Galactic Working Group

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The Galaxy seen from both hemispheres. Credit: Petr Horálek/Juan Carlos Casado

Introduction

The Galactic Working Group focuses on the spectral and morphological study of Galactic gamma-ray sources and their time properties at VHE gamma-rays.

Current Coordinators: Pol Bordas (Leader), Jakub Jurysek (Deputy)

Past Coordinators: Ruben Lopez-Coto

Members

Mailing list: CTA sharepoint

Slack channel in CTA North workspace: [1]

Meetings

Galactic calls (2022)

Galactic calls (2023)

Ongoing Projects

RS Oph

• PI: Team:
• Abstract:
• Link: Project Webpage

Galactic Center

• PI: Team:
• Abstract:
• Link: Project Webpage

Crab Nebula Performance

• PI: Team:
• Abstract:
• Link: Project Webpage

Crab Pulsar

• PI: Team:
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• Link: Project Webpage

Publications

Papers Status

Proceedings

Observed Galactic Sources

Full up-to-date list of all observed sources: Sources observed with LST-1

Data collected (4 May 2023):

Crab: 301.4 hours, LHAASOJ2108+5157: 93.7 hours, GalacticCenter: 50.3 hours, G106.3+2.7: 49.6 hours, Geminga: 40.4 hours, SGR1935+2154: 31.8 hours LHAASOJ0341+5258: 28.7 hours, Nova_RS_Oph: 15.0 hours, U_Sco: 10.9 hours, LHAASOJ1956+2845: 6.9 hours, PSRJ1402+13: 5.7 hours, PSRJ2021+3651: 5.7 hours, HESS1857+026: 4.7 hours, LSV+4417: 4.6 hours, N-Her_2021: 4.4 hours, LSI+61: 4.0 hours, Cyg-X3: 3.9 hours, Cygnus_XNorth: 3.4 hours, V1405Cas: 3.3 hours, AGLJ2114+6249: 2.4 hours, G17.8+16.7: 2.2 hours, 4FGLJ1723.5-0501e: 1.6 hours PSRJ2229+6114: 1.4 hours, MAXIJ1848-015: 1.3 hours, PSRJ2032: 1.1 hours, HESS J1848-018: 0.3 hours, Nova_V1405_Cas: 0.3 hours,

Proposals

File:LST MAGIC Engineering proposal CycleXVII.pdf

Conferences

Please refer to the LSTCOS webpage for a list of upcoming conferences attended by LST members.

Useful Tools

• Coordinate converter http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/Tools/convcoord/convcoord.pl
• Distance converter http://www.convertworld.com/en/length/Parsec.html
• Energy/frequency/wavelength converter http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/Tools/energyconv/energyConv.pl
• A Date/Time Conversion Utility http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/Tools/xTime/xTime.pl
• Flux/count rate converter http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/Tools/w3pimms.html
• Catalog of TeV source http://tevcat.uchicago.edu/
• Publication of HESS, MAGIC and VERITAS
• To calculate source observability (you may have to introduce LST-1 coordinates 28.76195, -17.89005) http://www.magic.iac.es/scheduler/ or https://www.mpi-hd.mpg.de/hfm/HESS/public/Visibility.html