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Detection of the Geminga pulsar with MAGIC hints at a power-law tail emission beyond 15 GeV

Acciari V. A.
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Ansoldi S.
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Antonelli L. A.
altro
Saz Parkinson P. M.
2020
  • journal article

Periodico
ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS
Abstract
We report the detection of pulsed gamma-ray emission from the Geminga pulsar (PSR J0633+1746) between 15 GeV and 75 GeV. This is the first time a middle-aged pulsar has been detected up to these energies. Observations were carried out with the MAGIC telescopes between 2017 and 2019 using the low-energy threshold Sum-Trigger-II system. After quality selection cuts, ∼80 h of observational data were used for this analysis. To compare with the emission at lower energies below the sensitivity range of MAGIC, 11 years of Fermi-LAT data above 100 MeV were also analysed. From the two pulses per rotation seen by Fermi-LAT, only the second one, P2, is detected in the MAGIC energy range, with a significance of 6.3σ. The spectrum measured by MAGIC is well-represented by a simple power law of spectral index Γ = 5.62 ± 0.54, which smoothly extends the Fermi-LAT spectrum. A joint fit to MAGIC and Fermi-LAT data rules out the existence of a sub-exponential cut-off in the combined energy range at the 3.6σ significance level. The power-law tail emission detected by MAGIC is interpreted as the transition from curvature radiation to Inverse Compton Scattering of particles accelerated in the northern outer gap.
DOI
10.1051/0004-6361/202039131
WOS
WOS:000595643800001
Archivio
http://hdl.handle.net/11368/2994703
info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/scopus/2-s2.0-85096799037
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open access
license:creative commons
license uri:http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
FVG url
https://arts.units.it/bitstream/11368/2994703/2/aa39131-20.pdf
Soggetti
  • Gamma rays: star

  • Pulsars: general

  • Pulsars: individual: ...

  • Pulsars: individual: ...

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Data di acquisizione
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