@article{AdrianMartinezAgeronAharonianetal.2016,
  author    = {Adri{\´a}n-Mart{\´i}nez, S. and Ageron, M. and Aharonian, F. and Aiello, S. and Albert, A. and Ameli, F. and Annasontzis, E. and Andre, M. and Androulakis, G. and Anghinolfi, M. and Anton, G. and Ardid, M. and Avgitas, T. and Barbarino, G. and Baret, B. and Barrios-Mart{\´i}, J. and Belhorma, B. and Belias, A. and Berbee, A. and van den Berg, A. and Bertin, V. and Beurthey, S. and van Beeveren, V. and Beverini, N. and Biagi, S. and Biagioni, A. and Billault, M. and Bond{\`i}, M. and Bormuth, R. and Bouhadef, B. and Bourlis, G. and Bourret, S. and Boutonnet, C. and Bouwhuis, M. and Bozza, C. and Bruijn, R. and Brunner, J. and Buis, E. and Busto, J. and Cacopardo, G. and Caillat, L. and Calmai, M. and Calvo, D. and Capone, A. and Caramete, L. and Cecchini, S. and Celli, S. and Champion, C. and Cherkaoui El Moursli, R. and Cherubini, S. and Chiarusi, T. and Circella, M. and Classen, L. and Cocimano, R. and Coelho, J. A. B. and Coleiro, A. and Colonges, S. and Coniglione, R. and Cordelli, M. and Cosquer, A. and Coyle, P. and Creusot, A. and Cuttone, G. and D'Amico, A. and De Bonis, G. and De Rosa, G. and De Sio, C. and Di Capua, F. and Di Palma, I. and D{\´i}az Garc{\´i}a, A. F. and Distefano, C. and Donzaud, C. and Dornic, D. and Dorosti-Hasankiadeh, Q. and Drakopoulou, E. and Drouhin, D. and Drury, L. and Durocher, M. and Eberl, T. and Eichie, S. and van Eijk, D. and El Bojaddaini, I. and El Khayati, N. and Elsaesser, D. and Enzenh{\"o}fer, A. and Fassi, F. and Favali, P. and Fermani, P. and Ferrara, G. and Filippidis, C. and Frascadore, G. and Fusco, L. A. and Gal, T. and Galat{\`a}, S. and Garufi, F. and Gay, P. and Gebyehu, M. and Giordano, V. and Gizani, N. and Gracia, R. and Graf, K. and Gr{\´e}goire, T. and Grella, G. and Habel, R. and Hallmann, S. and van Haren, H. and Harissopulos, S. and Heid, T. and Heijboer, A. and Heine, E. and Henry, S. and Hern{\´a}ndez-Rey, J. J. and Hevinga, M. and Hofest{\"a}dt, J. and Hugon, C. M. F. and Illuminati, G. and James, C. W. and Jansweijer, P. and Jongen, M. and de Jong, M. and Kadler, M. and Kalekin, O. and Kappes, A. and Katz, U. F. and Keller, P. and Kieft, G. and Kießling, D. and Koffeman, E. N. and Kooijman, P. and Kouchner, A. and Kulikovskiy, V. and Lahmann, R. and Lamare, P. and Leisos, A. and Leonora, E. and Lindsey Clark, M. and Liolios, A. and Llorenz Alvarez, C. D. and Lo Presti, D. and L{\"o}hner, H. and Lonardo, A. and Lotze, M. and Loucatos, S. and Maccioni, E. and Mannheim, K. and Margiotta, A. and Marinelli, A. and Mari{\c{s}}, O. and Markou, C. and Mart{\´i}nez-Mora, J. A. and Martini, A. and Mele, R. and Melis, K. W. and Michael, T. and Migliozzi, P. and Migneco, E. and Mijakowski, P. and Miraglia, A. and Mollo, C. M. and Mongelli, M. and Morganti, M. and Moussa, A. and Musico, P. and Musumeci, M. and Navas, S. and Nicoleau, C. A. and Olcina, I. and Olivetto, C. and Orlando, A. and Papaikonomou, A. and Papaleo, R. and Păvăla{\c{s}}, G. E. and Peek, H. and Pellegrino, C. and Perrina, C. and Pfutzner, M. and Piattelli, P. and Pikounis, K. and Poma, G. E. and Popa, V. and Pradier, T. and Pratolongo, F. and P{\"u}hlhofer, G. and Pulvirenti, S. and Quinn, L. and Racca, C. and Raffaelli, F. and Randazzo, N. and Rapidis, P. and Razis, P. and Real, D. and Resvanis, L. and Reubelt, J. and Riccobene, G. and Rossi, C. and Rovelli, A. and Salda{\~n}a, M. and Salvadori, I. and Samtleben, D. F. E. and S{\´a}nchez Garc{\´i}a, A. and S{\´a}nchez Losa, A. and Sanguineti, M. and Santangelo, A. and Santonocito, D. and Sapienza, P. and Schimmel, F. and Schmelling, J. and Sciacca, V. and Sedita, M. and Seitz, T. and Sgura, I. and Simeone, F. and Siotis, I. and Sipala, V. and Spisso, B. and Spurio, M. and Stavropoulos, G. and Steijger, J. and Stellacci, S. M. and Stransky, D. and Taiuti, M. and Tayalati, Y. and T{\´e}zier, D. and Theraube, S. and Thompson, L. and Timmer, P. and T{\"o}nnis, C. and Trasatti, L. and Trovato, A. and Tsirigotis, A. and Tzamarias, S. and Tzamariudaki, E. and Vallage, B. and Van Elewyk, V. and Vermeulen, J. and Vicini, P. and Viola, S. and Vivolo, D. and Volkert, M. and Voulgaris, G. and Wiggers, L. and Wilms, J. and de Wolf, E. and Zachariadou, K. and Zornoza, J. D. and Z{\´u}{\~n}iga, J.},
  title     = {Letter of intent for KM3NeT 2.0},
  series = {Journal of Physics G-Nuclear and Particle Physics},
  volume    = {43},
  journal   = {Journal of Physics G-Nuclear and Particle Physics},
  number    = {8},
  doi       = {10.1088/0954-3899/43/8/084001},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-188050},
  pages     = {84001},
  year      = {2016},
  abstract  = {The main objectives of the KM3NeT Collaboration are (i) the discovery and subsequent observation of high-energy neutrino sources in the Universe and (ii) the determination of the mass hierarchy of neutrinos. These objectives are strongly motivated by two recent important discoveries, namely: (1) the high-energy astrophysical neutrino signal reported by IceCube and (2) the sizable contribution of electron neutrinos to the third neutrino mass eigenstate as reported by Daya Bay, Reno and others. To meet these objectives, the KM3NeT Collaboration plans to build a new Research Infrastructure consisting of a network of deep-sea neutrino telescopes in the Mediterranean Sea. A phased and distributed implementation is pursued which maximises the access to regional funds, the availability of human resources and the synergistic opportunities for the Earth and sea sciences community. Three suitable deep-sea sites are selected, namely off-shore Toulon (France), Capo Passero (Sicily, Italy) and Pylos (Peloponnese, Greece). The infrastructure will consist of three so-called building blocks. A building block comprises 115 strings, each string comprises 18 optical modules and each optical module comprises 31 photo-multiplier tubes. Each building block thus constitutes a three-dimensional array of photo sensors that can be used to detect the Cherenkov light produced by relativistic particles emerging from neutrino interactions. Two building blocks will be sparsely configured to fully explore the IceCube signal with similar instrumented volume, different methodology, improved resolution and},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{GedalinDroege2013,
  author    = {Gedalin, Michael and Dr{\"o}ge, Wolfgang},
  title     = {Ion dynamics in quasi-perpendicular collisionless interplanetary shocks: a case study},
  series = {Frontiers in Physics},
  volume    = {1},
  journal   = {Frontiers in Physics},
  issn      = {2296-424X},
  doi       = {10.3389/fphy.2013.00029},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-189407},
  pages     = {29},
  year      = {2013},
  abstract  = {Interplanetary shocks are believed to play an important role in the acceleration of charged particles in the heliosphere. While the acceleration to high energies proceeds via the diffusive mechanism at the scales exceeding by far the shock width, the initial stage (injection) should occur at the shock itself. Numerical tracing of ions is done in a model quasi-perpendicular shock front with a typical interplanetary shock parameters (Mach number, upstream ion temperature). The analysis of the distribution of the transmitted solar wind is used to adjust the cross-shock potential which is not directly measured. It is found that, for typical upstream ion temperatures, acceleration of the ions from the tail of the solar wind distribution is unlikely. Pickup ions with a shell distribution are found to be effectively energized and may be injected into further diffusive acceleration regime. Pre-accelerated ions are efficiently upscaled in energies. A part of these ions is returned to the upstream region where they can further be diffusively accelerated.},
  language  = {en}
}
@phdthesis{Ganse2012,
  author    = {Ganse, Urs},
