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O. C. de Jager
Researcher at North-West University
Publications - 202
Citations - 19471
O. C. de Jager is an academic researcher from North-West University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Pulsar & High Energy Stereoscopic System. The author has an hindex of 69, co-authored 202 publications receiving 18640 citations. Previous affiliations of O. C. de Jager include Collège de France & National Research Foundation of South Africa.
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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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An Exceptional Very High Energy Gamma-Ray Flare of PKS 2155-304
Felix Aharonian,A. G. Akhperjanian,A. R. Bazer-Bachi,M. Beilicke,Wystan Benbow,David Berge,Konrad Bernlöhr,Catherine Boisson,O. Bolz,V. Borrel,Ilana M. Braun,E. Brion,A. M. Brown,Rolf Bühler,I. Büsching,Timothé Boutelier,Svenja Carrigan,P. M. Chadwick,L.-M. Chounet,G. Coignet,R. Cornils,Luigi Costamante,B. Degrange,Hugh Dickinson,A. Djannati-Ataï,L. O'Connor-Drury,Guillaume Dubus,Kathrin Egberts,Dimitrios Emmanoulopoulos,P. Espigat,C. Farnier,F. Feinstein,E. Ferrero,A. Fiasson,G. Fontaine,Seb. Funk,M. Fuling,Y. A. Gallant,B. Giebels,J.F. Glicenstein,B. Glück,P. Goret,C. Hadjichristidis,D. Hauser,M. Hauser,G. Heinzelmann,Gilles Henri,German Hermann,Jim Hinton,A. Hoffmann,Werner Hofmann,M. Holleran,S. Hoppe,Dieter Horns,A. Jacholkowska,O. C. de Jager,Eckhard Kendziorra,M. Kerschhaggl,B. Khélifi,Nu. Komin,K. Kosack,G. Lamanna,I. J. Latham,R. Le Gallou,Anne Lemiere,M. Lemoine-Goumard,Thomas Lohse,Jean Michel Martin,Olivier Martineau-Huynh,A. Marcowith,Conor Masterson,Gilles Maurin,T. J. L. McComb,Emmanuel Moulin,M. de Naurois,D. Nedbal,S. J. Nolan,A. Noutsos,J.-P. Olive,K. J. Orford,J. L. Osborne,M. Panter,Guy Pelletier,P.-O. Petrucci,S. Pita,G. Pühlhofer,Michael Punch,S. Ranchon,B. C. Raubenheimer,M. Raue,S. M. Rayner,A. Reimer,Olaf Reimer,J. Ripken,L. Rob,L. Rolland,S. Rosier-Lees,Gavin Rowell,V. Sahakian,Andrea Santangelo,L. Saugé,S. Schlenker,Reinhard Schlickeiser,R. Schröder,U. Schwanke,S. Schwarzburg,S. Schwemmer,A. Shalchi,Helene Sol,D. Spangler,Felix Spanier,R. Steenkamp,C. Stegmann,G. Superina,P. H. Tam,J. P. Tavernet,Regis Terrier,M. Tluczykont,C. van Eldik,G. Vasileiadis,Christo Venter,J. P. Vialle,P. Vincent,Heinrich J. Völk,Stefan Wagner,Martin Ward +125 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the average flux observed during an extreme gamma-ray outburst is I(>200 GeV) = (1.72$\pm$$0.05_{\rm stat}
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Observations of the Crab nebula with HESS
