Wou-MMA: Particle Astrophysics with VERITAS and CTA

Wou-MMA：使用 VERITAS 和 CTA 进行粒子天体物理学

• 批准号: 2011361
• 负责人: Jamie Holder
• 金额: $ 86.21万
• 依托单位: University of Delaware
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-09-01 至 2024-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2011361&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Wou; MMA; Particle; Astrophysics; VERITAS

This award continues an ambitious and diverse research program focused on high precision measurements of Galactic particle accelerators, which hold the key to the origin of the Galactic population of cosmic rays. Over the past decade the VERITAS observatory has played a key role in opening the highest energy electromagnetic window on the Universe. Gamma-ray emission reveals where relativistic particle acceleration happens, but the acceleration mechanisms, and the connections between the accelerators and the origin and properties of cosmic rays, remain unclear. The study will exploit new capabilities of VERITAS and synergies with new facilities to search for potentially transformative new source classes. This group plays a leading role in planning the next generation Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA). This award provides operational support for the group’s ongoing research and their role in the maintenance, operations and calibration of VERITAS. This group mentors undergraduate students, engages local high school students, and gives public presentations to amateur astronomers and other interested groups. They also work with the overall VERITAS outreach program, including conducting on-site tours, but the main outreach effort is a high energy astrophysics summer school for graduate students and post-doctoral researchers from around the world.Targets for gamma-ray observation with VERITAS include a possible PeVatron, which may be the source of the highest energy Galactic cosmic rays, and a gamma-ray binary system at the peak of its 4.5-year super-orbital period. New instrumentation on VERITAS, and new synergies with the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME) radio telescope, will be used to search for optical and gamma-ray counterparts to the still enigmatic fast radio bursts. The many VERITAS activities are all worthwhile, some are creative, and others are potentially transformative.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

该奖项延续了一项雄心勃勃的多样化研究计划，重点是对银河系粒子加速器进行高精度测量，这是宇宙射线银河系起源的关键。 在过去的十年中，VERITAS天文台在打开宇宙最高能量电磁窗口方面发挥了关键作用。 伽马射线辐射揭示了相对论粒子加速发生的地方，但加速机制以及加速器与宇宙射线的起源和性质之间的联系仍然不清楚。 该研究将利用VERITAS的新能力以及与新设施的协同作用，以寻找潜在的变革性新来源类别。 该小组在规划下一代切伦科夫望远镜阵列（CTA）方面发挥着主导作用。 该奖项为该集团正在进行的研究及其在VERITAS维护、运营和校准中的作用提供运营支持。 该小组指导本科生，吸引当地高中生，并向业余天文学家和其他感兴趣的团体进行公开演讲。 他们还与VERITAS的整体外展计划合作，包括进行现场图尔斯参观，但主要的外展工作是为来自世界各地的研究生和博士后研究人员举办高能天体物理学暑期学校。VERITAS伽马射线观测的目标包括可能的PeVatron，它可能是最高能量的银河宇宙射线的来源，和一个伽马射线双星系统，其超轨道周期为4.5年。 VERITAS上的新仪器以及与加拿大氢强度测绘实验射电望远镜的新协同作用将用于寻找仍然神秘的快速射电爆发的光学和伽马射线对应物。 许多VERITAS活动都是值得的，有些是创造性的，其他的是潜在的变革。这个奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并已被认为是值得通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估的支持。

项目成果

An Archival Search for Neutron-star Mergers in Gravitational Waves and Very-high-energy Gamma Rays

• DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ac0623
• 发表时间: 2021-06
• 期刊: The Astrophysical Journal
• 作者: C. Adams;W. Benbow;A. Brill;J. Buckley;M. Capasso;J. Christiansen;A. Chromey;M. Daniel;M. Errando;A. Falcone;K. A. Farrell;Q. Feng;J. Finley;L. Fortson;A. Furniss;A. Gent;C. Giuri;D. Hanna;T. Hassan;O. Hervet;J. Holder;G. Hughes;T. Humensky;W. Jin;P. Kaaret;M. Kertzman;D. Kieda;S. Kumar;M. Lang;M. Lundy;G. Maier;C. McGrath;P. Moriarty;R. Mukherjee;D. Nieto;M. Nievas-Rosillo;S. O’Brien;R. Ong;A. Otte;N. Park;S. Patel;K. Pfrang;M. Pohl;R. Prado;E. Pueschel;J. Quinn;K. Ragan;P. Reynolds;D. Ribeiro;E. Roache;J. Ryan;M. Santander;G. Sembroski;R. Shang;A. Weinstein;D. Williams;T. Williamson;I. Bartos;K. Corley;S. M'arka;Z. Márka;D. Veske

VTSCat: The VERITAS Catalog of Gamma-Ray Observations

VTSCat：VERITAS 伽马射线观测目录

• DOI: 10.3847/2515-5172/acb147
• 发表时间: 2023
• 期刊: Research Notes of the AAS
• 作者: Acharyya, A.;Adams, C. B.;Archer, A.;Bangale, P.;Bartkoske, J. T.;Batista, P.;Benbow, W.;Brill, A.;Brose, R.;Buckley, J. H.
• 通讯作者: Buckley, J. H.

Gamma-ray observations of MAXI J1820+070 during the 2018 outburst

2018 年爆发期间 MAXI J1820 070 的伽马射线观测

• DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stac2686
• 发表时间: 2022
• 期刊: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
• 影响因子: 4.8
• 作者: Abe, H;Abe, S;Acciari, V A;Aniello, T;Ansoldi, S;Antonelli, L A;Arbet Engels, A;Arcaro, C;Artero, M;Asano, K
• 通讯作者: Asano, K

Detection of the Crab Nebula with the 9.7?m prototype Schwarzschild-Couder telescope

使用 9.7 µm 原型史瓦西-库德望远镜探测蟹状星云

• DOI: 10.1016/j.astropartphys.2021.102562
• 发表时间: 2021
• 期刊: Astroparticle Physics
• 影响因子: 3.5
• 作者: Tagliaferri Gianpiero;Antonelli Angelo;Arnesen Tora;Aschersleben Jann;Attina' Primo;Balbo Matteo;Bang Sunghyun;Barcelo Miquel;Baryshev Andrey;Bellassai Giancarlo;et al.;Adams Colin B. et al.;H. Abe et al.;H. Abe et al.;H. Abe et al.;B. Mode et al.;H. Abe et al.;R. Lopez-Coto et al.;R. White et al.;Y. Ohtani et al.;Y. Kobayashi et al.;O. Blanch et al.;D. Ribeiro et al.;C. Alispach et al.;L. Foffano et al.;H. Abe et al.;A. Okumura;R. Zanin et al.;Colin B. Adams et al.;Colin B. Adams et al.;Adams Colin B. et al.;Adams C.B et al.
• 通讯作者: Adams C.B et al.

Sensitivity of the Cherenkov Telescope Array to a dark matter signal from the Galactic centre

切伦科夫望远镜阵列对来自银河系中心的暗物质信号的灵敏度

• DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2021/01/057
• 发表时间: 2021
• 期刊: Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
• 影响因子: 6.4
• 作者: Tagliaferri Gianpiero;Antonelli Angelo;Arnesen Tora;Aschersleben Jann;Attina' Primo;Balbo Matteo;Bang Sunghyun;Barcelo Miquel;Baryshev Andrey;Bellassai Giancarlo;et al.;Adams Colin B. et al.;H. Abe et al.;H. Abe et al.;H. Abe et al.;B. Mode et al.;H. Abe et al.;R. Lopez-Coto et al.;R. White et al.;Y. Ohtani et al.;Y. Kobayashi et al.;O. Blanch et al.;D. Ribeiro et al.;C. Alispach et al.;L. Foffano et al.;H. Abe et al.;A. Okumura;R. Zanin et al.;Colin B. Adams et al.;Colin B. Adams et al.;Adams Colin B. et al.;Adams C.B et al.;Acharyya A et al.
• 通讯作者: Acharyya A et al.