AVENGe - Advances in Very-High Energy Astrophysics with Next-Generation Cherenkov Telescopes

Name: AVENGe - Advances in Very-High Energy Astrophysics with Next-Generation Cherenkov Telescopes
Start: 2023-05-29T08:00:00+02:00
End: 2023-05-31T18:00:00+02:00
Location: Roma

29 May 2023, 08:00 → 31 May 2023, 18:00 Europe/Rome

Roma

Via Vittorio Veneto, 21 - 00187 Roma

Alessandro Carosi (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

Description

We are pleased to announce the workshop “AVENGe - Advances in Very-High Energy Astrophysics with Next-Generation Cherenkov Telescopes", that will be held at Sala Conferenze Cappuccini in Rome (Italy) on May 29-31, 2023.

The Workshop aims to build or improve the synergies between the different science groups belonging to INAF, INFN and Universities in view of the preparation of the Observational Key Science Projects for the CTA. To this end, both summary and contributed talks covering the main hot topics in VHE astrophysics are foressen as well as dedicated discussion at the end of each presentation block.

The main topics covered by the workshop are:

Galactic and extragalactic extreme cosmic accelerators
VHE transients follow-up from GRBs to GW and Neutrino counterparts
Pevatrons and their origin
Dark Matter and Fundamental Physics with VHE gamma ray
New ideas for future gamma-rays facilities and multi-messenger synergies
The role and contribution of Italian community to CTA/CTA+

No registration fee is required.

A meeting dinner is foreseen for May the 30th (to be paid individually by participants)

Registrations are opened until 2023, May 25

See you in Roma!

Participants

Alberto Ulgiati
Aldo Morselli
Aldo Morselli
Alessandra Lamastra
Alessandro Cardinali
Alessandro Carosi
Alessandro Cortopassi
Alessandro Maselli
Alessandro Papitto
Andrea Melandri
Antonio Stamerra
Biswajit Banerjee
CHANDANA HRISHIKESH
Chiara Righi
Ciro Bigongiari
Dario Gasparrini
Davide Miceli
Elena Pian
Eleonora Torresi
Eliana Palazzi
Elisa Prandini
Enrico Piconcelli
Ettore Bronzini
Fabio Pintore
Fabrizio Tavecchio
Federico Di Pierro
Filippo Ambrosino
Francesco Gabriele Saturni
Francesco Longo
Francesco Tombesi
Francesco Visconti
Franco Vivaldi
Gabriele Ponti
Giacomo Bonnoli
Gianluca Castignani
Gianpiero Tagliaferri
Giorgio Galanti
Giovanni Tripodo
Giuseppe Di Sciascio
Gloria Maria Cicciari
Gonzalo Rodriguez Fernandez
Innocenza Busa
Irene Burelli
Lara Nava
Luca Foffano
Luca Zampieri
Lucio Angelo Antonelli
Martina Cardillo
Massimo Cappi
Maura Pilia
Michela Rigoselli
Michele Doro
Niccolo' Bucciantini
Paolo Buratti
Patrizia Caraveo
Pierluigi Bellutti
Roberta Zanin
Sandro Mereghetti
Sara Cutini
Saverio Lombardi
Silvia Pietroni
Simona Paiano
Stefano Germani
Stefano Marchesi
Tommaso Aniello
Vito Sguera
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AVENGe - Local Organizing Committee

loc-avengers@inaf.it

Monday, 29 May
- 11:00 → 11:30
  
  Registration 30m
  
  Registration at the venue.
- 11:30 → 13:00
  Introduction to CTA Key Science Projects
  
  Convener: Lucio Angelo Antonelli (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
  - 11:30
    
    Welcome & Workshop Purpose 10m
    
    Speaker: Lucio Angelo Antonelli (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
    
    Avenge_Welcome_2023.pdf
  - 11:40
    
    Introduction to Key Science Projects 20m
    
    Speaker: Roberta Zanin (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
    
    20230529_Avenge_v2.pdf
  - 12:00
    
    The CTA+ Project 20m
    
    Speaker: Massimo Cappi (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
    
    CTAO_e_CTA+_italian_opportunities_05_2023.pptx
  - 12:20
    
    Introduction to the Science of KSPs 20m
    
    Speaker: Francesco Longo
    
    CTA_Avenge2023_v2.pdf
  - 12:40
    
    The Italian Contributions to the CTA Key Science Projects 20m
    
    Speaker: Antonio Stamerra (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
    
    Italia-KSP-CTA_Stamerra-AVENGE.pdf
- 13:00 → 14:30
  
  Lunch break
- 14:30 → 16:00
  Galactic Plane Survey
  
  Convener: Fabio Pintore (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
  - 14:30
    
