Date and Time: Tuesday, 29 October 2019, at 11:00 AM

Venue: Conference Hall of the Colliding Beams Division (room 231, bld. 4), Dzhelepov Laboratory of Nuclear Problems

Seminar topic: «Status of the MAGIC Telescope»

Speaker: Martin Makariev

Abstract:

MAGIC (Major Atmospheric Gamma Imaging Cherenkov) is a system of two 17 m diameter, Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes (IACT). They are dedicated to the observation of the very high energy (VHE) gamma-ray from galactic and extragalactic sources in the range from 30 GeV to 100 TeV. The telescopes are located at a height of 2200 m a.s.l. on the Roque de los Muchachos European Northern Observatory on the Canary Island of La Palma. The first telescope started the scientific observations in 2004. The commissioning of the second telescope has been finished in 2009. The use of the two telescopes provided a significant increase in sensitivity due to stronger background rejection. The energy and angular resolutions have been improved, mainly due to the higher precision of the three-dimensional reconstruction of air shower impact point and its incoming direction.