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Title: Sensitivity of the Cherenkov Telescope Array to spectral signatures of hadronic PeVatrons with application to Galactic Supernova Remnants
Author: Acero, F.
Acharyya, A.
Adam, R.
Aguasca-Cabot, A.
Agudo, I.
Aguirre-Santaella, A.
Alfaro, Jorge
Aloisio, R.
Crespo, N.Á.
Batista, R.A.
Amati, L.
Amato, E.
Ambrosi, G.
Angüner, E.O.
Aramo, C.
Arcaro, C.
Armstrong, T.
Asano, K.
Ascasibar, Y.
Aschersleben, J.
Backes, M.
Baktash, A.
Balazs, C.
Balbo, M.
Ballet, J.
Larriva, A.B.
Martins, V.B.
de Almeida, U.B.
Barrio, J.A.
Bastieri, D.
Baxter, J.R.
Tjus, J.B.
Benbow, W.
Bernardos-Martín, M.I.
Bernete, J.
Berti, A.
Bertucci, B.
Beshley, V.
Bhattacharjee, P.
Bhattacharyya, S.
Biland, A.
Bissaldi, E.
Biteau, J.
Blanch, O.
Bordas Coma, Pol
Bottacini, E.
Bregeon, J.
Brose, R.
Bucciantini, N.
Bulgarelli, A.
Capasso, M.
Dolcetta, R.A.C.
Caraveo, P.
Cardillo, M.
Carosi, R.
Casanova, S.
Cascone, E.
Cassol, F.
Catalani, F.
Cerruti, M.
Chadwick, P.
Chaty, S.
Chen, A.
Chernyakova, M.
Chiavassa, A.
Chudoba, J.
Coimbra-Araujo, C.
Conforti, V.
Contreras, J.L.
Costa, Albert
Costantini, H.
Cristofari, P.
Crocker, R.
D'Amico, G.
D'Ammando, F.
De Angelis, A.
De Caprio, V.
de Gouveia Dal Pino, E.M.
de Ona Wilhelmi, E.
de Souza, V.
Delgado, Cristina
della Volpe, D.
Depaoli, D.
Di Girolamo, T.
Di Pierro, F.
Di Tria, R.
Di Venere, L.
Diebold, S.
Djuvsland, J.I.
Donini, A.
Doro, M.
Dos Anjos, R.D.C.
Dwarkadas, V.V.
Einecke, S.
Elsässer, D.
Emery, G.
Evoli, C.
Falceta-Goncalves, D.
Fedorova, E.
Fegan, S.
Ferrand, G.
Fiandrini, E.
Filipovic, M.
Fioretti, V.
Fiori, M.
Foffano, L.
Fontaine, G.
Fukami, S.
Galanti, G.
Galaz, G.
Gammaldi, V.
Gasbarra, C.
Ghalumyan, A.
Ghirlanda, G.
Giarrusso, M.
Giavitto, G.
Giglietto, N.
Giordano, F.
Giroletti, M.
Giuliani, A.
Giunti, L.
Godinovic, N.
Coelho, J.G.
Gréaux, L.
Green, D.
Grondin, M.-H.
Gueta, O.
Gunji, S.
Hassan, T.
Heller, Matthieu
Hernández-Cadena, S.
Hinton, J.
Hnatyk, B.
Hnatyk, R.
Hoffmann, Dirk L.
Hofmann, W.
Holder, J.
Horan, D.
Horvath, P.
Hrabovsky, M.
Hrupec, D.
Inada, T.
Incardona, F.
Inoue, S.
Ishio, K.
Jamrozy, M.
Janecek, P.
Martínez, I.J.
Jin, W.
Jung-Richardt, I.
Jurysek, J.
Kaaret, P.
Karas, V.
Katz, U.
Kerszberg, D.
Khélifi, B.
Kieda, D.B.
Kissmann, R.
Kleiner, T.
Kluge, G.
Kluzniak, W.
Knödlseder, J.
Kobayashi, Y.
Kohri, K.
Komin, N.
Kornecki, P.
Kubo, H.
La Palombara, N.
Láinez, M.
Lamastra, A.
Lapington, J.
Lemoine-Goumard, M.
Lenain, J.-P.
Leone, F.
Leto, G.
Leuschner, F.
Lindfors, E.
Liodakis, I.
Lohse, T.
