High Energy Astrophysics and Cosmology in the era of all-sky surveys

Session

Future missions and instruments I

16 Jun 2026, 10:20

68. MezzoCielo: a novel ultra-wide-field telescope for continuous all-sky monitoring

Demetrio Magrin (INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova)

16/06/2026, 10:20

Time-domain and multimessenger astronomy are entering a new observational regime in which rapid and continuous monitoring of large sky areas becomes essential for the detection and characterization of electromagnetic counterparts of gravitational waves, neutrinos, gamma-ray bursts, fast radio bursts, and other transient phenomena. Traditional wide-field surveys typically rely on sequential sky...

61. Sharpening the TeV sky with the ASTRI Mini-Array

Antonio Stamerra (INAF-OAR)

16/06/2026, 11:20

The most energetic gamma-ray sky, spanning the TeV to PeV domain, has recently revealed a complex landscape of galactic sources, including Pevatrons, microquasars, dark accelerators, and extragalactic transients, offering new insights while posing significant challenges for understanding the non-thermal Universe. These challenges require new instruments capable of resolving complex...

35. Reaching a resolution of 10 microarcsec in the optical to resolve accretion disks and more

Roland Walter (University of Geneva)

16/06/2026, 11:50

The quantum properties of a gas of bosons were predicted by Einstein 100 years ago. The first experimental evidence of its consequences were obtained by Hanbury-Brown & Twiss in 1954, correlating the arrival times of photons detected by two optical telescopes. Extremely large telescopes and 10ps resolution single photon detectors bring the key improvements to reach, in the optical, angular...

57. Very-High-Energy Gamma-Ray Astronomy with CTAO: Status and Science at the Dawn of Operations

Prof. Michele Doro (University of Padova)

16/06/2026, 12:20

The Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO) will be the next-generation facility for very-high-energy gamma-ray astronomy, covering the energy range from ~20 GeV to 300 TeV with sensitivity at least an order of magnitude beyond current instruments. As the first open, proposal-driven gamma-ray observatory, with stations in La Palma (North) and near Paranal (South), CTAO will deliver...