David Paneque (website)
My scientific interests relate to the understanding of the most extreme environments in the Universe, like Pulsars, Gamma-Ray Bursts and Active Galactic Nuclei, as well as the investigation of various fundamental physics questions, like the searches for the elusive Dark Matter that is needed to explain the Universe that we see today, or the potential existence Axion-Like-Particles. For these studies, I use data from a large number of instruments that span from radio frequencies to the most energetic form of light, the very-high-energy gamma rays. Owing to the complexity in the above-mentioned systems, these studies greatly benefit from the usage of a multi-messenger approach, where the information obtained from the photons, is combined with gravitational waves, neutrinos, and high-energy cosmic rays that also arrive at Earth from these extraordinary cosmic particle accelerators.
My research interests also relate to the design, construction, and operation of instrumentation for astroparticle physics. I am a member of the teams that built and operate the LAT (Large Area Telescope) onboard the Fermi satellite, the MAGIC telescopes, a system of two imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes of 17-meter diamater mirrors located on the island of La Palma (Spain), and the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA), which is currently under construction, and it will be the next generation of ground-based instruments for very-high-energy gamma-ray astronomy.
Publications
Most of my publications use gamma-ray data from the MAGIC telescopes and the Fermi satellite, and recently also the CTA-LST1 telescope. My involvement with MAGIC, Fermi and LST at the pre-commencement stage implied spending a large fraction of my research time on developing relevant hardware and/or software projects. Often, this so-called service work did not result in a scientific publication, but it was crucial for the scientific success of these instruments (see CV for a few examples). Owing to my continuous technical contributions to these projects, as well as my organization & coordination actvities, I am co-author of most of the collaboration publications. Moreover, I also initiated and led myself several of these scientific collaboration publications (see below for a few exampales, and my CV for the full list of publications that I led or where I am one of the corresponding authors). In total, I have more than 420 scientific publications in peer-reviewed journals, including 6 publications in Nature and 26 publications in Science, which provide me with a h-index of 121. The full list of my publications can be found at this ADS link.
Here I list my 5 publications with the highest number of citations. They are sorted according to the number of citations (updated on February 2024). I note that, the number of citations is larger than 1000 in all 5 of them, which shows that these publications had an outstandingly large impact in the community.
1) The Large Area Telescope on the Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope Mission
Fermi-LAT collaboration, 2009, ApJ, 697, 1071
More than 3260 citations
2) Multi-messenger Observations of a Binary Neutron Star Merger
LIGO and Virgo, Fermi, IceCube Collab. (and other groups), 2017, ApJL, 848,12
More than 3060 citations
3) Fermi Large Area Telescope Third Source Catalog
Fermi-LAT collaboration, 2015, ApJS, 218, 23
More than 1440 citations
4) Fermi Large Area Telescope Second Source Catalog
Fermi-LAT collaboration, 2012, ApJS, 199, 31
More than 1300 citations
5) Searching for Dark Matter Annihilation from Milky Way Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxies with Six Years of Fermi Large Area Telescope Data
Fermi-LAT collaboration, 2015, Physical Review Letters, Volume 115, Issue 23
More than 1070 citations
The publications listed here relate to diverse scientific topics: three of them relate to black holes and blazars, one about a catalog of high-energy gamma-ray sources, and one about the possibility to discover new elementary particles using gamma-ray observations of blazars. The number of citations is larger than 150 for all the 5 publications (updated on February 2024), which demonstrates that they all had a large impact in the scientific community.
It is worth mentioning that 4 out of the 5 scientific publications listed here were done within the MAGIC and/or Fermi-LAT collaborations. These papers have long author lists with names sorted alphabetically (as it is custom in high-energy particle physics), despite the fact that I am the lead author in all these publications. The publications are sorted chronologically.
The First Fermi-LAT Catalog of Sources Above 10 GeV
Fermi-LAT Collaboration (lead author: D. Paneque)
2013, ApJS, 209, 34 (more than 210 citations)
Work related to my efforts to characterize the very-high-energy VHE gamma-ray sky, and particularly to increase the number of known extragalactic VHE sources.
Fermi Large Area Telescope Observations of Markarian 421: The Missing Piece of its Spectral Energy Distribution
Fermi and MAGIC Collaborations (lead author: D. Paneque),
2011, ApJ, 736, 131 (more than 280 citations)
Work related to the extensive multifrequency campaigns that I started to organize in 2009.
Insights Into the High-energy gamma-ray Emission of Markarian 501 from Extensive Multifrequency Observations in the Fermi Era
Fermi, MAGIC and VERITAS Collab. (lead author: D. Paneque),
2011, ApJ, 727, 129 (more than 200 citations)
Work related to the extensive multifrequency campaigns that I started to organize in 2009.
Hints of the existence of Axion-Like Particles from the gamma-ray spectra of cosmological sources
M. Sanchez-Conde, D. Paneque, E. Bloom, F. Prada, A. Dominguez,
2009, Phys. Rev. D, 79, 123511 (more than 150 citations)
Work related to the studies performed on the feasibility to use VHE AGNs to detect (discover) Axion-Like-Particles (ALPs).
