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Dark matter line searches with the Cherenkov Telescope Array
(2024) Abe, S.; Abhir, J.; Abhishek, A.; Acero, F.; Acharyya, A.; Adam, R.; Aguasca-Cabot, A.; Agudo, I.; Aguirre-Santaella, A.; Alfaro, J.; Alfaro, R.; Alvarez-Crespo, N.; Alves Batista, R.; Amans, J. -P.; Amato, E.; Ambrosi, G.; Angel, L.; Aramo, C.; Arcaro, C.; Arnesen, T. T. H.; Arrabito, L.; Asano, K.; Ascasibar, Y.; Aschersleben, J.; Ashkar, H.; Backes, M.; Baktash, A.; Balazs, C.; Balbo, M.; Baquero Larriva, A.; Martins, V. Barbosa; Barres de Almeida, U.; Barrio, J. A.; Batkovic, I.; Batzofin, R.; Baxter, J.; Becerra Gonzalez, J.; Beck, G.; Benbow, W.; Berge, D.; Bernardini, E.; Bernete, J.; Bernloehr, K.; Berti, A.; Bertucci, B.; Bhattacharjee, P.; Bhattacharyya, S.; Bigongiari, C.; Biland, A.; Bissaldi, E.; Biteau, J.; Blanch, O.; Blazek, J.; Bocchino, F.; Boisson, C.; Bolmont, J.; Bonnoli, G.; Bonollo, A.; Bordas, P.; Bosnjak, Z.; Bottacini, E.; Bottcher, M.; Bringmann, T.; Bronzini, E.; Brose, R.; Brown, A. M.; Brunelli, G.; Bulgarelli, A.; Bulik, T.; Burelli, I.; Burmistrov, L.; Burton, M.; Buscemi, M.; Bylund, T.; Cailleux, J.; Campoy-Ordaz, A.; Cantlay, B. K.; Capasso, G.; Caproni, A.; Capuzzo-Dolcetta, R.; Caraveo, P.; Caroff, S.; Carosi, A.; Carosi, R.; Carquin, E.; Carrasco, M. -S.; Cassol, F.; Castaldini, L.; Castrejon, N.; Castro-Tirado, A. J.; Cerasole, D.; Cerruti, M.; Chadwick, P. M.; Chaty, S.; Chen, A. W.; Chernyakova, M.; Chiavassa, A.; Chudoba, J.; Chytka, L.; Cicciari, G. M.; Cifuentes, A.; Coimbra Araujo, C. H.; Colapietro, M.; Conforti, V.; Conte, F.; Contreras, J. L.; Costa, A.; Costantini, H.; Cotter, G.; Cristofari, P.; Cuevas, O.; Curtis-Ginsberg, Z.; D'Amico, G.; D'Ammando, F.; Dai, S.; Dalchenko, M.; Dazzi, F.; De Angelis, A.; de Lavergne, M. de Bony; De Caprio, V.; de Gouveia Dal Pino, E. M.; De Lotto, B.; De Lucia, M.; de Menezes, R.; de Naurois, M.; de Souza, V.; del Peral, L.; del Valle, M. V.; Delgado Giler, A. G.; Delgado Mengual, J.; Delgado, C.; Dell'aiera, M.; della Volpe, D.; Depaoli, D.; Di Girolamo, T.; Di Piano, A.; Di Pierro, F.; Di Tria, R.; Di Venere, L.; Diaz, C.; Diebold, S.; Dinesh, A.; Djuvsland, J.; Dominik, R. M.; Prester, D. Dominis; Donini, A.; Dorner, D.; Doerner, J.; Doro, M.; Dournaux, J. -L.; Duangchan, C.; Dubos, C.; Ducci, L.; Dwarkadas, V. V.; Ebr, J.; Eckner, C.; Egberts, K.; Einecke, S.; Elsaesser, D.; Emery, G.; Errando, M.; Escanuela, C.; Escarate, P.; Godoy, M. Escobar; Escudero, J.; Esposito, P.; Ettori, S.; Falceta-Goncalves, D.; Fedorova, E.; Fegan, S.; Feng, Q.; Ferrand, G.; Ferrarotto, F.; Fiandrini, E.; Fiasson, A.; Filipovic, M.; Fioretti, V.; Fiori, M.; Foffano, L.; Font