Conference Proceedings
Peer-reviewed conference proceedings:
Published in 2022
Development of tools for SALT/RSS spectropolarimetry reductions: applica ion to the blazar 3C279
Justin Cooper, Brian van Soelen and Richard J. Britto
Pre-published on: January 26, 2022
DOI: https://doi.org/10.22323/1.401.0056
Optical Spectropolarimetry Observations of the BL Lac-type object PKS 0537-441 after a period of quiescence
J. Barnard, B. van Soelen, J. Cooper, R. J. Britto, J.P. Marais, I. van der Westhuizen, D. Buckley, H. Schutte, M. Böttcher, B. Vaidya, S. Achariya and A. Martin-Carrillo
Pre-published on: December 20, 2021
DOI: https://doi.org/10.22323/1.401.0009
Published in 2018
Fits to the spectra of broad-line region of active galactic nuclei and opacities for two-photon pair production
M. Ntshatsha, S. Razzaque and R. J. Britto
High Energy Astrophysics in Southern Africa – HEASA2018
1-3 August, 2018, Parys, Free State, South Africa
Transient emission of selected CRTS Cataclysmic Variables
H. Szegedi, A. Odendaal, P. Meintjes, B. van Soelen, J.P. Marais, A. Rajoelimanana, M.M. Nyamai, R. J. Britto, L. Hanlon, D. Murphy, A. Martin-Carrillo, M. Motsoaledi and J.R. Thorstensen
The Golden Age of Cataclysmic Variables and Related Objects IV
11-16 September, 2017, Palermo, Italy
Published on: September 13, 2018
DOI: https://doi.org/10.22323/1.315.0021
Published in 2017
Studies of optical/gamma-ray flares of blazar 4C +01.02: Recent updates from the 2016-2017 observations
Richard J. Britto (on behalf of the Fermi-LAT Collaboration), Johannes P. Marais, Brian van Soelen,
Markus Boettcher, Hester M. Schutte, David Buckley, Abe Facone
Proccedings of the 5th Annual Conference on High Energy Astrophysics in Southern Africa (HEASA 2017),
University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, 3-6 October 2017
SALT Spectropolarimetry and Self-Consistent SED and Polarization Modeling of Blazars
M. Böttcher, H. Schutte, B. van Soelen, R. J. Britto (on behalf of the Fermi-LAT Collaboration), J. P. Marais, and D. A. H. Buckley
Proceedings of the 7th International Fermi Symposium, held 15-20 October 2017,
in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany (IFS2017).
SALT Spectropolarimetry and Self-Consistent SED and Polarization Modeling of Blazars
M. Böttcher, B. van Soelen, R. J. Britto (on behalf of the Fermi-LAT Collaboration), D. A. H. Buckley, J. P. Marais and H. Schutte
Proceeding of the “Polarised Emission from Astrophysical Jets” conference,
12–16 June 2017, Ierapetra, Greece, Galaxies 2017, 5, 52
Published in 2016
Production of High Energy Radiation in the Relativistic Jets of Fermi-LAT Blazars
R. J. Britto (on behalf of the Fermi-LAT Collaboration), P. J. Meintjes and B. van Soelen
Proccedings of the MONDELLO WORKSHOP 2016 - Frontier Research in Astrophysics
23-28 May 2016, Palermo, Italy
New Discoveries and Surprises Revealed through SALT Spectroscopy of the Unclassified Fermi-LAT Sources
B. Van Soelen, L. Klindt, J. P. Marais, R. J. Britto, P. Meintjes, P. Vaisanen, L. Hanlon, D. Murphy
Proceedings of the MONDELLO WORKSHOP 2016 - Frontier Research in Astrophysics
23-28 May 2016, Palermo, Italy
Observations of the flaring Fermi-LAT blazar 4C +01.02 and prospects in spectro-polarimetry with SALT-RSS
R. J. Britto (on behalf of the Fermi-LAT Collaboration), J. P. Marais, P. J. Meintjes, B. van Soelen, M. Böttcher, D. A. H. Buckley, S. Crawford, A. Rajoelimanana
Proceedings of the 4th Annual Conference on High Energy Astrophysics in Southern Africa (HEASA 2016),
25–26 August 2016, SAAO, Cape Town, South Africa,
Eds. M. Boettcher, D. Buckley, S. Colafrancesco, P. Meintjes and S. Razzaque.
