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most citedThe major upgrade of the MAGIC telescopes, Part II: A performance study using observations of the Crab Nebula

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astro-ph.HE2026

Constraints on the VHE counterpart of two binary black hole mergers observed by the MAGIC and CTAO LST-1 telescopes

K. Abe, S. Abe, J. Abhir +358

We present very-high-energy gamma-ray observations of two binary black hole merger candidates, GW240615_113620 and GW241125_010116, performed with the Major Atmospheric Gamma Imagi…

astro-ph.HE2025

Constraints on the Population of Common Sources of Gravitational Waves and High-Energy Neutrinos with IceCube During the Third Observing Run of the LIGO and Virgo Detectors

Doğa Veske, Zsuzsa Márka, Albert Zhang

The discovery of joint sources of high-energy neutrinos and gravitational waves has been a primary target for the LIGO, Virgo, KAGRA, and IceCube observatories. The joint detection…

astro-ph.HE2025

The very high energy view of gamma-ray bursts with the MAGIC telescopes

Alessio Berti, Željka Bošnjak, Alberto Castro-Tirado +22

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are one of the main targets for the observations of the MAGIC telescopes. As a result of the effort in improving the sensitivity of the instrument and the a…

astro-ph.HE2025

Probing neutrino emission at GeV energies from compact binary mergers detected during O1-O4a with the IceCube Neutrino Observatory

Karlijn Kruiswijk, Mathieu Lamoureux, Matthias Vereecken +1

Compact binary mergers, detected in gravitational waves since 2015, are candidate sources for astrophysical neutrinos in the GeV regime from proton-proton and proton-neutron collis…

astro-ph.HE2025

Measurement of the Three-Flavor Composition of Astrophysical Neutrinos with Contained IceCube Events

Aswathi Balagopal V., Vedant Basu, Albrecht Karle

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory at the South Pole detects neutrinos from the entire sky, both of astrophysical and atmospheric origin, via the Cherenkov light emitted when these n…

astro-ph.HE2025

Results from IceCube Follow-up of Nearby Supernova SN2023ixf

Alicia Mand, Justin Vandenbroucke, Jessie Thwaites +2

Core-collapse supernovae are of particular interest in multi-messenger astronomy due to their potential to accelerate cosmic rays and produce high-energy neutrinos. One such supern…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 2 cited

Measurement of the Diffuse Astrophysical Neutrino Spectrum above a TeV with All Flavor Starting Events in IceCube

Vedant Basu, Aswathi Balagopal V., Albrecht Karle

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory utilizes the Cherenkov radiation emitted by charged secondary particles produced in interactions of neutrinos with ice nucleons to detect neutrino…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 3 cited

Constraints on VHE gamma-ray emission of Flat Spectrum Radio Quasars with the MAGIC telescopes

MAGIC Collaboration

Flat spectrum radio quasars (FSRQs) constitute a class of jetted active galaxies characterized by a very luminous accretion disk, prominent and rapidly moving line-emitting cloud s…

astro-ph.HE2023

Detection of the 2021 Outburst of RS Ophiuchi with the LST-1

Yukiho Kobayashi, Arnau Aguasca-Cabot, María Isabel Bernardos Martín +2

Novae are luminous explosions in close binaries which host a white dwarf and a companion donor star. They are triggered by a thermonuclear runaway when the white dwarf accretes a c…

astro-ph.HE2023

Chasing Gravitational Waves with the Cherenkov Telescope Array

Jarred Gershon Green, Alessandro Carosi, Lara Nava +563

The detection of gravitational waves from a binary neutron star merger by Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo (GW170817), along with the discovery of the electromagnetic counterparts…

astro-ph.HE2023

Variability studies of active galactic nuclei from the long-term monitoring program with the Cherenkov Telescope Array

Guillaume Grolleron, Josefa Becerra González, Jonathan Biteau +13

Blazars are active galactic nuclei (AGN) with a relativistic jet oriented toward the observer. This jet is composed of accelerated particles which can display emission over the ent…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 2 cited

Performance of the Large-Sized Telescope prototype of the Cherenkov Telescope Array

Daniel Morcuende, Rubén López-Coto, Abelardo Moralejo +2

The next-generation ground-based gamma-ray Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO) will consist of imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes (IACTs) of three different sizes di…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 2 cited

LST-1 observations of an enormous flare of BL Lacertae in 2021

Seiya Nozaki, Katsuaki Asano, Juan Escudero +2

The first prototype of LST (LST-1) for the Cherenkov Telescope Array has been in commissioning phase since 2018 and already started scientific observations with the low energy thre…

astro-ph.HE2023

Dark matter searches in dwarf spheroidal galaxies with the Cherenkov Telescope Array

Francesco Gabriele Saturni, Michele Doro, Aldo Morselli +1

Dark matter (DM) is one of the major components in the Universe. However, at present its existence is still only inferred through indirect astronomical observations. DM particles c…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 5 cited

Physics Performance of the Large-Sized Telescope prototype of the Cherenkov Telescope Array

R. López-Coto, A. Moralejo, M. Artero +15

The Large-Sized Telescope (LST) prototype of the future Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is located at the Northern site of CTA, on the Canary Island of La Palma. It is designed to…

astro-ph.HE2017

MAGIC Contributions to the 35th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC2017)

MAGIC Collaboration, M. L. Ahnen, S. Ansoldi +143

MAGIC (Major Atmospheric Gamma Imaging Cherenkov) is a system of two 17 m diameter, F/1.03 Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes (IACT). They are dedicated to the observation of…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 14 cited

Search for very-high-energy gamma-ray emission from the microquasar Cygnus X-1 with the MAGIC telescopes

MAGIC Collaboration, M. L. Ahnen, S. Ansoldi +144

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. Re…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 67 cited

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

M. L. Ahnen, S. Ansoldi, L. A. Antonelli +290

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 inc…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 22 cited

Insights into the emission of the blazar 1ES 1011+496 through unprecedented broadband observations during 2011 and 2012

J. Aleksić, S. Ansoldi, L. A. Antonelli +161

1ES 1011+496 was discovered in very high energy (VHE, E >100 GeV) -rays with MAGIC in 2007. The absence of simultaneous data at lower energies led to a rather incomp…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 57 cited

MAGIC observations of the February 2014 flare of 1ES 1011+496 and ensuing constraint of the EBL density

M. L. Ahnen, S. Ansoldi, L. A. Antonelli +144

In 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>100GeV). The flux reached…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 119 cited

Measurement of the Crab Nebula spectrum over three decades in energy with the MAGIC telescopes

MAGIC Collaboration, J. Aleksić, S. Ansoldi +150

The MAGIC stereoscopic system collected 69 hours of Crab Nebula data between October 2009 and April 2011. Analysis of this data sample using the latest improvements in the MAGIC st…