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T: Fachverband Teilchenphysik

T 89: Gamma astronomy 4

T 89.1: Talk

Thursday, March 7, 2024, 16:00–16:15, Geb. 30.22: kl. HS A

Group report: the future has more MAGIC! Highlights and prospects from the MAGIC Collaboration — Giovanni Ceribella and •Alessio Berti for the MAGIC collaboration — Max-Planck-Institut für Physik, Blotzmannstr. 8, 85748 Garching

Even more than twenty years after its first light, MAGIC keeps delivering cutting-edge science in the multifaceted field of very-high-energy gamma-ray astronomy (VHE). Located at the observatory of the Roque de Los Muchachos, at 2200m above sea level on the Canary island of La Palma (Spain), the two 17m-diameter imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes have decisively contributed to the development of VHE astrophysics in the last two decades. While future perspectives are focusing more and more on the next generation telescopes of CTAO, the MAGIC telescopes still have compelling science cases, that motivated its participating institutions to extend the collaboration for five additional years (2029). In the talk I will review recent scientific highlights from MAGIC in galactic, extragalactic, and fundamental physics, present its novel technical developments, and discuss its future.

Keywords: MAGIC; IACTs; Cherenkov; gamma-ray