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Autor Contreras González, José Luis |
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Antoranz Canales, Pedro ; Barrio Uña, Juan Abel ; Contreras González, José Luis ; Fonseca González, Mª Victoria ; López Moya, Marcos ; Miranda Pantoja, José Miguel ; Satalecka, Konstanzja ; Scapin, Valeria | IOP Publishing | 2014-05-10The discovery of rapidly variable Very High Energy ( VHE; E > 100 GeV). - ray emission from 4C + 21.35 ( PKS 1222+ 216) by MAGIC on 2010 June 17, triggered by the high activity detected by the Fermi Large Area Telescope ( LAT) in high energy ( [...]texto impreso
Antoranz Canales, Pedro ; Barrio Uña, Juan Abel ; Contreras González, José Luis ; Fonseca González, Mª Victoria ; López Moya, Marcos ; Miranda Pantoja, José Miguel ; Satalecka, Konstanzja ; Scapin, Valeria | EDP Sciencies | 2015-01Context: Blazars are variable sources on various timescales over a broad energy range spanning from radio to very high energy (> 100 GeV, hereafter VHE).Mrk 501 is one of the brightest blazars at TeV energies and has been extensively studied si[...]texto impreso
Antoranz Canales, Pedro ; Barrio Uña, Juan Abel ; Contreras González, José Luis ; Fonseca González, Mª Victoria ; López Moya, Marcos ; Miranda Pantoja, José Miguel ; Nievas Rosillo, Mireia ; Satalecka, Konstanzja ; Scapin, Valeria ; otros, ... | Wiley | 2016-07-01The BL Lac object 1ES 1011+496 was discovered at Very High Energy (VHE, E> 100GeV) ?-rays by MAGIC in spring 2007. Before that the source was little studied in different wavelengths. Therefore a multi-wavelength (MWL) campaign was organized in s[...]texto impreso
Barrio Uña, Juan Abel ; Bonnefoy, Simon Francois Albert ; Contreras González, José Luis ; Domínguez-Adame Acosta, Francisco ; Fidalgo, David Friedrich Carreto ; Fonseca González, Mª Victoria ; López Moya, Marcos ; Nievas Rosillo, Mireia | EDP Sciencies | 2017-07Context. PKS 1510 089 is one of only a few flat spectrum radio quasars detected in the VHE (very-high-energy, > 100 GeV) gamma-ray band. Aims. We study the broadband spectral and temporal properties of the PKS 1510 089 emission during a high ga[...]texto impreso
Antoranz Canales, Pedro ; Barrio Uña, Juan Abel ; Contreras González, José Luis ; Fonseca González, Mª Victoria ; Miranda Pantoja, José Miguel ; Nieto, Daniel | IOP Publishing | 2008-09-10We present the results of the first multiwavelength observing campaign on the high-mass X-ray binary LS I + 61 303, comprising observations at the TeV regime with the MAGIC telescope, along with X-ray observations with Chandra, and radio interfe[...]texto impreso
Antoranz Canales, Pedro ; Barrio Uña, Juan Abel ; Bonnefoy, Simon Francois Albert ; Contreras González, José Luis ; Fonseca González, Mª Victoria ; López Moya, Marcos ; Miranda Pantoja, José Miguel ; Nievas Rosillo, Mireia ; Satalecka, Konstanzja ; Scapin, Valeria ; otros, ... | American Astronomical Society | 2016-03-10We present coordinated multiwavelength observations of the bright, nearby BL Lacertae object Mrk 421 taken in 2013 January–March, involving GASP-WEBT, Swift, NuSTAR, Fermi-LAT, MAGIC, VERITAS, and other collaborations and instruments, providing [...]texto impreso
Barrio Uña, Juan Abel ; Contreras González, José Luis ; Fidalgo, David Friedrich Carreto ; Fonseca González, Mª Victoria ; Hoang, Kim Dinh ; López Moya, Marcos ; Morcuende, D. ; Peñil del Campo, Pablo ; Saha, Lab ; otros, ... | University Chicago Press | 2020-03Extreme high-frequency-peaked BL Lac objects (EHBLs) are blazars that exhibit extremely energetic synchrotron emission. They also feature nonthermal gamma-ray emission whose peak lies in the very high-energy (VHE, E > 100 GeV) range, and in som[...]texto impreso
Antoranz Canales, Pedro ; Barrio Uña, Juan Abel ; Contreras González, José Luis ; Fonseca González, Mª Victoria ; López Moya, Marcos ; Miranda Pantoja, José Miguel | IOP Publishing | 2006-02-20Recently, the Galactic center has been reported to be a source of very high energy (VHE) gamma-rays by the CANGAROO, VERITAS, and HESS experiments. The energy spectra as measured by these experiments show substantial differences. In this Letter [...]texto impreso
Antoranz Canales, Pedro ; Barrio Uña, Juan Abel ; Contreras González, José Luis ; Fonseca González, Mª Victoria ; Miranda Pantoja, José Miguel ; Nieto, Daniel | Amer Assoc Advancement Science | 2008-11-21One fundamental question about pulsars concerns the mechanism of their pulsed electromagnetic emission. Measuring the high- end region of a pulsar's spectrum would shed light on this question. By developing a new electronic trigger, we lowered t[...]texto impreso
Barrio Uña, Juan Abel ; Bonnefoy, Simon ; Contreras González, José Luis ; Domínguez Díaz, Alberto ; Fidalgo, David Friedrich Carreto ; Fonseca González, Mª Victoria ; López Moya, Marcos ; Nievas Rosillo, Mireia ; Ahnen, L.M. ; Ansoldi, S. ; otros, ... | Oxford University Press. | 2017-10Spontaneous breaking of Lorentz symmetry at energies on the order of the Planck energy or lower is predicted by many quantum gravity theories, implying non-trivial dispersion relations for the photon in vacuum. Consequently, gamma-rays of differ[...]texto impreso