Guiteras, L.; Fontaine, G.; Froese, S.; Fukazawa, Y.; Fukui, Y.; Furniss, A.; Galanti, G.; Galaz, G.; Galelli, C.; Gallozzi, S.; Gammaldi, V.; Garczarczyk, M.; Gasbarra, C.; Gasparrini, D.; Ghalumyan, A.; Gianotti, F.; Giarrusso, M.; Giesbrecht Formiga Paiva, J. G.; Giglietto, N.; Giordano, F.; Giuffrida, R.; Glicenstein, J. -F.; Glombitza, J.; Goldoni, P.; Gonzalez, J. M.; Gonzalez, M. M.; Goulart Coelho, J.; Gradetzke, T.; Granot, J.; Grasso, D.; Grau, R.; Greaux, L.; Green, D.; Green, J. G.; Grolleron, G.; Guedes, L. M. V.; Gueta, O.; Hackfeld, J.; Hadasch, D.; Hamal, P.; Hanlon, W.; Hara, S.; Harvey, V. M.; Hassan, T.; Hayashi, K.; Hess, B.; Heckmann, L.; Heller, M.; Hernandez Cadena, S.; Hervet, O.; Hinton, J.; Hiroshima, N.; Hnatyk, B.; Hnatyk, R.; Hofmann, W.; Holder, J.; Horan, D.; Horvath, P.; Hovatta, T.; Hrabovsky, M.; Hrupec, D.; Iarlori, M.; Inada, T.; Incardona, F.; Inoue, S.; Inoue, Y.; Iocco, F.; Iori, M.; Ishio, K.; Jamrozy, M.; Janecek, P.; Jankowsky, F.; Jean, P.; Jimenez Quiles, J.; Jin, W.; Juramy-Gilles, C.; Jurysek, J.; Kagaya, M.; Kalekin, O.; Karas, V.; Katagiri, H.; Kataoka, J.; Kaufmann, S.; Kazanas, D.; Kerszberg, D.; Kieda, D. B.; Kleiner, T.; Kluge, G.; Kobayashi, Y.; Kohri, K.; Komin, N.; Kornecki, P.; Kosack, K.; Kowal, G.; Kubo, H.; Kushida, J.; La Barbera, A.; La Palombara, N.; Lainez, M.; Lamastra, A.; Lapington, J.; Laporte, P.; Lazarevic, S.; Lazendic-Galloway, J.; Lemoine-Goumard, M.; Lenain, J. -P.; Leone, F.; Leonora, E.; Leto, G.; Lindfors, E.; Linhoff, M.; Liodakis, I.; Lipniacka, A.; Lombardi, S.; Longo, F.; Lopez-Coto, R.; Lopez-Moya, M.; Lopez-Oramas, A.; Loporchio, S.; Lozano Bahilo, J.; Luque-Escamilla, P. L.; Macias, O.; Majumdar, P.; Mallamaci, M.; Malyshev, D.; Mandat, D.; Manico, G.; Mariotti, M.; Marquez, I.; Marquez, P.; Marsella, G.; Marti, J.; Martinez, G. A.; Martinez, M.; Martinez, O.; Marty, C.; Mas-Aguilar, A.; Mastropietro, M.; Mazin, D.; Menchiari, S.; Mestre, E.; Meunier, J. -L.; Meyer, D. M. -A.; Meyer, M.; Miceli, D.; Miceli, M.; Michailidis, M.; Michalowski, J.; Miener, T.; Miranda, J. M.; Mitchell, A.; Mizote, M.; Mizuno, T.; Moderski, R.; Molero, M.; Molfese, C.; Molina, E.; Montaruli, T.; Moralejo, A.; Morcuende, D.; Morselli, A.; Moulin, E.; Moya Zamanillo, V.; Munari, K.; Murach, T.; Muraczewski, A.; Muraishi, H.; Nakamori, T.; Nayak, A.; Nemmen, R.; Neto, J. P.; Nickel, L.; Niemiec, J.; Nieto, D.; Nievas