Published January 1, 2017 | Version v1
Journal article

High-energy gamma-ray studying with GAMMA-400 after Fermi-LAT

  • 1. Lebedev Physical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Leninskiy pr. 53, 119991 Moscow (Russian Federation)
  • 2. Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Trieste, Via Valerio 2, Trieste, 34127 (Italy)
  • 3. Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Firenze, Via G. Sansone 1, Firenze, 50019 (Italy)
  • 4. National Research Nuclear University MEPhI (Moscow Engineering Physics Institute), Kashirskoe highway 31, Moscow, 115409 (Russian Federation)
  • 5. Federal State Institution "Scientific Research Institute for System Analysis of the Russian Academy of Sciences", Nakhimovskiy pr. 36, Moscow, 117218 (Russian Federation)
  • 6. Taras Shevchenko National University, Volodymyrska street 64/13, 01601, Kyiv (Ukraine)
  • 7. Lviv Center of Institute of Space Research, Naukova street 5-A, Lviv (Ukraine)

Description

Fermi-LAT has made a significant contribution to the study of high-energy gamma-ray diffuse emission and the observation of ∼3000 discrete sources. However, one third of all gamma-ray sources (both galactic and extragalactic) are unidentified, the data on the diffuse gamma-ray emission should be clarified, and signatures of dark matter particles in the high-energy gamma-ray range are not observed up to now. GAMMA-400, currently developing gamma-ray telescope, will have the angular (∼0.01° at 100 GeV) and energy (∼1% at 100 GeV) resolutions in the energy range of 10-1000 GeV better than the Fermi-LAT (as well as ground gamma-ray telescopes) by a factor of 5-10 and observe some regions of the Universe (such as Galactic Center, Fermi Bubbles, Crab, Cygnus, etc.) in the highly elliptic orbit (without shading the telescope by the Earth) continuously for a long time. It will permit to identify many discrete sources, to clarify the structure of extended sources, to specify the data on the diffuse emission, and to resolve gamma rays from dark matter particles. (paper)

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/798/1/012011

Additional details

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Journal of Physics. Conference Series (Online)
Journal Volume
798
Journal Issue
1
Journal Page Range
[6 p.]
ISSN
1742-6596

Conference

Title
2. international conference on particle physics and astrophysics
Dates
10-14 Oct 2016
Place
Moscow (Russian Federation)