News

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.

“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.

“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.

“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.