Characterising the Fermi-LAT BCUs: Optical Spectroscopy and Neural Networks
B. van Soelen, J. P. Marais, R. J. Britto, G. Chiaro, L. Klindt, P. J. Meintjes, David Salvetti
Proceedings of the 4th Annual Conference on High Energy Astrophysics in Southern Africa (HEASA 2016),
25–26 August 2016, SAAO, Cape Town, South Africa,
Eds. M. Boettcher, D. Buckley, S. Colafrancesco, P. Meintjes and S. Razzaque.
Published in 2015
Fermi-LAT Observation of 3C 454.3 during its May-July 2014 Outburst
R. J. Britto, S. Buson, B. Lott, S. Razzaque and E. Bottacini, (on behalf of the Fermi-LAT Collaboration)
Proceedings of the 3rd Annual Conference on High Energy
Astrophysics in Southern Africa (HEASA2015), 18-20 June 2015, Johannesburg,
South Africa, Eds. M. Boettcher, D. Buckley, S. Colafrancesco, P. Meintjes and S. Razzaque
Study of flaring quasars using optical/gamma-ray correlations
Richard Britto
Proceedings of Science, SALT Science Conference 2015
STIAS, Stellenbosch, South Africa, 1-5 June 2015
Feraol F. Dirirsa, Richard J. Britto and Soebur Razzaque, on behalf of the Fermi-LAT Collaboration
Proceedings of the 60th Annual Conference of the South African Institute of Physics (SAIP2015),
edited by Makaiko Chithambo (RU) and André Venter (NMMU) (2015), pp. 284 – 289, ISBN: 978-0-620-70714-5.
Available online at http://events.saip.org.za/getFile.py/access?resId=0&materialId=5&confId=53
Possible extragalactic astrophysical counterparts of IceCube neutrino events
Reetanjali Moharana, Richard J. Britto and Soebur Razzaque
Proceedings of the 60th Annual Conference of the South African Institute of Physics (SAIP2015),
edited by Makaiko Chithambo (RU) and André Venter (NMMU) (2015), pp. 314 – 319., ISBN: 978a-0-620-70714-5.
Available online at http://events.saip.org.za/getFile.py/access?resId=0&materialId=5&confId=53
Published in 2014
Richard J. G. Britto, Soebur Razzaque and Benoit Lott, on behalf of the Fermi-LAT Collaboration
Published in the Proceedings of SAIP2014, the 59th Annual Conference of the South African Institute of Physics, ISBN: 978-0-620-65391-6
Published in 2011
Observations with the High Altitude Gamma-Ray (HAGAR) telescope array in the Indian Himalayas
R. J. Britto, B. S. Acharya, G. C. Anupama, N. Bhatt, P. Bhattacharjee, S. Bhattacharya, V. R. Chitnis, R. Cowsik, N. Dorji, S. K. Duhan, K. S. Gothe, P. U. Kamath, R. Koul, P. K. Mahesh, A. Mitra, B. K. Nagesh, N. K. Parma, T. P. Prabhu, R. C. Rannot, S. K. Rao, L. Saha, F. Saleem, A. K. Saxena, S. K. Sharma, A. Shukla, B. B. Singh, R. Srinivasan, G. Srinivasulu, P. V. Sudersanan, A. K. Tickoo, D. Tsewang, S. S. Upadhya, P. R. Vishwanath, K. K. Yadav
Proc. of “European Cosmic Ray Symposium”, Turku, Finland, August 3-6, 2010
Astrophys. Space Sci. Trans., 7, 501-505, 2011
Non peer-reviewed conference proceedings:
Published in 2016