Rosillo, M.; Nikolajuk, M.; Nikolic, L.; Nishijima, K.; Noda, K.; Nosek, D.; Novotny, V.; Nozaki, S.; Ohishi, M.; Ohtani, Y.; Okumura, A.; Olive, J. -F.; Ong, R. A.; Orienti, M.; Orito, R.; Orlandini, M.; Orlando, E.; Orlando, S.; Ostrowski, M.; Otero-Santos, J.; Oya, I.; Pagano, I.; Pagliaro, A.; Palatiello, M.; Panebianco, G.; Paneque, D.; Pantaleo, F. R.; Paredes, J. M.; Parmiggiani, N.; Patricelli, B.; Pe'er, A.; Pech, M.; Pecimotika, M.; Pensec, U.; Peresano, M.; Perez-Romero, J.; Persic, M.; Peters, K. P.; Petruk, O.; Piano, G.; Pierre, E.; Pietropaolo, E.; Pihet, M.; Pinchbeck, L.; Pirola, G.; Pittori, C.; Plard, C.; Podobnik, F.; Pohl, M.; Pollet, V.; Ponti, G.; Prandini, E.; Principe, G.; Priyadarshi, C.; Produit, N.; Prouza, M.; Pueschel, E.; Puehlhofer, G.; Pumo, M. L.; Queiroz, F.; Quirrenbach, A.; Raino, S.; Rando, R.; Razzaque, S.; Regeard, M.; Reimer, A.; Reimer, O.; Reisenegger, A.; Rhode, W.; Ribeiro, D.; Ribo, M.; Ricci, C.; Richtler, T.; Rico, J.; Rieger, F.; Riitano, L.; Rizi, V.; Roache, E.; Fernandez, G. Rodriguez; Rodriguez Frias, M. D.; Rodriguez-Vazquez, J. J.; Romano, P.; Romeo, G.; Rosado, J.; de Leon, A. Rosales; Rowell, G.; Rudak, B.; Ruiter, A. J.; Rulten, C. B.; Sadeh, I.; Saha, L.; Saito, T.; Salzmann, H.; Sanchez-Conde, M.; Sandaker, H.; Sangiorgi, P.; Sano, H.; Santander, M.; Santos-Lima, R.; Sapienza, V.; Saric, T.; Sarkar, A.; Sarkar, S.; Saturni, F. G.; Savarese, S.; Scherer, A.; Schiavone, F.; Schipani, P.; Schleicher, B.; Schovanek, P.; Schubert, J. L.; Schwanke, U.; Seglar Arroyo, M.; Seitenzahl, I. R.; Sergijenko, O.; Servillat, M.; Siegert, T.; Siejkowski, H.; Siqueira, C.; Sliusar, V.; Slowikowska, A.; Sol, H.; Spencer, S. T.; Spiga, D.; Stamerra, A.; Stanic, S.; Starecki, T.; Starling, R.; Stawarz, L.; Steppa, C.; Hatlen, E. Saether; Stolarczyk, T.; Striskovic, J.; Suda, Y.; Swierk, P.; Tajima, H.; Tak, D.; Takahashi, M.; Takeishi, R.; Tavernier, T.; Tejedor, L. A.; Terauchi, K.; Teshima, M.; Testa, V.; Tian, W. W.; Tibaldo, L.; Tibolla, O.; Todero Peixoto, C. J.; Torradeflot, F.; Torres, D. F.; Tosti, G.; Tothill, N.; Toussenel, F.; Tramacere, A.; Travnicek, P.; Tripodo, G.; Trois, A.; Truzzi, S.; Tutone, A.; Vaclavek, L.; Vacula, M.; Vallania, P.; Valles, R.; van Eldik, C.; van Scherpenberg, J.; Vandenbroucke, J.; Vassiliev, V.; Vazquez Acosta, M.; Vecchi, M.; Ventura, S.; Vercellone, S.; Verna, G.; Viana, A.; Viaux, N.; Vigliano, A.; Vignatti, J.; Vigorito, C. F.; Villanueva, J.; Visentin, E.; Vitale, V.; Vodeb, V.; Voisin, V.; Voitsekhovskyi, V.; Vorobiov, S.; Voutsinas, G.; Vovk, I.; Vuillaume, T.; Wagner, S. J.; Walter, R.; White, M.; White, R.; Wierzcholska, A.; Will, M.; Williams, D. A.; Wohlleben, F.; Wolter, A.; Yamamoto, T.; Yang, L.; Yoshida, T.; Yoshikoshi, T.; Zaharijas, G.; Zampieri, L.; Sanchez, R. Zanmar; Zavrtanik, D.; Zavrtanik, M.; Zdziarski, A. A.; Zech, A.; Zhang, W.; Zhdanov, V. I.; Zietara, K.; Zivec, M.; Zuriaga-Puig, J.