  title     = {Kinetische Simulationen solarer Typ II Radiobursts},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-73676},
  school      = {Universit{\"a}t W{\"u}rzburg},
  year      = {2012},
  abstract  = {Die Emission solarer Typ II Radiobursts ist ein seit Jahrzehnten beobachtetes Ph{\"a}nomen der heliosph{\"a}rischen Plasmaphysik. Diese Radiobursts, die im Zusammenhang mit der Propagation koronaler Schockfronten auftreten, zeigen ein charakteristisches, zweibandiges Emissionsspektrum. Mit expandierendem Schock driften sie zu niedrigeren Frequenzen. Analytische Theorien dieser Emission sagen nichtlineare Plasmawellenwechselwirkung als Ursache voraus, doch aufgrund des geringen Sonnenabstands der Emissionsregion ist die in-situ Datenlage durch Satellitenmessungen {\"a}usserst schlecht, so dass eine endg{\"u}ltige Verifikation der vorhergesagten Vorg{\"a}nge bisher nicht m{\"o}glich war. Mit Hilfe eines kinetischen Plasma-Simulationscodes nach dem Particle-in-Cell Prinzip wurde in dieser Dissertation die Plasmaumgebung in der Foreshock-Region einer koronalen Schockfront modelliert. Das Propagations- und Kopplungsverhalten elektrostatischer und elektromagnetischer Wellenmoden wurde untersucht. Die vollst{\"a}ndige r{\"a}umliche Information {\"u}ber die Wellenzusammensetzung in der Simulation erlaubt es, die Kinematik nichtlinearer Wellenkopplungen genauestens zu untersuchen. Es zeigte sich ein mit der analytischen Theorie der Drei-Wellen-Wechselwirkung konsistentes Bild der Erzeugung solarer Radiobursts: durch elektromagnetischen Zerfall elektrostatischer Moden kommt es zur Erzeugung fundamentaler, sowie durch Verschmelzung gegenpropagierender elektrostatischer Moden zur Anregung harmonischer Radioemission. Kopplungsst{\"a}rken und Winkelabh{\"a}ngigkeit dieser Prozesse wurden untersucht. Mit dem somit zur Verf{\"u}gung stehenden, numerischen Laborsystem wurde die Parameter-Abh{\"a}ngigkeit der Wellenkopplungen und entstehenden Radioemissionen bez{\"u}glich St{\"a}rke des Elektronenbeams und des solaren Abstandes untersucht.},
  subject      = {Heliosph{\"a}re},
  language  = {de}
}
@phdthesis{Lange2012,
  author    = {Lange, Sebastian},
  title     = {Turbulenz und Teilchentransport in der Heliosph{\"a}re - Simulationen von inkompressiblen MHD-Plasmen und Testteilchen -},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-74012},
  school      = {Universit{\"a}t W{\"u}rzburg},
  year      = {2012},
  abstract  = {Die Herkunft hochenergetischer solarer Teilchen konnte in den vergangenen Jahren eindeutig auf Schockbeschleunigung an koronalen Masseausw{\"u}rfen zur{\"u}ckgef{\"u}hrt werden. Durch resonante Interaktionen zwischen Wellen und Teilchen werden zum einen geladene Teilchen unter Ver{\"a}nderung ihrer Energie gestreut, zum anderen wird die Dynamik der Plasmawellen in solchen Beschleunigungsregionen durch diese Prozesse von selbstgenerierten Wellenmoden maßgeblich beeinflusst. Mittels numerischer Modellierungen wurden im Rahmen dieser Arbeit die grundlegenden physikalischen Regimes der Turbulenz und des Teilchentransports beschrieben. Die Simulation der Plasmadynamik bedient sich der Methodik der Magnetohydrodynamik, wohingegen kinetische Einzelteilchen durch die elementaren Bewegungsgleichungen der Elektrodynamik berechnet werden. Es konnten die Turbulenztheorien von Goldreich und Sridhar unter heliosph{\"a}rischen Bedingungen bei drei solaren Radien best{\"a}tigt werden. Vor allem zeigten sich Hinweise f{\"u}r das Erreichen der kritischen Balance, einem Schl{\"u}sselparameter dieser Theorien. Weiterhin werden Ergebnisse der dynamischen Entwicklung angeregter Wellenmoden pr{\"a}sentiert, in denen die Bedeutsamkeit f{\"u}r die gesamte Turbulenz gezeigt werden konnte. Als zentraler Prozess bei hohen Energien hat sich das wave-steepening herausgestellt, das als effizienter Energietransportmechanismus in paralleler Richtung zum Hintergrundmagnetfeld identifiziert wurde und somit turbulente Strukturen bei hohen parallelen Wellenzahlen erkl{\"a}rt, deren Entstehung das Goldreich-Sridhar Modell nicht beschreiben kann. Dar{\"u}ber hinaus wurden grundlegende Erkenntnisse {\"u}ber die quasilineare Theorie des Teilchentransports erzielt. Im Speziellen konnte ein tieferes Verst{\"a}ndnis f{\"u}r die Interpretation der Diffusionskoeffizienten von Welle-Teilchen Wechselwirkungen erlangt werden. Simulationen zur Streuung an angeregten Wellenmoden zeigten erstmals komplexe resonante Strukturen die im Rahmen analytischer Modelle nicht mehr ad{\"a}quat beschrieben werden k{\"o}nnen.},
  subject      = {Heliosph{\"a}re},
  language  = {de}
}
@phdthesis{Rueger2011,
  author    = {R{\"u}ger, Michael},
  title     = {Ein zeitabh{\"a}ngiges, selbstkonsistentes hadronisch-leptonisches Strahlungsmodell zur Modellierung der Multiwellenl{\"a}ngenemission von Blazaren},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-56955},
  school      = {Universit{\"a}t W{\"u}rzburg},
  year      = {2011},
  abstract  = {Diese Arbeit besch{\"a}ftigt sich mit Strahlungsprozessen in Blazaren. Bei den Blazaren handelt es sich um eine Unterkategorie der aktiven Galaxienkerne, bei denen die Jetachse in Richtung des Beobachters zeigt. Charakteristisch f{\"u}r die Blazare ist ein Multifrequenzspektrum der Photonen, welches sich vom Radiobereich bis hin zur Gamma-Strahlung mit TeV-Energien erstreckt. Insbesondere der Gamma-Bereich r{\"u}ckt aktuell in den Fokus der Betrachtung mit Experimenten wie zum Beispiel FERMI und MAGIC. Ziel dieser Arbeit ist die Modellierung der auftretenden Strahlungsprozesse und die Beschreibung der Multifrequenzspektren der Blazare mit Hilfe eines hadronisch-leptonischen Modells. Grundlage hierf{\"u}r ist ein selbstkonsistentes Synchrotron-Selbst-Compton-Modell (SSC), welches zur Beschreibung des Spektrums der Quelle 1 ES 1218+30.4 verwendet wird. Dabei wird die Parameterwahl unterst{\"u}tzt durch eine Absch{\"a}tzung der Masse des zentralen schwarzen Loches. Das hier behandelte SSC-Modell wird dahingehend untersucht, wie es sich unter Ver{\"a}nderung der Modellparameter verh{\"a}lt. Dabei werden Abh{\"a}ngigkeiten des Photonenspektrums von {\"A}nderungsfaktoren der Parameter abgeleitet. Außerdem werden diese Abh{\"a}ngigkeiten in Relation gesetzt und aus dieser Betrachtung ergibt sich die Schlussfolgerung, dass unter der Voraussetzung eines festen Spektralindex der Elektronenverteilung die Wahl eines Parametersatzes zur Modellierung eines Photonenspektrums eindeutig ist. Zur Einf{\"u}hrung eines zeitabh{\"a}ngigen, hadronischen Modells wird das SSCModell um die Anwesenheit nichtthermischer Protonen erweitert. Dadurch kann Proton-Synchrotron-Strahlung einen Beitrag im Gamma-Bereich leisten. Außerdem werden durch Proton-Photon-Wechselwirkung Pionen erzeugt. Aus deren Zerfall werden zusammen mit der Paarbildung aus Photon-Photon-Absorption sekund{\"a}re Elektronen und Positronen produziert, die wiederum zum Hochenergiespektrum beitragen. Neben den Pionen werden bei der Proton-Photon- Wechselwirkung außerdem noch Neutrinos und Neutronen erzeugt, die einen direkten Einblick in die Emissionsregion erlauben. Das hier vorgestellte hadronische Modell wird auf die Quelle 3C 279 angewandt. F{\"u}r diese Quelle reicht mit der Detektion im VHE-Bereich der SSCAnsatz nicht aus, um das Photonenspektrum zu beschreiben. Mit dem vorgelegten Modell gelingt die Beschreibung des Spektrums in den SSC-kritischen Bereichen sehr gut. Insbesondere k{\"o}nnen verschiedene Flusszust{\"a}nde modelliert und allein durch Ver{\"a}nderung der Maximalenergien von Protonen und Elektronen ineinander {\"u}berf{\"u}hrt werden. Diese einfache M{\"o}glichkeit der Modellierung der Variabilit{\"a}t der Quelle unterstreicht die Wahl des hadronischen Ansatzes. Somit wird hier ein sehr gutes Werkzeug zur Untersuchung der Emissionsprozesse in Blazaren geliefert. Dar{\"u}ber hinaus ist mit der Absch{\"a}tzung des Neutrino-Flusses zwar die Detektion von 3C 279 als Punktquelle mit IceCube unwahrscheinlich, jedoch liefert das Modell generell die M{\"o}glichkeit im Kontext des Multimessenger-Ansatzes Antworten zu liefern. Im gleichen Kontext wird auch der Beitrag zur kosmischen Strahlung durch entweichende Neutronen untersucht.},
