Search Results - "Prandini, E."
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A new hard X-ray-selected sample of extreme high-energy peaked BL Lac objects and their TeV gamma-ray properties
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (01-06-2019)“…ABSTRACT Extreme high-energy peaked BL Lac objects (EHBLs) are an emerging class of blazars with exceptional spectral properties. The non-thermal emission of…”
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Constraining blazar distances with combined Fermi and TeV data: an empirical approach
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. Letters (01-06-2010)“…We discuss a method to constrain the distance of blazars with unknown redshift using combined observations in the GeV and TeV regimes. We assume that the Very…”
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Gamma-ray burst detection prospects for next generation ground-based VHE facilities
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (28-09-2021)“…ABSTRACT Gamma-ray Bursts (GRB) were discovered by satellite-based detectors as powerful sources of transient γ-ray emission. The Fermi satellite detected an…”
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Study of the IACT angular acceptance and Point Spread Function
Published in Astroparticle physics (01-03-2018)“…Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes (IACT) are designed to detect γ-ray photons in the very-high energy (VHE) band from 50 GeV to more than 10 TeV. The…”
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Author Correction: The future of meetings in the particle astrophysics community
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The future of meetings in the particle astrophysics community
Published in Nature astronomy (01-12-2023)“…A recent survey suggests that reducing the number of meetings and conferences is a viable way to address concerns about the effectiveness of the modern…”
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An innovative silicon photomultiplier digitizing camera for gamma-ray astronomy
Published in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields (2017)“…The single-mirror small-size telescope (SST-1M) is one of the three proposed designs for the small-size telescopes (SSTs) of the Cherenkov Telescope Array…”
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Progress in unveiling extreme particle acceleration in persistent astrophysical jets
Published in Nature astronomy (01-02-2020)“…The most powerful persistent accelerators in the Universe are jetted active galaxies. Blazars, galaxies whose jets are directed towards Earth, dominate the…”
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Teraelectronvolt emission from the γ-ray burst GRB 190114C
Published in Nature (London) (21-11-2019)“…Long-duration γ-ray bursts (GRBs) are the most luminous sources of electromagnetic radiation known in the Universe. They arise from outflows of plasma with…”
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The major upgrade of the MAGIC telescopes, Part II: A performance study using observations of the Crab Nebula
Published in Astroparticle physics (01-01-2016)“…MAGIC is a system of two Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes located in the Canary island of La Palma, Spain. During summer 2011 and 2012 it underwent a…”
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The major upgrade of the MAGIC telescopes, Part I: The hardware improvements and the commissioning of the system
Published in Astroparticle physics (01-01-2016)“…The MAGIC telescopes are two Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes (IACTs) located on the Canary island of La Palma. The telescopes are designed to measure…”
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A cut-off in the TeV gamma-ray spectrum of the SNR Cassiopeia A
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (11-12-2017)“…Abstract It is widely believed that the bulk of the Galactic cosmic rays is accelerated in supernova remnants (SNRs). However, no observational evidence of the…”
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Black hole lightning due to particle acceleration at subhorizon scales
Published in Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) (28-11-2014)“…Supermassive black holes with masses of millions to billions of solar masses are commonly found in the centers of galaxies. Astronomers seek to image jet…”
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Science with e-ASTROGAM: a space mission for MeV–GeV gamma-ray astrophysics
Published in Journal of high energy astrophysics (01-08-2018)“…e-ASTROGAM (‘enhanced ASTROGAM’) is a breakthrough Observatory space mission, with a detector composed by a Silicon tracker, a calorimeter, and an…”
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Constraining very-high-energy and optical emission from FRB 121102 with the MAGIC telescopes
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (01-12-2018)“…Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are bright flashes observed typically at GHz frequencies with millisecond duration, whose origin is likely extragalactic. Their nature…”
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Search for Gamma-Ray Spectral Lines from Dark Matter Annihilation up to 100 TeV toward the Galactic Center with MAGIC
Published in Physical review letters (10-02-2023)“…Linelike features in TeV γ rays constitute a "smoking gun" for TeV-scale particle dark matter and new physics. Probing the Galactic Center region with…”
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Performance of the MAGIC telescopes under moonlight
Published in Astroparticle physics (01-09-2017)“…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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Testing emission models on the extreme blazar 2WHSP J073326.7+515354 detected at very high energies with the MAGIC telescopes
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (01-12-2019)“…ABSTRACT Extreme high-energy-peaked BL Lac objects (EHBLs) are an emerging class of blazars. Their typical two-hump-structured spectral energy distribution…”
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Design of a SiPM-based cluster for the Large-Sized Telescope camera of the Cherenkov Telescope Array
Published in Nuclear instruments & methods in physics research. Section A, Accelerators, spectrometers, detectors and associated equipment (21-08-2019)“…A Silicon Photomultiplier (SiPM)-based photodetector is being built to demonstrate its feasibility for an alternative silicon-based camera design for the…”
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