    Galactic Plane Survey KSP: status & perspectives 30m
    
    Speaker: Fabio Pintore (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
    
    GPS_pintore.pdf
  - 15:00
    
    Galactic PeVatron candidates in the LHAASO J1956+2845 sky region 20m
    
    In recent years the number of known sources emitting in the TeV-PeV regime has increased significantly thanks to facilities like LHAASO and HAWC. The more natural candidates, for energetic and ambient properties, are pulsars and their environment.
    
    However, due to the limited angular resolution of the current instruments, many of the observed sources have more than one lower-energy counterpart. The identification and the classification of these sources is one of the primary goals of future facilities as CTAO, thanks to the designed sensitivity and angular resolution above 1 TeV.
    
    In this talk I will present the sky region containing LHAASO J1956+2845, a case study to test the CTAO performances. This region extends for about 2 degrees and contains three HAWC sources, two of which are spatially coincident with LHAASO J1956+2845. Three middle-aged pulsars and three SNR/PWN systems are located in the field, but the associations are yet to be done, and it is not clear yet which of them is the principal contributor to the ~100 TeV emission.
    
    Speaker: Michela Rigoselli (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
    
    2023-05-29_PEV_AVENGE_Rigoselli.pdf
  - 15:20
    
    Discussion 40m
- 16:00 → 16:30
  
  Coffe Break
- 16:30 → 18:30
  Extragalactic Survey
  
  Convener: Elisa Prandini (DFA Padova)
  - 16:30
    
    Introduction: The extragalactic survey key science project - Status and perspectives 20m
    
    Speaker: Elisa Prandini (DFA Padova)
    
    20230529_Avenge_egalsurvey.pdf
  - 16:50
    
    Extragalactic survey: some updates based on recent findings (Solicited Talk) 20m
    
    Speaker: Paolo Giommi (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
    
    GiommiAvenge2023.pptx
  - 17:10
    
    The Fermi-LAT experience: lesson learned (Solicited talk) 20m
    
    Speaker: Dario Gasparrini (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare sez. di Roma Tor Vergata)
    
    Avenge_gasparrini.pdf
  - 17:30
    
    Divergent Pointing mode as observation strategy (Solicited talk) 20m
    
    Speaker: Irene Burelli (University of Udine - INFN Trieste)
    
    Observing the VHE sky in divergent mode.pdf
  - 17:50
    
    Search for new TeV sources from our MWL and spectroscopic survey 10m
    
    Speakers: Alberto Ulgiati (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF)), Simona Paiano (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
    
    Ulgiati_AVENGe.pptx.pdf
  - 18:00
    
    Open discussion 30m
Tuesday, 30 May
- 09:00 → 11:00
  Galactic Transients
  
  Convener: Dr Sandro Mereghetti (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
  
  MEREGHETTI_avenge_2023.pdf
  - 09:00
    
    The Galactic Transients KSP 30m
    
    Speaker: Dr Sandro Mereghetti (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
    
    MEREGHETTI_avenge_2023.pdf
  - 09:30
    
    Galactic Transients at Very High Energies: microquasars, millisecond pulsars & more 20m
    
    Speaker: Alessandro Papitto (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
  - 09:50
    
    High-Energy Varibility in PWNe 20m
    
    Speaker: Niccolo' Bucciantini (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
    
    Bucciantini.pdf
    
    Bucciantini.pptx
  - 10:10
    
    Solicited (TBC) 20m
  - 10:30
    
    Discussion 30m
- 11:00 → 11:30
  
  Coffe Break
- 11:30 → 13:00
  Extragalactic Transients
  
  Convener: Alessandro Carosi (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
  - 11:30
    
    Extragalactic Transients KSP: status & perspectives 30m
    
    Speaker: Alessandro Carosi (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
    
    AVENGe_Carosi.pdf
  - 12:00
    
    Prospects of detecting early VHE emission from compact binary mergers: synergy between Einstein Telescope and CTA 20m
    
