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1. Predicting Solvent-Dependent Nucleophilicity Parameter with a Causal Structure Property Relationship.

Author: Samuel Boobier, Yufeng Liu, Krishna Sharma, David R. J. Hose, A. John Blacker, Nikil Kapur, and Bao N. Nguyen
Published: 2021
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2. Machine learning with physicochemical relationships: solubility prediction in organic solvents and water

Author: Samuel Boobier, David R. J. Hose, A. John Blacker, and Bao N. Nguyen
Subjects: Science
Abstract: Accurate prediction of solubility represents a challenge for traditional computational approaches due to the complex nature of phenomena involved. Here the authors report a successful approach to solubility prediction in organic solvents and water using combination of machine learning and computational chemistry.
Published: 2020
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3. Excessive Unbalanced Meat Consumption in the First Year of Life Increases Asthma Risk in the PASTURE and LUKAS2 Birth Cohorts

Author: Alexander J. Hose, Giulia Pagani, Anne M. Karvonen, Pirkka V. Kirjavainen, Caroline Roduit, Jon Genuneit, Elisabeth Schmaußer-Hechfellner, Martin Depner, Remo Frei, Roger Lauener, Josef Riedler, Bianca Schaub, Oliver Fuchs, Erika von Mutius, Amandine Divaret-Chauveau, Juha Pekkanen, and Markus J. Ege
Subjects: asthma, Infancy, cow's milk, meat, introduction of solid foods, nutritional immunity, Immunologic diseases. Allergy, RC581-607
Abstract: A higher diversity of food items introduced in the first year of life has been inversely related to subsequent development of asthma. In the current analysis, we applied latent class analysis (LCA) to systematically assess feeding patterns and to relate them to asthma risk at school age. PASTURE (N=1133) and LUKAS2 (N=228) are prospective birth cohort studies designed to evaluate protective and risk factors for atopic diseases, including dietary patterns. Feeding practices were reported by parents in monthly diaries between the 4th and 12th month of life. For 17 common food items parents indicated frequency of feeding during the last 4 weeks in 4 categories. The resulting 153 ordinal variables were entered in a LCA. The intestinal microbiome was assessed at the age of 12 months by 16S rRNA sequencing. Data on feeding practice with at least one reported time point was available in 1042 of the 1133 recruited children. Best LCA model fit was achieved by the 4-class solution. One class showed an elevated risk of asthma at age 6 as compared to the other classes (adjusted odds ratio (aOR): 8.47, 95% CI 2.52–28.56, p = 0.001) and was characterized by daily meat consumption and rare consumption of milk and yoghurt. A refined LCA restricted to meat, milk, and yoghurt confirmed the asthma risk effect of a particular class in PASTURE and independently in LUKAS2, which we thus termed unbalanced meat consumption (UMC). The effect of UMC was particularly strong for non-atopic asthma and asthma irrespectively of early bronchitis (aOR: 17.0, 95% CI 5.2–56.1, p < 0.001). UMC fostered growth of iron scavenging bacteria such as Acinetobacter (aOR: 1.28, 95% CI 1.00-1.63, p = 0.048), which was also related to asthma (aOR: 1.55, 95% CI 1.18-2.03, p = 0.001). When reconstructing bacterial metabolic pathways from 16S rRNA sequencing data, biosynthesis of siderophore group nonribosomal peptides emerged as top hit (aOR: 1.58, 95% CI 1.13-2.19, p = 0.007). By a data-driven approach we found a pattern of overly meat consumption at the expense of other protein sources to confer risk of asthma. Microbiome analysis of fecal samples pointed towards overgrowth of iron-dependent bacteria and bacterial iron metabolism as a potential explanation.
Published: 2021
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4. Determining Phase Separation Dynamics with an Automated Image Processing Algorithm

Author: James Daglish, A. John Blacker, Gregory de Boer, Alex Crampton, David R. J. Hose, Anna R. Parsons, and Nikil Kapur
Subjects: Organic Chemistry, Physical and Theoretical Chemistry
Published: 2023

5. Exploiting the Physical Properties of Diethanolamine Boronic Esters for Process Improvements in AZD5718

Author: Jean-Marc Henry, David Milne, Dave Perkins, William Hicks, David R. J. Hose, Andrew D. Campbell, Alexander K. Mullen, Phillip A. Inglesby, Steven A. Raw, and Martin F. Jones
Subjects: Organic Chemistry, Physical and Theoretical Chemistry
Published: 2023

6. MAGIC and Fermi-LAT gamma-ray results on unassociated HAWC sources

Author: M. L. Ahnen, S. Ansoldi, L. A. Antonelli, C. Arcaro, D. Baack, A. Babic, B. Banerjee, P. Bangale, U. Barres de Almeida, J. A. Barrio, J. Becerra Gonzalez, W. Bednarek, E. Bernardini, R. Ch. Berse, A. Berti, W. Bhattacharyya, A. Biland, O. Blanch, G. Bonnoli, R. Carosi, A. Carosi, G. Ceribella, A. Chatterjee, S. M. Colak, P. Colin, E. Colombo, J. L. Contreras, J. Cortina, S. Covino, P. Cumani, P. Da Vela, F. Dazzi, A. De Angelis, B. De Lotto, M. Delfino, J. Delgado, F. Di Pierro, A. Domınguez, D. Dominis Prester, D. Dorner, M. Doro, S. Einecke, D. Elsaesser, V. Fallah Ramazani, A. Fernandez-Barral, D. Fidalgo, M. V. Fonseca, L. Font, C. Fruck, D. Galindo, R. J. Garcıa Lopez, M. Garczarczyk, M. Gaug, P. Giammaria, N. Godinovic, D. Gora, D. Guberman, D. Hadasch, A. Hahn, T. Hassan, M. Hayashida, J. Herrera, J. Hose, D. Hrupec, K. Ishio, Y. Konno, H. Kubo, J. Kushida, D. Kuvezdic, D. Lelas, E. Lindfors, S. Lombardi, F. Longo, M. Lopez, C. Maggio, P. Majumdar, M. Makariev, G. Maneva, M. Manganaro, K. Mannheim, L. Maraschi, M. Mariotti, M. Martınez, S. Masuda, D. Mazin, K. Mielke, M. Minev, J. M. Miranda, R. Mirzoyan, A. Moralejo, V. Moreno, E. Moretti, T. Nagayoshi, V. Neustroev, A. Niedzwiecki, M. Nievas Rosillo, C. Nigro, K. Nilsson, D. Ninci, K. Nishijima, K. Noda, L. Nogues, S. Paiano, J. Palacio, D. Paneque, R. Paoletti, J. M. Paredes, G. Pedaletti, M. Peresano, M. Persic, P. G. Prada Moroni, E. Prandini, I. Puljak, J. R. Garcia, I. Reichardt, W. Rhodes, M. Ribo, J. Rico, C. Righi, A. Rugliancich, T. Saito, K. Satalecka, T. Schweizer, J. Sitarek, I. Snidaric, D. Sobczynska, A. Stamerra, M. Strzys, T. Suric, M. Takahashi, L. Takalo, F. Tavecchio, P. Temnikov, T. Terzic, M. Teshima, N. Torres-Alba, A. Treves, S. Tsujimoto, G. Vanzo, M. Vazquez Acosta, I. Vovk, J. E. Ward, M. Will, D. Zaric, A. Albert, R. Alfaro, C. Alvarez, R. Arceo, J. C. Arteaga-Velazquez, D. Avila Rojas, H. A. Ayala Solares, A. Becerril, E. Belmont-Moreno, S. Y. BenZvi, A. Bernal, J. Braun, K. S. Caballero-Mora, T. Capistran, A. Carraminana, S. Casanova, M. Castillo, U. Cotti, J. Cotzomi, S. Coutino de Leon, C. De Leon, E. De la Fuente, R. Diaz Hernandez, S. Dichiara, B. L. Dingus, M. A. DuVernois, J. C. Dıaz-Velez, R. W. Ellsworth, K. Engel, O. Enriquez-Rivera, D. W. Fiorino, H. Fleischhack, N. Fraija, J. A. Garcıa-Gonzalez, F. Garfias, A. Gonzalez-Munoz, M. M. Gonzalez, J. A. Goodman, Z. Hampel-Arias, J. P. Harding, S. Hernandez, F. Hueyotl-Zahuantitla, C. M. Hui, P. Huntemeyer, A. Iriarte, A. Jardin-Blicq, V. Joshi, S. Kaufmann, A. Lara, R. J. Lauer, W. H. Lee, D. Lennarz, H. Leon Vargas, J. T. Linnemann, A. L. Longinotti, G. Luis-Raya, R. Luna-Garcıa, R. Lopez-Coto, K. Malone, S. S. Marinelli, O. Martinez, I. Martinez-Castellanos, J. Martınez-Castro, H. Martınez-Huerta, J. A. Matthews, P. Miranda-Romagnoli, E. Moreno, A. Nayerhoda, L. Nellen, M. Newbold, M. U. Nisa, R. Noriega-Papaqui, R. Pelayo, J. Pretz, E. G. Perez-Perez, Z. Ren, C. D. Rho, C. Riviere, D. Rosa-Gonzalez, M. Rosenberg, E. Ruiz-Velasco, F. Salesa Greus, A. Sandoval, M. Schneider, M. Seglar Arroyo, G. Sinnis, A. J. Smith, R. W. Springer, P. Surajbali, I. Taboada, O. Tibolla, K. Tollefson, I. Torres, T. N. Ukwatta, G. Vianello, L. Villasenor, F. Werner, S. Westerhoff, J. Wood, T. Yapici, G. Yodh, A. Zepeda, H. Zhou, J. D. Alvarez, M. Ajello, L. Baldini, G. Barbiellini, B. Berenji, E. Bissaldi, R. D. Blandford, R. Bonino, E. Bottacini, T. J. Brandt, J. Bregeon, P. Bruel, R. A. Cameron, R. Caputo, P. A. Caraveo, D. Castro, E. Cavazzuti, G. Chiaro, S. Ciprini, D. Costantin, F. D'Ammando, F. de Palma, A. Desai, N. Di Lalla, M. Di Mauro, L. Di Venere, C. Favuzzi, Y. Fukazawa, S. Funk, P. Fusco, F. Gargano, D. Gasparrini, N. Giglietto, F. Giordano, M. Giroletti, T. Glanzman, D. Green, I. A. Grenier, S. Guiriec, A. K. Harding, E. Hays, J. W. Hewitt, D. Horan, G. Johannesson, M. Kuss, S. Larsson, I. Liodakis, F. Loparco, P. Lubrano, J. D. Magill, S. Maldera, A. Manfreda, M. N. Mazziotta, I. Mereu, P. F. Michelson, T. Mizuno, M. E. Monzani, A. Morselli, I. V. Moskalenko, M. Negro, E. Nuss, N. Omodei, M. Orienti, E. Orlando, J. F. Ormes, M. Palatiello, V. S. Paliya, M. Pesce-Rollins, V. Petrosian, F. Piron, T. A. Porter, G. Principe, S. Raino, B. Rani, M. Razzano, S. Razzaque, A. Reimer, O. Reimer, C. Sgro, E. J. Siskind, G. Spandre, P. Spinelli, H. Tajima, J. B. Thayer, David J Thompson, D. F. Torres, E. Torresi, E. Troja, J. Valverde, K. Wood, and M. Yassine
Subjects: Astronomy, Astrophysics
Abstract: The HAWC Collaboration released the 2HWC catalogue of TeV sources, in which 19 show no association with any known high-energy (HE; E ≳ 10 GeV) or very-high-energy (VHE; E ≳ 300 GeV) sources. This catalogue motivated follow-up studies by both the Major Atmospheric Gamma-ray Imaging Cherenkov (MAGIC) and Fermi-LAT (Large Area Telescope) observatories with the aim of investigating gamma-ray emission over a broad energy band. In this paper, we report the results from the first joint work between High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC), MAGIC, and Fermi-LAT on three unassociated HAWC sources: 2HWC J2006+341, 2HWC J1907+084*, and 2HWC J1852+013*. Although no significant detection was found in the HE and VHE regimes, this investigation shows that a minimum 1° extension (at 95 per cent confidence level) and harder spectrum in the GeV than the one extrapolated from HAWC results are required in the case of 2HWC J1852+013*, whilst a simply minimum extension of 0.16° (at 95 per cent confidence level) can already explain the scenario proposed by HAWC for the remaining sources. Moreover, the hypothesis that these sources are pulsar wind nebulae is also investigated in detail.
Published: 2019
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7. Predicting Solvent-Dependent Nucleophilicity Parameter with a Causal Structure Property Relationship

Author: Bao N. Nguyen, Krishna Sharma, Samuel Boobier, A. John Blacker, Nikil Kapur, David R. J. Hose, and Yufeng Liu
Subjects: Steric effects, Principal Component Analysis, Property (programming), Chemistry, General Chemical Engineering, General Chemistry, Library and Information Sciences, Causal structure, Computer Science Applications, Solvent, Nucleophile, Computational chemistry, Principal component analysis, Solvents, Reactivity (chemistry), Algorithms
Abstract: Solvent-dependent reactivity is a key aspect of synthetic science, which controls reaction selectivity. The contemporary focus on new, sustainable solvents highlights a need for reactivity predictions in different solvents. Herein, we report the excellent machine learning prediction of the nucleophilicity parameter N in the four most-common solvents for nucleophiles in the Mayr’s reactivity parameter database (R2 = 0.93 and 81.6% of predictions within ±2.0 of the experimental values with Extra Trees algorithm). A Causal Structure Property Relationship (CSPR) approach was utilized, with focus on the physicochemical relationships between the descriptors and the predicted parameters, and on rational improvements of the prediction models. The nucleophiles were represented with a series of electronic and steric descriptors and the solvents were represented with principal component analysis (PCA) descriptors based on the ACS Solvent Tool. The models indicated that steric factors do not contribute significantly, because of bias in the experimental database. The most important descriptors are solvent-dependent HOMO energy and Hirshfeld charge of the nucleophilic atom. Replacing DFT descriptors with Parameterization Method 6 (PM6) descriptors for the nucleophiles led to an 8.7-fold decrease in computational time, and an ∼10% decrease in the percentage of predictions within ±2.0 and ±1.0 of the experimental values.
Published: 2021

8. Longitudinal data-driven definition of clinical asthma phenotypes in the pediatric arm of the ALLIANCE cohort

Author: A J Hose, E Von Mutius, K F Rabe, G Hansen, M V Kopp, and M J Ege
Published: 2022

9. Route Design to Manufacture: Synthesis of the Heterocyclic Fragment of AZD5718 Using a Non-cryogenic Lithiation-Alkoxycarbonylation Reaction

Author: Dobson Benjamin Charles, Chris Wimsey, Lai C. Chan, Steven A. Raw, Anna Jawor-Baczynska, David R. J. Hose, Martin F. Jones, David Perkins, Alex L. Lamacraft, Angus E. McMillan, Matthew Burns, Alan Steven, Alexander K. Mullen, Phillip A. Inglesby, Ahmed Elmekawy, and Michael John Pilling
Subjects: 010405 organic chemistry, Fragment (computer graphics), Stereochemistry, Process development, Organic Chemistry, Pyrazole, Alkylation, 010402 general chemistry, 01 natural sciences, 0104 chemical sciences, chemistry.chemical_compound, chemistry, Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, Sequence (medicine)
Abstract: Route design and process development of the small nitrogen heterocycle 2·HCl, a constituent of AZD5718 (1), is described. The novel synthetic sequence to 2.HCl involves a desymmetrizing alkylation ...
Published: 2021

10. Selective separation of amines from continuous processes using automated pH controlled extraction

Author: David R. J. Hose, William R. Reynolds, Luke A. Power, Thomas W. Chamberlain, Nikil Kapur, Caroline Ainsworth, Richard A. Bourne, A. John Blacker, Bao N. Nguyen, and Adam D. Clayton
Subjects: Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes, Aqueous solution, Chromatography, Process Chemistry and Technology, Extraction (chemistry), High-performance liquid chromatography, Toluene, Catalysis, chemistry.chemical_compound, chemistry, Chemistry (miscellaneous), Impurity, Phase ratio, Phase (matter), Chemical Engineering (miscellaneous), Amine gas treating
Abstract: We present a rapid continuous processing methodology to screen for the optimal, selective, liquid-liquid extraction conditions, from a typical post-reaction mixture of amines, using both inline and online analysis to systematically alter the pH, by controlling the acid addition pump. A mixture of 95% α-methyl-benzylamine, 1, and 5% N-benzyl-α-methyl-benzylamine, 2, simulated a reaction product and impurity, with the former extracted from toluene into water with 92% efficiency and 99% purity. The initial acid concentration and outlet pH (post-extraction), were compared with the amine concentration in each phase. The incorporation of inline, pH and HPLC, monitoring of both the aqueous and organic phases, allowed for detailed analysis of the applied extraction conditions. This produced an autonomous system for exploring the amine extraction conditions: optimal amount of acid and organic-aqueous phase ratio.
Published: 2021

11. Machine learning with physicochemical relationships: solubility prediction in organic solvents and water

Author: Bao N. Nguyen, David R. J. Hose, A. John Blacker, and Samuel Boobier
Subjects: 0301 basic medicine, Computational chemistry, Computer science, Science, General Physics and Astronomy, Process design, Machine learning, computer.software_genre, 01 natural sciences, General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, Article, 03 medical and health sciences, 0103 physical sciences, Solubility, lcsh:Science, Dissolution, Multidisciplinary, Training set, 010304 chemical physics, business.industry, Cheminformatics, Extraction (chemistry), Computational science, Statistics, General Chemistry, Support vector machine, 030104 developmental biology, Scientific method, lcsh:Q, Artificial intelligence, business, computer
Abstract: Solubility prediction remains a critical challenge in drug development, synthetic route and chemical process design, extraction and crystallisation. Here we report a successful approach to solubility prediction in organic solvents and water using a combination of machine learning (ANN, SVM, RF, ExtraTrees, Bagging and GP) and computational chemistry. Rational interpretation of dissolution process into a numerical problem led to a small set of selected descriptors and subsequent predictions which are independent of the applied machine learning method. These models gave significantly more accurate predictions compared to benchmarked open-access and commercial tools, achieving accuracy close to the expected level of noise in training data (LogS ± 0.7). Finally, they reproduced physicochemical relationship between solubility and molecular properties in different solvents, which led to rational approaches to improve the accuracy of each models., Accurate prediction of solubility represents a challenge for traditional computational approaches due to the complex nature of phenomena involved. Here the authors report a successful approach to solubility prediction in organic solvents and water using combination of machine learning and computational chemistry.
Published: 2020

12. Excessive meat consumption in the first year increases asthma risk in the PASTURE and LUKAS2 birth cohorts

Author: Jon Genuneit, Juha Pekkanen, Alexander J. Hose, Markus J. Ege, Giulia Pagani, Remo Frei, Erika von Mutius, Elisabeth Schmaußer-Hechfellner, Amandine Divaret-Chauveau, Martin Depner, Josef Riedler, Pirkka V. Kirjavainen, Anne M. Karvonen, Roger Lauener, and Caroline Roduit
Subjects: Consumption (economics), geography, geography.geographical_feature_category, business.industry, medicine, medicine.disease, business, Birth cohort, Pasture, Asthma, Demography
Published: 2021

13. Longitudinal data-driven definition of clinical asthma phenotypes in the pediatric arm of the All Age Asthma Cohort (ALLIANCE) of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL)

Author: Thomas Bahmer, Erika von Mutius, Alexander J. Hose, Markus J. Ege, Klaus F. Rabe, Matthias V. Kopp, and Gesine Hansen
Subjects: medicine.medical_specialty, Pregnancy, Lung, Exacerbation, business.industry, Disease, medicine.disease, Latent class model, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, medicine.anatomical_structure, 030228 respiratory system, Internal medicine, Wheeze, Cohort, medicine, 030212 general & internal medicine, medicine.symptom, business, Asthma
Abstract: Background: The asthma syndrome comprises various phenotypes; its characteristics and trajectories are unclear. Objective: To define longitudinal data-driven phenotypes in the DZL cohort. Methods: Children (0-18 years, N=497) were classified by a latent class analysis (LCA) based on clinical features including frequency of asthma symptoms, GINA criteria, hospitalization and atopic symptoms. Data were collected by questionnaires at recruitment (BL) and three annual follow-ups. The classes were compared with respect to lung function and laboratory parameters, genetics, medication, comorbidities and lifestyle factors. Results: LCA revealed two atopic classes with different levels of asthma control; two non-atopic classes, one with persistently low symptoms, and a severe class characterized by higher exposure to environmental triggers such as smoking in pregnancy or traffic proximity. Besides, two classes with hospitalization at BL emerged; these differed clearly with respect to age and symptom progression vs. resolution over time. The class with high symptom progression was significantly associated with a chromosome 17q21 risk allele (OR=2.43; p=0.03). Lung function declined in the two classes with hospitalization at BL, whereas it improved in the “environmental triggers” class. The classes also differentiated for eosinophils. Conclusion: The analysis revealed a substantial heterogeneity of disease entities subsumed as asthma or wheeze cases in ALLIANCE children. The high resolution of this classification might be useful for assessing corresponding endotypes and for prediction of exacerbation and resolution of symptoms.
Published: 2020

14. Self-Optimising Reactive Extractions: Towards the Efficient Development of Multi-Step Continuous Flow Processes

Author: Luke A. Power, Caroline Ainsworth, Martin F. Jones, Thomas W. Chamberlain, Adam D. Clayton, William R. Reynolds, Richard A. Bourne, David R. J. Hose, and A. John Blacker
Subjects: Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes, Polynomial, Development (topology), Chemistry (miscellaneous), Computer science, business.industry, Continuous flow, Organic Chemistry, Extraction (chemistry), Modular design, Process engineering, business
Abstract: Downstream purification of products and intermediates is essential for the development of continuous flow processes. Described herein, is a study on the use of a modular and reconfigurable continuous flow platform for the self-optimisation of reactive extractions and multi-step reaction-extraction processes. The selective extraction of one amine from a mixture of two similar amines was achieved with an optimum separation of 90%, and in this case, the black-box optimisation approach was superior to global polynomial modelling. Furthermore, this methodology was utilised to simultaneously optimise the continuous flow synthesis and work-up of N-benzyl-α-methylbenzylamine with respect to four variables, resulting in a significantly improved purity.
Published: 2020

15. Redesign of the Synthesis and Manufacture of an Azetidine-Bearing Pyrazine

Author: David R. J. Hose, Phillip Hopes, Alan Steven, and Christian Herber
Subjects: Bearing (mechanical), Pyrazine, 010405 organic chemistry, Chemistry, Decarboxylation, Organic Chemistry, Azetidine, Regioselectivity, 010402 general chemistry, Ring (chemistry), 01 natural sciences, Combinatorial chemistry, 0104 chemical sciences, law.invention, chemistry.chemical_compound, law, Batch processing, Glucokinase activator, Physical and Theoretical Chemistry
Abstract: Commercial route definition for a glucokinase activator called for a re-evaluation of the synthesis and processes used to access multikilogram quantities of a pyrazine building block. The processes developed allowed a literature route to sodium 6-oxo-1H-pyrazine-3-carboxylate to be leveraged. One of these processes consisted of a highly selective decarboxylation that allowed the target building block to be accessed with complete regioselectivity in standard batch processing equipment. The presence of an azetidine ring in the target required the mitigation of impurity liabilities arising from the use of the hydrochloride salt of azetidine as an input material.
Published: 2018

16. Evaluation of novel PMTs of worldwide best parameters for the CTA project

Author: Tokonatsu Yamamoto, J. Hose, T. Toyama, D. Müller, Masahiro Teshima, U. Menzel, M. Takahashi, D. Nakajima, and Razmik Mirzoyan
Subjects: Physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Photomultiplier, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, business.industry, Detector, Dynode, Cherenkov Telescope Array, 01 natural sciences, Particle detector, Optics, 0103 physical sciences, Quantum efficiency, Photonics, business, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Instrumentation, Cherenkov radiation
Abstract: Photomultiplier Tubes (PMT) are the most widespread detectors for measuring fast and faint light signals. About six years ago, we started an improvement program for the PMT candidates for the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) project in cooperation with the companies Hamamatsu Photonics K.K. (Japan) and Electron Tubes Enterprises Ltd. (England). CTA is the next major Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes array for ground-based high energy gamma-ray astrophysics. A total of ∼ 100 telescopes of sizes of 23 m, 12 m and 4 m in diameter will be built in northern and southern hemispheres. For CTA we need PMTs with the highest quantum efficiency and photoelectron collection efficiency, short pulse width of a few ns, low transit time spread and very low afterpulsing. The manufacturers were able to produce 1.5′ PMTs of enhanced peak quantum efficiency of ∼ 40 % . These collect up to 95–98% of photoelectrons onto the first dynode for the wavelengths ≥ 400 nm . A pulse width of ≤ 3 ns has been achieved at the selected operational gain of 40k. The afterpulsing for a threshold of ≥ 4 photoelectrons is dramatically reduced, down to the level of 0.02%. We will report on the measurements of 1.5′ PMTs from Hamamatsu and Electron Tubes Enterprises as candidate PMTs for the CTA project. The novel 1.5′ PMTs have the worldwide best parameters.
Published: 2017

17. Parents know it best: Prediction of asthma and lung function by parental perception of early wheezing episodes

Author: Amandine Divaret-Chauveau, Anne M. Karvonen, Markus J. Ege, Juha Pekkanen, Alexander J. Hose, Jean-Charles Dalphin, Josef Riedler, Roger Lauener, Katharina Wawretzka, Tabea Brick, Caroline Roduit, Erika von Mutius, Department of Public Health, University of Helsinki, Department of Dermatology, Allergology and Venereology, and Clinicum
Subjects: Male, Parents, Rural Population, Pediatrics, CHILDREN, Cohort Studies, early wheeze, asthma risk, 0302 clinical medicine, 3123 Gynaecology and paediatrics, Surveys and Questionnaires, Recall bias, Prevalence, Immunology and Allergy, Prospective Studies, 030212 general & internal medicine, Child, Lung function, 2. Zero hunger, chromosome 17q21, Asthma Risk, Childhood Asthma, Chromosome 17q21, Early Wheeze, Genetic Asthma Risk, Parental Wheeze Recall, ASSOCIATION, Prognosis, Europe, genetic asthma risk, INFECTIONS, ATOPY, Child, Preschool, Female, medicine.symptom, medicine.medical_specialty, parental wheeze recall, Immunology, PHENOTYPES, 1ST-YEAR, DIAGNOSIS, EARLY-LIFE, 03 medical and health sciences, Wheeze, medicine, Humans, Clinical significance, Respiratory Sounds, Retrospective Studies, Asthma, Recall, business.industry, Infant, Newborn, CHILDHOOD ASTHMA, Infant, Odds ratio, medicine.disease, Confidence interval, respiratory tract diseases, 030228 respiratory system, 3121 General medicine, internal medicine and other clinical medicine, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, RISK-FACTORS, Perception, business, Follow-Up Studies
Abstract: Background: Childhood asthma is often preceded by early wheeze. Usually, wheezing episodes are recorded retrospectively, which may induce recall bias. Aims and objectives: The aim of this study was to investigate true-positive recall of parent-reported wheeze at 1year of age, its determinants, and its implications for asthma and lung function at 6years of age. Methods: The PASTURE (Protection Against Allergy—Study in Rural Environments) study followed 880 children from rural areas in 5 European countries from birth to age 6years. Wheeze symptoms in the first year were asked weekly. At age 6, parent-reported asthma diagnosis was ascertained and lung function measurements were conducted. Correct parental recall of wheeze episodes at the end of the first year was assessed for associations with lung function, asthma, and the asthma risk locus on chromosome 17q21. Results: Parents correctly recalled wheeze after the first year in 54% of wheezers. This true-positive recall was determined by number of episodes, timing of the last wheeze episode, and parental asthma. Independently from these determinants, true-positive recall predicted asthma at age 6years (odds ratio 4.54, 95% confidence interval (CI) [1.75-14.16]) and impaired lung function (β=−0.62, 95% CI [−1.12; −0.13], P-value=.02). Associations were stronger in children with asthma risk SNPs on chromosome 17q21. Conclusion: Correct parental recall of wheezing episodes may reflect clinical relevance of early wheeze and its impact on subsequent asthma and lung function impairment. Questions tailored to parental perception of wheezing episodes may further enhance asthma prediction.
Published: 2019

18. Statistics of VHE gamma-Rays in Temporal Association with Radio Giant Pulses from the Crab Pulsar

Author: J. Palacio, J. M. Paredes, Antonio Stamerra, L. Maraschi, Elina Lindfors, Daniel Mazin, Chiara Righi, Wlodek Bednarek, Alessandro Carosi, P. Temnikov, Pratik Majumdar, N. Torres-Albà, M. V. Fonseca, S. N. Shore, Martin Will, Jose Miguel Miranda, E. Colombo, E. Prandini, Aaron Dominguez, Kari Nilsson, L. O. Takalo, Francesco Longo, Juan Abel Barrio, Masahiro Teshima, Nikola Godinovic, U. Menzel, L. A. Antonelli, Mosè Mariotti, D. Hadasch, J. E. Ward, Alba Fernández-Barral, M. Engelkemeier, Stefano Covino, Martin Makariev, Alexander Hahn, P. Colin, Saverio Lombardi, Andrea Rugliancich, Sidika Merve Colak, Oscar Blanch, Arka Chatterjee, Adrian Biland, Christian Fruck, Tomoki Saito, M. Doert, T. Surić, Shimpei Tsujimoto, M. Garczarczyk, Ana Babić, D. Fidalgo, M. Peresano, Camilla Maggio, J. Rico, S. Schroeder, Ivica Puljak, Ievgen Vovk, M. Vazquez Acosta, D. Dominis Prester, Tarek M. Hassan, B. Biasuzzi, Victoria Moreno, Fabrizio Tavecchio, L. Nogués, E. Moretti, D. Kuveždić, Jose Luis Contreras, Abelardo Moralejo, F. Di Pierro, Yusuke Konno, Juan Cortina, T. Schweizer, J. R. Garcia, Giacomo Bonnoli, A. De Angelis, A. Treves, Vitaly Neustroev, V. Fallah Ramazani, Max Ludwig Ahnen, Wrijupan Bhattacharyya, T. Nagayoshi, Daniela Dorner, Dariusz Gora, Gaia Vanzo, G. Maneva, Junko Kushida, P. Da Vela, Kyoshi Nishijima, U. Barres de Almeida, M. Minev, I. Reichardt, P. Giammaria, A. Niedzwiecki, R. Smits, M. Gaug, Damir Lelas, D. Elsaesser, I. Snidaric, Dorota Sobczyńska, J. Herrera, B. De Lotto, Julian Sitarek, Koji Noda, J. Hose, Elisa Bernardini, Stefano Ansoldi, David Paneque, M. I. Martínez, Riccardo Paoletti, D. Guberman, Marina Manganaro, Sabrina Einecke, D. Galindo, P. Cumani, Konstancja Satalecka, Michele Doro, Dario Hrupec, M. A. Lopez, S. Paiano, Karl Mannheim, P. G. Prada Moroni, Tomislav Terzić, Francesco Dazzi, J. Becerra González, Alessio Berti, Natalia Lewandowska, L. Perri, D. Eisenacher Glawion, Cosimo Nigro, M. Nievas Rosillo, B. Banerjee, C. Arcaro, Lluis Font, Marcel Strzys, R. J. García López, G. Pedaletti, Massimo Persic, Wolfgang Rhode, D. Ninci, M. Hayashida, D. Zarić, Marc Ribó, P. Bangale, Hidetoshi Kubo, R. Mirzoyan, Kazuma Ishio, Rodolfo Carosi, German Research Foundation, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica, Swiss National Science Foundation, Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (España), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (Japan), Universidad de Barcelona, Croatian Science Foundation, University of Rijeka, Foundation for Polish Science, Ministério da Ciência, Tecnologia e Inovação (Brasil), Ahnen, M. L., Ansoldi, S., Antonelli, L. A., Arcaro, C., Babic, A., Banerjee, B., Bangale, P., Barres De Almeida, U., Barrio, J. A., Becerra Gonzalez, J., Bednarek, W., Bernardini, E., Berti, A., Bhattacharyya, W., Biasuzzi, B., Biland, A., Blanch, O., Bonnoli, G., Carosi, R., Carosi, A., Chatterjee, A., Colak, S. M., Colin, P., Colombo, E., Contreras, J. L., Cortina, J., Covino, S., Cumani, P., Da Vela, P., Dazzi, F., De Angelis, A., De Lotto, B., Di Pierro, F., Doert, M., Dominguez, A., Dominis Prester, D., Dorner, D., Doro, M., Einecke, S., Eisenacher Glawion, D., Elsaesser, D., Engelkemeier, M., Fallah Ramazani, V., Fernandez-Barral, A., Fidalgo, D., Fonseca, M. V., Font, L., Fruck, C., Galindo, D., Garcia Lopez, R. J., Garczarczyk, M., Gaug, M., Giammaria, P., Godinovic, N., Gora, D., Guberman, D., Hadasch, D., Hahn, A., Hassan, T., Hayashida, M., Herrera, J., Hose, J., Hrupec, D., Ishio, K., Konno, Y., Kubo, H., Kushida, J., Kuvez Dic, D., Lelas, D., Lewandowska, N., Lindfors, E., Lombardi, S., Longo, F., Lopez, M., Maggio, C., Majumdar, P., Makariev, M., Maneva, G., Manganaro, M., Mannheim, K., Maraschi, L., Mariotti, M., Martinez, M., Mazin, D., Menzel, U., Minev, M., Miranda, J. M., Mirzoyan, R., Moralejo, A., Moreno, V., Moretti, E., Nagayoshi, T., Neustroev, V., Niedzwiecki, A., Nievas Rosillo, M., Nigro, C., Nilsson, K., Ninci, D., Nishijima, K., Noda, K., Nogues, L., Paiano, S., Palacio, J., Paneque, D., Paoletti, R., Paredes, J. M., Pedaletti, G., Peresano, M., Perri, L., Persic, M., Prada Moroni, P. G., Prandini, E., Puljak, I., Garcia, J. R., Reichardt, I., Rhode, W., Ribo, M., Rico, J., Righi, C., Rugliancich, A., Saito, T., Satalecka, K., Schroeder, S., Schweizer, T., Shore, S. N., Sitarek, J., Snidaric, I., Sobczynska, D., Stamerra, A., Strzys, M., Suric, T., Takalo, L., Tavecchio, F., Temnikov, P., Terzic, T., Teshima, M., Torres-Alba, N., Treves, A., Tsujimoto, S., Vanzo, G., Vazquez Acosta, M., Vovk, I., Ward, J. E., Will, M., Zaric, D., and Smits, R.
Subjects: Photon, Radiation mechanisms: non-thermal, Radio continuum: stars, VHE [gamma ray], Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, Cherenkov, individual, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Pulsars: individual: Crab pulsar, pulsar, Physics, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), photon, Gamma ray, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, imaging, pulsed, Gamma rays: stars, pulsars: individual: Crab pulsar - gamma-rays: stars - radio continuum: stars - radiation mechanics: non-thermal, detector [radio wave], statistics, Crab pulsar, Global Positioning System, stars [Radio continuum], Física nuclear, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, stars, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, FOS: Physical sciences, pulsars, gamma rays, radio continuum, radiation mechanisms, non-thermal, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Radio telescope, star [Gamma rays], Pulsar, emission [gamma ray], 0103 physical sciences, 010306 general physics, enhancement, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Cherenkov radiation, non-thermal [Radiation mechanisms], business.industry, Crab Pulsar, stars [Gamma rays], Astronomy and Astrophysics, individual: Crab pulsar [Pulsars], MAGIC, flux, Stars, Space and Planetary Science, correlation, ddc:520, business, statistical
Abstract: [Aims] The aim of this study is to search for evidence of a common emission engine between radio giant pulses (GPs) and very-high-energy (VHE, E > 100 GeV) γ-rays from the Crab pulsar., [Methods] We performed 16 h of simultaneous observations of the Crab pulsar at 1.4 GHz with the Effelsberg radio telescope and the Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope (WSRT), and at energies above 60 GeV we used the Major Atmospheric Gamma-ray Imaging Cherenkov (MAGIC) telescopes. We searched for a statistical correlation between the radio and VHE γ-ray emission with search windows of different lengths and different time lags to the arrival times of a radio GP. A dedicated search for an enhancement in the number of VHE γ-rays correlated with the occurrence of radio GPs was carried out separately for the P1 and P2 phase ranges, respectively., [Results] In the radio data sample, 99444 radio GPs were detected. We find no significant correlation between the GPs and VHE photons in any of the search windows. Depending on phase cuts and the chosen search windows, we find upper limits at a 95% confidence level on an increase in VHE γ-ray events correlated with radio GPs between 7% and 61% of the average Crab pulsar VHE flux for the P1 and P2 phase ranges, respectively. This puts upper limits on the flux increase during a radio GP between 12% and 2900% of the pulsed VHE flux, depending on the search window duration and phase cuts. This is the most stringent upper limit on a correlation between γ-ray emission and radio GPs reported so far., The financial support of the German BMBF and MPG, the Italian INFN and INAF, the Swiss National Fund SNF, the ERDF under the Spanish MINECO (FPA2015-69818-P, FPA2012-36668, FPA2015-68378-P, FPA2015-69210-C6-2-R, FPA2015-69210-C6-4-R, FPA2015-69210-C6-6-R, AYA2015-71042-P, AYA2016-76012-C3-1-P, ESP2015-71662-C2-2-P, CSD2009-00064), and the Japanese JSPS and MEXT is gratefully acknowledged. This work was also supported by the Spanish Centro de Excelencia “Severo Ochoa” SEV-2012-0234 and SEV-2015-0548, and Unidad de Excelencia “María de Maeztu” MDM-2014-0369, by the Croatian Science Foundation (HrZZ) Project 09/176 and the University of Rijeka Project 13.12.1.3.02, by the DFG Collaborative Research Centers SFB823/C4 and SFB876/C3, the Polish National Research Centre grant UMO-2016/22/M/ST9/00382 and by the Brazilian MCTIC, CNPq and FAPERJ.
Published: 2019
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19. Spożywanie nieprzetworzonego mleka krowiego zapobiega najczęstszym zakażeniom układu oddechowego u niemowląt