Felix Aharonian,A. G. Akhperjanian,A. R. Bazer-Bachi,M. Beilicke,Wystan Benbow,David Berge,Konrad Bernlöhr,Catherine Boisson,O. Bolz,V. Borrel,Ilana M. Braun,F. Breitling,A. M. Brown,Rolf Bühler,I. Büsching,Svenja Carrigan,P. M. Chadwick,L.-M. Chounet,R. Cornils,Luigi Costamante,B. Degrange,Hugh Dickinson,A. Djannati-Ataï,L. O'c. Drury,Guillaume Dubus,Kathrin Egberts,Dimitrios Emmanoulopoulos,P. Espigat,F. Feinstein,E. Ferrero,A. Fiasson,G. Fontaine,Seb. Funk,Stefan Funk,Y. A. Gallant,B. Giebels,J.F. Glicenstein,P. Goret,C. Hadjichristidis,D. Hauser,M. Hauser,G. Heinzelmann,Gilles Henri,German Hermann,Jim Hinton,Werner Hofmann,M. Holleran,Dieter Horns,A. Jacholkowska,O. C. de Jager,B. Khélifi,Nu. Komin,A. Konopelko,Karl Kosack,I. J. Latham,R. Le Gallou,Anne Lemiere,M. Lemoine-Goumard,Thomas Lohse,Jean Michel Martin,Olivier Martineau-Huynh,A. Marcowith,Conor Masterson,T. J. L. McComb,M. de Naurois,D. Nedbal,S. J. Nolan,A. Noutsos,K. J. Orford,J. L. Osborne,M. Ouchrif,M. Panter,G. Pelletier,S. Pita,G. Pühlhofer,Michael Punch,B. C. Raubenheimer,M. Raue,S. M. Rayner,A. Reimer,Olaf Reimer,J. Ripken,L. Rob,L. Rolland,Gavin Rowell,V. Sahakian,L. Saugé,S. Schlenker,Reinhard Schlickeiser,U. Schwanke,Helene Sol,D. Spangler,Felix Spanier,R. Steenkamp,C. Stegmann,G. Superina,J.-P. Tavernet,Regis Terrier,C. G. Théoret,M. Tluczykont,C. van Eldik,G. Vasileiadis,Christo Venter,P. Vincent,Heinrich J. Völk,S. J. Wagnern,Martin Ward +106 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the Crab nebula was observed with the H.E.S. stereoscopic Cherenkov-telescope array between 2003 and 2005 for a total of 22.9 hours (after data quality selection).
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Energy Spectrum of Cosmic-Ray Electrons at TeV Energies
Felix Aharonian,A. G. Akhperjanian,U. Barres de Almeida,A. R. Bazer-Bachi,Yvonne Becherini,B. Behera,Wystan Benbow,Konrad Bernlöhr,Catherine Boisson,A. Bochow,V. Borrel,Ilana M. Braun,E. Brion,J. Brucker,Pierre Brun,Rolf Bühler,Tomasz Bulik,I. Büsching,Timothé Boutelier,Svenja Carrigan,P. M. Chadwick,A. Charbonnier,R. C. G. Chaves,A. Cheesebrough,L.-M. Chounet,A. C. Clapson,G. Coignet,Luigi Costamante,M. Dalton,B. Degrange,Christoph Deil,Hugh Dickinson,A. Djannati-Ataï,W. Domainko,Luke O'c. Drury,Franky Dubois,Guillaume Dubus,J. Dyks,M. Dyrda,Kathrin Egberts,Dimitrios Emmanoulopoulos,P. Espigat,C. Farnier,F. Feinstein,A. Fiasson,A. Förster,G. Fontaine,M. Fussling,Stefano Gabici,Y. A. Gallant,L. Gérard,B. Giebels,J.F. Glicenstein,B. Glück,P. Goret,C. Hadjichristidis,D. Hauser,M. Hauser,S. Heinz,G. Heinzelmann,Gilles Henri,German Hermann,Jim Hinton,A. Hoffmann,Werner Hofmann,M. Holleran,S. Hoppe,Dieter Horns,A. Jacholkowska,O. C. de Jager,I. Jung,K. Katarzyński,Sarah Kaufmann,Eckhard Kendziorra,M. Kerschhaggl,Dmitry Khangulyan,B. Khélifi,D. Keogh,Nu. Komin,K. Kosack,G. Lamanna,J.-P. Lenain,Thomas Lohse,V. Marandon,Jean Michel Martin,Olivier Martineau-Huynh,A. Marcowith,David Maurin,T. J. L. McComb,C. Medina,Rafał Moderski,Emmanuel Moulin,M. Naumann-Godo,M. de Naurois,D. Nedbal,D. Nekrassov,Jacek Niemiec,S. J. Nolan,Stefan Ohm,J-F. Olive,E. D. Wilhelmi,K. J. Orford,J. L. Osborne,Michał Ostrowski,M. Panter,G. Pedaletti,G. Pelletier,P.