Introducing the CTA concept

ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS 43 (2013) 3-18

Authors:

BS Acharya, M Actis, T Aghajani, G Agnetta, J Aguilar, F Aharonian, M Ajello, A Akhperjanian, M Alcubierre, J Aleksic, R Alfaro, E Aliu, AJ Allafort, D Allan, I Allekotte, E Amato, J Anderson, EO Anguener, LA Antonelli, P Antoranz, A Aravantinos, T Arlen, T Armstrong, H Arnaldi, L Arrabito, K Asano, T Ashton, HG Asorey, Y Awane, H Baba, A Babic, N Baby, J Baehr, A Bais, C Baixeras, S Bajtlik, M Balbo, D Balis, C Balkowski, A Bamba, R Bandiera, A Barber, C Barbier, M Barcelo, A Barnacka, J Barnstedt, U Barres de Almeida, JA Barrio, A Basili, S Basso, D Bastieri, C Bauer, A Baushev, J Becerra, Y Becherini, KC Bechtol, J Becker Tjus, V Beckmann, W Bednarek, B Behera, M Belluso, W Benbow, J Berdugo, K Berger, F Bernard, T Bernardino, K Bernloehr, N Bhat, S Bhattacharyya, C Bigongiari, A Biland, S Billotta, T Bird, E Birsin, E Bissaldi, J Biteau, M Bitossi, S Blake, O Blanch Bigas, P Blasi, A Bobkov, V Boccone, M Boettcher, L Bogacz, J Bogart, M Bogdan, C Boisson, J Boix Gargallo, J Bolmont, G Bonanno, A Bonardi, T Bonev, P Bonifacio, G Bonnoli, P Bordas, A Borgland, J Borkowski, R Bose, O Botner, A Bottani, L Bouchet, M Bourgeat, C Boutonnet, A Bouvier, S Brau-Nogue, I Braun, T Bretz, M Briggs, T Bringmann, P Brook, P Brun, L Brunetti, T Buanes, J Buckley, R Buehler, V Bugaev, A Bulgarelli, T Bulik, G Busetto, S Buson, K Byrum, M Cailles, R Cameron, J Camprecios, R Canestrari, S Cantu, M Capalbi, P Caraveo, E Carmona, A Carosi, J Carr, P-H Carton, S Casanova, M Casiraghi, O Catalano, S Cavazzani, S Cazaux, M Cerruti, E Chabanne, P Chadwick, C Champion, A Chen, J Chiang, L Chiappetti, M Chikawa, VR Chitnis, F Chollet, J Chudoba, M Cieslar, A Cillis, J Cohen-Tanugi, S Colafrancesco, P Colin, J Calome, S Colonges, M Compin, P Conconi, V Conforti, V Connaughton, J Conrad, JL Contreras, P Coppi, P Corona, D Corti, J Cortina, L Cossio, H Costantini, G Cotter, B Courty, S Couturier, S Covino, G Crimi, SJ Criswell, J Croston, G Cusumano, M Dafonseca, O Dale, M Daniel, J Darling, I Davids, F Dazzi, A De Angelis, V De Caprio, F De Frondat, EM de Gouveia Dal Pino, I de la Calle, GA De La Vega, R de los Reyes Lopez, B De Lotto, A De Luca, JRT de Mello Neto, M de Naurois, Y de Oliveira, E de Ona Wilhelmi, V de Souza, G Decerprit, G Decock, C Deil, E Delagnes, G Deleglise, C Delgado, D Della Volpe, P Demange, G Depaola, A Dettlaff, A Di Paola, F Di Pierro, C Diaz, J Dick, R Dickherber, H Dickinson, V Diez-Blanco, S Digel, D Dimitrov, G Disset, A Djannati-Atai, M Doert, M Dohmke, W Domainko, D Dominis Prester, A Donat, D Dorner, M Doro, J-L Dournaux, G Drake, D Dravins, L Drury, F Dubois, R Dubois, G Dubus, C Dufour, D Dumas, J Dumm, D Durand, J Dyks, M Dyrda, J Ebr, E Edy, K Egberts, P Eger, S Einecke, C Eleftheriadis, S Elles, D Emmanoulopoulos, D Engelhaupt, R Enomoto, J-P Ernenwein, M Errando, A Etchegoyen, P Evans, A Falcone, D Fantinel, K Farakos, C Farnier, G Fasola, B Favill, E Fede, S Federici, S Fegan, F Feinstein, D Ferenc, P Ferrando, M Fesquet, A Fiasson, E Fillin-Martino, D Fink, C Finley, JP Finley, M Fiorini, R Firpo Curcoll, H Flores, D Florin, W Focke, C Foehr, E Fokitis, L Font, G Fontaine, M Fornasa, A Foerster, L Fortson, N Fouque, A Franckowiak, C Fransson, G Fraser, R Frei, IFM Albuquerque, L Fresnillo, C Fruck, Y Fujita, Y Fukazawa, Y Fukui, S Funk, W Gaebele, S Gabici, R Gabriele, A Gadola, N Galante, D Gall, Y Gallant, J Gamez-Garcia, B Garcia, R Garcia Lopez, D Gardiol, D Garrido, L Garrido, D Gascon, M Gaug, J Gaweda, L Gebremedhin, N Geffroy, L Gerard, A Ghedina, M Ghigo, E Giannakaki, F Gianotti, S Giarrusso, G Giavitto, B Giebels, V