Sensitivity of the Cherenkov Telescope Array for probing cosmology and fundamental physics with gamma-ray propagation

DOI: 
10.1088/1475-7516/2021/02/048
Publication date: 
24/02/2021
Main author: 
Abdalla, H.
IAA authors: 
Agudo, I.
Authors: 
Abdalla, H.;Abe, H.;Acero, F.;Acharyya, A.;Adam, R.;Agudo, I.;Aguirre-Santaella, A.;Alfaro, R.;Alfaro, J.;Alispach, C.;Aloisio, R.;Alves Batista, R.;Amati, L.;Amato, E.;Ambrosi, G.;Angüner, E. O.;Araudo, A.;Armstrong, T.;Arqueros, F.;Arrabito, L.;Asano, K.;Ascasíbar, Y.;Ashley, M.;Backes, M.;Balazs, C.;Balbo, M.;Balmaverde, B.;Baquero Larriva, A.;Barbosa Martins, V.;Barkov, M.;Baroncelli, L.;Barres de Almeida, U.;Barrio, J. A.;Batista, P. -I.;Becerra González, J.;Becherini, Y.;Beck, G.;Becker Tjus, J.;Belmont, R.;Benbow, W.;Bernardini, E.;Berti, A.;Berton, M.;Bertucci, B.;Beshley, V.;Bi, B.;Biasuzzi, B.;Biland, A.;Bissaldi, E.;Biteau, J.;Blanch, O.;Bocchino, F.;Boisson, C.;Bolmont, J.;Bonanno, G.;Bonneau Arbeletche, L.;Bonnoli, G.;Bordas, P.;Bottacini, E.;Böttcher, M.;Bozhilov, V.;Bregeon, J.;Brill, A.;Brown, A. M.;Bruno, P.;Bruno, A.;Bulgarelli, A.;Burton, M.;Buscemi, M.;Caccianiga, A.;Cameron, R.;Capasso, M.;Caprai, M.;Caproni, A.;Capuzzo-Dolcetta, R.;Caraveo, P.;Carosi, R.;Carosi, A.;Casanova, S.;Cascone, E.;Cauz, D.;Cerny, K.;Cerruti, M.;Chadwick, P.;Chaty, S.;Chen, A.;Chernyakova, M.;Chiaro, G.;Chiavassa, A.;Chytka, L.;Conforti, V.;Conte, F.;Contreras, J. L.;Coronado-Blazquez, J.;Cortina, J.;Costa, A.;Costantini, H.;Covino, S.;Cristofari, P.;Cuevas, O.;D'Ammando, F.;Daniel, M. K.;Davies, J.;Dazzi, F.;De Angelis, A.;de Bony de Lavergne, M.;De Caprio, V.;de Cássia dos Anjos, R.;de Gouveia Dal Pino, E. M.;De Lotto, B.;De Martino, D.;de Naurois, M.;de Oña Wilhelmi, E.;De Palma, F.;de Souza, V.;Delgado, C.;Della Ceca, R.;della Volpe, D.;Depaoli, D.;Di Girolamo, T.;Di Pierro, F.;Díaz, C.;Díaz-Bahamondes, C.;Diebold, S.;Djannati-Ataï, A.;Dmytriiev, A.;Domínguez, A.;Donini, A.;Dorner, D.;Doro, M.;Dournaux, J.;Dwarkadas, V. V.;Ebr, J.;Eckner, C.;Einecke, S.;Ekoume, T. R. N.;Elsässer, D.;Emery, G.;Evoli, C.;Fairbairn, M.;Falceta-Goncalves, D.;Fegan, S.;Feng, Q.;Ferrand, G.;Fiandrini, E.;Fiasson, A.;Fioretti, V.;Foffano, L.;Fonseca, M. V.;Font, L.;Fontaine, G.;Franco, F. J.;Freixas Coromina, L.;Fukami, S.;Fukazawa, Y.;Fukui, Y.;Gaggero, D.;Galanti, G.;Gammaldi, V.;Garcia, E.;Garczarczyk, M.;Gascon, D.;Gaug, M.;Gent, A.;Ghalumyan, A.;Ghirlanda, G.;Gianotti, F.;Giarrusso, M.;Giavitto, G.;Giglietto, N.;Giordano, F.;Glicenstein, J.;Goldoni, P.;González, J. M.;Gourgouliatos, K.;Grabarczyk, T.;Grandi, P.;Granot, J.;Grasso, D.;Green, J.;Grube, J.;Gueta, O.;Gunji, S.;Halim, A.;Harvey, M.;Hassan Collado, T.;Hayashi, K.;Heller, M.;Hernández