Frontiers of modern physics
Seminar for Young Scientists, Postgraduate Students and Undergraduates
Recent Highlights of MAGIC
MAGIC, consisting of two 17m diameter imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes,
is the first instrument for doing astrophysics by means of gamma rays in the energy range
50GeV – 50TeV. The telescopes are separated by 85m distance and are located at 2200m
a.s.l. in the Roque de los Muchachos European North Observatory on the Canary island
of La Palma. Since 2004 the MAGIC-I telescope was taking scientific data. The sensitivity
of the detector has been doubled in 2009 when we added the clone MAGIC-II telescope
and started operating them in a coincidence mode. MAGIC helped us to make a very rich
scientific harvest in the past years. Recently, aiming to make the telescopes more homogenous
in response and for boosting their sensitivity, we upgraded them. Since fall 2012 MAGIC is
taking data with an unprecedented sensitivity. Still, by using the novel SUM-trigger system,
we are going to further increase the sensitivity above the energy threshold of a few tens of
GeV. In this report we are going to present the recent observational highlights of MAGIC
of both galactic and extragalactic origins.
Razmik Mirzoyan Max-Planck-Institute for Physics, Munich, Germany
16:00, Thursday 5 September YerPHI seminar hall, 3-rd floor
Presentation