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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.

“agnpy: an open-source python package modelling the radiative processes of jetted active galactic nuclei ” by C. Nigro and others has been accepted for publication at the Astronomy & Astrophysics journal.

“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.

“First Combined Study on Lorentz Invariance Violation from Observations of Energy-dependent Time Delays from Multiple-type Gamma-ray Sources Part I - Motivation, Method Description and Validation through Simulations of H.E.S.S., MAGIC and VERITAS Datasets ” by D. Kerszberg and M. Martínez has been accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal.

“Combined searches for dark matter in dwarf spheroidal galaxies observed with the MAGIC telescopes, including new data from Coma Berenices and Draco ” has been accepted by the Physics of the Dark Universe Journal.

The second LST camera arrived to IFAE on Tuesday 30, November 2011 for its integration and tests.

“Quantum gravity phenomenology at the dawn of the multi-messenger era – A review” has been uploaded to arXiv . Members of the Gamma-ray, Gravitational Waves and Theory group are among the authors: Diego Blas, Merve Colak, Daniel Kersberg, Manel Martínez, Mario Martínez.