CTA Linkages in Australia

Session

Invited Talks

Not scheduled

Kerr Grant Lecture Theatre, Physics Building (The University of Adelaide)

4. An Overview of CTA Science

Jamie Holder (University of Delaware)

With broader energy coverage, better angular and energy resolution, and an order of magnitude improvement in sensitivity with respect to existing instruments, the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) will revolutionize the study of the Universe at the highest energies. Here we summarize some of the scientific goals of the Observatory, with a focus on the core programme of Key Science Projects...

6. CTA Science Linkages: Needs and Collaboration Opportunities from a MWL Perspective

Ulisses Barres de Almeida (Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Físicas)

The purpose of this talk is to outline the needs for CTA science, and the collaboration opportunities in various research topics provided by CTA, in a multi-instrumental perspective. After providing a general panorama of the MWL synergies for CTA science, we will focus on some potential, specific linkages to Australian Astronomy, regarding, in particular, its large infrastructure of...

10. CTA's perspectives on AGN studies and the EBL

Daniel Mazin (MPI for Physics, Munich & ICRR, University of Tokyo)

CTA is the next generation gamma-ray observatory which will conduct observations from both hemispheres in the energy range from 20 GeV to more than 300 TeV with an unprecedented sensitivity and angular resolution. Several Key Science Projects have been prepared by the CTA consortium to shed light on long standing questions of production mechanisms of gamma rays in extragalactic sources and...

9. FRB and GW studies at TeV Energies

Fabian Schüssler (IRFU)

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is the next generation high-energy gamma-ray observatory. It will improve the sensitivity of current instruments up to an order of magnitude while providing energy coverage for photons from 20 GeV to at least 300 TeV to reach high redshifts and extreme accelerators and will give access to the shortest timescale phenomena. CTA is thus a uniquely powerful...

8. Gamma-Ray Bursts at TeV Energies

Susumu Inoue (Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, University of Tokyo)

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are the most luminous sources of electromagnetic radiation in the Universe, of which many fundamental aspects remain poorly understood. TeV gamma rays from GRBs are expected to provide crucial new information on the physical mechanisms of energy dissipation, particle acceleration and radiation in these enigmatic objects. After decades of searches, they were finally...

5. The Cherenkov Telescope Array: An Observatory Perspective

Dr Roberta Zanin (CTAO)

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is the next generation gamma-ray observatory. It will be open to the entire astronomical and particle physics community as a resource to provide unique observations of the unexplored Universe at very high energies. With its greatly improved sensitivity when compared to the currently running facilities as well as significantly enhanced angular and spectral...

11. The Multi-Messenger View of Active Galactic Nuclei

Markus Boettcher (North-West University, Potchefstroom)

This talk summarizes recent progress in multi-wavelength and multi-messenger studies of AGN, in particular blazars. Prospects of blazar studies with CTA will be summarized and synergies with Australian and South African facilities (in particular, SKA precursors) will be discussed.

7. The Transient Programme of the Cherenkov Telescope Array

Daniela Hadasch (ICRR, University of Tokyo)

Transient sources are characterized by their unpredictable emission on timescales spanning milliseconds to years. Many transients are known to be emitters of high-energy gamma rays and are also potential sources of non-photonic signals that include cosmic rays, neutrinos and/or gravitational waves. The next generation observatory for very high energy gamma rays will be the Cherenkov Telescope...