Pulsar prospects for the Cherenkov telescope array
| dc.contributor.author | Hassan, T. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Bonnefoy, S. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Lopez, M. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Mirabal, Nestor | |
| dc.contributor.author | Barrio, J.A. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Contreras, J.L. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2020-09-03T16:24:16Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2020-09-03T16:24:16Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2012-12-06 | |
| dc.description.abstract | In the last few years, the Fermi-LAT telescope has discovered over a 100 pulsars at energies above 100 MeV, increasing the number of known gamma-ray pulsars by an order of magnitude. In parallel, imaging Cherenkov telescopes, such as MAGIC and VERITAS, have detected for the first time VHE pulsed gamma-rays from the Crab pulsar. Such detections have revealed that the Crab VHE spectrum follows a power-law up to at least 400 GeV, challenging most theoretical models, and opening wide possibilities of detecting more pulsars from the ground with the future Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA). In this contribution, we study the capabilities of CTA for detecting Fermi pulsars. For this, we extrapolate their spectra with "Crab-like" power-law tails in the VHE range, as suggested by the latest MAGIC and VERITAS results. | en_US |
| dc.description.sponsorship | The authors acknowledge the support of the Spanish MINECO under project code FPA2010-22056-C06-06. M.L. and N.M. gratefully acknowledge support from the Spanish MINECO through a Ramón y Cajal fellowship. The authors also gratefully acknowledge support from the agencies and organizations listed in this page: http://www.cta-observatory.org/?q=node/22. | en_US |
| dc.description.uri | https://aip.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/1.4772379 | en_US |
| dc.format.extent | 4 pages | en_US |
| dc.genre | conference papers and proceedings preprints | en_US |
| dc.identifier | doi:10.13016/m2lit5-rw27 | |
| dc.identifier.citation | T. Hassan, S. Bonnefoy, M. López, N. Mirabal, J. A. Barrio, and J. L. Contreras, Pulsar prospects for the Cherenkov telescope array, AIP Conference Proceedings 1505, 793 (2012); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4772379 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4772379 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11603/19576 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
| dc.publisher | AIP publishing | en_US |
| dc.relation.isAvailableAt | The University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) | |
| dc.relation.ispartof | UMBC Physics Department Collection | |
| dc.relation.ispartof | UMBC Joint Center for Earth Systems Technology (JCET) | |
| dc.relation.ispartof | UMBC Center for Space Sciences and Technology (CSST) / Center for Research and Exploration in Space Sciences & Technology II (CRSST II) | |
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| dc.rights | © 2012 AIP Publishing LLC | |
| dc.title | Pulsar prospects for the Cherenkov telescope array | en_US |
| dc.type | Text | en_US |