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most citedA Next-Generation Liquid Xenon Observatory for Dark Matter and Neutrino Physics

159 citations · 432 across the 26 of their papers we have counts for

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26 papers

astro-ph.HE2025★ 1 cited

Searching for dark matter annihilating into light long-lived mediators from stars inside dwarf spheroidal galaxies

Aman Gupta, Pooja Bhattacharjee, Pratik Majumdar

Several astrophysical and cosmological observations suggest the existence of dark matter (DM) through its gravitational effects, yet its nature remains elusive. Despite the lack of…

astro-ph.HE2023

Detection of the 2021 Outburst of RS Ophiuchi with the LST-1

Yukiho Kobayashi, Arnau Aguasca-Cabot, María Isabel Bernardos Martín +2

Novae are luminous explosions in close binaries which host a white dwarf and a companion donor star. They are triggered by a thermonuclear runaway when the white dwarf accretes a c…

astro-ph.IM2023

Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes pointing determination using the trajectories of the stars in the field of view

Mykhailo Dalchenko, Matthieu Heller

We present a new approach to the pointing determination of Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes (IACTs). This method is universal and can be applied to any IACT with minor modi…

astro-ph.IM2023★ 13 cited

Performance of the joint LST-1 and MAGIC observations evaluated with Crab Nebula data

H. Abe, K. Abe, S. Abe +365

Aims. LST-1, the prototype of the Large-Sized Telescope for the upcoming Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory, is concluding its commissioning in Observatorio del Roque de los Muc…

astro-ph.HE2023

Chasing Gravitational Waves with the Cherenkov Telescope Array

Jarred Gershon Green, Alessandro Carosi, Lara Nava +563

The detection of gravitational waves from a binary neutron star merger by Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo (GW170817), along with the discovery of the electromagnetic counterparts…

astro-ph.IM2023★ 1 cited

Interpolation of Instrument Response Functions for the Cherenkov Telescope Array in the Context of pyirf

Rune Michael Dominik, Maximilian Linhoff, Julian Sitarek

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) will be the next generation ground-based very-high-energy gamma-ray observatory, constituted by tens of Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes…

astro-ph.HE2023

Variability studies of active galactic nuclei from the long-term monitoring program with the Cherenkov Telescope Array

Guillaume Grolleron, Josefa Becerra González, Jonathan Biteau +13

Blazars are active galactic nuclei (AGN) with a relativistic jet oriented toward the observer. This jet is composed of accelerated particles which can display emission over the ent…

astro-ph.IM2023

Performance update of an event-type based analysis for the Cherenkov Telescope Array

Juan Bernete, Orel Gueta, Tarek Hassan +3

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) will be the next-generation observatory in the field of very-high-energy (20 GeV to 300 TeV) gamma-ray astroparticle physics. The traditional ap…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 2 cited

Performance of the Large-Sized Telescope prototype of the Cherenkov Telescope Array

Daniel Morcuende, Rubén López-Coto, Abelardo Moralejo +2

The next-generation ground-based gamma-ray Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO) will consist of imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes (IACTs) of three different sizes di…

astro-ph.IM2023

Characterization of SiPM and development of test bench modules for the next-generation cameras for Large-Sized Telescopes for Cherenkov Telescope Array

Takayuki. Saito, K. Hashiyama, H. Iwasaki +5

The recent improvements in the performance of the silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs) made them attractive options as photo sensors of imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes (IACTs)…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 2 cited

LST-1 observations of an enormous flare of BL Lacertae in 2021

Seiya Nozaki, Katsuaki Asano, Juan Escudero +2

The first prototype of LST (LST-1) for the Cherenkov Telescope Array has been in commissioning phase since 2018 and already started scientific observations with the low energy thre…

astro-ph.HE2023

Dark matter searches in dwarf spheroidal galaxies with the Cherenkov Telescope Array

Francesco Gabriele Saturni, Michele Doro, Aldo Morselli +1

Dark matter (DM) is one of the major components in the Universe. However, at present its existence is still only inferred through indirect astronomical observations. DM particles c…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 9 cited

Prospects for -ray observations of the Perseus galaxy cluster with the Cherenkov Telescope Array

