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The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is about to enter construction phase and one of its main key science projects is to perform an unbiased survey in search of extragalactic sources. We make use of both the latest blazar gamma--ray…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-07-04 Andrea De Franco , Yoshiyuki Inoue , Miguel A. Sánchez-Conde , Garret Cotter

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is the next generation ground-based $\gamma$-ray observatory. It will provide an order of magnitude better sensitivity and an extended energy coverage, 20 GeV - 300 TeV, relative to current Imaging…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-01-22 T. Hassan , A. Domínguez , J. Lefaucheur , D. Mazin , S. Pita , A. Zech

The Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO) is a next-generation facility for ground-based very high energy gamma ray astronomy. CTAO will be operated as an open observatory. With two sites, in the northern and southern hemispheres,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-23 Werner Hofmann , Roberta Zanin

The observation of ultra-high-energy EeV-energy cosmogenic neutrinos provides a direct path to identifying the sources of the highest energy cosmic rays; searches have so far resulted in only upper limits on their flux. However, with the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-03-29 Carlos A. Argüelles , Francis Halzen , Ali Kheirandish , Ibrahim Safa

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

Among all the high-energy environments of our Galaxy, the Galactic Center (GC) region is definitely the richest. It harbors a large amount of non-thermal emitters, including the closest supermassive black hole, dense molecular clouds,…

The Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO) and the Vera C. Rubin Observatory are set to transform our understanding of the universe over the next decade. These two observatories have multiple areas of complementarity in their…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-13 J. Biteau , J. Hamo , A. Mikhno , J. Peloton , J. -P. Lenain

The recent discovery of TeV emission from gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) by the MAGIC and H.E.S.S. Cherenkov telescopes confirmed that emission from these transients can extend to very high energies. The TeV energy domain reaches the most…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-10-16 Imre Bartos , K. Rainer Corley , Nihar Gupte , Neil Ash , Zsuzsa. Márka , Szabolcs Márka

Many of the recently discovered galactic very high-energy (VHE) gamma-ray sources are associated with Pulsar Wind Nebulae, which is the most populous Galactic source category at TeV energies. The extended synchrotron nebulae of these…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-13 A. Konopelko

We discuss the discovery potential of extended very-high-energy (VHE) neutrino sources by the future KM3 Neutrino Telescope (KM3NeT) in the context of the constraining power of the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA), designed for deep surveys…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-04-04 Lucia Ambrogi , Silvia Celli , Felix Aharonian

Transient and variable phenomena in astrophysical sources are of particular importance to understand the underlying gamma-ray emission processes. In the very-high energy gamma-ray domain, transient and variable sources are related to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-26 F. Brun , Q. Piel , M. de Naurois , S. Bernhard

The next generation of Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov telescope, like CTA, is going to strongly improve the detection capability of high-energy cosmic rays. In our paper we discuss the possibility to use such apparatus to detect…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-07-28 Damiano F. G. Fiorillo , Gennaro Miele , Ofelia Pisanti

The potential of an array of imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes to detect gamma-ray sources in complex regions has been investigated. The basic characteristics of the gamma-ray instrument have been parametrized using simple analytic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-04-20 Lucia Ambrogi , Emma De Oña Wilhelmi , Felix Aharonian

Recently, Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (aLIGO) detected gravitational wave (GW) transients from mergers of binary black holes (BHs). The system may also produce a wide-angle, relativistic outflow if the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-09-06 Qin-Yu Zhu , Xiang-Yu Wang

Blazars, a type of active galactic nuclei (AGN) with relativistic jets pointed at the observer, exhibit flux variability across the electromagnetic spectrum due to particle acceleration in their jets. Power spectral density (PSD) studies…

We have detected sub-TeV gamma-ray emission from the direction of the Galactic Center (GC) using the CANGAROO-II Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescope (IACT). We detected a statistically signicant excess at energies greater than 250GeV.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-13 K. Tsuchiya , R. Enomoto , L. T. Ksenofontov , M. Mori , T. Naito , CANGAROO-II collaboration

Radio-loud active galactic nuclei (AGN) with their jets pointed close to our line of sight constitute the majority of extragalactic $\gamma$-ray sources and significantly contribute to the radiation observed in the even higher energy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-02-06 J. Kőmíves , K. É. Gabányi , S. Frey , Z. Paragi , T. An , E. Kun

In recent years, the number of known sources emitting very- and ultra-high-energy gamma-rays has increased significantly thanks to facilities such as LHAASO and HAWC. Many of the observed sources are still unidentified or poorly constrained…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-19 Michela Rigoselli , Sarah Recchia , Alberto Bonollo , Silvia Crestan , Giada Peron , Andrea Giuliani , Sandro Mereghetti

The advent of the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO) and recent advances in reconstruction of gamma-ray photons with Cherenkov telescopes are bound to push the limit of angular resolution to an unprecedented precision of less than…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-23 Georg Schwefer , Jim Hinton

The recent results from ground based $\gamma$-ray detectors (HESS, MAGIC, VERITAS) provide a population of TeV galactic $\gamma$-ray sources which are potential sources of High Energy (HE) neutrinos. Since the $\gamma$-rays and $\nu$ -s are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-07-20 N. Sahakyan