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Elina Lindfors
Researcher at University of Turku
Publications - 447
Citations - 26722
Elina Lindfors is an academic researcher from University of Turku. The author has contributed to research in topics: Blazar & MAGIC (telescope). The author has an hindex of 86, co-authored 420 publications receiving 23846 citations. Previous affiliations of Elina Lindfors include University of Oulu & Helsinki University of Technology.
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Design concepts for the Cherenkov Telescope Array CTA: An advanced facility for ground-based high-energy gamma-ray astronomy
Marcos Daniel Actis,G. Agnetta,Felix Aharonian,A. G. Akhperjanian,Jelena Aleksić,E. Aliu,D. Allan,Ingomar Allekotte,F.C. Antico,Louis Antonelli,P. Antoranz,A. Aravantinos,T. C. Arlen,H. Arnaldi,S. Artmann,Katsuaki Asano,Hernán Asorey,J. Bähr,Alkiviadis F. Bais,C. Baixeras,S. Bajtlik,Dimitris Balis,Aya Bamba,C. Barbier,M. Barcelo,Anna Barnacka,Jürgen Barnstedt,U. Barres de Almeida,Juan Abel Barrio,Stefano Basso,Denis Bastieri,C. Bauer,J. Becerra,J. Becerra,Yvonne Becherini,Keith Bechtol,J. K. Becker,Volker Beckmann,W. Bednarek,B. Behera,Matthias Beilicke,Massimiliano Belluso,M. Benallou,Wystan Benbow,J. Berdugo,K. Berger,K. Berger,T. Bernardino,Konrad Bernlöhr,Adrian Biland,Sergio Billotta,T. Bird,E. Birsin,Elisabetta Bissaldi,S. Blake,Oscar Blanch,A. Bobkov,Leszek Bogacz,M. Bogdan,Catherine Boisson,J. Boix,J. Bolmont,Giovanni Bonanno,A. Bonardi,Tanyu Bonev,J. Borkowski,Olga Botner,Asdrúbal Enrique Bottani,M. Bourgeat,C. Boutonnet,A. Bouvier,S. Brau-Nogue,S. Brau-Nogue,Ilana M. Braun,Thomas Bretz,Michael S. Briggs,Pierre Brun,L. Brunetti,J. H. Buckley,V. Bugaev,R. Bühler,Tomasz Bulik,G. Busetto,S. Buson,Karen Byrum,M. Cailles,R. A. Cameron,Rodolfo Canestrari,S. Cantu,E. Carmona,Alessandro Carosi,J. Carr,P.H. Carton,M. Casiraghi,H. Castarede,Osvaldo Catalano,S. Cavazzani,S. Cazaux,B. Cerruti,Matteo Cerruti,P. M. Chadwick,James Chiang,M. Chikawa,M. Cieślar,M. Ciesielska,A. Cillis,C. Clerc,Pierre Colin,Josep Colomé,M. Compin,Paolo Conconi,Valerie Connaughton,Jan Conrad,Jose Luis Contreras,Paolo De Coppi,M. Corlier,P. Corona,O. Corpace,D. Corti,Juan Cortina,Heide Costantini,Garret Cotter,B. Courty,S. Couturier,Stefano Covino,Judith H. Croston,Giancarlo Cusumano,M. K. Daniel,Francesco Dazzi,A. De Angelis,E. De Cea del Pozo,E. M. de Gouveia Dal Pino,O. C. de Jager,I. de la Calle Perez,G. De La Vega,B. De Lotto,M. de Naurois,E. de Oña Wilhelmi,V. de Souza,B. Decerprit,Christoph Deil,Eric Delagnes,G. Deleglise,C. Delgado,T. Dettlaff,A. Di Paolo,F. Di Pierro,C. Díaz,J. Dick,Hugh Dickinson,Seth Digel,Dinko Dimitrov,G. Disset,A. Djannati-Ataï,M. Doert,W. Domainko,Daniela Dorner,Michele Doro,Michele Doro,J. L. Dournaux,Dainis Dravins,Luke O'c. Drury,F. Dubois,R. Dubois,Guillaume Dubus,C. Dufour,Dominique Durand,J. Dyks,M. Dyrda,E. Edy,Kathrin Egberts,C. Eleftheriadis,Sabine Elles,Dimitrios Emmanoulopoulos,Ryoji Enomoto,J.