1. Bright blazar flares with CTAM. Cerruti, Saptashwa BHATTACHARYYA, Judit Pérez-Romero, Samo Stanič, Veronika VODEB, Serguei Vorobiov, Danilo Zavrtanik, Marko Zavrtanik, Miha Živec, 2023, published scientific conference contribution Abstract: The TeV extragalactic sky is dominated by blazars, radio-loud active galactic nuclei with a
relativistic jet pointing towards the Earth. Blazars show variability that can be quite exceptional
both in terms of flux (orders of magnitude of brightening) and time (down to the minute timescale).
This bright flaring activity contains key information on the physics of particle acceleration and
photon production in the emitting region, as well as the structure and physical properties of the
jet itself. The TeV band is accessed from the ground by Cherenkov telescopes that image the
pair cascade triggered by the interaction of the gamma ray with the Earth’s atmosphere. The
Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) represents the upcoming generation of imaging atmospheric
Cherenkov telescopes, with a significantly higher sensitivity and larger energy coverage with
respect to current instruments. It will thus provide us with unprecedented statistics on blazar
light-curves and spectra. In this contribution we present the results from realistic simulations of
CTA observations of bright blazar flares, taking as input state-of-the-art numerical simulations of
blazar emission models and including all relevant observational constraints.
Keywords: active galactic nuclei (AGN), radio-loud AGN, blazars, blazar flares, cosmic particle acceleration, very-high-energy gamma-rays, Cherenkov Telescope Array
Published in RUNG: 15.09.2023; Views: 122; Downloads: 2
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2. Catalog of long-term transient sources in the first 10 yr of Fermi-LAT dataL. Baldini, J. Ballet, D. Bastieri, J. Becerra Gonzalez, R. Bellazzini, A. Berretta, E. Bissaldi, R. D. Blandford, E. D. Bloom, Gabrijela Zaharijas, 2021, original scientific article Keywords: high energy astrophysics, active galactic nuclei, gamma-ray bursts, solar flares, solar gamma-ray emission
Published in RUNG: 17.02.2022; Views: 1201; Downloads: 39
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3. First Fermi-LAT solar flare catalogM. Ajello, L. Baldini, D. Bastieri, R. Bellazzini, A. Berretta, E. Bissaldi, R. D. Blandford, R. Bonino, P. Bruel, Gabrijela Zaharijas, 2021, original scientific article Keywords: solar flares, solar gamma-ray emission, gamma-ray sources, gamma-ray telescopes, catalogs
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5. Flares from the centers of galaxies with Gaia and OGLE surveysNada Ihanec, 2018, master's thesis Abstract: Modern wide-field-of-view and all-sky satellites (e.g. Gaia) and ground based surveys (e.g. OGLE) repeatedly cover a large part of the sky and are detecting new, transient astrophysical sources on daily basis.
In this thesis I analyzed the data from Gaia and OGLE transient surveys, with special focus on transients located near the centres of galaxies to detect possible Tidal Disruption Events. These occur when a star gets too close to a Super-Massive Black Hole, which lurks in the centres of most galaxies, and gets disrupted due to the black hole's gravitational tidal forces.
The goal of my research was to detect possible Tidal Disruption Events and eliminate false candidates, such as supernovae. The work involved daily inspection of new alerts, identified with Gaia and OGLE Transient Detection System. I searched for potential transients in galactic nuclei and in case there was such a transient detected, follow-up spectroscopic observations were initiated in order to help classify the object.
During the course of my work I analyzed spectra obtained with the largest telescopes in the world (SALT, VLT) and performed the spectral template matching, recognition of spectral features related to known classes of transients, determination of redshift etc.
Keywords: Flares, transients, Gaia, OGLE, supernovae, tidal disruption events, nuclear transients
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