-O. Petrucci,S. Pita,G. Pühlhofer,Michael Punch,Andreas Quirrenbach,B. C. Raubenheimer,M. Raue,S. M. Rayner,Matthieu Renaud,Frank M. Rieger,J. Ripken,L. Rob,S. Rosier-Lees,Gavin Rowell,B. Rudak,Cameron B Rulten,J. Ruppel,V. Sahakian,Andrea Santangelo,Reinhard Schlickeiser,F. M. Schöck,R. Schröder,U. Schwanke,S. Schwarzburg,S. Schwemmer,A. Shalchi,J. L. Skilton,Helene Sol,D. Spangler,L. Stawarz,R. Steenkamp,C. Stegmann,G. Superina,P. H. Tam,J. P. Tavernet,Regis Terrier,O. Tibolla,C. van Eldik,G. Vasileiadis,Christo Venter,J. P. Vialle,P. Vincent,M. Vivier,Heinrich J. Völk,Francesca Volpe,Stefan Wagner,Martin Ward,Andrzej A. Zdziarski,A. Zech +155 more
TL;DR: In this measurement, the first of this type, the High Energy Stereoscopic System is able to extend the measurement of the electron spectrum beyond the range accessible to direct measurements, finding evidence for a substantial steepening in the energy spectrum above 600 GeV compared to lower energies.
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A low level of extragalactic background light as revealed by gamma-rays from blazars.
Felix Aharonian,A. G. Akhperjanian,A. R. Bazer-Bachi,M. Beilicke,Wystan Benbow,David Berge,Konrad Bernlöhr,Konrad Bernlöhr,Catherine Boisson,O. Bolz,V. Borrel,Ilana M. Braun,F. Breitling,A. M. Brown,P. M. Chadwick,L.-M. Chounet,R. Cornils,Luigi Costamante,B. Degrange,Hugh Dickinson,A. Djannati-Ataï,L. O'c. Drury,Guillaume Dubus,Dimitrios Emmanoulopoulos,P. Espigat,F. Feinstein,G. Fontaine,Y. Fuchs,Stefan Funk,Y. A. Gallant,B. Giebels,Stefan Gillessen,J. F. Glicenstein,P. Goret,C. Hadjichristidis,D. Hauser,M. Hauser,G. Heinzelmann,Gilles Henri,G. Hermann,Jim Hinton,Werner Hofmann,M. Holleran,Dieter Horns,A. Jacholkowska,O. C. de Jager,B. Khélifi,Sven Klages,Nu. Komin,A. Konopelko,I. J. Latham,R. Le Gallou,Anne Lemiere,M. Lemoine-Goumard,N. Leroy,Thomas Lohse,Jean Michel Martin,O. Martineau-Huynh,A. Marcowith,Conor Masterson,T. J. L. McComb,M. de Naurois,S. J. Nolan,A. Noutsos,K. J. Orford,J. L. Osborne,M. Ouchrif,M. Panter,Guy Pelletier,S. Pita,G. Pühlhofer,Michael Punch,B. C. Raubenheimer,Martin Raue,J. Raux,S. M. Rayner,A. Reimer,Olaf Reimer,J. Ripken,L. Rob,L. Rolland,Gavin Rowell,V. Sahakian,L. Saugé,S. Schlenker,Reinhard Schlickeiser,C. Schuster,Ullrich Schwanke,M. Siewert,Helene Sol,D. Spangler,R. Steenkamp,C. Stegmann,J.-P. Tavernet,Regis Terrier,C. G. Théoret,M. Tluczykont,C. van Eldik,G. Vasileiadis,Christo Venter,P. Vincent,Heinrich J. Völk,Stefan Wagner +102 more
TL;DR: In this paper, an alternative approach is proposed based on the detection and identification of EBL absorption features in high-energy spectra of objects of known redshift, which provides the most stringent upper limit to date on the EBL in the Opt-NIR band, which appears significantly lower than expected from the current direct estimates and very close to the absolute lower limit represented by the integrated light of resolved galaxies.