CTAO School - 1st edition

17 Jun 2024, 09:00 → 29 Jun 2024, 18:30 Europe/Berlin

All times in the agenda are local times!

Monday, 17 June

09:00 → 09:15 Welcome and intro to gamma-ray astronomy

Speaker: Dr Roberta Zanin (CTAO)

09:15 → 10:30 Particle acceleration

Convener: Dr Elena Amato (INAF - Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri)

CTAO_Lecture_compressed.pdf

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 → 12:30 Particle acceleration

Convener: Dr Elena Amato (INAF - Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri)

12:30 → 14:30 Lunch

14:30 → 16:15 Historical view

Convener: Razmik Mirzoyan (Max-Planck-Institut fur Physik)

IACT-for-Astrophysics-CTAO-LST-School-Bertinoro-17-Jun-24.pdf

16:15 → 16:45 Coffee break

16:45 → 17:25 Introduction to the proposal writing session

Convener: Stefano Marchesi (Universita di Bologna)

Marchesi_CTAO_SummerSchool_ProposalWriting.pdf

17:25 → 18:45 Students' presentations

17:25 Geminga pulsar with the LSt1

Speaker: Giulia Brunelli (University of Bologna and INAF-OAS Bologna)

Brunelli_CTAO_School-1.pdf

17:45 Joint optical and VHE observations of pulsars with VERITAS

Speaker: Samantha Wong

swong_ctao.pdf

18:05 A luminosity function for MSP in globular clusters

Speaker: Francesco Xotta (University of Nova Gorica)

MSP.pdf

18:25 Long-term variability of PKS1510-089 and faint AGN sources in VHE gamma rays

Speaker: Sweta Menon (INAF / University of Rome Tor Vergata)

CTAO_school_2024_e.pdf

Tuesday, 18 June

09:00 → 11:00 Radiation Processes in High Energy Nonthermal Universe (S6)

Speaker: Felix Aharonian (Dublin Institute foe Advanced Studies, Dublin)

CTAO-First-Summer-School-FA.pdf

11:00 → 11:30 Coffee break

11:30 → 12:30 Astrophysical jetted outflows

Convener: Matteo Cerruti (Université de Paris, Astroparticule et Cosmologie (APC))

Cerruti_Jets.pdf

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 16:00 Astrophysical jetted outflows

Convener: Matteo Cerruti (Université de Paris, Astroparticule et Cosmologie (APC))

Cerruti_Jets.pdf

16:00 → 16:30 Coffee break

16:30 → 17:30 Students' presentation

16:30 Estimating the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory sensitivity to detect the Fermi bubbles

Speaker: Nina Bavdaž

Estimating_the_CTAO_sensitivity_to_detect_FB.pdf

16:50 10 massive young stellar clusters as Galactic PeVatrons

Speaker: Alberto Bonollo (UniTn - IUSS Pavia - IASF Milano)

CTAO_School_Bonollo.pdf

17:10 Assessing cosmic ray feedback on relativistic jets

Speaker: Augusto Carvalho

augusto_ctaoschool.pdf

17:30 → 19:00 Astrophysical non-jetted outflows

Convener: Pol Bordas (Departament de Fisica Quantica i Astrofisica, Institut de Ciencies del Cosmos, Universitat de Barcelona, IEEC-UB)

CTAO_School_NON-JETTED-OUTFLOWS_v4.pdf

Wednesday, 19 June

09:00 → 10:30 Time domain astronomy

Convener: Francesco Coti Zelati

CotiZelati_CTAOSchool_TimeDomain.pdf

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 → 12:30 Cosmic ray physics and diffuse emission

Convener: Stefano Gabici (Universite de Paris, CNRS, Astroparticule et Cosmologie, F-75013 Paris, France)

oldstuff.pdf

12:30 → 14:30 Lunch

14:30 → 16:00 Source association and catalogue creation

Convener: Dr Jean Ballet (Universite Paris-Saclay, Universite Paris Cite, CEA, CNRS, AIM, F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France)

Associations_jballet_0624.pdf

16:00 → 16:30 Coffee break

16:30 → 17:30 Students' presentations

16:30 Variability analysis of Fermi-LAT data to improve prospects with the CTAO

Speaker: Luana Passos Reis

CTAO_SummerSchool_Luana.pdf

16:50 Time delays between Fermi GBM and LLE light curves of GRBs

Speaker: Claudia Maraventano

maraventano_ctao.pdf

17:10 Probing the origin of cosmological magnetic fields with the Cherenkov Telescope Array using Gamma-Ray Bursts

Speaker: Ténéman KEITA (CEA)

CTAO_school_Teneman_KEITA.pdf

17:30 → 19:00 hands-on session: source association

Convener: Dr Jean Ballet (Universite Paris-Saclay, Universite Paris Cite, CEA, CNRS, AIM, F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France)

