Mr
Jonathan Dumm
(UW-Madison)
14/05/2013, 14:00
High-Energy Gamma Ray Astrophysics Parallel
The VERITAS observatory has now been operating for 5 years very successfully with >40 source detections in the TeV regime. A recent upgrade with high quantum efficiency photo detectors and a new camera trigger system sets the stage for the next phase of VERITAS. Key goals are to probe fundamental physics, including searches for dark matter annihilation signatures, to perform deep...
Dr
Nicola Omodei
(Stanford University/KIPAC)
14/05/2013, 14:25
High-Energy Gamma Ray Astrophysics Parallel
After more than four years of science operation, the Large Area Telescope (LAT) onboard the Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope has detected more than 35 Gamma-Ray Bursts above 100 MeV. Fermi-LAT has provided a unique new dataset of high energy observations of Gamma-ray Bursts, which has led to many recent theoretical advancements and challenges. I will present an overview of the first 4 years of...
Elizabeth Hays
(NASA GSFC)
14/05/2013, 14:50
High-Energy Gamma Ray Astrophysics Parallel
In the past four years the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) has detected a variety of Galactic sources of high energy gamma rays. Many of these source types were established or anticipated as gamma-ray emitters before the launch of Fermi, such as pulsars and their wind nebulae, supernova remnants, and high mass X-ray binaries. In these sources the LAT is revealing spectral details and for some...
