Speaker
Arnau Aguasca-Cabot
(Universitat de Barcelona)
Description
The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) prototype Large-Sized Telescope (LST-1) was inaugurated in 2018 and, after its commissioning, it is progressively entering the scientific data taking phase. In this contribution, we present a dedicated study on the capability of LST-1 to probe the very high energy (VHE) emission from galactic transient sources. Making use of numerical simulations of the VHE flux profiles for selected cases, we constrain the minimum time required to obtain a significant detection of the source, requiring a test statistics TS ≥ 4 for every flux point in the simulated source light curve. We apply our algorithm to the gamma-ray binary system HESS J0632+057. Our results suggest that the minimum time-bin in HESS J0632+057 obtained with the LST-1 would be a few minutes at the maximum flux phase (0.3-0.4 and 0.6-0.8), whereas at the minimum flux phase (0.4), it would be of a few hours. We briefly discuss the timing capabilities of LST-1 for galactic transient events.
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Primary author
Arnau Aguasca-Cabot
(Universitat de Barcelona)
Co-authors
Marc Ribó
(Universitat de Barcelona)
Pol Bordas
(Universitat de Barcelona)
