First follow-up of transient events with the CTA Large Size Telescope prototype
The CTA-LST Project,
H. Abe,
A. Aguasca,
I. Agudo,
L.A. Antonelli,
C. Aramo,
T. Armstrong, M. Artero, K. Asano, H. Ashkar, P. Aubert, A. Baktash, A. Bamba, A. Baquero Larriva, L. Baroncelli, U. Barres de Almeida, J.A. Barrio, I. Batković, J. Becerra Gonzalez, M. Bernardos, A. Berti, N. Biederbeck, C. Bigongiari, O. Blanch, G. Bonnoli, P. Bordas, D. Bose, A. Bulgarelli, I. Burelli, M. Buscemi, M. Cardillo, S. Caroff, A. Carosi*, F. Cassol, M. Cerruti, Y. Chai, K. Cheng, M. Chikawa, L. Chytka, J.L. Contreras, J. Cortina, H. Costantini, M. Dalchenko, A. De Angelis, M. de Bony de Lavergne, G. Deleglise, C. Delgado, J. Delgado Mengual, D. della Volpe, D. Depaoli, F. Di Pierro, L. Di Venere, C. Díaz, R.M. Dominik, D. Dominis Prester, A. Donini, D. Dorner, M. Doro, D. Elsässer, G. Emery, J. Escudero, A. Fiasson, L. Foffano, M.V. Fonseca, L. Freixas Coromina, S. Fukami, Y. Fukazawa, E. Garcia, R. Garcia López, N. Giglietto, F. Giordano, P. Gliwny, N. Godinovic, D. Green, P. Grespan, S. Gunji, J. Hackfeld, D. Hadasch, A. Hahn, T. Hassan, K. Hayashi, L. Heckmann, M. Heller, J. Herrera Llorente, K. Hirotani, D. Hoffmann, D. Horns, J. Houles, M. Hrabovsky, D. Hrupec, D. Hui, M. Hütten, T. Inada, Y. Inome, M. Iori, K. Ishio, Y. Iwamura, M. Jacquemont, I. Jiménez Martínez, L. Jouvin, J. Jurysek, M. Kagaya, V. Karas, H. Katagiri, J. Kataoka, D. Kerszberg, Y. Kobayashi, A. Kong, H. Kubo, J. Kushida, G. Lamanna, A. Lamastra, T. Le Flour, F. Longo, R. Lopez-Coto, M. López-Moya, A. López-Oramas, P.L. Luque-Escamilla, P. Majumdar, M. Makariev, D. Mandat, M. Manganaro, K. Mannheim, M. Mariotti, P. Marquez, G. Marsella, J. Martí, O. Martinez, G. Martínez, M. Martinez, P. Marusevec, A. Mas, G. Maurin, D. Mazin, E. Mestre Guillen, S. Mićanović, D. Miceli, T. Miener, J.M. Miranda, L.D.M. Miranda, R. Mirzoyan, T. Mizuno, E. Molina, T. Montaruli, I. Monteiro, A. Moralejo, D. Morcuende, E. Moretti, A. Morselli, K. Mrakovcic, K. Murase, A. Nagai, T. Nakamori, L. Nickel, D. Nieto, M. Nievas, K. Nishijima, K. Noda, D. Nosek, M. Nöthe, S. Nozaki, M. Ohishi, Y. Ohtani, T. Oka, N. Okazaki, A. Okumura, R. Orito, J. Otero-Santos, M. Palatiello, D. Paneque, R. Paoletti, J.M. Paredes, L. Pavletić, M. Pech, M. Pecimotika, V. Poireau, M. Polo, E. Prandini, J. Prast, C. Priyadarshi, M. Prouza, R. Rando, W. Rhode, M. Ribó, V. Rizi, A. Rugliancich, J.E. Ruiz, T. Saito, S. Sakurai, D. Sanchez, T. Šarić, F.G. Saturni, J. Scherpenberg, B. Schleicher, J.L. Schubert, F. Schüssler, T. Schweizer, M. Seglar Arroyo, R.C. Shellard, J. Sitarek, V. Sliusar, A. Spolon, J. Strišković, M.C. Strzys, Y. Suda, Y. Sunada, H. Tajima, M. Takahashi, H. Takahashi, J. Takata, R. Takeishi, P.T. Tam, S. Tanaka, D. Tateishi, L.Á. Tejedor, P. Temnikov, Y. Terada, T. Terzic, M. Teshima, M. Tluczykont, F. Tokanai, D.F. Torres, P. Travnicek, S. Truzzi, M. Vacula, M. Vazquez Acosta, V. Verguilov, G. Verna, I. Viale, C.f. Vigorito, V. Vitale, I. Vovk, T. Vuillaume, R. Walter, M. Will, T. Yamamoto, R. Yamazaki, T. Yoshida, T. Yoshikoshi and D. Zarićet al. (click to show)*: corresponding author
Pre-published on:
July 07, 2021
Published on:
March 18, 2022
Abstract
The recent detection of a very high energy (VHE) emission from Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) above 100 GeV performed by the MAGIC and H.E.S.S. collaborations, has represented a significant, long-awaited result for the VHE astrophysics community. Although these results’ scientific impact has not yet been fully exploited, the possibility to detect VHE gamma-ray signals from GRBs has always been considered crucial for clarifying the poorly known physics of these objects. Furthermore, the discovery of high-energy neutrinos and gravitational waves associated with astrophysical sources have definitively opened the era of multi-messenger astrophysics, providing unique insights into the physics of extreme cosmic accelerators. In the near future, the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) will play a major role in these observations. Within this framework, the Large Size Telescopes (LSTs) will be the instruments best suited to significantly impact on short time-scale transients follow-up thanks to their fast slewing and large effective area. The observations of the early emission phase of a wide range of transient events with good sensitivity below 100 GeV will allow us to open new opportunities for time-domain astrophysics in an
energy range not affected by selective absorption processes typical of other wavelengths. In this contribution, we will report about the observational program and first transients follow-up observations performed by the LST-1 telescope currently in its commissioning phase on La Palma, Canary Islands, the CTA northern hemisphere site.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.22323/1.395.0838
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