Thursday, 20 June

09:00 → 10:30 Cosmic ray physics and diffuse emission

Convener: Stefano Gabici (Universite de Paris, CNRS, Astroparticule et Cosmologie, F-75013 Paris, France)

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 → 12:30 Gamma-ray cosmology

Convener: Jonathan Biteau (IPNO)

1_LocalSheet3D_Biteau2021.html

2_Virgo3D_Biteau2021.html

3_Laniakea3D_Biteau2021.html

4_Universe3D_Biteau2021.html

CTAOSchool_Bertinoro2024_GammaRayCosmology-1.pdf

12:30 → 14:30 Lunch

14:30 → 16:30 Hands-on session: how many hours do I need for my proposal?

Convener: Alison Mitchell (ECAP, FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg)

ObsPlanningTutorial_CTAO-2024.pdf

16:30 → 17:00 coffee break

17:00 → 19:00 Hands-on session: writing a proposal

Conveners: Alison Mitchell (ECAP, FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg), Antonio Iuliano (INFN, (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare), Sezione di Napoli), Davide Miceli (University & INFN Padova), Gaia Verna (University of Siena - INFN Pisa), Jonathan Biteau (IPNO), Michele Doro (University and INFN Padova), Paolo Da Vela (INFN Sezione di Pisa), Serena Loporchio (INFN Sezione di Bari and Universita degli Studi di Bari), Stefano Marchesi (Universita di Bologna)

Friday, 21 June

09:00 → 10:30 Fundamental physics (DM - beyond the standard model)

Convener: Michele Doro (University and INFN Padova)

doro_2024_ctaoschool_fund_1.pdf

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 → 12:30 Fundamental physics (DM - Beyond the standard model)

Convener: Michele Doro (University and INFN Padova)

doro_2024_ctaoschool_fund_2.pdf

12:30 → 14:30 Lunch

14:30 → 16:00 Hands-on session: writing a proposal

Conveners: Alison Mitchell (ECAP, FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg), Antonio Iuliano (INFN, (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare), Sezione di Napoli), Davide Miceli (University & INFN Padova), Gaia Verna (University of Siena - INFN Pisa), Jonathan Biteau (IPNO), Michele Doro (University and INFN Padova), Paolo Da Vela (INFN Sezione di Pisa), Serena Loporchio (INFN Sezione di Bari and Universita degli Studi di Bari), Stefano Marchesi (Universita di Bologna)

16:00 → 16:30 Coffee break

16:30 → 17:10 Students' presentations

16:30 Axion-like particles

Speaker: Francesco Schiavone (Bari University)

Schiavone_CTAOSchool2024.pdf

16:50 The high energy spectrum of HH 80-81 system

Speaker: Javier Mendez-Gallego (IAA-CSIC)

17:10 → 19:10 Hands-on session:writing a proposal

Conveners: Alison Mitchell (ECAP, FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg), Antonio Iuliano (INFN, (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare), Sezione di Napoli), Davide Miceli (University & INFN Padova), Gaia Verna (University of Siena - INFN Pisa), Jonathan Biteau (IPNO), Michele Doro (University and INFN Padova), Paolo Da Vela (INFN Sezione di Pisa), Serena Loporchio (INFN Sezione di Bari and Universita degli Studi di Bari), Stefano Marchesi (Universita di Bologna)

Saturday, 22 June

05:00 → 07:30 Transfer from Bertinoro to Bologna

08:00 → 18:45 Flight from Bologna to La Palma and Arrival

20:30 → 22:30 Social Dinner

Monday, 24 June

09:00 → 10:30 IACT detection principles

Convener: Gernot Maier (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron)

IACT-DetectionPrinciples-GMaier.pdf

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 → 12:30 IACT detection principles

Convener: Gernot Maier (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron)

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 16:00 Low-level analysis

Convener: Julian Sitarek (Faculty of Physics and Applied Computer Science, University of Lodz)

2024-06_iact_low_level_v2.pdf

2024-06_iact_low_level_v3.pdf

16:00 → 16:30 coffee break

16:30 → 18:30 Atmospheric characterization

Convener: Markus Gaug (Unitat de Fisica de les Radiacions, Departament de Fisica, and CERES-IEEC, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, E-08193 Bellaterra, Spain)

AtmosphericCharacterization_CTAOSchool_24_06_2024.pdf

Tuesday, 25 June

09:00 → 10:30 High-level analysis

Conveners: Atreyee Sinha (UCM, Madrid), Fabio Acero (AIM, CEA, CNRS, Universite Paris-Saclay, Universite Paris Diderot, Sorbonne Paris Cite, F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France), Fabio Pintore (INAF - Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica Cosmica di Milano)

gammapy_intro_CTAO_School.pdf

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 → 12:30 High-level analysis

