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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 ; 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[...]