  subject      = {Blazar},
  language  = {de}
}
@phdthesis{HoehneMoench2010,
  author    = {H{\"o}hne-M{\"o}nch, Daniel},
  title     = {Steady-state emission of blazars at very high energies},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-53700},
  school      = {Universit{\"a}t W{\"u}rzburg},
  year      = {2010},
  abstract  = {One key scientific program of the MAGIC telescope project is the discovery and detection of blazars. They constitute the most prominent extragalactic source class in the very high energy (VHE) Gamma-ray regime with 29 out of 34 known objects (as of April 2010). Therefore a major part of the available observation time was spent in the last years on high-frequency peaked blazars. The selection criteria were chosen to increase the detection probability. As the X-ray flux is believed to be correlated to the VHE Gamma-ray flux, only X-ray selected sources with a flux F(X) > 2 μJy at 1 keV were considered. To avoid strong attenuation of the Gamma-rays in the extragalactic infrared background, the redshift was restricted to values between z < 0.15 and z < 0.4, depending on the declination of the objects. The latter determines the zenith distance during culmination which should not exceed 30° (for z < 0.4) and 45° (for z < 0.15), respectively. Between August 2005 and April 2009, a sample of 24 X-ray selected high-frequency peaked blazars has been observed with the MAGIC telescope. Three of them were detected including 1ES 1218+304 being the first high-frequency peaked BL Lacertae object (HBL) to be discovered with MAGIC in VHE Gamma-rays. One previously detected object was not confirmed as VHE emitter in this campaign by MAGIC. A set of 20 blazars previously not detected will be treated more closely in this work. In this campaign, during almost four years ~ 450 hrs or ~ 22\% of the available observation time for extragalactic objects were dedicated to investigate the baseline emission of blazars and their broadband spectral properties in this emission state. For the sample of 20 objects in a redshift range of 0.018 < z < 0.361 integral flux upper limits in the VHE range on the 99.7\% confidence level (corresponding to 3 standard deviations) were calculated resulting in values between 2.9\% and 14.7\% of the integral flux of the Crab Nebula. As the distribution of significances of the individual objects shows a clear shift to positive values, a stacking method was applied to the sample. For the whole set of 20 objects, an excess of Gamma-rays was found with a significance of 4.5 standard deviations in 349.5 hours of effective exposure time. For the first time a signal stacking in the VHE regime turned out to be successful. The measured integral flux from the cumulative signal corresponds to 1.4\% of the Crab Nebula flux above 150 GeV with a spectral index α = -3.15±0.57. None of the objects showed any significant variability during the observation time and therefore the detected signal can be interpreted as the baseline emission of these objects. For the individual objects lower limits on the broad-band spectral indices αX-Gamma between the X-ray range at 1 keV and the VHE Gamma-ray regime at 200 GeV were calculated. The majority of objects show a spectral behaviour as expected from the source class of HBLs: The energy output in the VHE regime is in general lower than in X-rays. For the stacked blazar sample the broad-band spectral index was calculated to αX-Gamma = 1.09, confirming the result found for the individual objects. Another evidence for the revelation of the baseline emission is the broad-band spectral energy distribution (SED) comprising archival as well as contemporaneous multi-wavelength data from the radio to the VHE band. The SEDs of known VHE Gamma-ray sources in low flux states matches well the SED of the stacked blazar sample.},
  subject      = {MAGIC-Teleskop},
  language  = {en}
}
@phdthesis{Elsaesser2011,
  author    = {Els{\"a}sser, Dominik Martin},
  title     = {Indirect Search for Dark Matter in the Universe - the Multiwavelength and Multiobject Approach},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-69464},
  school      = {Universit{\"a}t W{\"u}rzburg},
  year      = {2011},
  abstract  = {Dunkle Materie ist ein zentraler Bestandteil der modernen Kosmologie, und damit von entscheidender Bedeutung f{\"u}r unser Verst{\"a}ndnis der Strukturbildung im Universum. Das offensichtliche Fehlen von elektromagnetischer Wechselwirkung in Kombination mit unabh{\"a}ngigen Messungen der Energiedichte der baryonischen Materie {\"u}ber die H{\"a}ufigkeit der primordialen leichten Elemente weisen auf eine nicht-baryonische Natur der Dunklen Materie hin. Die Wirkung der Dunklen Materie bei der Strukturbildung zeigt weiterhin dass ihre Konstituenten kalt sind, also zum Zeitpunkt des Gleichgewichts zwischen Strahlung und Materie eine Temperatur kleine als ihre Ruhemasse aufwiesen. Generische Kandidaten f{\"u}r das Dunkelmaterie-Teilchen sind stabile, schwach wechselwirkende Teilchen mit Ruhemassen von der Gr{\"o}ßenordnung der Skala der elektroschwachen Symmetriebrechung, wie sie zum Beispiel in der Supersymmetrie bei erhaltener R-Parit{\"a}t vorkommen. Derartige Teilchen frieren auf nat{\"u}rliche Weise im fr{\"u}hen Universum mit kosmologisch relevanten Reliktdichten aus. Die fortschreitende Strukturbildung im Universum f{\"u}hrt dann zur Bildung von {\"u}berdichten Regionen, in denen die Dunkelmaterie-Teilchen wiederum in signifikantem Ausmaß annihilieren k{\"o}nnen. Dadurch w{\"u}rde ein potentiell detektierbarer Fluß von Hochenergie-Teilchen einschließlich Photonen aus den instabilen Zwischenprodukten der Annihilationsereignisse erzeugt. Die Spektren dieser Teilchen w{\"u}rden R{\"u}ckschl{\"u}sse auf die Masse und den Annihilations-Querschnitt als wichtige Gr{\"o}ßen zur mikrophysikalischen Identifikation der Dunkelmaterie-Teilchen erlauben. Darin liegt die zentrale Motivation f{\"u}r indirekte Suchen nach der Dunklen Materie. Zum gegenw{\"a}rtigen Zeitpunkt jedoch haben weder diese indirekten Suchen, noch direkte Methoden zur Suche nach elastischen Streuereignissen zwischen Dunkelmaterie-Teilchen und Atomkernen sowie Beschleunigerexperimente einen eindeutigen Nachweis von Dunkelmaterie-Teilchen erbracht. Das an sich stellt keine {\"U}berraschung dar, denn die zu erwartenden Signale sind aufgrund der schwachen Wechselwirkung der Teilchen nur von geringer Intensit{\"a}t. Im Falle der indirekten Suchen steht zu erwarten, dass selbst f{\"u}r die gr{\"o}ßten Massekonzentrationen im Universum die St{\"a}rke des Annihilationssignals der Dunklen Materie den durch astrophysikalische Quellen verursachten Untergrund nicht {\"u}berschreitet. Die M{\"o}glichkeit der sicheren Unterscheidung zwischen einem m{\"o}glichen Signal aus der Annihilation der Dunklen Materie und eben diesem Untergrund ist daher entscheidend f{\"u}r die Erfolgsaussichten der indirekten Suchen. In der vorliegenden Arbeit wird eine neuartige Suchstrategie ausgearbeitet und vorgestellt, deren zentrale Komponente die Auswahl von Beobachtungszielen aus einem breiten Massebereich, die Kontrolle der astrophysikalischen Untergr{\"u}nde, und die Einbeziehung von Daten aus mehreren Wellenl{\"a}ngenbereichen ist. Die durchgef{\"u}hrten Beobachtungen werden vorgestellt und interpretiert. Ein Ergebnis ist, dass die Unsicherheiten in Bezug auf die Verteilung der Dunklen Materie in Halos und deren individuelle Dichtestruktur, sowie in Bezug auf die m{\"o}gliche Verst{\"a}rkung des Annihilationssignales durch Substruktur, im Falle der massearmen Halos (wie zum Beispiel bei den Zwerggalaxien) gr{\"o}ßer ist als bei massereichen Halos, wie denen der Galaxienhaufen. Andererseits weisen die massereichen Halos gr{\"o}ßere Unsicherheiten in Hinblick auf die zu erwartenden rein astrophysikalischen Untergr{\"u}nde auf. Die Unsicherheiten in Bezug auf die bisher unbekannte Teilchenphysik jenseits des Standardmodells schließlich sind unabh{\"a}ngig von der Masse der beobachteten Halos. Im Zusammenspiel erm{\"o}glichen es diese unterschiedlichen Skalierungsverhalten, die globale Unsicherheit durch eine kombinierte Analyse der Beobachtungen von Halos mit verschiedenen Massen, die einen bedeutenden Teil der Masseskala abdecken, nennenswert zu reduzieren. Diese Strategie wurde im Rahmen des wissenschaftlichen Beobachtungsprogrammes des MAGIC Teleskopsystems implementiert. Es wurden Beobachtungen von Zwerggalaxien sowie des Virgo- und des Perseus-Galaxienhaufens durchgef{\"u}hrt. Die resultierenden Grenzen auf Gammastrahlung aus der Annihilation von schwach wechselwirkenden, massereichen Teilchen geh{\"o}ren zum Zeitpunkt dieser Niederschrift zu den st{\"a}rksten Grenzen aus indirekten Suchen nach der Dunklen Materie. Die so gewonnenen Grenzen auf die Annihilations-Fl{\"u}sse schr{\"a}nken einige in der Literatur diskutierte und durch aussergew{\"o}hnlich große Annihilations-Fl{\"u}sse gekennzeichnete Szenarien stark ein.},