Antoranz Canales, Pedro ; Barrio Uña, Juan Abel ; Contreras González, José Luis ; Fonseca González, Mª Victoria ; López Moya, Marcos ; Miranda Pantoja, José Miguel | IOP Publishing | 2006-03-10The MAGIC Cerenkov telescope has observed very high energy (VHE) gamma-ray emission from the active galactic nucleus 1ES 1959+650 during 6 hr in 2004 September and October. The observations were carried out alternating with observations of the C[...]texto impreso
Antoranz Canales, Pedro ; Barrio Uña, Juan Abel ; Contreras González, José Luis ; Fonseca González, Mª Victoria ; López Moya, Marcos ; Miranda Pantoja, José Miguel | IOP Publishing | 2007-06-20The MAGIC collaboration has observed very high energy gamma-ray emission from the AGN 1ES 2344+514. A gamma-ray signal corresponding to an 11 sigma excess and an integral flux of ( 2.38 +/- 0.30(stat) +/- 0.70(syst)) x 10(-11) cm(-2) s(-1) above[...]texto impreso
Antoranz Canales, Pedro ; Barrio Uña, Juan Abel ; Contreras González, José Luis ; Fonseca González, Mª Victoria ; López Moya, Marcos ; Miranda Pantoja, José Miguel | IOP Publishing | 2006-05-20Recently, the HESS array has reported the detection of gamma-ray emission above a few hundred GeV from eight new sources located close to the Galactic plane. The source HESS J1834 - 087 is spatially coincident with the supernova remnant G23.3 - [...]texto impreso
Antoranz Canales, Pedro ; Contreras González, José Luis ; Fonseca González, Mª Victoria ; López Moya, Marcos ; Miranda Pantoja, José Miguel | EDP Sciencies | 2007-11Aims. We searched for very high energy (VHE)gamma-ray emission from the supernova remnant Cassiopeia A. Methods. The shell-type supernova remnant Cassiopeia A was observed with the 17 m MAGIC telescope between July 2006 and January 2007 for a to[...]texto impreso
Antoranz Canales, Pedro ; Barrio Uña, Juan Abel ; Contreras González, José Luis ; Fonseca González, Mª Victoria ; López Moya, Marcos ; Miranda Pantoja, José Miguel | IOP Publishing | 2007-07-01The MAGIC telescope took data of very high energy gamma-ray emission from the blazar Markarian 421 ( Mrk 421) between 2004 November and 2005 April. We present a combined analysis of data samples recorded under different observational conditions,[...]texto impreso
Barrio Uña, Juan Abel ; Bonnefoy, S. ; Contreras González, José Luis ; Domínguez Díaz, Alberto ; Fonseca González, Mª Victoria ; Galindo, D. ; López, M. ; Nievas Rosillo, Mireia ; otros, ... | EDP Sciencies | 2017-05Context. We present the results of a multi-year monitoring campaign of the Galactic center (GC) with the MAGIC telescopes. These observations were primarily motivated by reports that a putative gas cloud (G2) would be passing in close proximity [...]texto impreso
Antoranz Canales, Pedro ; Barrio Uña, Juan Abel ; Contreras González, José Luis ; Fonseca González, Mª Victoria ; López Moya, Marcos ; Miranda Pantoja, José Miguel ; Nieto, Daniel | IOP Publishing | 2011-01-10We report new observations of the intermediate-frequency peaked BL Lacertae object 3C 66A with the MAGIC telescopes. The data sample we use were taken in 2009 December and 2010 January, and comprises 2.3 hr of good quality data in stereoscopic m[...]texto impreso
Antoranz Canales, Pedro ; Barrio Uña, Juan Abel ; Contreras González, José Luis ; Fonseca González, Mª Victoria ; López Moya, Marcos ; Miranda Pantoja, José Miguel ; Satalecka, Konstanzja ; Scapin, Valeria | IOP Publishing | 2011-11-20We report on the observation of gamma-rays above 25 GeV from the Crab pulsar (PSR B0532+ 21) using the MAGIC I telescope. Two data sets from observations during the winter period 2007/2008 and 2008/2009 are used. In order to discuss the spectral[...]texto impreso
Antoranz Canales, Pedro ; Barrio Uña, Juan Abel ; Contreras González, José Luis ; Fonseca González, Mª Victoria ; López Moya, Marcos ; Miranda Pantoja, José Miguel ; Nieto, Daniel ; Satalecka, Konstanzja ; Scapin, Valeria | EDP Sciencies | 2013-01Context. Magnetars are an extreme, highly magnetized class of isolated neutron stars whose large X-ray luminosity is believed to be driven by their high magnetic field. Aims. We study for the first time the possible very high energy gamma-ray em[...]texto impreso
Hassan, Tarek ; Rosado Vélez, Jaime ; Contreras González, José Luis | American Institut of Physics | 2017In gamma-ray astronomy, a variety of data formats and proprietary software have been traditionally used, often developed for one specific mission or experiment. Especially for ground-based imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes (IACTs), data a[...]texto impreso
Acciari, V. A. ; Bernardos, M. I. ; Colombo, E. ; Contreras González, José Luis ; Cortina, J. ; Delgado, C. ; Díaz, C. ; Fink, D. ; Mariotti, M. ; Mangano, S. ; Mirzoyan, R. ; Polo, M. ; Schweizer, T. ; Will, M. | Wiley | 2020-01Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes (IACTs) currently in operation feature large mirrors and order of 1 ns time response to signals of a few photo-electrons produced by optical photons. This means that they are ideally suited for optical in[...]texto impreso