Author: Anne M. Karvonen, R. J. Joost van Neerven, Josef Riedler, Markus J. Ege, Erika von Mutius, Georg Loss, Jon Genuneit, Jean-Charles Dalphin, Vincent Kaulek, Anne Hyvärinen, Roger Lauener, Martin Depner, Outi Vaarala, Charlotte Braun-Fahrländer, Petra Ina Pfefferle, Caroline Roduit, Alexander J. Hose, Juha Pekkanen, Juliane Weber, and Laurien H. Ulfman
Subjects: 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, Animal science, business.industry, 030225 pediatrics, General Earth and Planetary Sciences, Medicine, 030212 general & internal medicine, business, General Environmental Science
Abstract: Streszczenie • Odwrotna zaleznośc pomiedzy spozyciem nieprzetworzonego mleka krowiego a zakazeniami ukladu oddechowego u niemowląt wskazuje na obecnośc przeciwzakaźnych i immunomodulujących cząsteczek związanych z tego typu zakazeniami u ludzi. • Zapobieganie zakazeniom ukladu oddechowego we wczesnym okresie zycia moze nie tylko ogolnie poprawiac stan tego ukladu, ale moze takze korzystnie wplywac na poźniejszy rozwoj ciezkich chorob ukladu oddechowego, jak np. astmy. Bezpieczne mikrobiologicznie, choc minimalnie przetworzone mleko moze miec istotny wplyw na zdrowie spoleczne w odniesieniu do czestych zakazen ukladu oddechowego. Wprowadzenie Karmienie piersią zapobiega zakazeniom ukladu oddechowego w pierwszych miesiącach zycia. Biorąc pod uwage wspolne ewolucyjne procesy adaptacyjne ludzi i bydla, mozliwe, ze mleko krowie wywiera podobny efekt ochronny u niemowląt u ludzi. Cel pracy Analiza wplywu spozywania surowego i przetworzonego mleka krowiego na najczestsze zakazenia ukladu oddechowego u niemowląt. Metody W ramach kohorty urodzeniowej w badaniu PASTURE obserwowano 983 niemowleta z terenow wiejskich z Austrii, Finlandii, Francji, Niemiec i Szwajcarii przez pierwszy rok zycia, obejmując lącznie 37 306 osobo-tygodni. Na podstawie cotygodniowych wpisow w dzienniczku stanu zdrowia analizowano spozycie roznych rodzajow mleka krowiego oraz wystepowanie niezytu blony śluzowej nosa, zakazenia ukladu oddechowego, zapalenia ucha i gorączki. Po 12 miesiącach pobierano probki krwi i oznaczano stezenie bialka C-reaktywnego. Wyniki W porownaniu z mlekiem UHT ( ultra-heat treatment ) spozywanie surowego mleka wykazywalo odwrotną zaleznośc z wystepowaniem niezytu blony śluzowej nosa (skorygowany iloraz szans z modeli longitudinalnych [95% CI]: 0,71 [0,54–0,94]), zakazen ukladu oddechowego (0,77 [0,59–0,99]), zapalenia ucha (0,14 [0,05–0,42]) i gorączki (0,69 [0,47–1,01]). Gotowane mleko wiejskie wykazalo podobną, choc nieco slabszą zaleznośc. Fabrycznie przetworzone mleko pasteryzowane wykazalo odwrotną zaleznośc z wystepowaniem gorączki. Spozywanie surowego mleka wiejskiego wiązalo sie odwrotnie zaleznie ze stezeniami bialka C-reaktywnego po 12 miesiącach (stosunek średnich geometrycznych [95% CI]: 0,66 [0,45–0,98]). Wnioski Spozywanie surowego mleka krowiego we wczesnym okresie zycia zmniejsza ryzyko wystepowania zakazen ukladu oddechowego i gorączki o okolo 30%. Biorąc pod uwage bardzo czeste wystepowanie zakazen ukladu oddechowego w pierwszym roku zycia oraz związane z tym koszty pośrednie i bezpośrednie wydaje sie, ze eliminacja zagrozen zdrowotnych związanych ze spozywaniem surowego mleka moglaby umozliwic ogromny wplyw minimalnie przetworzonego, ale pozbawionego patogenow mleka na zdrowie publiczne.
Published: 2016

20. MAGIC upper limits on the GRB 090102 afterglow

Author: M. Gaug, Elisa Bernardini, Gianluca Giavitto, A. González Muñoz, C. Delgado Mendez, Victor Stamatescu, T. Schweizer, A. De Angelis, Mosè Mariotti, A.-K. Overkemping, D. Dominis Prester, Robert Wagner, L. A. Antonelli, Julian Sitarek, Saverio Lombardi, M. L. Knoetig, P. Antoranz, J. Hose, Natalia Lewandowska, T. Toyama, A. Sillanpää, Nikola Godinovic, Takashi Saito, P. Temnikov, Benito Marcote, Abelardo Moralejo, A. La Barbera, Fabrizio Tavecchio, M. V. Fonseca, A. Bouvier, J. Moldón, D. Garrido Terrats, Konstancja Satalecka, Ll. Font, Reiko Orito, Francisco Prada, W. Idec, Julia Thaele, Michele Doro, M. Palatiello, Dario Hrupec, Jelena Aleksić, M. A. Lopez, E. Colombo, P. Da Vela, V. Scalzotto, Dominik Elsaesser, U. Barres de Almeida, A. Niedzwiecki, M. Doert, Damir Lelas, Fabio Zandanel, Ralph Bock, L. O. Takalo, K. Frantzen, Q. Weitzel, Tihomir Surić, M. Uellenbeck, David Paneque, Francesco Dazzi, Patrick Vogler, Hiroyasu Tajima, I. Snidaric, D. Carreto Fidalgo, Ana Babić, Dorota Sobczyńska, G. De Caneva, U. Menzel, M. Salvati, Stefano Ansoldi, S. Rügamer, Juan Abel Barrio, Riccardo Paoletti, Nina Nowak, Diego F. Torres, A. Herrero, Christian Fruck, S. Partini, M. Hayashida, Francesco Longo, E. Lorenz, S. Paiano, Kari Nilsson, Karl Mannheim, Nijil Mankuzhiyil, K. Berger, P. Munar-Adrover, I. Lozano, D. Hadasch, Giacomo Bonnoli, E. Prandini, J. M. Paredes, M. Garczarczyk, Antonio Stamerra, Silvia Preziuso, Marc Ribó, P. G. Prada Moroni, J. Kushida, Aldo Treves, Jose Luis Contreras, J. Krause, B. De Lotto, Masahiro Teshima, O. Tibolla, Juan Cortina, Martin Makariev, Oscar Blanch, Tomislav Terzić, A. Hadamek, J. Storz, Ivica Puljak, Alicia López-Oramas, Pierre Colin, J. Becerra González, Emanuele Paolo Farina, S. Bonnefoy, Aaron Dominguez, Mario Meucci, R. Mirzoyan, D. Eisenacher, E. Carmona, Daniel Ferenc, Thomas Bretz, S. N. Shore, Wlodek Bednarek, Alessandro Carosi, Ruben Lopez-Coto, Felix Spanier, D. Nakajima, C. Schultz, V. Scapin, Jose Miguel Miranda, F. Borracci, Wolfgang Rhode, Ignasi Reichardt, G. Maneva, R. Zanin, A. Saggion, Adrian Biland, J. Rico, R. Reinthal, L. Maraschi, Elina Lindfors, Daniel Mazin, K. Mallot, R. J. García López, Stefano Covino, S. Sun, Massimo Persic, A. Boller, L. Cossio, D. Tescaro, T. Krähenbühl, K. Saito, J. Masbou, M. I. Martínez, V. Kadenius, S. R. Gozzini, J. Rodriguez Garcia, Daniela Dorner, J., Aleksic, S., Ansoldi, L. A., Antonelli, P., Antoranz, A., Babic, U. B., de Almeida, J. A., Barrio, J. B., Gonzalez, W., Bednarek, K., Berger, E., Bernardini, A., Biland, O., Blanch, R. K., Bock, A., Boller, S., Bonnefoy, G., Bonnoli, F., Borracci, T., Bretz, E., Carmona, A., Carosi, D. C., Fidalgo, P., Colin, E., Colombo, J. L., Contrera, J., Cortina, L., Cossio, S., Covino, P., Da Vela, F., Dazzi, A., De Angeli, G., De Caneva, B., De Lotto, C. D., Mendez, M., Doert, A., Dominguez, D. D., Prester, D., Dorner, M., Doro, D., Eisenacher, D., Elsaesser, E., Farina, D., Ferenc, M. V., Fonseca, L., Font, K., Frantzen, C., Fruck, R. J. G., Lopez, M., Garczarczyk, D. G., Terrat, M., Gaug, G., Giavitto, N., Godinovic, A. G., Munoz, S. R., Gozzini, A., Hadamek, D., Hadasch, A., Herrero, J., Hose, D., Hrupec, W., Idec, V., Kadeniu, M. L., Knoetig, T., Krahenbuhl, J., Krause, J., Kushida, A. L., Barbera, D., Lela, N., Lewandowska, E., Lindfor, S., Lombardi, R., Lopez Coto, M., Lopez, A., Lopez Orama, E., Lorenz, I., Lozano, M., Makariev, K., Mallot, G., Maneva, N., Mankuzhiyil, K., Mannheim, L., Maraschi, B., Marcote, M., Mariotti, M., Martinez, J., Masbou, D., Mazin, U., Menzel, M., Meucci, J. M., Miranda, R., Mirzoyan, J., Moldon, A., Moralejo, P., Munar Adrover, D., Nakajima, A., Niedzwiecki, K., Nilsson, N., Nowak, R., Orito, A., Overkemping, S., Paiano, M., Palatiello, D., Paneque, R., Paoletti, J. M., Parede, S., Partini, M., Persic, F., Prada, P. G. P., Moroni, E., Prandini, S., Preziuso, I., Puljak, I., Reichardt, R., Reinthal, W., Rhode, M., Ribo, J., Rico, J. R., Garcia, S., Rugamer, A., Saggion, K., Saito, T., Saito, M., Salvati, K., Satalecka, V., Scalzotto, V., Scapin, C., Schultz, T., Schweizer, S. N., Shore, A., Sillanpaa, J., Sitarek, I., Snidaric, D., Sobczynska, F., Spanier, V., Stamatescu, A., Stamerra, J., Storz, S., Sun, T., Suric, L., Takalo, F., Tavecchio, P., Temnikov, T., Terzic, D., Tescaro, M., Teshima, J., Thaele, O., Tibolla, D. F., Torre, T., Toyama, A., Treve, M., Uellenbeck, P., Vogler, R. M., Wagner, Q., Weitzel, F., Zandanel, R., Zanin, A., Bouvier, M., Hayashida, H., Tajima, and Longo, Francesco
Subjects: Photon, General, Non-thermal - gamma-ray burst, Radiation mechanisms, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, gamma-ray burst: general, Hadron, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics, general [gamma-ray burst], 7. Clean energy, 01 natural sciences, law.invention, Telescope, law, 0103 physical sciences, MAGIC (telescope), 010306 general physics, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Cherenkov radiation, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), astro-ph.HE, Physics, ta115, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astronomy, Astronomy and Astrophysics, radiation mechanisms: non-thermal, non-thermal [radiation mechanisms], Afterglow, gamma-rays bursts: general, Space and Planetary Science, ddc:520, Electrónica, Física nuclear, Electricidad, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Gamma-ray burst, Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope
Abstract: Indications of a GeV component in the emission from GRBs are known since the EGRET observations during the 1990's and they have been confirmed by the data of the Fermi satellite. These results have, however, shown that our understanding of GRB physics is still unsatisfactory. The new generation of Cherenkov observatories and in particular the MAGIC telescope, allow for the first time the possibility to extend the measurement of GRBs from several tens up to hundreds of GeV energy range. Both leptonic and hadronic processes have been suggested to explain the possible GeV/TeV counterpart of GRBs. Observations with ground-based telescopes of very high energy photons (E>30 GeV) from these sources are going to play a key role in discriminating among the different proposed emission mechanisms, which are barely distinguishable at lower energies. MAGIC telescope observations of the GRB 090102 (z=1.547) field and Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) data in the same time interval are analysed to derive upper limits of the GeV/TeV emission. We compare these results to the expected emissions evaluated for different processes in the framework of a relativistic blast wave model for the afterglow. Simultaneous upper limits with Fermi and a Cherenkov telescope have been derived for this GRB observation. The results we obtained are compatible with the expected emission although the difficulties in predicting the HE and VHE emission for the afterglow of this event makes it difficult to draw firmer conclusions. Nonetheless, MAGIC sensitivity in the energy range of overlap with space-based instruments (above about 40 GeV) is about one order of magnitude better with respect to Fermi. This makes evident the constraining power of ground-based observations and shows that the MAGIC telescope has reached the required performance to make possible GRB multiwavelength studies in the very high energy range., 8 pages, 5 figures, 2 tables. Submitted to MNRAS
Published: 2014

21. Toward a More Holistic Framework for Solvent Selection

Author: Adlington Neil Keith, Louis J. Diorazio, and David R. J. Hose
Subjects: Solvent, 010405 organic chemistry, Computer science, Environmental chemistry, Organic Chemistry, Biochemical engineering, Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, Solubility, 010402 general chemistry, 01 natural sciences, Selection (genetic algorithm), 0104 chemical sciences
Abstract: An interactive tool has been developed to facilitate solvent selection, allowing consideration of chemical functionality, physical properties, regulatory concerns, and safety/health/environmental (SHE) impact. Appropriate solvents can be identified prior to screening experiments, and less desirable solvents can be replaced in established processes. Once a shortlist has been identified, the data can define experimental programs or else be exported to a molecular properties prediction tool to assess suitability through, e.g., solubility and partitioning.
Published: 2016

22. Development of atopic sensitization in Finnish and Estonian children: A latent class analysis in a multicenter cohort

Author: Aleksandr Peet, Markus J. Ege, Alexander J. Hose, Erika von Mutius, Mikael Knip, Juliane Weber, Felicitas Schmidt, Onni Niemelä, Heli Siljander, Susanne Mueller-Rompa, Vallo Tillmann, Anu-Maaria Hämäläinen, and Tabea Brick
Subjects: Estonia, Hypersensitivity, Immediate, Male, Allergy, Immunology, Disease, Atopy, Allergic sensitization, Cohort Studies, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, Environmental health, medicine, Prevalence, Immunology and Allergy, Humans, Life Style, Finland, 030304 developmental biology, Asthma, 2. Zero hunger, 0303 health sciences, Air Pollutants, business.industry, Latent Class Analysis, Unsupervised Clustering, Ige, Diabetes Type 1 Risk, Wheezing, Severe Atopy, Odds ratio, Allergens, Immunoglobulin E, medicine.disease, Latent class model, Phenotype, 030228 respiratory system, Socioeconomic Factors, Child, Preschool, Cohort, Pollen, Female, Immunization, Seasons, business
Abstract: Background: The prevalence of atopy is associated with a Western lifestyle, as shown by studies comparing neighboring regions with different socioeconomic backgrounds. Atopy might reflect various conditions differing in their susceptibility to environmental factors.Objective: We sought to define phenotypes of atopic sensitization in early childhood and examine their association with allergic diseases and hereditary background in Finland and Estonia.Methods: The analysis included 1603 Finnish and 1657 Estonian children from the DIABIMMUNE multicenter young children cohort. Specific IgE levels were measured at age 3, 4, and 5 years, respectively, and categorized into 3 CAP classes. Latent class analysis was performed with the statistical software package poLCA in R software.Results: Both populations differed in terms of socioeconomic status and environmental determinants, such as pet ownership, farm-related exposure, time spent playing outdoors, and prevalence of allergic diseases (all P
Published: 2018

23. Multi-wavelength characterization of the blazar S5 0716+714 during an unprecedented outburst phase

Author: Mark Gurwell, Max Ludwig Ahnen, Elina Lindfors, D. Gasparrini, Antonio Stamerra, Daniel Mazin, J. Becerra González, Alessandro Carosi, B. De Lotto, Francesco Longo, A. Berti, Ievgen Vovk, G. A. Borman, Rodrigo Reeves, Abelardo Moralejo, M. Peresano, N. Torres-Albà, P. Giammaria, Helen Jermak, V. Fallah Ramazani, Juan Abel Barrio, G. Pedaletti, Adrian Biland, G. Bonnoli, M. Minev, I. Reichardt, T. Schweizer, D. Bastieri, I. Snidaric, Takashi Saito, I. Agudo, Stefano Gallozzi, Jose Miguel Miranda, Satoshi Masuda, R. J. García López, Alexander Hahn, Stefano Covino, Dario Hrupec, J. Kushida, J. Rico, J. Anton Zensus, Arka Chatterjee, Alan P. Marscher, Mosè Mariotti, M. A. Lopez, Dominik Baack, Yu. V. Troitskaya, Mitsunari Takahashi, A. C. S. Readhead, J. E. Ward, K. Mielke, D. Galindo, Aaron Dominguez, Jose Luis Contreras, Svetlana G. Jorstad, J. R. Garcia, D. Fidalgo, Massimo Persic, Pratik Majumdar, M. V. Fonseca, L. Maraschi, D. Kuveždić, K. Nishijima, D. Dominis Prester, J. M. Paredes, Sidika Merve Colak, E. N. Kopatskaya, D. J. Thompson, Juan Cortina, P. G. Prada Moroni, Giovanni Ceribella, Julian Sitarek, Stefano Ansoldi, Oscar Blanch, T. S. Grishina, Emmanouil Angelakis, Wrijupan Bhattacharyya, C. Fruck, Tomislav Terzić, Riccardo Paoletti, Chiara Righi, B. Lott, Jordi Delgado, A. Niedzwiecki, G. M. Madejski, D. Hadasch, F. Di Pierro, Saverio Lombardi, A. De Angelis, M. Strzys, Talvikki Hovatta, M. Vazquez Acosta, A. Treves, Vitaly Neustroev, L. V. Larionova, Ivan S. Troitsky, David Paneque, Yusuke Konno, L. Nogués, P. Temnikov, Andrea Rugliancich, Tarek M. Hassan, Krzysztof Nalewajko, W. Bednarek, Thomas P. Krichbaum, Sergey S. Savchenko, Victoria Moreno, Francesco Dazzi, A. Fernández-Barral, Ryosuke Itoh, P. Da Vela, Alexander Kraus, E. Moretti, Louis Antonelli, Fabrizio Tavecchio, Ll. Font, Bindu Rani, T. J. Pearson, Valeri M. Larionov, T. Nagayoshi, G. Maneva, D. Guberman, Manuel Delfino, Camilla Maggio, Daniela Dorner, Dariusz Gora, Gaia Vanzo, M. Gaug, S. Paiano, T. Surić, J. Herrera, Marina Manganaro, Shimpei Tsujimoto, Koji Noda, Ana Babić, Elisa Bernardini, Emilia Järvelä, Carolina Casadio, Anne Lähteenmäki, Masahiro Teshima, Karl Mannheim, Kari Nilsson, M. Will, Nikola Godinovic, Ioannis Myserlis, Merja Tornikoski, E. Colombo, Markus Garczarczyk, N. P. M. Kuin, L. O. Takalo, P. Cumani, Kazuma Ishio, Konstancja Satalecka, Michele Doro, Cosimo Nigro, M. Nievas Rosillo, Rodolfo Carosi, J. Palacio, V. Ramakrishnan, M. I. Martínez, P. Bangale, Sabrina Einecke, M. Makariev, E. Prandini, Iain A. Steele, Razmik Mirzoyan, U. Barres de Almeida, Damir Lelas, A. A. Vasilyev, Dorota Sobczyńska, Ivica Puljak, Pierre Colin, Sol N. Molina, D. A. Morozova, D. Ninci, A. Y. Lien, J. Hose, D. Elsaesser, Walter Max-Moerbeck, R. Ch. Berse, M. Hayashida, D. Zarić, Wolfgang Rhode, Marc Ribó, Hidetoshi Kubo, B. Banerjee, C. Arcaro, Centre d'Etudes Nucléaires de Bordeaux Gradignan (CENBG), Université Sciences et Technologies - Bordeaux 1-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), MAGIC, MWL, Fermi-LAT, Ahnen, M. L., Ansoldi, S., Antonelli, L. A., Arcaro, C., Baack, D., Babić, A., Banerjee, B., Bangale, P., Barres De Almeida, U., Barrio, J. A., Becerra González, J., Bednarek, W., Bernardini, E., Ch Berse, R., Berti, A., Bhattacharyya, W., Biland, A., Blanch, O., Bonnoli, G., Carosi, R., Carosi, A., Ceribella, G., Chatterjee, A., Colak, S. M., Colin, P., Colombo, E., Contreras, J. L., Cortina, J., Covino, S., Cumani, P., Da Vela, P., Dazzi, F., De Angelis, A., De Lotto, B., Delfino, M., Delgado, J., Di Pierro, F., Domínguez, A., Dominis Prester, D., Dorner, D., Doro, M., Einecke, S., Elsaesser, D., Fallah Ramazani, V., Fernández-Barral, A., Fidalgo, D., Fonseca, M. V., Font, L., Fruck, C., Galindo, D., Gallozzi, S., García López, R. J., Garczarczyk, M., Gaug, M., Giammaria, P., Godinović, N., Gora, D., Guberman, D., Hadasch, D., Hahn, A., Hassan, T., Hayashida, M., Herrera, J., Hose, J., Hrupec, D., Ishio, K., Konno, Y., Kubo, H., Kushida, J., Kuveždić, D., Lelas, D., Lindfors, E., Lombardi, S., Longo, F., López, M., Maggio, C., Majumdar, P., Makariev, M., Maneva, G., Manganaro, M., Mannheim, K., Maraschi, L., Mariotti, M., Martínez, M., Masuda, S., Mazin, D., Mielke, K., Minev, M., Miranda, J. M., Mirzoyan, R., Moralejo, A., Moreno, V., Moretti, E., Nagayoshi, T., Neustroev, V., Niedzwiecki, A., Nievas Rosillo, M., Nigro, C., Nilsson, K., Ninci, D., Nishijima, K., Noda, K., Nogués, L., Paiano, S., Palacio, J., Paneque, D., Paoletti, R., Paredes, J. M., Pedaletti, G., Peresano, M., Persic, M., Prada Moroni, P. G., Prandini, E., Puljak, I., Garcia, J. R., Reichardt, I., Rhode, W., Ribó, M., Rico, J., Righi, C., Rugliancich, A., Saito, T., Satalecka, K., Schweizer, T., Sitarek, J., Šnidarić, I., Sobczynska, D., Stamerra, A., Strzys, M., Surić, T., Takahashi, M., Takalo, L., Tavecchio, F., Temnikov, P., Terzić, T., Teshima, M., Torres-Albà, N., Treves, A., Tsujimoto, S., Vanzo, G., Vazquez Acosta, M., Vovk, I., Ward, J. E., Will, M., Zarić, D., Bastieri, D., Gasparrini, D., Lott, B., Rani, B., Thompson, D. J., Agudo, I., Angelakis, E., Borman, G. A., Casadio, C., Grishina, T. S., Gurwell, M., Hovatta, T., Itoh, R., Järvelä, E., Jermak, H., Jorstad, S., Kopatskaya, E. N., Kraus, A., Krichbaum, T. P., Kuin, N. P. M., Lähteenmäki, A., Larionov, V. M., Larionova, L. V., Lien, A. Y., Madejski, G., Marscher, A., Myserlis, I., Max-Moerbeck, W., Molina, S. N., Morozova, D. A., Nalewajko, K., Pearson, T. J., Ramakrishnan, V., Readhead, A. C. S., Reeves, R. A., Savchenko, S. S., Steele, I. A., Tornikoski, M., Troitskaya, Yu. V., Troitsky, I., Vasilyev, A. A., Anton Zensus, J., Japanese Government, Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (España), Swiss National Science Foundation, Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica, Federal Ministry of Education and Research (Germany), Croatian Science Foundation, Polish Academy of Sciences, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (France), Ministério da Ciência e Tecnologia (Brasil), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (US), Academy of Finland, Smithsonian Institution, Academia Sinica (Taiwan), Russian Science Foundation, Junta de Andalucía, Department of Electronics and Nanoengineering, Aalto-yliopisto, and Aalto University
Subjects: BL Lacertae objects: individual: S5 0716+714, galaxies: active, galaxies: jets, gamma rays: galaxies, galaxies [Gamma rays], active [Galaxies], Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Galaxies: active, Galaxies: jets, Gamma rays: galaxies, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Space and Planetary Science, 7. Clean energy, 01 natural sciences, jet [Galaxies], Radio spectrum, 0103 physical sciences, Blazar, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, QC, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, QB, Physics, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Superluminal motion, galaxie [Gamma rays], 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Spectral density, Astronomy and Astrophysic, Light curve, Redshift, ddc:520, jets [Galaxies], Física nuclear, individual: S5 0716+714 [BL Lacertae objects], gamma-rays: galaxies, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], BL Lac object, Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope
Abstract: Context. The BL Lac object S5 0716+714, a highly variable blazar, underwent an impressive outburst in January 2015 (Phase A), followed by minor activity in February (Phase B). The MAGIC observations were triggered by the optical flux observed in Phase A, corresponding to the brightest ever reported state of the source in the R-band. Aims.The comprehensive dataset collected is investigated in order to shed light on the mechanism of the broadband emission. Methods. Multi-wavelength light curves have been studied together with the broadband spectral energy distributions (SEDs). The sample includes data from Effelsberg, OVRO, Metsähovi, VLBI, CARMA, IRAM, SMA, Swift-UVOT, KVA, Tuorla, Steward, RINGO3, KANATA, AZT-8+ST7, Perkins, LX-200, Swift-XRT, NuSTAR, Fermi-LAT and MAGIC. Results. The flaring state of Phase A was detected in all the energy bands, providing for the first time a multi-wavelength sample of simultaneous data from the radio band to the very-high-energy (VHE, E > 100 GeV). In the constructed SED, the Swift-XRT+NuSTAR data constrain the transition between the synchrotron and inverse Compton components very accurately, while the second peak is constrained from 0.1 GeV to 600 GeV by Fermi+MAGIC data. The broadband SED cannot be described with a one-zone synchrotron self-Compton model as it severely underestimates the optical flux in order to reproduce the X-ray to -ray data. Instead we use a two-zone model. The electric vector position angle (EVPA) shows an unprecedented fast rotation. An estimation of the redshift of the source by combined high-energy (HE, 0.1 GeV < E < 100 GeV) and VHE data provides a value of z = 0:31 ± 0:02 ± 0:05, confirming the literature value. Conclusions. The data show the VHE emission originating in the entrance and exit of a superluminal knot in and out of a recollimation shock in the inner jet. A shock-shock interaction in the jet seems responsible for the observed flares and EVPA swing. This scenario is also consistent with the SED modeling. © ESO 2018., We would like to thank the Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias for the excellent working conditions at the Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos in La Palma. The financial support of the German BMBF and MPG, the Italian INFN and INAF, the Swiss National Fund SNF, the ERDF under the Spanish MINECO (FPA2015-69818-P, FPA2012-36668, FPA2015-68378-P, FPA2015-69210-C6-2-R, FPA2015-69210-C6-4-R, FPA2015-69210-C6-6-R, AYA2015-71042-P, AYA2016-76012-C3-1-P, ESP2015-71662-C2-2-P, CSD2009-00064), and the Japanese JSPS and MEXT is gratefully acknowledged. This work was also supported by the Spanish Centro de Excelencia "Severo Ochoa" SEV-2012-0234 and SEV-2015-0548, and Unidad de Excelencia "Maria de Maeztu" MDM-2014-0369, by the Croatian Science Foundation (HrZZ) Project IP-2016-06-9782 and the University of Rijeka Project 13.12.1.3.02, by the DFG Collaborative Research Centers SFB823/C4 and SFB876/C3, the Polish National Research Centre grant UMO-2016/22/M/ST9/00382 and by the Brazilian MCTIC, CNPq and FAPERJ. The Fermi-LAT Collaboration acknowledges generous ongoing support from a number of agencies and institutes that have supported both the development and the operation of the LAT as well as scientific data analysis. These include the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the Department of Energy in the United States, the Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique and the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique/Institut National de Physique Nucleaire et de Physique des Particules in France, the Agenzia Spaziale Italiana and the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare in Italy, the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT), High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK) and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) in Japan, and the K. A. Wallenberg Foundation, the Swedish Research Council and the Swedish National Space Board in Sweden. Additional support for science analysis during the operations phase is gratefully acknowledged from the Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica in Italy and the Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales in France. This research was supported by an appointment to the NASA Postdoctoral Program at the Goddard Space Flight Center, administered by Universities Space Research Association through a contract with NASA. We thank the Swift team duty scientists and science planners., The Metsahovi team acknowledges the support from the Academy of Finland to our observing projects (numbers 212656, 210338, 121148, and others). The VLBA is an instrument of the Long Baseline Observatory. The Long Baseline Observatory is a facility of the National Science Foundation operated by Associated Universities, Inc. The Sub-millimeter Array is a joint project between the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory and the Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics and is funded by the Smithsonian Institution and the Academia Sinica. The OVRO 40-m monitoring program is supported in part by NASA grants NNX08AW31G, NNX11A043G and NNX14AQ89G, and NSF grants AST-0808050 and AST-1109911. The St. Petersburg University team acknowledges support from Russian Science Foundation grant 17-12-01029. The BU group acknowledges support by NASA under Fermi Guest Investigator grant NNX14AQ58G and by NSF under grant AST-1615796. Part of this work was done with funding by the UK Space Agency. The VLBA is an instrument of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory. The National Radio Astronomy Observatory is a facility of the National Science Foundation operated under cooperative agreement by Associated Universities, Inc. The PRISM (Perkins Re-Imaging SysteM) camera at Lowell Observatory was developed by K. Janes et al. at BU and Lowell Observatory, with funding from the NSF, BU, and Lowell Observatory. This paper makes use of data obtained with the 100m Effelsberg radio-telescope, which is operated by the Max-Planck-Institut fur Radioastronomy (MPIfR) in Bonn (Germany). Part of this work is based on archival data, software or online services provided by the ASI Science Data Center (ASDC). PYRAF is a product of the Space Telescope Science Institute, which is operated by AURA for NASA. This paper is partly based on observations carried out with the IRAM 30 m. IRAM is supported by INSU/CNRS (France), MPG (Germany) and IGN (Spain). IA acknowledges support by a Ramon y Cajal grant of the Ministerio de Economia, Industria y Competitividad (MINECO) of Spain. The research at the IAA-CSIC was supported in part by the MINECO through grants AYA2016-80889-P, AYA2013-40825-P, and AYA2010-14844, and by the regional government of Andalucia through grant P09-FQM-4784. The Liverpool Telescope is operated by JMU with financial support from the UK-STFC.
Published: 2018