Gika, P Giommi, N Girard, E Giro, A Giuliani, T Glanzman, J-F Glicenstein, N Godinovic, V Golev, M Gomez Berisso, J Gomez-Ortega, MM Gonzalez, A Gonzalez, F Gonzalez, A Gonzalez Munoz, KS Gothe, M Gougerot, R Graciani, P Grandi, F Granena, J Granot, G Grasseau, R Gredig, A Green, T Greenshaw, T Gregoire, O Grimm, J Grube, M Grudzinska, V Gruev, S Gruenewald, J Grygorczuk, V Guarino, S Gunji, G Gyuk, D Hadasch, R Hagiwara, J Hahn, N Hakansson, A Hallgren, N Hamer Heras, S Hara, MJ Hardcastle, J Harris, T Hassan, K Hatanaka, T Haubold, A Haupt, T Hayakawa, M Hayashida, R Heller, F Henault, G Henri, G Hermann, R Hermel, A Herrero, N Hidaka, J Hinton, D Hoffmann, W Hofmann, P Hofverberg, J Holder, D Horns, D Horville, J Houles, M Hrabovsky, D Hrupec, H Huan, B Huber, J-M Huet, G Hughes, TB Humensky, J Huovelin, A Ibarra, JM Illa, D Impiombato, S Incorvaia, S Inoue, Y Inoue, K Ioka, E Ismailova, C Jablonski, A Jacholkowska, M Jamrozy, M Janiak, P Jean, C Jeanney, JJ Jimenez, T Jogler, T Johnson, L Journet, C Juffroy, I Jung, P Kaaret, S Kabuki, M Kagaya, J Kakuwa, C Kalkuhl, R Kankanyan, A Karastergiou, K Kaercher, M Karczewski, S Karkar, Aci Kasperek, D Kastana, H Katagiri, J Kataoka, K Katarzynski, U Katz, N Kawanaka, B Kellner-Leidel, H Kelly, E Kendziorra, B Khelifi, DB Kieda, T Kifune, T Kihm, T Kishimoto, K Kitamoto, W Kluzniak, C Knapic, JW Knapp, J Knoedlseder, F Koeck, J Kocot, K Kodani, J-H Koehne, K Kohri, K Kokkotas, D Kolitzus, N Komin, I Kominis, Y Konno, H Koeppel, P Korohoda, K Kosack, G Koss, R Kossakowski, P Kostka, R Koul, G Kowal, S Koyama, J Koziol, T Kraehenbuehl, J Krause, H Krawzcynski, F Krennrich, A Krepps, A Kretzschmann, R Krobot, P Krueger, H Kubo, VA Kudryavtsev, J Kushida, A Kuznetsov, A La Barbera, N La Palombara, V La Parola, G La Rosa, K Lacombe, G Lamanna, J Lande, D Languignon, J Lapington, P Laporte, C Lavalley, T Le Flour, A Le Padellec, S-H Lee, WH Lee, MA Leigui de Oliveira, D Lelas, J-P Lenain, DJ Leopold, T Lerch, L Lessio, B Lieunard, E Lindfors, A Liolios, A Lipniacka, H Lockart, T Lohse, S Lombardi, A Lopatin, M Lopez, R Lopez-Coto, A Lopez-Oramas, A Lorca, E Lorenz, P Lubinski, F Lucarelli, H Luedecke, J Ludwin, PL Luque-Escamilla, W Lustermann, O Luz, E Lyard, MC Maccarone, TJ Maccarone, GM Madejski, A Madhavan, M Mahabir, G Maier, P Majumdar, G Malaguti, S Maltezos, A Manalaysay, A Mancilla, D Mandat, G Maneva, A Mangano, P Manigot, K Mannheim, I Manthos, N Maragos, A Marcowith, M Mariotti, M Marisaldi, S Markoff, A Marszalek, C Martens, J Marti, J-M Martin, P Martin, G Martinez, F Martinez, M Martinez, A Masserot, A Mastichiadis, A Mathieu, H Matsumoto, F Mattana, S Mattiazzo, G Maurin, S Maxfield, J Maya, D Mazin, L Mc Comb, N McCubbin, I McHardy, R McKay, C Medina, C Melioli, D Melkumyan, S Mereghetti, P Mertsch, M Meucci, J Michalowski, P Micolon, A Mihailidis, T Mineo, M Minuti, N Mirabal, F Mirabel, JM Miranda, R Mirzoyan, T Mizuno, B Moal, R Moderski, I Mognet, E Molinari, M Molinaro, T Montaruli, I Monteiro, P Moore, A Moralejo Olaizola, M Mordalska, C Morello, K Mori, F Mottez, Y Moudden, E Moulin, I Mrusek, R Mukherjee, P Munar-Adrover, H Muraishi, K Murase, A Murphy, S Nagataki, T Naito, D Nakajima, T Nakamori, K Nakayama, C Naumann, D Naumann, M Naumann-Godo, P Nayman, D Nedbal, D Neise, L Nellen, V Neustroev, N Neyroud, L Nicastro, J Nicolau-Kuklinski, A Niedzwiecki, J Niemiec, D Nieto, A Nikolaidis, K Nishijima, S Nolan, R Northrop, D Nosek, N Nowak, A Nozato, P O'Brien, Y Ohira, M Ohishi, S Ohm, H Ohoka, T Okuda, A Okumura, J-F Olive, RA Ong, R Orito, M Orr, J Osborne, M Ostrowski, LA Otero, N Otte, E Ovcharov, I Oya, A Ozieblo, L Padilla, S Paiano, D Paillot, A Paizis, S Palanque, M Palatka, J