Speaker
Roland Crocker
(Australian National University)
Description
The inner few hundred parsecs of the Galaxy host its resident supermassive black hole and a surrounding region of intense star formation. In addition, this region of the Milky Way is where its dark matter density is expected to peak. Moreover, a number of mysterious signals emanate or peak in this part of the sky: the GC Excess' gamma-ray signal, theFermi Bubbles', and the positron annihilation signal. I will review this phenomenology and what it might be telling us about the processes occurring at the Galaxy's heart, anticipating insights that CTA may bring when it is fully operational.
Author
Roland Crocker
(Australian National University)