Antoranz Canales, Pedro ; Bonnefoy, Simon Francois Albert ; Barrio Uña, Juan Abel ; Contreras González, José Luis ; Fonseca González, Mª Victoria ; López Moya, Marcos ; Miranda Pantoja, José Miguel ; Satalecka, Konstanzja ; Scapin, Valeria | IOP publishing ltd | 2014-02We present the results of stereoscopic observations of the satellite galaxy Segue 1 with the MAGIC Telescopes, carried out between 2011 and 2013. With almost 160 hours of good-quality data, this is the deepest observational campaign on any dwarf[...]texto impreso
Antoranz Canales, Pedro ; Barrio Uña, Juan Abel ; Contreras González, José Luis ; Fonseca González, Mª Victoria ; López Moya, Marcos ; Miranda Pantoja, José Miguel ; Nieto, Daniel ; Satalecka, Konstanzja ; Scapin, Valeria | Elsevier Science BV | 2012-02MAGIC is a system of two Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes located in the Canary island of La Palma. Since autumn 2009 both telescopes have been working together in stereoscopic mode, providing a significant improvement with respect to th[...]texto impreso
Barrio Uña, Juan Abel ; Contreras González, José Luis ; Domínguez-Adame Acosta, Francisco ; Fonseca González, Mª Victoria ; Fidalgo, David Friedrich Carreto ; López Moya, Marcos ; Nievas Rosillo, Mireia | Elsevier Science BV | 2017-09MAGIC, a system of two imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes, achieves its best performance under dark conditions, i.e. in absence of moonlight or twilight. Since operating the telescopes only during dark time would severely limit the duty cy[...]texto impreso
Barrio Uña, Juan Abel ; Contreras González, José Luis ; Domínguez Díaz, Alberto ; Carreto Fidalgo, David Friedrich ; Fonseca González, Victoria ; Hoang, Kim Dinh ; López Moya, Marcos ; Nievas Rosillo, Mireia ; Peñil del Campo, Pablo ; Saha, Lab | IOP publishing ltd | 2018-11-01We report on observations of the pulsar/Be star binary system PSR J2032+4127/MT91 213 in the energy range between 100 GeV and 20 TeV with the Very Energetic Radiation Imaging Telescope Array and Major Atmospheric Gamma Imaging Cherenkov telescop[...]texto impreso
Antoranz Canales, Pedro ; Barrio Uña, Juan Abel ; Contreras González, José Luis ; Fonseca González, Mª Victoria ; Miranda Pantoja, José Miguel ; Nieto, Daniel | IOP Publishing | 2009-03-01The MAGIC collaboration has recently reported the discovery of gamma-ray emission from the binary system LS I +61 degrees 303 in the TeV energy region. Here we present new observational results on this source in the energy range between 300 GeV [...]texto impreso
Antoranz Canales, Pedro ; Barrio Uña, Juan Abel ; Contreras González, José Luis ; Fonseca González, Mª Victoria ; Miranda Pantoja, José Miguel ; Scapin, Valeria | IOP Publishing | 2012-03-20We present the results of five years (2005-2009) of MAGIC observations of the BL Lac object PG 1553+113 at very high energies (VHEs; E > 100 GeV). Power-law fits of the individual years are compatible with a steady mean photon index Gamma = 4.2[...]texto impreso
Antoranz Canales, Pedro ; Barrio Uña, Juan Abel ; Contreras González, José Luis ; Fonseca González, Mª Victoria ; López Moya, Marcos ; Miranda Pantoja, José Miguel ; Nieto, Daniel ; Satalecka, Konstanzja ; Scapin, Valeria | EDP Sciences | 2012-04We use 73 h of stereoscopic data taken with the MAGIC telescopes to investigate the very high-energy (VHE) gamma-ray emission of the Crab pulsar. Our data show a highly significant pulsed signal in the energy range from 50 to 400 GeV in both the[...]texto impreso
Antoranz Canales, Pedro ; Barrio Uña, Juan Abel ; Bonnefoy, Simon Francois Albert ; Contreras González, José Luis ; Fonseca González, Mª Victoria ; López Moya, Marcos ; Miranda Pantoja, José Miguel ; Satalecka, Konstanzja ; Scapin, Valeria | Oxford University Press | 2015-07-11PG 1553+113 is a very-high-energy (VHE, E > 100 GeV) ?-ray emitter classified as a BL Lac object. Its redshift is constrained by intergalactic absorption lines in the range 0.4texto impreso
Arqueros Martínez, Fernando ; Barrio Uña, Juan Abel ; Contreras González, José Luis ; Franco Peláez, Francisco Javier ; López Moya, Marcos ; Mirabal Barrios, Néstor ; Nievas Rosillo, Mireia ; Rosado Vélez, Jaime ; Tejedor Álvarez, Luis Ángel | American Astronomical Society | 2017-05-10We perform simulations for future Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) observations of RX J1713.7?3946, a young supernova remnant (SNR) and one of the brightest sources ever discovered in very high energy (VHE) gamma rays. Special attention is paid t[...]texto impreso
The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) observatory will be one of the biggest ground-based very-high-energy (VHE) gamma-ray observatory. CTA will achieve a factor of 10 improvement in sensitivity from some tens of GeV to beyond 100 TeV with respect[...]texto impreso
Antoranz Canales, Pedro ; Barrio Uña, Juan Abel ; Contreras González, José Luis ; Fonseca González, Mª Victoria ; Miranda Pantoja, José Miguel ; Nieto, Daniel | Amer Assoc Advancement Science | 2009-07-24The accretion of matter onto a massive black hole is believed to feed the relativistic plasma jets found in many active galactic nuclei (AGN). Although some AGN accelerate particles to energies exceeding 10(12) electron volts and are bright sour[...]texto impreso
