VERITAS Observations of Magnetars
arXiv:0908.0717
Abstract
Magnetars are rotating neutron stars with extremely strong magnetic fields (~ 10^14-10^15 G). X-ray and soft gamma-ray observations have revealed the existence of non-thermal particle populations which may suggest emission of very high energy photons. VERITAS, an array of four 12m imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes, is designed to observe gamma-ray emission between 100 GeV and 30 TeV. Here we present the results of VERITAS observations of two magnetars, 4U 0142+61 and 1E 2259+586.
3 pages, 2 figures, to be published in Proceedings of the 31st International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC), Lodz, Poland, July 2009
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