TeV instrumentation: current and future

J Sitarek - Galaxies, 2022 - mdpi.com
During the last 20 years, TeV astronomy has turned from a fledgling field, with only a handful
of sources, into a fully-developed astronomy discipline, broadening our knowledge on a …

The major upgrade of the MAGIC telescopes, Part II: A performance study using observations of the Crab Nebula

J Aleksić, S Ansoldi, LA Antonelli, P Antoranz… - Astroparticle …, 2016 - Elsevier
MAGIC is a system of two Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes located in the
Canary island of La Palma, Spain. During summer 2011 and 2012 it underwent a series of …

Ground-based gamma-ray astronomy: history and development of techniques

D Bose, VR Chitnis, P Majumdar… - The European Physical …, 2022 - Springer
Very high energy (VHE) γ-rays constitute one of the main pillars of high energy astrophysics.
Gamma-rays are produced under extreme relativistic conditions in the Universe. VHE γ-rays …

The major upgrade of the MAGIC telescopes, Part I: The hardware improvements and the commissioning of the system

J Aleksić, S Ansoldi, LA Antonelli, P Antoranz… - Astroparticle …, 2016 - Elsevier
The MAGIC telescopes are two Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes (IACTs)
located on the Canary island of La Palma. The telescopes are designed to measure …

Performance of the MAGIC stereo system obtained with Crab Nebula data

J Aleksić, EA Alvarez, LA Antonelli, P Antoranz… - Astroparticle …, 2012 - Elsevier
MAGIC is a system of two Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes located in the
Canary island of La Palma. Since autumn 2009 both telescopes have been working together …

Very-high-energy gamma rays from a distant quasar: how transparent is the universe?

J Albert, E Aliu, H Anderhub, LA Antonelli, P Antoranz… - Science, 2008 - science.org
The atmospheric Cherenkov gamma-ray telescope MAGIC, designed for a low-energy
threshold, has detected very-high-energy gamma rays from a giant flare of the distant Quasi …

Teraelectronvolt pulsed emission from the Crab Pulsar detected by MAGIC

S Ansoldi, LA Antonelli, P Antoranz, A Babic… - Astronomy & …, 2016 - aanda.org
Aims. We investigate the extension of the very high-energy spectral tail of the Crab Pulsar at
energies above 400 GeV. Methods. We analyzed~ 320 h of good-quality Crab data obtained …

[HTML][HTML] Monte Carlo design studies for the Cherenkov telescope array

K Bernlöhr, A Barnacka, Y Becherini, OB Bigas… - Astroparticle …, 2013 - Elsevier
The Cherenkov Telescopes Array (CTA) is planned as the future instrument for very-high-
energy (VHE) gamma-ray astronomy with a wide energy range of four orders of magnitude …

Optimized dark matter searches in deep observations of Segue 1 with MAGIC

J Aleksić, S Ansoldi, LA Antonelli… - … of Cosmology and …, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
We present the results of stereoscopic observations of the satellite galaxy Segue 1 with the
MAGIC Telescopes, carried out between 2011 and 2013. With almost 160 hours of good …

Measurement of the extragalactic background light using MAGIC and Fermi-LAT gamma-ray observations of blazars up to z = 1

VA Acciari, S Ansoldi, LA Antonelli… - Monthly Notices of …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
We present a measurement of the extragalactic background light (EBL) based on a joint
likelihood analysis of 32 gamma-ray spectra for 12 blazars in the redshift range z= 0.03 …