The major upgrade of the MAGIC telescopes, Part I: The hardware improvements and the commissioning of the system

The MAGIC telescopes are two Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes (IACTs) located on the Canary island of La Palma. The telescopes are designed to measure Cherenkov light from air showers initiated by gamma rays in the energy regime from around 50 GeV to more than 50 TeV. The two telescopes were...

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Autores: MAGIC Collaboration, Marcote Martin, Benito, Munar i Adrover, Pere, Paredes i Poy, Josep Maria, Paredes Fortuny, Xavier, Ribó Gomis, Marc, Zanin, Roberta
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Fecha de publicación:2015
País:España
Institución:Varias* (Consorci de Biblioteques Universitáries de Catalunya, Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya)
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Astrofísica
Telescopis
Gamma rays
Astrophysics
Telescopes
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spelling The major upgrade of the MAGIC telescopes, Part I: The hardware improvements and the commissioning of the systemMAGIC CollaborationMarcote Martin, BenitoMunar i Adrover, PereParedes i Poy, Josep MariaParedes Fortuny, XavierRibó Gomis, MarcZanin, RobertaRaigs gammaAstrofísicaTelescopisGamma raysAstrophysicsTelescopesThe MAGIC telescopes are two Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes (IACTs) located on the Canary island of La Palma. The telescopes are designed to measure Cherenkov light from air showers initiated by gamma rays in the energy regime from around 50 GeV to more than 50 TeV. The two telescopes were built in 2004 and 2009, respectively, with different cameras, triggers and readout systems. In the years 2011-2012 the MAGIC collaboration undertook a major upgrade to make the stereoscopic system uniform, improving its overall performance and easing its maintenance. In particular, the camera, the receivers and the trigger of the first telescope were replaced and the readout of the two telescopes was upgraded. This paper (Part I) describes the details of the upgrade as well as the basic performance parameters of MAGIC such as raw data treatment, linearity in the electronic chain and sources of noise. In Part II, we describe the physics performance of the upgraded system.Elsevier B.V.201620152016info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersion15 p.application/pdfhttps://hdl.handle.net/2445/69530Articles publicats en revistes (Física Quàntica i Astrofísica)reponame:Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunyainstname:Varias* (Consorci de Biblioteques Universitáries de Catalunya, Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya)InglésVersió postprint del document publicat a: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.astropartphys.2015.04.004Astroparticle Physics, 2015, vol. 72, p. 61-75http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.astropartphys.2015.04.004(c) Elsevier B.V., 2015info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:recercat.cat:2445/695302026-05-29T05:05:01Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv The major upgrade of the MAGIC telescopes, Part I: The hardware improvements and the commissioning of the system
title The major upgrade of the MAGIC telescopes, Part I: The hardware improvements and the commissioning of the system
spellingShingle The major upgrade of the MAGIC telescopes, Part I: The hardware improvements and the commissioning of the system
MAGIC Collaboration
Raigs gamma
Astrofísica
Telescopis
Gamma rays
Astrophysics
Telescopes
title_short The major upgrade of the MAGIC telescopes, Part I: The hardware improvements and the commissioning of the system
title_full The major upgrade of the MAGIC telescopes, Part I: The hardware improvements and the commissioning of the system
title_fullStr The major upgrade of the MAGIC telescopes, Part I: The hardware improvements and the commissioning of the system
title_full_unstemmed The major upgrade of the MAGIC telescopes, Part I: The hardware improvements and the commissioning of the system
title_sort The major upgrade of the MAGIC telescopes, Part I: The hardware improvements and the commissioning of the system
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv MAGIC Collaboration
Marcote Martin, Benito
Munar i Adrover, Pere
Paredes i Poy, Josep Maria
Paredes Fortuny, Xavier
Ribó Gomis, Marc
Zanin, Roberta
author MAGIC Collaboration
author_facet MAGIC Collaboration
Marcote Martin, Benito
Munar i Adrover, Pere
Paredes i Poy, Josep Maria
Paredes Fortuny, Xavier
Ribó Gomis, Marc
Zanin, Roberta
author_role author
author2 Marcote Martin, Benito
Munar i Adrover, Pere
Paredes i Poy, Josep Maria
Paredes Fortuny, Xavier
Ribó Gomis, Marc
Zanin, Roberta
author2_role author
author
author
author
author
author
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Raigs gamma
Astrofísica
Telescopis
Gamma rays
Astrophysics
Telescopes
topic Raigs gamma
Astrofísica
Telescopis
Gamma rays
Astrophysics
Telescopes
description The MAGIC telescopes are two Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes (IACTs) located on the Canary island of La Palma. The telescopes are designed to measure Cherenkov light from air showers initiated by gamma rays in the energy regime from around 50 GeV to more than 50 TeV. The two telescopes were built in 2004 and 2009, respectively, with different cameras, triggers and readout systems. In the years 2011-2012 the MAGIC collaboration undertook a major upgrade to make the stereoscopic system uniform, improving its overall performance and easing its maintenance. In particular, the camera, the receivers and the trigger of the first telescope were replaced and the readout of the two telescopes was upgraded. This paper (Part I) describes the details of the upgrade as well as the basic performance parameters of MAGIC such as raw data treatment, linearity in the electronic chain and sources of noise. In Part II, we describe the physics performance of the upgraded system.
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dc.relation.none.fl_str_mv Versió postprint del document publicat a: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.astropartphys.2015.04.004
Astroparticle Physics, 2015, vol. 72, p. 61-75
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