  subject      = {Gammastrahlung},
  language  = {en}
}
@phdthesis{Paul2010,
  author    = {Paul, Surajit},
  title     = {Evolution of shocks and turbulence in major galaxy-cluster mergers},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-47266},
  school      = {Universit{\"a}t W{\"u}rzburg},
  year      = {2010},
  abstract  = {Mergers between rich clusters of galaxies represent the most violent events in the Universe. The merger events initiate a complex chain of processes that leads to the dissipation of the collisional energy. This phase of violent relaxation is accompanied by turbulence and shock waves as well as non-thermal particle acceleration. This thesis aims at the interpretation of multi-wavelength observations of the merging cluster of galaxies Abell 3376 in the framework of a theoretical model of the involved effects. Observations with the Very Large Array radio interferometer were carried out and analyzed to clarify the morphology of the non-thermal particle distribution in Abell 3376, in particular about the shocked regions. The dissipation in the hot intra-cluster gas was studied using archival X-ray observations with ROSAT and XMM. Results were compared with constrained numerical simulations of the evolution of the merger process in the framework of cosmological structure formation. For this purpose, the ENZO-Code was employed for the computation of the gas dynamics and self-gravity of the colliding mass distribution. The non-thermal properties of the intra-cluster gas could be indirectly inferred from the local Mach number and the strength of the turbulence.},
  subject      = {Galaxienhaufen},
  language  = {en}
}
@phdthesis{Schulz2016,
  author    = {Schulz, Robert Frank},
  title     = {A radio view of high-energy emitting AGNs},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-137358},
  school      = {Universit{\"a}t W{\"u}rzburg},
  year      = {2016},
  abstract  = {The most energetic versions of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) feature two highly-relativistic plasma outflows, so-called jets, that are created in the vicinity of the central supermassive black hole and evolve in opposite directions. In blazars, which dominate the extragalactic gamma-ray sky, the jets are aligned close to the observer's line of sight leading to strong relativistic beaming effects of the jet emission. Radio observations especially using very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) provide the best way to gain direct information on the intrinsic properties of jets down to sub-parsec scales, close to their formation region. In this thesis, I focus on the properties of three AGNs, IC 310, PKS 2004-447, and 3C 111 that belong to the small non-blazar population of gamma-ray-loud AGNs. In these kinds of AGNs, the jets are less strongly aligned with respect to the observer than in blazars. I study them in detail with a variety of radio astronomical instruments with respect to their high-energy emission and in the context of the large samples in the monitoring programmes MOJAVE and TANAMI. My analysis of radio interferometric observations and flux density monitoring data reveal very different characteristics of the jet emission in these sources. The work presented in this thesis illustrates the diversity of the radio properties of gamma-ray-loud AGNs that do not belong to the dominating class of blazars.},
  subject      = {Aktiver galaktischer Kern},
  language  = {en}
}
@phdthesis{Maier2008,
  author    = {Maier, Andreas},
  title     = {Adaptively Refined Large-Eddy Simulations of Galaxy Clusters},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-32274},
  school      = {Universit{\"a}t W{\"u}rzburg},
  year      = {2008},
  abstract  = {It is aim of this work to develop, implement, and apply a new numerical scheme for modeling turbulent, multiphase astrophysical flows such as galaxy cluster cores and star forming regions. The method combines the capabilities of adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) and large-eddy simulations (LES) to capture localized features and to represent unresolved turbulence, respectively; it will be referred to as Fluid mEchanics with Adaptively Refined Large-Eddy SimulationS or FEARLESS.},
  subject      = {Turbulenz},
  language  = {en}
}
@phdthesis{Berger2009,
  author    = {Berger, Karsten},
  title     = {Discovery and Characterization of the first Low-Peaked and Intermediate-Peaked BL Lacertae Objects in the Very High Energy Gamma-Ray Regime},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-37431},
  school      = {Universit{\"a}t W{\"u}rzburg},
  year      = {2009},
  abstract  = {20 years after the discovery of the Crab Nebula as a source of very high energy gamma-rays, the number of sources newly discovered above 100 GeV using ground-based Cherenkov telescopes has considerably grown, at the time of writing of this thesis to a total of 81. The sources are of different types, including galactic sources such as supernova remnants, pulsars, binary systems, or so-far unidentified accelerators and extragalactic sources such as blazars and radio galaxies. The goal of this thesis work was to search for gamma-ray emission from a particular type of blazars previously undetected at very high gamma-ray energies, by using the MAGIC telescope. Those blazars previously detected were all of the same type, the so-called high-peaked BL Lacertae objects. The sources emit purely non-thermal emission, and exhibit a peak in their radio-to-X-ray spectral energy distribution at X-ray energies. The entire blazar population extends from these rare, low-luminosity BL Lacertae objects with peaks at X-ray energies to the much more numerous, high-luminosity infrared-peaked radio quasars. Indeed, the low-peaked sources dominate the source counts obtained from space-borne observations at gamma-ray energies up to 10 GeV. Their spectra observed at lower gamma-ray energies show power-law extensions to higher energies, although theoretical models suggest them to turn over at energies below 100 GeV. This opened the quest for MAGIC as the Cherenkov telescope with the currently lowest energy threshold. In the framework of this thesis, the search was focused on the prominent sources BL Lac, W Comae and S5 0716+714, respectively. Two of the sources were unambiguously discovered at very high energy gamma-rays with the MAGIC telescope, based on the analysis of a total of about 150 hours worth of data collected between 2005 and 2008. The analysis of this very large data set required novel techniques for treating the effects of twilight conditions on the data quality. This was successfully achieved and resulted in a vastly improved performance of the MAGIC telescope in monitoring campaigns. The detections of low-peaked and intermediate-peaked BL Lac objects are in line with theoretical expectations, but push the models based on electron shock acceleration and inverse-Compton cooling to their limits. The short variability time scales of the order of one day observed at very high energies show that the gamma-rays originate rather close to the putative supermassive black holes in the centers of blazars, corresponding to less than 1000 Schwarzschild radii when taking into account relativistic bulk motion.},
