Astrophysical: Gamma-ray astronomy

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    A “gold mine” is detected in a collision of two distant stars
    An international team of astronomers, including researchers at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) and the CSIC has found evidence of a “kilonomva”...
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    A “gold mine” is detected in a collision of two distant stars
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    GRB 221009A: The B.O.A.T. Burst that Shines in Gamma Rays
    We present a complete analysis of Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) data of GRB 221009A, the brightest gamma-ray burst (GRB) ever detected. The burst emission...
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    Limits on the flux of tau neutrinos from 1 PeV to 3 EeV with the MAGIC telescopes
    A search for tau neutrino induced showers with the MAGIC telescopes is presented. The MAGIC telescopes located at an altitude of 2200 m a.s.l. in the Canary...
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    MAGIC telescopes detect the first gamma-rays burst at very high energies
    This ground-breaking achievement by MAGIC provides critical new insight for understanding the physical processes at work in the most powerful cosmic explosions...
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    Observations of the Crab Nebula and Pulsar with the Large-sized Telescope Prototype of the Cherenkov Telescope Array
    The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is a next-generation ground-based observatory for gamma-ray astronomy at very high energies. The Large-Sized Telescope...
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    Performance of the MAGIC telescopes under moonlight
    MAGIC, a system of two imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes, achieves its best performance under dark conditions, i.e. in absence of moonlight or twilight...
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    Standardised formats and open-source analysis tools for the MAGIC telescopes data
    Instruments for gamma-ray astronomy at Very High Energies ( E > 100 GeV) have traditionally derived their scientific results through proprietary data and...
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    The Cosmological Optical Convergence: Extragalactic Background Light from TeV Gamma Rays
    The intensity of the extragalactic background (EBL), the accumulated optical and infrared emissions since the first stars, is the subject of a decades-long...