SEARCH FOR VERY HIGH ENERGY GAMMA-RAY EMISSION FROM PULSAR-PULSAR WIND NEBULA SYSTEMS WITH THE MAGIC TELESCOPE

H. Anderhub (1) , L.A. Antonelli (2) , P. Antoranz (3) , M. Backes (4) , C. Baixeras (5) , S. Balestra (3) , J.A. Barrio (3) , D. Bastieri (6) , J.Becerra González , J.K. Becker (4) , W. Bednarek (7) , Al K. Berger (7) , E. Bernardini , A. Biland (1) , R.K. Bock , G. Bonnoli , P. Bordas , D. Borla Tridon , V. Bosch-Ramon , D. Bose (3) , I. Braun (1) , T. Bretz , D. Britzger , M. Camara (3) , E. Carmona , A. Carosi , P. Colin , S. Commichau (1) , J.L. Contreras (3) , Ismaël Cognard (8)

1 ETH Zürich - Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology [Zürich]
2 INAF - Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica
3 UCM - Universidad Complutense de Madrid = Complutense University of Madrid [Madrid]
4 TU - Technische Universität Dortmund [Dortmund]
5 UAB - Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
6 Unipd - Università degli Studi di Padova = University of Padua
7 University of Lódź
8 LPC2E - Laboratoire de Physique et Chimie de l'Environnement et de l'Espace

The MAGIC collaboration has searched for high-energy gamma-ray emission of some of the most promising pulsar candidates above an energy threshold of 50 GeV, an energy not reachable up to now by other ground-based instruments. Neither pulsed nor steady gamma-ray emission has been observed at energies of 100 GeV from the classical radio pulsars PSR J0205+6449 and PSR J2229+6114 (and their nebulae 3C58 and Boomerang, respectively) and the millisecond pulsar PSR J0218+4232. Here, we present the flux upper limits for these sources and discuss their implications in the context of current model predictions.

Keywords: gamma rays: stars; methods: observational; pulsars: individual (PSR J0205+6449 PSR J2229+6114 PSR J0218+4232); telescopes

Domains: Sciences of the Universe [physics]

H. Anderhub, L.A. Antonelli, P. Antoranz, M. Backes, C. Baixeras, et al.. SEARCH FOR VERY HIGH ENERGY GAMMA-RAY EMISSION FROM PULSAR-PULSAR WIND NEBULA SYSTEMS WITH THE MAGIC TELESCOPE. The Astrophysical Journal, 2010, 710 (1), pp.828-835. ⟨10.1088/0004-637X/710/1/828⟩. ⟨insu-02940412⟩