NONTHERMTRANSIENTS

Understanding the variable and transient non-thermal emission of Galactic sources

Coordinatore	UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON    more  Organization address address: Highfield city: SOUTHAMPTON postcode: SO17 1BJ contact info Titolo: Dr. Nome: Antony Cognome: Bird Email: send email Telefono: +44 2380 592190
Nazionalità Coordinatore	United Kingdom [UK]
Totale costo	247˙257 €
EC contributo	247˙257 €
Programma	FP7-PEOPLE Specific programme "People" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013)
Code Call	FP7-PEOPLE-2010-IOF
Funding Scheme	MC-IOF
Anno di inizio	2011
Periodo (anno-mese-giorno)	2011-11-28   -   2014-11-27

 Partecipanti

#	participant	country	role	EC contrib. [€]
1	UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON  Organization address address: Highfield city: SOUTHAMPTON postcode: SO17 1BJ contact info Titolo: Dr. Nome: Antony Cognome: Bird Email: send email Telefono: +44 2380 592190	UK (SOUTHAMPTON)	coordinator	247˙257.60

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 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

'The past decade has witnessed high-energy astrophysics make great leaps in scientific discovery and the capabilities of instrumentation. Soft and hard X-ray telescopes from 0.1 – 150 keV have yielded whole new source populations and shed light on fundamental physics questions. The current generation of air Cherenkov telescopes have successfully surveyed TeV emission from the Galactic plane revealing a population of the most energetic sources in our Galaxy. We now stand on the threshold of a new era of discovery; the recent launch of the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has made many exciting, early discoveries in the 0.1 – 300 GeV energy range. Entire new variable and transient Galactic source populations have been discovered opening totally new fields of investigation. Combining the capabilities of Fermi with the upcoming fast radio survey of LOFAR and the detailed hard X-ray telescope NuSTAR will allow for the most detailed study of non-thermal timing and spectral properties of Galactic sources ever possible. Fermi neatly covers the gap between the hard X-ray and VHE (TeV) energy ranges so that we will have sensitive instruments operating simultaneously over the whole band for the first time. Enacted, this research project, will exploit these instruments together with advanced Bayesian data analysis methods to radically advance our knowledge of particle acceleration physics in Galactic shocks and jets, the extreme environments in which such acceleration is possible and the origin of cosmic-rays.'

Introduzione (Teaser)

Black holes, neutron stars and novae are some of the Universe's marvels generating gamma, the most energetic form of radiation. EU-funded scientists shed further insight into burning questions such as what produces this much energy.