  subject      = {Aktiver galaktischer Kern},
  language  = {en}
}
@phdthesis{Glawion2014,
  author    = {Glawion, Dorit},
  title     = {Contemporaneous Multi-Wavelength Observations of the Gamma-Ray Emitting Active Galaxy IC 310 - New Clues on Particle Acceleration in Extragalactic Jets},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-113866},
  school      = {Universit{\"a}t W{\"u}rzburg},
  year      = {2014},
  abstract  = {In this thesis, the broad band emission, especially in the gamma-ray and radio band, of the active galaxy IC 310 located in the Perseus cluster of galaxies was investigated. The main experimental methods were Cherenkov astronomy using the MAGIC telescopes and high resolution very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) at radio frequencies (MOJAVE, EVN). Additionally, data of the object in different energy bands were studied and a multi-wavelength campaign has been organized and conducted. During the campaign, an exceptional bright gamma-ray flare at TeV energies was found with the MAGIC telescopes. The results were compared to theoretical acceleration and emission models for explaining the high energy radiation of active galactic nuclei. Many open questions regarding the particle acceleration to very high energies in the jets of active galactic nuclei, the particle content of the jets, or how the jets are launched, were addressed in this thesis by investigating the variability of IC 310 in the very high energy band. It is argued that IC310 was originally mis-classified as a head-tail radio galaxy. Instead, it shows a variability behavior in the radio, X-ray, and gamma-ray band similar to the one found for blazars. These are active galactic nuclei that are characterized by flux variability in all observed energy bands and at all observed time scales. They are viewed at a small angle between the jet axis and the line-of-sight. Thus, strong relativistic beaming influences the variability properties of blazars. Observations of IC 310 with the European VLBI Network helped to find limits for the angle between the jet axis and the line-of-sight, namely 10 deg - 20 deg. This places IC 310 at the borderline between radio galaxies (larger angles) and blazars (smaller angles). During the gamma-ray outburst detected at the beginning of the multi-wavelength campaign, flux variability as short as minutes was measured. The spectrum during the flare can be described by a simple power-law function over two orders of magnitude in energy up to ~10 TeV. Compared to previous observations, no significant variability of the spectral shape was found. Together with the constraint on the viewing angle, this challenges the currently accepted models for particle acceleration at shock waves in the jets. Alternative models, such as stars moving through the jets, mini-jets in the jet caused, e.g., by reconnection events, or gap acceleration in a pulsar-like magnetosphere around the black hole were investigated. It was found that only the latter can explain all observational findings, which at least suggests that it could even be worthwhile to reconsider published investigations of AGN with this new knowledge in mind. The first multi-wavelength campaign was successfully been conducted in 2012/2013, including ground-based as well as space-based telescopes in the radio, optical, ultraviolet, X-ray, and gamma-ray energy range. No pronounced variability was found after the TeV flare in any energy band. The X-ray data showed a slightly harder spectrum when the emission was brighter. The long-term radio light curve indicated a flickering flux variability, but no strong hint for a new jet component was found from VLBI images of the radio jet. In any case, further analysis of the existing multi-wavelength data as well as complimentary measurements could provide further exciting insights, e.g., about the broad band spectral energy distribution. Overall, it can be stated that IC 310 is a key object for research of active galactic nuclei in the high-energy band due to its proximity and its peculiar properties regarding flux variability and spectral behavior. Such objects are ideally suited for studying particle acceleration, jet formation, and other physical effects and models which are far from being fully understood.},
  subject      = {Aktiver galaktischer Kern},
  language  = {en}
}
@unpublished{Dandekar2021,
  author    = {Dandekar, Thomas},
  title     = {Our universe may have started by Qubit decoherence},
  doi       = {10.25972/OPUS-23918},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-239181},
  pages     = {54},
  year      = {2021},
  abstract  = {Our universe may have started by Qubit decoherence: In quantum computers, qubits have all their states undefined during calculation and become defined as output ("decoherence"). We study the transition from an uncontrolled, chaotic quantum vacuum ("before") to a clearly interacting "real world". In such a cosmology, the Big Bang singularity is replaced by a condensation event of interacting strings. This triggers a crystallization process. This avoids inflation, not fitting current observations: increasing long-range interactions limit growth and crystal symmetries ensure the same laws of nature and basic symmetries over the whole crystal. Tiny mis-arrangements provide nuclei of superclusters and galaxies and crystal structure allows arrangement of dark (halo regions) and normal matter (galaxy nuclei) for galaxy formation. Crystals come and go: an evolutionary cosmology is explored: entropic forces from the quantum soup "outside" of the crystal try to dissolve it. This corresponds to dark energy and leads to a "big rip" in 70 Gigayears. Selection for best growth and condensation events over generations of crystals favors multiple self-organizing processes within the crystal including life or even conscious observers in our universe. Philosophically this theory shows harmony with nature and replaces absurd perspectives of current cosmology. Independent of cosmology, we suggest that a "real world" (so our everyday macroscopic world) happens only inside a crystal. "Outside" there is wild quantum foam and superposition of all possibilities. In our crystallized world the vacuum no longer boils but is cooled down by the crystallization event, space-time exists and general relativity holds. Vacuum energy becomes 10**20 smaller, exactly as observed in our everyday world. We live in a "solid" state, within a crystal, the n quanta which build our world have all their different m states nicely separated. There are only nm states available for this local "multiverse". The arrow of entropy for each edge of the crystal forms one fate, one world-line or clear development of our world, while layers of the crystal are different system states. Mathematical leads from loop quantum gravity (LQG) point to required interactions and potentials. Interaction potentials for strings or loop quanta of any dimension allow a solid, decoherent state of quanta challenging to calculate. However, if we introduce here the heuristic that any type of physical interaction of strings corresponds just to a type of calculation, there is already since 1898 the Hurwitz theorem showing that then only 1D, 2D, 4D and 8D (octonions) allow complex or hypercomplex number calculations. No other hypercomplex numbers and hence dimensions or symmetries are possible to allow calculations without yielding divisions by zero. However, the richest