Probing the Diffuse Optical-IR Background with TeV Blazars Detected with the MAGIC Telescopes
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Citation: Prandini E, Domínguez A, Fallah Ramazani V, Hassan T, Mazin D, Moralejo A, Nievas Rosillo M, Vanzo G and Vazquez Acosta M for the MAGIC Collaboration (2017) Probing the Diffuse Optical-IR Background with TeV Blazars Detected with the MAGIC Telescopes. Front. Astron. Space Sci. 4:50. doi: 10.3389/fspas.2017.00050 Probing the Diffuse Optical-IR Background with TeV Blazars Detected with the MAGIC Telescopes
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