Course 1: Very high energy gamma ray domain
Lecture programme:
- Introduction: Why VHE gamma rays? (part 1)
- Introduction: Why VHE gamma rays? (part 2)
- Detection technique
- VHE gamma-ray source populations (part 1)
- VHE gamma-ray source populations (part 2)
- Non-thermal processes in supernova remnants (part 1)
- Non-thermal processes in supernova remnants (part 2)
- Pulsar wind nebulae (plerions) and gamma ray loud binary systems (part 1)
- Pulsar wind nebulae (plerions) and gamma ray loud binary systems (part 2)
- TeV blazars and the extragalactic background light
Course 2: Multi-messenger astronomy and dark matter
Lecture programme:
- The particle universe: introduction, cosmological parameters
- Basic cross sections for neutrinos and gamma-rays; IceCube
- Density of relic particles from the early Universe
- Dark matter: Direct and indirect detection methods; the galactic centre & other promising DM sources
- Neutrinos and antimatter from dark matter, Sommerfeld enhancement
- Particular dark matter candidates (WIMPS, Kaluza-Klein particles, sterile neutrinos,...)
- Super-symmetric dark matter, DarkSUSY
- Diffuse extragalactic gamma-rays, primordial black holes, Hawking radiation
- Gravitational waves
Course 3: Sources of GeV photons and Fermi results
Lecture programme:
- GeV instrumentation and the GeV sky with the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope
- First Fermi Catalog of Gamma Ray Sources and the Fermi Pulsar Catalog
- First Fermi AGN Catalog
- Relativistic jet physics and blazars
- Gamma rays from cosmic rays in the Galaxy
- Gamma rays from star-forming galaxies and clusters of galaxies, and the diffuse extragalactic gamma-ray background
- Microquasars, radio galaxies, and the extragalactic background light
- Fermi observations of Gamma Ray Bursts
- Fermi acceleration, ultra-high energy cosmic rays, and Fermi
NB: The lectures by Dr Charles Dermer are also available in PowerPoint format together with additional material on a dedicated page.
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