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Referencia bibliográfica
Astroparticle Physics, Volume 72, p. 61-75.
Fecha de publicación:
1
2016
Revista
Número de citas
169
Número de citas referidas
118
Descripción
The MAGIC telescopes are two Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes
(IACTs) located on the Canary island of La Palma. The telescopes are
designed to measure Cherenkov light from air showers initiated by gamma
rays in the energy regime from around 50 GeV to more than 50 TeV. The
two telescopes were built in 2004 and 2009, respectively, with different
cameras, triggers and readout systems. In the years 2011-2012 the MAGIC
collaboration undertook a major upgrade to make the stereoscopic system
uniform, improving its overall performance and easing its maintenance.
In particular, the camera, the receivers and the trigger of the first
telescope were replaced and the readout of the two telescopes was
upgraded. This paper (Part I) describes the details of the upgrade as
well as the basic performance parameters of MAGIC such as raw data
treatment, linearity in the electronic chain and sources of noise. In
Part II, we describe the physics performance of the upgraded system.