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OATS-DAUT SEMINAR
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Speaker: Massimo Persic (INAF/Oss. Astr. Trieste)

Title: Very-high-energy gamma-ray astrophysics with MAGIC:
recent achievements and beyond


Date: Wednesday, November 29th, 2007
Time: 12:00 noon
Venue: Villa Bazzoni

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Abstract:
MAGIC, the world's largest single-dish imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescope, is in its second year of operation. I will highlight several issues of TeV astrophysics, both Galactic and extragalactic, that MAGIC has been addressing: e.g., the acceleration of galactic cosmic rays, the emission from microquasars and millisecond pulsars, the physics of relativistic jets, the measurement of the extragalactic background light, the nature of dark matter, tests of quantum gravity. The growing ability of addressing these issues, made possible by the rapidly evolving Cherenkov technique, signals the coming of age of TeV astrophysics.
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