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Werner Hofmann

Researcher at Max Planck Society

Publications -  793
Citations -  56940

Werner Hofmann is an academic researcher from Max Planck Society. The author has contributed to research in topics: High Energy Stereoscopic System & HEGRA. The author has an hindex of 100, co-authored 777 publications receiving 51945 citations. Previous affiliations of Werner Hofmann include University of California, Berkeley & Heidelberg University.

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Gaia Data Release 2. Summary of the contents and survey properties

Anthony G. A. Brown, +452 more
TL;DR: The second Gaia data release, Gaia DR2 as mentioned in this paper, is a major advance with respect to Gaia DR1 in terms of completeness, performance, and richness of the data products.
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The LHCb detector at the LHC

A. A. Alves, +889 more
TL;DR: The LHCb experiment is dedicated to precision measurements of CP violation and rare decays of B hadrons at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN (Geneva).
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Gaia Data Release 2: The astrometric solution

Lennart Lindegren, +92 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe the input data, models, and processing used for the astrometric content of Gaia DR2, and the validation of these results performed within the ASTR task.
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Design concepts for the Cherenkov Telescope Array CTA: An advanced facility for ground-based high-energy gamma-ray astronomy

Marcos Daniel Actis, +685 more
TL;DR: The ground-based gamma-ray astronomy has had a major breakthrough with the impressive results obtained using systems of imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes as mentioned in this paper, which is an international initiative to build the next generation instrument, with a factor of 5-10 improvement in sensitivity in the 100 GeV-10 TeV range and the extension to energies well below 100GeV and above 100 TeV.
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An Exceptional Very High Energy Gamma-Ray Flare of PKS 2155-304

Felix Aharonian, +125 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the average flux observed during an extreme gamma-ray outburst is I(>200 GeV) = (1.72$\pm$$0.05_{\rm stat}