New stage in high-energy gamma-ray studies with GAMMA-400 after Fermi-LAT

• Main Authors: Topchiev N.P., Galper A.M., Bonvicini V., Adriani O., Arkhangelskaja I.V., Arkhangelskiy A.I., Bakaldin A.V., Bobkov S.G., Boezio M., Dalkarov O.D., Egorov A.E., Gorbunov M.S., Gusakov Yu.V., Hnatyk B.I., Kadilin V.V., Kaplin V.A., Kheymits M.D., Korepanov V.E., Leonov A.A., Longo F., Mikhailov V.V., Mocchiutti E., Moiseev A.A., Moskalenko I.V., Naumov P.Yu., Picozza P., Runtso M.F., Serdin O.V., Sparvoli R., Spillantini P., Stozhkov Yu.I., Suchkov S.I., Taraskin A.A., Tavani M., Yurkin Yu.T., Zverev V.G.
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: EDP Sciences 2017-01-01
• Series: EPJ Web of Conferences
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201714506001

Fermi-LAT has made a significant contribution to the study of high-energy gamma-ray diffuse emission and the observations of 3000 discrete sources. However, one third of all gamma-ray sources (both galactic and extragalactic) are unidentified, the data on the diffuse gamma-ray emission should be clarified, and signatures of dark matter particles in the high-energy gamma-ray range are not observed up to now. GAMMA-400, the currently developing gamma-ray telescope, will have angular (∼0.01∘ at 100 GeV) and energy (∼1% at 100 GeV) resolutions in the energy range of 10–1000 GeV which are better than Fermi-LAT (as well as ground gamma-ray telescopes) by a factor of 5–10. It will observe some regions of the Universe (such as the Galactic Center, Fermi Bubbles, Crab, Cygnus, etc.) in a highly elliptic orbit (without shading the telescope by the Earth) continuously for a long time. It will allow us to identify many discrete sources, to clarify the structure of extended sources, to specify the data on the diffuse emission, and to resolve gamma rays from dark matter particles.