Gamma rays from the Universe’s middle age: pushing Very High Energy Astrophysics boundaries with MAGIC
The search for detection of gamma-rays in the very-high-energy range (VHE, >100GeV) from distant AGNs by Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes (IACTs) gets...
The small source class of gamma-ray binaries consists at present of six known objects with different orbital periods ranging from days up to several years. One...
Gamma-ray bursts as a tool to unveil obscured star-forming galaxies
Long Gamma-Ray Bursts are flashes of high-energy radiation and are linked to the death of massive stars. I will first summarize the main aspects of GRB...
Globular clusters systems and their host dark matter halos
In the Λ-CDM galaxy formation paradigm, the star formation history of a galaxy is coupled to the total mass of its dark matter halo through processes like...
Gravitational waves: a new window onto the Universe
Over the next decade or so, the gravitational-wave window onto the Universe will be opened in four frequency bands that span 22 orders of magnitude: The high...
GRB in the High Energy and Very High Energy regime
Gamma Ray Bursts (GRBs) are among the most energetic transient phenomena frequently followed up by different observatories and yet several fundamental questions...
Ground-based, very high energy gamma-ray astronomy, a tool for exploring the ultrarelativistic Universe
The window of very high energy (VHE) gamma-ray astronomy was only opened 20 years ago by the first observation of TeV gamma-rays from the CRAB nebula. Since...
How sure are we that humans are changing the climate and how will this affect the future?
Because of the carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel burning, the Earth's atmosphere and oceans are warming through what is known as the "greenhouse effect"...