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most citedSensitivity of the Cherenkov Telescope Array to a dark matter signal from the Galactic centre

135 citations · 763 across the 41 of their papers we have counts for

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42 papers

astro-ph.SR2026

A Two-Population von Mises--Fisher Distribution of the Magnetic Field Direction in the Young Solar Wind

Gang Li, N. H. Bian, S. Y. Huang +6

The one-point distribution of the magnetic field direction in the young solar wind is found to be a superposition of two populations rather than a single exponential. Using Parker…

astro-ph.HE2026

Chasing Gamma-Ray Signals from Binary Neutron Star Coalescences with the Cherenkov Telescope Array: Prospects and Observing Strategies

S. Abe, J. Abhir, A. Abhishek +457

The detection of gravitational waves (GWs) from a binary neutron star (BNS) merger by Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo (GW170817), together with its electromagnetic counterpart, th…

astro-ph.HE2025

Magnetic flux transport via reconnection diffusion in different sonic regimes of interstellar MHD turbulence

C. N. Koshikumo, R. Santos-Lima, M. V. del Valle +3

Turbulence and magnetic fields are components of the interstellar medium and are interconnected through plasma processes. In particular, the magnetic flux transport in the presence…

astro-ph.GA2025

Interstellar Polarization Survey. V. Galactic magnetic field tomography in the spiral arms using optical and near-infrared starlight polarization

Y. Angarita, M. J. F. Versteeg, M. Haverkorn +5

Interstellar linear polarization occurs when starlight passes through elongated dust grains aligned by interstellar magnetic fields. The observed polarization can come from differe…

astro-ph.SR2025

Radio polarization from runaway star bowshocks-I. The general case

M. V. del Valle, R Santos-Lima, M Pohl

High velocity stars move through the interstellar medium with V > 30 km/s. When the star has powerful winds, under the appropriate conditions, the interaction of the wind with the…

astro-ph.GA2024

Interstellar Polarization Survey. IV. Characterizing the magnetic field strength and turbulent dispersion using optical starlight polarization in the diffuse interstellar medium

Y. Angarita, M. J. F. Versteeg, M. Haverkorn +5

Angular dispersion functions are typically used to estimate the fluctuations in polarization angle around the mean magnetic field orientation in dense regions, such as molecular cl…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 7 cited

Galactic transient sources with the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory

Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory Consortium

A wide variety of Galactic sources show transient emission at soft and hard X-ray energies: low- and high-mass X-ray binaries containing compact objects, isolated neutron stars exh…

hep-ph2024★ 18 cited

Dark Matter Line Searches with the Cherenkov Telescope Array

S. Abe, J. Abhir, A. Abhishek +562

Monochromatic gamma-ray signals constitute a potential smoking gun signature for annihilating or decaying dark matter particles that could relatively easily be distinguished from a…

astro-ph.GA2024

Magnetic fields in the Southern Coalsack and beyond

M. J. F. Versteeg, Y. Angarita, A. M. Magalhães +4

Starlight polarimetry, when combined with accurate distance measurements, allows for exploration of the three-dimensional structure of local magnetic fields in great detail. We pre…

astro-ph.GA2023

Tomographic Imaging of the Sagittarius Spiral Arm's Magnetic Field Structure

Yasuo Doi, Kengo Nakamura, Koji S. Kawabata +16

The Galactic global magnetic field is thought to play a vital role in shaping Galactic structures such as spiral arms and giant molecular clouds. However, our knowledge of magnetic…

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

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.GA2023★ 15 cited

Interstellar Polarization Survey III: Relation Between Optical Polarization and Reddening in the General Interstellar Medium

Y. Angarita, M. J. F. Versteeg, M. Haverkorn +4

Optical starlight can be partially polarized while propagating through the dusty, magnetized interstellar medium. The polarization efficiency describes the polarization intensity f…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 16 cited

Sensitivity of the Cherenkov Telescope Array to TeV photon emission from the Large Magellanic Cloud

The Cherenkov Telescope Array Consortium

A deep survey of the Large Magellanic Cloud at ~0.1-100TeV photon energies with the Cherenkov Telescope Array is planned. We assess the detection prospects based on a model for the…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 18 cited

Interstellar Polarization Survey II: General Interstellar Medium

M. J. F. Versteeg, A. M. Magalhães, M. Haverkorn +4

Magnetic fields permeate the entire Galaxy and are essential to, for example, the regulation of several stages of the star formation process and cosmic ray transportation. Unraveli…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 23 cited

Magnetic Field Orientation in Self-Gravitating Turbulent Molecular Clouds

Lucas Barreto-Mota, Elisabete M. de Gouveia Dal Pino, Blakesley Burkhart +3

Stars form inside molecular cloud filaments from the competition of gravitational forces with turbulence and magnetic fields. The exact orientation of these filaments with the magn…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 135 cited

Sensitivity of the Cherenkov Telescope Array to a dark matter signal from the Galactic centre

The Cherenkov Telescope Array Consortium, :, A. Acharyya +449

We provide an updated assessment of the power of the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) to search for thermally produced dark matter at the TeV scale, via the associated gamma-ray sig…

astro-ph.SR2020★ 14 cited

Diffusion of large-scale magnetic fields by reconnection in MHD turbulence

R. Santos-Lima, G. Guerrero, E. M. de Gouveia Dal Pino +1

The rate of magnetic field diffusion plays an essential role in several astrophysical plasma processes. It has been demonstrated that the omnipresent turbulence in astrophysical me…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 14 cited

A hadronic emission model for black hole-disc impacts in the blazar OJ 287

J. C. Rodríguez-Ramírez, P. Kushwaha, E. M. de Gouveia Dal Pino +1

A super-massive black hole (SMBH) binary in the core of the blazar OJ 287 has been invoked in previous works to explain its observed optical flare quasi-periodicity. Following this…