R. J. Britto*, E. Bottacini*, M. Böttcher, D. A. H. Buckley, S. Buson*, B. Lott*, J. P. Marais, P. J. Meintjes, S. Razzaque*, B. van Soelen (on behalf of the Fermi-LAT Collaboration)
SF2A-2016: Proceedings of the Annual meeting of the French Society of Astronomy and
Astrophysics. Eds.: C. Reylé, J. Richard, L. Cambrésy, M. Deleuil, E. Pécontal, L. Tresse and I. Vauglin,
held 14–17 June, 2016 at the Centre de Recherche Astrophysique de Lyon, pp.93–101
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2016sf2a.conf...93B
Search for extragalactic astrophysical counterparts of IceCube neutrino events
Reetanjali Moharana, Richard J. G. Britto and Soebur Razzaque
Appeared in the 34th International Cosmic Ray Conference Proceedings (ICRC 2015), The Hague, The Netherlands)
arXiv:1602.03694 [astro-ph.HE]
Published in 2015
Spectral Studies of Flaring FSRQs at GeV Energies Using Pass 8 Fermi-LAT Data
Richard Britto, Soebur Razzaque and Benoit Lott, on behalf of the Fermi-LAT Collaboration
7 pages, 4 figures, 4 tables, 2014 Fermi Symposium proceedings - eConf C14102,
arXiv:1502.07624 [astro-ph.HE]
Published in 2014
Spectral studies of FSRQs: constraining absorption models in the BLR at GeV energies
R. J. Britto, S. Razzaque, and B. Lott, on behalf of the Fermi-LAT Collaboration
High Energy Astrophysics in Southern Africa 2014 (HEASA2015): A multi-frequency perspective of new frontiers in High Energy Astrophysics in Southern Africa
Boyden Observatory, April 24–25, 2014, Editors: B. van Soelen and P.J. Meintjes, Mem. S.A. It. Vol. 86, 23
Published in 2012
VHE Gamma-Ray Astronomy in India: Status of HIGRO and Participation in CTA
R. J. Britto, B. S. Acharya, J. M. Ahire, G. C. Anupama, N. Bhatt, P. Bhattacharjee, S. Bhattacharyya, V. R. Chitnis, R. Cowsik, N. Dorji, S. K. Duhan, K. S. Gothe, P. U. Kamath, R. Koul, P. K. Mahesh, P. Majumdar, J. Manoharan, A. Mitra, B. K. Nagesh, N. K. Parmar, T. P. Prabhu, R. C. Rannot, S. K. Rao, L. Saha, F. Saleem, A. K. Saxena, S. K. Sharma, A. Shukla, B. B. Singh, R. Srinivasan, G. Srinivasulu, P. V. Sudersanan, A. K. Tichoo, D. Tsewang, S. S. Upadhya, P. R. Vishwanath, K. K. Yadav
SF2A-2012: Proceedings of the Annual meeting of the French Society of Astronomy and Astrophysics,
Eds.: S. Boissier, P. de Laverny, N. Nardetto, R. Samadi, D. Valls-Gabaud and H. Wozniak, pp.571-577
Published in 2011
Data analysis method for the search of point sources of gamma rays with the HAGAR telescope array
R. J. Britto, B. S. Acharya, G. C. Anupama, P. Bhattacharjee, V. R. Chitnis, R. Cowsik, N. Dorji, S. K. Duhan, K. S. Gothe, P. U. Kamath, P. K. Mahesh, J. Manoharan, B. K. Nagesh, N. K. Parmar, T. P. Prabhu, S. K. Rao, L. Saha, F. Saleem, A. K. Saxena, S. K. Sharma, A. Shukla, B. B. Singh, R. Srinivasan, G. Srinivasulu, P. V. Sudersanan, D. Tsewang, S. S. Upadhya, P. R. Vishwanath
Proceedings of the 32rd International Cosmic Ray Conference, held in Beijing, China, 11-18 August 2011 .
