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Título:
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Very-high-energy gamma rays from a distant quasar: how transparent is the universe?
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Autores:
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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
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Tipo de documento:
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texto impreso
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Editorial:
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Amer Assoc Advancement Science, 2008-06-27
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Dimensiones:
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application/pdf
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Nota general:
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info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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Palabras clave:
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Estado = Publicado
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Materia = Ciencias: Física: Electrónica
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Materia = Ciencias: Física: Electricidad
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Materia = Ciencias: Física: Física nuclear
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Tipo = Artículo
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Resumen:
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The 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 of more than 5 billion light- years ( a redshift of 0.536). No quasar has been observed previously in very- high- energy gamma radiation, and this is also the most distant object detected emitting gamma rays above 50 gigaelectron volts. Because high- energy gamma rays may be stopped by interacting with the diffuse background light in the universe, the observations by MAGIC imply a low amount for such light, consistent with that known from galaxy counts.
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En línea:
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https://eprints.ucm.es/id/eprint/23137/2/MirandaJM57preprint.pdf
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