Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2004-05-05
Astropart.Phys. 22 (2004) 95-102
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
19 pages, 6 figures, accepted by Astroparticle Physics
Scientific paper
10.1016/j.astropartphys.2004.04.
The poor angular resolution of imaging gamma-ray telescopes is offset by the large reflector areas of next generation telescopes such as MAGIC (17~m diameter), which makes the study of optical emission associated with some gamma-ray sources feasible. Furthermore, the extremely fast time response of photomultipliers (PMs) makes them ideal detectors for fast (subsecond) optical transients and periodic sources like pulsars. The optical pulse of the Crab pulsar was detected with the HEGRA CT1 central pixel using a modified PM, similar to the future MAGIC camera PMs. The purpose of these periodic observations was to determine the light of the night sky (LONS) for the galactic anticenter Crab region.Our results are between 2.5 and 3 times larger than the previously measured LONS (outside the galactic plane), as expected since the Crab pulsar is in the galactic plane, which implies a slightly higher energy threshold for Crab observations, if the higher value of CT1 measured LONS rate for galactic sources is used.
Cortina Jaun
de Jager Ocker C.
Fonseca Victoria
Ona-Wilhelmi E.
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