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Cosmology with Ground-Based Cherenkov Telescopes

Cosmology with Ground-Based Cherenkov Telescopes. Wei Cui (Purdue University). Outline. Indirect Dark Matter Search Signatures of annihilation of DM particles in astronomical settings Observing plan Extragalactic Background Light Absorption of gamma rays from bright distant sources.

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Cosmology with Ground-Based Cherenkov Telescopes

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  1. Cosmology with Ground-Based Cherenkov Telescopes Wei Cui (Purdue University)

  2. Outline • Indirect Dark Matter Search • Signatures of annihilation of DM particles in astronomical settings • Observing plan • Extragalactic Background Light • Absorption of gamma rays from bright distant sources

  3. Dark Matter Search Triangle Produce neutralino in laboratory Directly detect DM WIMP in specialty detectors in (underground) labs Three complementary approaches Indirect detection of astrophysical gamma rays from DM annihilation

  4. Microwave Visible Light The Sky at Different Wavelengths

  5. TeV Sources Blazar: 14 FR I: 1 PWN: 6 SNR: 5 MG: 2 Be Bin.: 1 Unid.: 15 Cui 2006

  6. Gamma-Ray Signals

  7. Annihilation Line?

  8. Very Energetic Radiation Imaging Telescope Array System (VERITAS) T2 109 m 85 m T3 T1 85 m 35 m T4

  9. Recent Development – Galactic Center Aharonian et al. PRL 97,221102 (2006) • HESS observations of galactic center (HESS J1745-290) from 2003/4 find bulk of emission must have non-dark-matter origin (Aharonian et al.,Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 221102 (2006). • Spectrum appears to have simple power law dependence in contrast to expectation for gamma rays produced by neutralino annihilation • Galactic Center may be difficult place to search for Dark Matter

  10. Potential Targets • Dwarf Galaxies – large mass to light ratio • Globular Clusters – dense core gives rise to DM cusp? • Galaxy Clusters • DM dominated • known density profile • Possible DM cusp in cluster center • Nearby Galactic Nuclei – possible cuspy DM near center

  11. Results with Whipple

  12. Observing Plan with VERITAS @ Basecamp Observations 2006 • M15(GC): 10 hours, September, B weather, 2 telescopes Targets 2007 – Survey several sources • Spring, 2007 • Ursa Minor(DG) – 24 hours* • Draco(DG) – 21 hours* • M87(RG) – 50 hours* ; comes for free as part of non-blazar proposal • Fall, 2007 • M15(GC) – allocation to be determined; hoping for 30 hrs. in Oct Targets 2008 – Plan also will be guided by GLAST results! • Sextans(DG) – Jan, 2008? • M13(GC) – Apr, 2008? • Coma (CL)? • Follow up on minihaloes should GLAST be fortunate enough to find evidence early on *  Primary Target GC ≡ Globular Cluster, DG ≡ Dwarf Galaxy, CL ≡ Galaxy Cluster, RG ≡ radio galaxy

  13. Optical/IR 2.7 K CMBR Cosmic X-ray 10 GeV – 1 TeV Ressel & Turner, 1989 Cosmic Background Radio Use TeV beams from, e.g., blazars, to probe the IR background

  14. Absorption features? Tentative Evidence Krennrich et al. 2001

  15. Reference shape HESS limits Universe more transparent to TeV gamma rays? X measure- ments upper limits X lower limits from galaxy counts Hoffman 2005

  16. IR de-absorbed spectrum Data Theory Intrinsic vs Extrinsic Blazejowski et al. 2004 Mrk 421 Courtesy of Alex Konopelko

  17. Blazar Key Science Project 115 hrs/Year Total, Three Components: • 40 hrs/year: Multiwavelength Campaign for >2 Crab Flares Sample Temporal Evolution of Flux and Spectra. • 40 hrs/year: Intensive Observations of 4 Sources in 2 Years Object RA(J2000) Dec(J2000) z Class 1ES 1218+304 12 21 21.9 +30 10 37 0.182 HBL 1ES 2344+514 23 47 04.8 +51 42 18 0.044 HBL BL 1101-232 11 03 37.6 -23 29 30 0.186 HBL H 1426+428 14 28 32.7 +42 40 20 0.129 HBL [1ES 1959+650] 19 59 59.9 +65 08 55 0.048 HBL (c) 35 hrs/year: Explore Other Blazar ClassesObject RA(J2000) Dec(J2000) z Class 1ES 0120+340 01 23 08.9 +34 20 50 0.272 HBL 1ES 0806+524 08 09 49.2 +52 18 58 0.138 HBL BL Lacertae 22 02 43.3 +42 16 40 0.069 IBL B2 0321+33 03 24 41.2 +34 10 45 0.062 HSFRQ 1ES 1627+40.2 16 29 01.3 +40 08 00 0.271 HSFRQ 1ES 0033+595 00 35 52.6 +59 50 05 0.086 HBL BL 0647+250 06 50 46.6 +25 03 00 0.203 HBL W Comae 12 21 31.7 +28 13 58 0.102 IBL 3C 66A 02 22 39.6 +43 02 07 0.444? IBL Mrk 1218 08 38 11.0 +24 53 43 0.028 HSFRQ WGA J0838+2453.

  18. VERITAS Collaboration ~65 members in more than 20 institutions • Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory * • Adler Planetarium • Purdue University * • Barnard College, NY • Iowa State University * • DePauw University, IN • Washington University, St. Louis * • Grinnell College, IA • University of Chicago * • University of California, Santa Cruz • University of Utah * • University of Massachussetts • University of California, Los Angeles * • Cork Institute of Technology • McGill University, Montreal * • Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology • National University of Ireland, Dublin * • National University of Ireland, Galway • University of Leeds * • Argonne National Lab • Associate Members Project office: Whipple observatory SAO Funding from NSF/DOE/Smithsonian/PPARC/SFI/NSERC

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