MAGIC activities in Croatia
Tomislav Terzić University of Rijeka, Department of Physics
CROHEP meeting Zagreb, 9. 12. 2019. Outline
● MAGIC telescopes ● CMC – Croatian MAGIC Consortium ● LAF – Laboratory for Astroparticle Physics @ Department of Physics, University of Rijeka ● COST Action CA18108: QG-MM ● Doctoral study in Physics @
● Department of Physics, Univeristy of Rijeka
Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes MAGIC telescopes
● MAGIC (Major Atmospheric Gamma Imaging Cherenkov) telescopes ● Stereoscopic system of two equal-sized IACTs ● Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos, 2200 m a.s.l. La Palma, Canary Islands, Spain ● Sensitive to gamma rays: 50 GeV - few tens of TeV ● Sensitivity: 10% of Crab in 1h above 100 GeV ● FoV: ~3.5°, Angular resolution: ~0.1° ● Energy resolution: ~15-23%
MAGIC Collaboration ● 185 members https://magic.mpp.mpg.de ● 12 countries Croatian MAGIC Consortium
● 15 researchers from 5 institutions
FESB UNIRI FER UNIOS IRB Split Department of Zagreb Department of Zagreb Physics Physics Rijeka Osijek Dijana Dominis Nikola Godinović Ana Babić Dario Hrupec Tihomir Surić Prester
Marina Iva Šnidarić Damir Lelas Željka Bošnjak Manganaro (PhD student)
Stefan Cikota Ivica Puljak Saša Mićanović (PhD student)
Darko Zarić Lovro Pavletić (PhD student) (PhD student)
Tomislav Terzić CMC activities
● Galactic sources ● Extragalactic sources
● Astroparticle and Fundamental physics
● Multi-wavelength studies
● Atmospheric calibration CMC responsibilities in MAGIC
● Collaboration Board (CB): Nikola Godinović (2008-now)
● Main Observation Scheduler: Dijana Dominis Prester (2013-2016)
● Data Quality Check (Software Board): Ana Babić (2014-2019), Darko Zarić (2019-now)
● Executive Board (EB) & Safety and Operation Coordinator (SOC): Dijana Dominis Prester (2017-2019), Ana Babić (2019-now)
● Time Allocation Committee (TAC): Dijana Dominis Prester (2017-now), Ana Babić (2018-now)
● Publication Board (PB): Marina Manganaro (2018-now) Highlights
● Black hole lightning due to particle acceleration at subhorizon scales, Science 346 (2014), 1080 – Variability timescale in IC310: ~4 min
● Detection of very high energy gamma-ray emission from the gravitationally lensed blazar QSO B0218+357 with the MAGIC telescopes, A&A 595 (2016), A98 – First ever detection of a VHE gamma-ray signal from a gravitationally lensed source
● Multimessenger observations of a flaring blazar coincident with high-energy neutrino IceCube-170922A, Science 361 (2018), eaat1378 – Multi-messenger study: first evidence of simultaneous neutrino emission from a VHE gamma- ray source
● Teraelectronvolt emission from the gamma-ray burst GRB 190114C, Nature 575 (2019), 455 – First ever detection of ~TeV signal from a GRB
● Observation of inverse Compton emission from a long gamma-ray burst, Nature 575 (2019), 459 – Multi-wavelength study of GRB 190114C – Proof of IC emission component in GRBs Laboratory for Astroparticle Physics LAF
LST-1 MAGIC 1 MAGIC 2
Members ● Dijana Dominis Prester ● Marina Manganaro ● Saša Mićanović ● Tomislav Terzić (head) PhD students ● Jasmina Isaković ● Lovro Pavletić ● Mario Pecimotika ● Jelena Strišković Karsten Berger COST Action CA18108
● QG-MM: Quantum gravity phenomenology in the multi-messenger approach
Working groups Networking tools ● WG1: Theory ● Annual conferences ● WG2: Phenomenology ● Granada (Spain) 10-13 March 2020 ● WG3: Gamma rays ● Workshops (Dijana Dominis Prester) ● Schools ● WG4: Neutrinos ● STSM (Tomislav Terzić) ● WG5: Cosmic rays ● Conference grants ● WG6: Gravitational waves Doctoral study in Physics
● University of Rijeka, Department of Physics http://phy.uniri.hr/en/doctoral-study-in-physics.html
● Partner institutions: – Institute of Physics, Zagreb – Clinical Hospital Center Rijeka
● Research oriented in fields of – Astro-HEP – Condensed matter physics – Medical physics
● Two generations enrolled, fully filled quota (2×10) – 6 PhD students in Astro-HEP (3 astroparticle, 3 HEP)