-P. Ernenwein,Manel Errando,A. Etchegoyen,Abraham D. Falcone,K. Farakos,C. Farnier,S. Federici,F. Feinstein,Daniel Ferenc,E. Fillin-Martino,David Fink,Chad Finley,J. P. Finley,R. Firpo,D. Florin,C. Föhr,E. Fokitis,Ll. Font,G. Fontaine,Adriano Fontana,A. Förster,Lucy Fortson,N. Fouque,Claes Fransson,G.W. Fraser,L. Fresnillo,Christian Fruck,Yutaka Fujita,Yasushi Fukazawa,Stefan Funk,W. Gäbele,Stefano Gabici,A. Gadola,N. Galante,Y. A. Gallant,B. García,R. J. García López,R. J. García López,D. Garrido,L. Garrido,David Gascon,C. Gasq,Markus Gaug,J. Gaweda,N. Geffroy,C. Ghag,Adriano Ghedina,Mauro Ghigo,E. Gianakaki,S. Giarrusso,Gianluca Giavitto,B. Giebels,Enrico Giro,Piero Giubilato,T. Glanzman,J.F. Glicenstein,M. Gochna,V. Golev,M. Gómez Berisso,A. Gonzalez,F. Gonzalez,F. Grañena,Ricardo Graciani,Jonathan Granot,R. Gredig,Anne M. Green,T. Greenshaw,Oliver Grimm,J. Grube,M. Grudzińska,Jerzy Grygorczuk,V. J. Guarino,L. Guglielmi,F. Guilloux,Shuichi Gunji,Geza Gyuk,Daniela Hadasch,Dennis Haefner,Rika Hagiwara,Joachim Hahn,Allan Hallgren,Shinji Hara,Martin J. Hardcastle,Tarek M. Hassan,T. Haubold,M. Hauser,M. Hayashida,Ryan Heller,Gilles Henri,German Hermann,Artemio Herrero,Artemio Herrero,Jim Hinton,Dieter H. H. Hoffmann,Werner Hofmann,Petter Hofverberg,Dieter Horns,Dario Hrupec,H. Huan,B. Huber,J. M. Huet,Gareth Hughes,K. Hultquist,T. B. Humensky,J. F. Huppert,Alejandro Ibarra,J. M. Illa,J. Ingjald,Yoshiyuki Inoue,Susumu Inoue,Kunihito Ioka,C. Jablonski,A. Jacholkowska,M. Janiak,P. Jean,P. Jean,Hannes Jensen,T. Jogler,I. Jung,Philip Kaaret,Shigeto Kabuki,Jun Kakuwa,C. Kalkuhl,R. Kankanyan,M. Kapala,Aris Karastergiou,M. Karczewski,S. Karkar,N. Karlsson,J. Kasperek,Hideaki Katagiri,K. Katarzyński,Norita Kawanaka,B. Kȩdziora,Eckhard Kendziorra,B. Khélifi,David Kieda,Tadashi Kifune,Thomas Kihm,S. Klepser,W. Kluźniak,J. Knapp,A. R. Knappy,T. Kneiske,Jürgen Knödlseder,Jürgen Knödlseder,F. Köck,K. Kodani,Kazunori Kohri,Kostas D. Kokkotas,Nu. Komin,A. Konopelko,K. Kosack,R. Kossakowski,P. Kostka,J. Kotula,Grzegorz Kowal,J. Koziol,T. Krähenbühl,J. Krause,Henric Krawczynski,F. Krennrich,A. Kretzschmann,Hidetoshi Kubo,V. A. Kudryavtsev,J. Kushida,N. La Barbera,V. La Parola,G. La Rosa,A. M. Lopez,G. Lamanna,Philippe Laporte,C. Lavalley,T. Le Flour,A. Le Padellec,A. Le Padellec,J.-P. Lenain,Luigi Lessio,B. Lieunard,Elina Lindfors,A. Liolios,Thomas Lohse,Saverio Lombardi,A. Lopatin,E. Lorenz,P. Lubinski,O. Luz,Etienne Lyard,Maria Concetta Maccarone,Thomas J. Maccarone,Gernot Maier,P. Majumdar,Stavros Maltezos,P. Małkiewicz,C. Maña,A. Manalaysay,G. Maneva,A. Mangano,P. Manigot,J. C. Marin,Mosè Mariotti,Sera Markoff,German Martinez,M. I. Martínez,Apostolos Mastichiadis,Hironori Matsumoto,Serena Mattiazzo,Daniel Mazin,T. J. L. McComb,N. A. McCubbin,I. M. McHardy,C. Medina,D. Melkumyan,A. Mendes,Philipp Mertsch,Mario Meucci,J. Michałowski,P. Micolon,Teresa Mineo,Nestor Mirabal,F. Mirabel,Jose Miguel Miranda,R. Mirzoyan,Tsunefumi Mizuno,B. Moal,R. Moderski,Emilio Molinari,I. Monteiro,Abelardo Moralejo,C. Morello,K. Mori,G. Motta,Fabrice Mottez,Emmanuel Moulin,Reshmi Mukherjee,P. Munar,Hiroshi Muraishi,Kohta Murase,A. St. J. Murphy,Shigehiro Nagataki,Tsuguya Naito,Takeshi Nakamori,K. Nakayama,C. L. Naumann,D. Naumann,P. Nayman,D. Nedbal,A. Niedźwiecki,Jacek Niemiec,A. Nikolaidis,K. Nishijima,S. J. Nolan,Nina Nowak,P. T. O'Brien,I. Ochoa,Yutaka Ohira,Michiko Ohishi,H. Ohka,Akira Okumura,C. Olivetto,R. A. Ong,Reiko Orito,Matthew R. Orr,J. P. Osborne,M. Ostrowski,L. A. Otero,A. N. Otte,Evgeni Ovcharov,I. Oya,A. Oziȩbło,S. Paiano,J. Pallota,J. L. Panazol,David Paneque,M. Panter,Riccardo Paoletti,G. Papyan,J. M. Paredes,G. Pareschi,R. D. Parsons,M. Paz Arribas,G. Pedaletti,A. Pepato,Massimo Persic,P.