutrino mass models with large electroweak multiplets where the DM mass is in O(TeV) range. We show that in this model, the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-07-04 Talal Ahmed Chowdhury , Salah Nasri

We present studies for optimizing the next generation of ground-based imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes (IACTs). Results focus on mid-sized telescopes (MSTs) for CTA, detecting very high energy gamma rays in the energy range from a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-07-15 M. Wood , T. Jogler , J. Dumm , S. Funk

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is a ground-based $\gamma$-ray observatory that will observe the full sky in the energy range from 20 GeV to 100 TeV from facilities in both hemispheres. It is proposed to consist of more than 100…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-08 Ramin Marx , Raquel de los Reyes

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) will provide very-high-energy (VHE; >~30 GeV) gamma-ray spectra of unprecedented resolution over a large energy range. It is likely that, at least for bright sources, spectral features will be revealed…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 A. Zech , M. Cerruti

The VERITAS array of Cherenkov telescopes, designed for the detection of gamma-rays in the 100 GeV-10 TeV energy range, performs dark matter searches over a wide variety of targets. VERITAS continues to carry out focused observations of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 Alex Geringer-Sameth

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

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is an initiative to build a next-generation observatory for very-high energy $\gamma$-rays. Its expected large effective area ($\mathcal{O}(10^{7} \mathrm{m}^2)$) and energy threshold as low as 25 GeV…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 Manuel Paz Arribas , Ullrich Schwanke , Ralf Wischnewski

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is the next generation of Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes. It would reach unprecedented sensitivity and energy resolution in very-high-energy gamma-ray astronomy. In order to reach these goals,…

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Cosmic electrons, positrons, protons, and antiprotons carry essential information about both astrophysical processes and fundamental physics. Charged particles provide signatures of dark matter annihilation or decay, \emph{in situ} in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-05-02 J. Vandenbroucke , B. Humensky , J. Holder , R. A. Ong

The physics of the non-thermal Universe provides information on the acceleration mechanisms in extreme environments, such as black holes and relativistic jets, neutron stars, supernovae or clusters of galaxies. In the presence of magnetic…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-11 C. Boisson , A. M. Brown , A. Burtovoi , M. Cerruti , M. Chernyakova , T. Hassan , J. -P. Lenain , M. Manganaro , P. Romano , H. Sol , F. Tavecchio , S. Vercellone , L. Zampieri , R. Zanin , A. Zech , I. Agudo , R. Alves Batista , E. O. Anguner , L. A. Antonelli , M. Backes , C. Balazs , J. Becerra González , C. Bigongiari , E. Bissaldi , J. Bolmont , P. Bordas , Ž. Bošnjak , M. Böttcher , M. Burton , F. Cangemi , P. Caraveo , M. Cardillo , S. Caroff , A. Carosi , S. Casanova , S. Chaty , J. L. Contreras , J. G. Coelho , G. Cotter , A. D'Aì , F. D'Ammando , E. M. de Gouveia Dal Pino , D. de Martino , C. Delgado , D. della Volpe , A. Djannati-Ataï , R. C. Dos Anjos , E. de Oña Wilhelmi , V. Dwarkadas , G. Emery , E. Fedorova , S. Fegan , M. D. Filipovic , G. Galanti , D. Gasparrini , G. Ghirlanda , P. Goldoni , J. Granot , J. G. Green , M. Heller , B. Hnatyk , R. Hnatyk , D. Horan , T. Hovatta , S. Inoue , M. Jamrozy , B. Khélifi , N. Komin , K. Kohri , A. Lamastra , N. La Palombara , E. Lindfors , I. Liodakis , S. Lombardi , F. Longo , F. Lucarelli , P. L. Luque-Escamilla , J. Marti , M. Martinez , D. Mazin , J. D. Mbarubucyeye , S. Menchiari , L. Mohrmann , T. Montaruli , A. Moralejo Olaizola , D. Morcuende , G. Morlino , A. Morselli , C. G. Mundell , T. Murach , A. Nagai , A. Nayerhoda , J. Niemiec , M. Nikolajuk , B. Olmi , M. Orienti , J. M. Paredes , G. Pareschi , A. Pe'er , G. Pühlhofer , M. Punch , O. Reimer , M. Ribó , F. Rieger , G. Rodriguez , J. Rodriguez , G. Romeo , M. Roncadelli , G. Rowell , B. Rudak , I. Sadeh , F. Salesa Greus , U. Sawangwit , F. Schüssler , O. Sergijenko , R. C. Shellard , F. G. Saturni , A. Stamerra , Th. Stolarczyk , G. Tagliaferri , V. Testa , L. Tibaldo , S. Ventura , A. Viana , J. Vink , V. Vitale , S. Vorobiov , A. Wierzcholska , M. Zacharias , D. Zavrtanik

The Cherenkov Telescopes Array (CTA) is planned to be an Observatory for very high energy gamma ray astronomy and will consist of several tens of telescopes which account for a reflective surface of more than 10000 m$^2$. The mirrors of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 M. C. Medina , B. Garcia , J. Maya , A. Mancilla , J. J. Larrarte , E. Rasztocky , M. Benitez , J. Dipold , M. Platino

The leading explanation of the $\textit{Fermi}$ Galactic center $\gamma$-ray excess is the extended emission from a unresolved population of millisecond pulsars (MSPs) in the Galactic bulge. Such a population would, along with the prompt…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-07-20 Oscar Macias , Harm van Leijen , Deheng Song , Shin'ichiro Ando , Shunsaku Horiuchi , Roland M. Crocker

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) will be an instrument covering a wide energy range in very-high-energy (VHE) gamma rays. CTA will include several types of telescopes, in order to optimize the performance over the whole energy range.…