Cadena, S.;Hervet, O.;Hinton, J.;Hiroshima, N.;Hnatyk, B.;Hnatyk, R.;Hoffmann, D.;Hofmann, W.;Holder, J.;Horan, D.;Hörandel, J.;Horvath, P.;Hovatta, T.;Hrabovsky, M.;Hrupec, D.;Hughes, G.;Hütten, M.;Iarlori, M.;Inada, T.;Inoue, S.;Insolia, A.;Ionica, M.;Iori, M.;Jacquemont, M.;Jamrozy, M.;Janecek, P.;Jiménez Martínez, I.;Jin, W.;Jung-Richardt, I.;Jurysek, J.;Kaaret, P.;Karas, V.;Karkar, S.;Kawanaka, N.;Kerszberg, D.;Khélifi, B.;Kissmann, R.;Knödlseder, J.;Kobayashi, Y.;Kohri, K.;Komin, N.;Kong, A.;Kosack, K.;Kubo, H.;La Palombara, N.;Lamanna, G.;Lang, R. G.;Lapington, J.;Laporte, P.;Lefaucheur, J.;Lemoine-Goumard, M.;Lenain, J.;Leone, F.;Leto, G.;Leuschner, F.;Lindfors, E.;Lloyd, S.;Lohse, T.;Lombardi, S.;Longo, F.;Lopez, A.;López, M.;López-Coto, R.;Loporchio, S.;Lucarelli, F.;Luque-Escamilla, P. L.;Lyard, E.;Maggio, C.;Majczyna, A.;Makariev, M.;Mallamaci, M.;Mandat, D.;Maneva, G.;Manganaro, M.;Manicò, G.;Marcowith, A.;Marculewicz, M.;Markoff, S.;Marquez, P.;Martí, J.;Martinez, O.;Martínez, M.;Martínez, G.;Martínez-Huerta, H.;Maurin, G.;Mazin, D.;Mbarubucyeye, J. D.;Medina Miranda, D.;Meyer, M.;Micanovic, S.;Miener, T.;Minev, M.;Miranda, J. M.;Mitchell, A.;Mizuno, T.;Mode, B.;Moderski, R.;Mohrmann, L.;Molina, E.;Montaruli, T.;Moralejo, A.;Morales Merino, J.;Morcuende-Parrilla, D.;Morselli, A.;Mukherjee, R.;Mundell, C.;Murach, T.;Muraishi, H.;Nagai, A.;Nakamori, T.;Nemmen, R.;Niemiec, J.;Nieto, D.;Nievas, M.;Nikolajuk, M.;Nishijima, K.;Noda, K.;Nosek, D.;Nozaki, S.;O'Brien, P.;Ohira, Y.;Ohishi, M.;Oka, T.;Ong, R. A.;Orienti, M.;Orito, R.;Orlandini, M.;Orlando, E.;Osborne, J. P.;Ostrowski, M.;Oya, I.;Pagliaro, A.;Palatka, M.;Paneque, D.;Pantaleo, F. R.;Paredes, J. M.;Parmiggiani, N.;Patricelli, B.;Pavletić, L.;Pe'er, A.;Pech, M.;Pecimotika, M.;Peresano, M.;Persic, M.;Petruk, O.;Pfrang, K.;Piatteli, P.;Pietropaolo, E.;Pillera, R.;Pilszyk, B.;Pimentel, D.;Pintore, F.;Pita, S.;Pohl, M.;Poireau, V.;Polo, M.;Prado, R. R.;Prast, J.;Principe, G.;Produit, N.;Prokoph, H.;Prouza, M.;Przybilski, H.;Pueschel, E.;Pühlhofer, G.;Pumo, M. L.;Punch, M.;Queiroz, F.;Quirrenbach, A.;Rando, R.;Razzaque, S.;Rebert, E.;Recchia, S.;Reichherzer, P.;Reimer, O.;Reimer, A.;Renier, Y.;Reposeur, T.;Rhode, W.;Ribeiro, D.;Ribó, M.;Richtler, T.;Rico, J.;Rieger, F.;Rizi, V.;Rodriguez, J.;Rodriguez Fernandez, G.;Rodriguez Ramirez, J. C.;Rodríguez Vázquez, J. J.;Romano, P.;Romeo, G.;Roncadelli, M.;Rosado, J.;Rosales de Leon, A.;Rowell, G.;Rudak, B.;Rujopakarn, W.;Russo, F.;Sadeh, I.;Saha, L.;Saito, T.;Salesa Greus, F.;Sanchez, D.;Sánchez-Conde, M.;Sangiorgi, P.;Sano, H.;Santander, M.;Santos, E. M.;Sanuy, A.;Sarkar, S.;Saturni, F. G.;Sawangwit, U.;Scherer, A.;Schleicher, B.;Schovanek, P.;Schussler, F.;Schwanke, U.;Sciacca, E.;Scuderi, S.;Seglar