The MAGIC Project: Contributions to ICRC 2007, Merida, Mexico. Contents pages for the Contribution on behalf of the MAGIC Collaboration to the 30th ICRC that took place in July 2007 in Merida, ...Mexico. The contents are in html form with clickable links to the papers that exist on the Astrophysics archive. We hope that this will make it easier to access the output of the conference in a systematic way. Comments on how useful this is/ how it could be improved should be sent to michela.demaria@iuav.it.
Astrophys.J.641:L9-L12,2006 The long-duration GRB050713a was observed by the MAGIC Telescope, 40 seconds
after the burst onset, and followed up for 37 minutes, until twilight. The
observation, ...triggered by a SWIFT alert, covered energies above ~175 GeV. Using
standard MAGIC analysis, no evidence for a gamma signal was found. As the
redshift of the GRB was not measured directly, the flux upper limit, estimated
by MAGIC, is still compatible with the assumption of an unbroken power-law
spectrum extending from a few hundred keV to our energy range.
The long-duration GRB050713a was observed by the MAGIC Telescope, 40 seconds after the burst onset, and followed up for 37 minutes, until twilight. The observation, triggered by a SWIFT alert, ...covered energies above ~175 GeV. Using standard MAGIC analysis, no evidence for a gamma signal was found. As the redshift of the GRB was not measured directly, the flux upper limit, estimated by MAGIC, is still compatible with the assumption of an unbroken power-law spectrum extending from a few hundred keV to our energy range.
Context. Part of the very high energy γ-ray radiation coming from extragalactic sources is absorbed through the pair production process on the extragalactic background light photons. Extragalactic ...magnetic fields alter the trajectories of these cascade pairs and, in turn, convert cosmic background photons to γ-ray energies by inverse Compton scattering. These secondary photons can form an extended halo around bright VHE sources. Aims. We searched for an extended emission around the bright blazars Mrk 421 and Mrk 501 using the MAGIC telescope data. Methods. If extended emission is present, the angular distribution of reconstructed γ-ray arrival directions around the source is broader than for a point-like source. In the analysis of a few tens of hours of observational data taken from Mrk 421 and Mrk 501 we used a newly developed method that provides better angular resolution. This method is based on the usage of multidimensional decision trees. Comparing the measured shapes of angular distributions with those expected from a point-like source one can detect or constrain possible extended emission around the source. We also studied the influence of different types of systematic errors on the shape of the distribution of reconstructed γ-ray arrival directions for a point source. Results. We present upper limits for an extended emission calculated for both sources for various source extensions and emission profiles. We obtain upper limits on the extended emission around the Mrk 421 (Mrk 501) on the level of <5% (<4%) of the Crab Nebula flux above the energy threshold of 300 GeV. Using these results we discuss possible constraints on the extragalactic magnetic fields strength around a few times 10-15 G.
Aims.We searched for very high energy (VHE) γ-ray emission from the supernova remnant Cassiopeia A Methods.The shell-type supernova remnant Cassiopeia A was observed with the 17 m MAGIC telescope ...between July 2006 and January 2007 for a total time of 47 h. Results.The source was detected above an energy of 250 GeV with a significance of 5.2σ and a photon flux above 1 TeV of (7.3 ± $0.7_{\rm stat}$ ± $2.2_{\rm sys})$ $\times$ 10-13 cm-2s-1. The photon spectrum is compatible with a power law dN/dE $\propto$ $E^{-\Gamma}$ with a photon index Γ = 2.3 ± $0.2_{\rm stat}$ ± $0.2_{\rm sys}$. The source is point-like within the angular resolution of the telescope.
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