Open Talk Series – Upcoming Talks
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Session: Particle acceleration in Extreme Accelerators
February 7
Title: Particle acceleration at relativistic shocks: AGN jet and pulsar wind termination shocks
Speaker: Gwenael Giacinti (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)
Presentation: PDF File
Video: YouTube
Readings:
February 21
Title: Particle Acceleration in Large Scale Jets of AGN
Speaker: Brian Reville (Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik)
Presentation: PDF File
Video: YouTube
Readings:
- Particle acceleration in shearing flows: the self-generation of turbulent spine-sheath structures in relativistic MHD jet simulations
- Particle acceleration in shearing flows: the case for large-scale jets
- Resistive relativistic MHD simulations of astrophysical jets
- Relativistic Jets in Active Galactic Nuclei
- Particle acceleration in astrophysical jets
March 6
Title: Massive Stars at High Energy
Speaker: Jonathan Mackey (DIAS Dunsink Observatory)
Presentation: PDF File
Video: YouTube
Readings:
- Thermal emission from bow shocks II: 3D magnetohydrodynamic models of Zeta Ophiuchi
- Inverse-Compton cooling of thermal plasma in colliding-wind binaries
- A deep spectromorphological study of the gamma-ray emission surrounding the young massive stellar cluster Westerlund 1
- Core-collapse supernovae in dense environments – particle acceleration and non-thermal emission
March 20
Title: Resolved and unresolved Galactic gamma-ray sources at very high energy
Speaker: Paolo Lipari (INFN, Sapienza University of Rome)
Presentation: PDF File
Video: YouTube
April 3
Title: Measurements and implications of ultra-high energy diffuse gamma ray emission from the Galactic plane
Speaker: Qiang Yuan (Purple Mountain Observatory)
Presentation: PDF File
Video: YouTube
Readings:
- Measurement of ultra-high-energy diffuse gamma-ray emission of the Galactic plane from 10 TeV to 1 PeV with LHAASO-KM2A
- Galactic diffuse gamma-ray emission from GeV to PeV energies in light of up-to-date cosmic ray measurements
- On the Origin of Galactic Diffuse TeV-PeV Emission: Insight from LHAASO and IceCube
April 17
Second CTA Science Symposium
May 1
Title: Particle acceleration, propagation, and radiation in Starburst Galaxies
Speaker: Enrico Peretti (Université Paris Cité)
Readings:
The talk will mostly focus on:
- Cosmic ray transport and radiative processes in nuclei of starburst galaxies (Peretti et al, 2019)
- Contribution of starburst nuclei to the diffuse gamma-ray and neutrino flux (Peretti et al, 2020)
- Particle acceleration and multimessenger emission from starburst-driven galactic winds (Peretti et al, 2022)
Related references:
- Optical structure of starburst galaxies: Wetmoquette et al. 2009a, 2009b
- Non-thermal luminosity to infrared correlation in star forming galaxies: Ajello et al. 2020, Lacki et al. 2010, Kornecki et al. 2021
- CR transport in starburst environment: Peretti et al. 2019; Krumholtz et al. 2020
- Starburst winds: Romero et al. 2018, Peretti et al. 2022, Meliani et al. 2024
- Diffuse emission from starburst galaxies: Peretti et al. 2020; Roth et al. 2021
- Ultra-high energy cosmic rays from starburst galaxies: Anchordoqui et al. 2018, Condorelli et al. 2022
- CR-induced ionization rate in starburst galaxies: Phan et al. 2024
- Pointlike sources in the TeV spectra of starburst galaxies: Mannheim et al. 2012, Ohm et al. 2013, Chen et al. 2023
May 15
Title: X-ray and optical emission from neutron stars and PWNe and the connection with the magnetosphere
Speaker: Oleg Kargaltsev (George Washington University)
May 29
Title: Cosmic ray acceleration and transport
Speaker: Pasquale Blasi (Gran Sasso Science Institute)