2022

Readings

• TeV light curve of PSR B1259-63/SS2883 (modelling)
• On the formation of TeV radiation in LS 5039 (modelling; discussion on the highest energies)
• The modulation of the gamma-ray emission from the binary LS 5039 (modelling)
• Exploring Particle Acceleration in Gamma-Ray Binaries (particle acceleration)
• A model for gamma-ray binaries, based on the effect of pair production feedback in shocked pulsar winds (particle acceleration)
• VHE observations of the gamma-ray binary system LS 5039 with H.E.S.S (observations LS 5039)
• Orbital evolution of colliding star and pulsar winds in 2D and 3D: effects of dimensionality, EoS, resolution, and grid size (simulations)
• Discovery of variable VHE γ-ray emission from the binary system 1FGL J1018.6-5856 (observations 1FGL J1018.6-5856)
• H.E.S.S. II observations of the 2014 periastron passage of PSR B1259-63/LS 2883 (observations PSR B1259-63)

Readings

• Surveys
  • TeV Emission of Galactic Plane Sources with HAWC and H.E.S.S.
  • 3HWC: The Third HAWC Catalog of Very-high-energy Gamma-Ray Sources
  • Multiple Galactic Sources with Emission Above 56 TeV Detected by HAWC
• Galactic Accelerators and their Environments
  • HAWC observations of the acceleration of very-high-energy cosmic rays in the Cygnus Cocoon
  • Evidence of 200 TeV Photons from HAWC J1825-134
  • HAWC J2227+610 and Its Association with G106.3+2.7, a New Potential Galactic PeVatron
  • Spectrum and Morphology of the Very-High-Energy Source HAWC J2019+368
  • Evidence that Ultra-high-energy Gamma Rays Are a Universal Feature near Powerful Pulsars
• Cosmic-Ray Sea
  • Probing the Sea of Cosmic Rays by Measuring Gamma-Ray Emission from Passive Giant Molecular Clouds with HAWC
• Fundamental Physics
  • Constraints on Lorentz Invariance Violation from HAWC Observations of Gamma Rays above 100 TeV
• Future Instruments
  • The Southern Wide-Field Gamma-Ray Observatory (SWGO): A Next-Generation Ground-Based Survey Instrument

Readings

• The Crab Pulsar and Nebula as Seen in Gamma-Rays
• LHAASO paper on PeV emission from Crab
• Historical/seminal paper by Rees and Gunn (1974)

This talk has unfortunately been cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances.

Readings

• Latest results from VERITAS: Gamma 2016
• A Very High Energy γ-Ray Survey toward the Cygnus Region of the Galaxy (Detailed description of the Cygnus survey)
• Periastron Observations of TeV Gamma-Ray Emission from a Binary System with a 50-year Period (PSR J2032)
• Evidence for Proton Acceleration up to TeV Energies Based on VERITAS and Fermi-LAT Observations of the Cas A SNR (Cas A)
• VERITAS and Fermi-LAT Observations of TeV Gamma-Ray Sources Discovered by HAWC in the 2HWC Catalog (VERITAS & HAWC)
• Gamma-Ray Observations of Tycho’s Supernova Remnant with VERITAS and Fermi (Tycho)
• Detection of Pulsed Gamma Rays Above 100 GeV from the Crab Pulsar (Crab Pulsar)
• Detection of Extended VHE Gamma Ray Emission from G106.3+2.7 with Veritas (G106.3+2.7)
• The first VERITAS telescope (VERITAS Telescope description)

Readings

• Probably the earliest recognition of the problem of PeV particle acceleration: https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1983A%26A...125..249L/abstract
• Radiative signatures of PeVatrons: https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2007ApJ...665L.131G/abstract
• Two papers by Bell and collaborators: https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2013MNRAS.431..415B/abstract, https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2013MNRAS.435.1174S/abstract
• A recent review on PeVatrons: https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2021Univ....7..324C/abstract
• Chapter 5.7 in “Very High Energy Cosmic Gamma Radiation” (F. Aharonian)

Readings

• Mukherjee 2001
• Ajello et al. 2020 (4LAC catalog)
• Ghisellini et al. 2017
• Giommi et al. 2012
• Costamante et al. 2018
• Costamante et al. 2018
• Biteau et al. 2020
• Krawczynski et al. 2004
• Aharonian et al. (HESS coll) 2009
• Aharonian et al. (HESS Coll.) 2007
• Begelman et al. 2008
• Aharonian et al. 2017

Readings

• Measuring energy production in the Universe over all wavelengths and all time, S. Driver, IAU Symposium 355 (2021)
• The Gamma-Ray Window to Intergalactic Magnetism, R. Alves Batista & A. Saveliev, Universe (2021)
• Cosmology with Very-High-Energy Gamma Rays, E. Pueschel & J. Biteau, World Scientific (2022)
• Gamma-ray Cosmology and Tests of Fundamental Physics, J. Biteau & M. Meyer, Galaxies (2022)
• Anomalous Flux in the Cosmic Optical Background Detected with New Horizons Observations, T. R. Lauer, M. Postman, J. R. Spencer et al., ApJL (2022)

Readings

• Relativistic Magnetic Reconnection in Pair Plasmas and Its Astrophysical Applications
• Comptonization by Reconnection Plasmoids in Black Hole Coronae II: Electron-Ion Plasma
• Reconnection-driven Particle Acceleration in Relativistic Shear Flows
• A fully kinetic model for orphan gamma-ray flares in blazars

Readings

• Y.Lyubarsky, “Emission Mechanisms of Fast Radio Bursts” Universe, vol. 7, issue 3, p. 56 (2021)

Readings

• Contribution of starburst nuclei to diffuse gamma-ray and neutrino flux
• Cosmic ray transport and radiative processes in nuclei of starburst galaxies

Readings

• https://journals.aps.org/prd/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevD.100.08301
• How to Search for Multiple Messengers—A General Framework Beyond Two Messengers
• IceCube search for neutrinos coincident with gravitational wave events from LIGO/Virgo run O3

Readings

• Evidence for High-Energy Extraterrestrial Neutrinos at the IceCube Detector
• First Observation of PeV-energy Neutrinos with IceCube

Readings

• Introductory Review
  • Radio Detection of High Energy Neutrinos in Ice
• Signal generation
  • Calculation methods for radio pulses from high energy showers
  • NuRadioMC: Simulating the radio emission of neutrinos from interaction to detector
• Experiments
  • Constraints on the ultra-high energy cosmic neutrino flux from the fourth flight of ANITA
  • Design and Sensitivity of the Radio Neutrino Observatory in Greenland (RNO-G)
  • The Payload for Ultrahigh Energy Observations (PUEO): A White Paper

Readings

• GeV emission from a compact binary merger
• Perspectives for multimessenger astronomy with the next generation of gravitational-wave detectors and high-energy satellites
• Science case for the Einstein telescope