Monochromatic gamma-ray signals constitute a potential smoking gun signature for annihilating or decaying dark matter particles that could relatively easily be distinguished from astrophysical or instrumental backgrounds. We provide an updated assessment of the sensitivity of the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) to such signals, based on observations of the Galactic centre region as well as of selected dwarf spheroidal galaxies. We find that current limits and detection prospects for dark matter masses above 300 GeV will be significantly improved, by up to an order of magnitude in the multi-TeV range. This demonstrates that CTA will set a new standard for gamma-ray astronomy also in this respect, as the world's largest and most sensitive high-energy gamma-ray observatory, in particular due to its exquisite energy resolution at TeV energies and the adopted observational strategy focussing on regions with large dark matter densities. Throughout our analysis, we use up-to-date instrument response functions, and we thoroughly model the effect of instrumental systematic uncertainties in our statistical treatment. We further present results for other potential signatures with sharp spectral features, e.g. box-shaped spectra, that would likewise very clearly point to a particle dark matter origin.
Panning for gold, but finding helium: Discovery of the ultra-stripped supernova SN 2019wxt from gravitational-wave follow-up observations
(2023) Agudo, I.; Amati, L.; An, T.; Bauer, F. E.; Benetti, S.; Bernardini, M. G.; Beswick, R.; Bhirombhakdi, K.; de Boer, T.; Branchesi, M.; Brennan, S. J.; Brocato, E.; Caballero-Garcia, M. D.; Cappellaro, E.; Castro Rodriguez, N.; Castro-Tirado, A. J.; Chambers, K. C.; Chassande-Mottin, E.; Chaty, S.; Chen, T. -W.; Coleiro, A.; Covino, S.; D'Ammando, F.; D'Avanzo, P.; D'Elia, V.; Fiore, A.; Floers, A.; Fraser, M.; Frey, S.; Frohmaier, C.; Fulton, M.; Galbany, L.; Gall, C.; Gao, H.; Garcia-Rojas, J.; Ghirlanda, G.; Giarratana, S.; Gillanders, J. H.; Giroletti, M.; Gompertz, B. P.; Gromadzki, M.; Heintz, K. E.; Hjorth, J.; Hu, Y. -D.; Huber, M. E.; Inkenhaag, A.; Izzo, L.; Jin, Z. P.; Jonker, P. G.; Kann, D. A.; Kool, E. C.; Kotak, R.; Leloudas, G.; Levan, A. J.; Lin, C. -C.; Lyman, J. D.; Magnier, E. A.; Maguire, K.; Mandel, I.; Marcote, B.; Sanchez, D. Mata; Mattila, S.; Melandri, A.; Michalowski, M. J.; Moldon, J.; Nicholl, M.; Guelbenzu, A. Nicuesa; Oates, S. R.; Onori, F.; Orienti, M.; Paladino, R.; Paragi, Z.; Perez-Torres, M.; Pian, E.; Pignata, G.; Piranomonte, S.; Quirola-Vasquez, J.; Ragosta, F.; Rau, A.; Ronchini, S.; Rossi, A.; Sanchez-Ramirez, R.; Salafia, O. S.; Schulze, S.; Smartt, S. J.; Smith, K. W.; Sollerman, J.; Srivastav, S.; Starling, R. L. C.; Steeghs, D.; Stevance, H. F.; Tanvir, N. R.; Testa, V.; Torres, M. A. P.; Valeev, A.; Vergani, S. D.; Vescovi, D.; Wainscost, R.; Watson, D.; Wiersema, K.; Wyrzykowski, L.; Yang, J.; Yang, S.; Young, D. R.
