Author: Christopher van Eldik

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We congratulate our Post-Doc Jannik Hofestädt to the 2017 dissertation prize of the Global Neutrino Network! Jannik defended his thesis in February 2017 at ECAP. He receives this award in recognition of his outstanding contributions to the design and performance study for the KM3NeT / ORCA detector,...

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We congratulate our PhD student Steffen Hallmann to the award for the best poster presented at the 35th International Cosmic Ray Conference in Busan, South Korea. Steffen presented his 'Search for Neutrino Emission from the Fermi Bubbles with the ANTARES Telescope' which highlighted the most sensit...

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Also this year, the ECAP summer fair took place in splendid weather conditions. On 19th of July, the research, administrative, and technical groups of ECAP and Physics Institute came together for scientific exchanges, and discussed the latest developments in the field of astrophysics and astropartic...

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In the middle of the large Chilean Atacama desert, a team of Polish astronomers monitors millions of celestial bodies night after night with the help of a modern robotic telescope. In 2013, the team was surprised when they discovered, in the course of their survey, stars that varied much faster than...

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The die is cast: during the upcoming 3-year funding period on "Ground-based Astro- and Astroparticle Physics", scientists from the Erlangen Centre for Astroparticle Physics (ECAP) will receive more than 2 million Euros of federal funding through "Verbundforschung", a funding instrument of the German...