CTAO Status and Update

• Gavin Rowell (University of Adelaide)

This talk will give a brief update on CTAO and Australia's involvements.

SSTCAM Updates

• Simon Lee

In July 2025 the initial build of a quarter camera (QCAM-i) designed for the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO) Small Sized Telescope (SST) was tested on Tenerife, Canary Islands. This was the first field test of the camera hardware which will be used for the SSTs at CTAO-South in Chile. Dark field observations and trigger threshold scans were taken, which can be compared with simulated cosmic ray shower images and night-sky background trigger rates. This talk will present an update on the progress comparing data taken on Tenerife with QCAM-i with Monte Carlo simulations. In addition, updates from the development of SSTCAM will be presented.

CTAO's Science Data Challenge

• Sabrina Einecke (University of Adelaide)

CTA-Pol Update

• Nick Tothill (Western Sydney University)

TBD

AAL's Role in CTAO

• Grace Lawrence

TBD

SKAO Science Operations Update

• Jess Broderick

The Square Kilometre Array Observatory (SKAO) Science Operations Team is focused on the development and implementation of various workflows and procedures to ensure that SKA-Low and SKA-Mid will be operationally ready for transformational science. In this talk, I will give an update on the telescope capability rollout, as well as plans for the upcoming Science Verification phase.

An Australian Radio Transients Facility

• James Miller-Jones

Searching for New Physics with CTAO

• Hayden James (The University of Adelaide)

TBD

Resolving point sources in diffuse backgrounds using Microcanonical Langevin Monte Carlo with Parametric Cataloging

• Gary Hill (University of Adelaide)

Using IceCube neutrino skies as an example, we show how this method can resolve large numbers of weak sources from high diffuse backgrounds.

Clustering the Interstellar Medium for Galactic Gamma-Ray Modelling

• Imogen Barnsley (University of Adelaide)

In this update, we will present preliminary results from our 3D molecular hydrogen distributions of ISM cloud structures, derived over the entire Mopra Southern Galactic Plane CO Survey. We will introduce our novel cloud identification method used to create these distributions. This involves Gaussian decompositions and clustering, as well as combining measurements from different gas tracers (12CO and 13CO).

Update: Searching for Escaped Cosmic Rays from Supernova Remnants

• Jemma Pilossof (University of Adelaide)

The detection of gamma-ray emission outside the shell of a supernova remnant (SNR) can be critical evidence for cosmic-ray acceleration in, and escape from, SNRs. In this contribution, we present an analysis of the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) gamma-ray data towards middle-aged Galactic SNR W51C. We perform both a morphological and spectral analysis to search for evidence of gamma-ray emission outside the SNR shell. We also look for a spatial correlation between the observed gamma rays and surrounding molecular clouds.

Opportunities for Deep Learning With IACTs : Update

• Lydia Castellucci

TBD