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Technical Performance of the MAGIC Telescopes

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics 2019-08-15 v1

Abstract

The MAGIC-I telescope is the largest single-dish Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov telescope in the world. A second telescope, MAGIC-II, will operate in coincidence with MAGIC-I in stereoscopic mode. MAGIC-II is a clone of MAGIC-I, but with a number of significant improvements, namely a highly pixelized camera with a wider trigger area, improved optical analog signal transmission and a 2-4 GSps fast readout. All the technical elements of MAGIC-II were installed by the end of 2008. The telescope is currently undergoing commissioning and integration with MAGIC-I. An update of the technical performance of MAGIC-I, a description of all the hardware elements of MAGIC-II and first results of the combined technical performance of the two telescopes will be reported.

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@article{arxiv.0907.1211,
  title  = {Technical Performance of the MAGIC Telescopes},
  author = {Juan Cortina and Florian Goebel and Thomas Schweizer},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0907.1211},
  year   = {2019}
}

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4 pages, 4 figures, contribution to the 31st ICRC, Lodz, Poland, July 2009

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