Monitoring the magnetar SGR 1935+2154 with the MAGIC telescopes
Paper in proceeding, 2022

The Galactic magnetar SGR 1935+2154 was associated with a bright, millisecond-timescale fast radio burst (FRB) which occured in April 2020, during a flaring episode. This was the first time an FRB was unequivocally associated with a Galactic source, and the first FRB for which the nature of the emitting source was identified. Moreover, it was the first FRB with a counterpart at another wavelength correlated in time, an atypical, hard X-ray burst, which provides clear evidence for accompanying non-thermal processes. The MAGIC Telescopes are Imaging Air Cherenkov Telescopes (IACTs) sensitive to very-high-energy (VHE, E>100 GeV) gamma rays. Located at the center of the camera lies the MAGIC Central pixel, a single fully-modified photosensor-toreadout chain to measure millisecond-duration optical signals, displaying a maximum sensitivity at a wavelength of 350 nm. This allows MAGIC to operate simultaneously both as a VHE gammaray and a fast optical telescope. The MAGIC telescopes have monitored SGR 1935+2154 in a multiwavelength campaign involving X-ray, radio and optical facilities. In this contribution, we will show the results on the search for the VHE counterpart of the first SGR-FRB source in this multiwavelength context, as well as the search for fast optical bursts with the MAGIC Central Pixel.

Author

V.A. Acciari

University of La Laguna

S. Ansoldi

University of Udine

International Center for Relativistic Astrophysics

L.A. Antonelli

Istituto nazionale di astrofisica (INAF)

A. Arbet Engels

Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich (ETH)

M. Artero

Institut de Física d'Altes Energies, Bellaterra

K. Asano

University of Tokyo

D. Baack

Technische Universität Dortmund

A. Babic

University of Zagreb

A. Baquero

IPARCOS-UCM (Instituto de Física de Partículas y del Cosmos)

U. Barres De Almeida

Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Fisicas

J.A. Barrio

IPARCOS-UCM (Instituto de Física de Partículas y del Cosmos)

I. Batkovic

University of Padua

J. Becerra González

University of La Laguna

W. Bednarek

University of Lodz

L. Bellizzi

University of Siena

E. Bernardini

Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY)

M. Bernardos

University of Padua

A. Berti

Max Planck Society

J. Besenrieder

Max Planck Society

W. Bhattacharyya

Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY)

C. Bigongiari

Istituto nazionale di astrofisica (INAF)

A. Biland

Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich (ETH)

O. Blanch

Institut de Física d'Altes Energies, Bellaterra

H. Bökenkamp

Technische Universität Dortmund

G. Bonnoli

Institute of Astrophysics of Andalusia (IAA)

Ž. Bošnjak

University of Zagreb

G. Busetto

University of Padua

R. Carosi

University of Pisa

M. Cerruti

Max Planck Society

M. Cerruti

University of Barcelona

Y. Chai

Max Planck Society

A. Chilingarian

Yerevan Physics Institute

S. Cikota

University of Zagreb

S.M. Colak

Institut de Física d'Altes Energies, Bellaterra

E. Colombo

University of La Laguna

J.L. Contreras

IPARCOS-UCM (Instituto de Física de Partículas y del Cosmos)

J. Cortina

Centro de Investigaciones Energeticas, Medioambientales y Tecnologicas (Ciemat)

S. Covino

Istituto nazionale di astrofisica (INAF)

G. D'Amico

Max Planck Society

V. D'Elia

Istituto nazionale di astrofisica (INAF)

P. Da Vela

University of Pisa

F. Dazzi

Istituto nazionale di astrofisica (INAF)

A. De Angelis

University of Padua

B. De Lotto

University of Udine

M. Delfino

Port d'Informació Científica (PIC)

Institut de Física d'Altes Energies, Bellaterra

J. Delgado

Port d'Informació Científica (PIC)

Institut de Física d'Altes Energies, Bellaterra

C. Delgado Mendez

Centro de Investigaciones Energeticas, Medioambientales y Tecnologicas (Ciemat)

D. Depaoli

University of Turin

F. Di Pierro

University of Turin

L. Di Venere

Polytechnic University of Bari

E. Do Souto Espineira

Institut de Física d'Altes Energies, Bellaterra

D. Dominis Prester

Faculty of Physics, University of Rijeka

A. Donini

University of Udine

D. Dorner

University of Würzburg

M. Doro

University of Padua

D. Elsaesser

Technische Universität Dortmund

V. Fallah Ramazani

University of Turku

A. Fattorini

Technische Universität Dortmund

M.V. Fonseca

IPARCOS-UCM (Instituto de Física de Partículas y del Cosmos)

L. Font

Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (UAB)

C. Fruck

Max Planck Society

S. Fukami

University of Tokyo

Y. Fukazawa

Hiroshima University

R. J.García López

University of La Laguna

M. Garczarczyk

Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY)

S. Gasparyan

National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia

M. Gaug

Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (UAB)

N. Giglietto

Polytechnic University of Bari

F. Giordano

Polytechnic University of Bari

P. Gliwny

University of Lodz

N. Godinović

University of Split

J.G. Green

Istituto nazionale di astrofisica (INAF)

D. A. Green

Max Planck Society

D. Hadasch

University of Tokyo

A. Hahn

Max Planck Society

L. Heckmann

Max Planck Society

J. Herrera

University of La Laguna

J. Hoang

IPARCOS-UCM (Instituto de Física de Partículas y del Cosmos)

D. Hrupec

Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek

M. Hütten

Max Planck Society

T. Inada

University of Tokyo

K. Ishio

University of Lodz

Y. Iwamura

University of Tokyo

J. Jormanainen

University of Turku

L. Jouvin

Institut de Física d'Altes Energies, Bellaterra

M. Karjalainen

University of La Laguna

D. Kerszberg

Institut de Física d'Altes Energies, Bellaterra

Y. Kobayashi

University of Tokyo

H. Kubo

Kyoto University

J. Kushida

Tokai University

A. Lamastra

Istituto nazionale di astrofisica (INAF)

D. Lelas

University of Split

F. Leone

Istituto nazionale di astrofisica (INAF)

E. Lindfors

University of Turku

L. Linhoff

Technische Universität Dortmund

S. Lombardi

Istituto nazionale di astrofisica (INAF)

F. Longo

University of Trieste

University of Udine

R. López-Coto

University of Padua

M. López-Moya

IPARCOS-UCM (Instituto de Física de Partículas y del Cosmos)

A. López-Oramas

University of La Laguna

Franz Kirsten

Chalmers, Space, Earth and Environment, Onsala Space Observatory

Proceedings of Science

18248039 (eISSN)

Vol. 395 783

37th International Cosmic Ray Conference, ICRC 2021
Virtual, Berlin, Germany,

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