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Physics performance of the upgraded MAGIC telescopes obtained with Crab Nebula data

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics 2019-08-13 v1 High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena

Abstract

MAGIC is a system of two Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes located at the Canary Island of La Palma, designed to observe gamma rays with energies above 50 GeV. Recently it has undergone an upgrade of the camera, digital trigger and readout systems. The upgrade has led to an improvement in the performance of the telescopes, especially in the lower energy range. We evaluate the performance of the upgraded MAGIC telescopes using Monte Carlo simulations and a large sample of Crab Nebula data. We study differential and integral sensitivity of the system, its angular resolution as well as its energy resolution.

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@article{arxiv.1308.0141,
  title  = {Physics performance of the upgraded MAGIC telescopes obtained with Crab Nebula data},
  author = {Julian Sitarek and Emiliano Carmona and Pierre Colin and Katharina Frantzen and Markus Gaug and Marcos Lopez and Saverio Lombardi and Abelardo Moralejo and Konstancja Satalecka and Valeria Scapin and Victor Stamatescu and Roberta Zanin and Daniel Mazin and Diego Tescaro},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1308.0141},
  year   = {2019}
}

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4 pages, 5 figures, Proc. of 33rd ICRC, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil