20–22 Jun 2007
University of Roma "La Sapienza"
Europe/Zurich timezone

MAGIC observations of the HMXB LS I +61 303 in VHE gamma rays

21 Jun 2007, 12:15
15m
Sala TeleConferenze Rettorato (University of Roma "La Sapienza")

Sala TeleConferenze Rettorato

University of Roma "La Sapienza"

Piazzale Aldo Moro 2 00185 Roma - Italy

Speaker

Tobias Jogler (Max Planck Institut für Physik, Germany)

Description

MAGIC is currently the largest Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescope (IACT) of the world and is located at the Canary Island La Palma. Recent observations performed by this high sensitivity instrument discovered the High Mass X-ray Binary (HMXB) LS I +61 303 at VHE gamma rays. The emission from LS I +61 303 was found to be variable, and the source was visible above 100~GeV energies at different runs only during some orbital phases that do not coincide with the periastron passage. Here we report on the results of an accurate analysis of the LS I +61 303 MAGIC observations.

Author

Tobias Jogler (Max Planck Institut für Physik, Germany)

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