TY - JOUR
T1 - First follow-up of transient events with the CTA Large Size Telescope prototype
AU - for the CTA LST project
AU - Kobayshi, Yukiho
AU - Sanchez, David
AU - Abe, H.
AU - Aguasca, A.
AU - Agudo, I.
AU - Antonelli, L. A.
AU - Aramo, C.
AU - Armstrong, T.
AU - Artero, M.
AU - Asano, K.
AU - Ashkar, H.
AU - Aubert, P.
AU - Baktash, A.
AU - Bamba, A.
AU - Baquero Larriva, A.
AU - Baroncelli, L.
AU - Barres de Almeida, U.
AU - Barrio, J. A.
AU - Batkovic, I.
AU - Becerra González, J.
AU - Bernardos, M. I.
AU - Berti, A.
AU - Biederbeck, N.
AU - Bigongiari, C.
AU - Blanch, O.
AU - Bonnoli, G.
AU - Bordas, P.
AU - Bose, D.
AU - Bulgarelli, A.
AU - Burelli, I.
AU - Buscemi, M.
AU - Cardillo, M.
AU - Caroff, S.
AU - Carosi, A.
AU - Cassol, F.
AU - Cerruti, M.
AU - Chai, Y.
AU - Cheng, K.
AU - Chikawa, M.
AU - Chytka, L.
AU - Contreras, J. L.
AU - Cortina, J.
AU - Costantini, H.
AU - Dalchenko, M.
AU - De Angelis, A.
AU - de Bony de Lavergne, M.
AU - Deleglise, G.
AU - Delgado, C.
AU - Delgado Mengual, J.
AU - Murase, K.
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PY - 2022/3/18
Y1 - 2022/3/18
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
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M3 - Conference article
AN - SCOPUS:85145007495
SN - 1824-8039
VL - 395
JO - Proceedings of Science
JF - Proceedings of Science
M1 - 838
T2 - 37th International Cosmic Ray Conference, ICRC 2021
Y2 - 12 July 2021 through 23 July 2021
ER -