Search for High Energy emission from GRBs with MAGIC
Abstract
Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) are the most violent explosions in the Universe, releasing a huge amount of energy in few seconds. While our understanding of the prompt and the afterglow phases has increased with Swift and Fermi, we have very few information about their High Energy (HE, E <~ 100) emission components. This requires a ground-based experiment able to perform fast follow-up with enough sensitivity above ~ 50 GeV. The MAGIC (Major Atmospheric Gamma-ray Imaging Cherenkov) telescopes have been designed to perform fast follow-up on GRBs thanks to fast slewing movement and low energy threshold (~ 50 GeV). Since the beginning of the operations, MAGIC followed-up 89 GRBs in good observational conditions. In this contribution the MAGIC GRBs follow-up campaign and the results which could be obtained by detecting HE and Very High Energy (VHE, E >~ 100 GeV) γ-rays from GRBs will be reviewed.
- Publication:
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New Frontiers in Black Hole Astrophysics
- Pub Date:
- 2017
- DOI:
- Bibcode:
- 2017IAUS..324...70B
- Keywords:
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- Gamma-Ray Bursts;
- MAGIC;
- high-energy emission