The contributions in this volume provide a snapshot of the latest research and future plans for space-borne and ground-based experiments dedicated to the observation of the gamma-ray sky. The articles are authored by both seasoned veterans of the first dedicated gamma-ray missions, and young scientists entering the fascinating field of gamma-ray astrophysics. With the advent of gamma-ray instrumentation on spacecraft and large and sensitive ground-based detectors, new and unexpected phenomena have been discovered, such as gamma-ray bursts and gamma-ray emission from blazars. The immense vitality of the field in the current "post-EGRET era" is witnessed by the numerous ongoing and forthcoming gamma-ray experiments documented here, complementary to various cosmic-ray, neutrino, astroparticle and X-ray projects.
Author(s): Alessandro DeAngelis,Oriana Mansutti
Publisher: World Scientific
Year: 2006
Language: English
Pages: 228
City: Singapore u.a
CONTENTS ......Page 6
Introduction ......Page 10
Part I Detectors for High-Energy Gamma-rays......Page 12
First Results from the MAGIC Experiment ......Page 14
H.E.S.S. ......Page 22
CANGAROO ......Page 32
The Status of VERITAS ......Page 40
Gamma Ray Bursts: Recent Results Obtained by the SWIFT Mission ......Page 48
Functional Tests and Performance Characterization During the Assembly Phase of the Modules of the AGILE Silicon Tracker ......Page 58
Status of GLAST the Gamma-ray Large-Area Space Telescope ......Page 68
Status of the ARGO-YBJ Experiment ......Page 78
Gamma Air Watch (GAW) - An Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescope Large with Large Field of View ......Page 86
Part II Topics in Fundamental Physics......Page 94
Frontiers of High Energy Cosmic Rays ......Page 96
Measurement of Cosmological Parameters ......Page 104
The Present and the Future of Cosmology with Gamma Ray Bursts ......Page 112
Supersymmetry Breaking Extra Dimensions and Neutralino Dark Matter ......Page 120
Dark Matter at Y-rays......Page 128
Populations of Subhalos in Cold Dark Matter Halos ......Page 136
Part III Multiwavelength Observations......Page 146
WEBT Multifrequency Support to Space Observations ......Page 148
REM - The Remote Observatory for GRB et al. ......Page 156
Planck-LFI: Operation of the Scientific Ground Segment ......Page 164
INTEGRAL Three Years Later ......Page 174
XMM Observations of Geminga PSR B1055-52 and PSR B0656+14: Phase Resolved Spectroscopy as a Tool to Investigate the X-Y Connection......Page 182
Part IV Poster Session......Page 192
Software Time-Calibration of the ARGO-YBJ Detector ......Page 194
Gamma-Ray Burst Physics with GLAST ......Page 200
Observations of Blazars and EGRET Sources with INTEGRAL ......Page 208
A Third Level Trigger Programmable on FPGA for the Gamma/Hadron Separation in a Cherenkov Telescope using Pseudo-Zernike Moments and the SVM Classifier ......Page 212
PulsarSpectrum: Simulating Gamma-ray Pulsars for the GLAST Mission......Page 220
Index of Authors ......Page 226