Antoranz Canales, Pedro ; Barrio Uña, Juan Abel ; Contreras González, José Luis ; Fonseca González, Mª Victoria ; López Moya, Marcos ; Miranda Pantoja, José Miguel ; Satalecka, Konstanzja ; Scapin, Valeria | EDP Sciencies | 2014-03Context. The radio galaxy IC 310 has recently been identified as a gamma-ray emitter based on observations at GeV energies with Fermi-LAT and at very high energies (VHE, E > 100 GeV) with the MAGIC telescopes. Originally classified as a head-ta[...]texto impreso
Morcuende, D. ; Rosado, J. ; Contreras González, José Luis ; Arqueros Martínez, Fernando | Elsevier Science BV | 2019-01Atmospheric fluorescence is usually neglected in the reconstruction of the signals registered by Cherenkov telescopes, both IACTs and wide-angle detector arrays. In this paper we quantify the fluorescence contribution to the total light recorded[...]texto impreso
Antoranz Canales, Pedro ; Barrio Uña, Juan Abel ; Contreras González, José Luis ; Fonseca González, Mª Victoria ; Miranda Pantoja, José Miguel ; Nieto, Daniel | EDP Sciencies | 2010-12Context. Part of the very high energy gamma-ray radiation coming from extragalactic sources is absorbed through the pair production process on the extragalactic background light photons. Extragalactic magnetic fields alter the trajectories of th[...]texto impreso
Barrio Uña, Juan Abel ; Contreras González, José Luis ; Fidalgo, David Friedrich Carreto ; Fonseca González, Mª Victoria ; Hoang, Kim Dinh ; López Moya, Marcos ; Peñil del Campo, Pablo ; Saha, Lab ; otros, ... | Elsevier B.V. | 2020-05We present the first results from very-high-energy observations of the dwarf spheroidal satellite candidate Triangulum II with the MAGIC telescopes from 62.4 h of good-quality data taken between August 2016 and August 2017. We find no gamma-ray [...]texto impreso
Barrio Uña, Juan Abel ; Bonnefoy, Simon Francois Albert ; Contreras González, José Luis ; Dominguez, A. ; Fidalgo, D. ; Fonseca González, Mª Victoria ; López, M. ; Rosillo Nievas, Mirella ; otros, ... | IOP publishing ltd | 2017-01-01Blazars are variable emitters across all wavelengths over a wide range of timescales, from months down to minutes. It is therefore essential to observe blazars simultaneously at different wavelengths, especially in the X-ray and gamma-ray bands,[...]texto impreso
Antoranz Canales, Pedro ; Barrio Uña, Juan Abel ; Contreras González, José Luis ; Fonseca González, Mª Victoria ; Miranda Pantoja, José Miguel ; Nieto, Daniel | IOP Publishing | 2010-02-10The MAGIC collaboration has searched for high-energy gamma-ray emission of some of the most promising pulsar candidates above an energy threshold of 50 GeV, an energy not reachable up to now by other ground-based instruments. Neither pulsed nor [...]texto impreso
Antoranz Canales, Pedro ; Barrio Uña, Juan Abel ; Contreras González, José Luis ; Fonseca González, Mª Victoria ; Miranda Pantoja, José Miguel ; Nieto, Daniel | IOP Publishing | 2011-07-01The acceleration of particles up to GeV or higher energies in microquasars has been the subject of considerable theoretical and observational efforts in the past few years. Sco X-1 is a microquasar from which evidence of highly energetic particl[...]texto impreso
Barrio Uña, Juan Abel ; Bonnoli, G. ; Contreras González, José Luis ; Domínguez-Adame Acosta, Francisco ; Carreto Fidalgo, David Friedrich ; Fonseca González, Mª Victoria ; López Moya, Marcos ; Nilsson, K. K. | Wiley | 2017-12The microquasar Cygnus X-1 displays the two typical soft and hard X-ray states of a black hole transient. During the latter, Cygnus X-1 shows a one-sided relativistic radio-jet. Recent detection of the system in the high energy (HE; E greater th[...]texto impreso
Antoranz Canales, Pedro ; Barrio Uña, Juan Abel ; Contreras González, José Luis ; Fonseca González, Mª Victoria ; López Moya, Marcos ; Miranda Pantoja, José Miguel ; Satalecka, Konstanzja ; Scapin, Valeria | Wiley | 2014-05The bright gamma-ray quasar 4C +55.17 is a distant source (z = 0.896) with a hard spectrum at GeV energies as observed by the Large Area Telescope (LAT) on board the Fermi satellite. This source is identified as a good source candidate for very [...]texto impreso
Antoranz Canales, Pedro ; Barrio Uña, Juan Abel ; Bonnefoy, Simon Francois Albert ; Contreras González, José Luis ; Fonseca González, Mª Victoria ; López Moya, Marcos ; Miranda Pantoja, José Miguel ; Nievas Rosillo, Mireia | EDP Sciencies | 2016-07The Geminga pulsar, one of the brighest gamma-ray sources, is a promising candidate for emission of very-high-energy (VHE > 100 GeV) pulsed gamma rays. Also, detection of a large nebula have been claimed by water Cherenkov instruments. We perfo[...]texto impreso
Antoranz Canales, Pedro ; Barrio Uña, Juan Abel ; Contreras González, José Luis ; Fonseca González, Mª Victoria ; Miranda Pantoja, José Miguel ; Nieto, Daniel | IOP Publishing | 2009-09-01Based on MAGIC observations from 2007 June to July, we have obtained an integral upper limit to the VHE energy emission of the globular cluster M13 of F (E > 200 GeV) 140 GeV[...]texto impreso