We present the results from multi-wavelength observations of a transient discovered during an intensive follow-up campaign of S191213g, a gravitational wave (GW) event reported by the LIGO-Virgo Collaboration as a possible binary neutron star merger in a low latency search. This search yielded SN 2019wxt, a young transient in a galaxy whose sky position (in the 80% GW contour) and distance (similar to SIM;150 Mpc) were plausibly compatible with the localisation uncertainty of the GW event. Initially, the transient's tightly constrained age, its relatively faint peak magnitude (M-i similar to -16.7 mag), and the r-band decline rate of similar to 1 mag per 5 days appeared suggestive of a compact binary merger. However, SN 2019wxt spectroscopically resembled a type Ib supernova, and analysis of the optical-near-infrared evolution rapidly led to the conclusion that while it could not be associated with S191213g, it nevertheless represented an extreme outcome of stellar evolution. By modelling the light curve, we estimated an ejecta mass of only similar to 0.1 M circle dot, with Ni-56 comprising similar to 20% of this. We were broadly able to reproduce its spectral evolution with a composition dominated by helium and oxygen, with trace amounts of calcium. We considered various progenitor channels that could give rise to the observed properties of SN 2019wxt and concluded that an ultra-stripped origin in a binary system is the most likely explanation. Disentangling genuine electromagnetic counterparts to GW events from transients such as SN 2019wxt soon after discovery is challenging: in a bid to characterise this level of contamination, we estimated the rate of events with a volumetric rate density comparable to that of SN 2019wxt and found that around one such event per week can occur within the typical GW localisation area of O4 alerts out to a luminosity distance of 500 Mpc, beyond which it would become fainter than the typical depth of current electromagnetic follow-up campaigns.
Sensitivity of the Cherenkov Telescope Array to spectral signatures of hadronic PeVatrons with application to Galactic Supernova Remnants
(2023) Acero, F.; Acharyya, A.; Adam, R.; Aguasca-Cabot, A.; Agudo, I.; Aguirre-Santaella, A.; Alfaro, J.; Aloisio, R.; Crespo, N. Alvarez; Batista, R. Alves; Amati, L.; Amato, E.; Ambrosi, G.; Anguner, E. O.; Aramo, C.; Arcaro, C.; Armstrong, T.; Asano, K.; Ascasibar, Y.; Aschersleben, J.; Backes, M.; Baktash, A.; Balazs, C.; Balbo, M.; Ballet, J.; Larriva, A. Baquero; Martins, V. Barbosa; Barres de Almeida, U.; Barrio, J. A.; Bastieri, D.; Baxter, J. R.; Tjus, J. Becker; Benbow, W.; Bernardos-Martin, M. I.; Bernete, J.; Berti, A.; Bertucci, B.; Beshley, V.; Bhattacharjee, P.; Bhattacharyya, S.; Biland, A.; Bissaldi, E.; Biteau, J.; Blanch, O.; Bordas, P.; Bottacini, E.; Bregeon, J.; Brose, R.; Bucciantini, N.; Bulgarelli, A.; Capasso, M.; Dolcetta, R. A. Capuzzo; Caraveo, P.; Cardillo, M.; Carosi, R.; Casanova, S.; Cascone, E.; Cassol, F.; Catalani, F.; Cerruti, M.; Chadwick, P.; Chaty, S.; Chen, A.; Chernyakova, M.; Chiavassa, A.; Chudoba, J.; Coimbra-Araujo, C.; Conforti, V.; Contreras, J. L.; Costa, A.; Costantini, H.; Cristofari, P.; Crocker, R.; D'Amico, G.; D'Ammando, F.; De Angelis, A.; De Caprio, V.; Pino, E. M. de Gouveia Dal; Wilhelmi, E. de Ona; de Souza, V.; Delgado, C.; della Volp, D.; Depaoli, D.; Di Girolamo, T.; Di Pierro, F.; Di Tria, R.; Di Venere, L.; Diebold, S.; Djuvsland, J. I.; Donini, A.; Doro, M.; Dos