7–11 Aug 2017
Columbus, Ohio, USA
US/Eastern timezone

Multi-year observations of the Galactic Center region with the MAGIC telescopes

7 Aug 2017, 16:30
15m
Corinthian Room (The Athenaeum)

Corinthian Room

The Athenaeum

Oral Galactic sources (incl. transients) Galactic sources

Speaker

Ievgen Vovk

Description

The Galactic Center region is one of the primary targets for
observations with the current generation of gamma-ray telescopes. This
attention is primarily caused by the presence of a black hole of 4
million solar masses, which provides a rare opportunity to study
the interaction of a super-massive black hole with surrounding matter
at a relatively close distance. Recently the interest to this region was
increased by a series of exciting discoveries: the large, extended
bubbles detected with Fermi/LAT, the envisioned burst of high-energy
emission due to the passage of the G2 gas cloud, the likely pevatron
nature of the primary source unveiled with H.E.S.S. and the discovery of
a new source in the region, reported by the major Cherenkov telescopes
MAGIC, H.E.S.S. and VERITAS. All these underline the complex physics of
the region, revealed by deep gamma-ray observations.
In this talk I will present the results of the multi-year observational
program of the Galactic Center region with the MAGIC telescopes,
conducted at large zenith angle. I will discuss in detail the morphology of this region and compare it with predictions of several different models.

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