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most citedMulti-messenger observations of a flaring blazar coincident with high-energy neutrino IceCube-170922A

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23 papers

astro-ph.HE2025

1FLAT: a Firmamento-based catalog of AGN in Fermi-LAT high Galactic latitude γ-ray sources

P. Giommi, M. Doro, M. Gouvêa +15

We present a systematic reassessment of 5,062 high-Galactic latitude gamma-ray sources from the Fermi-LAT 4FGL-DR4 catalog using Firmamento, a web-based platform for multi-frequenc…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 1 cited

Optical spectroscopy of blazars for the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory- IV

B. Rajput, P. Goldoni, W. Max-Moerbeck +17

Blazars, including BL Lacs and FSRQs, are the most luminous extragalactic γ-ray sources. They account for about 56% of the sources listed in the recent Fermi-LAT catalog (4FGL-DR4)…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 3 cited

Constraints on VHE gamma-ray emission of Flat Spectrum Radio Quasars with the MAGIC telescopes

MAGIC Collaboration

Flat spectrum radio quasars (FSRQs) constitute a class of jetted active galaxies characterized by a very luminous accretion disk, prominent and rapidly moving line-emitting cloud s…

astro-ph.HE2023

Firmamento: a multi-messenger astronomy tool for citizen and professional scientists

Dhurba Tripathi, Paolo Giommi, Adriano Di Giovanni +12

Firmamento (https://firmamento.hosting.nyu.edu) is a new-concept web-based and mobile-friendly data analysis tool dedicated to multi-frequency/multi-messenger emitters, as exemplif…

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.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.HE2023★ 14 cited

Prospects for a survey of the Galactic plane with the Cherenkov Telescope Array

CTA Consortium

Approximately one hundred sources of very-high-energy (VHE) gamma rays are known in the Milky Way. A survey of the entire Galactic Plane in the energy range from a few tens of GeV…

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.HE2021★ 5 cited

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

R. López-Coto, A. Moralejo, M. Artero +15

The Large-Sized Telescope (LST) prototype of the future Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is located at the Northern site of CTA, on the Canary Island of La Palma. It is designed to…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 2 cited

Cross-calibration and combined analysis of the CTA-LST prototype and the MAGIC telescopes

Y. Ohtani, A. Berti, D. Depaoli +13

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) will be the next generation gamma-ray observatory, which will consist of three kinds of telescopes of different sizes. Among those, the Large Si…

astro-ph.IM2021

Reconstruction of extensive air shower images of the first Large Size Telescope prototype of CTA using a novel likelihood technique

Gabriel Emery, Cyril Alispach, Mykhailo Dalchenko +3

Ground-based gamma-ray astronomy aims at reconstructing the energy and direction of gamma rays from the extensive air showers they initiate in the atmosphere. Imaging Atmospheric C…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 1 cited

Commissioning of the camera of the first Large Size Telescope of the Cherenkov Telescope Array

T. Saito, C. Delgado, O. Blanch +30

The first Large Size Telescope (LST-1) of the Cherenkov Telescope Array has been operational since October 2018 at La Palma, Spain. We report on the results obtained during the cam…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 1 cited

Monitoring the pointing of the prototype LST-1 using star reconstruction in the Cherenkov camera

L. Foffano, A. Carosi, M. Dalchenko +3

The first Large-Sized Telescope (LST-1) proposed for the forthcoming Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) has started to operate in 2019 in La Palma. The large structure of LST-1 - with…

astro-ph.IM2019

The sub-TeV transient Gamma-Ray sky: challenges and opportunities

G. La Mura, P. Assis, A. Blanco +29

The detection of gravitational waves and neutrinos from astrophysical sources with gamma-ray counterparts officially started the era of Multi-Messenger Astronomy. Their transient a…

astro-ph.HE2018★ 1.1k cited

Multi-messenger observations of a flaring blazar coincident with high-energy neutrino IceCube-170922A

The IceCube, Fermi-LAT, MAGIC +13

Individual astrophysical sources previously detected in neutrinos are limited to the Sun and the supernova 1987A, whereas the origins of the diffuse flux of high-energy cosmic neut…

astro-ph2008★ 34 cited

H.E.S.S. Observations of the Prompt and Afterglow Phases of GRB 060602B

HESS Collaboration, F. Aharonian

We report on the first completely simultaneous observation of a gamma-ray burst (GRB) using an array of Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes which is sensitive to photons in th…