Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Scientific paper
2011-04-05
Il Nuovo Cimento C, vol. 34, issue no. 3, 2011
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
6 pages, 8 figures, Proc. SciNeGHE 2010 Trieste
Scientific paper
The MAGIC telescopes are two Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes located on the canary island of La Palma. They provide the lowest energy threshold among existing instruments of the kind, reaching down to 50 GeV in standard trigger mode. This allows us to close the energy gap between satellite-bourne and ground-based gamma-ray observations for strong enough sources. During the first five years of monoscopic observations, many interesting results could thus be achieved. With the second MAGIC telescope, which started operation in 2009, the sensitivity could be improved by stereoscopic imaging, and 5 new detections could already be reported in 2010. We present the status of the MAGIC telescopes in 2010 and review the latest results obtained in mono- and stereoscopic mode. This includes, among others, the detection of the head-tail galaxy IC 310, a new multiwavelength study of Mrk 501, an updated lightcurve of the Crab Pulsar.
Klepser Stefan
MAGIC collaboration for the
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