Anjos, R. d. C.; Dwarkadas, V. V.; Einecke, S.; Elsaesser, D.; Emery, G.; Evoli, C.; Falceta-Goncalves, D.; Fedorova, E.; Fegan, S.; Ferrand, G.; Fiandrini, E.; Filipovic, M.; Fioretti, V.; Fiori, M.; Foffano, L.; Fontaine, G.; Fukami, S.; Galanti, G.; Galaz, G.; Gammaldi, V.; Gasbarra, C.; Ghalumyan, A.; Ghirlanda, G.; Giarrusso, M.; Giavitto, G.; Giglietto, N.; Giordano, F.; Giroletti, M.; Giuliani, A.; Giunti, L.; Godinovic, N.; Coelho, J. Goulart; Greaux, L.; Green, D.; Grondin, M. -H.; Gueta, O.; Gunji, S.; Hassan, T.; Heller, M.; Hernandez-Cadena, S.; Hinton, J.; Hnatyk, B.; Hnatyk, R.; Hoffmann, D.; Hofmann, W.; Holder, J.; Horan, D.; Horvath, P.; Hrabovsky, M.; Hrupec, D.; Inada, T.; Incardona, F.; Inoue, S.; Ishio, K.; Jamrozy, M.; Janecek, P.; Martinez, I. Jimenez; Jin, W.; Jung-Richardt, I.; Jurysek, J.; Kaaret, P.; Karas, V.; Katz, U.; Kerszberg, D.; Khelifi, B.; Kieda, D. B.; Kissmann, R.; Kleiner, T.; Kluge, G.; Kluzniak, W.; Knodlseder, J.; Kobayashi, Y.; Kohri, K.; Komin, N.; Kornecki, P.; Kubo, H.; La Palombara, N.; Lainez, M.; Lamastra, A.; Lapington, J.; Lemoine-Goumard, M.; Lenain, J. -P.; Leone, F.; Leto, G.; Leuschner, F.; Lindfors, E.; Liodakis, I.; Lohse, T.; Lombardi, S.; Longo, F.; Lopez-Coto, R.; Lopez-Moya, M.; Lopez-Oramas, A.; Loporchio, S.; Luque-Escamilla, P. L.; Macias, O.; Mackey, J.; Majumdar, P.; Mandat, D.; Manganaro, M.; Manico, G.; Marconi, M.; Marti, J.; Martinez, G.; Martinez, M.; Martinez, O.; Mello, A. J. T. S.; Menchiari, S.; Meyer, D. M. -A.; Micanovic, S.; Miceli, D.; Miceli, M.; Michalowski, J.; Miener, T.; Miranda, J. M.; Mitchell, A.; Mode, B.; Moderski, R.; Mohrmann, L.; Molina, E.; Montaruli, T.; Morcuende, D.; Morlino, G.; Morselli, A.; Mose, M.; Moulin, E.; Mukherjee, R.; Munari, K.; Murach, T.; Nagai, A.; Nagataki, S.; Nemmen, R.; Niemiec, J.; Nieto, D.; Nievas Rosillo, M.; Nikolajuk, M.; Nishijima, K.; Noda, K.; Novosyadlyj, B.; Nozaki, S.; Ohishi, M.; Ohm, S.; Ohtani, Y.; Okumura, A.; Olmi, B.; Ong, R. A.; Orienti, M.; Orito, R.; Orlandini, M.; Orlando, E.; Orlando, S.; Ostrowski, M.; Oya, I.; Pantaleo, F. R.; Paredes, J. M.; Patricelli, B.; Pecimotika, M.; Peresano, M.; Perez-Romero, J.; Persic, M.; Petruk, O.; Piano, G.; Pietropaolo, E.; Pirola, G.; Pittori, C.; Pohl, M.; Ponti, G.; Prandini, E.; Principe, G.; Priyadarshi, C.; Pueschel, E.; Puehlhofer, G.; Pumo, M. L.; Quirrenbach, A.; Rando, R.; Razzaque, S.; Reichherzer, P.; Reimer, A.; Reimer, O.; Renaud, M.; Reposeur, T.; Ribo, M.; Richtler, T.; Rico, J.; Rieger, F.; Rigoselli, M.; Riitano, L.; Rizi, V.; Roache, E.; Romano, P.; Romeo, G.; Rosado, J.; Rowell, G.; Rudak, B.; Sadeh, I.; Safi-Harb, S.; Saha, L.; Sailer, S.; Sanchez-Conde, M.; Sarkar, S.; Satalecka, K.; Saturni, F. G.; Scherer, A.; Schovanek, P.; Schussler, F.; Schwanke, U.; Scuderi, S.; Seglar-Arroyo, M.; Sergijenko, O.; Servillat, M.; Shang, R. -Y.; Sharma, P.; Siejkowski, H.; Sliusar, V.; Slowikowska, A.; Sol, H.; Specovius, A.; Spencer, S. T.; Spengler, G.; Stamerra, A.; Stanic, S.; Starecki, T.; Starling, R.; Stolarczyk, T.; Stuani Pereira, L. A.; Suda, Y.; Suomijarvi, T.; Sushch, I.; Tajima, H.; Tam, P. -H. T.; Tanaka, S. J.; Tavecchio, F.; Testa, V.; Tian, W.; Tibaldo, L.; Torres, D. F.; Tothill, N.; Vallage, B.; Vallania, P.; van Eldik, C.; van Scherpenberg, J.; Vandenbroucke, J.; Vazquez Acosta, M.; Vecchi, M.; Vercellone, S.; Verna, G.; Viana, A.; Vignatti, J.; Vitale, V.; Vodeb, V.; Vorobiov, S.; Vuillaume, T.; Wagner, S. J.; Walter, R.; White, M.; Wierzcholska, A.; Will, M.; Williams, D.; Yang, L.; Yoshida, T.; Yoshikoshi, T.; Zaharijas, G.; Zampieri, L.; Zavrtanik, D.; Zavrtanik, M.; Zhdanov, V. I.; Zivec, M.