Antoranz Canales, Pedro ; Barrio Uña, Juan Abel ; Contreras González, José Luis ; Fonseca González, Mª Victoria ; López Moya, Marcos ; Miranda Pantoja, José Miguel ; Scapin, Valeria | IOP publishing ltd | 2011-06We report the results of the observation of the nearly satellite galaxy Segue 1 performed by the MAGIC-I ground-based gamma-ray telescope between November 2008 and March 2009 for a total of 43.2 hours. No significant gamma-ray emission was found[...]texto impreso
Antoranz Canales, Pedro ; Barrio Uña, Juan Abel ; Contreras González, José Luis ; Fonseca González, Mª Victoria ; Miranda Pantoja, José Miguel ; Nieto, Daniel | EDP Sciencies | 2010-06The blazar PG 1553+113 is a well known TeV gamma-ray emitter. In this paper we determine its spectral energy distribution through simultaneous multi-frequency data to study its emission processes. An extensive campaign was carried out between Ma[...]texto impreso
Antoranz Canales, Pedro ; Contreras González, José Luis ; Fonseca González, Mª Victoria ; Miranda Pantoja, José Miguel ; Nieto, Daniel | IOP Publishing | 2009-11-10We present results of the multiwavelength campaign on the TeV blazar Mkn 501 performed in 2006 July, including MAGIC for the very-high-energy (VHE) gamma-ray band and Suzaku for the X-ray band. A VHE gamma-ray signal was clearly detected with an[...]texto impreso
Antoranz Canales, Pedro ; Barrio Uña, Juan Abel ; Contreras González, José Luis ; Fonseca González, Mª Victoria ; Miranda Pantoja, José Miguel ; Nieto, Daniel | IOP Publishing | 2009-09We report on the results of two coordinated multiwavelength campaigns that focused on the blazar Markarian 421 during its 2006 and 2008 outbursts. These campaigns obtained UV and X-ray data using the XMM-Newton satellite, while the gamma-ray dat[...]texto impreso
Antoranz Canales, Pedro ; Barrio Uña, Juan Abel ; Contreras González, José Luis ; Fonseca González, Mª Victoria ; López Moya, Marcos ; Miranda Pantoja, José Miguel ; Nieto, Daniel | IOP Publishing | 2008-06-01We present the results from a multiwavelength campaign on the TeV blazar 1ES 1959+650, performed in 2006 May. Data from the optical, UV, soft- and hard-X-ray, and very high energy (VHE) gamma-ray ( E > 100 GeV) bands were obtained with the Suza[...]texto impreso
Antoranz Canales, Pedro ; Barrio Uña, Juan Abel ; Contreras González, José Luis ; Fonseca González, Mª Victoria ; Miranda Pantoja, José Miguel ; Nieto, Daniel | IOP Publishing | 2011-02-01The very high energy (VHE; E > 100 GeV) blazar Markarian 501 (Mrk 501) has a well-studied history of extreme spectral variability and is an excellent laboratory for studying the physical processes within the jets of active galactic nuclei. Howe[...]texto impreso
Barrio Uña, Juan Abel ; Contreras González, José Luis ; Domínguez Díaz, Alberto ; Fidalgo, David Friedrich Carreto ; López Moya, Marcos ; Nievas Rosillo, Mireia ; otros, ... | EDP Sciencies | 2020-01-30Aims. The aim of this study is to search for evidence of a common emission engine between radio giant pulses (GPs) and very-high-energy (VHE, E& x2004;> & x2004;100 GeV) gamma-rays from the Crab pulsar. Methods. We performed 16 h of simultaneou[...]texto impreso
Servillat, Mathieu ; Boisson, Catherine ; Lefaucheur, Julien ; Bregeon, Johan ; Sanguillon, Michele ; Contreras González, José Luis | Astronomical Soc Pacific | 2019The landscape of ground-based gamma-ray astronomy is changing drastically with the perspective of the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) composed of more than 100 Cherenkov telescopes. For the first time in this energy domain, CTA will be operated [...]texto impreso
Barrio Uña, Juan Abel ; Contreras González, José Luis ; Domínguez Díaz, Alberto ; Fidalgo, David Friedrich Carreto ; Fonseca González, Mª Victoria ; Hoang, Kim Dinh ; Nievas Rosillo, Mireia ; Peñil del Campo, Pablo ; Saha, Lab ; otros, ... | EDP Sciencies | 2020-05-21Context. Markarian 501 (Mrk 501) is a very high-energy (VHE) gamma-ray blazar located at z=0.034, which is regularly monitored by a wide range of multi-wavelength instruments, from radio to VHE gamma rays. During a period of almost two weeks in [...]texto impreso
Antoranz Canales, Pedro ; Barrio Uña, Juan Abel ; Contreras González, José Luis ; Fonseca González, Mª Victoria ; López Moya, Marcos ; Miranda Pantoja, José Miguel ; Nievas Rosillo, Mireia ; Satalecka, Konstanzja ; otros, ... | EDP Sciencies | 2016-07Context. The gamma-ray binary LS I +61º303 is a well-established source from centimeter radio up to very high energy (VHE; E > 100 GeV). The broadband emission shows a periodicity of ?26.5 days, coincident with the orbital period. A longer (sup[...]texto impreso
Antoranz Canales, Pedro ; Barrio Uña, Juan Abel ; Contreras González, José Luis ; Fonseca González, Mª Victoria ; Miranda Pantoja, José Miguel ; Nieto, Daniel | Astronomical Soc Japan | 2009Suzaku observations of the blazar OJ 287 were performed in 2007 April 10-13 and November 7-9. They correspond to a quiescent and a flaring state, respectively. The X-ray spectra of the source can be well-described with single power-law models in[...]texto impreso
Antoranz Canales, Pedro ; Barrio Uña, Juan Abel ; Contreras González, José Luis ; Fonseca González, Mª Victoria ; López Moya, Marcos ; Miranda Pantoja, José Miguel ; Nieto, Daniel | IOP Publishing | 2008-07-10All but three (M87, BL Lac, and 3C 279) extragalactic sources detected so far at very high energy gamma-rays belong to the class of high-frequency-peaked BL Lac objects. This suggested to us a systematic scan of candidate sources with the MAGIC [...]texto impreso
