1998/05/14 by N. Magnussen, Magnussen, N.
Physics and Astronomy · #Astrophysics (astro-ph) #Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena #FOS: Physical sciences #Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae #Particle Detector Development and Performance #astro-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9805184
11 pages, 7 Postscript figures, Proc. 36th INFN ELOISATRON Workshop on NEW DETECTORS, Erice, November 1997
arxiv created 1998/05/14 · openalex publication_date 1998/05/14 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
A project to construct a 17 m diameter imaging air Cherenkov telescope, called the MAGIC Telescope, is described. The aim of the project is to close the observation gap in the gamma-ray sky extending from 10 GeV as the highest energy measurable by space-borne experiments to 300 GeV, the lowest energy measurable by the current generation of ground-based Cherenkov telescopes. The MAGIC Telescope will incorporate several new features in order to reach the very low energy threshold. At the same time the new technology will yield an improvement in sensitivity in the energy region where current Cherenkov telescopes are measuring by about an order of magnitude.