Paper: astro-ph/0512184
Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2005 14:00:48 GMT (61kb)

Title: The MAGIC Telescope

Authors: Ciro Bigongiari (for the MAGIC collaboration)

Comments: 4 pages, 2 figures To be published on proceedings of HEP2005
International Europhysics Conference on High Energy Physics EPS (July
21st-27th 2005) in Lisboa, Portugal
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MAGIC (Major Atmospheric Gamma Imaging Cherenkov telescope) is presently the
largest ground-based gamma ray telescope. MAGIC has been taking data regularly
since October 2004 at the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory on the island of
La Palma. In this paper the MAGIC telescope status, its performances and some
preliminary results on observed gamma ray sources are presented.

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