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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. Dr. Alison Mit...

ECAP postdoctoral researcher Maddalena Cataldo has been highlighted as this week's (8.11.2021) woman in physics by the German Physical Society (DPG). Her focus is on the radio detection of neutrinos with RNO-G and IceCube-Gen2. She works both in the lab for testing components of the under-constructi...

An art contest was held recently for the under-construction ECAP Laboratory building, which will host a permanent installation in or around the building. From several submissions the winner was decided by a jury as artist duo Anklam Henninger. Their work titled "Lichtgewicht" (light weight) will be ...

Like many other chairs of the faculties of Science and Engineering, the ECAP took part again in the "Girls and Technology Event" (Mädchen-und-Technik Praktikum). For one week, around 50 girls from grades 7 - 12 from schools in the surrounding area were given an insight into astronomy, astroparticle ...

We are happy to host Christian Glaser for two weeks this fall, supported by the visiting professors program of the FAU. Christian Glaser works on the radio detection of air showers and neutrinos and is visiting Prof. Dr. Anna Nelles and her group at ECAP to work on joint projects, in particular in ...

Congratulations to Alison Mitchell for winning an Emmy Noether grant from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. Her six-year project "Unveiling the Origin of Galactic Cosmic Rays: Exploring Pulsar Environments at the Highest Energies" will use H.E.S.S. and CTA to tackle this important question in two...

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...

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 his tea...

Congratulations to Manuel Meyer for winning a Starting Grant from the European Research Commission on "Searching for axion and axion-like-particle dark matter in the laboratory and with high-energy astrophysical observations". Manuel will start his group at the University of Hamburg in June 2021 and...