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Astrophysical Jet Caught in a “Speed Trap”
How Gamma Rays Track the Velocity of the Galactic Microquasar SS 433’s Jets and Uncover Highly Efficient Particle Acceleration.
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Our planet is bombarded with very energetic radiation from space and analyzing this radiation can help astronomers unveil some of the secrets space…
Astronomy Picture of the Day: telescopes explore the high-energy universe
The "Astronomy Picture of the Day" from 6 September 2023 features a short film showing gamma astronomy with the H.E.S.S. telescopes in Namibia. Over…
Massive star clusters as a source of very-high energy galactic cosmic rays
The Astrophysical Plasma Theory group at MPIK demonstrated that supernova remnant shocks interacting with collective wind outflows of massive star…
‘FestKolloquium’ in honour of Werner Hofmann and Felix Aharonian
On Dec 8th, a ‘FestKolloquium’ was held in honour of Werner Hofmann and Felix Aharonian, two giants in the field of very-high-energy astrophysics.…
20 years H.E.S.S. telescopes in Namibia
With a ceremony on 18 October and an open day the following Sunday, the H.E.S.S. collaboration celebrated the 20th anniversary of the commissioning of…
Westerlund 1: a powerful cosmic-ray accelerator
Since more than 100 years, we know that cosmic rays – charged particles – are accelerated to extremely high energies in the Milky Way, our galaxy. And…
Key milestone towards establishing the CTA Observatory
Formal request to establish the CTAO ERIC submitted
H.E.S.S. watches a nova outburst for the first time
Last August marked the first opportunity to observe a nova outburst in very-high-energy gamma rays and to follow both its growth and subsequent fading…
Tracers of cosmic ray propagation
Halos around pulsars in very-high-energy gamma rays provide decisive clues.
Very-high-energy afterglow of a gamma-ray burst challenges emission scenarios
Researchers from the H.E.S.S. Collaboration succeeded to derive the intrinsic spectrum of the very-high-energy gamma-ray afterglow emission of a…
Gammapy choosen as official Science Tools for CTA
The analysis of observational data in gamma-ray astronomy requires specialised analysis methods and software to reach the highest possible sensitivity…
Experiments watch turbulent dynamo amplifying magnetic fields
An international collaboration, co-led by the University of Oxford and University of Rochester together with the Astrophysical Plasma Theory group at…
Could Star Clusters be “PeVatrons”?
HAWC has detected cosmic gamma rays with energies up to at least 200 Teraelectron volt (TeV, 1012 eV) from the direction of the “Cygnus Cocoon”. This…
New Managing Director
At the turn of the year, Prof. Dr. Jim Hinton on a rotational basis took over the Institute management of MPIK. Deputy for the next 18 months is…
Another milestone in the search for neutrinoless double-beta decay
The GERmanium Detector Array (GERDA) experiment at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso (LNGS) of INFN, Italy, has reported its final results on…
A new scenario for particle acceleration at pulsar wind termination shocks
Large-scale numerical simulations
Are neutrinos their own antiparticles?
The final result of GERDA, presented at a virtual conference, improves the lower limit for the half-life of the neutrinoless double beta decay in…
Particle acceleration in extragalactic jets extends over thousands of light-years
An international collaboration bringing together over 200 scientists from 13 countries has shown that the very high-energy gamma-ray emission from…
New insights into the inner machinery of Eta Carinae
By which means does the extremely massive and luminous binary star Eta Carinae produce x-rays and gamma rays? In an MPIK-led study, astrophysicists…
First gamma-ray sky map with the new H.E.S.S. CT5 camera, two days after installation
The H.E.S.S. collaboration has upgraded its 600 square metre Cherenkov telescope with a new high-performance camera with fully-digital trigger and…
First detection of gamma-ray burst afterglow in very-high-energy gamma light
Gamma-ray bursts, extremely energetic flashes following cosmological cataclysms, emit very-high-energy gamma-rays long after the initial burst. This…
Eliciting an energetic secret from the Crab Nebula
The Crab Nebula is the remnant of a supernova in our Galaxy which was observed in 1054 AD. Although it corresponds to one of the most studied…
Closing in on the neutrino mass
The GERDA experiment in the Gran Sasso underground laboratory is searching for a hypothetical nuclear decay called neutrinoless double beta decay…
FlashCam-Elektronik hilft Ionenstrahltherapie zu verbessern
Bei der Ionenstrahltherapie ist es das Ziel, malignes Gewebe durch die ionisierende Wirkung von Ionenstrahlen zu zerstören. Gleichzeitig soll…
Das extreme Universum erkunden: Internationale Kollaboration für ein neues Gammastrahlen-Observatorium am Start
Am 1. Juli 2019 haben 36 Forschungsinstitute aus neun Ländern offiziell ein Abkommen unterzeichnet, mit dem sie eine neue internationale Forschungs-…
Erster Einsatz der CHEC-S-Kamera erfolgreich
Der Kameraprototyp „CHEC-S“ für die kleinen Tscherenkow-Teleskope von CTA mit Haupt- und Sekundärspiegel kam Ende April zu seinem ersten Einsatz. Nach…
Neue Forschungsgruppe „Theorie astrophysikalischer Plasmen“
Seit Anfang Mai baut Dr. Brian Reville am MPIK die neue Max-Planck-Forschungsgruppe „Theorie astrophysikalischer Plasmen (TAP)“ auf. Die Gruppe wird…