Bibcode
Bhattacharyya, W.; Bigongiari, C.; Berti, A.; Besenrieder, J.; Bernardini, E.; Bednarek, W.; Barrio, J. A.; Becerra González, J.; Barres de Almeida, U.; Banerjee, B.; Babić, A.; Baack, D.; Arbet Engels, A.; Antonelli, L. A.; Ansoldi, S.; Acciari, V. A.; MAGIC Collaboration; Colak, S. M.; Colin, P.; Colombo, E.; Cikota, S.; Carosi, R.; Ceribella, G.; Blanch, O.; Bonnoli, G.; Busetto, G.; Biland, A.; Contreras, J. L.; Cortina, J.; Covino, S.; D'Elia, V.; Da Vela, P.; Dazzi, F.; De Angelis, A.; De Lotto, B.; Delfino, M.; Delgado, J.; Di Pierro, F.; Do Souto Espiñera, E.; Domínguez, A.; Dominis Prester, D.; Dorner, D.; Doro, M.; Einecke, S.; Elsaesser, D.; Fallah Ramazani, V.; Fattorini, A.; Fernández-Barral, A.; Ferrara, G.; Fidalgo, D.; Foffano, L.; Fonseca, M. V.; Font, L.; Fruck, C.; Galindo, D.; Gallozzi, S.; García López, R. J.; Garczarczyk, M.; Gasparyan, S.; Gaug, M.; Giammaria, P.; Godinović, N.; Green, D.; Guberman, D.; Hadasch, D.; Hahn, A.; Herrera, J.; Hoang, J.; Hrupec, D.; Inoue, S.; Ishio, K.; Iwamura, Y.; Kubo, H.; Kushida, J.; Kuveždić, D.; Lamastra, A.; Lelas, D.; Leone, F.; Lindfors, E.; Lombardi, S.; Longo, F.; López, M.; López-Oramas, A.; Machado de Oliveira Fraga, B.; Maggio, C.; Majumdar, P.; Makariev, M.; Mallamaci, M.; Maneva, G.; Manganaro, M.; Mannheim, K.; Maraschi, L.; Mariotti, M.; Martínez, M.; Masuda, S.; Mazin, D.; Minev, M.; Miranda, J. M.; Mirzoyan, R.; Molina, E. et al.
Bibliographical reference
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 484, Issue 2, p.2876-2885
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2019
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Description
A population of globular clusters (GCs) has been recently established by
the Fermi-LAT telescope as a new class of GeV γ-ray sources.
Leptons accelerated to TeV energies, in the inner magnetospheres of MSPs
or in their wind regions, should produce γ-rays through the
inverse Compton scattering in the dense radiation field from the huge
population of stars. We have conducted deep observations of the GC M15
with the MAGIC telescopes and used 165 h in order to search for
γ-ray emission. A strong upper limit on the TeV γ-ray flux
\lt 3.2× 10^{-13} cm^{-2 s^{-1}} above 300 GeV (\lt 0.26{{ per
cent}} of the Crab nebula flux) has been obtained. We interpret this
limit as a constraint on the efficiency of the acceleration of leptons
in the magnetospheres of the MSPs. We constrain the injection rate of
relativistic leptons, ηe, from the MSPs magnetospheres
and their surrounding. We conclude that ηe must be lower
than expected from the modelling of high-energy processes in MSP inner
magnetospheres. For leptons accelerated with the power-law spectrum in
the MSP wind regions, ηe is constrained to be much lower
than derived for the wind regions around classical pulsars. These
constraints are valid for the expected range of magnetic field strengths
within the GC and for the range of likely energies of leptons injected
from the inner magnetospheres, provided that the leptons are not removed
from the GC very efficiently due to advection process. We discuss
consequences of these constraints for the models of radiation processes
around millisecond pulsars.
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The MAGIC Collaboration is integrated by 20 research institutes and university departments from Armenia, Bulgaria, Finland, Germany, Italy, Poland, Spain, Switzerland and USA. The collaboration comprises two 17m diameter telescopes, located at the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory, designed to measure the Cherenkov radiation associated with
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