Pallota, K Panagiotidis, J-L Panazol, D Paneque, M Panter, R Paoletti, A Papayannis, G Papyan, JM Paredes, G Pareschi, G Parks, J-M Parraud, D Parsons, M Paz Arribas, M Pech, G Pedaletti, V Pelassa, D Pelat, MDC Perez, M Persic, P-O Petrucci, B Peyaud, A Pichel, S Pita, F Pizzolato, L Platos, R Platzer, L Pogosyan, M Pohl, G Pojmanski, JD Ponz, W Potter, J Poutanen, E Prandini, J Prast, R Preece, F Profeti, H Prokoph, M Prouza, M Proyetti, I Puerto-Gimenez, G Puehlhofer, I Puljak, M Punch, R Pyziol, EJ Quel, J Quinn, A Quirrenbach, E Racero, PJ Rajda, P Ramon, R Rando, RC Rannot, M Rataj, M Raue, P Reardon, O Reimann, A Reimer, O Reimer, K Reitberger, M Renaud, S Renner, B Reville, W Rhode, M Ribo, M Ribordy, MG Richer, J Rico, J Ridky, F Rieger, P Ringegni, J Ripken, PR Ristori, A Riviere, S Rivoire, L Rob, U Roeser, R Rohlfs, G Rojas, P Romano, W Romaszkan, GE Romero, S Rosen, S Rosier Lees, D Ross, G Rouaix, J Rousselle, S Rousselle, AC Rovero, F Roy, S Royer, B Rudak, C Rulten, M Rupinski, F Russo, F Ryde, B Sacco, EO Saemann, A Saggion, V Safiakian, K Saito, T Saito, Y Saito, N Sakaki, R Sakonaka, A Salini, F Sanchez, M Sanchez-Conde, A Sandoval, H Sandaker, E Sant'Ambrogio, A Santangelo, EM Santos, A Sanuy, L Sapozhnikov, S Sarkar, N Sartore, H Sasaki, K Satalecka, M Sawada, V Scalzotto, V Scapin, M Scarcioffolo, J Schafer, T Schanz, S Schlenstedt, R Schlickeiser, T Schmidt, J Schmoll, P Schovanek, M Schroedter, C Schultz, J Schultze, A Schulz, K Schure, T Schwab, U Schwanke, J Schwarz, S Schwarzburg, T Schweizer, S Schwemmer, A Segreto, J-H Seiradakis, GH Sembroski, K Seweryn, M Sharma, M Shayduk, RC Shellard, J Shi, T Shibata, A Shibuya, E Shum, L Sidoli, M Sidz, J Sieiro, M Sikora, J Silk, A Sillanpaa, BB Singh, J Sitarek, C Skole, R Smareglia, A Smith, D Smith, J Smith, N Smith, D Sobczynska, H Sol, G Sottile, M Sowinski, F Spanier, D Spiga, S Spyrou, V Stamatescu, A Stamerra, R Starling, L Stawarz, R Steenkamp, C Stegmann, S Steiner, N Stergioulas, R Sternberger, M Sterzel, F Stinzing, M Stodulski, U Straumann, E Strazzeri, L Stringhetti, A Suarez, M Suchenek, R Sugawara, K-H Sulanke, S Sun, AD Supanitsky, T Suric, P Sutcliffe, J Sykes, M Szanecki, T Szepieniec, A Szostek, G Tagliaferri, H Tajima, H Takahashi, K Takahashi, L Takalo, H Takami, C Talbot, J Tammi, M Tanaka, S Tanaka, J Tasan, M Tavani, J-P Tavernet, LA Tejedor, I Telezhinsky, P Temnikov, C Tenzer, Y Terada, R Terrier, M Teshima, V Testa, D Tezier, D Thuermann, L Tibaldo, O Tibolla, A Tiengo, M Tluczykont, CJ Todero Peixoto, F Tokanai, M Tokarz, K Toma, K Torii, M Tornikoski, DF Torres, M Torres, G Tosti, T Totani, C Toussenel, G Tovmassian, P Travnicek, M Trifoglio, I Troyano, K Tsinganos, H Ueno, K Umehara, SS Upadhya, T Usher, M Uslenghi, JF Valdes-Galicia, P Vallania, G Vallejo, W van Driel, C van Eldik, J Vandenbrouke, J Vanderwalt, H Vankov, G Vasileiadis, V Vassiliev, D Veberic, I Vegas, S Vercellone, S Vergani, C Veyssiere, JP Vialle, A Viana, M Videla, P Vincent, S Vincent, J Vink, N Vlahakis, L Vlahos, P Vogler, A Vollhardt, H-P von Gunten, S Vorobiov, C Vuerli, V Waegebaert, R Wagner, RG Wagner, S Wagner, SP Wakely, R Walter, T Walther, K Warda, R Warwick, P Wawer, R Wawrzaszek, N Webb, P Wegner, A Weinstein, Q Weitzel, R Welsing, M Werner, H Wetteskind, R White, A Wierzcholska, S Wiesand, M Wilkinson, DA Williams, R Willingale, K Winiarski, R Wischnewski, L Wisniewski, M Wood, A Woernlein, Q Xiong, KK Yadav, H Yamamoto, T Yamamoto, R Yamazaki, S Yanagita, JM Yebras, D Yelos, A Yoshida, T Yoshida, T Yoshikoshi, V Zabalza, M Zacharias, A Zajczyk, R Zanin, A Zdziarski, A Zech, A Zhao, X Zhou, K Zietara, J Ziolkowski, P Ziolkowski, V Zitelli, C Zurbach, P Zychowski

