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2016A&A...591A.138A - Astronomy and Astrophysics, volume 591A, 138-138 (2016/7-1)

Search for VHE gamma-ray emission from Geminga pulsar and nebula with the MAGIC telescopes.

AHNEN M.L., ANSOLDI S., ANTONELLI L.A., ANTORANZ P., BABIC A., BANERJEE B., BANGALE P., BARRES DE ALMEIDA U., BARRIO J.A., BECERRA GONZALEZ J., BEDNAREK W., BERNARDINI E., BERTI A., BIASUZZI B., BILAND A., BLANCH O., BONNEFOY S., BONNOLI G., BORRACCI F., BRETZ T., BUSON S., CAROSI A., CHATTERJEE A., CLAVERO R., COLIN P., COLOMBO E., CONTRERAS J.L., CORTINA J., COVINO S., DA VELA P., DAZZI F., DE ANGELIS A., DE LOTTO B., DE ONA WILHELMI E., DI PIERRO F., DOERT M., DOMINGUEZ A., DOMINIS PRESTER D., DORNER D., DORO M., EINECKE S., EISENACHER GLAWION D., ELSAESSER D., FALLAH RAMAZANI V., FERNANDEZ-BARRAL A., FIDALGO D., FONSECA M.V., FONT L., FRANTZEN K., FRUCK C., GALINDO D., GARCIA LOPEZ R.J., GARCZARCZYK M., GARRIDO TERRATS D., GAUG M., GIAMMARIA P., GODINOVIC N., GONZALEZ MUNOZ A., GORA D., GUBERMAN D., HADASCH D., HAHN A., HANABATA Y., HAYASHIDA M., HERRERA J., HOSE J., HRUPEC D., HUGHES G., IDEC W., KODANI K., KONNO Y., KUBO H., KUSHIDA J., LA BARBERA A., LELAS D., LINDFORS E., LOMBARDI S., LONGO F., LOPEZ M., LOPEZ-COTO R., MAJUMDAR P., MAKARIEV M., MALLOT K., MANEVA G., MANGANARO M., MANNHEIM K., MARASCHI L., MARCOTE B., MARIOTTI M., MARTINEZ M., MAZIN D., MENZEL U., MIRANDA J.M., MIRZOYAN R., MORALEJO A., MORETTI E., NAKAJIMA D., NEUSTROEV V., NIEDZWIECKI A., NIEVAS ROSILLO M., NILSSON K., NISHIJIMA K., NODA K., NOGUES L., OVERKEMPING A., PAIANO S., PALACIO J., PALATIELLO M., PANEQUE D., PAOLETTI R., PAREDES J.M., PAREDES-FORTUNY X., PEDALETTI G., PERESANO M., PERRI L., PERSIC M., POUTANEN J., PRADA MORONI P.G., PRANDINI E., PULJAK I., REICHARDT I., RHODE W., RIBO M., RICO J., RODRIGUEZ GARCIA J., SAITO T., SATALECKA K., SCHULTZ C., SCHWEIZER T., SHORE S.N., SILLANPAA A., SITAREK J., SNIDARIC I., SOBCZYNSKA D., STAMERRA A., STEINBRING T., STRZYS M., SURIC T., TAKALO L., TAVECCHIO F., TEMNIKOV P., TERZIC T., TESCARO D., TESHIMA M., THAELE J., TORRES D.F., TOYAMA T., TREVES A., VANZO G., VERGUILOV V., VOVK I., WARD J.E., WILL M., WU M.H. and ZANIN R.

Abstract (from CDS):

The Geminga pulsar, one of the brighest gamma-ray sources, is a promising candidate for emission of very-high-energy (VHE>100GeV) pulsed gamma rays. Also, detection of a large nebula has been claimed by water Cherenkov instruments. We performed deep observations of Geminga with the MAGIC telescopes, yielding 63 h of good-quality data, and searched for emission from the pulsar and pulsar wind nebula. We did not find any significant detection, and derived 95% confidence level upper limits. The resulting upper limits of 5.3x10–13TeV/cm2/s for the Geminga pulsar and 3.5x10–12TeV/cm2/s for the surrounding nebula at 50GeV are the mostconstraining ones obtained so far at VHE. To complement the VHE observations, we also analyzed 5yr of Fermi-LAT data from Geminga, finding that the sub-exponential cut-off is preferred over the exponential cut-off that has been typically used in the literature. We also find that, above 10 GeV, the gamma-ray spectra from Geminga can be described with a power law with index softer than 5. The extrapolation of the power-law Fermi-LAT pulsed spectra to VHE goes well below the MAGIC upper limits, indicating that the detection of pulsed emission from Geminga with the current generation of Cherenkov telescopes is very difficult.

Abstract Copyright: © ESO, 2016

Journal keyword(s): astroparticle physics - stars: neutron - pulsars: general

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