2021

Initial organisational meeting.

Aim: Highlight and discuss several key topics and identify potential talks.

Readings

• Constraints on the extremely high-energy cosmic ray accelerators from classical electrodynamics
• Scenarios for Ultrafast Gamma-Ray Variability in AGN
• Massive stars as major factories of Galactic cosmic rays

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• A nice review: Particle acceleration in astrophysical jets
• Ultra-high energy cosmic rays from shocks in the lobes of powerful radio galaxies
• Fornax A, Centaurus A and other radio galaxies as sources of ultra-high energy cosmic rays
• Particle acceleration in radio galaxies with flickering jets: GeV electrons to ultrahigh energy cosmic rays

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• An Introduction to Particle Acceleration in Shearing Flows by F. Rieger
• Power law spectra from stochastic acceleration
• Generalized Fermi acceleration

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• A nice review: Particle acceleration in astrophysical jets
• Ultra-high energy cosmic rays from shocks in the lobes of powerful radio galaxies
• Fornax A, Centaurus A and other radio galaxies as sources of ultra-high energy cosmic rays

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• Particle acceleration, magnetization, and radiation in relativistic shocks
• A nice review on microphysics of collisionless relativistic shocks
• Converter acceleration mechanism that is specific to relativistic shocks
• A particular realization of converter acceleration, which is consistent with synchrotron-self-Compton radiation from the downstream

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• GRB afterglow parameters in the era of TeV observations: the case of GRB 190114C

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• Revealing X-ray and gamma-ray temporal and spectral similarities in the GRB 190829A afterglow

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• Cosmological Gamma-Ray Bursts and the Highest Energy Cosmic Rays
• Low-luminosity gamma-ray bursts as the sources of ultrahigh-energy cosmic ray nuclei

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• Electromagnetic Signatures of Neutron Star Mergers in the Advanced LIGO Era

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• Extended Very-High-Energy Gamma-Ray Emission Surrounding PSR J0622+3749 Observed by LHAASO-KM2A
• Discovery of a New Gamma-Ray Source, LHAASO J0341+5258, with Emission up to 200 TeV
• Discovery of the Ultra-high energy gamma-ray source LHAASO J2108+5157
• Design of the LHAASO detectors
• Peta–electron volt gamma-ray emission from the Crab Nebula
• Ultrahigh-energy photons up to 1.4 petaelectronvolts from 12 γ-ray Galactic sources

Readings

• The H.E.S.S. Galactic Plane Survey
• The population of TeV pulsar wind nebulae in the H.E.S.S. Galactic Plane Survey
• Characterising the VHE diffuse emission in the central 200 parsecs of our Galaxy with H.E.S.S.

Readings

• PeV Photon and Neutrino Flares from Galactic Gamma-Ray Binaries
• High-Energy Particles and Radiation in Star-Forming Regions
• Ultrahard spectra of PeV neutrinos from supernovae in compact star clusters
• Nonthermal particles and photons in starburst regions and superbubbles
• Particle Acceleration in Relativistic Outflows