Conveners: Atreyee Sinha (UCM, Madrid), Fabio Acero (AIM, CEA, CNRS, Universite Paris-Saclay, Universite Paris Diderot, Sorbonne Paris Cite, F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France), Fabio Pintore (INAF - Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica Cosmica di Milano)

gammapy_Stats_minimization.pdf

12:30 → 15:00 Lunch

15:00 → 16:00 Students' presentation

15:00 The possibility of using the time evolution of Cherenkov photons in the reconstruction of the gamma-ray shower

Speaker: sunghyun bang (Institute for space-Earth Environmental Research,Nagoya University)

CTAO_school.key

15:20 Towards a Deep Learning-based /hadron Classifier for IACTs

Speaker: Abhay Mehta (DESY)

15:40 Optimization and Characterization of the Divergent pointing mode for the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO) for Transient Studies

Speaker: Jahanvi Jahanvi (University of Udine and INFN-Trieste)

16:00 → 16:30 High-level analysis

Conveners: Atreyee Sinha (UCM, Madrid), Fabio Acero (AIM, CEA, CNRS, Universite Paris-Saclay, Universite Paris Diderot, Sorbonne Paris Cite, F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France), Fabio Pintore (INAF - Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica Cosmica di Milano)

16:30 → 17:00 Coffee break

17:00 → 19:00 High-level analysis

Conveners: Atreyee Sinha (UCM, Madrid), Fabio Acero (AIM, CEA, CNRS, Universite Paris-Saclay, Universite Paris Diderot, Sorbonne Paris Cite, F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France), Fabio Pintore (INAF - Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica Cosmica di Milano)

multi-instument.pdf

Wednesday, 26 June

11:00 → 12:30 Transfer to ORM

12:30 → 13:30 Lunch at the residencia

13:30 → 14:00 DAY GROUP 2: Transfer to visitors' centre

13:45 → 16:00 DAY GROUP 1: IACT instrumentation general introduction

Convener: Oscar Blanch Bigas (Institut de Fisica d'Altes Energies (IFAE), The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology)

14:00 → 15:30 DAY GROUP 2: how to prepare an outreach talk?

15:30 → 16:15 DAY GROUP 2: Array control

Convener: Dominik Neise (CTAO gGmbH)

ACADA_HMI.mov

ArrayControl.pptx

ArrayControl_v1.pdf

16:00 → 16:15 DAY GROUP 1: transfer to visitors center

16:15 → 17:00 Transfer to the LST site + coffee

17:00 → 18:30 DAY GROUP 1: safety tour

17:00 → 18:30 DAY GROUP 2: safety tour

18:30 → 18:45 Transfer to the residencia

18:45 → 22:00 Dinner

22:00 → 22:30 NIGHT GROUP 1: Transfer to the LST site

22:00 → 22:30 NIGHT GROUP 2: Transfer to MAGIC

22:00 → 22:30 NIGHT GROUP 3: Transfer to the TNG

22:00 → 22:30 NIGHT GROUP 4: Transfer to GTC

22:30 → 23:30 NIGHT GROUP 1: LST observations

22:30 → 23:30 NIGHT GROUP 2: MAGIC observations

22:30 → 23:30 NIGHT GROUP 3: TNG observations

22:30 → 23:30 NIGHT GROUP 4: GTC observations

23:30 → 23:45 NIGHT GROUP 1: Move to MAGIC Counting House

23:30 → 23:45 NIGHT GROUP 2: Move to LST container

23:30 → 23:45 NIGHT GROUP 3: Transfer to GTC

23:30 → 23:45 NIGHT GROUP 4: Transfer to TNG

23:45 → 23:59 NIGHT GROUP 1: MAGIC observations

23:45 → 23:59 NIGHT GROUP 2: LST observations

23:45 → 23:59 NIGHT GROUP 3: GTC observations

23:45 → 23:59 NIGHT GROUP 4: TNG observations

Thursday, 27 June

00:01 → 01:01 NIGHT GROUP 1: MAGIC observations

00:01 → 01:01 NIGHT GROUP 2: LST observations

00:01 → 01:01 NIGHT GROUP 3: GTC observations

00:01 → 01:01 NIGHT GROUP 4: TNG observations

10:30 → 12:00 DAY GROUP 1: How to prepare an outreach talk?

