Speaker
Dr
Ester Aliu
(Barnard College)
Description
The Milagro water Cherenkov detector surveyed the Northern Galactic plane at a mean energy of 20 TeV, resulting in the detection of the Crab Nebula, along with at least 7 other sources with angular extensions from 1 to 3.5 deg. Prospects for detecting some of these sources with IceCube has been made given that this data is reasonably well-fit with a simple hadronic model. Each of these sources covers several potential counterparts and no definitive association can be made, complicating the task of determining the mechanism(s) that produce the high energy photons. VERITAS has followed some of these sources with higher angular and spectral resolution than Milagro above 500 GeV. We will present here these results and place them in a multiwavelength context
Primary author
Dr
Ester Aliu
(Barnard College)