Arroyo, M.;Sergijenko, O.;Servillat, M.;Seweryn, K.;Shalchi, A.;Sharma, P.;Shellard, R. C.;Siejkowski, H.;Sinha, A.;Sliusar, V.;Slowikowska, A.;Sokolenko, A.;Sol, H.;Specovius, A.;Spencer, S.;Spiga, D.;Stamerra, A.;Stanič, S.;Starling, R.;Stolarczyk, T.;Straumann, U.;Strišković, J.;Suda, Y.;Świerk, P.;Tagliaferri, G.;Takahashi, H.;Takahashi, M.;Tavecchio, F.;Taylor, L.;Tejedor, L. A.;Temnikov, P.;Terrier, R.;Terzic, T.;Testa, V.;Tian, W.;Tibaldo, L.;Tonev, D.;Torres, D. F.;Torresi, E.;Tosti, L.;Tothill, N.;Tovmassian, G.;Travnicek, P.;Truzzi, S.;Tuossenel, F.;Umana, G.;Vacula, M.;Vagelli, V.;Valentino, M.;Vallage, B.;Vallania, P.;van Eldik, C.;Varner, G. S.;Vassiliev, V.;Vázquez Acosta, M.;Vecchi, M.;Veh, J.;Vercellone, S.;Vergani, S.;Verguilov, V.;Vettolani, G. P.;Viana, A.;Vigorito, C. F.;Vitale, V.;Vorobiov, S.;Vovk, I.;Vuillaume, T.;Wagner, S. J.;Walter, R.;Watson, J.;White, M.;White, R.;Wiemann, R.;Wierzcholska, A.;Will, M.;Williams, D. A.;Wischnewski, R.;Wolter, A.;Yamazaki, R.;Yanagita, S.;Yang, L.;Yoshikoshi, T.;Zacharias, M.;Zaharijas, G.;Zaric, D.;Zavrtanik, M.;Zavrtanik, D.;Zdziarski, A. A.;Zech, A.;Zechlin, H.;Zhdanov, V. I.;Živec, M.
Journal: 
Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
Publication type: 
Article
Volume: 
2021
Pages: 
048
Abstract: 
The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA), the new-generation ground-based observatory for γ astronomy, provides unique capabilities to address significant open questions in astrophysics, cosmology, and fundamental physics. We study some of the salient areas of γ cosmology that can be explored as part of the Key Science Projects of CTA, through simulated observations of active galactic nuclei (AGN) and of their relativistic jets. Observations of AGN with CTA will enable a measurement of γ absorption on the extragalactic background light with a statistical uncertainty below 15% up to a redshift z=2 and to constrain or detect γ halos up to intergalactic-magnetic-field strengths of at least 0.3 pG . Extragalactic observations with CTA also show promising potential to probe physics beyond the Standard Model. The best limits on Lorentz invariance violation from γ astronomy will be improved by a factor of at least two to three. CTA will also probe the parameter space in which axion-like particles could constitute a significant fraction, if not all, of dark matter. We conclude on the synergies between CTA and other upcoming facilities that will foster the growth of γ cosmology.
Database: 
ADS
URL: 
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2021JCAP...02..048A/abstract
ADS Bibcode: 
2021JCAP...02..048A
Keywords: 
Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena;Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics