28–29 Nov 2019
The University of Adelaide
Australia/Adelaide timezone

A Broadband View of the Galactic Centre in Anticipation of CTA

29 Nov 2019, 14:20
20m
Kerr Grant Lecture Theatre, Physics Building (The University of Adelaide)

Kerr Grant Lecture Theatre, Physics Building

The University of Adelaide

The University of Adelaide Adelaide SA 5005 Australia

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.

Primary author

Roland Crocker (Australian National University)

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