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T: Fachverband Teilchenphysik

T 83: Gamma-Astronomie 2

T 83.1: Group Report

Tuesday, March 10, 2009, 16:45–17:05, M218

MAGIC goes stereo: The status of MAGIC II commissioning — •Thomas Schweizer — MPI für Physik, Föhringer Ring6, 80805 München

MAGIC is one of the very successful Cherenkov telescope installations in the world with the world largest operating single dish telescope. MAGIC has produced many interesting results in gamma-ray astronomy. Now MAGIC is expanded into a stereo system by the construction of a second telescope. The second telescope will improve the sensitivity by a factor of about 2, especially in the energy range below 100-150 GeV, it will also improve the angular resolution and the energy resolution significantly. The status of the commissioning and first results are reported here as well as a time schedule for the operation in stereo mode.