The LSST will be a wide-field 8m class telescope designed to obtain multi-band images over a substantial fraction of the sky every few nights. Multiple goals are expected in many relevant astrophysical areas, such as : (i) taking an inventory of the Solar System; (ii) mapping the Milky Way; (iii) exploring the transient universe; and (iv) probing dark energy and dark matter. The SKA and LSST...
Understanding the interplay between the various components of the interstellar medium (ISM: dust, atomic and molecular gas) in galaxies of the Local Universe is of fundamental importance for studies of galactic formation and evolution. In the last decade, thanks in particular to Herschel, we made a considerable effort in the study of one of these components, the dust. In this framework, the...
The Transient High-Energy Sky and Early Universe Surveyor (THESEUS) is a space mission concept under study by ESA as candidate M5 mission aiming at exploiting Gamma-Ray Bursts for investigating the early Universe and at providing a substantial advancement of multi-messenger and time-domain astrophysics. THESEUS will address main open issues in cosmology such as, e.g., star formation rate and...
The Fermi-LAT Fourth Source Catalog (4FGL), based on 8 years of E>50 MeV photon data, will comprise about 5500 sources. This number corresponds to a 60% increase relative to 3FGL. The talk will describe the analysis improvements over 3FGL and the new catalog features. About 66% of the sources will have high-confidence counterparts detected at other wavelengths, both extragalactic (mainly...
In this talk we will highlight the existing synergies between SKA and Athena in the framework of two major research fields: AGN physics and cosmic web studies.
AGN physics:
A rich phenomenology of jets, winds, and accretion states has been observed in both active galactic nuclei (AGN) and X+ray binaries (XRBs), suggesting a connection between the accretion and ejection flows at different black...
The synergy between current and future cosmic microwave background (CMB) projects and the extreme sensitivity and resolution of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) will be crucial for a wide set of themes relevant for cosmology and astrophysics at different cosmic epochs, including cosmological parameter estimation, integrated Sachs-Wolfe effect and constraints on dark energy, primordial...
The IDIA cloud is a cloud computing system being developed at the Institute for Data Intensive Astronomy (IDIA). The IDIA cloud is a data intensive research facility whose main aim is to facilitate the reduction and the scientific exploitation of MeerKAT data. Building on the IDIA cloud, the HELP-IDIA Panchromatic Project (HIPPO) is developing an environment for the effective multi-wavelength...