24. Limits on the flux of tau neutrinos from 1 PeV to 3 EeV with the MAGIC telescopes

Author: Christian Fruck, L. Nogués, E. Moretti, Francesco Longo, Alba Fernández-Barral, Kazuma Ishio, Satoshi Masuda, Arka Chatterjee, D. Fidalgo, Yusuke Konno, M. Garczarczyk, L. Maraschi, Elina Lindfors, Ievgen Vovk, Ivica Puljak, Pierre Colin, J. R. Garcia, Daniel Mazin, A. Berti, M. I. Martínez, Rodolfo Carosi, Mosè Mariotti, Louis Antonelli, T. Schweizer, K. Mielke, Alessandro Carosi, B. De Lotto, Aaron Dominguez, Cosimo Nigro, M. Nievas Rosillo, T. Nagayoshi, Martin Makariev, N. Torres-Albà, M. Minev, Sabrina Einecke, Pratik Majumdar, M. V. Fonseca, Nikola Godinovic, J. E. Ward, J. Becerra González, Stefano Ansoldi, Riccardo Paoletti, Jose Miguel Miranda, Saverio Lombardi, Andrea Rugliancich, Abelardo Moralejo, Sidika Merve Colak, Stefano Covino, Tomislav Terzić, Oscar Blanch, P. G. Prada Moroni, G. Pedaletti, E. Colombo, Marcel Strzys, Masahiro Teshima, Wrijupan Bhattacharyya, J. Palacio, Julian Sitarek, J. Hose, K. Nishijima, Daniela Hadasch, R. Mirzoyan, Adrian Biland, Martin Will, J. M. Paredes, U. Barres de Almeida, I. Reichardt, L. O. Takalo, Antonio Stamerra, Tomoki Saito, Giovanni Ceribella, D. Elsaesser, R. Ch. Berse, Damir Lelas, M. Peresano, Marina Manganaro, D. Galindo, Shimpei Tsujimoto, Dominik Baack, Tihomir Surić, J. Rico, Dorota Sobczyńska, Wolfgang Rhode, S. Paiano, Chiara Righi, P. Cumani, Konstancja Satalecka, Michele Doro, Karl Mannheim, P. Temnikov, Dario Hrupec, Francesco Dazzi, M. Vazquez Acosta, Juan Abel Barrio, M. A. Lopez, Mitsunari Takahashi, Victoria Moreno, A. Niedzwiecki, R. J. García López, David Paneque, B. Banerjee, C. Arcaro, D. Guberman, E. Prandini, A. De Angelis, A. Treves, Vitaly Neustroev, Massimo Persic, D. Kuveždić, Jordi Delgado, G. Bonnoli, F. Di Pierro, Manuel Delfino, Camilla Maggio, Daniela Dorner, Dariusz Gora, Gaia Vanzo, M. Gaug, J. Herrera, G. Maneva, Koji Noda, Elisa Bernardini, P. Da Vela, Ana Babić, Kari Nilsson, J. Kushida, Jose Luis Contreras, Juan Cortina, Tarek M. Hassan, W. Bednarek, Fabrizio Tavecchio, Ll. Font, Max Ludwig Ahnen, P. Giammaria, I. Snidaric, M. Hayashida, D. Zarić, Marc Ribó, P. Bangale, Hidetoshi Kubo, D. Ninci, Alexander Hahn, D. Dominis Prester, V. Fallah Ramazani, Ahnen, M. L., Ansoldi, S., Antonelli, L. A., Arcaro, C., Baack, D., Babić, A., Banerjee, B., Bangale, P., Barres de Almeida, U., Barrio, J. A., González, J. Becerra, Bednarek, W., Bernardini, E., Berse, R. Ch., Berti, A., Bhattacharyya, W., Biland, A., Blanch, O., Bonnoli, G., Carosi, R., Carosi, A., Ceribella, G., Chatterjee, A., Colak, S. M., Colin, P., Colombo, E., Contreras, J. L., Cortina, J., Covino, S., Cumani, P., Vela, P. Da, Dazzi, F., Angelis, A. De, Lotto, B. De, Delfino, M., Delgado, J., Pierro, F. Di, Domínguez, A., Prester, D. Domini, Dorner, D., Doro, M., Einecke, S., Elsaesser, D., Fallah Ramazani, V., Fernández-Barral, A., Fidalgo, D., Fonseca, M. V., Font, L., Fruck, C., Galindo, D., García López, R. J., Garczarczyk, M., Gaug, M., Giammaria, P., Godinović, N., Góra, D., Guberman, D., Hadasch, D., Hahn, A., Hassan, T., Hayashida, M., Herrera, J., Hose, J., Hrupec, D., Ishio, K., Konno, Y., Kubo, H., Kushida, J., Kuveždić, D., Lelas, D., Lindfors, E., Lombardi, S., Longo, F., López, M., Maggio, C., Majumdar, P., Makariev, M., Maneva, G., Manganaro, M., Mannheim, K., Maraschi, L., Mariotti, M., Martínez, M., Masuda, S., Mazin, D., Mielke, K., Minev, M., Miranda, J. M., Mirzoyan, R., Moralejo, A., Moreno, V., Moretti, E., Nagayoshi, T., Neustroev, V., Niedzwiecki, A., Nievas Rosillo, M., Nigro, C., Nilsson, K., Ninci, D., Nishijima, K., Noda, K., Nogués, L., Paiano, S., Palacio, J., Paneque, D., Paoletti, R., Paredes, J. M., Pedaletti, G., Peresano, M., Persic, M., Prada Moroni, P. G., Prandini, E., Puljak, I., Garcia, J. R., Reichardt, I., Rhode, W., Ribó, M., Rico, J., Righi, C., Rugliancich, A., Saito, T., Satalecka, K., Schweizer, T., Sitarek, J., Šnidarić, I., Sobczynska, D., Stamerra, A., Strzys, M., Surić, T., Takahashi, M., Takalo, L., Tavecchio, F., Temnikov, P., Terzić, T., Teshima, M., Torres-Albà, N., Treves, A., Tsujimoto, S., Vanzo, G., Vazquez Acosta, M., Vovk, I., Ward, J. E., Will, M., and Zarić, D.
Subjects: Point source, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Tau neutrinos, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics, Cherenkov telescopes, 01 natural sciences, law.invention, law, Tau neutrino, 0103 physical sciences, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Physics, Gamma-ray astronomy, tau neutrinos, Spectral index, ta115, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Horizon, High Energy Physics::Phenomenology, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Cherenkov telescope, ddc:540, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Neutrino, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Lepton, Flare
Abstract: Astroparticle physics 102, 77 - 88 (2018). doi:10.1016/j.astropartphys.2018.05.002, 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 Island of La Palma, can point towards the horizon or a few degrees below across an azimuthal range of about 80°. This provides a possibility to search for air showers induced by tau leptons arising from interactions of tau neutrinos in the Earth crust or the surrounding ocean. In this paper we show how such air showers can be discriminated from the background of very inclined hadronic showers by using Monte Carlo simulations. Taking into account the orography of the site, the point source acceptance and the event rates expected have been calculated for a sample of generic neutrino fluxes from photo-hadronic interactions in AGNs. The analysis of about 30 h of data taken towards the sea leads to a 90% C.L. point source limit for tau neutrinos in the energy range from 1.0 × 10$^{15}$ eV to 3.0 × 10$^{18}$ eV of about $E^{2}_{\nu_{\tau}} \times \phi (E_{\nu_{\tau}}) < 2.0 \times 10^{-4}$ GeV cm$^{-2} s^{-1}$ for an assumed power-law neutrino spectrum with spectral index $\gamma =−2$. However, with 300 h and in case of an optimistic neutrino flare model, limits of the level down to $E^{2}_{\nu_{\tau}} \times \phi (E_{\nu_{\tau}}) < 8.4 \times 10^{-6}$ GeV cm$^{-2} s^{-1}$ can be expected., Published by Elsevier Science, Amsterdam [u.a.]
Published: 2018

25. Detection of the blazar S4 0954+65 at very-high-energy with the MAGIC telescopes during an exceptionally high optical state

Author: M. Hayashida, Satoshi Masuda, Arka Chatterjee, Juan Abel Barrio, D. Fidalgo, Yu. V. Troitskaya, Svetlana G. Jorstad, Emilia Järvelä, Marc Ribó, J. A. Acosta Pulido, Wrijupan Bhattacharyya, L. Maraschi, Kari Nilsson, P. Bangale, Hidetoshi Kubo, J. Hose, Stefano Ansoldi, Yusuke Konno, D. Elsaesser, Riccardo Paoletti, Tomislav Terzić, Francesco Longo, Elina Lindfors, P. G. Prada Moroni, Daniel Mazin, G. A. Borman, Alessandro Carosi, V. Fallah Ramazani, J. Palacio, D. Ninci, Kazuma Ishio, Pratik Majumdar, A. Berti, J. M. Paredes, Antonio Stamerra, N. Torres-Albà, J. Kushida, M. V. Fonseca, Jose Luis Contreras, M. Peresano, M. Makariev, G. Bonnoli, D. Kuveždić, Tarek M. Hassan, W. Bednarek, G. Pedaletti, Juan Cortina, Fabrizio Tavecchio, Martin Will, Chiara Righi, R. Ch. Berse, Ll. Font, Razmik Mirzoyan, Rodolfo Carosi, Dario Hrupec, Jose Miguel Miranda, J. Becerra González, M. A. Lopez, J. R. Garcia, Marina Manganaro, U. Barres de Almeida, P. Temnikov, E. Colombo, Oscar Blanch, T. S. Grishina, Mitsunari Takahashi, Stefano Covino, Louis Antonelli, Damir Lelas, Valeri M. Larionov, Aaron Dominguez, D. Galindo, Merja Tornikoski, Sergey S. Savchenko, Francesco Dazzi, Manuel Delfino, D. Dominis Prester, Wolfgang Rhode, Nikola Godinovic, Shimpei Tsujimoto, Tomoki Saito, Giovanni Ceribella, A. A. Vasilyev, Ana Babić, P. Cumani, L. O. Takalo, Konstancja Satalecka, L. Nogués, Michele Doro, Max Ludwig Ahnen, Dorota Sobczyńska, R. Ojha, K. Mielke, J. Finke, E. Moretti, Ievgen Vovk, P. Giammaria, Jordi Delgado, F. Di Pierro, Camilla Maggio, Daniela Dorner, Dariusz Gora, M. Gaug, G. Vanzo, C. Protasio, J. Herrera, D. Hadasch, Alba Fernández-Barral, Carolina Casadio, Anne Lähteenmäki, Mosè Mariotti, Masahiro Teshima, Alexander Hahn, E. Prandini, Cosimo Nigro, M. Nievas Rosillo, T. Nagayoshi, Kyoshi Nishijima, M. Minev, Iva Šnidarić, T. Schweizer, J. E. Ward, Sidika Merve Colak, E. N. Kopatskaya, A. Niedzwiecki, Koji Noda, Elisa Bernardini, Ivan S. Troitsky, David Paneque, D. Guberman, Saverio Lombardi, Andrea Rugliancich, V. Ramakrishnan, M. I. Martínez, Sabrina Einecke, Ivica Puljak, Pierre Colin, Markus Garczarczyk, M. I. Carnerero, Talvikki Hovatta, Sol N. Molina, P. Da Vela, Julian Sitarek, S. Paiano, Karl Mannheim, D. A. Morozova, A. De Angelis, A. Treves, Vitaly Neustroev, M. Vazquez Acosta, L. V. Larionova, G. Maneva, I. Agudo, Adrian Biland, Tihomir Surić, J. Rico, Dominik Baack, Alan P. Marscher, Christian Fruck, Victoria Moreno, Darko Zarić, B. De Lotto, Abelardo Moralejo, I. Reichardt, Mark Gurwell, B. Banerjee, Marcel Strzys, C. Arcaro, R. J. García López, Massimo Persic, Yasuyuki T. Tanaka, Ahnen, M. L., Ansoldi, S., Antonelli, L. A., Arcaro, C., Baack, D., Babić, A., Banerjee, B., Bangale, P., Barres De Almeida, U., Barrio, J. A., Bednarek, W., Bernardini, E., Berse, R. Ch., Berti, A., Bhattacharyya, W., Biland, A., Blanch, O., Bonnoli, G., Carosi, R., Carosi, A., Ceribella, G., Chatterjee, A., Colak, S. M., Colin, P., Colombo, E., Contreras, J. L., Cortina, J., Covino, S., Cumani, P., Da Vela, P., Dazzi, F., De Angelis, A., De Lotto, B., Delfino, M., Delgado, J., Di Pierro, F., Domínguez, A., Dominis Prester, D., Dorner, D., Doro, M., Einecke, S., Elsaesser, D., Fallah Ramazani, V., Fernández-Barral, A., Fidalgo, D., Fonseca, M. V., Font, L., Fruck, C., Galindo, D., García López, R. J., Garczarczyk, M., Gaug, M., Giammaria, P., Godinović, N., Gora, D., Guberman, D., Hadasch, D., Hahn, A., Hassan, T., Hayashida, M., Herrera, J., Hose, J., Hrupec, D., Ishio, K., Konno, Y., Kubo, H., Kushida, J., Kuveždić, D., Lelas, D., Lindfors, E., Lombardi, S., Longo, F., López, M., Maggio, C., Majumdar, P., Makariev, M., Maneva, G., Manganaro, M., Mannheim, K., Maraschi, L., Mariotti, M., Martínez, M., Masuda, S., Mazin, D., Mielke, K., Minev, M., Miranda, J. M., Mirzoyan, R., Moralejo, A., Moreno, V., Moretti, E., Nagayoshi, T., Neustroev, V., Niedzwiecki, A., Nievas Rosillo, M., Nigro, C., Nilsson, K., Ninci, D., Nishijima, K., Noda, K., Nogués, L., Paiano, S., Palacio, J., Paneque, D., Paoletti, R., Paredes, J. M., Pedaletti, G., Peresano, M., Persic, M., Prada Moroni, P. G., Prandini, E., Puljak, I., Garcia, J. R., Reichardt, I., Rhode, W., Ribó, M., Rico, J., Righi, C., Rugliancich, A., Saito, T., Satalecka, K., Schweizer, T., Sitarek, J., Šnidarić, I., Sobczynska, D., Stamerra, A., Strzys, M., Surić, T., Takahashi, M., Takalo, L., Tavecchio, F., Temnikov, P., Terzić, T., Teshima, M., Torres-Albà, N., Treves, A., Tsujimoto, S., Vanzo, G., Vazquez Acosta, M., Vovk, I., Ward, J. E., Will, M., Zarić, D., Becerra González, J., Tanaka, Y., Ojha, R., Finke, J., Lähteenmäki, A., Järvelä, E., Tornikoski, M., Ramakrishnan, V., Hovatta, T., Jorstad, S. G., Marscher, A. P., Larionov, V. M., Borman, G. A., Grishina, T. S., Kopatskaya, E. N., Larionova, L. V., Morozova, D. A., Savchenko, S. S., Troitskaya, Yu. V., Troitsky, I. S., Vasilyev, A. A., Agudo, I., Molina, S. N., Casadio, C., Gurwell, M., Carnerero, M. I., Protasio, C., Acosta Pulido, J. A., Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (España), Swiss National Science Foundation, Federal Ministry of Education and Research (Germany), Junta de Andalucía, Max Planck Society, Universitat de Barcelona, Department of Electronics and Nanoengineering, Aalto-yliopisto, and Aalto University
Subjects: individual: S4 0954+65 [BL Lacertae objects], Active galactic nucleus, active [Galaxies], BL Lacertae objects: individual: S4 0954+65, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, Galaxies: active, Gamma rays: galaxies, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Space and Planetary Science, 0103 physical sciences, Gamma ray astronomy, Astronomia de raigs gamma, gamma rays:galaxies, galaxies:active, BL Lacertae objects:individual:S40954+65, Blazar, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Quasars, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Quàsars, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Physics, gamma rays: galaxies, galaxies: active, galaxie [Gamma rays], 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Compton scattering, Optical polarization, Quasar, Astronomy and Astrophysic, Galaxies, Redshift, Galàxies, galaxies [gamma rays], ddc:520, Spectral energy distribution, Física nuclear, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Radio wave
Abstract: The very high energy (VHE ¿ 100 GeV) -ray MAGIC observations of the blazar S4 0954+65, were triggered by an exceptionally high flux state of emission in the optical. This blazar has a disputed redshift of z = 0.368 or z ¿ 0.45 and an uncertain classification among blazar subclasses. The exceptional source state described here makes for an excellent opportunity to understand physical processes in the jet of S4 0954+65 and thus contribute to its classification. Methods. We investigated the multiwavelength (MWL) light curve and spectral energy distribution (SED) of the S4 0954+65 blazar during an enhanced state in February 2015 and have put it in context with possible emission scenarios. We collected photometric data in radio, optical, X-ray, and ¿-ray. We studied both the optical polarization and the inner parsec-scale jet behavior with 43 GHz data. Results. Observations with the MAGIC telescopes led to the first detection of S4 0954+65 at VHE. Simultaneous data with Fermi-LAT at high energy ¿-ray(HE, 100 MeV < E < 100 GeV) also show a period of increased activity. Imaging at 43 GHz reveals the emergence of a new feature in the radio jet in coincidence with the VHE flare. Simultaneous monitoring of the optical polarization angle reveals a rotation of approximately 100. Conclusions. The high emission state during the flare allows us to compile the simultaneous broadband SED and to characterize it in the scope of blazar jet emission models. The broadband spectrum can be modeled with an emission mechanism commonly invoked for flat spectrum radio quasars (FSRQs), that is, inverse Compton scattering on an external soft photon field from the dust torus, also known as external Compton. The light curve and SED phenomenology is consistent with an interpretation of a blob propagating through a helical structured magnetic field and eventually crossing a standing shock in the jet, a scenario typically applied to FSRQs and low-frequency peaked BL Lac objects (LBL). © ESO 2018., The financial support of the German BMBF and MPG, the Italian INFN and INAF, the Swiss National Fund SNF, the ERDF under the Spanish MINECO (FPA2015-69818-P, FPA2012-36668, FPA2015-68378-P, FPA2015-69210-C6-2-R, FPA2015-69210-C6-4-R, FPA2015-69210-C6-6-R, AYA2015-71042-P, AYA2016-76012-C3-1-P, ESP2015-71662-C2-2-P, CSD2009-00064), and the Japanese JSPS and MEXT is gratefully acknowledged. This work was also supported by the Spanish Centro de Excelencia “Severo Ochoa” SEV-2012-0234 and SEV-2015-0548, and Unidad de Excelencia “María de Maeztu” MDM-2014-0369, by the Croatian Science Foundation (HrZZ) Project IP-2016-06-9782 and the University of Rijeka Project 13.12.1.3.02, by the DFG Collaborative Research Centers SFB823/C4 and SFB876/C3, the Polish National Research Centre grant UMO-2016/22/M/ST9/00382 and by the Brazilian MCTIC, CNPq, and FAPERJ. IA acknowledges support by a Ramón y Cajal grant of the Ministerio de Economía, Industria y Competitividad (MINECO) of Spain. The research at the IAA–CSIC was supported in part by the MINECO through grants AYA2016–80889–P, AYA2013–40825–P, and AYA2010–14844, and by the regional government of Andalucía through grant P09–FQM–4784.
Published: 2018

26. Evaluation of the basic propertied of the novel 1.5 in. size PMTs from Hamamatsu Photonics and Electron Tubes Enterprises

Author: J. Hose, U. Menzel, Tokonatsu Yamamoto, Y. Hanabata, Masahiro Teshima, D. Nakajima, Razmik Mirzoyan, Takeshi Toyama, and M. Takahashi
Subjects: Physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Photomultiplier, business.industry, Electron, Cherenkov Telescope Array, Cathode, law.invention, Optics, Upgrade, law, Quantum efficiency, Photonics, business, Instrumentation, Cherenkov radiation
Abstract: Currently the standard light sensors for Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes are the classical photo multiplier tubes that are using bialkali photocathodes. About 8 years ago we initiated an improvement program with the Photo Multiplier Tube manufacturers Hamamatsu in Japan, Electron Tubes Enterprises in England and Photonis in France for the needs of Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes. As a result, after about 40 years of “stagnation” of the peak Quantum Efficiency on the level of 25–27%, new PMTs appeared with a peak QE of 35%. These have got the name “super-bialkali”. The second significant upgrade has happened very recently, as a result of a dedicated improvement program for the candidate PMT for Cherenkov Telescope Array. The latter is going to be the next generation major instrument in the field of very high energy gamma astrophysics and will consist of over 100 telescopes of three different sizes of 23 m, 12 m and 4–7 m. Now PMTs with average peak Quantum Efficiency of approximately 40% became available. Also, the photo electron collection efficiency of the previous generation PMTs of 80–90% has been enhanced towards 95–98% for the new ones. The after-pulsing of novel PMTs has been reduced towards the level of 0.02% for the set threshold of 4 photo electrons. Hamamatsu produced the PMT R-12992-100 as the final version for Cherenkov Telescope Array project. Electron Tubes produced the latest PMT D569/3SA as intermediate version and will produce the final version in 2015. We will report on the PMT development work by the companies Electron Tubes Enterprises and Hamamatsu Photonics K.K., show the achieved results and the current status.
Published: 2015

27. Light Induced Afterpulses in Photomultipliers

Author: Max Ludwig Ahnen, U. Menzel, J. Hose, and Razmik Mirzoyan
Subjects: Physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Photomultiplier, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, business.industry, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Fluorescence, Cathode, law.invention, Optics, Nuclear Energy and Engineering, law, Light induced, Optoelectronics, Light emission, Coincidence counting, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Photonics, business, Image resolution, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics
Abstract: Various spurious effects limit the effectiveness of Photomultipliers when used in low-light-level coincidence counting experiments. One of these effects is afterpulses from light emission in the Photomultiplier. Here we present a study on the light emission in Photomultipliers using a variety of methods. First we image the light emission directly. Second we characterize the light emission spectrum. Finally we investigate the time resolved light emission. In particular we find that, not only the dynodes “glow,” but also the support structure emits light. A fluorescent effect is found. The experiments performed help to understand the fundamental effects of light emission and afterpulses in Photomultipliers.
Published: 2015

28. MAGIC detection of short-term variability of the high-peaked BL Lac object 1ES 0806+524

Author: A. De Angelis, A. Treves, Vitaly Neustroev, R. Zanin, Adrian Biland, J. Rico, G. Maneva, Dario Hrupec, Thomas Bretz, M. Palatiello, Dario Gasparrini, I. Lozano, M. A. Lopez, A. González Muñoz, Louis Antonelli, Walter Max-Moerbeck, Diego F. Torres, Jelena Aleksić, R. López-Coto, X. Paredes-Fortuny, A. Niedzwiecki, D. Nakajima, Julian Sitarek, Francesco Dazzi, A. Fernández-Barral, Patrick Vogler, P. Munar-Adrover, J. M. Paredes, J. Kushida, Jose Luis Contreras, Masahiro Teshima, Ivica Puljak, Filippo D'Ammando, Daniela Dorner, K. Mallot, Wolfgang Rhode, Pierre Colin, R. J. García López, Elina Lindfors, A. Sillanpää, Juan Abel Barrio, David Paneque, Juan Cortina, C. Fruck, M. Gaug, D. Fidalgo, T. Toyama, Antonio Stamerra, Daniel Mazin, Takashi Saito, J. Krause, W. Bednarek, J. Herrera, B. De Lotto, Fabrizio Tavecchio, Julia Thaele, S. N. Shore, K. Berger, Ll. Font, Koji Noda, Reiko Orito, Elisa Bernardini, J. Hose, I. Snidaric, J. L. Richards, D. Elsaesser, E. de Oña Wilhelmi, Francesco Longo, H. Takami, Abelardo Moralejo, K. Nishijima, F. Di Pierro, C. Delgado Mendez, D. Dominis Prester, T. Steinbring, Massimo Persic, Yusuke Konno, Juri Poutanen, E. Lorenz, M. Hayashida, Stefano Covino, G. De Caneva, M. V. Fonseca, Kari Nilsson, K. Kodani, Y. Hanabata, K. Saito, G. Bonnoli, Talvikki Hovatta, M. Will, Marc Ribó, D. Tescaro, P. Antoranz, Konstancja Satalecka, R. Reinthal, P. Temnikov, Michele Doro, M. L. Knoetig, S. Buson, Razmik Mirzoyan, Hidetoshi Kubo, P. G. Prada Moroni, D. Garrido Terrats, Damir Lelas, V. Scalzotto, Nikola Godinovic, Benito Marcote, Dorota Sobczyńska, Oscar Blanch, Ana Babić, P. Da Vela, Stefano Ansoldi, T. Schweizer, Riccardo Paoletti, E. Prandini, F. Borracci, Alessandro Carosi, D. Hadasch, Jose Miguel Miranda, C. Schultz, V. Scapin, Anthony C. S. Readhead, M. Strzys, L. Maraschi, B. Biasuzzi, Tomislav Terzić, D. Galindo, M. I. Martínez, P. Bangale, Sabrina Einecke, S. R. Gozzini, J. Rodriguez Garcia, M. Makariev, U. Menzel, W. Idec, E. Colombo, L. O. Takalo, Mosè Mariotti, A.-K. Overkemping, Saverio Lombardi, Hanna Kellermann, K. Frantzen, V. Kadenius, S. Bonnefoy, S. Paiano, Karl Mannheim, D. Eisenacher, E. Carmona, Markus Garczarczyk, Alicia López-Oramas, Natalia Lewandowska, A. La Barbera, M. Nievas Rosillo, J. Becerra González, Aalto-yliopisto, Aalto University, Aleksi , J., Ansoldi, Stefano, Antonelli, L. A., Antoranz, P., Babic, A., Bangale, P., Barrio, J. A., Becerra Gonzalez, J., Bednarek, W., Bernardini, E., Biasuzzi, B., Biland, A., Blanch, O., Bonnefoy, S., Bonnoli, G., Borracci, F., Bretz, T., Carmona, E., Carosi, A., Colin, P., Colombo, E., Contreras, J. L., Cortina, J., Covino, S., Da Vela, P., Dazzi, F., De Angelis, A., De Caneva, G., De Lotto, B., de Ona Wilhelmi, E., Delgado Mendez, C., Di Pierro, F., Dominis Prester, D., Dorner, D., Doro, M., Einecke, S., Eisenacher, D., Elsaesser, D., Fernandez Barral, A., Fidalgo, D., Fonseca, M. V., Font, L., Frantzen, K., Fruck, C., Galindo, D., Garcia Lopez, R. J., Garczarczyk, M., Garrido Terrats, D., Gaug, M., Godinovi , N., Gonzalez Munoz, A., Gozzini, S. R., Hadasch, D., Hanabata, Y., Hayashida, M., Herrera, J., Hose, J., Hrupec, D., Idec, W., Kadenius, V., Kellermann, H., Knoetig, M. L., Kodani, K., Konno, Y., Krause, J., Kubo, H., Kushida, J., La Barbera, A., Lelas, D., Lewandowska, N., Lindfors, E., Lombardi, S., Longo, Francesco, Lopez, M., Lopez Coto, R., Lopez Oramas, A., Lorenz, E., Lozano, I., Makariev, M., Mallot, K., Maneva, G., Mannheim, K., Maraschi, L., Marcote, B., Mariotti, M., Martinez, M., Mazin, D., Menzel, U., Miranda, J. M., Mirzoyan, R., Moralejo, A., Munar Adrover, P., Nakajima, D., Neustroev, V., Niedzwiecki, A., Nievas Rosillo, M., Nilsson, K., Nishijima, K., Noda, K., Orito, R., Overkemping, A., Paiano, S., Palatiello, M., Paneque, D., Paoletti, R., Paredes, J. M., Paredes Fortuny, X., Persic, M., Poutanen, J., Prada Moroni, P. G., Prandini, E., Puljak, I., Reinthal, R., Rhode, W., Ribo, M., Rico, J., Rodriguez Garcia, J., Saito, T., Saito, K., Satalecka, K., Scalzotto, V., Scapin, V., Schultz, C., Schweizer, T., Shore, S. N., Sillanpaa, A., Sitarek, J., Snidaric, I., Sobczynska, D., Stamerra, A., Steinbring, T., Strzys, M., Takalo, L., Takami, H., Tavecchio, F., Temnikov, P., Terzi , T., Tescaro, D., Teshima, M., Thaele, J., Torres, D. F., Toyama, T., Treves, A., Vogler, P., Will, M., Zanin, R., Berger, K., Buson, S., D'Ammando, F., Gasparrini, D., Hovatta, T., Max Moerbeck, W., Readhead, A., and Richards, J.
Subjects: radiation mechanisms: non-thermal, galaxies: active, BL Lacertae objects: individual: 1ES 0806+524, galaxies: jets, gamma rays: galaxies, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, astro-ph.GA, galaxies: active, jets [galaxies], Flux, FOS: Physical sciences, radiation mechanisms: non-thermal, BL Lacertae objects: individual: 1ES 0806+524, galaxies: jets, gamma rays: galaxies, individual: 1ES 0806+524 [BL Lacertae objects], Astrophysics, law.invention, law, MAGIC (telescope), Blazar, Physics, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), astro-ph.HE, ta115, ta213, Compton scattering, Astronomy, Astronomy and Astrophysics, non-thermal [radiation mechanisms], non-thermal, galaxies: active, BL Lacertae objects: individual: 1ES 0806+524, galaxies: jets, gamma rays: galaxies [radiation mechanisms], Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, Galaxies: active, Galaxies: jets, Gamma rays: galaxies, Radiation mechanisms: non-thermal, Space and Planetary Science, Crab Nebula, Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA), active [galaxies], galaxies [gamma rays], ddc:520, Spectral energy distribution, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, BL Lac object, Flare
Abstract: Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 451(1), 739 - 750 (2015). doi:10.1093/mnras/stv895, The high-frequency-peaked BL Lac (HBL) 1ES 0806+524 (z = 0.138) was discovered in very high energy (VHE) γ-rays in 2008. Until now, the broad-band spectrum of 1ES 0806+524 has been only poorly characterized, in particular at high energies. We analysed multiwavelength observations from γ-rays to radio performed from 2011 January to March, which were triggered by the high activity detected at optical frequencies. These observations constitute the most precise determination of the broad-band emission of 1ES 0806+524 to date. The stereoscopic Major Atmospheric Gamma-Ray Imaging Cherenkov (MAGIC) observations yielded a γ-ray signal above 250 GeV of (3.7 ± 0.7) per cent of the Crab Nebula flux with a statistical significance of 9.9σ. The multiwavelength observations showed significant variability in essentially all energy bands, including a VHE γ-ray flare that lasted less than one night, which provided unprecedented evidence for short-term variability in 1ES 0806+524. The spectrum of this flare is well described by a power law with a photon index of 2.97 ± 0.29 between ∼150 GeV and 1 TeV and an integral flux of (9.3 ± 1.9) per cent of the Crab nebula flux above 250 GeV. The spectrum during the non-flaring VHE activity is compatible with the only available VHE observation performed in 2008 with VERITAS when the source was in a low optical state. The broad-band spectral energy distribution can be described with a one-zone synchrotron self-Compton model with parameters typical for HBLs, indicating that 1ES 0806+524 is not substantially different from the HBLs previously detected., Published by Oxford Univ. Press, Oxford
Published: 2015

