On August 17, 2017, the gravitational wave interferometers Advanced Ligo and Advanced Virgo recorded a signal from the merger of a binary neutron star system, a type of signal that had never been seen before. Complementing this exciting discovery, dozens of telescopes worldwide observed the sky, and...
Scientists from ECAP are largely involved in the design and construction of CTA, the Cherenkov Telescope Array, and in the preparations for data exploitation of this next-generation observatory for very-high-energy gamma-ray astronomy. Contributions range from shaping CTA’s science case and an...
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,...
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 ...
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...
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...
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 ...
Das „Schaufenster Ozean“ präsentiert von 21.4. bis 10.5. 2017 in Erlangen Unterwasser-Videos als Beitrag zum Wissenschaftsjahr 2016*17 – Meere und Ozeane Die Stadt wird farbenfroh – und nein, es ist ausnahmsweise nicht der Frühling gemeint. In Erlangen können bald leuchtende Korallen und quietschbun...
We congratulate our Post-Doc Jannik Hofestaedt to he award of first best poster presented at the XVII International Workshop on Neutrino Telescopes 2017 in Venice, Italy. With his poster ‘Event reconstruction in the KM3NeT/ORCA detector‘, Jannik presented the details of his highly performant shower ...
Like last semester, we are organizing again an observing night with the gamma-ray telescope FACT which will take place Wednesday 18.1.2017 in STRL 307. We will start at 18h and operate the telescope via internet from Erlangen. We are planning to order pizza during the evening. Full Poster
