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T: Fachverband Teilchenphysik

T 87: Gammaastronomie I

T 87.7: Talk

Monday, March 28, 2011, 18:20–18:35, 30.41: 104

The Perseus Region in the Light of MAGIC — •Dorothee Hildebrand — ETH Zurich, Institute for Particle Physics, 8093 Zurich, Switzerland

The Center of the Perseus cluster is an interesting target for Very High Energy (VHE) Gamma-ray Observations. There are three different physics processes that could contribute to a VHE signal: emission from the central giant radio galaxy NGC-1275, emission from hadronic interaction of cosmic rays with the inter-cluster medium, and emission from hypothetical dark matter annihilation.

This talk reports about recent observations of this region by MAGIC, including the detection of Very High Energy emission from NGC-1275 and the head-tail galaxy IC-310.