A detailed radio study of the energetic, nearby, and puzzling GRB 171010A

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Oxford University Press 486:2 (2019) 2721-2729

Authors:

Joe Bright, A Horesh, Aj van der Horst, R Fender, Ge Anderson, Sara Motta, Sb Cenko, Da Green, Y Perrott, D Titterington

Abstract:

We present the results of an intensive multi-epoch radio frequency campaign on the energetic and nearby GRB 171010A with the Karl G. Janksy Very Large Array and Arcminute Microkelvin Imager Large Array. We began observing GRB 171010A a day after its initial detection, and were able to monitor the temporal and spectral evolution of the source over the following weeks. The spectra and their evolution are compared to the canonical theories for broad-band GRB afterglows, with which we find a general agreement. There are, however, a number of features that are challenging to explain with a simple forward shock model, and we discuss possible reasons for these discrepancies. This includes the consideration of the existence of a reverse shock component, potential microphysical parameter evolution, and the effect of scintillation.

Low-frequency Faraday rotation measures towards pulsars using LOFAR: probing the 3D Galactic halo magnetic field

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Oxford University Press (OUP) 484:3 (2019) 3646-3664

Authors:

C Sobey, AV Bilous, J-M Grießmeier, JWT Hessels, A Karastergiou, EF Keane, VI Kondratiev, M Kramer, D Michilli, A Noutsos, M Pilia, EJ Polzin, BW Stappers, CM Tan, J van Leeuwen, JPW Verbiest, P Weltevrede, G Heald, MIR Alves, E Carretti, T Enßlin, M Haverkorn, M Iacobelli, W Reich, C Van Eck

Monte Carlo studies for the optimisation of the Cherenkov Telescope Array layout

Astroparticle Physics Elsevier 111 (2019) 35-53

Authors:

A Acharyya, I Agudo, EO Angüner, R Alfaro, J Alfaro, C Alispach, R Aloisio, R Alves Batista, JP Amans, L Amati, E Amato, G Ambrosi, LA Antonelli, C Aramo, T Armstrong, F Arqueros, L Arrabito, K Asano, H Ashkar, C Balazs, M Balbo, B Balmaverde, P Barai, A Barbano, M Barkov, U Barres De Almeida, JA Barrio, D Bastieri, J Becerra González, J Becker Tjus, L Bellizzi, W Benbow, E Bernardini, MI Bernardos, K Bernlöhr, A Berti, M Berton, B Bertucci, V Beshley, B Biasuzzi, C Bigongiari, R Bird, E Bissaldi, J Biteau, O Blanch, J Blazek, C Boisson, G Bonanno, A Bonardi, C Bonavolontá

Abstract:

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is the major next-generation observatory for ground-based very-high-energy gamma-ray astronomy. It will improve the sensitivity of current ground-based instruments by a factor of five to twenty, depending on the energy, greatly improving both their angular and energy resolutions over four decades in energy (from 20 GeV to 300 TeV). This achievement will be possible by using tens of imaging Cherenkov telescopes of three successive sizes. They will be arranged into two arrays, one per hemisphere, located on the La Palma island (Spain) and in Paranal (Chile). We present here the optimised and final telescope arrays for both CTA sites, as well as their foreseen performance, resulting from the analysis of three different large-scale Monte Carlo productions.

Monte Carlo studies for the optimisation of the Cherenkov Telescope Array layout

(2019)

Authors:

A Acharyya, I Agudo, EO Angüner, R Alfaro, J Alfaro, C Alispach, R Aloisio, R Alves Batista, J-P Amans, L Amati, E Amato, G Ambrosi, LA Antonelli, C Aramo, T Armstrong, F Arqueros, L Arrabito, K Asano, H Ashkar, C Balazs, M Balbo, B Balmaverde, P Barai, A Barbano, M Barkov, U Barres de Almeida, JA Barrio, D Bastieri, J Becerra González, J Becker Tjus, L Bellizzi, W Benbow, E Bernardini, MI Bernardos, K Bernlöhr, A Berti, M Berton, B Bertucci, V Beshley, B Biasuzzi, C Bigongiari, R Bird, E Bissaldi, J Biteau, O Blanch, J Blazek, C Boisson, G Bonanno, A Bonardi, C Bonavolontà, G Bonnoli, P Bordas, M Böttcher, J Bregeon, A Brill, AM Brown, K Brügge, P Brun, P Bruno, A Bulgarelli, T Bulik, M Burton, A Burtovoi, G Busetto, R Cameron, R Canestrari, M Capalbi, A Caproni, R Capuzzo-Dolcetta, P Caraveo, S Caroff, R Carosi, S Casanova, E Cascone, F Cassol, F Catalani, O Catalano, D Cauz, M Cerruti, S Chaty, A Chen, M Chernyakova, G Chiaro, M Cieślar, SM Colak, V Conforti, E Congiu, JL Contreras, J Cortina, A Costa, H Costantini, G Cotter, P Cristofari, P Cumani, G Cusumano, A D'Aì, F D'Ammando, L Dangeon, P Da Vela, F Dazzi, A De Angelis, V De Caprio, R de Cássia dos Anjos, F De Frondat, EM de Gouveia Dal Pino, B De Lotto, D De Martino, M de Naurois, E de Oña Wilhelmi, F de Palma, V de Souza, M Del Santo, C Delgado, D della Volpe, T Di Girolamo, F Di Pierro, L Di Venere, C Díaz, S Diebold, A Djannati-Ataï, A Dmytriiev, D Dominis Prester, A Donini, D Dorner, M Doro, J-L Dournaux, J Ebr, TRN Ekoume, D Elsässer, G Emery, D Falceta-Goncalves, E Fedorova, S Fegan, Q Feng, G Ferrand, E Fiandrini, A Fiasson, M Filipovic, V Fioretti, M Fiori, S Flis, MV Fonseca, G Fontaine, L Freixas Coromina, S Fukami, Y Fukui, S Funk, M Füßling, D Gaggero, G Galanti, RJ Garcia López, M Garczarczyk, D Gascon, T Gasparetto, M Gaug, A Ghalumyan, F Gianotti, G Giavitto, N Giglietto, F Giordano, M Giroletti, J Gironnet, J-F Glicenstein, R Gnatyk, P Goldoni, JM González, MM González, KN Gourgouliatos, T Grabarczyk, J Granot, D Green, T Greenshaw, M-H Grondin, O Gueta, D Hadasch, T Hassan, M Hayashida, M Heller, O Hervet, J Hinton, N Hiroshima, B Hnatyk, W Hofmann, P Horvath, M Hrabovsky, D Hrupec, TB Humensky, M Hütten, T Inada, F Iocco, M Ionica, M Iori, Y Iwamura, M Jamrozy, P Janecek, D Jankowsky, P Jean, L Jouvin, J Jurysek, P Kaaret, LHS Kadowaki, S Karkar, D Kerszberg, B Khélifi, D Kieda, S Kimeswenger, W Kluźniak, J Knapp, J Knödlseder, Y Kobayashi, B Koch, J Kocot, N Komin, A Kong, G Kowal, M Krause, H Kubo, J Kushida, P Kushwaha, V La Parola, G La Rosa, M Lallena Arquillo, RG Lang, J Lapington, O Le Blanc, J Lefaucheur, MA Leigui de Oliveira, M Lemoine-Goumard, J-P Lenain, G Leto, R Lico, E Lindfors, T Lohse, S Lombardi, F Longo, A Lopez, M López, A Lopez-Oramas, R López-Coto, S Loporchio, PL Luque-Escamilla, E Lyard, MC Maccarone, E Mach, C Maggio, P Majumdar, G Malaguti, M Mallamaci, D