VHE observations of binary systems performed with the MAGIC telescopes
Abstract
The improvement on the Imaging Air Cherenkov Technique (IACT) led to the discovery of a new type of sources that can emit at very high energies: the gamma-ray binaries. Only six systems are part of this exclusive class. We summarize the latest results from the observations performed with the MAGIC telescopes on different systems as the gamma-ray binary LS I +61 303 and the microquasars SS433, V404 Cygni and Cygnus X-1, which are considered potential VHE gamma-ray emitters. The binary system LS I +61 303 has been observed by MAGIC in a long-term monitoring campaign. We show the newest results of our search for super-orbital variability also in context of contemporaneous optical observations. Besides, we will present the results of the only super-critical accretor known in our galaxy: SS 433. We will introduce the VHE results achieved with MAGIC after 100 hours of observations on the microquasar Cygnus X-1 and report on the microquasar V404 Cyg, which has been observed with MAGIC after it went through a series of exceptional X-ray outbursts in June 2015.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1807.09509,
title = {VHE observations of binary systems performed with the MAGIC telescopes},
author = {Alicia López-Oramas and Oscar Blanch and Emma de Oña Wilhelmi and Alba Fernández-Barral and Daniela Hadasch and Elena Moretti and Pere Munar-Adrover and Josep Maria Paredes and Marc Ribó and Diego F. Torres and Pol Bordas and François Brun and Jorge Casares and Roberta Zanin},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1807.09509},
year = {2018}
}
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Proceedings of High-Energy Phenomena in Relativistic Outflows (HEPRO) VI conference