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MAGIC observations of Dragonfly Nebula at TeV Energies using the Very Large Zenith Angle Technique

Authors :
Zarić, Darko
Mirzoyan, Razmik
Vovk, Ievgen
Temnikov, Petar
Peresano, Michele
Godinović, Nikola
van Scherpenberg, Juliane
Besenrieder, Jürgen
Source :
Proceedings of the 36th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC2019), PoS(ICRC2019)827
Publication Year :
2019

Abstract

One of the brightest regions of diffuse gamma-ray emission in the northern sky is the Cygnus star-forming region, where one can assume the most energetic processes are taking place. The Dragonfly Nebula (MGRO J2019+37) is one of the brightest sources in the Cygnus region. First discovered by MILAGRO, it was later resolved into two sources by VERITAS: the faint point-like source VER J2016+371 and the bright extended source VER J2019+368. The latter accounts for the bulk of the MGRO J2019+37 emission, with the spectrum among the hardest in the TeV range. We report the results of a dedicated MAGIC observational campaign of VER J2019+368. The data obtained with the Very Large Zenith Angle observational technique provides an effective collection area of about one square kilometer. We used $\sim$45 hours of data collected under Very Large Zenith Angles for exploring the flux of the source at TeV energies.<br />Comment: Proceedings of the ICRC 2019

Details

Database :
arXiv
Journal :
Proceedings of the 36th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC2019), PoS(ICRC2019)827
Publication Type :
Report
Accession number :
edsarx.1909.05107
Document Type :
Working Paper