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Searching for optical pulsations from spider millisecond pulsars with the fast photometer SiFAP2
Christian Malacaria, Alessandro Papitto, Filippo Ambrosino +19
Optical pulsations from millisecond pulsars (MSPs) have recently been detected in a transitional MSP and an accreting MSP. Evidence for optical pulsations has also been found for a…
Evolution of the transitional millisecond pulsar PSR J1023+0038 from Aqueye+ and NICER observations
Silvia Conforti, Luca Zampieri, Michele Fiori +3
Transitional millisecond pulsars (tMSPs) are old neutron stars spun up by accretion from a low-mass companion. These objects can switch between two emission regimes: rotation-power…
Optical and X-ray timing analysis of the 2018-2020 outburst and rebrightening of the black-hole transient MAXI J1820+070
M. Fiori, L. Zampieri, A. Burtovoi +15
We report the results of a comprehensive analysis of the multiwavelength (in optical and X-rays) and multitimescale (from months to tenths of a second) variability of the 2018-2020…
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…
Simultaneous and panchromatic observations of the Fast Radio Burst FRB 20180916B
M. Trudu, M. Pilia, L. Nicastro +47
Aims. Fast Radio Bursts are bright radio transients whose origin has not yet explained. The search for a multi-wavelength counterpart of those events can put a tight constrain on t…
Investigating the origin of optical and X-ray pulsations of the transitional millisecond pulsar PSR J1023+0038
G. Illiano, A. Papitto, F. Ambrosino +21
PSR J1023+0038 is the first millisecond pulsar that was ever observed as an optical and UV pulsar. So far, it is the only optical transitional millisecond pulsar. The rotation- and…
Galactic Observatory Science with the ASTRI Mini-Array at the Observatorio del Teide
A. D'Aì, E. Amato, A. Burtovoi +52
The ASTRI (Astrofisica con Specchi a Tecnologia Replicante Italiana) Mini-Array will be composed of nine imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes at the Observatorio del Teide site…
ASTRI Mini-Array Core Science at the Observatorio del Teide
S. Vercellone, C. Bigongiari, A. Burtovoi +84
The ASTRI (Astrofisica con Specchi a Tecnologia Replicante Italiana) Project led by the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF) is developing and will deploy at the Obse…
Deep upper limit on the optical emission during a hard X-ray burst from the magnetar SGR J1935+2154
Luca Zampieri, Sandro Mereghetti, Roberto Turolla +9
In September 2021 the magnetar SGR J1935+2154 entered a stage of burst/flaring activity in the hard X-ray band. On September 10, 2021 we observed SGR J1935+2154 with the fiber-fed…
Modeling the γ-ray Pulsar Wind Nebulae population in our Galaxy
M. Fiori, B. Olmi, E. Amato +4
Pulsar wind nebulae (PWNe) represent the largest class of sources that upcoming γ-ray surveys will detect. Therefore, accurate modelling of their global emission properties is one…
Evidence of intra-binary shock emission from the redback pulsar PSR J1048+2339
A. Miraval Zanon, P. D'Avanzo, A. Ridolfi +16
We present simultaneous multiwavelength observations of the 4.66 ms redback pulsar PSR J1048+2339. We performed phase-resolved spectroscopy with the Very Large Telescope (VLT) sear…
Constraining Models of the Pulsar Wind Nebula in SNR G0.9+0.1 via Simulation of its Detection Properties using the Cherenkov Telescope Array
M. Fiori, L. Zampieri, A. Burtovoi +2
SNR G0.9+0.1 is a well known source in the direction of the Galactic Center composed by a Supernova Remnant (SNR) and a Pulsar Wind Nebula (PWN) in the core. We investigate the pot…
Spin-down rate of the transitional millisecond pulsar PSR J1023+0038 in the optical band with Aqueye+
Aleksandr Burtovoi, Luca Zampieri, Michele Fiori +5
We present a timing analysis of the transitional millisecond pulsar PSR J1023+0038 using observations taken between January 2018 and January 2020 with the high time resolution phot…
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…
Scientific prospects for a mini-array of ASTRI telescopes: a gamma-ray TeV data challenge
F. Pintore, A. Giuliani, A. Belfiore +19
ASTRI is a project aiming at the realization of a gamma-ray imaging Cherenkov telescope that observes the sky in the TeV band. Recently, the development of a mini-array (MA) of AST…
The lowest frequency Fast Radio Bursts: Sardinia Radio Telescope detection of the periodic FRB 180916 at 328 MHz
M. Pilia, M. Burgay, A. Possenti +35
We report on the lowest-frequency detection to date of three bursts from the fast radio burst FRB 180916, observed at 328 MHz with the Sardinia Radio Telescope (SRT). The SRT obser…
The Cherenkov Telescope Array view of the Galactic Center region
Aion Viana, Sofia Ventura, Daniele Gaggero +22
Among all the high-energy environments of our Galaxy, the Galactic Center (GC) region is definitely the richest. It harbors a large amount of non-thermal emitters, including the cl…
Precise optical timing of PSR J1023+0038, the first millisecond pulsar detected with Aqueye+ in Asiago
Luca Zampieri, Aleksandr Burtovoi, Michele Fiori +5
We report the first detection of an optical millisecond pulsar with the fast photon counter Aqueye+ in Asiago. This is an independent confirmation of the detection of millisecond p…
Cherenkov Telescope Array Contributions to the 35th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC2017)
F. Acero, B. S. Acharya, V. Acín Portella +1137
List of contributions from the Cherenkov Telescope Array Consortium presented at the 35th International Cosmic Ray Conference, July 12-20 2017, Busan, Korea.
Prospects for the detection of high-energy (E>25 GeV) Fermi pulsars with the Cherenkov Telescope Array
A. Burtovoi, T. Y. Saito, L. Zampieri +1
Around 160 gamma-ray pulsars were discovered by the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) since 2008. The most energetic of them, 12 objects with emission above 25 GeV, are suitable can…
Prospects for CTA observations of the young SNR RX J1713.7-3946
The CTA Consortium, :, F. Acero +381
We perform simulations for future Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) observations of RX~J1713.73946, a young supernova remnant (SNR) and one of the brightest sources ever discovere…
Contributions of the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) to the 6th International Symposium on High-Energy Gamma-Ray Astronomy (Gamma 2016)
The CTA Consortium, :, A. Abchiche +1387
List of contributions from the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) Consortium presented at the 6th International Symposium on High-Energy Gamma-Ray Astronomy (Gamma 2016), July 11-15,…
Prospects for PWNe and SNRs science with the ASTRI mini-array of pre-production small-sized telescopes of the Cherenkov Telescope Array
A. Burtovoi, L. Zampieri, A. Giuliani +5
The development and construction of the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) opens up new opportunities for the study of very high energy (VHE, E>100 GeV) sources. As a part of CTA, the…
Simulated Gamma-Ray Pulse Profile of the Crab Pulsar with the Cherenkov Telescope Array
A. Burtovoi, L. Zampieri
We present simulations of the very high energy (VHE) gamma-ray light curve of the Crab pulsar as observed by the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA). The CTA pulse profile of the Crab…