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[en] The first Magellan Workshop took place on March 17th/18th 2016 in Hamburg. Several topics have been addressed during the workshop with the most time devoted to discussing stellar physics and supernova physics. These two key topics are especially interesting to two distinct fields, each with their own approach, method and extensive knowledge gained: astrophysics and neutrino physics. It is thus no surprise that the workshop specifically intended to bring these groups together was met with a certain enthusiasm. 46 scientists working in institutions across seven countries attended a total of 30 plenary talks during their two days in Hamburg. The workshop then concluded with a trip to the Hamburg Observatory, for a tour of the historic and current telescopes. While supernovae of course were a primary topic, the presentations included many different, exciting projects. From relatively nearby objects in studies on geoneutrinos originating from inside the Earth via stellar physics in the refinement of solar models to high energy sources across multiple galaxies to the Cosmic Microwave Background. One particular subject in the field of supernova physics for the past 29 years of course has been the supernova SN1987A, mostly owed to its fairly recent explosion enabling modern science to observe the event from Earth and space alike both in electromagnetic waves and particle fluxes. These measurements have greatly expanded our knowledge as many theories on both the internal mechanisms as well as the evolution of supernovae could consequently be tested. Not only does the Large Magellanic Cloud which hosts this famous supernova serve as a pictoral symbol for our workshop, it is also now commonly named after Ferdinand Magellan, who was not the first to discover this prominent feature in the southern night sky, but the one whose journey brought news of its marvellous sight to European astronomers back in the late 16th century. Furthermore this journey shall serve as a symbol of our own venture as Magellan led the expedition to circumnavigate the globe entirely, thus advancing the knowledge of his contemporaries with every mile travelled, but in doing so also became a connection between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. Finding common ground for scientists of different fields to meet on thankfully is a much easier task than navigating the treacherous waters of the Magellan Strait, but nonetheless the Magellan Workshop hopefully opened a strait of sorts for future cooperations.
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Sep 2016; 236 p; Magellan workshop 2016: connecting neutrino physics and astronomy; Hamburg (Germany); 17-18 Mar 2016; ISBN 978-3-945931-08-0;
; ISSN 1435-8077; 


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BINARY STARS, COSMIC RADIATION, DETECTION, DEVELOPED COUNTRIES, ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION, ELEMENTARY PARTICLES, ERUPTIVE VARIABLE STARS, EUROPE, FERMIONS, INTERACTIONS, IONIZING RADIATIONS, LEPTON-BARYON INTERACTIONS, LEPTON-HADRON INTERACTIONS, LEPTON-NUCLEON INTERACTIONS, LEPTONS, MAIN SEQUENCE STARS, MASSLESS PARTICLES, MATHEMATICAL MODELS, MICROWAVE RADIATION, NEUTRINOS, PARTICLE INTERACTIONS, RADIATION DETECTION, RADIATIONS, SOLAR PARTICLES, SOLAR RADIATION, STARS, STELLAR RADIATION, VARIABLE STARS, WESTERN EUROPE
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