Convener: Alba Fernández Barral (Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory)

10:45 → 13:00 DAY GROUP 2: IACT instrumentation introduction

Convener: Oscar Blanch Bigas (Institut de Fisica d'Altes Energies (IFAE), The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology)

12:00 → 12:45 DAY GROUP 1: Array control

Convener: Dominik Neise (CTAO gGmbH)

12:45 → 13:00 DAY GROUP 1: Transfer to the residencia

13:00 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 14:15 Transfer to the visitors' center

14:15 → 16:30 CTAO telescopes

14:15 LST

Speaker: Daniel Mazin (Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, University of Tokyo & Max-Planck-Institut fur Physik)

LST-mazin-ctaoschool-2024.key

15:00 MST

Speaker: Federica Bradascio (CEA-Irfu)

MST_cta_school_2024.pdf

15:45 SST

Speaker: Giorgia Sironi (INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera)

16:30 → 17:15 Transfer to GCT/TNG + coffee

17:15 → 18:30 DAY GROUP 1: visit the TNG

17:15 → 18:30 DAY GROUP 2: visit the GTC

18:30 → 19:00 Transfer to the Residencia

19:00 → 22:00 Dinner

22:00 → 22:30 NIGHT GROUP 3: Transfer to LST site

22:00 → 22:30 NIGHT GROUP 4: transfer to MAGIC site

22:00 → 22:30 NIGHT GROUP 5: transfer to TNG

22:00 → 22:30 NIGHT GROUP 6: Transfer to GTC

22:30 → 23:30 NIGHT GROUP 3: LST observations

22:30 → 23:30 NIGHT GROUP 4: MAGIC observations

22:30 → 23:30 NIGHT GROUP 5: TNG observations

22:30 → 23:30 NIGHT GROUP 6: GTC observations

23:30 → 23:45 NIGHT GROUP 3: move to the MAGIC counting house

23:30 → 23:45 NIGHT GROUP 4: move to the LST container

23:30 → 23:45 NIGHT GROUP 5: transfer to the GTC

23:30 → 23:45 NIGHT GROUP 6: transfer to the TNG

23:45 → 23:59 NIGHT GROUP 3: MAGIC observations

23:45 → 23:59 NIGHT GROUP 4: LST observations

23:45 → 23:59 NIGHT GROUP 5: GTC observations

23:45 → 23:59 NIGHT GROUP 6: TNG observations

Friday, 28 June

00:01 → 01:01 NIGHT GROUP 3: MAGIC observations

00:01 → 01:01 NIGHT GROUP 4: LST observations

00:01 → 01:01 NIGHT GROUP 5: GTC observations

00:01 → 01:01 NIGHT GROUP 6: TNG observations

10:40 → 10:55 Transfer to the vistors' center

10:55 → 11:15 Students' presentation

10:55 Upgrade of the prototype Schwarzschild-Couder Telescope Camera

Speaker: Luca Riitano (UW Madison)

CTAO_school_June2024.pdf

CTAO_school_June2024.pptx

11:15 → 12:45 Optical astronomy for beginners in view of possible synergies with CTAO

Convener: Romano Corradi

12:45 → 13:00 TRansfer to the residencia

13:00 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 14:15 Transfer to LST site

14:15 → 16:30 LST visit

16:30 → 17:15 DAY GROUP 1: Transfer to GTC + coffee break

16:30 → 17:15 DAY GROUP 2: Transfer to TNG + Coffee break

17:15 → 18:30 DAY GROUP 1: GTC visit

17:15 → 18:30 DAY GROUP 2: TNG visit

18:30 → 19:00 Transfer to residencia

19:00 → 22:00 Dinner

22:00 → 22:30 NIGHT GROUP 1: Transfer to TNG

22:00 → 22:30 NIGHT GROUP 2: Transfer to GTC

22:00 → 22:30 NIGHT GROUP 5: Transfer to the LST site

22:00 → 22:30 NIGHT GROUP 6: Transfer to the MAGIC site

22:30 → 23:30 NIGHT GROUP 1: TNG observations

22:30 → 23:30 NIGHT GROUP 2: GTC observations

22:30 → 23:30 NIGHT GROUP 5: LST observations

22:30 → 23:30 NIGHT GROUP 6: MAGIC observations

23:30 → 23:45 NIGHT GROUP 1: Transfer to GTC

23:30 → 23:45 NIGHT GROUP 2: Transfer to TNG

23:30 → 23:45 NIGHT GROUP 5: move to the MAGIC counting house

23:30 → 23:45 NIGHT GROUP 6: move to the LST container

23:45 → 23:59 NIGHT GROUP 1: GTC observations

23:45 → 23:59 NIGHT GROUP 2: TNG observations

23:45 → 23:59 NIGHT GROUP 5: MAGIC observations

23:45 → 23:59 NIGHT GROUP 6: LST observations

Saturday, 29 June

00:01 → 01:01 NIGHT GROUP 1: GTC observations

00:01 → 01:01 NIGHT GROUP 2: TNG observations

00:01 → 01:01 NIGHT GROUP 5: MAGIC observations

00:01 → 01:01 NIGHT GROUP 6: LST observations

09:00 → 10:30 Transfer from ORM to the airport