Antoranz Canales, Pedro ; Barrio Uña, Juan Abel ; Contreras González, José Luis ; Fonseca González, Mª Victoria ; López Moya, Marcos ; Miranda Pantoja, José Miguel ; Nievas Rosillo, Mireia ; Satalecka, Konstanzja ; Scapin, Valeria ; otros, ... | EDP Sciencies | 2016-01Aims. We investigate the extension of the very high-energy spectral tail of the Crab Pulsar at energies above 400?GeV. Methods. We analyzed ~320 h of good-quality Crab data obtained with the MAGIC telescope from February 2007 to April 2014. Resu[...]texto impreso
Barrio Uña, Juan Abel ; Contreras González, José Luis ; Fidalgo, David Friedrich Carreto ; Fonseca González, Mª Victoria ; Hoang, Kim Dinh ; López Moya, Marcos ; Morcuende, D. ; Peñil del Campo, Pablo ; Saha, Lab | Wiley | 2019-12Extreme high-energy-peaked BL Lac objects (EHBLs) are an emerging class of blazars. Their typical two-hump-structured spectral energy distribution (SED) peaks at higher energies with respect to conventional blazars. Multiwavelength (MWL) observa[...]texto impreso
Barrio Uña, Juan Abel ; Contreras González, José Luis ; Fonseca González, Mª Victoria ; Hoang, Kim Dinh ; López Moya, Marcos ; Miener, Tjark ; Morcuende, D. ; Peñil del Campo, Pablo ; Saha, Lab ; Nievas Rosillo, Mireia ; otros, ... | EDP Sciencies | 2020-08-28Context. It has become evident that one-zone synchrotron self-Compton models are not always adequate for very high-energy (VHE) gamma-ray-emitting blazars. While two-component models perform better, they are difficult to constrain due to the lar[...]texto impreso
Antoranz Canales, Pedro ; Barrio Uña, Juan Abel ; Contreras González, José Luis ; Fonseca González, Mª Victoria ; López Moya, Marcos ; Miranda Pantoja, José Miguel ; Satalecka, Konstanzja ; Scapin, Valeria | EDP Sciencies | 2015-04Aims. We perform an extensive characterization of the broadband emission of Mrk 421, as well as its temporal evolution, during the non-flaring (low) state. The high brightness and nearby location (z=0.031) of Mrk 421 make it an excellent laborat[...]texto impreso
Barrio Uña, Juan Abel ; Contreras González, José Luis ; Domínguez Díaz, Alberto ; Carreto Fidalgo, David Friedrich ; Fonseca González, Victoria ; Hoang, Kim Dinh ; López Moya, Marcos ; Nievas Rosillo, Mireia ; Peñil del Campo, Pablo ; Saha, Lab | IOP publishing ltd | 2018-08-10A neutrino with energy similar to 290 TeV, IceCube-170922A, was detected in coincidence with the BL Lac object TXS. 0506+056 during enhanced gamma-ray activity, with chance coincidence being rejected at similar to 3 sigma level. We monitored the[...]texto impreso
Barrio Uña, Juan Abel ; Contreras González, José Luis ; Domínguez Díaz, Alberto ; Carreto Fidalgo, David Friedrich ; Fonseca González, Victoria ; Hoang, Kim Dinh ; López Moya, Marcos ; Nievas Rosillo, Mireia ; Peñil del Campo, Pablo ; Saha, Lab ; otros, ... | Oxford Univ Press | 2018-10The Major Atmospheric Gamma-ray Imaging Cherenkov (MAGIC) telescopes observed S2 0109+22 in 2015 July during its flaring activity in high-energy gamma-rays observed by Fermi-Large Area Telescope. We analyse the MAGIC data to characterize the ver[...]texto impreso
Antoranz Canales, Pedro ; Barrio Uña, Juan Abel ; Contreras González, José Luis ; Fonseca González, Mª Victoria ; López Moya, Marcos ; Miranda Pantoja, José Miguel ; Nieto, Daniel | Elsevier Science BV | 2008-05-15The MAGIC telescope has been designed for the observation of Cherenkov light generated in Extensive Air Showers initiated by cosmic particles. However, its 17m diameter mirror and optical design makes the telescope suitable for direct optical ob[...]texto impreso
Today the scientific community is facing an increasing complexity of the scientific projects, from both a technological and a management point of view. The reason for this is in the advance of science itself, where new experiments with unprecede[...]texto impreso
Barrio Uña, Juan Abel ; Contreras González, José Luis ; Fidalgo, David Friedrich Carreto ; Fonseca González, Mª Victoria ; Hoang, Kim Dinh ; López Moya, Marcos ; Miranda Pantoja, José Miguel ; Morcuende, D. ; Nievas Rosillo, Mireia ; Peñil del Campo, Pablo ; Saha, Lab ; otros, ... | American Astronomical Society | 2020-02-20We report on variability and correlation studies using multiwavelength observations of the blazar Mrk 421 during the month of 2010 February, when an extraordinary flare reaching a level of similar to 27 Crab Units above 1 TeV was measured in ver[...]texto impreso
Antoranz Canales, Pedro ; Barrio Uña, Juan Abel ; Contreras González, José Luis ; Fonseca González, Mª Victoria ; Miranda Pantoja, José Miguel ; Nieto, Daniel | IOP Publishing | 2009-01-20We present optical, X-ray, high-energy ((sic) 30 GeV) and very high energy ((sic) 100 GeV; VHE) observations of the high-frequency peaked blazar Mrk 421 taken between 2008 May 24 and June 23. A high-energy gamma-ray signal was detected by AGILE [...]texto impreso