solution allowed by the Hurwitz theorem, octonions, is actually the observed symmetry of our universe, E8. Standard physics such as condensation, crystallization and magnetization but also solid-state physics and quantum computing allow us to show an initial mathematical treatment of our new theory by LQG to describe the cosmological state transformations by equations, and, most importantly, point out routes to parametrization of free parameters looking at testable phenomena, experiments and formulas that describe processes of crystallization, protein folding, magnetization, solid-state physics and quantum computing. This is presented here for LQG, for string theory it would be more elegant but was too demanding to be shown here. Note: While my previous Opus server preprint "A new cosmology of a crystallization process (decoherence) from the surrounding quantum soup provides heuristics to unify general relativity and quantum physics by solid state physics" (https://doi.org/10.25972/OPUS-23076) deals with the same topics and basic formulas, this new version is improved: clearer in title, better introduction, more stringent in its mathematics and improved discussion of the implications including quantum computing, hints for parametrization and connections to LQG and other current cosmological efforts. This 5th of June 2021 version is again an OPUS preprint, but this will next be edited for Archives https://arxiv.org.},
  language  = {en}
}
@phdthesis{Ruegamer2012,
  author    = {R{\"u}gamer, Stefan},
  title     = {Multi-Wavelength Observations of the high-peaked BL Lacertae objects 1ES 1011+496 and 1ES 2344+514},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-77846},
  school      = {Universit{\"a}t W{\"u}rzburg},
  year      = {2012},
  abstract  = {BL Lacertae objects belong to the most luminous sources in the Universe. They represent a subclass of active galactic nuclei with a spectrum that is dominated by non-thermal emission, extending from radio wavelengths to tera electronvolt (TeV) energies. The emission is strongly variable on time scales of years down to minutes, and arises from relativistic jets pointing at small angles to the line of sight of the observer, which is the reason for naming them "blazars". Blazars are the dominant extragalactic source class in the radio, microwave and gamma-ray regime, are prime candidates for the origin of the Cosmic Rays and excellent laboratories to study black hole and jet physics as well as relativistic effects. Despite more than 20 years of observational efforts, the physical mechanisms driving their emission are not yet fully understood. So far, studies of their broad-band continuum emission were mostly concentrated on bright, flaring states. However, for a better understanding of the central engine powering the jets, the bias from flux-limited observations of the past must be overcome and their long-term average continuum spectral energy distributions (SEDs) must be determined. This work presents the first simultaneous multi-wavelength campaigns from the radio to the TeV regime of two high-frequency peaked BL Lacertae objects known to emit at TeV energies. The first source, 1ES 1011+496, was observed between February and May 2008, the second one, 1ES 2344+514, between September 2008 and February 2009. The extensive observational campaigns were organised independently from an external trigger for the presence of a flaring state. Since the duty cycle of major flux outbursts is known to be rather low, the campaigns were expected to yield SEDs representative of the long-term average emission. Central for this thesis is the analysis of data obtained with the MAGIC Cherenkov telescope, measuring energy spectra and light curves from ~0.1 to ~10 TeV. For the remaining instruments, observation time was proposed and additional data was organised by collaboration with the instrument teams by the author of this work. Such data was obtained mostly in a fully reduced state. Individual light curves are investigated as well as combined in a search for inter-band correlations. The data of both sources reveal a notable lack of a correlation between the emission at radio and optical wavelengths, indicating that the radio and short-wavelength emission arise in different regions of the jet. Quasi-simultaneous SEDs of two different flux states are observationally determined and described by a one-zone as well as a self-consistent two-zone synchrotron self-Compton model. First approaches to model the SEDs by means of a Chi2 minimisation technique are briefly discussed. The SEDs and the resulting model parameters, characterising the physical conditions in the emission regions, are compared to archival data. Though the models can describe the data well, for 1ES 1011+496 the model parameters indicate that in addition to the synchrotron and inverse-Compton emission of relativistic electrons, emission due to accelerated protons seems to be required. The SEDs of 1ES 2344+514 reveal one of the lowest activity states ever detected from the source. Despite that, the model parameters are not indicative of a distinct quiescent state, which may be caused by the degeneracy of the different parameters in one-zone models. Moreover, indications accumulate that the radiation can not be attributed to a single emission region. The results disfavour some of the current blazar classification schemes and the so-called "blazar sequence", emphasising the need for a more realistic explanation of the systematics of the blazar SEDs in terms of fundamental parameters.},
  subject      = {Blazar},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{MoraisPasechnikPorod2021,
  author    = {Morais, Ant{\´o}nio P. and Pasechnik, Roman and Porod, Werner},
  title     = {Grand Unified origin of gauge interactions and families replication in the Standard Model},
  series = {Universe},
  volume    = {7},
  journal   = {Universe},
  number    = {12},
  issn      = {2218-1997},
  doi       = {10.3390/universe7120461},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-250237},
  year      = {2021},
  abstract  = {The tremendous phenomenological success of the Standard Model (SM) suggests that its flavor structure and gauge interactions may not be arbitrary but should have a fundamental first-principle explanation. In this work, we explore how the basic distinctive properties of the SM dynamically emerge from a unified New Physics framework tying together both flavor physics and Grand Unified Theory (GUT) concepts. This framework is suggested by a novel anomaly-free supersymmetric chiral E\(_6\)×SU(2)\(_F\)×U(1)\(_F\) GUT containing the SM. Among the most appealing emergent properties of this theory is the Higgs-matter unification with a highly-constrained massless chiral sector featuring two universal Yukawa couplings close to the GUT scale. At the electroweak scale, the minimal SM-like effective field theory limit of this GUT represents a specific flavored three-Higgs doublet model consistent with the observed large hierarchies in the quark mass spectra and mixing already at tree level.},
  language  = {en}
}
@phdthesis{Deppisch2004,
  author    = {Deppisch, Frank},
  title     = {Towards a reconstruction of the SUSY seesaw model},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-12757},
  school      = {Universit{\"a}t W{\"u}rzburg},
  year      = {2004},
  abstract  = {In this work, we studied in great detail how the unknown parameters of the SUSY seesaw model can be determined from measurements of observables at or below collider energies, namely rare flavor violating decays of leptons, slepton pair production processes at linear colliders and slepton mass differences. This is a challenging task as there is an intricate dependence of the observables on the unknown seesaw, light neutrino and mSUGRA parameters. In order to separate these different influences, we first considered two classes of seesaw models, namely quasi-degenerate and strongly hierarchical right-handed neutrinos. As a generalisation, we presented a method that can be used to reconstruct the high energy seesaw parameters, among them the heavy right-handed neutrino masses, from low energy observables alone.},
