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

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

(2019)

Authors:

JS Bright, A Horesh, AJ van der Horst, R Fender, GE Anderson, SE Motta, SB Cenko, DA Green, Y Perrott, D Titterington