Synchrotron and inverse-Compton emission from blazar jets - III. Compton-dominant blazars

MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY 431:2 (2013) 1840-1852

Authors:

William J Potter, Garret Cotter

Uncovering the physics behind the blazar sequence using a realistic model for jet emission

EPJ Web of Conferences EDP Sciences 61 (2013) 05008

Authors:

William J Potter, Garret Cotter

Bright radio emission from an ultraluminous stellar-mass microquasar in M31

(2012)

Authors:

Matthew J Middleton, James CA Miller-Jones, Sera Markoff, Rob Fender, Martin Henze, Natasha Hurley-Walker, Anna MM Scaife, Timothy P Roberts, Dominic Walton, John Carpenter, Jean-Pierre Macquart, Geoffrey C Bower, Mark Gurwell, Wolfgang Pietsch, Frank Haberl, Jonathan Harris, Michael Daniel, Junayd Miah, Chris Done, John Morgan, Hugh Dickinson, Phil Charles, Vadim Burwitz, Massimo Della Valle, Michael Freyberg, Jochen Greiner, Margarita Hernanz, Dieter H Hartmann, Despina Hatzidimitriou, Arno Riffeser, Gloria Sala, Stella Seitz, Pablo Reig, Arne Rau, Marina Orio, David Titterington, Keith Grainge

Constraints on the origin of cosmic rays above $10^{18}$ eV from large scale anisotropy searches in data of the Pierre Auger Observatory

ApJL 762:1 (2012) L13

Abstract:

A thorough search for large scale anisotropies in the distribution of arrival directions of cosmic rays detected above $10^{18}$ eV at the Pierre Auger Observatory is reported. For the first time, these large scale anisotropy searches are performed as a function of both the right ascension and the declination and expressed in terms of dipole and quadrupole moments. Within the systematic uncertainties, no significant deviation from isotropy is revealed. Upper limits on dipole and quadrupole amplitudes are derived under the hypothesis that any cosmic ray anisotropy is dominated by such moments in this energy range. These upper limits provide constraints on the production of cosmic rays above $10^{18}$ eV, since they allow us to challenge an origin from stationary galactic sources densely distributed in the galactic disk and emitting predominantly light particles in all directions.