  subject      = {Supersymmetrie},
  language  = {en}
}
@phdthesis{Hupp2008,
  author    = {Hupp, Markus},
  title     = {Simulating Star Formation and Turbulence in Models of Isolated Disk Galaxies},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-34510},
  school      = {Universit{\"a}t W{\"u}rzburg},
  year      = {2008},
  abstract  = {We model Milky Way like isolated disk galaxies in high resolution three-dimensional hydrodynamical simulations with the adaptive mesh refinement code Enzo. The model galaxies include a dark matter halo and a disk of gas and stars. We use a simple implementation of sink particles to measure and follow collapsing gas, and simulate star formation as well as stellar feedback in some cases. We investigate two largely different realizations of star formation. Firstly, we follow the classical approach to transform cold, dense gas into stars with an fixed efficiency. These kind of simulations are known to suffer from an overestimation of star formation and we observe this behavior as well. Secondly, we use our newly developed FEARLESS approach to combine hydrodynamical simulations with a semi-analytic modeling of unresolved turbulence and use this technique to dynamically determine the star formation rate. The subgrid-scale turbulence regulated star formation simulations point towards largely smaller star formation efficiencies and henceforth more realistic overall star formation rates. More work is necessary to extend this method to account for the observed highly supersonic turbulence in molecular clouds and ultimately use the turbulence regulated algorithm to simulate observed star formation relations.},
  subject      = {Astrophysik},
  language  = {en}
}
@phdthesis{Dorner2008,
  author    = {Dorner, Daniela},
  title     = {Observations of PG 1553+113 with the MAGIC telescope},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-28196},
  school      = {Universit{\"a}t W{\"u}rzburg},
  year      = {2008},
  abstract  = {Blazars are among the most luminous sources in the universe. Their extreme short-time variability indicates emission processes powered by a supermassive black hole. With the current generation of Imaging Air Cherenkov Telescopes, these sources are explored at very high energies. Lowering the threshold below 100 GeV and improving the sensitivity of the telescopes, more and more blazars are discovered in this energy regime. For the MAGIC telescope, a low energy analysis has been developed allowing to reach energies of 50 GeV for the first time. The method is presented in this thesis at the example of PG 1553+113 measuring a spectrum between 50 GeV and 900 GeV. In the energy regime observed by MAGIC, strong attenuation of the gamma-rays is expected from pair production due to interactions of gamma-rays with low-energy photons from the extragalactic background light. For PG 1553+113, this provides the possibility to constrain the redshift of the source, which is still unknown. Well studied from radio to x-ray energies, PG 1553+113 was discovered in 2005 in the very high energy regime. In total, it was observed with the MAGIC telescope for 80~hours between April 2005 and April 2007. From more than three years of data taking, the MAGIC telescope provides huge amounts of data and a large number of files from various sources. To handle this data volume and to provide monitoring of the data quality, an automatic procedure is essential. Therefore, a concept for automatic data processing and management has been developed. Thanks to its flexibility, the concept is easily applicable to future projects. The implementation of an automatic analysis is running stable since three years in the data center in W{\"u}rzburg and provides consistent results of all MAGIC data, i.e. equal processing ensures comparability. In addition, this database controlled system allows for easy tests of new analysis methods and re-processing of all data with a new software version at the push of a button. At any stage, not only the availability of the data and its processing status is known, but also a large set of quality parameters and results can be queried from the database, facilitating quality checks, data selection and continuous monitoring of the telescope performance. By using the automatic analysis, the whole data sample can be analyzed in a reasonable amount of time, and the analyzers can concentrate on interpreting the results instead. For PG 1553+113, the tools and results of the automatic analysis were used. Compared to the previously published results, the software includes improvements as absolute pointing correction, absolute light calibration and improved quality and background-suppression cuts. In addition, newly developed analysis methods taking into account timing information were used. Based on the automatically produced results, the presented analysis was enhanced using a special low energy analysis. Part of the data were affected by absorption due to the Saharan Air Layer, i.e. sanddust in the atmosphere. Therefore, a new method has been developed, correcting for the effect of this meteorological phenomenon. Applying the method, the affected data could be corrected for apparent flux variations and effects of absorption on the spectrum, allowing to use the result for further studies. This is especially interesting, as these data were taken during a multi-wavelength campaign. For the whole data sample of 54 hours after quality checks, a signal from the position of PG 1553+113 was found with a significance of 15 standard deviations. Fitting a power law to the combined spectrum between 75 GeV and 900 GeV, yields a spectral slope of 4.1 +/- 0.2. Due to the low energy analysis, the spectrum could be extended to below 50 GeV. Fitting down to 48 GeV, the flux remains the same, but the slope changes to 3.7 +/- 0.1. The determined daily light curve shows that the integral flux above 150 GeV is consistent with a constant flux. Also for the spectral shape no significant variability was found in three years of observations. In July 2006, a multi-wavelength campaign was performed. Simultaneous data from the x-ray satellite Suzaku, the optical telescope KVA and the two Cherenkov experiments MAGIC and H.E.S.S. are available. Suzaku measured for the first time a spectrum up to 30 keV. The source was found to be at an intermediate flux level compared to previous x-ray measurements, and no short time variability was found in the continuous data sample of 41.1 ksec. Also in the gamma regime, no variability was found during the campaign. Assuming a maximum slope of 1.5 for the intrinsic spectrum, an upper limit of z < 0.74 was determined by deabsorbing the measured spectrum for the attenuation of photons by the extragalactic background light. For further studies, a redshift of z = 0.3 was assumed. Collecting various data from radio, infrared, optical, ultraviolet, x-ray and gama-ray energies, a spectral energy distribution was determined, including the simultaneous data of the multi-wavelength campaign. Fitting the simultaneous data with different synchrotron-self-compton models shows that the observed spectral shape can be explained with synchrotron-self-compton processes. The best result was obtained with a model assuming a log-parabolic electron distribution.},
  subject      = {Aktiver galaktischer Kern},
  language  = {en}
}
@phdthesis{Meyer2008,
  author    = {Meyer, Markus},
  title     = {Observations of a systematically selected sample of high frequency peaked BL Lac objects with the MAGIC telescope},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-28115},
  school      = {Universit{\"a}t W{\"u}rzburg},
  year      = {2008},