Barrio Uña, Juan Abel ; Contreras González, José Luis ; López Moya, Marcos ; Miranda Pantoja, José Miguel ; Tejedor Álvarez, Luis Ángel | SPIE-Int. Soc. Optical Engineering | 2014The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) project aims to implement the world’s largest next generation of Very High Energy gamma-ray Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes devoted to the observation from a few tens of GeV to more than 100 TeV. To v[...]texto impreso
Antoranz Canales, Pedro ; Barrio Uña, Juan Abel ; Contreras González, José Luis ; Fonseca González, Mª Victoria ; López Moya, Marcos ; Miranda Pantoja, José Miguel ; Satalecka, Konstanzja ; Scapin, Valeria ; otros, ... | Elsevier Science BV | 2016-01The MAGIC telescopes are two Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes (IACTs) located on the Canary island of La Palma. The telescopes are designed to measure Cherenkov light from air showers initiated by gamma rays in the energy regime from aro[...]texto impreso
Arqueros Martínez, Fernando ; Rosado Vélez, Jaime ; Morcuende Parrilla, Daniel ; Contreras González, José Luis | IOP publishing ltd | 2019Cherenkov telescopes are also sensitive to the atmospheric fluorescence produced by the extensive air showers. However this contribution is neglected by the reconstruction algorithms of imaging air Cherenkov telescopes IACTs and wide-angle Chere[...]texto impreso
Antoranz Canales, Pedro ; Barrio Uña, Juan Abel ; Contreras González, José Luis ; Fonseca González, Mª Victoria ; López Moya, Marcos ; Miranda Pantoja, José Miguel ; Nieto, Daniel ; Satalecka, Konstanzja ; Scapin, Valeria | EDP Sciencies | 2013-08Context. BL Lacertae objects are variable at all energy bands on time scales down to minutes. To construct and interpret their spectral energy distribution (SED), simultaneous broad-band observations are mandatory. Up to now, the number of objec[...]texto impreso
The analysis and combination of data from different gamma-ray instruments involves the use of collaboration proprietary software and case-by-case methods. The effort of defining a common data format for high-level data, namely event lists and in[...]texto impreso
Antoranz Canales, Pedro ; Barrio Uña, Juan Abel ; Contreras González, José Luis ; Fonseca González, Mª Victoria ; López Moya, Marcos ; Miranda Pantoja, José Miguel ; Nieto, Daniel | Elsevier Science BV | 2007-12-21The paper describes the different methods, used in the MAGIC experiment, to unfold experimental energy distributions of cosmic ray particles (gamma-rays). Questions and problems related to the unfolding are discussed. Various procedures are prop[...]texto impreso
Antoranz Canales, Pedro ; Barrio Uña, Juan Abel ; Contreras González, José Luis ; Fonseca González, Mª Victoria ; López Moya, Marcos ; Miranda Pantoja, José Miguel ; Satalecka, Konstanzja ; Scapin, Valeria | EDP Sciencies | 2015-06Context. Because of its proximity, Mrk 421 is one of the best sources on which to study the nature of BL Lac objects. Its proximity allows us to characterize its broadband spectral energy distribution (SED). Aims. The goal is to better understan[...]texto impreso
Barrio Uña, Juan Abel ; Contreras González, José Luis ; Fonseca González, Mª Victoria ; Hoang, Kim Dinh ; López Moya, Marcos ; Miener, Tjark ; Morcuende, D. ; Peñil del Campo, Pablo ; Saha, Lab ; otros, ... | University Chicago Press | 2020-06We report on a multiband variability and correlation study of the TeV blazar Mrk 421 during an exceptional flaring activity observed from 2013 April 11 to 19. The study uses, among others, data from GLAST-AGILE Support Program (GASP) of the Whol[...]texto impreso
Antoranz Canales, Pedro ; Barrio Uña, Juan Abel ; Contreras González, José Luis ; Fonseca González, Mª Victoria ; López Moya, Marcos ; Miranda Pantoja, José Miguel ; Nieto, Daniel | UNIV CHICAGO PRESS | 2008-05-20The nearby dwarf spheroidal galaxy Draco, with its high mass to light ratio, is one of the most auspicious targets for indirect dark matter (DM) searches. Annihilation of hypothetical DM particles can result in high-energy gamma-rays, e. g., fro[...]texto impreso
Antoranz Canales, Pedro ; Barrio Uña, Juan Abel ; Contreras González, José Luis ; Fonseca González, Mª Victoria ; Miranda Pantoja, José Miguel ; Nieto, Daniel | IOP Publishing | 2009-06-01We present the result of the observation of the ultrafaint dwarf galaxy Willman 1 performed with the 17 m MAGIC telescope during 15.5 hr between March and May 2008. No significant gamma-ray emission was found. We derived upper limits of the orde[...]texto impreso
Antoranz Canales, Pedro ; Barrio Uña, Juan Abel ; Contreras González, José Luis ; Fonseca González, Mª Victoria ; López Moya, Marcos ; Miranda Pantoja, José Miguel ; Nieto, Daniel | IOP Publishing | 2007-11-10The blazar Mrk 501 was observed at energies above 0.10 TeV with the MAGIC Telescope from 2005 May through July. The high sensitivity of the instrument enabled the determination of the flux and spectrum of the source on a night-by-night basis. Th[...]texto impreso
Antoranz Canales, Pedro ; Barrio Uña, Juan Abel ; Contreras González, José Luis ; Fonseca González, Mª Victoria ; López Moya, Marcos ; Miranda Pantoja, José Miguel | Amer Assoc Advancement Science | 2006-06-23Microquasars are binary star systems with relativistic radio-emitting jets. They are potential sources of cosmic rays and can be used to elucidate the physics of relativistic jets. We report the detection of variable gamma-ray emission above 100[...]texto impreso
