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) 

2023, ApJS, 266, 37A

 

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), 

2021, A&A, 655A, 89M


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), 

2020, ApJS, 248, 29A
  
 

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),  

2020, A&A, 637, 86M

 

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

Two decades of MAGIC: Overview and recent highlights  

2024 LHC days in Split, Hvar island (Croatia), September 30-October 4, 2024 

Results from the first combined VHE and X-ray polarization measurements of TeV blazars

2024 Roma International Conference on Astroparticle Physics (RICAP), Frascati (Italy), September 23-27, 2024 

Highlights from the MAGIC telescopes 

VIII Heidelberg International Symposium on High-Energy Gamma-Ray Astronomy (Gamma 2024), Milano (Italy), September 2-6, 2024 

The MAGIC telescopes in the search for Dark Matter 

Invisible Data Days, Munich (Germany), May 6-7, 2024 

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