Variable Very High Energy gamma-ray emission from Markarian 501
MAGIC collaboration (lead author: D. Paneque),
2007, ApJ, 669, 862 (more than 500 citations)
Work related to the extensive study of some selected VHE AGNs. This publication showed the large scientific potential of observing the classical TeV blazars with the new generations of gamma-ray instruments, such as MAGIC.
4 out of the 5 scientific publications listed here relate to the extensive multi-instrument observing campaigns that I regularly organize on the two bright TeV blazars Mrk421 and Mrk501. These multi-instrument publications were done within the MAGIC and Fermi-LAT collaborations. Because of that, these publications have long author lists with names sorted alphabetically (as it is custom in high-energy particle physics), despite the fact that I am one of the two lead authors in all these publications. The publications are sorted chronologically.
A novel energy reconstruction method for the MAGIC stereoscopic observation
K.Ishio & D.Paneque
2024, Astroparticle Physics, 158, 102937
Multimessenger Characterization of Markarian 501 during Historically Low X-Ray and Gamma-Ray Activity
MAGIC and Fermi-LAT collab. (lead authors: L. Heckmann (former PhD student) and D. Paneque)
Investigation of the correlation patterns and the Compton dominance variability of Mrk 421 in 2017
MAGIC and Fermi-LAT collab. (lead authors: A.Arbet-Engels (former PhD student) and D. Paneque),
Unraveling the Complex Behavior of Mrk 421 with Simultaneous X-Ray and VHE Observations during an Extreme Flaring Activity in 2013 April
MAGIC and Fermi-LAT collab. (lead authors: D. Paneque and A. Babic),
Study of the variable broadband emission of Markarian 501 during the most extreme Swift X-ray activity
MAGIC and Fermi-LAT collab. (lead authors: J. Becerra and D. Paneque),
Seminars and/or presentations
Here you can find a list of presentations and/or seminars that I have given in the last 5 years. You can find the complete list of seminars/presenations in the PDF with my CV.
MAGIC as CERN-recognized experiment
CERN, Geneve (Switzerland), February 8 2024
Lectures about multimessenger astrophysics with gamma rays
Technical University Munich, Garching, Germany, June-July 2023
The MAGIC of gamma-ray astronomy
Coimbra University, Coimbra, Portugal, March 17 2023
The MAGIC of gamma-ray astronomy: 20 years, 200 scientific publications and beyond
Astronomski Centar, Rijeka, Croatia, February 15 2023
Multiwavelength and multimessenger astrophysics
High-energy physics school Maria Laach, Physikzentrum Bad Honnef, Germany, July/August 2021
High-Energy Cosmic-Ray studies through multi-messenger observations of blazars
Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics, Munich, Germany, February 12, 2020
New scientific challenges for CTA from the extreme character of our closest VHE blazars
Institute for Cosmic Ray Reserarch, The University of Tokyo, Japan, November 14, 2019
The MAGIC of Time & Multi-Messenger studies on the most Extreme Cosmic Sources
Institute for Cosmic Ray Reserarch, The University of Tokyo, Japan, November 8, 2019
MAGIC, current status and future
20 MAGIC years Symposium, La Palma (Spain), October 4-7, 2023
20 MAGIC years of gamma-ray astronomy
20 MAGIC years Symposium, La Palma (Spain), October 4-7, 2023
The MAGIC of gamma-ray astronomy: 20 years, 200 scientific publications and beyond
XVIII International Conference on Topics in Astroparticle and
Underground Physics (TAUP), Vienna, Austria, August 28-September 1 2023
The MAGIC of gamma-ray astronomy: 20 years, 200 scientific publications and beyond
International Cosmic Ray Conference Satellite Workshop, Chiba, Japan, August 7-8 2023
The MAGIC of Gamma-Ray Astronomy
Advances in Astroparticle Physics and Cosmology (AAPCOS), Kolkata (India), January 23-27, 2023
High Energy Gamma Rays
Astroparticle Physics European Coordination (APPEC) Town Meeting, Berlin, Germany, June 9-10, 2022
The challenge of understanding AGNs through extensive multiwavelength observations
Ninth Fermi international Symposium, Johannesburg, South Africa, April 2020 - Postponed to April 2021 because of Covid-19
The MAGIC of very-high-energy gamma-ray astronomy
XVI International Conference on Topics in Astroparticle and Underground Physics (TAUP), Toyama, Japan, September 2019
The Extreme character of our closest VHE blazars, Mrk421 and Mrk501
Extreme19, Padova, Italy, January 2019
Unravelling the complex behaviour of Active Galactic Nuclei, the most powerful (persistent) cosmic accelerators
Origins Science week, Kloster Irsee (Germany) December 3-6, 2023
The MAGIC of gamma-ray astronomy: 20 years, 200 scientific publications and beyond
International Cosmic Ray Conference, Nagoya (Japan), July 26 - August 3, 2023
Unravelling the complex behaviour of our closest very-high-energy gamma-ray blazars, Mrk421 and Mrk501, through decades-long multi-instrument observations
Roma International Conference on Astroparticle Physics, Roma, Italy, September 6-9 2022
The extreme character of our closest VHE blazars, Mrk421 and Mrk501
High Energy Phenomena in Relativistic Outflows VII (HEPRO VII), Barcelona, Spain, July 2019