Ultra-high-energy cosmic rays are the most energetic known messengers of the universe and can be used for testing the frontiers of physics. In particular, they are a powerful tool for searching for imprints of Lorentz invariance violation (LIV). ECAP scientist Dr. Rodrigo Guedes Lang has recently pu...
The Dr. Karl Remeis Observatory in Bamberg, which forms ECAP's astronomy research group, hosts a large collection of historical photographic plates. The lengthy digitization process of those is now finished, which finally allows astronomers to harness their contained research potential at large.
Novae are powerful eruptions on the surface of a white dwarf in a binary star system, in which a larger star and a smaller star orbit each other. A nova creates a shock wave that tears through the surrounding medium, pulling particles with it and accelerating them to extreme energies....
The German eROSITA consortium, including researchers from FAU, has released the first set of data taken by the eROSITA X-ray telescope, which can scan the entire sky in the X-ray range. Researchers across the globe can now access data from the telescope. The early data release (EDR) is accompanied b...
The analysis of observational data in gamma-ray astronomy requires specialised analysis methods and software to reach the highest possible sensitivity in the presence of the background ’noise’ of charged cosmic rays. Traditionally both the data and corresponding analysis software belonged to the col...
Call for applications Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) The Faculty of Sciences at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) invites applications for a Full Professorship (W3) for Experimental Astroparticle Physics at the Department of Physics, Erlangen Centre for...
During a week-long sea campaign, 8 — 14 April 2021, the KM3NeT Collaboration upgraded the neutrino telescope KM3NeT/ARCA to six functional detection units. The optical modules for one of the detection units, equipped with ultra-sensitive light sensors, were built at ECAP by Oleg Kalekin and hi...
In April 2019, scientists released the first image of a black hole in the galaxy M87 using the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT). However, that remarkable achievement was just the beginning of the science story to be told. Astrophysicists from ECAP contributed to this global effort. Data from 19 observa...
Gigantic hot gas structures are probably due to shock waves generated by past energetic activity Astronomers have detected a remarkable new feature in the first all-sky survey map produced by the eROSITA X-ray telescope on SRG: a huge circular structure of hot gas below the plane of the Milky Way...
The shell of the ECAP Laboratoryhas been completed. After around eleven months of construction, the invited guests celebrated the topping-out ceremony together with Bavaria’s State Secretary in the Bavarian State Ministry for Housing, Building and Transport, Klaus Holetschek and Bavaria’...