Mandat, G Maneva, M Manganaro, S Mangano, M Marculewicz, M Mariotti, J Martí, M Martínez, G Martínez, H Martínez-Huerta, S Masuda, N Maxted, D Mazin, J-L Meunier, M Meyer, S Micanovic, R Millul, IA Minaya, A Mitchell, T Mizuno, R Moderski, L Mohrmann, T Montaruli, A Moralejo, D Morcuende, G Morlino, A Morselli, E Moulin, R Mukherjee, P Munar, C Mundell, T Murach, A Nagai, T Nagayoshi, T Naito, T Nakamori, R Nemmen, J Niemiec, D Nieto, M Nievas Rosillo, M Nikołajuk, D Ninci, K Nishijima, K Noda, D Nosek, M Nöthe, S Nozaki, M Ohishi, Y Ohtani, A Okumura, RA Ong, M Orienti, R Orito, M Ostrowski, N Otte, Z Ou, I Oya, A Pagliaro, M Palatiello, M Palatka, R Paoletti, JM Paredes, G Pareschi, N Parmiggiani, RD Parsons, B Patricelli, A Pe'er, M Pech, P Peñil Del Campo, J Pérez-Romero, M Perri, M Persic, P-O Petrucci, O Petruk, K Pfrang, Q Piel, E Pietropaolo, M Pohl, M Polo, J Poutanen, E Prandini, N Produit, H Prokoph, M Prouza, H Przybilski, G Pühlhofer, M Punch, F Queiroz, A Quirrenbach, S Rainò, R Rando, S Razzaque, O Reimer, N Renault-Tinacci, Y Renier, D Ribeiro, M Ribó, J Rico, F Rieger, V Rizi, G Rodriguez Fernandez, JC Rodriguez-Ramirez, JJ Rodríguez Vázquez, P Romano, G Romeo, M Roncadelli, J Rosado, G Rowell, B Rudak, A Rugliancich, C Rulten, I Sadeh, L Saha, T Saito, S Sakurai, F Salesa Greus, P Sangiorgi, H Sano, M Santander, A Santangelo, R Santos-Lima, A Sanuy, K Satalecka, FG Saturni, U Sawangwit, S Schlenstedt, P Schovanek, F Schussler, U Schwanke, E Sciacca, S Scuderi, K Sedlaczek, M Seglar-Arroyo, O Sergijenko, K Seweryn, A Shalchi, RC Shellard, H Siejkowski, A Sillanpää, A Sinha, G Sironi, V Sliusar, A Slowikowska, H Sol, A Specovius, S Spencer, G Spengler, A Stamerra, S Stanič, Ł Stawarz, S Stefanik, T Stolarczyk, U Straumann, T Suomijarvi, P Świerk, T Szepieniec, G Tagliaferri, H Tajima, T Tam, F Tavecchio, L Taylor, LA Tejedor, P Temnikov, T Terzic, V Testa, L Tibaldo, CJ Todero Peixoto, F Tokanai, L Tomankova, D Tonev, DF Torres, G Tosti, L Tosti, N Tothill, F Toussenel, G Tovmassian, P Travnicek, C Trichard, G Umana, V Vagelli, M Valentino, B Vallage, P Vallania, L Valore, J Vandenbroucke, GS Varner, G Vasileiadis, V Vassiliev, M Vázquez Acosta, M Vecchi, S Vercellone, S Vergani, GP Vettolani, A Viana, CF Vigorito, J Vink, V Vitale, H Voelk, A Vollhardt, S Vorobiov, SJ Wagner, R Walter, F Werner, R White, A Wierzcholska, M Will, DA Williams, R Wischnewski, L Yang, T Yoshida, T Yoshikoshi, M Zacharias, L Zampieri, M Zavrtanik, D Zavrtanik, AA Zdziarski, A Zech, H Zechlin, A Zenin, VI Zhdanov, S Zimmer, J Zorn

Identifying transient and variable sources in radio images

Astronomy and Computing Elsevier 27 (2019) 111-129

Authors:

A Rowlinson, AJ Stewart, JW Broderick, JD Swinbank, RAMJ Wijers, D Carbone, Y Cendes, R Fender, A van der Horst, G Molenaar, B Scheers, T Staley, S Farrell, J-M Grießmeier, M Bell, J Eislöffel, CJ Law, J van Leeuwen, P Zarka