H.E.S.S. (High Energy Stereoscopic System) is a hybrid array of five Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes observing the very high energy gamma-ray sky. In the past decade, this experiment has significantly […]
Fast radio bursts are millisecond-duration radio beacons from a so-far unidentified class of extragalactic sources first discovered about a decade ago. Their inferred distances, and therefore radio burst energies, challenge […]
Atmospheric leptons receive steady interest from several scientific communities. At low and intermediate energies, atmospheric neutrinos are the signal for studies of fundamental neutrino properties and at high energies, they […]
The ECAP will participate in the "Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften" on October 21. For more information, see the corresponding website of the Department Physik: click here.
The Gaia Mission - Overview, First Results, and future prospects The astrometric satellite Gaia was launched in December 2019. After a comprehensive commissioning phase Gaia began its nominal scientific measurements […]
The Astrophysics of BH-BH/NS-NS Mergers with LIGO/Virgo I will discuss the astrophysical importance of the recent LIGO/Virgo direct detections of gravitational-waves. Despite majority of the expectations, it was not neutron […]
The gravitational wave detection of a binary neutron star merger: expectations, surprises, and prospects On August 17, 2017, Advanced LIGO & Virgo detected gravitational waves from a binary neutron star […]
A new era in multi-messenger astronomy With the recent discoveries of gravitational waves and high-energy cosmic neutrinos, we are witnessing the beginning of a new era in Multi-Messenger astronomy. The […]
Overview of Athena and the Wide Field Imager The Advanced Telescope for High-Energy Astrophysics will be ESA's next large X-ray observatory. While the launch date (2028) seems far, the community […]
SVOM - Space-based multiband astronomical Variable Objects Monitor The Chinese-French space mission SVOM (Space-based multi-band astronomical Variable Objects Monitor) is mainly designed to detect and localize Gamma-Ray Burst events (GRBs). […]