29. Very-high-energy gamma-ray observations of the Type Ia Supernova SN 2014J with the MAGIC telescopes

Author: K. Mallot, F. Di Pierro, Francesco Longo, R. J. García López, D. Hadasch, Daniela Dorner, U. Barres de Almeida, Damir Lelas, S. Paiano, Karl Mannheim, W. Idec, Mosè Mariotti, Dariusz Gora, Gaia Vanzo, D. Nakajima, D. Elsaesser, Dorota Sobczyńska, P. Da Vela, M. Gaug, Arka Chatterjee, R. Zanin, Adrian Biland, Saverio Lombardi, Abelardo Moralejo, Wlodek Bednarek, Alessandro Carosi, Max Ludwig Ahnen, J. Becerra González, M. Palatiello, M. Hayashida, Ruben Lopez-Coto, J. Herrera, D. Fidalgo, Martin Makariev, Pratik Majumdar, M. V. Fonseca, Massimo Persic, Alessio Berti, Marc Ribó, P. Bangale, Hidetoshi Kubo, E. Moretti, Alexander Hahn, Dario Hrupec, M. A. Lopez, Francesco Dazzi, A. Fernández-Barral, M. Vazquez Acosta, J. Rico, I. Reichardt, Rodolfo Carosi, Oscar Blanch, E. Colombo, P. Giammaria, P. Temnikov, Gareth Hughes, J. M. Paredes, L. Nogués, B. Biasuzzi, Koji Noda, Stefano Covino, U. Menzel, Antonio Stamerra, K. Kodani, L. O. Takalo, Elisa Bernardini, Kyoshi Nishijima, Nikola Godinovic, Benito Marcote, Jose Miguel Miranda, E. Prandini, L. Perri, Yusuke Konno, Diego F. Torres, M. Doert, M. H. Wu, L. A. Antonelli, M. I. Martínez, M. Garczarczyk, A. La Barbera, Marcel Strzys, S. Bonnefoy, Julian Sitarek, D. Eisenacher Glawion, X. Paredes-Fortuny, M. Peresano, D. Dominis Prester, Sabrina Einecke, B. De Lotto, Kari Nilsson, D. Tescaro, J. Hose, A. Niedzwiecki, C. Fruck, M. Engelkemeier, F. Borracci, M. Nievas Rosillo, M. Will, A. De Angelis, A. Treves, Vitaly Neustroev, R. Mirzoyan, T. Toyama, Fabrizio Tavecchio, T. Surić, J. R. Garcia, David Paneque, A. Sillanpää, Ll. Font, S. Schroeder, Giacomo Bonnoli, L. Maraschi, D. Guberman, D. Garrido Terrats, Ivica Puljak, Pierre Colin, I. Snidaric, V. Fallah Ramazani, Elina Lindfors, Takashi Saito, G. Maneva, J. Palacio, J. E. Ward, Masahiro Teshima, Daniel Mazin, Juan Abel Barrio, E. de Oña Wilhelmi, Ievgen Vovk, Aaron Dominguez, Stefano Ansoldi, P. G. Prada Moroni, T. Schweizer, Riccardo Paoletti, Tomislav Terzić, Marina Manganaro, Ana Babić, D. Galindo, B. Banerjee, C. Arcaro, Juri Poutanen, J. Kushida, G. Pedaletti, Thomas Bretz, Jose Luis Contreras, P. Antoranz, P. Cumani, Konstancja Satalecka, Michele Doro, Juan Cortina, Wolfgang Rhode, K. Frantzen, Ahnen, M. L., Ansoldi, S., Antonelli, L. A., Antoranz, P., Arcaro, C., Babic, A., Banerjee, B., Bangale, P., Barres De Almeida, U., Barrio, J. A., Becerra GonzÃ¡lez, J., Bednarek, W., Bernardini, E., Berti, Alessio, Biasuzzi, B., Biland, A., Blanch, O., Bonnefoy, S., Bonnoli, G., Borracci, F., Bretz, T., Carosi, R., Carosi, A., Chatterjee, A., Colin, P., Colombo, E., Contreras, J. L., Cortina, J., Covino, S., Cumani, P., Da Vela, P., Dazzi, F., De Angelis, A., De Lotto, B., De OnÃ£ Wilhelmi, E., DI Pierro, F., Doert, M., Domãnguez, A., Dominis Prester, D., Dorner, D., Doro, M., Einecke, S., Eisenacher Glawion, D., Elsaesser, D., Engelkemeier, M., Fallah Ramazani, V., FernÃ¡ndez Barral, A., Fidalgo, D., Fonseca, M. V., Font, L., Frantzen, K., Fruck, C, Galindo, D., GarciÃ¡ LÃ³pez, R. J., Garczarczyk, M., Garrido Terrats, D., Gaug, M., Giammaria, P., Godinoviä , N., Gora, D., Guberman, D., Hadasch, D., Hahn, A., Hayashida, M., Herrera, J., Hose, J., Hrupec, D., Hughes, G., Idec, W., Kodani, K., Konno, Y., Kubo, H., Kushida, J., La Barbera, A., Lelas, D., Lindfors, E., Lombardi, S., Longo, Francesco, Lã³pez, M., LÃ³pez Coto, R., Majumdar, P., Makariev, M., Mallot, K., Maneva, G., Manganaro, M., Mannheim, K., Maraschi, L., Marcote, B., Mariotti, M., Martãnez, M., Mazin, D., Menzel, U., Miranda, J. M., Mirzoyan, R., Moralejo, A., Moretti, E., Nakajima, D., Neustroev, V., Niedzwiecki, A., Nievas Rosillo, M., Nilsson, K., Nishijima, K., Noda, K., Noguã©s, L., Paiano, S., Palacio, J., Palatiello, Michele, Paneque, D., Paoletti, R., Paredes, J. M., Paredes Fortuny, X., Pedaletti, G., Peresano, M., Perri, L., Persic, M., Poutanen, J., Prada Moroni, P. G., Prandini, E., Puljak, I., Garcia, J. R., Reichardt, I., Rhode, W., Ribã³, M., Rico, J., Saito, T., Satalecka, K., Schroeder, S., Schweizer, T., Sillanpaã¤, A., Sitarek, J., Snidaric, I., Sobczynska, D., Stamerra, A., Strzys, M., Suriä , T., Takalo, L., Tavecchio, F., Temnikov, P., Terziä , T., Tescaro, D., Teshima, M., Torres, D. F., Toyama, T., Treves, A., Vanzo, G., Vazquez Acosta, M., Vovk, I., Ward, J. E., Will, M., Wu, M. H., and Zanin, R.
Subjects: Individual: SN 2014J [Supernovae], Gamma rays: General, Supernovae: Individual: SN 2014J, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Space and Planetary Science, air, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Hadron, VHE [gamma ray], FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics, Type (model theory), power spectrum, 01 natural sciences, 0103 physical sciences, supernova, MAGIC (telescope), 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Cherenkov radiation, Physics, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Spectral index, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, photon, Gamma ray, imaging, General [Gamma rays], Astronomy and Astrophysic, MAGIC, gamma rays: general, supernovae: individual (SN 2014J), flux, Supernova, Cherenkov counter, ddc:520, high [energy], Electrónica, Física nuclear, Electricidad, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Energy (signal processing)
Abstract: In this work we present data from observations with the MAGIC telescopes of SN 2014J detected in January 21 2014, the closest Type Ia supernova since Imaging Air Cherenkov Telescopes started to operate. We probe the possibility of very-high-energy (VHE; $E\geq100$ GeV) gamma rays produced in the early stages of Type Ia supernova explosions. We performed follow-up observations after this supernova explosion for 5 days, between January 27 and February 2 in 2014. We search for gamma-ray signal in the energy range between 100 GeV and several TeV from the location of SN 2014J using data from a total of $\sim5.5$ hours of observations. Prospects for observing gamma-rays of hadronic origin from SN 2014J in the near future are also being addressed. No significant excess was detected from the direction of SN 2014J. Upper limits at 95$\%$ confidence level on the integral flux, assuming a power-law spectrum, d$F/$d$E\propto E^{-\Gamma}$, with a spectral index of $\Gamma=2.6$, for energies higher than 300 GeV and 700 GeV, are established at $1.3\times10^{-12}$ and $4.1\times10^{-13}$ photons~cm$^{-2}$s$^{-1}$, respectively. For the first time, upper limits on the VHE emission of a Type Ia supernova are established. The energy fraction isotropically emitted into TeV gamma rays during the first $\sim10$ days after the supernova explosion for energies greater than 300 GeV is limited to $10^{-6}$ of the total available energy budget ($\sim 10^{51}$ erg). Within the assumed theoretical scenario, the MAGIC upper limits on the VHE emission suggest that SN 2014J will not be detectable in the future by any current or planned generation of Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes., Comment: 5 pages, 2 figures. Accepted for publication in A&A
Published: 2017

30. Observation of the black widow B1957+20 millisecond pulsar binary system with the MAGIC telescopes

Author: M. I. Martínez, Sabrina Einecke, G. Pedaletti, S. R. Gozzini, Thomas Bretz, L. Nogués, E. Moretti, J. Becerra González, Giacomo Bonnoli, F. Di Pierro, M. Engelkemeier, E. Prandini, Francesco Longo, I. Snidaric, Stefano Covino, B. De Lotto, Alessio Berti, S. Bonnefoy, A. Sillanpää, Arka Chatterjee, M. Vazquez Acosta, Ana Babić, Wolfgang Rhode, Alexander Hahn, Nikola Godinovic, Gareth Hughes, B. Biasuzzi, U. Barres de Almeida, D. Elsaesser, Juan Abel Barrio, R. Mirzoyan, Damir Lelas, Victoria Moreno, Tomoki Saito, D. Tescaro, Dario Hrupec, L. Perri, A. De Angelis, A. Treves, Vitaly Neustroev, Stefano Ansoldi, P. Da Vela, M. A. Lopez, Kari Nilsson, D. Dominis Prester, Riccardo Paoletti, Daniela Dorner, S. Griffiths, Dorota Sobczyńska, Dariusz Gora, J. Palacio, M. Will, D. Eisenacher Glawion, Abelardo Moralejo, Gaia Vanzo, Marcel Strzys, X. Paredes-Fortuny, Mosè Mariotti, M. Nievas Rosillo, J. M. Paredes, Antonio Stamerra, Yusuke Konno, S. Schroeder, Ivica Puljak, Pierre Colin, M. Gaug, Tomislav Terzić, L. Maraschi, V. Fallah Ramazani, J. Kushida, Martin Makariev, Elina Lindfors, Jose Luis Contreras, Oscar Blanch, Saverio Lombardi, Christian Fruck, Daniel Mazin, B. Banerjee, C. Arcaro, G. Maneva, Juan Cortina, E. de Oña Wilhelmi, S. Paiano, Kazuma Ishio, Karl Mannheim, J. Herrera, M. Doert, E. Colombo, Adrian Biland, M. H. Wu, L. A. Antonelli, J. R. Garcia, Lucas Guillemot, L. O. Takalo, Koji Noda, Aaron Dominguez, F. Borracci, Elisa Bernardini, J. Rico, Pratik Majumdar, M. V. Fonseca, T. Surić, Masahiro Teshima, Tarek M. Hassan, R. J. García López, J. E. Ward, Fabrizio Tavecchio, Ismaël Cognard, Rodolfo Carosi, Ll. Font, Wlodek Bednarek, Alessandro Carosi, D. Kuveždić, N. Torres-Albà, Max Ludwig Ahnen, I. Reichardt, P. Temnikov, P. Giammaria, Massimo Persic, U. Menzel, Diego F. Torres, M. Garczarczyk, Ievgen Vovk, M. Peresano, T. Schweizer, D. Fidalgo, Juri Poutanen, Julian Sitarek, J. Hose, K. Nishijima, Daniela Hadasch, Francesco Dazzi, A. Fernández-Barral, A. Niedzwiecki, P. G. Prada Moroni, David Paneque, M. Hayashida, D. Guberman, D. Zarić, Marina Manganaro, Marc Ribó, D. Galindo, P. Bangale, Hidetoshi Kubo, P. Cumani, Konstancja Satalecka, Michele Doro, Ahnen, M. L., Ansoldi, S., Antonelli, L. A., Arcaro, C., Babić, A., Banerjee, B., Bangale, P., de Almeida, U. Barre, Barrio, J. A., González, J. Becerra, Bednarek, W., Bernardini, E., Berti, Alessio, Biasuzzi, B., Biland, A., Blanch, O., Bonnefoy, S., Bonnoli, G., Borracci, F., Bretz, T., Carosi, R., Carosi, A., Chatterjee, A., Colin, P., Colombo, E., Contreras, J. L., Cortina, J., Covino, S., Cumani, P., Da Vela, P., Dazzi, F., De Angelis, A., De Lotto, B., Wilhelmi, E. de Oña, Pierro, F. Di, Doert, M., Domínguez, A., Prester, D. Domini, Dorner, D., Doro, M., Einecke, S., Glawion, D. Eisenacher, Elsaesser, D., Engelkemeier, M., Ramazani, V. Fallah, Fernández Barral, A., Fidalgo, D., Fonseca, M. V., Font, L., Fruck, C., Galindo, D., López, R. J. García, Garczarczyk, M., Gaug, M., Giammaria, P., Godinović, N., Gora, D., Gozzini, S. R., Griffiths, S., Guberman, D., Hadasch, D., Hahn, A., Hassan, T., Hayashida, M., Herrera, J., Hose, J., Hrupec, D., Hughes, G., Ishio, K., Konno, Y., Kubo, H., Kushida, J., Kuveždić, D., Lelas, D., Lindfors, E., Lombardi, S., Longo, Francesco, López, M., Majumdar, P., Makariev, M., Maneva, G., Manganaro, M., Mannheim, K., Maraschi, L., Mariotti, M., Martínez, M., Mazin, D., Menzel, U., Mirzoyan, R., Moralejo, A., Moreno, V., Moretti, E., Neustroev, V., Niedzwiecki, A., Rosillo, M. Nieva, Nilsson, K., Nishijima, K., Noda, K., Nogués, L., Paiano, S., Palacio, J., Paneque, D., Paoletti, R., Paredes, J. M., Paredes Fortuny, X., Pedaletti, G., Peresano, M., Perri, L., Persic, M., Poutanen, J., Moroni, P. G. Prada, Prandini, E., Puljak, I., Garcia, J. R., Reichardt, I., Rhode, W., Ribó, M., Rico, J., Saito, T., Satalecka, K., Schroeder, S., Schweizer, T., Sillanpää, A., Sitarek, J., Šnidarić, I., Sobczynska, D., Stamerra, A., Strzys, M., Surić, T., Takalo, L., Tavecchio, F., Temnikov, P., Terzić, T., Tescaro, D., Teshima, M., Torres, D. F., Torres Albà, N., Treves, A., Vanzo, G., Acosta, M. Vazquez, Vovk, I., Ward, J. E., Will, M., Wu, M. H., Zarić, D., Collaboration), (MAGIC, Cognard, I., Guillemot, L., Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, Instituto de Fisica Corpuscular (IFIC), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas [Madrid] (CSIC)-Universitat de València (UV), Nuclear Physics Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), Government of India, Department of Atomic Energy-Government of India, Department of Atomic Energy, Politecnico di Milano [Milan] (POLIMI), INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera (OAB), Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF), Technische Universität Dortmund [Dortmund] (TU), Institut de Física d’Altes Energies [Barcelone] (IFAE), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), IEEC-CSIC, Institut de Física d'Altes Energies, Institut d'Estudis Espacials de Catalunya (IEEC-CSIC), Laboratoire de l'Accélérateur Linéaire (LAL), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11), Università degli Studi di Udine - University of Udine [Italie], Universita degli Studi di Padova, Max-Planck-Institut für Physik (Werner-Heisenberg-Institut) (MPI-P), Institute for Physical Research (IPR), National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia [Yerevan] (NAS RA), Universitat de Barcelona (UB), INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Trieste (OAT), Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet (LLR), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École polytechnique (X)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3), Dept. of Physics, Institut de Ciencies del Cosmos (ICCUB), Department of Environment and Energy [Sendai], Tohoku University [Sendai], Optoelectronic Research Centre, University of Southampton, Laboratoire de Physique et Chimie de l'Environnement et de l'Espace (LPC2E), Observatoire des Sciences de l'Univers en région Centre (OSUC), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université d'Orléans (UO)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université d'Orléans (UO)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Centre National d’Études Spatiales [Paris] (CNES), Unité Scientifique de la Station de Nançay (USN), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire des Sciences de l'Univers en région Centre (OSUC), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université d'Orléans (UO)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université d'Orléans (UO), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université d'Orléans (UO)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université d'Orléans (UO)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National d’Études Spatiales [Paris] (CNES), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université d'Orléans (UO), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Università degli Studi di Padova = University of Padua (Unipd), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-École polytechnique (X)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université d'Orléans (UO)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Subjects: non-thermal, pulsars: general, binaries: close, pulsars: individual: B1957+20, gamma-rays: general [radiation mechanisms], Radiation mechanisms: non-thermal, VHE [gamma ray], Astrophysics, spin, 01 natural sciences, 7. Clean energy, star, emission [pulsar], Millisecond pulsar, Pulsars: general, radiation mechanisms: non-thermal, gamma rays: general, Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), acceleration [electron], Physics, radio wave, Superluminal motion, efficiency [acceleration], non-thermal, binaries: close, pulsars: general, pulsars: individual: B1957+20, gamma-rays: general [radiation mechanisms], inverse [Compton scattering], frequency, compact [binary], symbols, Electrónica, Física nuclear, Electricidad, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, upper limit, Active galactic nucleus, Pulsars: individual: B1957+20, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, FOS: Physical sciences, Lorentz covariance, GLAST, Binary pulsar, symbols.namesake, Pulsar, Binaries: close, 0103 physical sciences, interaction [pulsar], plasma, radiation mechanisms: non-thermal, binaries: close, pulsars: general, pulsars: individual: B1957+20, gamma-rays: general, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Gamma-rays: general, Planck energy, ta115, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Crab Pulsar, [SDU.ASTR.SR]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Solar and Stellar Astrophysics [astro-ph.SR], binary [pulsar], Astronomy and Astrophysics, injection [electron], MAGIC, 13. Climate action, Space and Planetary Science, ddc:520, mass
Abstract: B1957+20 is a millisecond pulsar located in a black-widow-type compact binary system with a low-mass stellar companion. The interaction of the pulsar wind with the companion star wind and/or the interstellar plasma is expected to create plausible conditions for acceleration of electrons to TeV energies and subsequent production of very high-energy γ-rays in the inverse Compton process. We performed extensive observations with the Major Atmospheric Gamma Imaging Cherenkov Telescopes (MAGIC) telescopes of B1957+20. We interpret results in the framework of a few different models, namely emission from the vicinity of the millisecond pulsar, the interaction of the pulsar and stellar companion wind region or bow shock nebula. No significant steady very high-energy γ-ray emission was found. We derived a 95 per cent confidence level upper limit of 3.0 × 10−12 cm−2 s−1 on the average γ-ray emission from the binary system above 200 GeV. The upper limits obtained with the MAGIC constrain, for the first time, different models of the high-energy emission in B1957+20. In particular, in the inner mixed wind nebula model with mono-energetic injection of electrons, the acceleration efficiency of electrons is constrained to be below ∼2–10 per cent of the pulsar spin-down power. For the pulsar emission, the obtained upper limits for each emission peak are well above the exponential cut-off fits to the Fermi-LAT data, extrapolated to energies above 50 GeV. The MAGIC upper limits can rule out a simple power-law tail extension through the sub-TeV energy range for the main peak seen at radio frequencies., Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 470 (4), ISSN:0035-8711, ISSN:1365-2966, ISSN:1365-8711
Published: 2017

31. MAGIC observations of the microquasar V404 Cygni during the 2015 outburst

Author: M. I. Martínez, Sabrina Einecke, Daniela Dorner, Dariusz Gora, A. Sillanpää, R. J. García López, Kazuma Ishio, Gaia Vanzo, A. Loh, Francesco Dazzi, A. Fernández-Barral, A. Niedzwiecki, U. Barres de Almeida, F. Di Pierro, A. De Angelis, Massimo Persic, Damir Lelas, M. Gaug, A. Treves, Vitaly Neustroev, L. Maraschi, Elina Lindfors, B. De Lotto, D. Hadasch, Stefano Ansoldi, David Paneque, Riccardo Paoletti, Dorota Sobczyńska, Daniel Mazin, J. Becerra González, Marcel Strzys, D. Guberman, J. Herrera, M. Vazquez Acosta, Pratik Majumdar, J. Palacio, Marina Manganaro, M. V. Fonseca, Rodolfo Carosi, Jerome Rodriguez, D. Galindo, J. M. Paredes, Christian Fruck, Antonio Stamerra, Giacomo Bonnoli, Koji Noda, B. Biasuzzi, Elisa Bernardini, Stefano Covino, E. Prandini, E. Colombo, Victoria Moreno, P. Cumani, Konstancja Satalecka, Michele Doro, G. Maneva, Tomoki Saito, D. Tescaro, U. Menzel, D. Kuveždić, Alessio Berti, Mosè Mariotti, Adrian Biland, D. Ninci, P. G. Prada Moroni, P. Da Vela, J. Rico, M. Hayashida, S. Schroeder, Ivica Puljak, D. Elsaesser, Diego F. Torres, Juan Abel Barrio, Pierre Colin, Nikola Godinovic, M. Peresano, D. Zarić, M. Garczarczyk, Dario Hrupec, M. Doert, P. Temnikov, Marc Ribó, P. Bangale, M. A. Lopez, Hidetoshi Kubo, Saverio Lombardi, Tomislav Terzić, S. Bonnefoy, Abelardo Moralejo, L. Nogués, M. Engelkemeier, E. Moretti, L. Perri, R. Mirzoyan, Arka Chatterjee, E. de Oña Wilhelmi, S. Griffiths, Ievgen Vovk, D. Fidalgo, J. R. Garcia, Alexander Hahn, Masahiro Teshima, Aaron Dominguez, T. Schweizer, Kyoshi Nishijima, Yusuke Konno, Gareth Hughes, Francesco Longo, D. Eisenacher Glawion, D. Dominis Prester, M. Minev, X. Paredes-Fortuny, Camilla Maggio, M. Nievas Rosillo, I. Reichardt, J. E. Ward, Julian Sitarek, V. Fallah Ramazani, J. Hose, Martin Makariev, Oscar Blanch, Wlodek Bednarek, Alessandro Carosi, S. Paiano, Karl Mannheim, N. Torres-Albà, G. Pedaletti, Wolfgang Rhode, T. Surić, B. Banerjee, C. Arcaro, L. A. Antonelli, Tarek M. Hassan, Fabrizio Tavecchio, Ll. Font, Ana Babić, Max Ludwig Ahnen, J. Kushida, Jose Luis Contreras, P. Giammaria, Juan Cortina, I. Snidaric, L. Takalo, Kari Nilsson, M. Will, Institut de Física d’Altes Energies [Barcelone] (IFAE), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), Max-Planck-Institut für Physik (Werner-Heisenberg-Institut) (MPI-P), Département d'Astrophysique (ex SAP) (DAP), Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, The German BMBF and MPG, the Italian INFN and INAF, the Swiss National Fund SNF, the ERDF under the Spanish MINECO (FPA2015-69818-P, FPA2012-36668, FPA2015-68378-P, FPA2015-69210-C6-2-R, FPA2015-69210-C6-4-R, FPA2015-69210-C6-6-R, AYA2015-71042-P, AYA2016-76012-C3-1-P, ESP2015-71662-C2-2-P, CSD2009-00064), and the Japanese JSPS and MEXT is gratefully acknowledged. This work was also supported by the Spanish Centro de Excelencia \Severo Ochoa' SEV-2012-0234 and SEV-2015-0548, and Unidad de Excelencia \Mara de Maeztu'MDM-2014-0369, by the Croatian Science Foundation (HrZZ) Project 09/176 and the University of Rijeka Project 13.12.1.3.02, by the DFG Collaborative Research Centers SFB823/C4 and SFB876/C3, and by the Polish MNiSzW grant 2016/22/M/ST9/00382., Ahnen, M. L., Ansoldi, S., Antonelli, L. A., Arcaro, C., Babić, A., Banerjee, B., Bangale, P., Barres de Almeida, U., Barrio, J. A., Becerra González, J., Bednarek, W., Bernardini, E., Berti, Alessio, Biasuzzi, B., Biland, A., Blanch, O., Bonnefoy, S., Bonnoli, G., Carosi, R., Carosi, A., Chatterjee, A., Colin, P., Colombo, E., Contreras, J. L., Cortina, J., Covino, S., Cumani, P., Da Vela, P., Dazzi, F., De Angelis, A., De Lotto, B., de Oña Wilhelmi, E., Di Pierro, F., Doert, M., Domínguez, A., Dominis Prester, D., Dorner, D., Doro, M., Einecke, S., Eisenacher Glawion, D., Elsaesser, D., Engelkemeier, M., Fallah Ramazani, V., Fernández Barral, A., Fidalgo, D., Fonseca, M. V., Font, L., Fruck, C., Galindo, D., García López, R. J., Garczarczyk, M., Gaug, M., Giammaria, P., Godinović, N., Gora, D., Griffiths, S., Guberman, D., Hadasch, D., Hahn, A., Hassan, T., Hayashida, M., Herrera, J., Hose, J., Hrupec, D., Hughes, G., Ishio, K., Konno, Y., Kubo, H., Kushida, J., Kuveždić, D., Lelas, D., Lindfors, E., Lombardi, S., Longo, Francesco, López, M., Maggio, C., Majumdar, P., Makariev, M., Maneva, G., Manganaro, M., Mannheim, K., Maraschi, L., Mariotti, M., Martínez, M., Mazin, D., Menzel, U., Minev, M., Mirzoyan, R., Moralejo, A., Moreno, V., Moretti, E., Neustroev, V., Niedzwiecki, A., Nievas Rosillo, M., Nilsson, K., Ninci, D., Nishijima, K., Noda, K., Nogués, L., Paiano, S., Palacio, J., Paneque, D., Paoletti, R., Paredes, J. M., Paredes Fortuny, X., Pedaletti, G., Peresano, M., Perri, L., Persic, M., Prada Moroni, P. G., Prandini, E., Puljak, I., Garcia, J. R., Reichardt, I., Rhode, W., Ribó, M., Rico, J., Saito, T., Satalecka, K., Schroeder, S., Schweizer, T., Sillanpää, A., Sitarek, J., Šnidarić, I., Sobczynska, D., Stamerra, A., Strzys, M., Surić, T., Takalo, L., Tavecchio, F., Temnikov, P., Terzić, T., Tescaro, D., Teshima, M., Torres, D. F., Torres Albà, N., Treves, A., Vanzo, G., Vazquez Acosta, M., Vovk, I., Ward, J. E., Will, M., Zarić, D., Collaboration), (The MAGIC, Loh, A., and Rodriguez, J.
Subjects: Flux, Astrophysics, 7. Clean energy, 01 natural sciences, law.invention, general [, gamma-rays], law, Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, MAGIC (telescope), 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Physics, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), radio wave, Gamma-rays: general, Stars: individual: V404 Cygni (V404 Cyg), X-rays: binaries, Electrónica, Física nuclear, Electricidad, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, burst, Flare, Radio wave, exceptional, Opacity, gamma-rays: general, stars: individual: V404 Cygni (V404 Cyg), Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, FOS: Physical sciences, Compact star, GLAST, VHE, X-ray, 0103 physical sciences, upper limit [flux], quasar, ta115, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Astronomy, opacity, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Quasar, acceleration, MAGIC, Crab Nebula, 13. Climate action, Space and Planetary Science, gamma ray, [SDU]Sciences of the Universe [physics], ddc:520, binaries [X-rays], individual: V404 Cygni (V404 Cyg) [stars]
Abstract: The microquasar V404 Cygni underwent a series of outbursts in 2015, June 15-31, during which its flux in hard X-rays (20-40 keV) reached about 40 times the Crab Nebula flux. Because of the exceptional interest of the flaring activity from this source, observations at several wavelengths were conducted. The MAGIC telescopes, triggered by the INTEGRAL alerts, followed-up the flaring source for several nights during the period June 18-27, for more than 10 hours. One hour of observation was conducted simultaneously to a giant 22 GHz radio flare and a hint of signal at GeV energies seen by Fermi-LAT. The MAGIC observations did not show significant emission in any of the analysed time intervals. The derived flux upper limit, in the energy range 200--1250 GeV, is 4.8$\times 10^{-12}$ ph cm$^{-2}$ s$^{-1}$. We estimate the gamma-ray opacity during the flaring period, which along with our non-detection, points to an inefficient acceleration in the V404\,Cyg jets if VHE emitter is located further than $1\times 10^{10}$ cm from the compact object., Comment: 7 pages, accepted by MNRAS
Published: 2017

32. OUP accepted manuscript

Author: Kazuma Ishio, Rodolfo Carosi, L. Nogués, E. Moretti, Max Ludwig Ahnen, Giacomo Bonnoli, Adrian Biland, M. Peresano, S. Bonnefoy, R. Mirzoyan, Masahiro Teshima, Marcel Strzys, J. Rico, Abelardo Moralejo, E. Prandini, M. Hayashida, Aaron Dominguez, Valentí Bosch-Ramon, S. Paiano, M. Engelkemeier, Karl Mannheim, Wrijupan Bhattacharyya, Dario Hrupec, M. A. Lopez, A. Niedzwiecki, Ana Babić, P. Giammaria, Stefano Covino, Juan Abel Barrio, D. Zarić, J. Kushida, Jose Luis Contreras, R. Zanin, J. Becerra González, Kyoshi Nishijima, Juan Cortina, R. J. García López, J. E. Ward, David Paneque, Camilla Maggio, U. Barres de Almeida, Wlodek Bednarek, Alessandro Carosi, M. Minev, Nikola Godinovic, I. Reichardt, Tomoki Saito, D. Tescaro, Marc Ribó, Damir Lelas, Josep M. Paredes, Alessio Berti, D. Kuveždić, N. Torres-Albà, Arka Chatterjee, D. Guberman, U. Menzel, L. A. Antonelli, S. A. Trushkin, P. Bangale, L. Perri, Kari Nilsson, L. Maraschi, Massimo Persic, Elina Lindfors, Diego F. Torres, Hidetoshi Kubo, Daniela Dorner, A. De Angelis, Dariusz Gora, M. Vazquez Acosta, D. Fidalgo, M. Will, Dorota Sobczyńska, Gaia Vanzo, D. Eisenacher Glawion, X. Paredes-Fortuny, Daniel Mazin, M. Nievas Rosillo, B. Biasuzzi, A. Treves, Vitaly Neustroev, M. Garczarczyk, G. Pedaletti, Victoria Moreno, M. Gaug, Francesco Dazzi, A. Fernández-Barral, Chiara Righi, M. I. Martínez, T. Surić, Yusuke Konno, J. Herrera, B. De Lotto, Koji Noda, Elisa Bernardini, Pratik Majumdar, P. Temnikov, M. V. Fonseca, S. Schroeder, Ivica Puljak, Guy G. Pooley, Pierre Colin, Sabrina Einecke, Christian Fruck, Marina Manganaro, Tarek M. Hassan, G. Maneva, D. Ninci, Wolfgang Rhode, D. Galindo, E. de Oña Wilhelmi, Fabrizio Tavecchio, Ievgen Vovk, Ll. Font, P. Cumani, T. Schweizer, Konstancja Satalecka, Michele Doro, D. Elsaesser, B. Banerjee, I. Snidaric, C. Arcaro, Stefano Ansoldi, P. G. Prada Moroni, Riccardo Paoletti, Tomislav Terzić, J. Palacio, Antonio Stamerra, Julian Sitarek, J. Hose, F. Di Pierro, D. Dominis Prester, P. Da Vela, V. Fallah Ramazani, Alexander Hahn, Mosè Mariotti, Francesco Longo, Saverio Lombardi, E. Colombo, Martin Makariev, L. O. Takalo, Oscar Blanch, D. Hadasch, M. Doert, and J. R. Garcia
Subjects: Physics, Photon, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Gamma ray, Flux, Astronomy, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Quasar, Context (language use), Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, Black hole, 13. Climate action, Space and Planetary Science, 0103 physical sciences, MAGIC (telescope), 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Radio wave
Abstract: The microquasar Cygnus X-1 displays the two typical soft and hard X-ray states of a black hole transient. During the latter, Cygnus X-1 shows a one-sided relativistic radio-jet. Recent detection of the system in the high energy (HE; E greater than or similar to 60 MeV) gamma-ray range with FermiLAT associates this emission with the outflow. Former MAGIC observations revealed a hint of flaring activity in the very high-energy (VHE; E greater than or similar to 100 GeV) regime during this X-ray state. We analyse ~ to 97 h of Cygnus X-1 data taken with the MAGIC telescopes between July 2007 and October 2014. To shed light on the correlation between hard X-ray and VHE gamma rays as previously suggested, we study each main X-ray state separately. We perform an orbital phase-folded analysis to look for variability in the VHE band. Additionally, to place this variability behaviour in a multiwavelength context, we compare our results with Fermi-LAT, AGILE, Swift-BAT, MAXI, RXTE-ASM, AMI and RATAN-600 data. We do not detect Cygnus X-1 in the VHE regime. We establish upper limits for each X-ray state, assuming a power-law distribution with photon index Γ = 3.2. For steady emission in the hard and soft X-ray states, we set integral upper limits at 95 %per cent confidence level for energies above 200 GeV at 2.6 x 10⁻¹² photons cm⁻² s⁻¹ and 1.0 x 10⁻¹¹ photons cm⁻² s ⁻¹, respectively. We rule out steady VHE gamma-ray emission above this energy range, at the level of theMAGIC sensitivity, originating in the interaction between the relativistic jet and the surrounding medium, while the emission above this flux level produced inside the binary still remains a valid possibility.
Published: 2017

