Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2011-11-05
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
4 pages, 7 figures, contribution to the 32nd International Cosmic Ray Conference, Beijing, China, August 2011
Scientific paper
In 2007 a prototype of a new analog Sum-Trigger was installed in the MAGIC I telescope, which lowered the trigger threshold from 55 GeV to 25 GeV and led to the detection of pulsed gamma radiation from the Crab pulsar. To eliminate the need for manual tuning and maintenance demanded by that first prototype, a new setup with fully automatic calibration was designed recently. The key element of the new circuit is a novel, continuously variable analog delay line that enables the temporal equalization of the signals from the camera photo sensors, which is crucial for the efficient detection of low-energy showers. A further improvement is the much larger trigger area consisting of a fully revised configuration of overlapping summing patches. The new system will be installed on both telescopes, MAGIC I and II, enabling stereo observation in Sum-Trigger mode. This will significantly improve the sensitivity in the very low energy regime of 20 to 100 GeV, which is essential in particular for detailed pulsar studies, as well as the observation of high-redshift AGNs and distant GRB events. Here we like to present the results of functionality tests of a fully working prototype and the basic design of the final system.
Corti Daniele
Dazzi Francesco
Haefner Dennis
MAGIC collaboration for the
Schweizer Thomas
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