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On March 6, the LST Collaboration published its first scientific paper in the Astronomy & Astrophysics journal. The paper focuses on a multi-wavelength study of the unidentified ultra-high-energy gamma-ray source known as LHAASO J2108+5157.

A delegation of the Chinese Academy of Science visited IFAE on Monday February 27 2023. The visit was part of a tour for reviewing the status of the collaborations with different European research institutions on space missions. IFAE has been participating in the design of the HERD cosmic-ray/gamma-ray detector for the China Space Station since 2020.

Monong Yu has just joined the Gamma-ray group at IFAE as a postdoc.

Keerthana Rajan Lathika has just joined the Gamma-Ray group as PhD student.

This week, a new CLUE container arrived at IFAE.

Giulio Lucchetta has just started as a new postdoc of the Gamma-ray Group.

The CTA LST telescope is back in operation. After a few weeks dedicated to cleaning the site and checking the telescope subsystems, the first sky data were taken in early February.

“Quantum gravity phenomenology at the dawn of the multi-messenger era — A review ” by Manel Martínez, Daniel Kerszberg, Diego Blas, Mario Martínez and others has been accepted for publication in Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics. This paper is a review by the world experts on QG phenomenology, working together in the framework of the Quantum Gravity in the MultiMessenger era (QGMM) COST Action.

“Constraining branon dark matter from observations of the Segue 1 dwarf spheroidal galaxy with the MAGIC telescopes ” by D. Kerszberg, J. Rico and others has been uploaded to arXiv.