33. Performance of the MAGIC telescopes under moonlight

Author: L. Maraschi, Elina Lindfors, Daniel Mazin, S. Schroeder, Ivica Puljak, U. Menzel, Alexander Hahn, Gareth Hughes, Pierre Colin, M. Doert, M. Vazquez Acosta, E. de Oña Wilhelmi, D. Dominis Prester, Diego F. Torres, J. Palacio, B. Biasuzzi, J. M. Paredes, M. Garczarczyk, Victoria Moreno, V. Fallah Ramazani, S. Paiano, Antonio Stamerra, Stefano Covino, L. Nogués, Karl Mannheim, D. Ninci, A. Niedzwiecki, Kazuma Ishio, A. De Angelis, U. Barres de Almeida, A. Treves, Vitaly Neustroev, R. J. García López, E. Moretti, Damir Lelas, Abelardo Moralejo, Christian Fruck, Dario Hrupec, David Paneque, Dorota Sobczyńska, Francesco Longo, J. Becerra González, Ievgen Vovk, Mosè Mariotti, M. A. Lopez, G. Maneva, Adrian Biland, B. Banerjee, C. Arcaro, G. Pedaletti, T. Surić, J. R. Garcia, E. Prandini, Max Ludwig Ahnen, Louis Antonelli, D. Guberman, Marina Manganaro, Alessio Berti, Aaron Dominguez, M. I. Martínez, Ana Babić, Tomoki Saito, D. Tescaro, J. Kushida, T. Schweizer, P. Temnikov, D. Galindo, J. Rico, Massimo Persic, Arka Chatterjee, M. Minev, I. Reichardt, P. Cumani, Jose Luis Contreras, Konstancja Satalecka, Sabrina Einecke, Michele Doro, Juan Cortina, P. Giammaria, D. Kuveždić, Martin Makariev, J. E. Ward, D. Fidalgo, Giacomo Bonnoli, Julian Sitarek, Rodolfo Carosi, M. Hayashida, Saverio Lombardi, Oscar Blanch, Kyoshi Nishijima, B. De Lotto, L. Perri, J. Hose, Wolfgang Rhode, I. Snidaric, Wrijupan Bhattacharyya, Andrea Rugliancich, Yusuke Konno, D. Zarić, D. Eisenacher Glawion, Marc Ribó, Nikola Godinovic, X. Paredes-Fortuny, D. Elsaesser, Marcel Strzys, M. Nievas Rosillo, P. Bangale, D. Hadasch, Daniela Dorner, F. Di Pierro, Hidetoshi Kubo, Stefano Ansoldi, Riccardo Paoletti, Kari Nilsson, Dariusz Gora, Gaia Vanzo, M. Will, Wlodek Bednarek, Alessandro Carosi, N. Torres-Albà, M. Gaug, P. Da Vela, A. Sillanpää, E. Colombo, J. Herrera, L. O. Takalo, Koji Noda, S. Bonnefoy, Elisa Bernardini, M. Engelkemeier, Tarek M. Hassan, Camilla Maggio, R. Mirzoyan, S. Griffiths, Masahiro Teshima, Fabrizio Tavecchio, Ll. Font, Tomislav Terzić, Juan Abel Barrio, Francesco Dazzi, A. Fernández-Barral, Pratik Majumdar, M. V. Fonseca, M. Peresano, P. G. Prada Moroni, Ahnen, M. L., Ansoldi, S., Antonelli, L. A., Arcaro, C., Babiä , A., Banerjee, B., Bangale, P., Barres de Almeida, U., Barrio, J. A., Becerra GonzÃ¡lez, J., Bednarek, W., Bernardini, E., Berti, Alessio, Bhattacharyya, W., Biasuzzi, B., Biland, A., Blanch, O., Bonnefoy, S., Bonnoli, G., Carosi, R., Carosi, A., Chatterjee, A., Colin, P, Colombo, E., Contreras, J. L., Cortina, J., Covino, S., Cumani, P., Da Vela, P., Dazzi, F., De Angelis, A., De Lotto, B., de OÃ±a Wilhelmi, E., Di Pierro, F., Doert, M., Domãnguez, A., Dominis Prester, D., Dorner, D., Doro, M., Einecke, S., Eisenacher Glawion, D., Elsaesser, D., Engelkemeier, M., Fallah Ramazani, V., FernÃ¡ndez Barral, A., Fidalgo, D., Fonseca, M. V., Font, L., Fruck, C., Galindo, D., GarcÃa LÃ³pez, R. J., Garczarczyk, M., Gaug, M., Giammaria, P., Godinoviä , N., Gora, D., Griffiths, S., Guberman, D., Hadasch, D., Hahn, A., Hassan, T., Hayashida, M., Herrera, J., Hose, J., Hrupec, D., Hughes, G., Ishio, K., Konno, Y., Kubo, H., Kushida, J., Kuveå¾diä , D., Lelas, D., Lindfors, E., Lombardi, S., Longo, Francesco, Lã³pez, M., Maggio, C., Majumdar, P., Makariev, M., Maneva, G., Manganaro, M., Mannheim, K., Maraschi, L., Mariotti, M., Martãnez, M., Mazin, D., Menzel, U., Minev, M., Mirzoyan, R., Moralejo, A., Moreno, V., Moretti, E., Neustroev, V., Niedzwiecki, A., Nievas Rosillo, M., Nilsson, K., Ninci, D., Nishijima, K., Noda, K., Noguã©s, L., Paiano, S., Palacio, J., Paneque, D., Paoletti, R., Paredes, J. M., Paredes Fortuny, X., Pedaletti, G., Peresano, M., Perri, L., Persic, M., Prada Moroni, P. G., Prandini, E., Puljak, I., Garcia, J. R., Reichardt, I., Rhode, W., Ribã³, M., Rico, J., Rugliancich, A., Saito, T., Satalecka, K., Schroeder, S., Schweizer, T., Sillanpã¤ã¤, A., Sitarek, J., Å nidariä , I., Sobczynska, D., Stamerra, A., Strzys, M., Suriä , T., Takalo, L., Tavecchio, F., Temnikov, P., Terziä , T., Tescaro, D., Teshima, M., Torres, D. F., Torres AlbÃ , N., Treves, A., Vanzo, G., Vazquez Acosta, M., Vovk, I., Ward, J. E., Will, M., and Zariä , D.
Subjects: Moonlight, Photomultiplier, Twilight, media_common.quotation_subject, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics, Cherenkov telescopes, 01 natural sciences, Gamma-ray astronomy, Crab Nebula, Optics, 0103 physical sciences, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Cherenkov radiation, media_common, Physics, ta115, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, business.industry, Crab nebula, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Cherenkov telescope, Sky, Duty cycle, ddc:540, Electrónica, Física nuclear, Electricidad, business, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
Abstract: MAGIC, a system of two imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes, achieves its best performance under dark conditions, i.e. in absence of moonlight or twilight. Since operating the telescopes only during dark time would severely limit the duty cycle, observations are also performed when the Moon is present in the sky. Here we develop a dedicated Moon-adapted analysis to characterize the performance of MAGIC under moonlight. We evaluate energy threshold, angular resolution and sensitivity of MAGIC under different background light levels, based on Crab Nebula observations and tuned Monte Carlo simulations. This study includes observations taken under non-standard hardware configurations, such as reducing the camera photomultiplier tubes gain by a factor ~1.7 (Reduced HV settings) with respect to standard settings (Nominal HV) or using UV-pass filters to strongly reduce the amount of moonlight reaching the cameras of the telescopes. The Crab Nebula spectrum is correctly reconstructed in all the studied illumination levels, that reach up to 30 times brighter than under dark conditions. The main effect of moonlight is an increase in the analysis energy threshold and in the systematic uncertainties on the flux normalization. The sensitivity degradation is constrained to be below 10%, within 15-30% and between 60 and 80% for Nominal HV, Reduced HV and UV-pass filter observations, respectively. No worsening of the angular resolution was found. Thanks to observations during moonlight, the maximal duty cycle of MAGIC can be increased from ~18%, under dark nights only, to up to ~40% in total with only moderate performance degradation., 14 pages, 13 figures, accepted in Astroparticle Physics. Corresponding authors: Daniel Guberman (dguberman@ifae.es) and Pierre Colin (colin@mppmu.mpg.de)
Published: 2017

34. A cut-off in the TeV gamma-ray spectrum of the SNR Cassiopeia A

Author: G. Pedaletti, E. Prandini, Stefano Ansoldi, Riccardo Paoletti, Wolfgang Rhode, A. De Angelis, A. Treves, Vitaly Neustroev, T. Surić, M. I. Martínez, Juan Abel Barrio, M. Engelkemeier, B. De Lotto, S. Bonnefoy, Sabrina Einecke, L. Maraschi, Kazuma Ishio, Elina Lindfors, G. Maneva, J. Kushida, Razmik Mirzoyan, U. Barres de Almeida, Damir Lelas, Rodolfo Carosi, Daniel Mazin, A. Berti, Wlodek Bednarek, Alessandro Carosi, Jose Luis Contreras, Adrian Biland, Chiara Righi, Dorota Sobczyńska, M. Colak, N. Torres-Albà, J. Palacio, M. Hayashida, J. Rico, Camilla Maggio, J. M. Paredes, Antonio Stamerra, B. Banerjee, Daniela Dorner, C. Arcaro, Dariusz Gora, Juan Cortina, Gaia Vanzo, D. Zarić, Arka Chatterjee, S. Schroeder, Marc Ribó, Stefano Covino, Ivica Puljak, Pierre Colin, M. Gaug, Pratik Majumdar, L. Nogués, D. Fidalgo, P. Bangale, M. V. Fonseca, Abelardo Moralejo, E. Moretti, Hidetoshi Kubo, Tomohiro Inada, L. A. Antonelli, J. Herrera, S. N. Shore, E. de Oña Wilhelmi, Martin Will, Petar Temnikov, Koji Noda, Tomoki Saito, D. Tescaro, Marcel Strzys, Elisa Bernardini, Masahiro Teshima, Yusuke Konno, P. G. Prada Moroni, Kyoshi Nishijima, Nikola Godinovic, D. Ninci, D. Kuveždić, Tomislav Terzić, Ievgen Vovk, M. Minev, Tarek M. Hassan, T. Schweizer, I. Reichardt, Fabrizio Tavecchio, A. Niedzwiecki, Ll. Font, I. Snidaric, U. Menzel, M. Peresano, David Paneque, Max Ludwig Ahnen, P. Giammaria, D. Guberman, Marina Manganaro, Ana Babić, D. Galindo, M. Garczarczyk, P. Cumani, Konstancja Satalecka, Michele Doro, Francesco Dazzi, Dario Hrupec, A. Fernández-Barral, M. A. Lopez, R. J. García López, Kari Nilsson, Massimo Persic, F. Di Pierro, D. Dominis Prester, V. Fallah Ramazani, P. Da Vela, Alexander Hahn, Julian Sitarek, J. Hose, M. Vazquez Acosta, B. Biasuzzi, Victoria Moreno, E. Colombo, L. O. Takalo, Aaron Dominguez, D. Hadasch, Francesco Longo, J. E. Ward, Mosè Mariotti, Saverio Lombardi, Martin Makariev, Oscar Blanch, M. Doert, J. R. Garcia, J. Becerra González, Christian Fruck, L. Perri, Giacomo Bonnoli, Wrijupan Bhattacharyya, D. Eisenacher Glawion, D. Elsaesser, M. Nievas Rosillo, S. Paiano, Karl Mannheim, Ahnen, M. L., Ansoldi, S., Antonelli, L. A., Arcaro, C., Babić, A., Banerjee, B., Bangale, P., Barres de Almeida, U., Barrio, J. A., Becerra González, J., Bednarek, W., Bernardini, E., Berti, A., Bhattacharyya, W., Biasuzzi, B., Biland, A., Blanch, O., Bonnefoy, S., Bonnoli, G., Carosi, R., Carosi, A., Chatterjee, A., Colak, M., Colin, P., Colombo, E., Contreras, J. L., Cortina, J., Covino, S., Cumani, P., Da Vela, P., Dazzi, F., De Angelis, A., De Lotto, B., de Oña Wilhelmi, E., Di Pierro, F., Doert, M., Domínguez, A., Dominis Prester, D., Dorner, D., Doro, M., Einecke, S., Eisenacher Glawion, D., Elsaesser, D., Engelkemeier, M., Fallah Ramazani, V., Fernández-Barral, A., Fidalgo, D., Fonseca, M. V., Font, L., Fruck, C., Galindo, D., García López, R. J., Garczarczyk, M., Gaug, M., Giammaria, P., Godinović, N., Gora, D., Guberman, D., Hadasch, D., Hahn, A., Hassan, T., Hayashida, M., Herrera, J., Hose, J., Hrupec, D., Inada, T., Ishio, K., Konno, Y., Kubo, H., Kushida, J., Kuveždić, D., Lelas, D., Lindfors, E., Lombardi, S., Longo, F., López, M., Maggio, C., Majumdar, P., Makariev, M., Maneva, G., Manganaro, M., Mannheim, K., Maraschi, L., Mariotti, M., Martínez, M., Mazin, D., Menzel, U., Minev, M., Mirzoyan, R., Moralejo, A., Moreno, V., Moretti, E., Neustroev, V., Niedzwiecki, A., Nievas Rosillo, M., Nilsson, K., Ninci, D., Nishijima, K., Noda, K., Nogués, L., Paiano, S., Palacio, J., Paneque, D., Paoletti, R., Paredes, J. M., Pedaletti, G., Peresano, M., Perri, L., Persic, M., Prada Moroni, P. G., Prandini, E., Puljak, I., Garcia, J. R., Reichardt, I., Rhode, W., Ribó, M., Rico, J., Righi, C., Saito, T., Satalecka, K., Schroeder, S., Schweizer, T., Shore, S. N., Sitarek, J., Šnidarić, I., Sobczynska, D., Stamerra, A., Strzys, M., Surić, T., Takalo, L., Tavecchio, F., Temnikov, P., Terzić, T., Tescaro, D., Teshima, M., Torres-Albà, N., Treves, A., Vanzo, G., Vazquez Acosta, M., Vovk, I., Ward, J. E., Will, M., and Zarić, D.
Subjects: lepton, Astrophysics, power spectrum, 01 natural sciences, Spectral line, Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, MAGIC (telescope), 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, acceleration of particle, cosmic ray, energy spectrum [gamma ray], acceleration of particles, ISM: supernova remnants, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Physics, Spectral index, education.field_of_study, Gamma ray, cosmic rays, gamma rays: general, high [energy], Spectral energy distribution, Electrónica, Física nuclear, Electricidad, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, low [magnetic field], Population, energy spectrum, FOS: Physical sciences, Cosmic ray, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, GLAST, leptonic [model], emission [gamma ray], supernova, 0103 physical sciences, education, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Computer Science::Information Theory, ta115, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Astronomy, cosmic ray physics, stars: supernovae: individual: Cassiopeia A, supernova remnants, Astronomy and Astrophysics, acceleration, MAGIC, moment, flux, Cassiopeia A, Space and Planetary Science, ddc:520, galaxy [cosmic radiation], spectral, High Energy Physics::Experiment, supernova remnant [ISM], general [gamma rays]
Abstract: It is widely believed that the bulk of the Galactic cosmic rays are accelerated in supernova remnants (SNRs). However, no observational evidence of the presence of particles of PeV energies in SNRs has yet been found. The young historical SNR Cassiopeia A (Cas A) appears as one of the best candidates to study acceleration processes. Between December 2014 and October 2016 we observed Cas A with the MAGIC telescopes, accumulating 158 hours of good-quality data. We derived the spectrum of the source from 100 GeV to 10 TeV. We also analysed $\sim$8 years of $Fermi$-LAT to obtain the spectral shape between 60 MeV and 500 GeV. The spectra measured by the LAT and MAGIC telescopes are compatible within the errors and show a clear turn off (4.6 $\sigma$) at the highest energies, which can be described with an exponential cut-off at $E_c = 3.5\left(^{+1.6}_{-1.0}\right)_{\textit{stat}} \left(^{+0.8}_{-0.9}\right)_{\textit{sys}}$ TeV. The gamma-ray emission from 60 MeV to 10 TeV can be attributed to a population of high-energy protons with spectral index $\sim$2.2 and energy cut-off at $\sim$10 TeV. This result indicates that Cas A is not contributing to the high energy ($\sim$PeV) cosmic-ray sea in a significant manner at the present moment. A one-zone leptonic model fails to reproduce by itself the multi-wavelength spectral energy distribution. Besides, if a non-negligible fraction of the flux seen by MAGIC is produced by leptons, the radiation should be emitted in a region with a low magnetic field (B$\lessapprox$100$\mu$G) like in the reverse shock.), Comment: 8 pages, 3 figures, submitted to MNRAS. Corresponding authors: Daniel Guberman (dguberman@ifae.es), Emma de O\~na Wilhelmi (wilhelmi@ice.csic.es) and Daniel Galindo (dgalindo@am.ub.es)
Published: 2017

35. SiPM Avalanche Size and Crosstalk Measurements with Light Emission Microscopy

Author: Razmik Mirzoyan, M. L. Knoetig, and J. Hose
Subjects: Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Photomultiplier, Materials science, business.industry, Avalanche breakdown, Optics, Silicon photomultiplier, Nuclear Energy and Engineering, Overvoltage, Optoelectronics, Microcell, Light emission, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Photonics, business, Diode
Abstract: Diodes operating in reverse bias emit visible light. This light emission process is important in silicon photomultipliers where microcells, arranged in a matrix, can trigger avalanches in adjacent microcells. One of the main goals toward improving silicon photomultipliers as light detectors is to design sensors with significantly higher photon detection efficiency than the classical photomultipliers. To achieve this goal, one needs to operate the silicon photomultiplier under a high relative overvoltage, saturating its Geiger efficiency. This means operating it under high gain and a correspondingly high level of optical crosstalk. In this paper, we describe a new and precise visual method for measuring the crosstalk as well as the transverse size of avalanches in a silicon photomultiplier microcell. This size turns out to be significantly smaller than the usually used microcell size, practically independent from the overvoltage or type. It also has implications for designing small, fast microcells that could reach a naturally lower size limit.
Published: 2014

36. FADC signal reconstruction for the MAGIC telescope

Author: H. Anderhub, K. Shinozaki, Stefano Ciprini, M. Camara, R. Mirzoyan, E. Carmona, Roberta Zanin, Florian Goebel, M. V. Fonseca, P. Jacon, Jorge Andres Lopez Lopez, D. Hakobyan, F. Zandanel, E. Domingo-Santamaría, J. Hose, Jelena Ninkovic, Michela Fagiolini, Oriana Mansutti, Francesco Dazzi, M. Rissi, S. Mizobuchi, Tadeusz Wibig, V. Scalzotto, M. A. Lopez, T. Schweizer, Francesco Longo, W. Wittek, Marc Ribó, J. Zapatero, D. Tescaro, Pol Bordas, Dorota Sobczyńska, M. T. Costado, V. Vitale, C. C. Hsu, Miriam Lucio Martinez, Justin Albert, M. Asensio, Steven N. Shore, V. Curtef, R. Schmitt, Riccardo Paoletti, Takashi Saito, Masahiro Teshima, Igor Oya, Jose Flix, G. Maneva, Daniel Nieto, Daniel Kranich, C. Merck, E. Aliu, E. Prandini, P. Antoranz, Elina Lindfors, Ll. Font, R. K. Bock, C. Baixeras, A. Sillanpää, A. Herrero, A. Saggion, L. O. Takalo, Adrian Biland, S. Rügamer, C. Delgado, V. Danielyan, Masaaki Hayashida, Antonio Stamerra, Juan Abel Barrio, Diego F. Torres, Ciro Bigongiari, M. Pasanen, R. G. Pegna, Markus Gaug, K. Berger, A. Armada, J. Rico, Jose Luis Contreras, Mosè Mariotti, M. Garczarczyk, Josep M. Paredes, M. Shayduk, T. Jogler, Ashot Chilingarian, Juan Cortina, E. Oña-Wilhelmi, R. Kritzer, A. Raymers, A. De Angelis, R. Firpo, B. De Lotto, D. Höhne, L. S. Stark, R. J. García-López, N. Puchades, A. Piccioli, Nicola Galante, R. Kosyra, Robert Wagner, Saverio Lombardi, H. Bartko, E. Fernandez, E. Lorenz, I. Britvitch, Daniel Ferenc, Maria Giller, Thomas Bretz, H. Vankov, Abelardo Moralejo, Michele Doro, N. Otte, M. Panniello, P. Sartori, D. Mazin, Manel Errando, Kari Nilsson, Wolfgang Rhode, Julia Becker, S. Commichau, Wlodek Bednarek, Jose Miguel Miranda, Daniela Dorner, A. Laille, Petar Temnikov, M. Fuchs, Massimo Persic, Mario Meucci, J. A. Coarasa, Valentí Bosch-Ramon, L. Peruzzo, V. Scapin, R. de los Reyes, Nicola Turini, P. Majumdar, N. Sidro, M. Meyer, D. Pascoli, A. Robert, Felicitas Pauss, T. Hengstebeck, Denis Bastieri, Alvaro Sanchez, Karl Mannheim, J., Albert, E., Aliu, H., Anderhub, P., Antoranz, A., Armada, M., Asensio, C., Baixera, J. A., Barrio, H., Bartko, D., Bastieri, J., Becker, W., Bednarek, K., Berger, C., Bigongiari, A., Biland, R. K., Bock, P., Borda, V., Bosch Ramon, T., Bretz, I., Britvitch, M., Camara, E., Carmona, A., Chilingarian, S., Ciprini, J. A., Coarasa, S., Commichau, J. L., Contrera, J., Cortina, M. T., Costado, V., Curtef, V., Danielyan, F., Dazzi, A. D., Angeli, C., Delgado, R. d., los Reye, B. D., Lotto, E., Domingo Santamaria, D., Dorner, M., Doro, M., Errando, M., Fagiolini, D., Ferenc, E., Fernandez, R., Firpo, J., Flix, M. V., Fonseca, L., Font, M., Fuch, N., Galante, R. J., Garcia Lopez, M., Garczarczyk, M., Gaug, M., Giller, F., Goebel, D., Hakobyan, M., Hayashida, T., Hengstebeck, A., Herrero, D., Hohne, J., Hose, C. C., Hsu, P., Jacon, T., Jogler, R., Kosyra, D., Kranich, R., Kritzer, A., Laille, E., Lindfor, S., Lombardi, Longo, Francesco, J., Lopez, M., Lopez, E., Lorenz, P., Majumdar, G., Maneva, K., Mannheim, O., Mansutti, M., Mariotti, M., Martinez, D., Mazin, C., Merck, M., Meucci, M., Meyer, J. M., Miranda, R., Mirzoyan, S., Mizobuchi, A., Moralejo, D., Nieto, K., Nilsson, J., Ninkovic, E., Ona Wilhelmi, N., Otte, I., Oya, M., Panniello, R., Paoletti, J. M., Parede, M., Pasanen, D., Pascoli, F., Pau, R., Pegna, M., Persic, L., Peruzzo, A., Piccioli, N., Puchade, E., Prandini, A., Raymer, W., Rhode, M., Ribo, J., Rico, M., Rissi, A., Robert, S., Rugamer, A., Saggion, T., Saito, A., Sanchez, P., Sartori, V., Scalzotto, V., Scapin, R., Schmitt, T., Schweizer, M., Shayduk, K., Shinozaki, S. N., Shore, N., Sidro, A., Sillanpaa, D., Sobczynska, A., Stamerra, L. S., Stark, L., Takalo, P., Temnikov, D., Tescaro, M., Teshima, D. F., Torre, N., Turini, H., Vankov, V., Vitale, R. M., Wagner, T., Wibig, W., Wittek, F., Zandanel, R., Zanin, and J., Zapatero
Subjects: signal sampling, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Photomultiplier, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Very High Energy Gamma Ray Astronomy, Detectors, MAGIC telescope, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics, Signal, law.invention, Telescope, Optics, IMAGING CHERENKOV DETECTOR, law, Calibration, MAGIC (telescope), Instrumentation, Cherenkov radiation, CALIBRATION, Physics, Signal reconstruction, business.industry, GAMMA-RAY ASTRONOMY, SYSTEM, TESTS, Astrophysics (astro-ph), Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Gamma ray, Detector, business
Abstract: Until April 2007 the MAGIC telescope used a 300 MSamples/s FADC system to sample the shaped PMT signals produced by the captured Cherenkov photons of air showers. Different algorithms to reconstruct the signal from the read-out samples (extractors) have been implemented and are described and compared. Criteria based on the obtained charge and time resolution/bias are defined and used to judge the different extractors, by applying them to calibration, cosmic and pedestal signals. The achievable charge and time resolution have been derived as functions of the incident number of photo-electrons., Accepted for publication in NIM A
Published: 2008

37. Erratum: A cut-off in the TeV gamma-ray spectrum of the SNR Cassiopeia A

Author: MAGIC Collaboration: M L Ahnen, S Ansoldi, L A Antonelli, C Arcaro, A Babić, B Banerjee, P Bangale, U Barres de Almeida, J A Barrio, J Becerra González, W Bednarek, E Bernardini, A Berti, W Bhattacharyya, B Biasuzzi, A Biland, O Blanch, S Bonnefoy, G Bonnoli, R Carosi, A Carosi, A Chatterjee, M Colak, P Colin, E Colombo, J L Contreras, J Cortina, S Covino, P Cumani, P Da Vela, F Dazzi, A De Angelis, B De Lotto, E de Oña Wilhelmi, F Di Pierro, M Doert, A Domínguez, D Dominis Prester, D Dorner, M Doro, S Einecke, D Eisenacher Glawion, D Elsaesser, M Engelkemeier, V Fallah Ramazani, A Fernández-Barral, D Fidalgo, M V Fonseca, L Font, C Fruck, D Galindo, R J García López, M Garczarczyk, M Gaug, P Giammaria, N Godinović, D Gora, D Guberman, D Hadasch, A Hahn, T Hassan, M Hayashida, J Herrera, J Hose, D Hrupec, T Inada, K Ishio, Y Konno, H Kubo, J Kushida, D Kuveždić, D Lelas, E Lindfors, S Lombardi, F Longo, M López, C Maggio, P Majumdar, M Makariev, G Maneva, M Manganaro, K Mannheim, L Maraschi, M Mariotti, M Martínez, D Mazin, U Menzel, M Minev, R Mirzoyan, A Moralejo, V Moreno, E Moretti, V Neustroev, A Niedzwiecki, M Nievas Rosillo, K Nilsson, D Ninci, K Nishijima, K Noda, L Nogués, S Paiano, J Palacio, D Paneque, R Paoletti, J M Paredes, G Pedaletti, M Peresano, L Perri, M Persic, P G Prada Moroni, E Prandini, I Puljak, J R Garcia, I Reichardt, W Rhode, M Ribó, J Rico, C Righi, T Saito, K Satalecka, S Schroeder, T Schweizer, S N Shore, J Sitarek, I Šnidarić, D Sobczynska, A Stamerra, M Strzys, T Surić, L Takalo, F Tavecchio, P Temnikov, T Terzić, D Tescaro, M Teshima, D F Torres, N Torres-Albà, A Treves, G Vanzo, M Vazquez Acosta, I Vovk, J E Ward, M Will, and D Zarić
Subjects: Physics, Cassiopeia A, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Space and Planetary Science, 0103 physical sciences, Gamma ray, ddc:520, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Cosmic ray, Astrophysics, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, Spectrum (topology)
Published: 2018

38. Unfolding of differential energy spectra in the MAGIC experiment

Author: E. Fernandez, M. I. Martínez, K. Shinozaki, V. Danielyan, R. K. Bock, N. Sidro, A. Laille, J. M. Paredes, Antonio Stamerra, Francesco Longo, W. Wittek, D. Pascoli, Roberta Zanin, M. Fuchs, Massimo Persic, F. Pauss, E. Lorenz, T. Hengstebeck, E. Domingo-Santamaría, Michela Fagiolini, Oriana Mansutti, M. Pasanen, Abelardo Moralejo, R. de los Reyes, Stefano Ciprini, D. Hakobyan, S. Mizobuchi, Denis Bastieri, A. Robert, Nicola Turini, Jelena Ninkovic, R. Firpo, Alvaro Sanchez, Marc Ribó, K. Nilsson, M. T. Costado, C. Baixeras, H. Anderhub, Julia Becker, Francesco Dazzi, S. Commichau, J. A. Coarasa, D. Tescaro, Tadeusz Wibig, Dorota Sobczyńska, P. Antoranz, J. Zapatero, Justin Albert, Jose Miguel Miranda, Juan Abel Barrio, V. Vitale, I. Oya, J. Rico, G. Maneva, A. Saggion, F. Zandanel, Daniel Nieto, Adrian Biland, Mario Meucci, E. Carmona, Markus Gaug, N. Otte, C. Merck, C. Delgado, K. Berger, L. Peruzzo, K. Mannheim, E. Aliu, Elina Lindfors, L. S. Stark, M. Meyer, Daniel Mazin, Riccardo Paoletti, Michele Doro, M. V. Fonseca, M. Garczarczyk, S. Rügamer, Elisa Prandini, V. Curtef, M. Camara, Ashot Chilingarian, Maria Giller, M. Shayduk, Diego F. Torres, Ciro Bigongiari, Manel Errando, L. O. Takalo, A. Raymers, Pol Bordas, A. Herrero, Mosè Mariotti, A. De Angelis, A. Piccioli, Nicola Galante, P. Sartori, Saverio Lombardi, R. Kritzer, M. Asensio, B. De Lotto, M. López, R. Schmitt, R. Kosyra, Robert Wagner, H. Bartko, E. Oña-Wilhelmi, N. Puchades, P. Jacon, C. C. Hsu, A. Armada, Thomas Bretz, S. N. Shore, R. Mirzoyan, M. Panniello, Masahiro Teshima, Wolfgang Rhode, T. Schweizer, I. Britvitch, A. Sillanpää, W. Bednarek, Jose Flix, Ll. Font, Takashi Saito, Daniela Dorner, J. Hose, Petar Temnikov, Valentí Bosch-Ramon, V. Scapin, Florian Goebel, Masaaki Hayashida, Jose Luis Contreras, Juan Cortina, R. Pegna, Daniel Ferenc, H. Vankov, P. Majumdar, Jorge Andres Lopez Lopez, V. Scalzotto, M. Rissi, D. Kranich, T. Jogler, D. Höhne, R. J. García-López, J., Albert, E., Aliu, H., Anderhub, P., Antoranz, A., Armada, M., Asensio, C., Baixera, J. A., Barrio, H., Bartko, D., Bastieri, J., Becker, W., Bednarek, K., Berger, C., Bigongiari, A., Biland, R. K., Bock, P., Borda, V., Bosch Ramon, T., Bretz, I., Britvitch, M., Camara, E., Carmona, A., Chilingarian, S., Ciprini, J. A., Coarasa, S., Commichau, J. L., Contrera, J., Cortina, M. T., Costado, V., Curtef, V., Danielyan, F., Dazzi, Angelis, A., C., Delgado, Los, R., Lotto, B., E., Domingo Santamar\ia, D., Dorner, M., Doro, M., Errando, M., Fagiolini, D., Ferenc, E., Fernandez, R., Firpo, J., Flix, M. V., Fonseca, L., Font, M., Fuch, N., Galante, R. J., Garc\ia Lopez, M., Garczarczyk, M., Gaug, M., Giller, F., Goebel, D., Hakobyan, M., Hayashida, T., Hengstebeck, A., Herrero, D., H\ohne, J., Hose, C. C., Hsu, P., Jacon, T., Jogler, R., Kosyra, D., Kranich, R., Kritzer, A., Laille, E., Lindfor, S., Lombardi, Longo, Francesco, J., Lopez, M., Lopez, E., Lorenz, P., Majumdar, G., Maneva, K., Mannheim, O., Mansutti, M., Mariotti, M., Mart\inez, D., Mazin, C., Merck, M., Meucci, M., Meyer, J. M., Miranda, R., Mirzoyan, S., Mizobuchi, A., Moralejo, D., Nieto, K., Nilsson, J., Ninkovic, E., O\~na Wilhelmi, N., Otte, I., Oya, M., Panniello, R., Paoletti, J. M., Parede, M., Pasanen, D., Pascoli, F., Pau, R., Pegna, M., Persic, L., Peruzzo, A., Piccioli, N., Puchade, E., Prandini, A., Raymer, W., Rhode, M., Ribo, J., Rico, M., Rissi, A., Robert, S., R\ugamer, A., Saggion, T., Saito, A., Sanchez, P., Sartori, V., Scalzotto, V., Scapin, R., Schmitt, T., Schweizer, M., Shayduk, K., Shinozaki, S. N., Shore, N., Sidro, A., Sillanp\a\a, D., Sobczynska, A., Stamerra, L. S., Stark, L., Takalo, P., Temnikov, D., Tescaro, M., Teshima, D. F., Torre, N., Turini, H., Vankov, V., Vitale, R. M., Wagner, T., Wibig, W., Wittek, F., Zandanel, R., Zanin, and J., Zapatero
Subjects: Nuclear and High Energy Physics, statistics techniques, DISTRIBUTIONS, ENTROPY, regularization, unfolding, Very High Energy Gamma-ray Astronomy, Calibrations, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics, Spectral line, Nuclear physics, Software, gamma ray astronomy, Statistical analysis, Statistical physics, Instrumentation, Physics, Quantitative Biology::Biomolecules, business.industry, Astrophysics (astro-ph), Very high energy gamma ray astronomy, Electrónica, Física nuclear, Electricidad, business
Abstract: The paper describes the different methods, used in the MAGIC experiment, to unfold experimental energy distributions of cosmic ray particles (gamma-rays). Questions and problems related to the unfolding are discussed. Various procedures are proposed which can help to make the unfolding robust and reliable. The different methods and procedures are implemented in the MAGIC software and are used in most of the analyses., Comment: Submitted to NIM A
Published: 2007

