Prompt VHE Observations of GRBs by MAGIC

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May 2007

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2007aipc..906..156b&link_type=abstract

GAMMA-RAY BURSTS: PROSPECTS FOR GLAST: Stockholm Symposium on GRB's. AIP Conference Proceedings, Volume 906, pp. 156-164 (2007)

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Gamma-Ray Sources, Gamma-Ray Bursts, Cherenkov Detectors, X- And Gamma-Ray Telescopes And Instrumentation

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MAGIC is the fastest slewing Cherenkov telescope, with re-pointing capabilities of 20 - 40 s compared with the ~ 10 min. of HESS and the few degrees per minute of VERITAS. Since the beginning of the GRB observation (April 2005) it observed a dozen of GRBs and set upper limits on their VHE emission. Most of them were triggered by SWIFT and have therefore quite a large z value. This can be one of the reasons why only upper limits could be set. As MAGIC has the lowest energy threshold among Cherenkov telescopes partially overlapping with GLAST, the simultaneous observation of GRBs by GLAST and MAGIC allows a continuous observation from 10 keV to 10 TeV.

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