Speaker
Joshua Cardenzana
(Institut de Recherche en Astrophysique et Planétologie)
Description
The upcoming Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) will provide a significant
improvement in both sensitivity and angular resolution compared to current
generation imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes. A key science goal of
CTA is a survey of the entire Galactic plane. Outcomes of this survey include a
census of Galactic gamma-ray source populations (SNR, PWNe, binaries, etc...),
identifying possible PeVatron candidates, characterizing the diffuse Galactic
gamma-ray emission and improving our knowledge of the origin of cosmic rays.
However, in order to exploit the data for these purposes, an understanding
of the underlying sources present in the survey data will be necessary. The
Galactic plane survey presents many challenges including disentangling sources
from underlying diffuse emission from galactic cosmic-rays and source confusion.
This talk will describe current efforts to develop a pipeline for cataloging sources
in CTA data built with the ctools analysis software. Specific focus will be
given to the algorithms used for source detection and characterization in the
anticipated CTA Galactic plane survey
Primary author
Joshua Cardenzana
(Institut de Recherche en Astrophysique et Planétologie)