39. Variable Very High Energy γ‐Ray Emission from Markarian 501

Author: J. Albert, E. Aliu, H. Anderhub, P. Antoranz, A. Armada, C. Baixeras, J. A. Barrio, H. Bartko, D. Bastieri, J. K. Becker, W. Bednarek, K. Berger, C. Bigongiari, A. Biland, R. K. Bock, P. Bordas, V. Bosch‐Ramon, T. Bretz, I. Britvitch, M. Camara, E. Carmona, A. Chilingarian, J. A. Coarasa, S. Commichau, J. L. Contreras, J. Cortina, M. T. Costado, V. Curtef, V. Danielyan, F. Dazzi, A. De Angelis, C. Delgado, R. de los Reyes, B. De Lotto, E. Domingo‐Santamaria, D. Dorner, M. Doro, M. Errando, M. Fagiolini, D. Ferenc, E. Fernandez, R. Firpo, J. Flix, M. V. Fonseca, L. Font, M. Fuchs, N. Galante, R. J. Garcia‐Lopez, M. Garczarczyk, M. Gaug, M. Giller, F. Goebel, D. Hakobyan, M. Hayashida, T. Hengstebeck, A. Herrero, D. Hohne, J. Hose, D. Hrupec, C. C. Hsu, P. Jacon, T. Jogler, R. Kosyra, D. Kranich, R. Kritzer, A. Laille, E. Lindfors, S. Lombardi, F. Longo, J. Lopez, M. Lopez, E. Lorenz, P. Majumdar, G. Maneva, K. Mannheim, O. Mansutti, M. Mariotti, M. Martinez, D. Mazin, C. Merck, M. Meucci, M. Meyer, J. M. Miranda, R. Mirzoyan, S. Mizobuchi, A. Moralejo, D. Nieto, K. Nilsson, J. Ninkovic, E. Ona‐Wilhelmi, N. Otte, I. Oya, D. Paneque, M. Panniello, R. Paoletti, J. M. Paredes, M. Pasanen, D. Pascoli, F. Pauss, R. Pegna, M. Persic, L. Peruzzo, A. Piccioli, E. Prandini, N. Puchades, A. Raymers, W. Rhode, M. Ribo, J. Rico, M. Rissi, A. Robert, S. Rugamer, A. Saggion, T. Saito, A. Sanchez, P. Sartori, V. Scalzotto, V. Scapin, R. Schmitt, T. Schweizer, M. Shayduk, K. Shinozaki, S. N. Shore, N. Sidro, A. Sillanpaa, D. Sobczynska, A. Stamerra, L. S. Stark, L. Takalo, F. Tavecchio, P. Temnikov, D. Tescaro, M. Teshima, D. F. Torres, N. Turini, H. Vankov, V. Vitale, R. M. Wagner, T. Wibig, W. Wittek, F. Zandanel, R. Zanin, J. Zapatero, J., Albert, E., Aliu, H., Anderhub, P., Antoranz, A., Armada, C., Baixera, J. A., Barrio, H., Bartko, D., Bastieri, J. K., Becker, W., Bednarek, K., Berger, C., Bigongiari, A., Biland, R. K., Bock, P., Borda, V., Bosch Ramon, T., Bretz, I., Britvitch, M., Camara, E., Carmona, A., Chilingarian, J. A., Coarasa, S., Commichau, J. L., Contrera, J., Cortina, M. T., Costado, V., Curtef, V., Danielyan, F., Dazzi, A. D., Angeli, C., Delgado, R. D. L., Reye, B. D., Lotto, E., Domingo Santamaria, D., Dorner, M., Doro, M., Errando, M., Fagiolini, D., Ferenc, E., Fernandez, R., Firpo, J., Flix, M. V., Fonseca, L., Font, M., Fuch, N., Galante, R. J., Garcia Lopez, M., Garczarczyk, M., Gaug, M., Giller, F., Goebel, D., Hakobyan, M., Hayashida, T., Hengstebeck, A., Herrero, D., Hohne, J., Hose, D., Hrupec, C. C., Hsu, P., Jacon, T., Jogler, R., Kosyra, D., Kranich, R., Kritzer, A., Laille, E., Lindfor, S., Lombardi, Longo, Francesco, J., Lopez, M., Lopez, E., Lorenz, P., Majumdar, G., Maneva, K., Mannheim, O., Mansutti, M., Mariotti, M., Martinez, D., Mazin, C., Merck, M., Meucci, M., Meyer, J. M., Miranda, R., Mirzoyan, S., Mizobuchi, A., Moralejo, D., Nieto, K., Nilsson, J., Ninkovic, E., Ona Wilhelmi, N., Otte, I., Oya, D., Paneque, M., Panniello, R., Paoletti, J. M., Parede, M., Pasanen, D., Pascoli, F., Pau, R., Pegna, M., Persic, L., Peruzzo, A., Piccioli, E., Prandini, N., Puchade, A., Raymer, W., Rhode, M., Ribo, J., Rico, M., Rissi, A., Robert, S., Rugamer, A., Saggion, T., Saito, A., Sanchez, P., Sartori, V., Scalzotto, V., Scapin, R., Schmitt, T., Schweizer, M., Shayduk, K., Shinozaki, S. N., Shore, N., Sidro, A., Sillanpaa, D., Sobczynska, A., Stamerra, L. S., Stark, L., Takalo, F., Tavecchio, P., Temnikov, D., Tescaro, M., Teshima, D. F., Torre, N., Turini, H., Vankov, V., Vitale, R. M., Wagner, T., Wibig, W., Wittek, F., Zandanel, R., Zanin, and J., Zapatero
Subjects: PARTICLE-ACCELERATION, Photon, ACTIVE GALACTIC NUCLEI, BL-LAC OBJECTS, CHERENKOV TELESCOPE SYSTEM, LOG-PARABOLIC SPECTRA, 23 DAY PERIODICITY, BLACK-HOLE MODELS, X-RAY, MKN 501, MULTIWAVELENGTH OBSERVATIONS, Flux, Electron, Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, Spectral line, Luminosity, law.invention, law, 0103 physical sciences, Blazar, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Gamma ray, Active Galactic Nuclei, Astronomy and Astrophysics, MAGIC telescope, Very High Energy Gamma-ray Astronomy, Space and Planetary Science, Electrónica, Física nuclear, Electricidad, Markarian 501, BL Lac, AGN, VHE gamma-ray, imaging air Cherenkov telescope, MAGIC, Flare
Abstract: The blazar Markarian 501 (Mrk 501) was observed at energies above 0.10 TeV with the MAGIC telescope from May through July 2005. The high sensitivity of the instrument enabled the determination of the flux and spectrum of the source on a night-by-night basis. Throughout our observational campaign, the flux from Mrk 501 was found to vary by an order of magnitude. Intra-night flux variability with flux-doubling times down to 2 minutes was observed during the two most active nights, namely June 30 and July 9. These are the fastest flux variations ever observed in Mrk 501. The ~20-minute long flare of July 9 showed an indication of a 4 +/- 1 min time delay between the peaks of F(1.2 TeV), which may indicate a progressive acceleration of electrons in the emitting plasma blob. The flux variability was quantified for several energy ranges, and found to increase with the energy of the gamma-ray photons. The spectra hardened significantly with increasing flux, and during the two most active nights, a spectral peak was clearly detected at 0.43 +/- 0.06 TeV and 0.25 +/- 0.07 TeV, respectively for June 30 and July 9. There is no evidence of such spectral feature for the other nights at energies down to 0.10 TeV, thus suggesting that the spectral peak is correlated with the source luminosity. These observed characteristics could be accommodated in a Synchrotron-Self-Compton (SSC) framework in which the increase in gamma-ray flux is produced by a freshly injected (high energy) electron population.
Published: 2007

40. MAGIC Upper Limits on the Very High Energy Emission from Gamma‐Ray Bursts

Author: J. Albert, E. Aliu, H. Anderhub, P. Antoranz, A. Armada, C. Baixeras, J. A. Barrio, H. Bartko, D. Bastieri, J. Becker, W. Bednarek, K. Berger, C. Bigongiari, A. Biland, R. K. Bock, P. Bordas, V. Bosch‐Ramon, T. Bretz, I. Britvitch, M. Camara, E. Carmona, A. Chilingarian, S. Ciprini, J. A. Coarasa, S. Commichau, J. L. Contreras, J. Cortina, M. T. Costado, V. Curtef, V. Danielyan, F. Dazzi, A. De Angelis, C. Delgado, R. de los Reyes, B. De Lotto, E. Domingo‐Santamaria, D. Dorner, M. Doro, M. Errando, M. Fagiolini, D. Ferenc, E. Fernandez, R. Firpo, J. Flix, M. V. Fonseca, L. Font, M. Fuchs, N. Galante, R. Garcia‐Lopez, M. Garczarczyk, M. Gaug, M. Giller, F. Goebel, D. Hakobyan, M. Hayashida, T. Hengstebeck, A. Herrero, D. Hohne, J. Hose, C. C. Hsu, P. Jacon, T. Jogler, O. Kalekin, R. Kosyra, D. Kranich, R. Kritzer, A. Laille, T. Lenisa, P. Liebing, E. Lindfors, S. Lombardi, F. Longo, J. Lopez, M. Lopez, E. Lorenz, P. Majumdar, G. Maneva, K. Mannheim, O. Mansutti, M. Mariotti, M. Martinez, D. Mazin, C. Merck, M. Meucci, M. Meyer, J. M. Miranda, R. Mirzoyan, S. Mizobuchi, A. Moralejo, K. Nilsson, J. Ninkovic, E. Ona‐Wilhelmi, N. Otte, I. Oya, D. Paneque, M. Panniello, R. Paoletti, J. M. Paredes, M. Pasanen, D. Pascoli, F. Pauss, R. Pegna, M. Persic, L. Peruzzo, A. Piccioli, M. Poller, E. Prandini, N. Puchades, A. Raymers, W. Rhode, M. Ribo, J. Rico, M. Rissi, A. Robert, S. Rugamer, A. Saggion, A. Sanchez, P. Sartori, V. Scalzotto, V. Scapin, R. Schmitt, T. Schweizer, M. Shayduk, K. Shinozaki, S. N. Shore, N. Sidro, A. Sillanpaa, D. Sobczynska, A. Stamerra, L. S. Stark, L. Takalo, P. Temnikov, D. Tescaro, M. Teshima, N. Tonello, D. F. Torres, N. Turini, H. Vankov, V. Vitale, R. M. Wagner, T. Wibig, W. Wittek, R. Zanin, J. Zapatero, J., Albert, E., Aliu, H., Anderhub, P., Antoranz, A., Armada, C., Baixera, J. A., Barrio, H., Bartko, D., Bastieri, J., Becker, W., Bednarek, K., Berger, C., Bigongiari, A., Biland, R. K., Bock, P., Borda, V., Bosch Ramon, T., Bretz, I., Britvitch, M., Camara, E., Carmona, A., Chilingarian, S., Ciprini, J. A., Coarasa, S., Commichau, J. L., Contrera, J., Cortina, M. T., Costado, V., Curtef, V., Danielyan, F., Dazzi, A. D., Angeli, C., Delgado, R. d., los Reye, B. D., Lotto, E., Domingo Santamaria, D., Dorner, M., Doro, M., Errando, M., Fagiolini, D., Ferenc, E., Fernandez, R., Firpo, J., Flix, M. V., Fonseca, L., Font, M., Fuch, N., Galante, R., Garcia Lopez, M., Garczarczyk, M., Gaug, M., Giller, F., Goebel, D., Hakobyan, M., Hayashida, T., Hengstebeck, A., Herrero, D., Hohne, J., Hose, C. C., Hsu, P., Jacon, T., Jogler, O., Kalekin, R., Kosyra, D., Kranich, R., Kritzer, A., Laille, T., Lenisa, P., Liebing, E., Lindfor, S., Lombardi, Longo, Francesco, J., Lopez, M., Lopez, E., Lorenz, P., Majumdar, G., Maneva, K., Mannheim, O., Mansutti, M., Mariotti, M., Martinez, D., Mazin, C., Merck, M., Meucci, M., Meyer, J. M., Miranda, R., Mirzoyan, S., Mizobuchi, A., Moralejo, K., Nilsson, J., Ninkovic, E., Ona Wilhelmi, N., Otte, I., Oya, D., Paneque, M., Panniello, R., Paoletti, J. M., Parede, M., Pasanen, D., Pascoli, F., Pau, R., Pegna, M., Persic, L., Peruzzo, A., Piccioli, M., Poller, E., Prandini, N., Puchade, A., Raymer, W., Rhode, M., Ribo, J., Rico, M., Rissi, A., Robert, S., Rugamer, A., Saggion, A., Sanchez, P., Sartori, V., Scalzotto, V., Scapin, R., Schmitt, T., Schweizer, M., Shayduk, K., Shinozaki, S. N., Shore, N., Sidro, A., Sillanpaa, D., Sobczynska, A., Stamerra, L. S., Stark, L., Takalo, P., Temnikov, D., Tescaro, M., Teshima, N., Tonello, D. F., Torre, N., Turini, H., Vankov, V., Vitale, R. M., Wagner, T., Wibig, W., Wittek, R., Zanin, and J., Zapatero
Subjects: High energy, gamma ray astronomy, IMAGING CHERENKOV DETECTOR, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Very High Energy Gamma-ray Astronomy, Gamma-ray Bursts, MAGIC telescope, Extrapolation, FIREBALLS, Astrophysics, COMPTON EMISSION, Power law, GRB 050713A, Observacions astronòmiques, SEARCH, Gamma ray astronomy, Astronomia de raigs gamma, SPECTRA, MAGIC (telescope), LONG-DURATION, TEV EMISSION, AFTERGLOWS, SYNCHROTRON, COMPONENT, Zenith, Physics, Scattering, Attenuation, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Redshift, Space and Planetary Science, Gamma-ray Burst, Electrónica, Física nuclear, Electricidad, Astronomical observations
Abstract: During its first data cycle, between 2005 and the beginning of 2006, the fast repositioning system of the MAGIC telescope allowed the observation of nine different gamma-ray bursts as possible sources of very high energy gamma-rays. These observations were triggered by alerts from Swift, HETE-2, and INTEGRAL; they started as quickly as possible after the alerts and lasted for several minutes, with an energy threshold varying between 80 and 200 GeV, depending on the zenith angle of the burst. No evidence for gamma signals was found, and upper limits for the flux were derived for all events using the standard analysis chain of MAGIC. For the bursts with measured redshifts, the upper limits are compatible with a power-law extrapolation, when the intrinsic fluxes are evaluated taking into account the attenuation due to the scattering in the metagalactic radiation field.
Published: 2007

41. Light sensors selection for the Cherenkov Telescope Array: PMT and SiPM

Author: J.-P. Tavernet, J. Bolmont, Masahiro Teshima, J. Hose, R. Mirzoyan, E. Lorenz, P. Vincent, Hugh Dickinson, M. Kurz, Max Knotig, and M. Shayduk
Subjects: Physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Photomultiplier, Current generation, business.industry, Vacuum tube, Photodetector, Cherenkov Telescope Array, law.invention, Telescope, Silicon photomultiplier, Optics, law, business, Instrumentation, Photon detection
Abstract: The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is planned as the next generation ground-based instrument (after VERITAS, H.E.S.S. and MAGIC) for astrophysics by means of very high energy γ - rays . The CTA collaboration includes the MAGIC, the H.E.S.S. and the VERITAS collaborations. Also, a large number of astrophysicists from European institutions, from Japan and USA have joined the CTA. The CTA array will comprise about 100 imaging telescopes of three sizes that shall provide one order of magnitude higher sensitivity than the current generation of telescopes. Every telescope will use an imaging camera based on ∼ 2000 PMTs . We have set up a PMT development program with Hamamatsu (Japan) and Electron Tube Enterprises (England) aiming to produce 1.5 in. PMTs of optimized parameters for the CTA project. The entire scientific community, including the medicine and biology, as well as many industrial applications, where a low light level sensors are necessary, may profit from it. Together with PMTs also SiPMs are interesting sensor candidates for the CTA telescopes. One expects about two times higher photon detection efficiency for SiPM compared to PMT. A set of parameters like the photon detection efficiency, cross-talk, afterpulsing, dark rate together with other important factors were evaluated. Here we report on the progress of these developments, based on detailed measurements.
Published: 2012

42. Investigating the peculiar emission from the new VHE gamma-ray source H1722+119

Author: M. Hayashida, M. Makariev, B. Biasuzzi, K. Mallot, R. J. García López, Louis Antonelli, D. Dominis Prester, E. Prandini, M. Doert, M. H. Wu, Massimo Persic, F. D'Ammando, Marc Ribó, G. Bonnoli, Abelardo Moralejo, Juri Poutanen, R. Reinthal, V. Fallah Ramazani, P. Bangale, Y. Hanabata, Razmik Mirzoyan, U. Barres de Almeida, Damir Lelas, T. Steinbring, Marina Manganaro, P. G. Prada Moroni, Stefano Covino, Hidetoshi Kubo, P. Antoranz, D. Galindo, J. Becerra González, G. Pedaletti, Dorota Sobczyńska, D. Nakajima, Thomas Bretz, J. Hose, Andrei Berdyugin, Pratik Majumdar, M. V. Fonseca, S. Bonnefoy, A. Sillanpää, Arka Chatterjee, Francesco Longo, D. Elsaesser, F. Di Pierro, K. Kodani, Alexander Hahn, Konstancja Satalecka, Walter Max-Moerbeck, Tomoki Saito, D. Tescaro, Ivica Puljak, Pierre Colin, H. Takami, L. Nogués, U. Menzel, Michele Doro, M. I. Martínez, Gareth Hughes, Talvikki Hovatta, C. Schultz, E. Moretti, Marcel Strzys, D. Fidalgo, Vassil Verguilov, Aaron Dominguez, Diego F. Torres, Julia Thaele, E. de Oña Wilhelmi, Reiko Orito, F. Verrecchia, Sabrina Einecke, Junko Kushida, P. Da Vela, R. López-Coto, J. Rodriguez Garcia, J. E. Ward, M. Palatiello, Elina Lindfors, A. Niedzwiecki, Kyoshi Nishijima, Ievgen Vovk, Wolfgang Rhode, Daniel Mazin, Oscar Blanch, Julian Sitarek, Juan Abel Barrio, L. Maraschi, Francesco Dazzi, David Paneque, A. Fernández-Barral, Markus Garczarczyk, Yusuke Konno, C. Fruck, B. De Lotto, M. Villata, T. Schweizer, T. Toyama, D. Guberman, Tomislav Terzić, K. Frantzen, J. L. Richards, Mosè Mariotti, A.-K. Overkemping, S. Paiano, Saverio Lombardi, Karl Mannheim, D. Hadasch, L. Perri, A. La Barbera, D. Eisenacher Glawion, X. Paredes-Fortuny, P. Temnikov, M. Nievas Rosillo, W. Idec, A. González Muñoz, E. Colombo, B. Banerjee, S. Buson, L. O. Takalo, Masahiro Teshima, Daniela Dorner, R. Zanin, Dariusz Gora, Adrian Biland, M. Gaug, J. Rico, J. Herrera, Koji Noda, Elisa Bernardini, A. De Angelis, A. Treves, Vitaly Neustroev, Jose Luis Contreras, Juan Cortina, G. Maneva, C. M. Raiteri, Nikola Godinovic, Benito Marcote, Max Ludwig Ahnen, Kari Nilsson, P. Giammaria, M. Will, Dario Hrupec, M. A. Lopez, R. Clavero, D. Garrido Terrats, W. Bednarek, Fabrizio Tavecchio, Ll. Font, I. Snidaric, Ana Babić, Stefano Ansoldi, Riccardo Paoletti, J. Palacio, J. M. Paredes, Antonio Stamerra, Alessandro Carosi, Jose Miguel Miranda, F. Borracci, Anthony C. S. Readhead, Universitat de Barcelona, Aalto-yliopisto, Aalto University, Ahnen ML, Ansoldi S, Antonelli LA, Antoranz P, Babic A, Banerjee B, Bangale P, de Almeida UB, Barrio JA, Gonzalez JB, Bednarek W, Bernardini E, Biasuzzi B, Biland A, Blanch O, Bonnefoy S, Bonnoli G, Borracci F, Bretz T, Buson S, Carosi A, Chatterjee A, Clavero R, Colin P, Colombo E, Contreras JL, Cortina J, Covino S, Da Vela P, Dazzi F, De Angelis A, De Lotto B, Wilhelmi ED, Di Pierro F, Doert M, Dominguez A, Prester DD, Dorner D, Doro M, Einecke S, Glawion DE, Elsaesser D, Ramazani VF, Fernandez-Barral A, Fidalgo D, Fonseca MV, Font L, Frantzen K, Fruck C, Galindo D, Lopez RJG, Garczarczyk M, Terrats DG, Gaug M, Giammaria P, Godinovic N, Munoz AG, Gora D, Guberman D, Hadasch D, Hahn A, Hanabata Y, Hayashida M, Herrera J, Hose J, Hrupec D, Hughes G, Idec W, Kodani K, Konno Y, Kubo H, Kushida J, La Barbera A, Lelas D, Lindfors E, Lombardi S, Longo F, Lopez M, Lopez-Coto R, Majumdar P, Makariev M, Mallot K, Maneva G, Manganaro M, Mannheim K, Maraschi L, Marcote B, Mariotti M, Martinez M, Mazin D, Menzel U, Miranda JM, Mirzoyan R, Moralejo A, Moretti E, Nakajima D, Neustroev V, Niedzwiecki A, Rosillo MN, Nilsson K, Nishijima K, Noda K, Nogues L, Orito R, Overkemping A, Paiano S, Palacio J, Palatiello M, Paneque D, Paoletti R, Paredes JM, Paredes-Fortuny X, Pedaletti G, Perri L, Persic M, Poutanen J, Moroni PGP, Prandini E, Puljak I, Rhode W, Ribo M, Rico J, Garcia JR, Saito T, Satalecka K, Schultz C, Schweizer T, Sillanpaa A, Sitarek J, Snidaric I, Sobczynska D, Stamerra A, Steinbring T, Strzys M, Takalo L, Takami H, Tavecchio F, Temnikov P, Terzic T, Tescaro D, Teshima M, Thaele J, Torres DF, Toyama T, Treves A, Verguilov V, Vovk I, Ward JE, Will M, Wu MH, Zanin R, DAmmando F, Berdyugin A, Hovatta T, Max-Moerbeck W, Raiteri CM, Readhead ACS, Reinthal R, Richards JL, Verrecchia F, Villata M, Ahnen, M. L., Ansoldi, S., Antonelli, L. A., Antoranz, P., Babic, A., Banerjee, B., Bangale, P., Barres De Almeida, U., Barrio, J. A., Becerra González, J., Bednarek, W., Bernardini, E., Biasuzzi, B., Biland, A., Blanch, O., Bonnefoy, S., Bonnoli, G., Borracci, F., Bretz, T., Buson, S., Carosi, A., Chatterjee, A., Clavero, R., Colin, P., Colombo, E., Contreras, J. L., Cortina, J., Covino, S., Da Vela, P., Dazzi, F., De Angelis, A., De Lotto, B., De Oña Wilhelmi, E., Di Pierro, F., Doert, M., Domínguez, A., Dominis Prester, D., Dorner, D., Doro, M., Einecke, S., Eisenacher Glawion, D., Elsaesser, D., Fallah Ramazani, V., Fernández Barral, A., Fidalgo, D., Fonseca, M. V., Font, L., Frantzen, K., Fruck, C., Galindo, D., García López, R. J., Garczarczyk, M., Garrido Terrats, D., Gaug, M., Giammaria, P., Godinović, N., González Muñoz, A., Gora, D., Guberman, D., Hadasch, D., Hahn, A., Hanabata, Y., Hayashida, M., Herrera, J., Hose, J., Hrupec, D., Hughes, G., Idec, W., Kodani, K., Konno, Y., Kubo, H., Kushida, J., La Barbera, A., Lelas, D., Lindfors, E., Lombardi, S., Longo, Francesco, López, M., López Coto, R., Majumdar, P., Makariev, M., Mallot, K., Maneva, G., Manganaro, M., Mannheim, K., Maraschi, L., Marcote, B., Mariotti, M., Martínez, M., Mazin, D., Menzel, U., Miranda, J. M., Mirzoyan, R., Moralejo, A., Moretti, E., Nakajima, D., Neustroev, V., Niedzwiecki, A., Nievas Rosillo, M., Nilsson, K., Nishijima, K., Noda, K., Nogués, L., Orito, R., Overkemping, A., Paiano, S., Palacio, J., Palatiello, Michele, Paneque, D., Paoletti, R., Paredes, J. M., Paredes Fortuny, X., Pedaletti, G., Perri, L., Persic, M., Poutanen, J., Prada Moroni, P. G., Prandini, E., Puljak, I., Rhode, W., Ribó, M., Rico, J., Rodriguez Garcia, J., Saito, T., Satalecka, K., Schultz, C., Schweizer, T., Sillanpää, A., Sitarek, J., Snidaric, I., Sobczynska, D., Stamerra, A., Steinbring, T., Strzys, M., Takalo, L., Takami, H., Tavecchio, F., Temnikov, P., Terzić, T, Tescaro, D., Teshima, M., Thaele, J., Torres, D. F., Toyama, T., Treves, A., Verguilov, V., Vovk, I., Ward, J. E., Will, M., Wu, M. H., Zanin, R., D'Ammando, F., Berdyugin, A., Hovatta, T., Max Moerbeck, W., Raiteri, C. M., Readhead, A. C. S., Reinthal, R., Richards, J. L., Verrecchia, F., and Villata, M.
Subjects: galaxie [Gamma-rays], gamma-rays: galaxies, UPGRADE, Astrophysics, DETECTED BLAZARS, 01 natural sciences, LARGE-AREA TELESCOPE, law.invention, Raigs gamma, law, galaxies: active, BL Lacertae objects: individual: H1722+119, galaxies, distances and redshifts, BL LACERTAE OBJECTS, ALL-SKY SURVEY, MAGIC, TELESCOPES, LAC OBJECTS, SOURCE CATALOG, MAJOR, HELICAL JETS, CRAB-NEBULA, MAGIC (telescope), 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Physics, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), distances and redshift [Galaxies], active BL Lacertae objects, individual, H1722+119 galaxies, distances and redshifts gamma-rays, Galaxies: active, Galaxies: distances and redshifts, Gamma-rays: galaxies, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Space and Planetary Science, galaxies [Gamma-rays], Extragalactic background light, Spectral energy distribution, Electrónica, Física nuclear, Electricidad, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, BL Lac object, active [Galaxies], Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, FOS: Physical sciences, Owens Valley Radio Observatory, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Telescope, galaxies: active, BL Lacertae objects: individual: H1722+119, galaxies: distances and redshifts, gamma-rays: galaxies, 0103 physical sciences, individual: H1722+119 [BL Lacertae objects], distances and redshifts [Galaxies], ta115, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Gamma rays, Astronomy, Astronomy and Astrophysic, Redshift, Crab Nebula, 13. Climate action, Galàxies actives, Active galaxies, ddc:520
Abstract: The MAGIC (Major Atmospheric Gamma-ray Imaging Cherenkov) telescopes observed the BL Lac object H1722+119 (redshift unknown) for six consecutive nights between 2013 May 17 and 22, for a total of 12.5 h. The observations were triggered by high activity in the optical band measured by the KVA (Kungliga Vetenskapsakademien) telescope. The source was for the first time detected in the very high energy (VHE, $E > 100$ GeV) $\gamma$-ray band with a statistical significance of 5.9 $\sigma$. The integral flux above 150 GeV is estimated to be $(2.0\pm 0.5)$ per cent of the Crab Nebula flux. We used contemporaneous high energy (HE, 100 MeV $ < E < 100$ GeV) $\gamma$-ray observations from Fermi-LAT (Large Area Telescope) to estimate the redshift of the source. Within the framework of the current extragalactic background light models, we estimate the redshift to be $z = 0.34 \pm 0.15$. Additionally, we used contemporaneous X-ray to radio data collected by the instruments on board the Swift satellite, the KVA, and the OVRO (Owens Valley Radio Observatory) telescope to study multifrequency characteristics of the source. We found no significant temporal variability of the flux in the HE and VHE bands. The flux in the optical and radio wavebands, on the other hand, did vary with different patterns. The spectral energy distribution (SED) of H1722+119 shows surprising behaviour in the $\sim 3\times10^{14} - 10^{18}$ Hz frequency range. It can be modelled using an inhomogeneous helical jet synchrotron self-Compton model., Comment: 12 pages, 5 figures, 2 tables
Published: 2016

43. Latent class analysis reveals clinically relevant atopy phenotypes in 2 birth cohorts

Author: Josef Riedler, Alexander J. Hose, Pekka Tiittanen, Ulrich Wahn, Oliver Fuchs, Markus J. Ege, Jean-Charles Dalphin, Susanne Lau, Petra Ina Pfefferle, Juha Pekkanen, Renate L. Bergmann, Sami Remes, Andreas Reich, Linus Grabenhenrich, Roger Lauener, V. Wahn, Jon Genuneit, Marjut Roponen, Remo Frei, Thomas Keil, Nicole Blümer, Michael Kabesch, G. Loss, Sabina Illi, Harald Renz, Fred Zepp, Anne M. Karvonen, Erika von Mutius, Vincent Kaulek, Caroline Roduit, Karl E. Bergmann, Antje Schuster, Elisabeth Schmaußer-Hechfellner, Carl Peter Bauer, Marie-Laure Dalphin, Johannes Forster, Urs Frey, Gert Doekes, Martin Depner, Anne Hyvärinen, Bianca Schaub, Charlotte Braun-Fahrländer, University of Zurich, Hose, Alexander J, Clinicum, Department of Public Health, and University of Helsinki
Subjects: Male, Allergy, CHILDHOOD, CHILDREN, medicine.disease_cause, sensitization, Atopy, Cohort Studies, 0302 clinical medicine, Allergen, Forced Expiratory Volume, Immunology and Allergy, 030212 general & internal medicine, Child, Sensitization, RISK, Ige, Asthma, Lung Function, Cytokines, Severe Atopy, Atopic Diseases, Latent Class Analysis, Unsupervised Clustering, Path Analysis, Epidemiology, 3142 Public health care science, environmental and occupational health, Latent class model, 3. Good health, RESPIRATORY SYMPTOMS, medicine.anatomical_structure, Phenotype, Child, Preschool, Cohort, 2723 Immunology and Allergy, Hay fever, epidemiology, Female, SKIN-TEST, Immunology, 610 Medicine & health, unsupervised clustering, 03 medical and health sciences, latent class analysis, medicine, Hypersensitivity, path analysis, Humans, IGE, 2403 Immunology, business.industry, Infant, lung function, asthma, Allergens, Immunoglobulin E, medicine.disease, INHALANT ALLERGENS, LIFE, 030228 respiratory system, 10036 Medical Clinic, 3121 General medicine, internal medicine and other clinical medicine, severe atopy, atopic diseases, business
Abstract: Background: Phenotypes of childhood-onset asthma are characterized by distinct trajectories and functional features. For atopy, definition of phenotypes during childhood is less clear. Objective: We sought to define phenotypes of atopic sensitization over the first 6 years of life using a latent class analysis (LCA) integrating 3 dimensions of atopy: allergen specificity, time course, and levels of specific IgE (sIgE). Methods: Phenotypes were defined by means of LCA in 680 children of the Multizentrische Allergiestudie (MAS) and 766 children of the Protection against allergy: Study in Rural Environments (PASTURE) birth cohorts and compared with classical nondisjunctive definitions of seasonal, perennial, and food sensitization with respect to atopic diseases and lung function. Cytokine levels were measured in the PASTURE cohort. Results: The LCA classified predominantly by type and multiplicity of sensitization (food vs inhalant), allergen combinations, and sIgE levels. Latent classes were related to atopic disease manifestations with higher sensitivity and specificity than the classical definitions. LCA detected consistently in both cohorts a distinct group of children with severe atopy characterized by high seasonal sIgE levels and a strong propensity for asthma; hay fever; eczema; and impaired lung function, also in children without an established asthma diagnosis. Severe atopy was associated with an increased IL-5/IFN-gamma ratio. A path analysis among sensitized children revealed that among all features of severe atopy, only excessive sIgE production early in life affected asthma risk. Conclusions: LCA revealed a set of benign, symptomatic, and severe atopy phenotypes. The severe phenotype emerged as a latent condition with signs of a dysbalanced immune response. It determined high asthma risk through excessive sIgE production and directly affected impaired lung function.
Published: 2016

44. Observations of Sagittarius A* during the pericenter passage of the G2 object with MAGIC

Author: D. Paneque, D. Garrido Terrats, T. Schweizer, L. Nogués, M. Engelkemeier, M. Makariev, Masahiro Teshima, J. Becerra González, Alessandro Carosi, X. Paredes-Fortuny, F. Di Pierro, A. González Muñoz, A.-K. Overkemping, M. Hayashida, Ruben Lopez-Coto, Elina Lindfors, Laura Maraschi, S. Ansoldi, B. Biasuzzi, Ana Babić, D. Nakajima, J. Rico, M. V. Fonseca, Daniel Mazin, A. Berti, P. Da Vela, Juan Abel Barrio, Jose Miguel Miranda, Arka Chatterjee, Iva Šnidarić, Kyoshi Nishijima, Abelardo Moralejo, A. Treves, Vitaly Neustroev, P. Majumdar, Jose Carlos Herrera, R. J. García López, Benito Marcote, S. Schroeder, T. Steinbring, C. Arcaro, Dariusz Gora, E. Moretti, Pierre Colin, F. Borracci, M. Ribó, Kari Nilsson, K. Frantzen, A. De Angelis, Yusuke Konno, M. Will, Christian Fruck, Stefano Covino, Julian Sitarek, D. Lelas, U. Menzel, I. Puljak, A. Niedzwiecki, Riccardo Paoletti, Julia Thaele, Elisa Prandini, J. Kushida, Dario Hrupec, D. Hadasch, Markus Gaug, D. Galindo, Aaron Dominguez, I. Reichardt, Petar Temnikov, G. Vanzo, R. Zanin, Razmik Mirzoyan, Jose Luis Contreras, Simona Paiano, J. Palacio, M. A. Lopez, Elisa Bernardini, G. Pedaletti, Juan Cortina, A. Biland, Antonio Stamerra, K. Noda, D. Fidalgo, M. Mariotti, J. E. Ward, Juri Poutanen, Dorota Sobczyńska, D. Guberman, Tihomir Surić, Giacomo Bonnoli, J. M. Paredes, S. Bonnefoy, P. Antoranz, G. Maneva, Marina Manganaro, E. de Ona Wilhelmi, M. I. Martínez, W. Idec, P. Bangale, M. Strzys, P. G. Prada Moroni, Diego F. Torres, Konstancja Satalecka, Sabrina Einecke, Michele Doro, A. Sillanpää, K. Kodani, Francesco Longo, V. Fallah Ramazani, Karl Mannheim, Takashi Saito, Max Ludwig Ahnen, Oscar Blanch, M. H. Wu, U. Barres de Almeida, L. Perri, A. La Barbera, Takeshi Toyama, D. Eisenacher Glawion, K. Mallot, M. Nievas Rosillo, J. R. Garcia, Massimo Persic, Leo O. Takalo, Ievgen Vovk, A. Hahn, Hidetoshi Kubo, B. De Lotto, M. Doert, W. Bednarek, V. Verguilov, J. Hose, S. Buson, D. Elsaesser, Markus Garczarczyk, B. Banerjee, Thomas Bretz, S. N. Shore, D. Dominis Prester, S. Lombardi, M. Peresano, Gareth Hughes, Tomislav Terzić, D. Tescaro, N. Godinović, D. Dorner, L. A. Antonelli, R. Clavero, Fabrizio Tavecchio, Eduardo Colombo, Ll. Font, P. Giammaria, M. Palatiello, Francesco Dazzi, A. Fernández-Barral, W. Rhode, Ahnen, M. L., Ansoldi, S., Antonelli, L. A., Antoranz, P., Arcaro, C., Babic, A., Banerjee, B., Bangale, P., Barres De Almeida, U., Barrio, J. A., Becerra GonzÃ¡lez, J., Bednarek, W., Bernardini, E., Berti, Alessio, Biasuzzi, B., Biland, A., Blanch, O., Bonnefoy, S., Bonnoli, G., Borracci, F., Bretz, T., Buson, S., Carosi, A., Chatterjee, A., Clavero, R., Colin, P., Colombo, E., Contreras, J. L., Cortina, J., Covino, S., Da Vela, P., Dazzi, F., De Angelis, A., De Lotto, B., De OÃ±a Wilhelmi, E., Di Pierro, F., Doert, M., Domãnguez, A., Dominis Prester, D., Dorner, D., Doro, M., Einecke, S., Eisenacher Glawion, D., Elsaesser, D., Engelkemeier, M., Fallah Ramazani, V., FernÃ¡ndez Barral, A., Fidalgo, D., Fonseca, M. V., Font, L., Frantzen, K., Fruck, C, Galindo, D., GarcÃa LÃ³pez, R. J., Garczarczyk, M., Garrido Terrats, D., Gaug, M., Giammaria, P., Godinoviä , N., GonzÃ¡lez MuÃ±oz, A., Gora, D., Guberman, D., Hadasch, D., Hahn, A., Hayashida, M., Herrera, J., Hose, J., Hrupec, D., Hughes, G., Idec, W., Kodani, K., Konno, Y., Kubo, H., Kushida, J., La Barbera, A., Lelas, D., Lindfors, E., Lombardi, S., Longo, Francesco, Lã³pez, M., LÃ³pez Coto, R., Majumdar, P., Makariev, M., Mallot, K., Maneva, G., Manganaro, M., Mannheim, K., Maraschi, L., Marcote, B., Mariotti, M., Martãnez, M., Mazin, D., Menzel, U., Miranda, J. M., Mirzoyan, R., Moralejo, A., Moretti, E., Nakajima, D., Neustroev, V., Niedzwiecki, A., Nievas Rosillo, M., Nilsson, K., Nishijima, K., Noda, K., Noguã©s, L., Overkemping, A., Paiano, S., Palacio, J., Palatiello, Michele, Paneque, D., Paoletti, R., Paredes, J. M., Paredes Fortuny, X., Pedaletti, G., Peresano, M., Perri, L., Persic, M., Poutanen, J., Prada Moroni, P. G., Prandini, E., Puljak, I., Garcia, J. R., Reichardt, I., Rhode, W., Ribã³, M., Rico, J., Saito, T., Satalecka, K., Schroeder, S., Schweizer, T., Shore, S. N., Sillanpã¤ã¤, A., Sitarek, J., Snidaric, I., Sobczynska, D., Stamerra, A., Steinbring, T., Strzys, M., Suriä , T., Takalo, L., Tavecchio, F., Temnikov, P., Terziä , T., Tescaro, D., Teshima, M., Thaele, J., Torres, D. F., Toyama, T., Treves, A., Vanzo, G., Verguilov, V., Vovk, I., Ward, J. E., Will, M., Wu, M. H., and Zanin, R.
Subjects: Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, black hole physics, general [Gamma rays], Galaxy: center, gamma rays: general, FOS: Physical sciences, Context (language use), Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, Black hole physic, 0103 physical sciences, MAGIC (telescope), Black hole physics, Gamma rays: general, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Space and Planetary Science, Supernova remnant, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Cherenkov radiation, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Galactic Center, center [Galaxy], Astronomy and Astrophysic, Galaxy, Black hole, Sagittarius A, ddc:520, Física nuclear, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract: Astronomy and astrophysics 601, A33 (2017). doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201629355, Context. We present the results of a multi-year monitoring campaign of the Galactic center (GC) with the MAGIC telescopes. These observations were primarily motivated by reports that a putative gas cloud (G2) would be passing in close proximity to the super-massive black hole (SMBH), associated with Sagittarius A*, located at the center of our galaxy. This event was expected to give astronomers a unique chance to study the effect of in-falling matter on the broad-band emission of a SMBH.Aims. We search for potential flaring emission of very-high-energy (VHE; ≥100 GeV) gamma rays from the direction of the SMBH at the GC due to the passage of the G2 object. Using these data we also study the morphology of this complex region.Methods. We observed the GC region with the MAGIC Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes during the period 2012–2015, collecting 67 h of good-quality data. In addition to a search for variability in the flux and spectral shape of the GC gamma-ray source, we use a point-source subtraction technique to remove the known gamma-ray emitters located around the GC in order to reveal the TeV morphology of the extended emission inside that region.Results. No effect of the G2 object on the VHE gamma-ray emission from the GC was detected during the 4 yr observation campaign. We confirm previous measurements of the VHE spectrum of Sagittarius A*, and do not detect any significant variability of the emission from the source. Furthermore, the known VHE gamma-ray emitter at the location of the supernova remnant G0.9+0.1 was detected, as well as the recently discovered VHE source close to the GG radio arc.Key words: Galaxy: center / gamma rays: general / black hole physics, Published by EDP Sciences, Les Ulis
Published: 2016

