Search for VHE $\gamma$-ray emission from the globular cluster M13 with the MAGIC telescope

Abstract

Based on MAGIC observations from June and July 2007, we have obtained an integral upper limit to the VHE energy emission of the globular cluster M13 of $F(E>200\text{GeV})<5.1\times 10^{-12}{\text{cm}}^{-2}{\text{s}}^{-1}$, and differential upper limits for $E>140\text{GeV}$. Those limits allow us to constrain the population of millisecond pulsars within M13 and to test models for acceleration of leptons inside their magnetospheres and surrounding. We conclude that in M13 either millisecond pulsars are fewer than expected or they accelerate leptons less efficiently than predicted.

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