1. MAGIC detection of Geminga: an Inverse Compton tail?
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Daniela Dorner, Gaia Vanzo, Louis Antonelli, Giacomo D'Amico, Carolin Wunderlich, Juliane van Scherpenberg, Katsuaki Asano, Mosè Mariotti, Juan Abel Barrio, Petar Temnikov, Jarred Gershon Green, Koji Noda, Serena Loporchio, Narek Sahakyan, Elisa Bernardini, D. Dominis Prester, Jenni Jormanainen, Bernardo Machado de Oliveira Fraga, Maria Victoria Fonseca, Manuel Artero, L. Maraschi, Elina Lindfors, Santiago Ubach, Massimo Persic, Alice Donini, Carlos Delgado Mendez, Daniel Mazin, Alexander Hahn, Marina Manganaro, Saverio Lombardi, Marine Pihet, Nikola Godinovic, Alessio Berti, Ievgen Vovk, Lara Nava, Wrijupan Bhattacharyya, Tomislav Terzić, Andrea Rugliancich, Elena Moretti, Fabrizio Tavecchio, Chiara Righi, Davide Depaoli, Axel Arbet Engels, Eduardo Colombo, Daniel Morcuende, Jose Luis Contreras, Takeshi Nakamori, Jordi Delgado, Giacomo Bonnoli, Tihomir Surić, P. G. Prada Moroni, M. I. Martínez, Pratik Majumdar, Juan Cortina, Barbara De Lotto, Konstancja Satalecka, Markus Garczarczyk, Michele Doro, Marie Karjalainen, Javier Rico, Tokonatsu Yamamoto, Vitaly Neustroev, Josefa González, Chaitanya Priyadarshi, Leonardo Di Venere, Camilla Maggio, Martin Will, Victor A. Acciari, Kevin Schmidt, Lena Linhoff, Karl Mannheim, Stefano Menchiari, Jorge Otero-Santos, John Hoang, Hendrik Bökenkamp, Luca Tosti, Shunsuke Sakurai, Satoshi Fukami, Vandad Fallah Ramazani, Takashi Saito, Stefano Truzzi, Jürgen Besenrieder, Francesco Giordano, Antonio Tutone, Francesco Dazzi, Michele Palatiello, Alicia López-Oramas, Seiya Nozaki, Josep M. Paredes, Moritz Hütten, Matteo Cerruti, Pablo Peñil, Valerio D'Elia, Stefano Covino, Masahiro Teshima, Dominik Baack, Antonio Stamerra, Junko Kushida, Saša Mićanović, G. Maneva, Lluis Font, Lovro Pavletić, Cosimo Nigro, Ivana Batković, Yasushi Fukazawa, Roberto Carosi, Sofia Ventura, Francesco Longo, Adrian Biland, Kazuma Ishio, Maria-Isabel Bernardos, Ivica Puljak, Sidika Merve Colak, Iva Šnidarić, Monica Vazquez Acosta, Ryuji Takeishi, D. M. Strom, Kari Nilsson, Yukiho Kobayashi, Davide Miceli, Giovanni Ceribella, Julian Sitarek, Yusuke Suda, Elisa Prandini, Marcel Strzys, Simona Paiano, Alessia Spolon, Léa Jouvin, Alicia Fattorini, Christian Fruck, Ramon J. García López, Daniela Hadasch, Sargis Gasparyan, Manuela Mallamaci, Carlo Vigorito, Elia Do Souto Espiñeira, Ashot Chilingarian, Simone Mender, Javier Herrera, Alessandro De Angelis, Wolfgang Rhode, Giovanni Busetto, Yoshiki Ohtani, Manuel Delfino, Ulisses Barres de Almeida, Vassil Verguilov, Lorenzo Bellizzi, Tomohiko Oka, Kyoshi Nishijima, Ana Babić, Daniel Kerszberg, Martin Makariev, Oscar Blanch, Dominik Elsaesser, Razmik Mirzoyan, Tjark Miener, David Paneque, Yuki Iwamura, Yating Chai, Damir Lelas, Stefan Cikota, Pawel Gliwny, Nicola Giglietto, Marc Ribó, Lea Heckmann, Francesco Gabriele Saturni, Jelena Strišković, Victoria Moreno, Darko Zarić, Dorota Sobczyńska, Hidetoshi Kubo, Tomohiro Inada, Zeljka Bosnjak, Andrés Baquero, Thomas Schweizer, Stefano Ansoldi, Riccardo Paoletti, Markus Gaug, Ciro Bigongiari, Abelardo Moralejo, Bernd Schleicher, Edgar Molina, Dario Hrupec, Mitsunari Takahashi, Alessandra Lamastra, Vincenzo Vitale, Francesco Leone, Paolo Da Vela, David H. Green, Marcos López-Moya, Wlodek Bednarek, Federico Di Pierro, Ruben Lopez-Coto, Irene Jiménez Martínez, and Jose Miguel Miranda
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Physics ,Range (particle radiation) ,Pulsar ,Scattering ,Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena ,Inverse ,MAGIC (telescope) ,Astrophysics ,Radiation ,Curvature ,Vela - Abstract
We report the detection of pulsed emission from the Geminga pulsar (PSR J0633+1746) with the MAGIC Telescopes. After the Crab and Vela pulsars, Geminga is the third one detected in the very high energy domain, and its estimated age of ~340 ky makes it the oldest one. The spectrum derived by MAGIC extends from ~15 GeV to 75 GeV and can be well modeled with a simple, soft power-law function. For energies below 40 GeV it overlaps with Fermi-LAT measurements. Joint fits to MAGIC and Fermi-LAT data disfavour the existence of a sub-exponential cut-off in this energy range. Our results are discussed in the framework of the outer gap accelerator model. Such power-law emission can be interpreted as the transition from curvature radiation to inverse Compton (IC) scattering of charges accelerated in the northern outer gap. The IC component is expected to continue towards higher energies. The model fails to fit the overall shape of the spectrum, indicating that a major review is required. The MAGIC Telescopes are two IACTs on the Canary Island of La Palma. In recent years they have significantly improved their performance below 100 GeV with the introduction of a novel trigger system, the Sum-Trigger-II, which halves the energy threshold of the system.
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- 2021