Planned Dark Matter searches with the MAGIC Telescope
J. Flix
Abstract
The MAGIC 17m-diameter Imaging Air Cherenkov Telescope (IACT) has been commissioned beginning of 2005. The telescope has been designed to achieve the lower detection energy threshold ever obtained with an IACT, about 50 GeV. A new window in gamma-ray astronomy is being opened with great impact for exciting new physics and new discoveries. Among the targets of MAGIC is the indirect detection of Dark Matter (DM). We have considered different DM halo models of high DM density objects like the center of the Milky Way, its closest satellites and nearby galaxies (M31,M87). For each object, detection limits are computed for different DM halo models in a mSUGRA scenario for supersymmetric neutralino annihilation γ-ray production. Advantages and drawbacks of these objects and plans for future observations are discussed.
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