The Cherenkov Telescope Array Consortium, :, K. Abe +564

Galaxy clusters are expected to be dark matter (DM) reservoirs and storage rooms for the cosmic-ray protons (CRp) that accumulate along the cluster's formation history. Accordingly…

astro-ph.IM2023★ 98 cited

Gammapy: A Python package for gamma-ray astronomy

Axel Donath, Régis Terrier, Quentin Remy +42

In this article, we present Gammapy, an open-source Python package for the analysis of astronomical -ray data, and illustrate the functionalities of its first long-term-support…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 50 cited

Observations of the Crab Nebula and Pulsar with the Large-Sized Telescope Prototype of the Cherenkov Telescope Array

CTA-LST Project, :, H. Abe +289

CTA (Cherenkov Telescope Array) is the next generation ground-based observatory for gamma-ray astronomy at very-high energies. The Large-Sized Telescope prototype (LST-1) is locate…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 22 cited

Sensitivity of the Cherenkov Telescope Array to spectral signatures of hadronic PeVatrons with application to Galactic Supernova Remnants

The Cherenkov Telescope Array Consortium, F. Acero, A. Acharyya +356

The local Cosmic Ray (CR) energy spectrum exhibits a spectral softening at energies around 3~PeV. Sources which are capable of accelerating hadrons to such energies are called hadr…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 15 cited

Gamma-ray flux limits from brown dwarfs: Implications for dark matter annihilating into long-lived mediators

Pooja Bhattacharjee, Francesca Calore, Pasquale Dario Serpico

Brown dwarfs (BDs) are celestial objects representing the link between the least massive main-sequence stars and giant gas planets. In the first part of this article, we perform a…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 24 cited

Multi-wavelength study of the galactic PeVatron candidate LHAASO J2108+5157

S. Abe, A. Aguasca-Cabot, I. Agudo +267

LHAASO J2108+5157 is one of the few known unidentified Ultra-High-Energy (UHE) gamma-ray sources with no Very-High-Energy (VHE) counterpart, recently discovered by the LHAASO colla…

astro-ph.HE2022

Study of potential self-annihilation signal from dark matter particles in some prospective astrophysical dark matter sources

Pooja Bhattacharjee

With the growing interest in indirect detection for dark matter signature, the thesis aims to investigate the signal originating from the self-annihilation of dark matter candidate…

physics.ins-det2022★ 159 cited

A Next-Generation Liquid Xenon Observatory for Dark Matter and Neutrino Physics

J. Aalbers, K. Abe, V. Aerne +591

The nature of dark matter and properties of neutrinos are among the most pressing issues in contemporary particle physics. The dual-phase xenon time-projection chamber is the leadi…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 3 cited

Probing the star formation origin of gamma rays from 3FHL J1907.0+0713

T. Ergin, L. Saha, P. Bhattacharjee +5

Star-forming (SF) regions embedded inside giant molecular clouds (GMCs) are potential contributors to Galactic gamma rays. The gamma-ray source 3FHL J1907.0+0713 is detected with a…

hep-ph2020★ 9 cited

Gamma-ray and Synchrotron Radiation from Dark Matter annihilations in Ultra-faint Dwarf Galaxies

Pooja Bhattacharjee, Debajyoti Choudhury, Kasinath Das +2

The very large (100-1000) mass-to-light ratio applicable to the ultra-faint dwarf galaxies (UFDs) implies a high concentration of dark matter, thus rendering them ideal theatres fo…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 7 cited

Multiwavelength analysis of low surface brightness galaxies to study possible dark matter signature

Pooja Bhattacharjee, Pratik Majumdar, Mousumi Das +3

Low Surface Brightness (LSB) galaxies have very diffuse, low surface density stellar disks which appear faint in optical images. They are very rich in neutral hydrogen (HI) gas, wh…

astro-ph.HE2018★ 8 cited

Analysis of Fermi-LAT data from Tucana-II: Possible constraints on the Dark Matter models with an intriguing hint of a signal

Pooja Bhattacharjee, Pratik Majumdar, Sayan Biswas +1

Tucana-II (Tuc-II), a recently discovered and confirmed Ultra Faint Dwarf Spheroidal galaxy, has a high mass to light ratio as well as a large line-of-sight stellar velocity disper…