Hamburg 2016 – wissenschaftliches Programm
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T: Fachverband Teilchenphysik
T 18: Gammaastronomie I
T 18.4: Vortrag
Montag, 29. Februar 2016, 11:50–12:05, VMP9 SR 27
Pulsar Observations with the MAGIC telescopes — •Jezabel R. Garcia1, S. Bonnefoy2, D. Carreto-Fidalgo2, F. Dazzi1, D. Galindo3, W. Idec1, M. Lopez2, E. Moretti1, E. de Ona Wilhelmi4, I. Reichardt5, T. Saito6, T. Schweizer1, and R. Zanin3 for the MAGIC collaboration — 1Max-Planck-Institut für Physik, Munich, Germany — 2Universitad Compultense, Madrid, Spain — 3Universitat de Barcelona, ICC/IEEC-UB, Barcelona, Spain — 4Institute for Space Sciences (CSIC/IEEC), Barcelona, Spain — 5Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), Padova, Italy — 6Kyoto University, Hakubi center, Japan
MAGIC is a stereoscopic system of two IACTs, located at the ORM (Spain). Since 2008, MAGIC has played a big role in Pulsar physics due to the discovery of the first VHE gamma-ray emission from the Crab pulsar. Such a discovery was possible thanks to a revolutionary trigger technique used in the initial MAGIC mono system, the Sum-Trigger, that provided a 25 GeV energy threshold. The study of the Crab keeps providing numerous important results for the understanding of pulsar physics. The most recent ones are the bridge emission at VHE and the detection of the Crab pulsations at TeV energies. MAGIC has been also searching for new pulsars, providing recently interesting results about the Geminga pulsar and nebula. This talk reviews the essential MAGIC results about VHE pulsars and their implications for pulsar physics.Also we discuss the development of a new stereo trigger system, the Sum-Trigger-II, and the importance of the observation windows that this system opens for the study of VHE pulsars.