45. Multiband variability studies and novel broadband SED modeling of Mrk 501 in 2009

Author: K. Nishijima, J. L. Richards, Stefano Covino, G. Piner, D. Dominis Prester, U. Menzel, A. Flinders, D. Tescaro, Louis Antonelli, D. Galindo, Aaron Dominguez, S. Schröder, Elena G. Larionova, Kari Nilsson, Paul S. Smith, A. McCann, T. S. Grishina, Wen Ping Chen, M. Will, Pratik Majumdar, J. E. Ward, Daniela Dorner, Dariusz Gora, P. Moriarty, C. Rulten, Soebur Razzaque, D. Garrido Terrats, K. Frantzen, Joseph Moody, Wystan Benbow, G. Hughes, K. Ragan, Ralph Bird, L. Perri, M. Gaug, T. Sakamoto, Valeri M. Larionov, Elina Lindfors, G. H. Sembroski, Daniel Mazin, Ievgen Vovk, A. Hahn, M. Hütten, N. H. Park, Alexander B. Pushkarev, G. Maccaferri, Thomas Bretz, P. Wilcox, P. Kar, D. Nakajima, R. Zanin, J. Herrera, Wei Cui, Amanda Weinstein, J. Palacio, P. G. Prada Moroni, Frank Krennrich, Matthew L. Lister, A. Berti, A. Cesarini, M. Kertzman, A. La Barbera, Walter Max-Moerbeck, E. Colombo, M. Villata, M. P. Connolly, Adrian Biland, D. S. Hanna, Ana Babić, D. Eisenacher Glawion, Juan Abel Barrio, John L. Quinn, M. Capalbi, Koji Noda, Arka Chatterjee, Elisa Bernardini, A. Sillanpää, Adrian Rovero, Antonio Stamerra, J. V. Tucci, M. Nievas Rosillo, M. Palatiello, L. V. Larionova, S. N. Shore, R. Mukherjee, M. J. Lang, Daniel Nieto, M. I. Martínez, S. Bonnefoy, J. Kushida, P. Giammaria, P. Bangale, Wolfgang Rhode, Gernot Maier, G. Pedaletti, L. O. Takalo, Margo F. Aller, Jose Luis Contreras, Andrei Berdyugin, J. A. Zensus, E. Roache, V. Verguilov, D. Fidalgo, C. Pace, Thomas P. Krichbaum, Francesco Dazzi, Juan Cortina, M. Engelkemeier, G. H. Gillanders, A. Carraminyana, S. P. Wakely, Mosè Mariotti, J. Rico, A. Fernández-Barral, R. Clavero, J. Becerra González, A.-K. Overkemping, S. O. Kurtanidze, Sabrina Einecke, Abraham D. Falcone, A. González Muñoz, Evgenia N. Kopatskaya, Lars Fuhrmann, Nikola Godinovic, Benito Marcote, Karlen Shahinyan, Takashi Saito, W. Bednarek, C. Schultz, Marcos Santander, Fabrizio Tavecchio, J. Rodriguez Garcia, E. Pueschel, Ll. Font, A. C. Sadun, A. Popkow, J. Grube, V. Bugaev, Anthony C. S. Readhead, R. Ligustri, A. Archer, I. Snidaric, Yusuke Konno, P. Calcidese, M. Strzys, A. Pichel, Saverio Lombardi, B. De Lotto, Markus Garczarczyk, N. Kelley-Hoskins, J. Tyler, Ann E. Wehrle, B. Banerjee, S. Buson, D. Hadasch, N. Otte, Maria G. Nikolashvili, Gordon T. Richards, L. Nogués, B. Biasuzzi, Juri Poutanen, U. Barres de Almeida, J. P. Finley, K. Mallot, S. Paiano, Marcello Giroletti, I. Nestoras, A. De Angelis, A. Treves, Vitaly Neustroev, X. Paredes-Fortuny, T. B. Humensky, R. A. Ong, Karl Mannheim, J. H. Buckley, Yu. A. Kovalev, R. J. García López, H. Fleischhack, G. N. Kimeridze, I. Sadeh, David A. Williams, Y. Mori, M. V. Fonseca, W. Idec, Matthias Kadler, Yuri Y. Kovalev, Stefano Ansoldi, Riccardo Paoletti, K. Kodani, J. P. Norris, O. M. Kurtanidze, N. V. Efimova, Y. Hanabata, Arkady A. Arkharov, Anne Lähteenmäki, Abelardo Moralejo, G. Maneva, Masahiro Teshima, A. C. Zook, Dario Hrupec, P. Antoranz, B. Zitzer, Hugh Dickinson, R. A. Chigladze, M. Peresano, Ekaterina Koptelova, S. Archambault, M. A. Lopez, T. Steinbring, P. Temnikov, P. Leto, Massimo Persic, J. M. Paredes, Hugh D. Aller, F. Borracci, S. O'Brien, T. Surić, I. Telezhinsky, I. Reichardt, Jamie Holder, G. Vanzo, R. Pearson, Julia Thaele, G. Bonnoli, Mark Gurwell, Eduardo Ros, Andrea Orlati, S. Griffin, L. A. Sigua, Diego F. Torres, Alessandro Carosi, Ruben Lopez-Coto, Maria Krause, Y. Yatsu, A. Wilhelm, Jose Miguel Miranda, Anushka Udara Abeysekara, T. Schweizer, P. Cassaro, Razmik Mirzoyan, E. Moretti, Damir Lelas, Francesco Longo, V. Fallah Ramazani, P. Kaaret, Dorota Sobczyńska, L. Maraschi, Kirill Sokolovsky, Tomislav Terzić, Lucy Fortson, E. de Ona Wilhelmi, Julian Sitarek, C. Fruck, T. Toyama, Ivica Puljak, Max Ludwig Ahnen, David Kieda, F. Di Pierro, Pierre Colin, M. Buchovecky, Oscar Blanch, P. Da Vela, A. Niedzwiecki, Emmanouil Angelakis, M. Doert, M. H. Wu, Ivan S. Troitsky, C. Pagani, David Paneque, Q. Feng, Vladimir A. Hagen-Thorn, E. De la Fuente, E. Prandini, C. M. Raiteri, L. Carrasco, D. Guberman, Jeremy S. Perkins, Martin Pohl, Marina Manganaro, H. A. Krimm, Merja Tornikoski, Konstancja Satalecka, Michele Doro, Dmitry A. Blinov, M. Perri, J. Hose, D. Elsaesser, Daria A. Morozova, P. T. Reynolds, M. Hayashida, Marc Ribó, Hidetoshi Kubo, M. Makariev, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, University of Udine, INAF National Institute for Astrophysics, University of Siena, University of Rijeka, Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Max Planck Institute for Physics, Complutense University, University of La Laguna, University of Łódź, German Electron Synchrotron, Autonomous University of Barcelona, University of Würzburg, University of Padova, Institute of Space Studies of Catalonia, Dortmund University, Finnish MAGIC Consortium, University of Barcelona, The University of Tokyo, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Osservatorio Astronomicodi Roma, University of Pisa, ICREA, University of Maryland, College Park, McGill University, Washington University St. Louis, Harvard University, University College Dublin, University of California Los Angeles, National University of Ireland, Galway, Purdue University, Iowa State University, Pennsylvania State University, University of Utah, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Adler Planetarium and Astronomy Museum, University of Delaware, Columbia University, University of Iowa, DePauw University, Georgia Institute of Technology, University of Chicago, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Cork Institute of Technology, University of California Santa Cruz, Argonne National Laboratory, University of Johannesburg, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, St. Petersburg State University, RAS - Pulkovo Astronomical Observatory, Circolo Astrofili Talmassons, Osservatorio Astrofisico della Regione Autonoma Valle d'Aosta, Georgian National Academy of Sciences, National Central University, Aoyama Gakuin University, University of Colorado Denver, Brigham Young University, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Instituto Nacional de Astrofisica Optica y Electronica, Universidad de Guadalajara, University of Denver, University of Arizona, Space Science Institute, Pomona College, University of Leicester, ASI Science Data Center, University of Trento, RAS - P.N. Lebedev Physics Institute, Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy, Whittier College, Metsähovi Radio Observatory, INAF Istituto di Radioastronomia, Osservatorio Astrofisico di Catania, California Institute of Technology, Department of Electronics and Nanoengineering, Aalto-yliopisto, Aalto University, Ahnen, M. L., Ansoldi, S., Antonelli, L. A., Antoranz, P., Babic, A., Banerjee, B., Bangale, P., Barres De Almeida, U., Barrio, J. A., Becerra GonzÃ¡lez, J., Bednarek, W., Bernardini, E., Berti, Alessio, Biasuzzi, B., Biland, A., Blanch, O., Bonnefoy, S., Bonnoli, G., Borracci, F., Bretz, T., Buson, S., Carosi, A., Chatterjee, A., Clavero, R., Colin, P., Colombo, E., Contreras, J. L., Cortina, J., Covino, S., Da Vela, P., Dazzi, F., De Angelis, A., De Lotto, B., De OÃ±a Wilhelmi, E., Di Pierro, F., Doert, M., Domãnguez, A., Dominis Prester, D., Dorner, D., Doro, M., Einecke, S., Eisenacher Glawion, D., Elsaesser, D., Engelkemeier, M., Fallah Ramazani, V., FernÃ¡ndez Barral, A., Fidalgo, D., Fonseca, M. V., Font, L., Frantzen, K., Fruck, C., Galindo, D., GarcÃa LÃ³pez, R. J., Garczarczyk, M., Garrido Terrats, D., Gaug, M., Giammaria, P., Godinoviä , N., GonzÃ¡lez MuÃ±oz, A., Gora, D., Guberman, D., Hadasch, D., Hahn, A., Hanabata, Y., Hayashida, M., Herrera, J., Hose, J., Hrupec, D., Hughes, G., Idec, W., Kodani, K., Konno, Y., Kubo, H., Kushida, J., La Barbera, A., Lelas, D., Lindfors, E., Lombardi, S., Longo, Francesco, Lã³pez, M., LÃ³pez Coto, R., Majumdar, P., Makariev, M., Mallot, K., Maneva, G., Manganaro, M., Mannheim, K., Maraschi, L., Marcote, B., Mariotti, M., Martãnez, M., Mazin, D., Menzel, U., Miranda, J. M., Mirzoyan, R., Moralejo, A., Moretti, E., Nakajima, D., Neustroev, V., Niedzwiecki, A., Nievas Rosillo, M., Nilsson, K., Nishijima, K., Noda, K., Noguã©s, L., Overkemping, A., Paiano, S., Palacio, J., Palatiello, Michele, Paneque, D., Paoletti, R., Paredes, J. M., Paredes Fortuny, X., Pedaletti, G., Peresano, M., Perri, L., Persic, M., Poutanen, J., Prada Moroni, P. G., Prandini, E., Puljak, I., Reichardt, I., Rhode, W., Ribã³, M., Rico, J., Rodriguez Garcia, J., Saito, T., Satalecka, K., Schrã¶der, S., Schultz, C., Schweizer, T., Shore, S. N., Sillanpã¤ã¤, A., Sitarek, J., Snidaric, I., Sobczynska, D., Stamerra, A., Steinbring, T., Strzys, M., Suriä , T., Takalo, L., Tavecchio, F., Temnikov, P., Terziä , T., Tescaro, D., Teshima, M., Thaele, J., Torres, D. F., Toyama, T., Treves, A., Vanzo, G., Verguilov, V., Vovk, I., Ward, J. E., Will, M., Wu, M. H., Zanin, R., Abeysekara, A. U., Archambault, S., Archer, A., Benbow, W., Bird, R., Buchovecky, M., Buckley, J. H., Bugaev, V., Connolly, M. P., Cui, W., Dickinson, H. J., Falcone, A., Feng, Q., Finley, J. P., Fleischhack, H., Flinders, A., Fortson, L., Gillanders, G. H., Griffin, S., Grube, J., Hã¼tten, M., Hanna, D., Holder, J., Humensky, T. B., Kaaret, P., Kar, P., Kelley Hoskins, N., Kertzman, M., Kieda, D., Krause, M., Krennrich, F., Lang, M. J., Maier, G., Mccann, A., Moriarty, P., Mukherjee, R., Nieto, D., O'Brien, S., Ong, R. A., Otte, N., Park, N., Perkins, J., Pichel, A., Pohl, M., Popkow, A., Pueschel, E., Quinn, J., Ragan, K., Reynolds, P. T., Richards, G. T., Roache, E., Rovero, A. C., Rulten, C., Sadeh, I., Santander, M., Sembroski, G. H., Shahinyan, K., Telezhinsky, I., Tucci, J. V., Tyler, J., Wakely, S. P., Weinstein, A., Wilcox, P., Wilhelm, A., Williams, D. A., Zitzer, B., Razzaque, S., Villata, M., Raiteri, C. M., Aller, H. D., Aller, M. F., Larionov, V. M., Arkharov, A. A., Blinov, D. A., Efimova, N. V., Grishina, T. S., Hagen Thorn, V. A., Kopatskaya, E. N., Larionova, L. V., Larionova, E. G., Morozova, D. A., Troitsky, I. S., Ligustri, R., Calcidese, P., Berdyugin, A., Kurtanidze, O. M., Nikolashvili, M. G., Kimeridze, G. N., Sigua, L. A., Kurtanidze, S. O., Chigladze, R. A., Chen, W. P., Koptelova, E., Sakamoto, T., Sadun, A. C., Moody, J. W., Pace, C., Pearson, R., Yatsu, Y., Mori, Y., Carraminyana, A., Carrasco, L., De La Fuente, E., Norris, J. P., Smith, P. S., Wehrle, A., Gurwell, M. A., Zook, A., Pagani, C., Perri, M., Capalbi, M., Cesarini, A., Krimm, H. A., Kovalev, Y. Y., Kovalev, Y. u. A., Ros, E., Pushkarev, A. B., Lister, M. L., Sokolovsky, K. V., Kadler, M., Piner, G., Lã¤hteenmã¤ki, A., Tornikoski, M., Angelakis, E., Krichbaum, T. P., Nestoras, I., Fuhrmann, L., Zensus, J. A., Cassaro, P., Orlati, A., Maccaferri, G., Leto, P., Giroletti, M., Richards, J. L., Max Moerbeck, W., and Readhead, A. C. S.
Subjects: extragalactic background light, multiwavelength observations, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, bl-lacertae objects, Galaxies: BL Lacertae objects: individual: Markarian 501, Methods: data analysis, observational, Polarization, spectral energy-distribution, Flux, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, law.invention, individual: Markarian 501 [BL Lacertae objects], law, Coincident, 0103 physical sciences, ddc:530, MAGIC (telescope), crab-nebula, Blazar, data analysis [Methods], 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Physics, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), tev blazars, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, stochastic acceleration, telescope observations, Institut für Physik und Astronomie, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astronomy and Astrophysic, gamma-ray emission, methods: data analysis, BL Lacertae objects: individual: Markarian 501, Synchrotron, data analysi [Methods], Space and Planetary Science, x-ray, ddc:520, Electrónica, Física nuclear, Electricidad, Degeneracy (mathematics), Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Flare, BL Lac object
Abstract: Astronomy and astrophysics 603, A31 (2017). doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201629540, We present an extensive study of the BL Lac object Mrk 501 based on a data set collected during the multi-instrument campaign spanning from 2009 March 15 to 2009 August 1, which includes, among other instruments, MAGIC, VERITAS, Whipple 10 m, and Fermi-LAT to cover the γ-ray range from 0.1 GeV to 20 TeV; RXTE and Swift to cover wavelengths from UV tohard X-rays; and GASP-WEBT, which provides coverage of radio and optical wavelengths. Optical polarization measurements were provided for a fraction of the campaign by the Steward and St. Petersburg observatories. We evaluate the variability of the source and interband correlations, the γ-ray flaring activity occurring in May 2009, and interpret the results within two synchrotron self-Compton (SSC) scenarios. Aims. The multiband variability observed during the full campaign is addressed in terms of the fractional variability, and the possible correlations are studied by calculating the discrete correlation function for each pair of energy bands where the significance was evaluated with dedicated Monte Carlo simulations. The space of SSC model parameters is probed following a dedicated grid-scan strategy, allowing for a wide range of models to be tested and offering a study of the degeneracy of model-to-data agreement in the individual model parameters, hence providing a less biased interpretation than the “single-curve SSC model adjustment” typically reported in the literature. Methods. We find an increase in the fractional variability with energy, while no significant interband correlations of flux changes are found on the basis of the acquired data set. The SSC model grid-scan shows that the flaring activity around May 22 cannot be modeled adequately with a one-zone SSC scenario (using an electron energy distribution with two breaks), while it can be suitably described within a two (independent) zone SSC scenario. Here, one zone is responsible for the quiescent emission from the averaged 4.5-month observing period, while the other one, which is spatially separated from the first, dominates the flaring emission occurring at X-rays and very-high-energy (>100 GeV, VHE) γ rays. The flaring activity from May 1, which coincides with a rotation of the electric vector polarization angle (EVPA), cannot be satisfactorily reproduced by either a one-zone or a two-independent-zone SSC model, yet this is partially affected by the lack of strictly simultaneous observations and the presence of large flux changes on sub-hour timescales (detected at VHE γ rays). Results. The higher variability in the VHE emission and lack of correlation with the X-ray emission indicate that, at least during the 4.5-month observing campaign in 2009, the highest energy (and most variable) electrons that are responsible for the VHE γ rays do not make a dominant contribution to the ~1 keV emission. Alternatively, there could be a very variable component contributing to the VHE γ-ray emission in addition to that coming from the SSC scenario. The studies with our dedicated SSC grid-scan show that there is some degeneracy in both the one-zone and the two-zone SSC scenarios probed, with several combinations of model parameters yielding a similar model-to-data agreement, and some parameters better constrained than others. The observed γ-ray flaring activity, with the EVPA rotation coincident with the first γ-ray flare, resembles those reported previously for low frequency peaked blazars, hence suggesting that there are many similarities in the flaring mechanisms of blazars with different jet properties., Published by EDP Sciences, Les Ulis
Published: 2016
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46. MAGIC observations of the February 2014 flare of 1ES 1011+496 and ensuing constraint of the EBL density

Author: Dominik Elsaesser, U. Barres de Almeida, Damir Lelas, A. Stamerra, L. A. Antonelli, Dorota Sobczyńska, Max Ludwig Ahnen, E. Moretti, B. Biasuzzi, Abelardo Moralejo, Thomas Bretz, R. Paoletti, J. M. Mira, T. Steinbring, J. Becerra González, Marcel Strzys, Julian Sitarek, J. Hose, K. Nishijima, T. Toyama, J. Rico, Wolfgang Rhode, Martin Makariev, P. Giammaria, Aldo Treves, Oscar Blanch, A. Carosi, Christian Fruck, S. Bonnefoy, D. Garrido Terrats, Eckart Lorenz, A. La Barbera, M. H. Wu, Nikola Godinovic, Marina Manganaro, Ivica Puljak, Benito Marcote, A. Bil, B. De Lotto, D. Nakajima, Pratik Majumdar, X. Paredes-Fortuny, A. De Angelis, M. V. Fonseca, M. Nievas Rosillo, B. Banerjee, R. Mirzoyan, Miriam Lucio Martinez, Vitaly Neustroev, S. N. Shore, D. Galindo, K. Frantzen, Martin Will, Arka Chatterjee, E. Lindfors, A. Sillanpää, E. de Oña Wilhelmi, K. Nilsson, D. Eisenacher Glawion, Fabrizio Tavecchio, D. Fidalgo, Roberta Zanin, U. Menzel, G. Maneva, Stefano Ansoldi, Ll. Font, S. Paiano, M. Lopez, E. Carmona, Karl Mannheim, K. Kodani, F. Borracci, I. Snidaric, Alicia López-Oramas, Juan Abel Barrio, K. Mallot, R. J. García López, Diego F. Torres, Reiko Orito, J. M. Paredes, M. Garczarczyk, H. Takami, Yusuke Konno, J. Palacio, Vassil Verguilov, Massimo Persic, Konstancja Satalecka, Dario Hrupec, J. E. Ward, Julia Thaele, L. Maraschi, Michele Doro, Giacomo Bonnoli, M. Hayashida, Ana Babić, P. G. Prada Moroni, P. Temnikov, Daniel Mazin, F. Longo, Sabrina Einecke, J. Rodriguez Garcia, Marc Ribó, Wlodek Bednarek, Tomislav Terzić, P. Bangale, R. López-Coto, A. Niedzwiecki, Hidetoshi Kubo, Francesco Dazzi, Ievgen Vovk, C. Delgado Mendez, T. Schweizer, David Paneque, Stefano Covino, Juri Poutanen, Y. Hanabata, D. Guberman, P. Antoranz, Masahiro Teshima, Michele Palatiello, Jose Luis Contreras, Tomoki Saito, D. Tescaro, Juan Cortina, G. Hughes, Daniela Dorner, Alexander Hahn, M. Gaug, D. Dominis Prester, R. Clavero, E. Prini, J. Herrera, Koji Noda, Elisa Bernardini, E. Colombo, P. Colin, A. González Muñoz, L. O. Takalo, C. Schultz, F. Di Pierro, Junko Kushida, P. Da Vela, Alba Fernández-Barral, W. Idec, Mosè Mariotti, A.-K. Overkemping, Saverio Lombardi, Ahnen, M. L., Ansoldi, S., Antonelli, L. A., Antoranz, P., Babic, A., Banerjee, B., Bangale, P, Barres De Almeida, U., Barrio, J. A., Becerra Gonzalez, J., Bednarek, W., Bernardini, E., Biasuzzi, B., Biland, A., Blanch, O., Bonnefoy, S., Bonnoli, G., Borracci, F., Bretz, T., Carmona, E., Carosi, A., Chatterjee, A., Clavero, R., Colin, P., Colombo, E., Contreras, J. L., Cortina, J., Covino, S., Da Vela, P., Dazzi, F., De Angelis, A., De Lotto, B., De Ona Wilhelmi, E., Delgado Mendez, C., Di Pierro, F., Dominis Prester, D., Dorner, D., Doro, M., Einecke, S., Eisenacher Glawion, D., Elsaesser, D., Fernandez Barral, A., Fidalgo, D., Fonseca, M. V., Font, L., Frantzen, K., Fruck, C., Galindo, D., Garcia Lopez, R. J., Garczarczyk, M., Garrido Terrats, D., Gaug, M., Giammaria, P., Godinovic, N., Gonzalez Munoz, A., Guberman, D., Hahn, A., Hanabata, Y., Hayashida, M., Herrera, J., Hose, J., Hrupec, D., Hughes, G., Idec, W., Kodani, K., Konno, Y., Kubo, H., Kushida, J., La Barbera, A., Lelas, D., Lindfors, E., Lombardi, S., Longo, Francesco, Lopez, M., Lopez Coto, R., Lopez Oramas, A., Lorenz, E., Majumdar, P., Makariev, M., Mallot, K., Maneva, G., Manganaro, M., Mannheim, K., Maraschi, L., Marcote, B., Mariotti, M., Martinez, M., Mazin, D., Menzel, U., Miranda, J. M., Mirzoyan, R., Moralejo, A., Moretti, E., Nakajima, D., Neustroev, V., Niedzwiecki, A., Nievas Rosillo, M., Nilsson, K., Nishijima, K., Noda, K., Orito, R., Overkemping, A., Paiano, S., Palacio, J., Palatiello, Michele, Paneque, D., Paoletti, R., Paredes, J. M., Paredes Fortuny, X., Persic, M., Poutanen, J., Prada Moroni, P. G., Prandini, E., Puljak, I., Rhode, W., Ribo, M., Rico, J., Rodriguez Garcia, J., Saito, T., Satalecka, K., Schultz, C., Schweizer, T., Shore, S. N., Sillanpaa, A., Sitarek, J., Snidaric, I., Sobczynska, D., Stamerra, A., Steinbring, T., Strzys, M., Takalo, L., Takami, H., Tavecchio, F., Temnikov, P., Terzic, T., Tescaro, D., Teshima, M., Thaele, J., Torres, D. F., Toyama, T., Treves, A., Verguilov, V., Vovk, I., Ward, J. E., Will, M., Wu, M. H., Zanin, R., and Universitat de Barcelona
Subjects: Flux, DIRBE, Astrophysics, cosmic background radiation, Cosmic background radiation, 01 natural sciences, Spectral line, law.invention, 3.5 MU-M, law, Optical depth (astrophysics), NUMBER COUNTS, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, MINUS 2MASS, SPITZER-SPACE-TELESCOPE, Physics, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), TEV BLAZARS, Cosmology, Extragalactic background light, ENERGY GAMMA-RAYS, Electrónica, Física nuclear, intergalactic medium, cosmic background, MICRON SOURCE COUNTS, Electricidad, BL Lacertae objects, general, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Flare, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics, BL Lacertae objects: general, Intergalactic medium, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Space and Planetary Science, Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), Opacity, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, GALAXY COUNTS, 0103 physical sciences, TELESCOPE IMAGING SPECTROGRAPH, Cosmologia, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, general [BL Lacertae objects], Astronomy and Astrophysic, Light curve, radiation, EXTRAGALACTIC BACKGROUND LIGHT, Likelihood-ratio test, ddc:520
Abstract: Astronomy and astrophysics 590, A24(2016). doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201527256, During February–March 2014, the MAGIC telescopes observed the high-frequency peaked BL Lac 1ES 1011+496 (z = 0.212) in flaring state at very-high energy (VHE, E> 100 GeV). The flux reached a level of more than ten times higher than any previously recorded flaring state of the source.Aims. To describe the characteristics of the flare presenting the light curve and the spectral parameters of the night-wise spectra and the average spectrum of the whole period. From these data we aim to detect the imprint of the extragalactic background light (EBL) in the VHE spectrum of the source, to constrain its intensity in the optical band.Methods. We analyzed the gamma-ray data from the MAGIC telescopes using the standard MAGIC software for the production of the light curve and the spectra. To constrain the EBL, we implement the method developed by the H.E.S.S. collaboration, in which the intrinsic energy spectrum of the source is modeled with a simple function (≤4 parameters), and the EBL-induced optical depth is calculated using a template EBL model. The likelihood of the observed spectrum is then maximized, including a normalization factor for the EBL opacity among the free parameters.Results. The collected data allowed us to describe the night-wise flux changes and also to produce differential energy spectra for all nights in the observed period. The estimated intrinsic spectra of all the nights could be fitted by power-law functions. Evaluating the changes in the fit parameters, we conclude that the spectral shape for most of the nights were compatible, regardless of the flux level, which enabled us to produce an average spectrum from which the EBL imprint could be constrained. The likelihood ratio test shows that the model with an EBL density 1.07 (–0.20, +0.24)$_{stat+sys}$, relative to the one in the tested EBL template, is preferred at the 4.6σ level to the no-EBL hypothesis, with the assumption that the intrinsic source spectrum can be modeled as a log-parabola. This would translate into a constraint of the EBL density in the wavelength range [0.24 μm, 4.25 μm], with a peak value at 1.4 μm of λF$_λ$ = 12.27$_{-2.29}^{+2.75}$ nW m$^{-2}$ sr$^{-1}$, including systematics., Published by EDP Sciences, Les Ulis
Published: 2016

