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Performance of the MAGIC stellar intensity interferometer and expansion to MAGIC + CTAO-LST1 stellar intensity interferometer

Cifuentes, Alejo
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Acciari, V. A.
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Barnes, F.
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Kammerer, Jens
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Sallum, Stephanie
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2024
Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
9 Optical and Infrared Interferometry and Imaging

A new generation of optical intensity interferometers are emerging in recent years taking advantage of the existing infrastructure of Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes (IACTs). The MAGIC SII (Stellar Intensity Interferometer) in La Palma, Spain, has been operating since its first successful measurements in 2019 and its current design allows it to operate regularly. The current setup is ready to follow up on bright optical transients, as changing from regular gamma-ray observations to SII mode can be done in a matter of minutes. A paper studying the system performance, first measurements and future upgrades has been recently published. MAGIC SII's first scientific results are the measurement of the angular size of 22 stars, 13 of which with no previous measurements in the B band. More recently the Large Sized Telescope prototype from the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAOLST1) has been upgraded to operate together with MAGIC as a SII, leading to its first correlation measurements at the beginning of 2024. MAGIC+CTAO-LST1 SII will be further upgraded by adding the remaining CTAO-LSTs at the north site to the system (which are foreseen to be built by the end of 2025). MAGIC+CTAO-LST1 SII shows a feasible technical solution to extend SII to the whole CTAO.

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conference paper
DOI
10.1117/12.3016905
Scopus ID

2-s2.0-85208431605

Author(s)
Cifuentes, Alejo

Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas, Medioambientales y Tecnológicas

Acciari, V. A.

Instituto Astrofisico de Canarias

Barnes, F.

Universidad de la Laguna

Chon, G.

Max-Plank Institute für Extraterrestrishe Physik

Colombo, E.

Instituto Astrofisico de Canarias

Cortina, J.

Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas, Medioambientales y Tecnológicas

Delgado, C.

Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas, Medioambientales y Tecnológicas

Díaz, C.

Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas, Medioambientales y Tecnológicas

Fiori, M.

Università degli Studi di Padova

Fink, D.

Max-Plank Institute für Extraterrestrishe Physik

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Editors
Kammerer, Jens
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Sallum, Stephanie
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Sanchez-Bermudez, Joel
Corporate authors
The MAGIC collaboration and CTAO LST Project
Date Issued

2024

Publisher

SPIE

Published in
Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
ISBN of the book

9781510675131

Book part number

13095

Article Number

1309527

Subjects

CTAO

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Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes

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Instrumentation: High Angular Resolution

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Instrumentation: Interferometers

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Optical Intensity Interferometry

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Stars: Fast Rotators

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Stars: Fundamental Parameters

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Stars: Imaging

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Event nameEvent acronymEvent placeEvent date
9 Optical and Infrared Interferometry and Imaging

Yokohama, Japan

2024-06-17 - 2024-06-22

FunderFunding(s)Grant NumberGrant URL

Indian Department of Atomic Energy

MCTIC

JSPS

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January 26, 2025
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