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65 citations · 662 across the 31 of their papers we have counts for

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31 papers

astro-ph.HE2026

Fermi-LAT View on Three Ultra-high-energy 1LHAASO Sources in the Region

Linjie Liu, Xian Hou, Pierrick Martin +1

Using more than 17 yr of Fermi-LAT data, we performed a detailed investigation of the complex region, which encompasses the three ultra-high-energy source…

astro-ph.HE2026

Probing the -ray Emission Origin of Two Star-forming Galaxies NGC 2403 and NGC 3424 with the Fermi-LAT

Linjie Liu, Wei Zhang, Xian Hou +1

Star-forming galaxies (SFGs) are a subclass of -ray emitters and a correlation between their -ray luminosity () and the total infrared (IR) luminosity ($L_{\rm IR}…

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

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.HE2022★ 4 cited

Detecting and characterizing pulsar haloes with the Cherenkov Telescope Array

Christopher Eckner, Veronika Vodeb, Pierrick Martin +2

The recently identified source class of pulsar haloes may be numerous and bright enough in the TeV range to constitute a large fraction of the sources that will be observed with th…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 25 cited

Population synthesis of pulsar wind nebulae and pulsar halos in the Milky Way -- Predicted contributions to the very-high-energy sky

Pierrick Martin, Luigi Tibaldo, Alexandre Marcowith +1

The discovery of extended gamma-ray emission toward a number of middle-aged pulsars suggests the possibility of long-lived particle confinement beyond the classical pulsar wind neb…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 26 cited

Are pulsar halos rare ?

Pierrick Martin, Alexandre Marcowith, Luigi Tibaldo

Extended gamma-ray emission, interpreted as halos formed by the inverse-Compton scattering of ambient photons by electron-positron pairs, is observed toward a number of middle-aged…

astro-ph.IM2022

The carbon footprint of IRAP

Pierrick Martin, Sylvie Brau-Nogué, Mickael Coriat +4

We present an assessment of the greenhouse gases emissions of the Institute for Research in Astrophysics and Planetology (IRAP), located in Toulouse (France). It was performed foll…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 65 cited

Estimate of the carbon footprint of astronomical research infrastructures

Jürgen Knödlseder, Sylvie Brau-Nogué, Mickael Coriat +4

The carbon footprint of astronomical research is an increasingly topical issue with first estimates of research institute and national community footprints having recently been pub…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 18 cited

Steady-state nucleosynthesis throughout the Galaxy

Roland Diehl, Martin G. H. Krause, Karsten Kretschmer +6

Measurement and astrophysical interpretation of characteristic gamma-ray lines from nucleosynthesis was one of the prominent science goals of the INTEGRAL mission and in particular…

astro-ph.IM2019★ 12 cited

Analysis of the H.E.S.S. public data release with ctools

Jürgen Knödlseder, Luigi Tibaldo, Domenico Tiziani +13

The ctools open-source software package was developed for the scientific analysis of astronomical data from Imaging Air Cherenkov Telescopes (IACTs), such as H.E.S.S., VERITAS, MAG…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 2 cited

Positron Annihilation in the Galaxy

Carolyn A. Kierans, John F. Beacom, Steve Boggs +27

The 511 keV line from positron annihilation in the Galaxy was the first -ray line detected to originate from outside our solar system. Going into the fifth decade since the disc…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 41 cited

Millisecond pulsar origin of the Galactic center excess and extended gamma-ray emission from Andromeda - a closer look

Christopher Eckner, Xian Hou, Pasquale D. Serpico +8

A new measurement of a spatially extended gamma-ray signal from the center of the Andromeda galaxy (M31) has been recently published by the Fermi-LAT collaboration, reporting that…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 43 cited

Gamma-ray emission from internal shocks in novae

Pierrick Martin, Guillaume Dubus, Pierre Jean +2

Gamma-ray emission at energies >100MeV has been detected from nine novae using the Fermi-LAT, and it can be explained by particle acceleration at shocks in these systems. Eight out…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 33 cited

Sizing up the population of gamma-ray binaries

Guillaume Dubus, Nicolas Guillard, Pierre-Olivier Petrucci +1

Gamma-ray binaries are thought to be composed of a young pulsar in orbit around a massive O or Be star, with their gamma-ray emission powered by pulsar spindown. The number of such…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 40 cited

Search for Gamma-ray Emission from Dark Matter Annihilation in the Small Magellanic Cloud with the Fermi Large Area Telescope

Regina Caputo, Matthew R. Buckley, Pierrick Martin +5

The Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) is the second-largest satellite galaxy of the Milky Way and is only 60 kpc away. As a nearby, massive, and dense object with relatively low astroph…

astro-ph.HE2015★ 32 cited

Discovery of a Spin-Down State Change in the LMC Pulsar B0540-69

F. E. Marshall, L. Guillemot, A. K. Harding +2

We report the discovery of a large, sudden, and persistent increase in the spin-down rate of B0540-69, a young pulsar in the Large Magellanic Cloud, using observations from the Swi…

astro-ph.HE2015★ 60 cited

Search for Gamma-ray Emission from Dark Matter Annihilation in the Large Magellanic Cloud with the Fermi Large Area Telescope

Matthew R. Buckley, Eric Charles, Jennifer M. Gaskins +4

At a distance of 50 kpc and with a dark matter mass of M, the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) is a natural target for indirect dark matter searches. We use fiv…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 43 cited

Monte Carlo modelling of the propagation and annihilation of nucleosynthesis positrons in the Galaxy

A. Alexis, P. Jean, P. Martin +1

We want to estimate whether the positrons produced by the beta plus decay of 26Al, 44Ti and 56Ni synthesised in massive stars and supernovae are sufficient to explain the 511 keV a…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 21 cited

Interstellar gamma-ray emission from cosmic rays in star-forming galaxies

Pierrick Martin

Fermi/LAT observations of star-forming galaxies in the ~0.1-100GeV range have made possible a first population study. Evidence was found for a correlation between gamma-ray luminos…

astro-ph.IM2013★ 4 cited

Towards a common analysis framework for gamma-ray astronomy

Jürgen Knödlseder, Michael Mayer, Christoph Deil +4

Thanks to the success of current gamma-ray telescopes (Fermi, H.E.S.S., MAGIC, VERITAS), and in view of the prospects of planned observatories such as the Cherenkov Telescope Array…