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On the prospects of cross-calibrating the Cherenkov Telescope Array with an airborne calibration platform (2017)
Journal Article
Brown, A. M. (2018). On the prospects of cross-calibrating the Cherenkov Telescope Array with an airborne calibration platform. Astroparticle Physics, 97, 69-79. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.astropartphys.2017.10.013

Recent advances in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) technology have made UAVs an attractive possibility as an airborne calibration platform for astronomical facilities. This is especially true for arrays of telescopes spread over a large area such as th... Read More about On the prospects of cross-calibrating the Cherenkov Telescope Array with an airborne calibration platform.

Fermi-LAT high-z active galactic nuclei and the extragalactic background light (2017)
Journal Article
Armstrong, T., Brown, A. M., & Chadwick, P. M. (2017). Fermi-LAT high-z active galactic nuclei and the extragalactic background light. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 470(4), 4089-4098. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stx1309

Observations of distant gamma-ray sources are hindered by the presence of the extragalactic background light (EBL). In order to understand the physical processes that result in the observed spectrum of sources, it is imperative that a good understand... Read More about Fermi-LAT high-z active galactic nuclei and the extragalactic background light.

Prospects for Cherenkov Telescope Array Observations of the Young Supernova Remnant RX J1713.7−3946 (2017)
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Acero, F., Aloisio, R., Amans, J., Amato, E., Antonelli, L., Aramo, C., …Zorn, J. (2017). Prospects for Cherenkov Telescope Array Observations of the Young Supernova Remnant RX J1713.7−3946. Astrophysical Journal, 840(2), Article 74. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aa6d67

We perform simulations for future Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) observations of RX J1713.7−3946, a young supernova remnant (SNR) and one of the brightest sources ever discovered in very high energy (VHE) gamma rays. Special attention is paid to exp... Read More about Prospects for Cherenkov Telescope Array Observations of the Young Supernova Remnant RX J1713.7−3946.