Speaker
Dr
Chris Phillips
(CSIRO)
Description
The gamma-ray sky is dominated by radio sources. Radio observations with milliarcsecond resolution are will be essential to understand new sources detected with the CTA. Studying Active Galactic Nuclei is one of CTA's Key Science Projects. However, the CTA does not have the angular resolution to study the source of relativistic jets - the resolution of VLBI is required to understand the physics of jet sources in AGN (and X-ray binaries in our own Galaxy). The unprecedented sub-minute sensitivity of CTA will undoubtedly review new insights to the transient universe. Very short transients have to be physically compact, again requiring the high angular resolution of VLBI to untangle the origin of Gamma Ray flares.
Primary author
Dr
Chris Phillips
(CSIRO)