  abstract  = {At the beginning of regular observations with the MAGIC telescope in December 2004, all but one extragalactic sources detected at very high energy (VHE) gamma-rays belonged to the class of high frequency peaked BL Lac (HBL) objects. This motivated a systematic scan of candidate sources to increase the number of known sources and to study systematically their spectral properties. As candidate sources for VHE emission, X-ray bright HBLs were selected from a compilation of active galactic nuclei. The MAGIC observations took place from December 2004 to March 2006. The declination of the objects was restricted to values between -1.2° and +58.8° corresponding to a maximum zenith distance lower than 30° at culmination. Since gamma-rays are absorbed by photo-pair production in low energy background radiation fields, the redshift of the investigated objects was limitetd to z < 0.3. Under the assumption that HBLs generally emit the same energy flux at 1keV as at 200GeV, only the brightest X-ray sources were observed, leading to a cut in the X-ray flux of F(1keV) > 2µJy}. Of the fourteen sources observed, four have been detected: 1ES 1218+304 (for the first time at very high energies), 1ES 2344+514 (strong detection in a state of low activity), Mrk 421 and Mrk 501. A hint of a signal on a 3-sigma-level from the direction of 1ES 1011+496 has been observed. In the meantime the object has been confirmed as a source of VHE gamma-rays by a second MAGIC observation campaign triggered by an optical outburst. For ten sources, upper limits on their integral fluxes above 200GeV have been calculated on a 99\% confidence level. To cross calibrate the different data samples, collected during 14 months, bright muon ring images have been used, recorded as background events by the MAGIC telescope. Based on the development by Meyer (2003), the method has been improved and implemented into the automatic data analysis as a continuous monitor of the calibration and the point spread function of the optical system. While the ring images are generated by muons with small impact parameters, it could be shown that the image parameter distributions for muons with large impact parameters and gamma showers completely overlap, revealing these muons as the dominant background for gamma-ray observations below energies of 150GeV. The sample of HBLs (including all HBLs detected at VHE so far) has been investigated for correlations between broad-band spectral indices as determined from simultaneous optical, archival X-ray and radio luminosities, finding that the VHE emitting HBLs do not differ from the non-detected ones. In general the absorption corrected HBL gamma-ray luminosities at 200GeV are not higher than their X-ray luminosities at 1keV. Based on a complete X-ray BL Lac sample, the Hamburg/ROSAT X-ray BL Lac sample, the number of expected VHE sources has been estimated for the performed scan, finding a consistent number under the assumption of a 37\% completeness of the investigated sample and a 1keV-to-200GeV luminosity ratio of 1.4. An upper limit on the omnidirectional flux at 200GeV has been calculated by interpolating the sum over the observed fluxes and upper limits. Within the uncertainties, the result is in agreement with the expectations derived from the X-ray luminosity function of BL Lacs. For 1ES 1218+304 and 1ES 2344+514 the lightcurves have been derived, showing evidence for flux variability on a time scale of 17 days and 24h, respectively. In the case of 1ES 1218+304 variability has been reported for the first time at VHEs. For both sources the energy spectra have been reconstructed and discussed in the context of their broad band spectral energy distribution (SED), using a single zone synchrotron self Compton model. The SEDs are well fitted by the simulation even though the very high peak frequencies at gamma-rays push the model to its limits. The parameters derived from the simulation are in good agreement with the parameters found for similar HBLs.},
  subject      = {Aktiver galaktischer Kern},
  language  = {en}
}
@phdthesis{Nuernberger2004,
  author    = {N{\"u}rnberger, Dieter},
  title     = {The Galactic Starburst Region NGC 3603 : exciting new insights on the formation of high mass stars},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-10440},
  school      = {Universit{\"a}t W{\"u}rzburg},
  year      = {2004},
  abstract  = {One of the most fundamental, yet still unsolved problems in star formation research is addressed by the question "How do high mass stars form?". While most details related to the formation and early evolution of low mass stars are quite well understood today, the basic processes leading to the formation of high mass stars still remain a mystery. There is no doubt that low mass stars like our Sun form via accretion of gas and dust from their natal environment. With respect to the formation of high mass stars theorists currently discuss two possible scenarios controversely: First, similar to stars of lower masses, high mass stars form by continuous (time variable) accretion of large amounts of gas and dust through their circumstellar envelopes and/or disks. Second, high mass stars form by repeated collisions (coalescence) of protostars of lower masses. Both scenarios bear difficulties which impose strong constrains on the final mass of the young star. To find evidences for or against one of these two theoretical models is a challenging task for observers. First, sites of high mass star formation are much more distant than the nearby sites of low mass star formation. Second, high mass stars form and evolve much faster than low mass star. In particular, they contract to main sequence, hydrogen burning temperatures and densities on time scales which are much shorter than typical accretion time scales. Third, as a consequence of the previous point, young high mass stars are usually deeply embedded in their natal environment throughout their (short) pre-main sequence phase. Therefore, high mass protostars are rare, difficult to find and difficult to study. In my thesis I undertake a novel approach to search for and to characterize high mass protostars, by looking into a region where young high mass stars form in the violent neighbourhood of a cluster of early type main sequence stars. The presence of already evolved O type stars provides a wealth of energetic photons and powerful stellar winds which evaporate and disperse the surrounding interstellar medium, thus "lifting the courtains" around nearby young stars at a relatively early evolutionary stage. Such premises are given in the Galactic starburst region NGC 3603. Nevertheless, a large observational effort with different telescopes and instruments -- in particular, taking advantage of the high angular resolution and high sensitivity of near and mid IR instruments available at ESO -- was necessary to achieve the goals of my study. After a basic introduction on the topic of (high mass) star formation in Chapter 1, a short overview of the investigated region NGC 3603 and its importance for both galactic and extragalactic star formation studies is given in Chapter 2. Then, in Chapter 3, I report on a comprehensive investigation of the distribution and kinematics of the molecular gas and dust associated with the NGC 3603 region. In Chapter 4 I thoroughly address the radial extent of the NGC 3603 OB cluster and the spatial distribution of the cluster members. Together with deep Ks band imaging data, a detailed survey of NGC 3603 at mid IR wavelengths allows to search the neighbourhood of the cold molecular gas and dust for sources with intrinsic mid IR excess (Chapter 5). In Chapter 6 I characterize the most prominent sources of NGC 3603 IRS 9 and show that these sources are bona-fide candidates for high mass protostars. Finally, a concise summary as well as an outlook on future prospects in high mass star formation research is given in Chapter 7.},
  subject      = {Starburst-Galaxie},
  language  = {en}
}