-O. Petrucci,B. Peyaud,Włodzimierz Piechocki,S. Pita,G. Pivato,Ł. Płatos,R. Platzer,L. Pogosyan,Martin Pohl,G. Pojmanski,J. D. Ponz,William J. Potter,Elisa Prandini,Robert D. Preece,H. Prokoph,G. Pühlhofer,Michael Punch,E. J. Quel,Andreas Quirrenbach,P. J. Rajda,Riccardo Rando,M. Rataj,M. Raue,C. Reimann,O. Reimann,A. Reimer,Olaf Reimer,M. Renaud,S. Renner,J.-M. Reymond,Wolfgang Rhode,Marc Ribó,M. Ribordy,J. Rico,J. Rico,Frank M. Rieger,P. Ringegni,J. Ripken,P. Ristori,S. Rivoire,L. Rob,S. Rodriguez,U. Roeser,P. Romano,Gustavo E. Romero,S. Rosier-Lees,A. C. Rovero,F. Roy,S. Royer,B. Rudak,Cameron B Rulten,J. Ruppel,Francesco Russo,Felix Ryde,B. Sacco,A. Saggion,V. Sahakian,K. Saito,Takashi Saito,Naoto Sakaki,E. Salazar,A. Salini,F. Sánchez,M. Á. Sánchez Conde,M. Á. Sánchez Conde,Andrea Santangelo,E. M. Santos,Andreu Sanuy,L. Sapozhnikov,Subir Sarkar,V. Scalzotto,V. Scapin,M. Scarcioffolo,Thomas Schanz,S. Schlenstedt,Reinhard Schlickeiser,T. O. B. Schmidt,Jürgen Schmoll,M. Schroedter,C. Schultz,J. Schultze,A. Schulz,U. Schwanke,S. Schwarzburg,T. Schweizer,John H. Seiradakis,S. Selmane,Karol Seweryn,M. Shayduk,R. C. Shellard,T. Shibata,Marek Sikora,Joseph Silk,A. Sillanpää,Julian Sitarek,C. Skole,Nathan Smith,Dorota Sobczyńska,M. Sofo Haro,Helene Sol,Felix Spanier,Daniele Spiga,S. Spyrou,Victor Stamatescu,Antonio Stamerra,R. L. C. Starling,Łukasz Stawarz,R. Steenkamp,C. Stegmann,S. Steiner,Nikolaos Stergioulas,R. Sternberger,F. Stinzing,M. Stodulski,U. Straumann,A. E. Suárez,M. Suchenek,R. Sugawara,Karl-Heinz Sulanke,S. Sun,A. D. Supanitsky,P. Sutcliffe,Michał Szanecki,Tomasz Szepieniec,Anna Szostek,A. E. Szymkowiak,Gianpiero Tagliaferri,Hiroyasu Tajima,Hiromitsu Takahashi,K. Takahashi,L. O. Takalo,Hajime Takami,R. G. Talbot,P. H. Tam,Masayuki Tanaka,Toru Tanimori,Marco Tavani,J. P. Tavernet,C. Tchernin,Luis Ángel Tejedor,I. Telezhinsky,Petar Temnikov,C. Tenzer,Yukikatsu Terada,Regis Terrier,Masahiro Teshima,Masahiro Teshima,Vincenzo Testa,L. Tibaldo,O. Tibolla,M. Tluczykont,C. J. Todero Peixoto,Fuyuki Tokanai,M. Tokarz,Kenji Toma,Diego F. Torres,Diego F. Torres,Gino Tosti,Tomonori Totani,F. Toussenel,P. Vallania,G. Vallejo,J.L. Van der Walt,C. van Eldik,Justin Vandenbroucke,H. Vankov,G. Vasileiadis,V. Vassiliev,I. Vegas,L. Venter,S. Vercellone,C. Veyssiere,J. P. Vialle,M. Videla,P. Vincent,Jacco Vink,Nektarios Vlahakis,Loukas Vlahos,Patrick Vogler,A. Vollhardt,Francesca Volpe,H. von Gunten,S. Vorobiov,Stefan Wagner,Robert Wagner,B. Wagner,S. P. Wakely,Peter Walter,R. Walter,R. S. Warwick,P. Wawer,R. Wawrzaszek,N. Webb,N. Webb,P. Wegner,A. Weinstein,Q. Weitzel,R. Welsing,H. Wetteskind,Richard White,A. Wierzcholska,Mark I. Wilkinson,David A. Williams,M. Winde,R. Wischnewski,Ł. Wiśniewski,A. Wolczko,Matthew Wood,Q. Xiong,T. Yamamoto,Kazutaka Yamaoka,Ryo Yamazaki,Shohei Yanagita,B. Yoffo,M. Yonetani,A. Yoshida,Tatsuo Yoshida,Takanori Yoshikoshi,Victor Zabalza,A. Zagdański,A. Zajczyk,A.A. Zdziarski,Andreas Zech,K. Ziȩtara,P. Ziółkowski,V. Zitelli,P. Zychowski +685 more
TL;DR: The ground-based gamma-ray astronomy has had a major breakthrough with the impressive results obtained using systems of imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes as mentioned in this paper, which is an international initiative to build the next generation instrument, with a factor of 5-10 improvement in sensitivity in the 100 GeV-10 TeV range and the extension to energies well below 100GeV and above 100 TeV.
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The spectral energy distribution of fermi bright blazars
A. A. Abdo,A. A. Abdo,Markus Ackermann,Ivan Agudo,Marco Ajello,Hugh D. Aller,Margo F. Aller,Emmanouil Angelakis,A. A. Arkharov,Magnus Axelsson,Magnus Axelsson,Uwe Bach,Luca Baldini,Jean Ballet,Guido Barbiellini,Denis Bastieri,B. M. Baughman,Keith Bechtol,Ronaldo Bellazzini,Erika Benítez,Andrei Berdyugin,B. Berenji,Roger Blandford,E. D. Bloom,Markus Boettcher,Emanuele Bonamente,A. W. Borgland,Johan Bregeon,A. Brez,M. Brigida,P. Bruel,T. H. Burnett,David N. Burrows,S. Buson,G. A. Caliandro,L. Calzoletti,R. A. Cameron,M. Capalbi,P. A. Caraveo,D. Carosati,J. M. Casandjian,E. Cavazzuti,C. Cecchi,Omer Celik,Omer Celik,E. Charles,Sylvain Chaty,A. Chekhtman,A. Chekhtman,Wen Ping Chen,James Chiang,G. Chincarini,Stefano Ciprini,R. Claus,Johann Cohen-Tanugi,S. Colafrancesco,L. R. Cominsky,Jan Conrad,Jan Conrad,L. Costamante,S. Cutini,F. D'Ammando,R. Deitrick,V. D'Elia,Charles D. Dermer,A. De Angelis,F. de Palma,Seth Digel,I. Donnarumma,E. Do Couto E Silva,Persis S. Drell,R. Dubois,Deborah Dultzin,D. Dumora,A. D. Falcone,C. Farnier,C. Favuzzi,S. J. Fegan,W. B. Focke,E. Forné,P. Fortin,Marco Frailis,Lars Fuhrmann,Yasushi Fukazawa,Stefan Funk,P. Fusco,José L. Gómez,F. Gargano,Dario Gasparrini,Neil Gehrels,S. Germani,B. Giebels,Nicola Giglietto,Paolo Giommi,F. Giordano,A. Giuliani,T. Glanzman,G. Godfrey,I. A. Grenier,Caryl Gronwall,J. E. Grove,L. Guillemot,L. Guillemot,Sylvain Guiriec,Mark Gurwell,D. Hadasch,Y. Hanabata,Alice K. Harding,M. Hayashida,E. Hays,S. E. Healey,Jochen Heidt,David Hiriart,D. Horan,E. A. Hoversten,R. E. Hughes,Ryosuke Itoh,Miranda Jackson,Miranda Jackson,Gudlaugur Johannesson,A. S. Johnson,W. N. Johnson,Svetlana G. Jorstad,Matthias Kadler,T. Kamae,Hideaki Katagiri,Jun Kataoka,Nobuyuki Kawai,J. A. Kennea,Matthew Kerr,Givi N. Kimeridze,Jürgen Knödlseder,M. L. Kocian,E. N. Kopatskaya,Ekaterina Koptelova,Tatiana S. Konstantinova,Yuri Y. Kovalev,Yu. A. Kovalev,Omar M. Kurtanidze,M. Kuss,J. Lande,Valeri M. Larionov,Luca Latronico,Paolo Leto,Elina Lindfors,Francesco Longo,F. Loparco,Benoit Lott,M. N. Lovellette,P. Lubrano,Grzegorz Madejski,A. Makeev,A. Makeev,P. Marchegiani,Alan P. Marscher,F. E. Marshall,Walter Max-Moerbeck,M. N. Mazziotta,W. McConville,W. McConville,Julie McEnery,Julie McEnery,C. Meurer,Peter F. Michelson,W. Mitthumsiri,Tsunefumi Mizuno,A. A. Moiseev,A. A. Moiseev,C. Monte,M. E. Monzani,A. Morselli,Igor V. Moskalenko,S. Murgia,I. Nestoras,K. Nilsson,N. A. Nizhelsky,P. L. Nolan,J. P. Norris,E. Nuss,T. Ohsugi,Roopesh Ojha,Nicola Omodei,E. Orlando,Jonathan F. Ormes,J. P. Osborne,M. Ozaki,L. Pacciani,Paolo Padovani,C. Pagani,K. L. Page,David Paneque,J. H. Panetta,D. Parent,M. Pasanen,Vasiliki Pavlidou,V. Pelassa,M. Pepe,M. Perri,Melissa Pesce-Rollins,S. Piranomonte,F. Piron,C. Pittori,T. A. Porter,Simonetta Puccetti,Farid Rahoui,S. Rainò,C. M. Raiteri,Robert R. Rando,M. Razzano,A. Reimer,A. Reimer,Olaf Reimer,Olaf Reimer,T. Reposeur,Joseph L. Richards,Steven Ritz,L.S. Rochester,A. Y. Rodriguez,Roger W. Romani,J. A. Ros,M. Roth,P. Roustazadeh,Felix Ryde,Felix Ryde,H. F.W. Sadrozinski,A. C. Sadun,David Sánchez,A. Sander,P. M. Saz Parkinson,Jeffrey D. Scargle,A. Sellerholm,Carmelo Sgrò,M. S. Shaw,Lorand A. Sigua,E. J. Siskind,David A. Smith,P. D. Smith,Gloria Spandre,P. Spinelli,Jean-Luc Starck,Mark Stevenson,G. Stratta,M. S. Strickman,D. J. Suson,H. Tajima,Hiromitsu Takahashi,Tadayuki Takahashi,L. O. Takalo,Takaaki Tanaka,J. B. Thayer,J. G. Thayer,D. J. Thompson,L. Tibaldo,Diego F. Torres,Gino Tosti,A. Tramacere,A. Tramacere,Yasunobu Uchiyama,T. L. Usher,V. Vasileiou,V. Vasileiou,F. Verrecchia,N. Vilchez,M. Villata,V. Vitale,A. P. Waite,Paul J. Wang,Brian L Winer,K. S. Wood,T. Ylinen,T. Ylinen,J. A. Zensus,G. V. Zhekanis,M. Ziegler +273 more
Abstract: We have conducted a detailed investigation of the broadband spectral properties of the gamma-ray selected blazars of the Fermi LAT Bright AGN Sample (LBAS). By combining our accurately estimated Fermi gamma-ray spectra with Swift, radio, infra-red, optical, and other hard X-ray/gamma-ray data, collected within 3 months of the LBAS data taking period, we were able to assemble high-quality and quasi-simultaneous spectral energy distributions (SED) for 48 LBAS blazars. The SED of these gamma-ray sources is similar to that of blazars discovered at other wavelengths, clearly showing, in the usual log nu-log nu F-nu representation, the typical broadband spectral signatures normally attributed to a combination of low-energy synchrotron radiation followed by inverse Compton emission of one or more components. We have used these SED to characterize the peak intensity of both the low-and the high-energy components. The results have been used to derive empirical relationships that estimate the position of the two peaks from the broadband colors (i.e., the radio to optical, alpha(ro), and optical to X-ray, alpha(ox), spectral slopes) and from the gamma-ray spectral index. Our data show that the synchrotron peak frequency (nu(S)(peak)) is positioned between 10(12.5) and 10(14.5) Hz in broad-lined flat spectrum radio quasars (FSRQs) and between 10(13) and 10(17) Hz in featureless BL Lacertae objects. We find that the gamma-ray spectral slope is strongly correlated with the synchrotron peak energy and with the X-ray spectral index, as expected at first order in synchrotron-inverse Compton scenarios. However, simple homogeneous, one-zone, synchrotron self-Compton (SSC) models cannot explain most of our SED, especially in the case of FSRQs and low energy peaked (LBL) BL Lacs. More complex models involving external Compton radiation or multiple SSC components are required to reproduce the overall SED and the observed spectral variability. While more than 50% of known radio bright high energy peaked (HBL) BL Lacs are detected in the LBAS sample, only less than 13% of known bright FSRQs and LBL BL Lacs are included. This suggests that the latter sources, as a class, may be much fainter gamma-ray emitters than LBAS blazars, and could in fact radiate close to the expectations of simple SSC models. We categorized all our sources according to a new physical classification scheme based on the generally accepted paradigm for Active Galactic Nuclei and on the results of this SED study. Since the LAT detector is more sensitive to flat spectrum gamma-ray sources, the correlation between nu(S)(peak) and gamma-ray spectral index strongly favors the detection of high energy peaked blazars, thus explaining the Fermi overabundance of this type of sources compared to radio and EGRET samples. This selection effect is similar to that experienced in the soft X-ray band where HBL BL Lacs are the dominant type of blazars.
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Introducing the CTA concept
B. S. Acharya,Marcos Daniel Actis,T. Aghajani,G. Agnetta,Juanan Aguilar,Felix Aharonian,Marco Ajello,A. G. Akhperjanian,Miguel Alcubierre,Jelena Aleksić,Ruben Alfaro,E. Aliu,Alice Allafort,D. Allan,Ingomar Allekotte,Elena Amato,James A. Anderson,E. O. Angüner,Louis Antonelli,P. Antoranz,A. Aravantinos,T. C. Arlen,T. Armstrong,H. Arnaldi,Luisa Arrabito,Katsuaki Asano,Terry Ashton,Hernán Asorey,Y. Awane,H. Baba,Ana Babić,N. Baby,J. Bähr,Alkiviadis F. Bais,C. Baixeras,S. Bajtlik,Matteo Balbo,Dimitris Balis,C. Balkowski,Aya Bamba,Rino Bandiera,A. S. Barber,C. Barbier,M. Barcelo,Anna Barnacka,Jürgen Barnstedt,U. De AlmeidaBarres,Juan Abel Barrio,A. Basili,S. Basso,Denis Bastieri,C. Bauer,Anton N. Baushev,J. Becerra,J. Becerra,Yvonne Becherini,Keith Bechtol,J. Becker Tjus,Volker Beckmann,W. Bednarek,B. Behera,Massimiliano Belluso,Wystan Benbow,J. Berdugo,K. Berger,F. Bernard,T. Bernardino,Konrad Bernlöhr,N. Bhat,Sauvik Bhattacharyya,Ciro Bigongiari,Adrian Biland,Sergio Billotta,T. Bird,E. Birsin,Elisabetta Bissaldi,Jonathan Biteau,M. Bitossi,S. Blake,O. Blanch Bigas,Pasquale Blasi,A. Bobkov,V. Boccone,Markus Boettcher,Leszek Bogacz,J.R. Bogart,M. Bogdan,Catherine Boisson,J. Boix Gargallo,J. Bolmont,Giovanni Bonanno,A. Bonardi,T. Bonev,Piercarlo Bonifacio,G. Bonnoli,Pol Bordas,A. W. Borgland,J. Borkowski,R. Bose,Olga Botner,A. Bottani,L. Bouchet,M. Bourgeat,C. Boutonnet,A. Bouvier,S. Brau-Nogue,Ilana M. Braun,Thomas Bretz,Michael S. Briggs,Torsten Bringmann,P. Brook,Pierre Brun,L. Brunetti,Trygve Buanes,J. H. Buckley,R. Buehler,V. Bugaev,Andrea Bulgarelli,Tomasz Bulik,G. Busetto,S. Buson,Karen Byrum,M. Cailles,R. A. Cameron,J. Camprecios,Rodolfo Canestrari,S. Cantu,M. Capalbi,P. A. Caraveo,E. Carmona,Alessandro Carosi,J. Carr,P. H. Carton,Sabrina Casanova,Sabrina Casanova,M. Casiraghi,Osvaldo Catalano,S. Cavazzani,S. Cazaux,Matteo Cerruti,E. Chabanne,P. M. Chadwick,Christophe Champion,A. W. Chen,James Chiang,L. Chiappetti,M. Chikawa,V. R. Chitnis,F. Chollet,Jiri Chudoba,M. Cieślar,A. Cillis,Johann Cohen-Tanugi,S. Colafrancesco,Pierre Colin,Josep Colomé,S. Colonges,M. Compin,P. Conconi,Vito Conforti,Valerie Connaughton,Jan Conrad,Jose Luis Contreras,Paolo De Coppi,P. Corona,D. Corti,Juan Cortina,L. Cossio,Heide Costantini,Garret Cotter,B. Courty,S. Couturier,Stefano Covino,G. Crimi,S. Criswell,Judith H. Croston,Giancarlo Cusumano,M. Dafonseca,Orjan Dale,M. K. Daniel,J. Darling,I. D. Davids,Francesco Dazzi,A. De Angelis,V. De Caprio,F. De Frondat,E. M. de Gouveia Dal Pino,I. de la Calle,G. De La Vega,R. de los Reyes Lopez,B. De Lotto,A. De Luca,J. R. T. de Mello Neto,M. de Naurois,Y. de Oliveira,E. de Oña Wilhelmi,V. de Souza,G. Decerprit,G. Decock,Christoph Deil,E. Delagnes,G. Deleglise,C. Delgado,D. della Volpe,P. Demange,G. Depaola,A. Dettlaff,A. Di Paola,F. Di Pierro,C. Díaz,J. Dick,R. Dickherber,Hugh Dickinson,V. Diez-Blanco,Seth Digel,Dinko Dimitrov,G. Disset,A. Djannati-Ataï,M. Doert,M. Dohmke,W. Domainko,D. 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Kominis,Yusuke Konno,H. Koppel,P. Korohoda,K. Kosack,G. Koss,R. Kossakowski,P. Kostka,R. Koul,Grzegorz Kowal,S. Koyama,J. Koziol,T. Krähenbühl,J. Krause,H. Krawzcynski,F. Krennrich,A. Krepps,A. Kretzschmann,R. Krobot,P. P. Krueger,P. P. Krueger,Hidetoshi Kubo,V. A. Kudryavtsev,J. Kushida,A. Kuznetsov,A. La Barbera,N. La Palombara,V. La Parola,G. La Rosa,K. Lacombe,G. Lamanna,J. Lande,D. Languignon,Jonathan S. Lapington,P. Laporte,Claudia Lavalley,T. Le Flour,A. Le Padellec,Shiu-Hang Lee,William H. Lee,M. A. De Oliveira Leigui,Damir Lelas,J.-P. Lenain,D. J. Leopold,T. Lerch,Luigi Lessio,B. Lieunard,Elina Lindfors,A. Liolios,Anna Lipniacka,H. Lockart,Thomas Lohse,Saverio Lombardi,A. Lopatin,M. López,Ruben Lopez-Coto,Alicia López-Oramas,A. Lorca,E. Lorenz,P. Lubinski,F. Lucarelli,H. Lüdecke,J. Ludwin,Pedro L. Luque-Escamilla,W. Lustermann,O. Luz,Etienne Lyard,Maria Concetta Maccarone,Thomas J. Maccarone,Grzegorz Madejski,A. S. Madhavan,M. Mahabir,Gernot Maier,Pratik Majumdar,Giuseppe Malaguti,Stavros Maltezos,A. Manalaysay,A. Mancilla,Dusan Mandat,G. Maneva,A. Mangano,P. Manigot,Karl Mannheim,I. Manthos,N. Maragos,Alexandre Marcowith,Mosè Mariotti,Martino Marisaldi,Sera Markoff,A. Marszałek,C. Martens,Josep Martí,J. M. Martin,P. Martin,German Martinez,Fernando Martinez,M. I. Martínez,A. Masserot,Apostolos Mastichiadis,A. Mathieu,Hironori Matsumoto,F. Mattana,Serena Mattiazzo,G. Maurin,Stephen Maxfield,J. Maya,Daniel Mazin,L. Mc Comb,N. A. McCubbin,I. M. McHardy,R. McKay,C. Medina,Claudio Melioli,D. Melkumyan,Sandro Mereghetti,Philipp Mertsch,Mario Meucci,J. Michałowski,P. Micolon,A. Mihailidis,Teresa Mineo,M. Minuti,Nestor Mirabal,F. Mirabel,Jose Miguel Miranda,R. Mirzoyan,Tsunefumi Mizuno,B. Moal,R. Moderski,I. Mognet,Emilio Molinari,Marco Molinaro,Teresa Montaruli,I. Monteiro,Peter L. Moore,A. Moralejo Olaizola,M. Mordalska,C. Morello,K. Mori,F. Mottez,Yassir Moudden,Emmanuel Moulin,I. Mrusek,Reshmi Mukherjee,P. Munar-Adrover,Hiroshi Muraishi,Kohta Murase,A. Murphy,Shigehiro Nagataki,Tsuguya Naito,D. Nakajima,D. Nakajima,Takeshi Nakamori,K. Nakayama,C. L. Naumann,D. Naumann,M. Naumann-Godo,P. Nayman,D. Nedbal,D. Neise,L. Nellen,Vitaly Neustroev,N. Neyroud,Luciano Nicastro,J. Nicolau-Kukliński,A. Niedźwiecki,Jacek Niemiec,Daniel Nieto,A. Nikolaidis,K. Nishijima,S. J. Nolan,R. Northrop,D. Nosek,Nina Nowak,A. Nozato,P. T. O'Brien,Yutaka Ohira,Michiko Ohishi,Stefan Ohm,Hideyuki Ohoka,T. Okuda,Akira Okumura,J. F. Olive,R. A. Ong,Reiko Orito,Matthew R. Orr,J. P. Osborne,M. Ostrowski,L. A. Otero,N. Otte,Evgeni Ovcharov,I. Oya,A. Ozieblo,L. Padilla,S. Paiano,D. Paillot,A. Paizis,S. Palanque,M. Palatka,J. Pallota,K. Panagiotidis,J. L. Panazol,David Paneque,M. Panter,Riccardo Paoletti,Alexandros Papayannis,G. Papyan,J. M. Paredes,G. Pareschi,G. Parks,J. M. Parraud,D. Parsons,M. Paz Arribas,Miroslav Pech,Giovanna Pedaletti,V. Pelassa,D. Pelat,M. Pérez,Massimo Persic,P.-O. Petrucci,B. Peyaud,A. Pichel,S. Pita,Fabio Pizzolato,L. Platos,R. Platzer,L. Pogosyan,Martin Pohl,G. Pojmanski,J. D. Ponz,William J. Potter,Juri Poutanen,Elisa Prandini,J. Prast,Robert D. Preece,F. Profeti,H. Prokoph,M. Prouza,M. Proyetti,I. Puerto-Gimenez,G. Pühlhofer,Ivica Puljak,Michael Punch,R. Pyzioł,E. J. Quel,John L. Quinn,Andreas Quirrenbach,E. Racero,P. J. Rajda,P. Ramon,Riccardo Rando,R. C. Rannot,M. Rataj,M. Raue,P. Reardon,O. Reimann,A. Reimer,Olaf Reimer,K. Reitberger,M. Renaud,S. Renner,Brian Reville,Wolfgang Rhode,Marc Ribó,M. Ribordy,Michael G. Richer,J. Rico,Jan Ridky,Frank M. Rieger,P. Ringegni,J. Ripken,P. Ristori,A. Riviere,S. Rivoire,L. Rob,U. Roeser,R. Rohlfs,G. Rojas,P. Romano,W. Romaszkan,Gustavo E. Romero,Stefan Rosén,S Rosier Lees,D. Ross,G. Rouaix,Julien Rousselle,S. Rousselle,A. C. Rovero,F. Roy,S. Royer,B. Rudak,Cameron B Rulten,M. Rupiński,Francesco Russo,Felix Ryde,B. Sacco,E. O. Saemann,A. Saggion,V. Sahakian,K. Saito,Takashi Saito,Y. Saito,N. Sakaki,R. Sakonaka,A. Salini,F. Sánchez,Miguel A. Sánchez-Conde,Alexander Varón Sandoval,Heidi Sandaker,E. Sant'Ambrogio,Andrea Santangelo,E. M. Santos,Andreu Sanuy,L. Sapozhnikov,Subir Sarkar,N. Sartore,H. Sasaki,Konstancja Satalecka,Makoto Sawada,V. Scalzotto,V. Scapin,M. Scarcioffolo,J. Schäfer,Thomas Schanz,S. Schlenstedt,Reinhard Schlickeiser,T. O. B. Schmidt,J. Schmoll,Petr Schovanek,M. Schroedter,C. Schultz,J. Schultze,André Schulz,K. M. Schure,T. Schwab,U. Schwanke,J. Schwarz,S. Schwarzburg,T. Schweizer,S. Schwemmer,A. Segreto,John H. Seiradakis,G. H. Sembroski,Karol Seweryn,Manjuli R. Sharma,M. Shayduk,R. C. Shellard,J. Shi,T. Shibata,A. Shibuya,Eleen Shum,L. Sidoli,M. Sidz,J. Sieiro,Marek Sikora,Joseph Silk,A. Sillanpää,B. B. Singh,Julian Sitarek,C. Skole,Riccardo Smareglia,A. W. Smith,David J. Smith,J. D. Smith,Nathan Smith,Dorota Sobczyńska,Helene Sol,Giuseppe Sottile,M. Sowiński,Felix Spanier,Daniele Spiga,S. Spyrou,Victor Stamatescu,Antonio Stamerra,R. L. C. Starling,Lukasz Stawarz,R. Steenkamp,C. Stegmann,S. Steiner,Nikolaos Stergioulas,R. Sternberger,Mariusz Sterzel,F. Stinzing,M. Stodulski,U. Straumann,E. Strazzeri,Luca Stringhetti,A. E. Suárez,M. Suchenek,R. Sugawara,Karl-Heinz Sulanke,S. Sun,A. D. Supanitsky,Tihomir Surić,P. Sutcliffe,J. Sykes,Michał Szanecki,Tomasz Szepieniec,Anna Szostek,Gianpiero Tagliaferri,Hiroyasu Tajima,Hiromitsu Takahashi,Keitaro Takahashi,L. O. Takalo,H. Takami,G. Talbot,Joni Tammi,Masayuki Tanaka,S. Tanaka,J. Tasan,Marco Tavani,J. P. Avernet,Luis Ángel Tejedor,I. Telezhinsky,Petar Temnikov,C. Tenzer,Yukikatsu Terada,Regis Terrier,Masahiro Teshima,Masahiro Teshima,Vincenzo Testa,D. Tezier,D. Thuermann,L. Tibaldo,L. Tibaldo,O. Tibolla,Andrea Tiengo,M. Tluczykont,C. J. Todero Peixoto,Fuyuki Tokanai,M. Tokarz,Kenji Toma,Kazufumi Torii,Merja Tornikoski,Diego F. Torres,M. Torres,Gino Tosti,Tomonori Totani,F. Toussenel,Gagik Tovmassian,Petr Travnicek,M. Trifoglio,I. Troyano,Kanaris Tsinganos,H. Ueno,K. Umehara,S. S. Upadhya,T. L. 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Zdziarski,Andreas Zech,A. Zhao,X. Zhou,K. Ziȩtara,J. Ziolkowski,P. Ziółkowski,V. Zitelli,C. Zurbach,P. Zychowski +982 more
TL;DR: The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) as discussed by the authors is a very high-energy (VHE) gamma ray observatory with an international collaboration with more than 1000 members from 27 countries in Europe, Asia, Africa and North and South America.
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Variable very high energy γ-ray emission from markarian 501
Justin Albert,E. Aliu,H. Anderhub,P. Antoranz,A. Armada,C. Baixeras,Juan Abel Barrio,H. Bartko,Denis Bastieri,Julia Becker,W. Bednarek,K. Berger,Ciro Bigongiari,Adrian Biland,R. K. Bock,R. K. Bock,Pol Bordas,Valentí Bosch-Ramon,Thomas Bretz,I. Britvitch,M. Camara,E. Carmona,Ashot Chilingarian,J. A. Coarasa,S. Commichau,Jose Luis Contreras,Juan Cortina,M. T. Costado,V. Curtef,V. Danielyan,Francesco Dazzi,A. De Angelis,C. Delgado,R. de los Reyes,B. De Lotto,E. Domingo-Santamaría,Daniela Dorner,Michele Doro,Manel Errando,Michela Fagiolini,Daniel Ferenc,Enrique Fernández,R. Firpo,Jose Flix,M. V. Fonseca,Ll. Font,M. Fuchs,Nicola Galante,R. J. García-López,M. Garczarczyk,Markus Gaug,Maria Giller,Florian Goebel,D. Hakobyan,Masaaki Hayashida,T. Hengstebeck,A. Herrero,D. Höhne,J. Hose,Dario Hrupec,C. C. Hsu,P. Jacon,T. Jogler,R. Kosyra,D. Kranich,R. Kritzer,A. Laille,Elina Lindfors,Saverio Lombardi,Francesco Longo,J. López,M. López,E. Lorenz,E. Lorenz,P. Majumdar,G. Maneva,K. Mannheim,Oriana Mansutti,Mosè Mariotti,M. I. Martínez,Daniel Mazin,C. Merck,Mario Meucci,M. Meyer,Jose Miguel Miranda,R. Mirzoyan,S. Mizobuchi,Abelardo Moralejo,Daniel Nieto,K. Nilsson,Jelena Ninkovic,E. Oña-Wilhelmi,N. Otte,N. Otte,I. Oya,David Paneque,David Paneque,M. Panniello,Riccardo Paoletti,J. M. Paredes,M. Pasanen,D. Pascoli,F. Pauss,R. Pegna,Massimo Persic,Massimo Persic,L. Peruzzo,A. Piccioli,Elisa Prandini,N. Puchades,A. Raymers,Wolfgang Rhode,Marc Ribó,J. Rico,M. Rissi,A. Robert,S. Rügamer,A. Saggion,Takashi Saito,Alvaro Sanchez,P. Sartori,V. Scalzotto,V. Scapin,R. Schmitt,T. Schweizer,M. Shayduk,M. Shayduk,K. Shinozaki,S. N. Shore,N. Sidro,A. Sillanpää,Dorota Sobczyńska,Antonio Stamerra,L. S. Stark,L. O. Takalo,Fabrizio Tavecchio,Petar Temnikov,D. Tescaro,Masahiro Teshima,Diego F. Torres,Diego F. Torres,Nicola Turini,H. Vankov,V. Vitale,Robert Wagner,Tadeusz Wibig,W. Wittek,F. Zandanel,Roberta Zanin,J. Zapatero +149 more
TL;DR: The MAGIC telescope was used to observe the blazar Markarian 501 (Mrk 501) at energies above 100 GeV from May through July 2005 as mentioned in this paper, and the high sensitivity of the instrument enabled the determination of the flux and spectrum of the source on a night-by-night basis.
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Very-High-Energy Gamma Rays from a Distant Quasar: How Transparent Is the Universe?
J. Albert,E. Aliu,H. Anderhub,L. A. Antonelli,P. Antoranz,Michael Backes,C. Baixeras,Juan Abel Barrio,H. Bartko,Denis Bastieri,J. K. Becker,W. Bednarek,K. Berger,Elisa Bernardini,Ciro Bigongiari,Adrian Biland,R. K. Bock,G. Bonnoli,P. Bordas,Valentí Bosch-Ramon,Thomas Bretz,I. Britvitch,M. Camara,E. Carmona,Ashot Chilingarian,S. Commichau,Jose Luis Contreras,Juan Cortina,M. T. Costado,Stefano Covino,V. Curtef,Francesco Dazzi,A. De Angelis,E. De Cea del Pozo,R. de los Reyes,B. De Lotto,M. De Maria,F. De Sabata,C. Delgado Mendez,Aaron Dominguez,Daniela Dorner,Michele Doro,Manel Errando,Michela Fagiolini,Daniel Ferenc,E. Fernandez,R. Firpo,M. V. Fonseca,Ll. Font,Nicola Galante,R. J. García López,M. Garczarczyk,Markus Gaug,Florian Goebel,M. Hayashida,A. Herrero,D. Höhne,J. Hose,C. C. Hsu,S. Huber,T. Jogler,T. Kneiske,D. Kranich,A. La Barbera,A. Laille,E. Leonardo,Elina Lindfors,Saverio Lombardi,Francesco Longo,M. López,E. Lorenz,P. Majumdar,G. Maneva,N. Mankuzhiyil,K. Mannheim,L. Maraschi,Mosè Mariotti,M. I. Martínez,Daniel Mazin,Mario Meucci,M. S. Meyer,Jose Miguel Miranda,R. Mirzoyan,S. Mizobuchi,Mariano Moles,Abelardo Moralejo,Daniel Nieto,K. Nilsson,Jelena Ninkovic,N. Otte,I. Oya,M. Panniello,Riccardo Paoletti,J. M. Paredes,M. Pasanen,D. Pascoli,F. Pauss,R. Pegna,Miguel A. Pérez-Torres,Massimo Persic,L. Peruzzo,A. Piccioli,Francisco Prada,Elisa Prandini,N. Puchades,A. Raymers,Wolfgang Rhode,Marc Ribó,J. Rico,M. Rissi,A. Robert,S. Rügamer,A. Saggion,Takashi Saito,M. Salvati,Miguel A. Sánchez-Conde,P. Sartori,Konstancja Satalecka,V. Scalzotto,V. Scapin,R. Schmitt,T. Schweizer,M. Shayduk,K. Shinozaki,Steven N. Shore,N. Sidro,Agnieszka Sierpowska-Bartosik,A. Sillanpää,Dorota Sobczyńska,Felix Spanier,Antonio Stamerra,L. S. Stark,L. O. Takalo,Fabrizio Tavecchio,Petar Temnikov,D. Tescaro,Masahiro Teshima,M. Tluczykont,Diego F. Torres,Nicola Turini,H. Vankov,Alessio Venturini,V. Vitale,Robert Wagner,W. Wittek,Victor Zabalza,Fabio Zandanel,Roberta Zanin,J. Zapatero +148 more
TL;DR: The atmospheric Cherenkov gamma-ray telescope MAGIC, designed for a low-energy threshold, has detected very-high-energy gamma rays from a giant flare of the distant Quasi-Stellar Radio Source 3C 279, at a distance of more than 5 billion light-years.