    Speaker: Biswajit Banerjee (Gran Sasso Science Institute (GSSI))
    
    AVENGe_Banerjee.pdf
  - 12:20
    
    GRB at VHE: lessons learned so far 20m
    
    Speaker: Lara Nava (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
    
    nava_AVENGe.pdf
  - 12:40
    
    Discussion 20m
- 13:00 → 14:30
  
  Lunch break
- 14:30 → 16:00
  Pevatrons & SFR
  
  Convener: Dr Martina Cardillo (INAF- IAPS)
  - 14:30
    
    Pevatrons & SFR Status and Perspective 50m
    
    Speaker: Dr Martina Cardillo (INAF- IAPS)
    
    2023_05_29-31 - Cardillo_PeVatrons_AVENGe.pdf
    
    2023_05_29-31 - Cardillo_PeVatrons_AVENGe.pptx
  - 15:20
    
    Discussion 40m
- 16:00 → 16:30
  
  Coffe Break
- 16:30 → 18:30
  Galactic Center
  
  Convener: Fabio Pintore (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
  - 16:30
    
    Status of the CTA Key Science Project 40m
    
    Speaker: Fabio Pintore (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
    
    GC_KSP_pintore.pdf
  - 17:10
    
    The Galactic Center at VHE 20m
    
    Speaker: Gabriele Ponti (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
    
    PontiAVENGe.pdf
  - 17:30
    
    Discussion 1h
Wednesday, 31 May
- 09:00 → 10:20
  Galaxy Clusters
  
  Convener: Gianfranco Brunetti (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
  - 09:00
    
    The Galaxy Cluster KSP, Status and Perspectives 40m
    
    Speaker: Gianfranco Brunetti (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
    
    Brunetti_AVENGe_PUB.ppt
  - 09:40
    
    Discussion 40m
- 10:20 → 11:00
  CTA+/MWL/Synergies
  - 10:20
    
    Multi-wavelength context of the Cherenkov Telescope Array 20m
    
    Speaker: Elena Pian (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
    
    ElenaPian_AVENGE_2023.05.31.pptx
    
    ElenaPian_AVENGE_2023.05.31.pptx
  - 10:40
    
    Blazar monitoring by the Whole Earth Blazar Telescope (WEBT) Collaboration 20m
    
    Born in 1997 to provide an optical follow-up of gamma-loud blazars observed by the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory, the Whole Earth Blazar Telescope (WEBT) is a large collaboration including several tens of astronomers around the northern hemisphere who monitor blazars mainly in the optical (including polarimetry), but also in the radio and near-infrared bands. Since 2000 the Collaboration has been led by Italian researchers from the INAF- Osservatorio Astrofisico di Torino and has actively collaborated with other teams, in particular the AGILE, Fermi, and MAGIC ones. The strength of the WEBT is the high temporal resolution of the light curves, which can be obtained thanks to the distribution in longitude of its members. This allows us to study the details of the blazar multiwavelength behaviour, and to propose models for its interpretation. We are looking forward to a fruitful collaboration with the VHE community in the era of the new-generation Cherenkov telescopes.
    
    Speaker: Claudia Maria Raiteri (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
    
    Avenge_2023_Raiteri.pdf
- 11:00 → 11:30
  
  Coffe Break
- 11:30 → 13:00
  Dark Matter & FUND Physic
  
  Convener: Dr Francesco Gabriele Saturni (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
  - 11:30
    
    The CTA Dark Matter Program and Capabilities Beyond Gamma-rays - Status and Perspectives 35m
    
    Speaker: Dr Francesco Gabriele Saturni (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
    
    Saturni_AVENGe_DMFUND_20230531.pdf
  - 12:05
    
    Axion-like Particles and Lorentz Invariance Violation 20m
    
    Speaker: Giorgio Galanti (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
    
    Galanti-AVENGe.pdf
  - 12:25
    
    Status and Perspectives of Intergalactic Magnetic Field Studies 20m
    
    Speaker: Davide Miceli (University & INFN Padova)
    
    Miceli_PNRR_AVENGE.pdf
    
    Miceli_PNRR_AVENGE.pptx
  - 12:45
    
    Discussion 15m
- 13:00 → 14:30
  
  Lunch break
- 14:30 → 16:00
  
  Wrap up & Conclusion
  
  Convener: Massimo Cappi (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))