The Inner Galaxy in Gamma-Rays

The central regions of the Milky Way host the Galaxy’s resident supermassive black hole, regions of intense star formation, and are perhaps the best place in the sky to look for the signatures of dark matter. I will review the state of our knowledge concerning this fascinating region and explain how recent observations with gamma-ray and radio telescopes shed new light [no pun intended] on the physics of the Galactic centre and bulge.

Associate Professor Roland Crocker – ANU

I completed a PhD in particle astrophysics at the University of Melbourne, awarded in 2003. Subsequently I've worked at the Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics, the University of Adelaide, Monash University, the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics in Heidelberg, Germany, and then the ANU from 2012. My work is in the fields of high-energy and particle astrophysics, and I am a theorist/phenomenologist, not an observer or data specialist.