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Search for High Energy emission from GRBs with MAGIC

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 June 2017

Alessio Berti Open the ORCID record for Alessio Berti [Opens in a new window]  and
for the MAGIC GRB group
Alessio Berti
Affiliation:
INFN Trieste, University of Trieste via Valerio 2, I-34127, Trieste, Italy email: [email protected]
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Abstract

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Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) are the most violent explosions in the Universe, releasing a huge amount of energy in few seconds. While our understanding of the prompt and the afterglow phases has increased with Swift and Fermi, we have very few information about their High Energy (HE, E ≲ 100) emission components. This requires a ground-based experiment able to perform fast follow-up with enough sensitivity above ~ 50 GeV. The MAGIC (Major Atmospheric Gamma-ray Imaging Cherenkov) telescopes have been designed to perform fast follow-up on GRBs thanks to fast slewing movement and low energy threshold (~ 50 GeV). Since the beginning of the operations, MAGIC followed-up 89 GRBs in good observational conditions. In this contribution the MAGIC GRBs follow-up campaign and the results which could be obtained by detecting HE and Very High Energy (VHE, E ≳ 100 GeV) γ-rays from GRBs will be reviewed.

Keywords

Gamma-Ray BurstsMAGIChigh-energy emission
Type
Contributed Papers
Information
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 12 , Symposium S324: New Frontiers in Black Hole Astrophysics , September 2016 , pp. 70 - 73
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Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2017 

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