Search for very high energy gamma-ray emission from pulsar-pulsar wind nebula systems with the MAGIC telescope

The MAGIC collaboration has searched for high-energy gamma-ray emission of some of the most promising pulsar candidates above an energy threshold of 50 GeV, an energy not reachable up to now by other ground-based instruments. Neither pulsed nor steady gamma-ray emission has been observed at energies...

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Autores: Antoranz, P., Baixeras Divar, Carmen, Balestra, S., Barrio, J. A., Becerra González, J., Bordas Coma, Pol, Bosch i Ramon, Valentí, Bose, D., Camara, M., Contreras, J. L., Delgado Mendez, C., Fonseca, M. V., Miranda, J. M., Moldón Vara, Francisco Javier, Nieto, D., Oya, I., Paredes i Poy, Josep Maria, Ribó Gomis, Marc, Robert, A., Zabalza de Torres, Víctor
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2010
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Barcelona
Repositorio:Dipòsit Digital de la UB
OAI Identifier:oai:diposit.ub.edu:2445/46865
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/2445/46865
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Astronomia de raigs gamma
Púlsars
Telescopis espacials
Nebuloses
Astrofísica
Gamma ray astronomy
Pulsars
Space telescopes
Nebulae
Astrophysics
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Sumario:The MAGIC collaboration has searched for high-energy gamma-ray emission of some of the most promising pulsar candidates above an energy threshold of 50 GeV, an energy not reachable up to now by other ground-based instruments. Neither pulsed nor steady gamma-ray emission has been observed at energies of 100 GeV from the classical radio pulsars PSR J0205+6449 and PSR J2229+6114 (and their nebulae 3C58 and Boomerang, respectively) and the millisecond pulsar PSR J0218+4232. Here, we present the flux upper limits for these sources and discuss their implications in the context of current model predictions.

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