Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Scientific paper
2011-10-07
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
4 pages, 3 figures, contribution to the 32nd International Cosmic Ray Conference, Beijing, China, August 2011
Scientific paper
Microquasars are accreting binary systems displaying relativistic radio jets where very high energy gamma rays might be produced via Inverse Compton scattering. The detection of the microquasar Cygnus X-3 above 100 MeV by both Fermi/LAT and AGILE satellites, together with the short flares from Cygnus X-1 reported by AGILE, confirmed that this class of astrophysical objects are interesting candidates for very high energy gamma-ray observations. The stand-alone imaging atmospheric Cherenkov MAGIC telescope, and later on the recently inaugurated stereoscopic system, made a significant effort to search for signals from microquasars. This paper reviews all MAGIC results of Cygnus X-3, Cygnus X-1, Scorpius X-1, and SS 433 observations. The stand-alone MAGIC telescope observed Cygnus X-3 for almost 60 hrs from March 2006 until August 2009 in many different X-ray spectral states where a very high energy emission is predicted and also simultaneously with a flux enhancement at high energies detected by Fermi/LAT. No significant signal was found in any of the observed conditions. The MAGIC stereoscopic system pointed at the Z-type low-mass X-ray binary Scorpius X-1 in May 2010 for ~8 hrs. Simultaneous soft X-ray measurements allowed to define the X-ray spectral state of the source which could emit very-high-energy photons in the horizontal branch. MAGIC did not detect the source and put some constraints on the maximum TeV luminosity to jet power ratio. Further observations of Cygnus X-1 were also carried out with the new and twice as sensitive stereoscopic system in Autumn 2009 for a total amount of 30 hrs. Finally, we also report on SS 433 observations obtained during two periods of minimum absorption processes from the accretion disk.
Bordas Pol
Cortina Juan
Jogler Tobias
MAGIC collaboration Javier Rico for the
Paredes Josep Maria
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