GCN Circular 18776
Subject
LIGO/Virgo G211117: MAGIC very-high energy gamma-ray observations
Date
2015-12-30T16:14:44Z (9 years ago)
From
Antonio Stamerra at INAF-OATo/SNS-Pisa <antonio.stamerra@sns.it>
Angelo Antonelli (INAF-OaR), Alessandro Carosi (INAF-OaR), Barbara de Lotto (Univ. Udine), Razmik Mirzoyan (MPI-M��enchen) and Antonio Stamerra (INAF-OaTo and SNS-Pisa) on behalf of the MAGIC collaboration
The MAGIC system of Cherenkov Telescopes, sensitive to high-energy gamma-ray above ~50 GeV, performed observations of 4 regions in the strip of the bayestar GW map for the trigger G211117.
Observations started on December 28, 21 UT. Each observation covers a region of ~2.5x2.5 deg. Analysis is on-going.
The list of targets is the following:
Target 1: PGC1200980 (OT MASTER GCN#18729)
RA,Dec (J2000): 02:09:05.8, +01:38:03.0
Duration: 42 min
Target 2: strip from GW map
RA,Dec (J2000): 02:38:38.93, +16:36:59.27
Duration: 56 min (moonlight conditions)
Target 3: Field VST (GCN#18734)
RA,Dec (J2000): 02:38:02.208, +19:13:12.00
Duration: 28 min (moonlight conditions)
Target 4: Field VST (GCN#18734)
RA,Dec (J2000): 03:18:23.712, +31:13:12.00
Duration: 30 min (moonlight conditions)
MAGIC is a system of two 17m-diameter Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov
Telescopes located at the Canary island of La Palma, Spain, and designed to
perform gamma-ray astronomy in the energy range from 50 GeV to greater than
50 TeV.