I will present a status report on CTA up to early 2020. This will include a look at the organisational perspectives from the CTA Consortium (CTAC) and the CTA Observatory (CTAO).
I will outline our recently submitted ARC LIEF#3 proposal and plans to engage in CTA's science, from the CTA-Australia perspective.
This contribution will inform about the status of the SST-CAM project.
The extreme and often varying nature of Active Galactic Nuclei can be investigated by observations of very-high-energy gamma rays. Studying their long-term behaviour and flaring episodes requires the ability to take continuous observations over large spans of time. The Cherenkov Telescope Ring is thus a project to establish a worldwide network of Imaging Air Cherenkov Telescopes (IACT). This...
We describe briefly a survey of potential sites in Australia for establishing a small array of IACT for monitoring and follow-up purposes, concentrating on weather and environmental factors.
We detected Odd Radio Circle (ORC) in between the LMC and MW. What is this perfectly circular object? Lost LMC SNR or strange BL-Lac? New radio observations are providing only some clues but we need X-ray, Gamma-rays and optical follow-ups.
We will discuss proposed collaboration activities and joint observing plans on La Palma between the Gravitational-Wave Optical Transient Observer (GOTO) and CTA-LST. We will also give an update on potential science cases for joint observations as well as timeframes for scheduling the observations over the coming year.
I will present a brief overview of the GASKAP Survey that aims to map HI and OH throughout the Milky Way and Magellanic Clouds. I will give an update on the current plans and status of the GASKAP Pilot Survey, which is still ongoing.
HESS J1804-216 is one of the brightest and most mysterious sources discovered and is currently classified as an unidentified source. To unveil the origin of its TeV gamma-ray emission, several scenarios have been considered. For the hadronic scenario, we focus on TeV gamma-ray emission produced by cosmic rays (CRs) from either the SNR G8.7-0.1 or the undetected progenitor of PSR J1803-2137....
This is a summary of the upcoming CTA Collaboration paper.
The Standard Model by now is well-established as the most accurate fundamental description of nature. The next physical scale where quantitatively new phenomena are predicted by theoretical extrapolation of the Standard Model is related to non-perturbative electroweak physics. The current high-energy colliders are not sensitive to uncover a plethora of new physics phenomena. I will discuss the...
Star formation proceeds inefficiently in galaxies for reasons that remain under debate. In the local ISM it is known that the cosmic rays (CRs) provide a significant fraction of total ISM pressure and therefore contribute to hydrostatic balance. I will set out a model for the dynamical effect of CRs, directly accelerated as a result of star formation itself, on the ISM gas column. On the basis...
We will briefly report on two items: 1. An update will be given on the state of the Mopra CO survey of the Southern Galactic Plane. Data collection is complete, and data reduction continues. 2. Armagh is proposing to contribute an outreach programme to the UK-CTA consortium. This will involve a combination of short planetarium dome shows, video interviews and a social media programme.
The Mopra CMZ CO survey data is now being reprocessed to correct for the aliasing of emission from the edges of the observing bands. With this issue resolved, the data is ready for use in scientific analysis. Our example studies are largely unaffected by this change, but agreement with existing CMZ CO surveys has been significantly improved.