Lombardi, S.
Longo, F.
López-Coto, R.
López-Moya, M.
López-Oramas, A.
Loporchio, S.
Luque-Escamilla, P.L.
Macias, O.
Mackey, J.
Majumdar, P.
Mandat, D.
Manganaro, M.
Manicò, G.
Marconi, M.
Martí, J.
Martínez, G.
Martinez, M.
Martinez, O.
Mello, A.J.T.S.
Menchiari, S.
Meyer, D.M.-A.
Micanovic, S.
Miceli, D.
Miceli, M.
Michalowski, J.
Miener, T.
Miranda, J.M.
Mitchell, A.
Mode, B.
Moderski, R.
Mohrmann, L.
Molina, Edgar
Montaruli, Teresa
Morcuende, D.
Morlino, G.
Morselli, A.
Mosè, M.
Moulin, E.
Mukherjee, R.
Munari, K.
Murach, T.
Nagai, Andrii
Nagataki, S.
Nemmen, R.
Niemiec, J.
Nieto, D.
Rosillo, M.N.
Nikolajuk, M.
Nishijima, K.
Noda, K.
Novosyadlyj, B.
Nozaki, S.
Ohishi, M.
Ohm, S.
Ohtani, Y.
Okumura, A.
Olmi, B.
Ong, R.A.
Orienti, M.
Orito, R.
Orlandini, M.
Orlando, E.
Orlando, S.
Ostrowski, M.
Oya, I.
Pantaleo, F.R.
Paredes i Poy, Josep Maria
Patricelli, B.
Pecimotika, M.
Peresano, M.
Pérez-Romero, J.
Persic, M.
Petruk, O.
Piano, G.
Pietropaolo, E.
Pirola, G.
Pittori, C.
Pohl, M.
Ponti, G.
Prandini, E.
Principe, G.
Priyadarshi, C.
Pueschel, E.
Pühlhofer, G.
Pumo, M.L.
Quirrenbach, A.
Rando, R.
Razzaque, S.
Reichherzer, P.
Reimer, A.
Reimer, O.
Renaud, M.
Reposeur, T.
Ribó Gomis, Marc
Richtler, T.
Rico, J.
Rieger, F.
Rigoselli, M.
Riitano, L.
Rizi, V.
Roache, E.
Romano, P.
Romeo, G.
Rosado, J.
Rowell, G.
Rudak, B.
Sadeh, I.
Safi-Harb, S.
Saha, L.
Sailer, S.
Sánchez-Conde, M.
Sarkar, S.
Keywords: Raigs gamma
Astrofísica
Raigs còsmics
Gamma rays
Astrophysics
Cosmic rays
Issue Date: 1-Aug-2023
Publisher: Elsevier B.V.
Abstract: The local Cosmic Ray (CR) energy spectrum exhibits a spectral softening at energies around 3~PeV. Sources which are capable of accelerating hadrons to such energies are called hadronic PeVatrons. However, hadronic PeVatrons have not yet been firmly identified within the Galaxy. Several source classes, including Galactic Supernova Remnants (SNRs), have been proposed as PeVatron candidates. The potential to search for hadronic PeVatrons with the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is assessed. The focus is on the usage of very high energy γ-ray spectral signatures for the identification of PeVatrons. Assuming that SNRs can accelerate CRs up to knee energies, the number of Galactic SNRs which can be identified as PeVatrons with CTA is estimated within a model for the evolution of SNRs. Additionally, the potential of a follow-up observation strategy under moonlight conditions for PeVatron searches is investigated. Statistical methods for the identification of PeVatrons are introduced, and realistic Monte--Carlo simulations of the response of the CTA observatory to the emission spectra from hadronic PeVatrons are performed. Based on simulations of a simplified model for the evolution for SNRs, the detection of a γ-ray signal from in average 9 Galactic PeVatron SNRs is expected to result from the scan of the Galactic plane with CTA after 10 hours of exposure. CTA is also shown to have excellent potential to confirm these sources as PeVatrons in deep observations with O(100) hours of exposure per source.
Note: Versió postprint del document publicat a: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.astropartphys.2023.102850
It is part of: Astroparticle Physics, 2023, vol. 150, num.102850, p. 1-20
URI: https://hdl.handle.net/2445/220453
Related resource: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.astropartphys.2023.102850
ISSN: 0927-6505
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