Status of the Himalayan Gamma-Ray Observatory (HIGRO) and observation with HAGAR at very high energies
R. J. Britto, B. S. Acharya, G. C. Anupama, N. Bhatt, P. Bhattacharjee, S. Bhattacharya, V. R. Chitnis, R. Cowsik, N. Dorji, S. K. Duhan, K. S. Gothe, P. U. Kamath, R. Koul, P. K. Mahesh, J. Manoharan A. Mitra, B. K. Nagesh, N. K. Parma, T. P. Prabhu, R. C. Rannot, S. K. Rao, L. Saha, F. Saleem, A. K. Saxena, S. K. Sharma, A. Shukla, B. B. Singh, R. Srinivasan, G. Srinivasulu, P. V. Sudersanan, A. K. Tickoo, D. Tsewang, S. S. Upadhya, P. R. Vishwanath, K. K. Yadav
SF2A-2011: Proceedings of the Annual meeting of the French Society of Astronomy and Astrophysics,
Eds.: G. Alecian, K. Belkacem, R. Samadi and D. Valls-Gabaud, pp.539-543
Data analysis method for the search of point sources of gamma rays with the HAGAR telescope array
R. J. Britto, B. S. Acharya, G. C. Anupama, P. Bhattacharjee, V. R. Chitnis, R. Cowsik, N. Dorji, S. K. Duhan, K. S. Gothe, P. U. Kamath, P. K. Mahesh, J. Manoharan, B. K. Nagesh, N. K. Parmar, T. P. Prabhu, S. K. Rao, L. Saha, F. Saleem, A. K. Saxena, S. K. Sharma, A. Shukla, B. B. Singh, R. Srinivasan, G. Srinivasulu, P. V. Sudersanan, D. Tsewang, S. S. Upadhya, P. R. Vishwanath
SF2A-2011: Proceedings of the Annual meeting of the French Society of Astronomy and Astrophysics,
Eds.: G. Alecian, K. Belkacem, R. Samadi and D. Valls-Gabaud, pp.535-538
Published in 2010
Towards new analysis of Gamma-Ray sources at HImalayan Gamma-Ray Observatory (HIGRO) in Northern India
Richard J. Britto (on behalf of HIGRO collaboration)
SF2A-2010: Proceedings of the Annual meeting of the French Society of Astronomy and Astrophysics held June 21-29, 2010 in Marseille, France.
Eds.: S. Boissier, M. Heydari-Malayeri, R. Samadi and D. Valls-Gabaud, p.137
(4 pages, available at http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2010sf2a.conf..137B)
Observations with the High Altitute GAmma-Ray (HAGAR) telescope array in the Indian Himalayas
Richard J. Britto (on behalf of HIGRO collaboration)
SF2A-2010: Proceedings of the Annual meeting of the French Society of Astronomy and Astrophysics, held June 21-29, 2010 in Marseille, France.
Eds.: S. Boissier, M. Heydari-Malayeri, R. Samadi and D. Valls-Gabaud, p.133
(2 pages, available at http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2010sf2a.conf..133B)
Published in 2009
Observation of Crab Nebula with the HAGAR telescope system at Hanle in the Himalayas
Richard J. Britto (on behalf of HIGRO collaboration)
Proceedings of the “31st International Cosmic Ray Conference” (ICRC),
held in Lόdź, Poland, July 7-15, 2009, paper # icrc0958
(4 pages, proceeding available at http://icrc2009.uni.lodz.pl/proc/pdf/icrc0958.pdf)
Gamma-ray source observation with the HAGAR telescope system at Hanle in the Himalayas
Richard J. Britto (on behalf of HIGRO collaboration)
SF2A-2009: Proceedings of the Annual meeting of the French Society of Astronomy and Astrophysics, held in Besançon, France, 29 June-4 July 2009
Eds.: M. Heydari-Malayeri, C. Reylé and R. Samadi, p.131
(4 pages, available at http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2009sf2a.conf..131B)
Published in 2007
Study of the Galactic anticentre region at 100 GeV with CELESTE
R. Britto for the CELESTE collaboration
SF2A-2007: Proceedings of the Annual meeting of the French Society of Astronomy and Astrophysics held in Grenoble, France, July 2-6, 2007
Eds.: J. Bouvier, A. Chalabaev, and C. Charbonnel, p.154
(4 pages, available at http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2007sf2a.conf..154B)
Published in 2005
Search for galactic diffuse emission with CELESTE
R. Britto, A. Jacholkowska for the CELESTE collaboration
Proceeding of the 7th Workshop “Towards a Network of Atmospheric Cherenkov Detectors”, held in Palaiseau, France, 27-29 Apr 2005.
Published in “Palaiseau 2005, Towards a network of atmospheric Cherenkov detectors”, pp. 123-127