The local Cosmic Ray (CR) energy spectrum exhibits a spectral softening at energies around 3 PeV. Sources which are capable of accelerating hadrons to such energies are called hadronic PeVatrons. However, hadronic PeVatrons have not yet been firmly identified within the Galaxy. Several source classes, including Galactic Supernova Remnants (SNRs), have been proposed as PeVatron candidates. The potential to search for hadronic PeVatrons with the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is assessed. The focus is on the usage of very high energy y-ray spectral signatures for the identification of PeVatrons. Assuming that SNRs can accelerate CRs up to knee energies, the number of Galactic SNRs which can be identified as PeVatrons with CTA is estimated within a model for the evolution of SNRs. Additionally, the potential of a follow-up observation strategy under moonlight conditions for PeVatron searches is investigated. Statistical methods for the identification of PeVatrons are introduced, and realistic Monte-Carlo simulations of the response of the CTA observatory to the emission spectra from hadronic PeVatrons are performed. Based on simulations of a simplified model for the evolution for SNRs, the detection of a y-ray signal from in average 9 Galactic PeVatron SNRs is expected to result from the scan of the Galactic plane with CTA after 10 h of exposure. CTA is also shown to have excellent potential to confirm these sources as PeVatrons in deep observations with O(100) hours of exposure per source.
The extended structure of the dwarf irregular galaxies Sextans A and Sextans B Signatures of tidal distortion in the outskirts of the Local Group
(2014) Bellazzini, M.; Beccari, G.; Fraternali, F.; Oosterloo, T. A.; Sollima, A.; Testa, V.; Galleti, S.; Perina Pala, Sibilla; Faccini, M.; Cusano, F.
The extended structure of the dwarf irregular galaxy Sagittarius
(2014) Beccari, G.; Bellazzini, M.; Fraternali, F.; Battaglia, G.; Perina, S.; Sollima, A.; Oosterloo, T. A.; Testa, V.; Galleti, S.
We present a detailed study of the stellar and H I structure of the dwarf irregular galaxy Sagittarius. We use new deep and wide field photometry to trace the surface brightness profile of the galaxy out to similar or equal to 5.0' (corresponding to similar or equal to 1600 pc) and down to mu V similar or equal to 30.0 mag/arcsec(2), thus showing that the stellar body of the galaxy is much more extended than previously believed, and it is similarly (or more) extended than the overall H i distribution. The whole major-axis profile is consistent with a pure exponential, with a scale radius of similar or equal to 340 pc. The surface density maps reveal that the distribution of old and intermediate-age stars is smooth and remarkably flattened out to its edges, while the associated H I has a much rounder shape, is off-centred and presents multiple density maxima and a significant hole. No clear sign of systemic rotation is detectable in the complex H i velocity field. No metallicity gradient is detected in the old and intermediate age population of the galaxy, and we confirm that this population has a much more extended distribution than young stars (age less than or similar to 1 Gyr).
The WISSH quasars project : IX. Cold gas content and environment of luminous QSOs at z ∼2.4-4.7
(2021) Bischetti, M.; Feruglio, C.; Piconcelli, E.; Duras, F.; Perez-Torres, M.; Herrero, R.; Venturi, Giacomo; Carniani, S.; Bruni, G.; Gavignaud, I.; Testa, V.; Bongiorno, A.; Brusa, M.; Circosta, C.; Cresci, G.; D'Odorico, V.; Maiolino, R.; Marconi, A.; Mingozzi, M.; Pappalardo, C.; Perna, M.; Traianou, E.; Travascio, A.; Vietri, G.; Zappacosta, L.; Fiore, F.

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