Bibcode
Galante, Nicola; Antonelli, Lucio Angelo; Bastieri, Denis; Gaug, Markus; Garczarczyk, Markus; La Barbera, Antonino; Longo, Francesco; Scapin, Valeria
Bibliographical reference
HIGH ENERGY GAMMA-RAY ASTRONOMY: Proceedings of the 4th International Meeting on High Energy Gamma-Ray Astronomy. AIP Conference Proceedings, Volume 1085, pp. 411-414 (2008).
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2008
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Description
After three years since the beginning of operation, the MAGIC telescope
could observe several GRB events in the prompt and early afterglow
phase. Thanks to its innovative design, the telescope could promptly
react to incoming GCN alerts and rapidly slew to the burst coordinates
within a typical delay of 50 seconds, performing observations with an
energy threshold spanning from 80 to 200 GeV. The observations did not
reveal any γ-ray emission. The computed upper limits are
compatible with a power law extrapolation, where intrinsic fluxes are
evaluated taking into account the attenuation due to the scattering with
the Extragalactic Background Light.