Antoranz Canales, Pedro ; Barrio Uña, Juan Abel ; Bonnefoy, Simon Francois Albert ; Contreras González, José Luis ; Fonseca González, Mª Victoria ; López Moya, Marcos ; Miranda Pantoja, José Miguel ; Nievas Rosillo, Miguel ; Satalecka, Konstanzja ; otros, ... | IOP Publishing | 2015-12-20The flat-spectrum radio quasar PKS 1441+25 at a redshift of z = 0.940 is detected between 40 and 250 GeV with a significance of 25.5? using the MAGIC telescopes. Together with the gravitationally lensed blazar QSO B0218 +357 (z = 0.944), PKS 144[...]texto impreso
Barrio Uña, Juan Abel ; Bonnefoy, Simon Francois Albert ; Contreras González, José Luis ; Dominguez, A. ; Fidalgo, D. ; Fonseca González, Mª Victoria ; López, M. ; Nievas Rosillo, Mireia | IOP publishing ltd | 2016-11We describe and report the status of a neutrino-triggered program in IceCube that generates real-time alerts for gamma-ray follow-up observations by atmospheric-Cherenkov telescopes (MAGIC and VERITAS). While IceCube is capable of monitoring the[...]texto impreso
Antoranz Canales, Pedro ; Barrio Uña, Juan Abel ; Contreras González, José Luis ; Fonseca González, Mª Victoria ; López Moya, Marcos ; Miranda Pantoja, José Miguel ; Satalecka, Konstanzja ; Scapin, Valeria | EDP Sciencies | 2013-04Context. On March 28, 2011, the BAT instrument on board the Swift satellite detected a new transient event that in the very beginning was classified as a gamma ray burst (GRB). However, the unusual X-ray flaring activity observed from a few hour[...]texto impreso
Antoranz Canales, Pedro ; Barrio Uña, Juan Abel ; Contreras González, José Luis ; Fonseca González, Mª Victoria ; López Moya, Marcos ; Miranda Pantoja, José Miguel ; Nievas Rosillo, Mireia ; Satalecka, Konstanzja ; Scapin, Valeria ; otros, ... | EDP Sciencies | 2015-10Context. In the last five years the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) instrument detected GeV ?-ray emission from five novae. The GeV emission can be interpreted in terms of an inverse Compton process of electrons accelerated in a shock. In this [...]texto impreso
Antoranz Canales, Pedro ; Barrio Uña, Juan Abel ; Contreras González, José Luis ; Fonseca González, Mª Victoria ; Miranda Pantoja, José Miguel ; Nieto, Daniel | IOP Publishing | 2008-09-20M87 is the only known nonblazar radio galaxy to emit very high energy (VHE) gamma rays. During a monitoring program of M87, a rapid flare in VHE gamma-rays was detected by the MAGIC telescope in early 2008. The flux was found to be variable abov[...]texto impreso
Antoranz Canales, Pedro ; Barrio Uña, Juan Abel ; Bonnefoy, Simon Francois Albert ; Contreras González, José Luis ; Dominguez, A. ; Fidalgo, D. ; Fonseca González, Mª Victoria ; López Moya, Marcos ; Miranda Pantoja, José Miguel ; Nievas Rosillo, Mireia | EDP Sciencies | 2017-06Context. In this work we present data from observations with the MAGIC telescopes of SN 2014J detected in January 21 2014, the closest Type Ia supernova since Imaging Air Cherenkov Telescopes started to operate. Aims. We probe the possibility of[...]texto impreso
Antoranz Canales, Pedro ; Barrio Uña, Juan Abel ; Contreras González, José Luis ; Fonseca González, Mª Victoria ; López Moya, Marcos ; Miranda Pantoja, José Miguel ; Nieto, Daniel | IOP Publishing | 2007-08-10We report on the results from the observations in the very high energy band ( VHE; GeV) of the black E = 100 g hole X- ray binary ( BHXB) Cygnus X- 1. The observations were performed with the MAGIC telescope, for a total of 40 hr during 26 night[...]texto impreso
Antoranz Canales, Pedro ; Barrio Uña, Juan Abel ; Contreras González, José Luis ; Fonseca González, Mª Victoria ; Miranda Pantoja, José Miguel ; Nieto, Daniel | Amer Assoc Advancement Science | 2008-06-27The atmospheric Cherenkov gamma- ray telescope MAGIC, designed for a low- energy threshold, has detected very- high- energy gamma rays from a giant flare of the distant Quasi- Stellar Radio Source ( in short: radio quasar) 3C 279, at a distance [...]texto impreso
Barrio Uña, Juan Abel ; Bonnefoy, Simon Francois Albert ; Contreras González, José Luis ; Carreto Fidalgo, David Friedrich ; Fonseca González, Mª Victoria ; López Moya, Marcos ; Nievas Rosillo, Miguel ; Satalecka, Konstanzja ; ..., otros | IOP Publishing | 2015-12-20The flat-spectrum radio quasar PKS 1441+25 at a redshift of z = 0.940 is detected between 40 and 250 GeV with a significance of 25.5? using the MAGIC telescopes. Together with the gravitationally lensed blazar QSO B0218+357 (z = 0.944), PKS 1441[...]texto impreso
Antoranz Canales, Pedro ; Barrio Uña, Juan Abel ; Contreras González, José Luis ; Fonseca González, Mª Victoria ; López Moya, Marcos ; Miranda Pantoja, José Miguel ; Nieto, Daniel | IOP Publishing | 2008-02-20We report about very high energy (VHE) gamma-ray observations of the Crab Nebula with the MAGIC telescope. The gamma-ray flux from the nebula was measured between 60 GeV and 9 TeV. The energy spectrum can be described by a curved power law dF/dE[...]