Science with the New Generation of High Energy Gamma-Ray Experiments #6

Session

Galactic Sources 2

9 Oct 2008, 14:30

Padova

2. Detection of pulsed gamma rays above 25 GeV from the Crab Pulsar with the MAGIC Telescope

Maxim Shayduk (Max-Planck-Institut fuer Physik, D-80805 Muenchen), Michael Rissi (ETH Zuerich, CH-8093 Switzerland)

09/10/2008, 14:45

We present the detection of the Crab Pulsar above 25 GeV by the 17m diameter MAGIC telescope. We observed the Crab Pulsar between October 2007 and February 2008 using a newly developed trigger system, which allowed us to lower the energy threshold of the telescope from 55 GeV to 25 GeV. From previous non-detections of the Crab pulsar above 55 GeV and from the observations by the EGRET...

7. Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope Observations of Gamma-ray Pulsars

Dr Pablo Saz Parkinson (University of California, Santa Cruz)

09/10/2008, 15:05

The Large Area Telescope on the recently launched Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope (formerly GLAST), with its large field of view and effective area, combined with its excellent timing capabilities is poised to revolutionize the field of gamma-ray astrophysics. The significant improvement in sensitivity of Fermi over EGRET is expected to result in the discovery of a large number of new...