Speaker
David Paneque
(Institute for Cosmic Ray Research and Max Planck Institute for Physics)
Description
The MAGIC telescope system consists of two 17-m diameter mirror dish telescopes located at 2200m a.s.l. at the Canary Island of La Palma, in Spain. MAGIC has operated since 2004, and has produced more than 160 publications over a wide range of research areas, including astrophysics with Galactic and extragalactic objects, dark matter searches, and studies of cosmology via the propagation of gamma rays from distant sources. MAGIC has become a world-wide leading instrument for gamma-ray astronomy in the energy range from 25 GeV to beyond 100 TeV, and an active participant in various multiwavelength and multimessenger observational campaigns. In the conference I will give a status report of the instrument and its operation, and I will review several exciting results recently obtained with MAGIC data, including observations of TXS 0506+056, the blazar coincident with the 290 TeV neutrino IC-170922A, and the implications of the first detections of Gamma-Ray Bursts at TeV energies.
Primary author
David Paneque
(Institute for Cosmic Ray Research and Max Planck Institute for Physics)