47. Super-orbital variability of LS I +61 ° 303 at TeV energies

Author: E. Colombo, K. Mallot, R. J. García López, M. H. Wu, D. Nakajima, L. O. Takalo, H. Takami, Arka Chatterjee, Christian Fruck, Sabrina Einecke, Vassil Verguilov, D. Fidalgo, Ivica Puljak, Pierre Colin, J. Rodriguez Garcia, Daniela Dorner, Dariusz Gora, Massimo Persic, E. de Oña Wilhelmi, Masahiro Teshima, Alexander Hahn, J. Palacio, M. Palatiello, J. M. Paredes, Antonio Stamerra, Francesco Longo, Gareth Hughes, M. Gaug, I. Snidaric, Yusuke Konno, J. Herrera, Stefano Ansoldi, Pratik Majumdar, M. V. Fonseca, A. La Barbera, Lluis Font, Riccardo Paoletti, Julian Sitarek, K. Kodani, Koji Noda, J. Hose, Elisa Bernardini, Francesco Dazzi, Marcel Strzys, D. Dominis Prester, D. Eisenacher Glawion, X. Paredes-Fortuny, M. Nievas Rosillo, A. Herrero, E. Moretti, Nikola Godinovic, Stefano Covino, P. Temnikov, Martin Makariev, Benito Marcote, Oscar Blanch, T. Toyama, G. Pedaletti, Dominik Elsaesser, S. Bonnefoy, Jose Luis Contreras, U. Barres de Almeida, Damir Lelas, Juan Cortina, D. Garrido Terrats, U. Menzel, Diego F. Torres, M. Garczarczyk, F. Di Pierro, Juan Abel Barrio, J. E. Ward, Giacomo Bonnoli, P. G. Prada Moroni, K. Frantzen, S. Paiano, R. López-Coto, A. Niedzwiecki, David Paneque, D. Guberman, Marina Manganaro, M. Hayashida, Thomas Bretz, S. N. Shore, R. Mirzoyan, Tomoki Saito, D. Tescaro, Jorge Casares, Mosè Mariotti, A.-K. Overkemping, A. González Muñoz, Kyoshi Nishijima, Dorota Sobczyńska, E. Prandini, Tomislav Terzić, Marc Ribó, B. De Lotto, C. Schultz, Aaron Dominguez, Karl Mannheim, Alicia López-Oramas, D. Galindo, Saverio Lombardi, P. Bangale, Hidetoshi Kubo, S. Buson, Junko Kushida, P. Da Vela, J. Becerra González, Wolfgang Rhode, D. Hadasch, Max Ludwig Ahnen, C. Delgado Mendez, Reiko Orito, Ana Babić, Konstancja Satalecka, Alba Fernández-Barral, F. Borracci, L. Maraschi, Michele Doro, Elina Lindfors, Dario Hrupec, B. Biasuzzi, Daniel Mazin, M. A. Lopez, Kari Nilsson, A. Sillanpää, M. Will, W. Idec, Abelardo Moralejo, P. Giammaria, T. Steinbring, Wlodek Bednarek, Alessandro Carosi, L. A. Antonelli, B. Banerjee, R. Clavero, Miriam Lucio Martinez, Fabrizio Tavecchio, Jose Miguel Miranda, A. De Angelis, A. Treves, Vitaly Neustroev, Ievgen Vovk, G. Maneva, R. Zanin, Adrian Biland, T. Schweizer, J. Rico, Julia Thaele, Juri Poutanen, Y. Hanabata, P. Antoranz, Ahnen, M. L., Ansoldi, S., Antonelli, L. A., Antoranz, P., Babic, A., Banerjee, B., Bangale, P., Barres De Almeida, U., Barrio, J. A., Becerra González, J., Bednarek, W., Bernardini, E., Biasuzzi, B., Biland, A., Blanch, O., Bonnefoy, S., Bonnoli, G., Borracci, F., Bretz, T., Buson, S., Carosi, A., Chatterjee, A., Clavero, R., Colin, P., Colombo, E., Contreras, J. L., Cortina, J., Covino, S., Da Vela, P., Dazzi, F., De Angelis, A., De Lotto, B., De Oña Wilhelmi, E., Delgado Mendez, C., Di Pierro, F., Domínguez, A., Dominis Prester, D., Dorner, D., Doro, M., Einecke, S., Eisenacher Glawion, D., Elsaesser, D., Fernández Barral, A., Fidalgo, D., Fonseca, M. V., Font, L., Frantzen, K., Fruck, C., Galindo, D., García López, R. J., Garczarczyk, M., Garrido Terrats, D., Gaug, M., Giammaria, P., Godinović, N., González Muñoz, A., Gora, D., Guberman, D., Hadasch, D, Hahn, A., Hanabata, Y., Hayashida, M., Herrera, J., Hose, J., Hrupec, D., Hughes, G., Idec, W., Kodani, K., Konno, Y., Kubo, H., Kushida, J., La Barbera, A., Lelas, D., Lindfors, E., Lombardi, S., Longo, Francesco, López, M., López Coto, R., López Oramas, A., Majumdar, P., Makariev, M., Mallot, K., Maneva, G., Manganaro, M., Mannheim, K., Maraschi, L., Marcote, B., Mariotti, M., Martínez, M., Mazin, D., Menzel, U., Miranda, J. M., Mirzoyan, R., Moralejo, A., Moretti, E., Nakajima, D., Neustroev, V., Niedzwiecki, A., Nievas Rosillo, M., Nilsson, K., Nishijima, K., Noda, K., Orito, R., Overkemping, A., Paiano, S., Palacio, J., Palatiello, Michele, Paneque, D., Paoletti, R., Paredes, J. M., Paredes Fortuny, X., Pedaletti, G., Persic, M., Poutanen, J., Prada Moroni, P. G., Prandini, E., Puljak, I., Rhode, W., Ribó, M., Rico, J., Rodriguez Garcia, J., Saito, T., Satalecka, K., Schultz, C., Schweizer, T., Shore, S. N., Sillanpää, A., Sitarek, J., Snidaric, I., Sobczynska, D., Stamerra, A., Steinbring, T., Strzys, M., Takalo, L., Takami, H., Tavecchio, F., Temnikov, P., Terzić, T., Tescaro, D., Teshima, M., Thaele, J., Torres, D. F., Toyama, T., Treves, A., Verguilov, V., Vovk, I., Ward, J. E., Will, M., Wu, M. H., Zanin, R., Casares, J., Herrero, A., and Universitat de Barcelona
Subjects: Astrofísica, astroparticle physics, binaries: general, gamma rays: general, stars: individual: LS I +61°303, X-rays: binaries, X-rays: individuals: LS I +61°303, Be star, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Gamma rays: general, general [Gamma rays], Binary number, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, Astroparticle physic, Radio spectrum, law.invention, individual: LS I +61°303 [Stars], Telescope, Raigs gamma, law, 0103 physical sciences, Modulation (music), individuals: LS I +61°303 [X-rays], Astroparticle physics, Binaries: general, Stars: individual: LS I +61°303, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Space and Planetary Science, MAGIC (telescope), Spectroscopy, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Physics, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), general [Binaries], 010308 nuclear & particles physics, binarie [X-rays], Gamma rays, Astronomy and Astrophysic, Orbital period, ddc:520, Astrophysics::Earth and Planetary Astrophysics, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract: Astronomy and astrophysics 591, A76(2016). doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201527964, The gamma-ray binary LS I +61°303 is a well-established source from centimeter radio up to very high energy (VHE;E > 100 GeV).The broadband emission shows a periodicity of $\sim$ 26.5 days, coincident with the orbital period. A longer (super-orbital) period of 1667 $\pm$ 8 dayswas proposed from radio variability and confirmed using optical and high-energy (HE; E > 100 MeV) gamma-ray observations. In this paper, wereport on a four-year campaign performed by MAGIC together with archival data concentrating on a search for a long-timescale signature in the VHE emission from LS I +61°303 Aims.We focus on the search for super-orbital modulation of the VHE emission, similar to that observed at other energies, and on the search forcorrelations between TeV emission and an optical determination of the extension of the circumstellar disk.Methods. A four-year campaign has been carried out using the MAGIC telescopes. The source was observed during the orbital phases when theperiodic VHE outbursts have occurred ($\phi$ = 0:55–0.75, one orbit=26.496 days). Additionally, we included archival MAGIC observations anddata published by the VERITAS collaboration in these studies. For the correlation studies, LS I +61°303 has also been observed during the orbitalphases where sporadic VHE emission had been detected in the past ($\phi$ = 0:75–1.0). These MAGIC observations were simultaneous with opticalspectroscopy from the LIVERPOOL telescope.Results.The TeV flux of the periodical outburst in orbital phases $\phi$ = 0:5–0.75 was found to show yearly variability consistent with the long-term modulation of$\sim$ 4.5 years found in the radio band. This modulation of the TeV flux can be well described by a sine function with a best-fit period of 1610 $\pm$ 58 days. The complete data, including archival observations, span two super-orbital periods. There is no evidence for a correlation betweenthe TeV emission and the mass-loss rate of the Be star, but this may be a ected by the strong, short-timescale (as short as intra-day) variation displayed by the Hfluxes., Published by EDP Sciences, Les Ulis
Published: 2016

48. The major upgrade of the MAGIC telescopes, Part I: The hardware improvements and the commissioning of the system

Author: R. Zanin, Adrian Biland, I. Lozano, J. Rico, Masahiro Teshima, W. Idec, Takashi Saito, J. Krause, B. De Lotto, Nikola Godinovic, Benito Marcote, Stefano Ansoldi, I. Snidaric, David Fink, K. Mallot, R. J. García López, D. Corti, Alessandro Carosi, Mosè Mariotti, A.-K. Overkemping, J. M. Illa, Riccardo Paoletti, Massimo Persic, Gianluca Giavitto, A. González Muñoz, Reiko Orito, P. Temnikov, M. Palatiello, J. Becerra González, Marcel Strzys, Dario Hrupec, M. Bitossi, Ruben Lopez-Coto, Jose Luis Lemus, D. Nakajima, Elina Lindfors, E. Lorenz, Abelardo Moralejo, Saverio Lombardi, A. Treves, Vitaly Neustroev, M. Makariev, Thomas Bretz, Daniel Mazin, Jose Miguel Miranda, M. A. Lopez, S. Rügamer, Juan Abel Barrio, S. Schmidl, T. Steinbring, Francesco Dazzi, J. M. Paredes, Antonio Stamerra, C. Delgado Mendez, G. Maneva, Stefano Covino, B. Biasuzzi, A. Dettlaff, M. Hayashida, D. Hildebrand, Francesco Longo, G. De Caneva, D. Fidalgo, Daniela Dorner, Jose Luis Contreras, Wolfgang Rhode, M. I. Martínez, Marc Ribó, S. Bonnefoy, K. Saito, Natalia Lewandowska, Patrick Vogler, E. Colombo, M. Gaug, Juan Cortina, D. Tescaro, Roberto Cecchi, P. Bangale, H. Wetteskind, A. La Barbera, A. Deangelis, J. Herrera, Hidetoshi Kubo, Sabrina Einecke, S. R. Gozzini, Luis Ángel Tejedor, M. V. Fonseca, Hanna Kellermann, Koji Noda, Louis Antonelli, G. Bonnoli, J. Rodriguez Garcia, Elisa Bernardini, X. Paredes-Fortuny, J. Hose, U. Menzel, K. Kodani, J. Storz, Yusuke Konno, Christian Fruck, A. Sillanpää, D. Elsaesser, L. O. Takalo, F. Borracci, W. Haberer, H. Takami, Oscar Blanch, K. Frantzen, P. G. Prada Moroni, Diego F. Torres, W. Bednarek, Fabrizio Tavecchio, V. Kadenius, S. Paiano, Ll. Font, D. Garrido Terrats, A. Lorca, Karl Mannheim, O. Tibolla, Alicia López-Oramas, T. Schweizer, Felix Spanier, R. Mirzoyan, P. Munar-Adrover, D. Eisenacher, V. Scalzotto, Markus Garczarczyk, N. Mankuzhiyil, Juri Poutanen, Kyoshi Nishijima, D. Dominis Prester, Y. Hanabata, C. Schultz, V. Scapin, P. Antoranz, M. L. Knoetig, Ana Babić, Julia Thaele, E. Carmona, Kari Nilsson, M. Will, L. Maraschi, E. Prandini, Tomislav Terzić, R. Reinthal, M. Negrello, Damir Lelas, Dorota Sobczyńska, Ivica Puljak, Pierre Colin, E. de Oña Wilhelmi, Jelena Aleksić, A. Niedzwiecki, David Paneque, M. Barcelo, D. Galindo, Konstancja Satalecka, Michele Doro, Julian Sitarek, Daniela Hadasch, T. Toyama, Junko Kushida, P. Da Vela, J. Schlammer, Universitat de Barcelona, Aleksić, J, Ansoldi, S., Antonelli, L. A., Antoranz, P., Babic, A., Bangale, P., Barceló, M., Barrio, J. A., Becerra González, J., Bednarek, W., Bernardini, E., Biasuzzi, B., Biland, A., Bitossi, M., Blanch, O., Bonnefoy, S., Bonnoli, G., Borracci, F., Bretz, T., Carmona, E., Carosi, A., Cecchi, R., Colin, P., Colombo, E., Contreras, J. L., Corti, D., Cortina, J., Covino, S., Da Vela, P., Dazzi, F., Deangelis, A., De Caneva, G., De Lotto, B., De Oña Wilhelmi, E., Delgado Mendez, C., Dettlaff, A., Dominis Prester, D., Dorner, D., Doro, M., Einecke, S., Eisenacher, D., Elsaesser, D., Fidalgo, D., Fink, D., Fonseca, M. V., Font, L., Frantzen, K., Fruck, C., Galindo, D., García López, R. J., Garczarczyk, M., Garrido Terrats, D., Gaug, M., Giavitto, G., Godinović, N., González Muñoz, A., Gozzini, S. R., Haberer, W., Hadasch, D., Hanabata, Y., Hayashida, M., Herrera, J., Hildebrand, D., Hose, J., Hrupec, D., Idec, W., Illa, J. M., Kadenius, V., Kellermann, H., Knoetig, M. L., Kodani, K., Konno, Y., Krause, J., Kubo, H., Kushida, J., La Barbera, A., Lelas, D., Lemus, J. L., Lewandowska, N., Lindfors, E., Lombardi, S., Longo, Francesco, López, M., López Coto, R., López Oramas, A., Lorca, A., Lorenz, E., Lozano, I., Makariev, M., Mallot, K., Maneva, G., Mankuzhiyil, N., Mannheim, K., Maraschi, L., Marcote, B., Mariotti, M., Martínez, M., Mazin, D., Menzel, U., Miranda, J. M., Mirzoyan, R., Moralejo, A., Munar Adrover, P., Nakajima, D., Negrello, M., Neustroev, V., Niedzwiecki, A., Nilsson, K., Nishijima, K., Noda, K., Orito, R., Overkemping, A., Paiano, S., Palatiello, Michele, Paneque, D., Paoletti, R., Paredes, J. M., Paredes Fortuny, X., Persic, M., Poutanen, J., Prada Moroni, P. G., Prandini, E., Puljak, I., Reinthal, R., Rhode, W., Ribó, M., Rico, J., Rodriguez Garcia, J., Rügamer, S., Saito, T., Saito, K., Satalecka, K., Scalzotto, V., Scapin, V., Schultz, C., Schlammer, J., Schmidl, S., Schweizer, T., Sillanpää, A., Sitarek, J., Snidaric, I., Sobczynska, D., Spanier, F., Stamerra, A., Steinbring, T., Storz, J., Strzys, M., Takalo, L., Takami, H., Tavecchio, F., Tejedor, L. A., Temnikov, P., Terzić, T., Tescaro, D., Teshima, M., Thaele, J., Tibolla, O., Torres, D. F., Toyama, T., Treves, A., Vogler, P., Wetteskind, H., Will, M., and Zanin, R.
Subjects: Astrofísica, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, MAGIC, Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes, Instruments, TeV astrophysics, Very High Energy Gamma Rays, Stereoscopy, Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, law.invention, Raigs gamma, law, Overall performance, MAGIC (telescope), TeV, astrophysics, CRAB-NEBULA, PERFORMANCE, STEREO, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Physics, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Instrument, Upgrade, ddc:540, Electrónica, Física nuclear, Astrophysics::Earth and Planetary Astrophysics, Electricidad, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, TeV astrophysic, Noise (radio), Computer hardware, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Telescope, 0103 physical sciences, Very High Energy Gamma Ray, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), Cherenkov radiation, ta115, Telescopis, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, business.industry, Gamma rays, Cherenkov Telescope Array, Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescope, business, astro-ph.IM, Telescopes
Abstract: The MAGIC telescopes are two Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes (IACTs) located on the Canary island of La Palma. The telescopes are designed to measure Cherenkov light from air showers initiated by gamma rays in the energy regime from around 50 GeV to more than 50 TeV. The two telescopes were built in 2004 and 2009, respectively, with different cameras, triggers and readout systems. In the years 2011-2012 the MAGIC collaboration undertook a major upgrade to make the stereoscopic system uniform, improving its overall performance and easing its maintenance. In particular, the camera, the receivers and the trigger of the first telescope were replaced and the readout of the two telescopes was upgraded. This paper (Part I) describes the details of the upgrade as well as the basic performance parameters of MAGIC such as raw data treatment, dead time of the system, linearity in the electronic chain and sources of noise. In Part II, we describe the physics performance of the upgraded system., 19 pages, 18 figures, accepted by Astroparticle Physics
Published: 2016

49. Long-term multi-wavelength variability and correlation study of Markarian 421 from 2007 to 2009

Author: E. Moretti, Alessandro Carosi, D. Nakajima, Kyoshi Nishijima, Arka Chatterjee, C. M. Raiteri, Nikola Godinovic, Benito Marcote, D. Fidalgo, Jose Miguel Miranda, D. Dominis Prester, Yusuke Konno, B. Jordan, Aaron Dominguez, L. Perri, Elena G. Larionova, Marina Manganaro, Kari Nilsson, Pratik Majumdar, M. V. Fonseca, Wen Ping Chen, M. Will, A. La Barbera, D. Galindo, R. Zanin, Merja Tornikoski, Mosè Mariotti, Dario Hrupec, K. Kodani, S. N. Shore, Louis Antonelli, D. Eisenacher Glawion, Max Ludwig Ahnen, X. Paredes-Fortuny, M. Nievas Rosillo, J. E. Ward, A. González Muñoz, Adrian Biland, A.-K. Overkemping, Razmik Mirzoyan, U. Barres de Almeida, J. Palacio, Dmitry A. Blinov, G. Pedaletti, M. A. Lopez, Juri Poutanen, Konstancja Satalecka, Sofia O. Kurtanidze, Michele Doro, U. Menzel, J. M. Paredes, S. Bonnefoy, Givi N. Kimeridze, Thomas Bretz, E. N. Kopatskaya, M. H. Wu, Antonio Stamerra, K. Frantzen, J. Rico, M. Villata, P. Giammaria, Damir Lelas, Alexander Hahn, Y. Hanabata, E. Forné, F. Di Pierro, Jose Luis Contreras, H. C. Lin, R. López-Coto, I. Snidaric, Daniela Dorner, Dariusz Gora, A. Niedzwiecki, F. Borracci, Gareth Hughes, P. Antoranz, Juan Abel Barrio, Juan Cortina, Saverio Lombardi, L. V. Larionova, Ivan S. Troitsky, David Paneque, Dorota Sobczyńska, P. Temnikov, S. Paiano, Karl Mannheim, B. Biasuzzi, M. Gaug, J. Herrera, Talvikki Hovatta, Junko Kushida, Diego F. Torres, Wolfgang Rhode, D. Guberman, Koji Noda, Elisa Bernardini, M. G. Nikolashvili, P. Da Vela, Francesco Longo, J. Hose, D. Garrido Terrats, J. Becerra González, E. Prandini, A. De Angelis, A. Treves, D. Elsaesser, Vitaly Neustroev, D. Hadasch, Julia Thaele, P. G. Prada Moroni, R. Clavero, Markus Garczarczyk, Valeri M. Larionov, R. Ligustri, H. Takami, W. Bednarek, Julian Sitarek, Fabrizio Tavecchio, J. A. Ros, Abelardo Moralejo, M. Palatiello, Stefano Ansoldi, A. C. Sadun, C. Schultz, Vassil Verguilov, G. Maneva, B. Banerjee, S. Buson, Riccardo Paoletti, T. Steinbring, C. Fruck, Lorand A. Sigua, W. Idec, Ivica Puljak, Francesco Dazzi, A. Fernández-Barral, Pierre Colin, Oscar Blanch, T. S. Grishina, Ana Babić, E. de Oña Wilhelmi, E. Colombo, T. Toyama, O. M. Kurtanidze, G. Bonnoli, Elina Lindfors, Anne Lähteenmäki, M. Hayashida, D. A. Morozova, L. O. Takalo, Masahiro Teshima, Ekaterina Koptelova, A. Sillanpää, B. De Lotto, Ievgen Vovk, L. Maraschi, Tomislav Terzić, T. Schweizer, Reiko Orito, Daniel Mazin, Marc Ribó, P. Bangale, Hidetoshi Kubo, Stefano Covino, Tomoki Saito, D. Tescaro, M. Makariev, B. McBreen, M. I. Martínez, Sabrina Einecke, J. Rodriguez Garcia, K. Mallot, R. J. García López, Massimo Persic, Lluis Font, Marcel Strzys, N. V. Efimova, L. Nogués, Universitat de Barcelona, Ahnen, M. L., Ansoldi, S., Antonelli, L. A., Antoranz, P., Babic, A., Banerjee, B., Bangale, P., Barres De Almeida, U., Barrio, J. A., Becerra González, J., Bednarek, W., Bernardini, E., Biasuzzi, B., Biland, A., Blanch, O., Bonnefoy, S., Bonnoli, G., Borracci, F., Bretz, T., Buson, S., Carosi, A., Chatterjee, A., Clavero, R., Colin, P., Colombo, E., Contreras, J. L., Cortina, J., Covino, S., Da Vela, P., Dazzi, F., De Angelis, A., De Lotto, B., De Oña Wilhelmi, E., Di Pierro, F., Domínguez, A., Dominis Prester, D., Dorner, D., Doro, M., Einecke, S., Eisenacher Glawion, D., Elsaesser, D., Fernández Barral, A., Fidalgo, D., Fonseca, M. V., Font, L., Frantzen, K., Fruck, C., Galindo, D., García López, R. J., Garczarczyk, M., Garrido Terrats, D., Gaug, M., Giammaria, P., Godinović, N., González Muñoz, A., Gora, D., Guberman, D., Hadasch, D., Hahn, A., Hanabata, Y., Hayashida, M., Herrera, J., Hose, J., Hrupec, D., Hughes, G., Idec, W., Kodani, K., Konno, Y., Kubo, H., Kushida, J., La Barbera, A., Lelas, D., Lindfors, E., Lombardi, S., Longo, Francesco, López, M., López Coto, R., Majumdar, P., Makariev, M., Mallot, K., Maneva, G., Manganaro, M., Mannheim, K., Maraschi, L., Marcote, B., Mariotti, M., Martínez, M., Mazin, D., Menzel, U., Miranda, J. M., Mirzoyan, R., Moralejo, A., Moretti, E., Nakajima, D., Neustroev, V., Niedzwiecki, A., Nievas Rosillo, M., Nilsson, K., Nishijima, K., Noda, K., Nogués, L., Orito, R., Overkemping, A, Paiano, S., Palacio, J., Palatiello, Michele, Paneque, D., Paoletti, R., Paredes, J. M., Paredes Fortuny, X., Pedaletti, G., Perri, L., Persic, M., Poutanen, J., Prada Moroni, P. G., Prandini, E., Puljak, I., Rhode, W., Ribó, M., Rico, J., Rodriguez Garcia, J., Saito, T., Satalecka, K., Schultz, C., Schweizer, T., Shore, S. N., Sillanpää, A., Sitarek, J., Snidaric, I., Sobczynska, D., Stamerra, A., Steinbring, T., Strzys, M., Takalo, L., Takami, H., Tavecchio, F., Temnikov, P., Terzić, T., Tescaro, D., Teshima, M., Thaele, J., Torres, D. F., Toyama, T., Treves, A., Verguilov, V., Vovk, I., Ward, J. E., Will, M., Wu, M. H., Zanin, R., Blinov, D. A., Chen, W. P., Efimova, N. V., Forné, E., Grishina, T. S., Hovatta, T., Jordan, B., Kimeridze, G. N., Kopatskaya, E. N., Koptelova, E., Kurtanidze, O. M., Kurtanidze, S. O., Lähteenmäki, A., Larionov, V. M., Larionova, E. G., Larionova, L. V., Ligustri, R., Lin, H. C., Mcbreen, B., Morozova, D. A., Nikolashvili, M. G., Raiteri, C. M., Ros, J. A., Sadun, A. C., Sigua, L. A., Tornikoski, M., Troitsky, I. S., Villata, M., Department of Radio Science and Engineering, Aalto-yliopisto, and Aalto University
Subjects: Astrofísica, Astroparticle physics, BL Lacertae objects: individual: Markarian 421, Radiation mechanisms: non-thermal, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Space and Planetary Science, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, FOS: Physical sciences, Flux, Astrophysics, Astroparticle physic, individual: Markarian 421 [BL Lacertae objects], 01 natural sciences, Radiació, law.invention, Telescope, law, 0103 physical sciences, MAGIC (telescope), Blazar, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Cherenkov radiation, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Physics, non-thermal [Radiation mechanisms], Radiation, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Compton scattering, Astronomy and Astrophysic, Light curve, Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, astroparticle physics / BL Lacertae objects: individual: Markarian 421 / radiation mechanisms: non-thermal, Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA), ddc:520, Electrónica, Física nuclear, Electricidad, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract: We study the multi-band variability and correlations of the TeV blazar Mrk 421 on year time scales, which can bring additional insight on the processes responsible for its broadband emission. We observed Mrk 421 in the very high energy (VHE) gamma-ray range with the Cherenkov telescope MAGIC-I from March 2007 to June 2009 for a total of 96 hours of effective time after quality cuts. The VHE flux variability is quantified with several methods, including the Bayesian Block algorithm, which is applied to data from Cherenkov telescopes for the first time. The 2.3 year long MAGIC light curve is complemented with data from the Swift/BAT and RXTE/ASM satellites and the KVA, GASP-WEBT, OVRO, and Mets\"ahovi telescopes from February 2007 to July 2009, allowing for an excellent characterisation of the multi-band variability and correlations over year time scales. Mrk 421 was found in different gamma-ray emission states during the 2.3 year long observation period. Flares and different levels of variability in the gamma-ray light curve could be identified with the Bayesian Block algorithm. The same behaviour of a quiet and active emission was found in the X-ray light curves measured by Swift/BAT and the RXTE/ASM, with a direct correlation in time. The behaviour of the optical light curve of GASP-WEBT and the radio light curves by OVRO and Mets\"ahovi are different as they show no coincident features with the higher energetic light curves and a less variable emission. The fractional variability is overall increasing with energy. The comparable variability in the X-ray and VHE bands and their direct correlation during both high- and low-activity periods spanning many months show that the electron populations radiating the X-ray and gamma-ray photons are either the same, as expected in the Synchrotron-Self-Compton mechanism, or at least strongly correlated, as expected in electromagnetic cascades., Comment: Corresponding authors: Ann-Kristin Overkemping (ann-kristin.overkemping@tu-dortmund.de), Marina Manganaro (manganaro@iac.es), Diego Tescaro (diego.tescaro@gmail.com), To be published in Astronomy&Astrophysics (A&A), 12 pages, 9 figures
Published: 2016

50. Multiwavelength observations of the blazar 1ES 1011+496 in Spring 2008

Author: Pierre Colin, E. de Oña Wilhelmi, Kari Nilsson, L. Maraschi, M. Will, Francesco Longo, Tomislav Terzić, Daniela Dorner, C. Pittori, Michael T. Carini, R. Clavero, Louis Antonelli, E. Prandini, Pratik Majumdar, M. V. Fonseca, Mosè Mariotti, K. Kodani, J. Becerra González, W. Bednarek, M. Makariev, M. Palatiello, Ievgen Vovk, Fabrizio Tavecchio, S. N. Shore, M. Gaug, J. Herrera, J. Palacio, J. M. Paredes, Koji Noda, F. Di Pierro, Antonio Stamerra, Thomas Bretz, Elisa Bernardini, Stefano Covino, T. Schweizer, R. Zanin, D. Dominis Prester, A.-K. Overkemping, Adrian Biland, B. Biasuzzi, R. López-Coto, Juri Poutanen, Nikola Godinovic, R. Reinthal, Benito Marcote, Jose Luis Contreras, Saverio Lombardi, S. Rügamer, Marcel Strzys, R. Walters, Junko Kushida, D. Nakajima, Francesco Dazzi, Juan Abel Barrio, A. Niedzwiecki, P. Da Vela, Juan Cortina, Y. Hanabata, S. Bonnefoy, J. Rico, A. González Muñoz, Razmik Mirzoyan, Oscar Blanch, U. Barres de Almeida, P. Antoranz, Tomoki Saito, D. Tescaro, K. Frantzen, P. Temnikov, E. Colombo, Damir Lelas, K. Mallot, David Paneque, J. Sainio, Arka Chatterjee, M. Hayashida, R. J. García López, L. O. Takalo, Kyoshi Nishijima, Wolfgang Rhode, M. H. Wu, D. Guberman, Dorota Sobczyńska, D. Fidalgo, Gareth Hughes, E. Carmona, Markus Garczarczyk, P. G. Prada Moroni, Anne Lähteenmäki, A. De Angelis, Andrei Berdyugin, A. Pease, S. Paiano, Masahiro Teshima, A. Treves, Vitaly Neustroev, D. Garrido Terrats, G. De Caneva, Alba Fernández-Barral, Stefano Ansoldi, Karl Mannheim, Elina Lindfors, M. I. Martínez, Julian Sitarek, Julia Thaele, Riccardo Paoletti, W. Idec, Massimo Persic, C. Schultz, V. Scapin, Yusuke Konno, F. Lucarelli, Daniel Mazin, Marina Manganaro, Marc Ribó, G. Maneva, T. Toyama, S. Vercellone, D. Galindo, Merja Tornikoski, J. E. Ward, Alicia López-Oramas, Ana Babić, Sabrina Einecke, P. Bangale, Reiko Orito, J. Rodriguez Garcia, Christian Fruck, Hidetoshi Kubo, B. De Lotto, A. La Barbera, Konstancja Satalecka, Michele Doro, X. Paredes-Fortuny, J. Hose, D. Elsaesser, M. Nievas Rosillo, H. Takami, B. Banerjee, D. Glawion, Vassil Verguilov, U. Menzel, Diego F. Torres, M. Pasanen, Abelardo Moralejo, A. Sillanpää, T. Steinbring, Ll. Font, I. Snidaric, E. Lorenz, Max Ludwig Ahnen, P. Giammaria, G. Bonnoli, Dario Hrupec, M. A. Lopez, F. Borracci, C. Delgado Mendez, Alessandro Carosi, Jose Miguel Miranda, Ivica Puljak, Glawion, D., Universitat de Barcelona, Ahnen, M. L, Ansoldi, S., Antonelli, L. A., Antoranz, P., Babic, A., Banerjee, B., Bangale, P., Barres De Almeida, U., Barrio, J. A., Becerra González, J., Bednarek, W., Bernardini, E., Biasuzzi, B., Biland, A., Blanch, O., Bonnefoy, S., Bonnoli, G., Borracci, F., Bretz, T., Carmona, E., Carosi, A., Chatterjee, A., Clavero, R., Colin, P., Colombo, E., Contreras, J. L., Cortina, J., Covino, S., Da Vela, P., Dazzi, F., De Angelis, A., De Caneva, G., De Lotto, B., De Oña Wilhelmi, E., Delgado Mendez, C., Di Pierro, F., Dominis Prester, D., Dorner, D., Doro, M., Einecke, S., Elsaesser, D., Fernández Barral, A., Fidalgo, D., Fonseca, M. V., Font, L., Frantzen, K., Fruck, C., Galindo, D., García López, R. J., Garczarczyk, M., Garrido Terrats, D., Gaug, M., Giammaria, P., Godinović, N., González Muñoz, A., Guberman, D., Hanabata, Y., Hayashida, M., Herrera, J., Hose, J., Hrupec, D., Hughes, G., Idec, W., Kodani, K., Konno, Y., Kubo, H., Kushida, J., La Barbera, A., Lelas, D., Lindfors, E., Lombardi, S., Longo, Francesco, López, M., López Coto, R., López Oramas, A., Lorenz, E., Majumdar, P., Makariev, M., Mallot, K., Maneva, G., Manganaro, M., Mannheim, K., Maraschi, L., Marcote, B., Mariotti, M., Martínez, M., Mazin, D., Menzel, U., Miranda, J. M., Mirzoyan, R., Moralejo, A., Nakajima, D., Neustroev, V., Niedzwiecki, A., Nievas Rosillo, M., Nilsson, K., Nishijima, K., Noda, K., Orito, R., Overkemping, A., Paiano, S., Palacio, J., Palatiello, Michele, Paneque, D., Paoletti, R., Paredes, J. M., Paredes Fortuny, X., Persic, M., Poutanen, J., Prada Moroni, P. G., Prandini, E., Puljak, I., Reinthal, R., Rhode, W., Ribó, M., Rico, J., Rodriguez Garcia, J., Rügamer, S., Saito, T., Satalecka, K., Scapin, V., Schultz, C., Schweizer, T., Shore, S. N., Sillanpää, A., Sitarek, J., Snidaric, I., Sobczynska, D., Stamerra, A., Steinbring, T., Strzys, M., Takalo, L., Takami, H., Tavecchio, F., Temnikov, P., Terzić, T., Tescaro, D., Teshima, M., Thaele, J., Torres, D. F., Toyama, T., Treves, A., Verguilov, V., Vovk, I., Ward, J. E., Will, M., Wu, M. H., Zanin, R., Lucarelli, F., Pittori, C., Vercellone, S., Berdyugin, A., Carini, M. T., Lähteenmäki, A., Pasanen, M., Pease, A., Sainio, J., Tornikoski, M., Walters, R., Department of Radio Science and Engineering, Aalto-yliopisto, and Aalto University
Subjects: galaxie [X-rays], galaxie [Gamma-rays], Radiation mechanisms: non-thermal, radiation mechanisms: non-thermal, galaxies: active, gamma-rays, galaxies, X-rays: galaxies, BL-LACERTAE OBJECTS, ACTIVE GALACTIC NUCLEI, LARGE-AREA TELESCOPE, GAMMA-RAY EMISSION, SPECTRAL ENERGY-DISTRIBUTIONS, ALL-SKY SURVEY, LAC, OBJECTS, X-RAY, MAGIC TELESCOPES, SOURCE CATALOG, Astrophysics, Galaxies: active, Gamma-rays: galaxies, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Space and Planetary Science, 01 natural sciences, Radiació, law.invention, law, MAGIC (telescope), 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Physics, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Spectral index, Radiation, Gamma ray, galaxies [Gamma-rays], galaxies [X-rays], Electrónica, Física nuclear, Electricidad, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Flare, BL Lac object, Active galactic nucleus, radiation mechanisms, non-thermal galaxies, active gamma-rays, galaxies X-rays, active [Galaxies], Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, FOS: Physical sciences, 0103 physical sciences, Blazar, ta115, non-thermal [Radiation mechanisms], 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Astronomy, Astronomy and Astrophysic, Light curve, Galàxies actives, Active galaxies, ddc:520
Abstract: The BL Lac object 1ES 1011+496 was discovered at Very High Energy gamma-rays by MAGIC in spring 2007. Before that the source was little studied in different wavelengths. Therefore a multi-wavelength (MWL) campaign was organized in spring 2008. Along MAGIC, the MWL campaign included the Metsahovi radio observatory, Bell and KVA optical telescopes and the Swift and AGILE satellites. MAGIC observations span from March to May, 2008 for a total of 27.9 hours, of which 19.4 hours remained after quality cuts. The light curve showed no significant variability. The differential VHE spectrum could be described with a power-law function. Both results were similar to those obtained during the discovery. Swift XRT observations revealed an X-ray flare, characterized by a harder when brighter trend, as is typical for high synchrotron peak BL Lac objects (HBL). Strong optical variability was found during the campaign, but no conclusion on the connection between the optical and VHE gamma-ray bands could be drawn. The contemporaneous SED shows a synchrotron dominated source, unlike concluded in previous work based on nonsimultaneous data, and is well described by a standard one zone synchrotron self Compton model. We also performed a study on the source classification. While the optical and X-ray data taken during our campaign show typical characteristics of an HBL, we suggest, based on archival data, that 1ES 1011+496 is actually a borderline case between intermediate and high synchrotron peak frequency BL Lac objects., 13 pages, accepted for publication in MNRAS
Published: 2016

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