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Very high-energy γ-ray observations of novae and dwarf novae with the MAGIC telescopes
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Context. In the last five years the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) instrument detected GeV γ-ray emission from five novae. The GeV emission can be interpreted in terms of an inverse Compton process of electrons accelerated in a shock. In this case it is expected that protons in the same conditions can be accelerated to much higher energies. Consequently they may produce a second component in the γ-ray spectrum at TeV energies. Aims: We aim to explore the very high-energy domain to search for γ-ray emission above 50 GeV and to shed light on the acceleration process of leptons and hadrons in nova explosions. Methods: We have performed observations, with the MAGIC telescopes of the classical nova V339 Del shortly after the 2013 outburst; optical and subsequent GeV γ-ray detections triggered the MAGIC observations. We also briefly report on VHE observations of the symbiotic nova YY Her and the dwarf nova ASASSN-13ax. We complement the TeV MAGIC observations with the analysis of contemporaneous Fermi-LAT data of the sources. The TeV and GeV observations are compared in order to evaluate the acceleration parameters for leptons and hadrons. Results: No significant TeV emission was found from the studied sources. We computed upper limits on the spectrum and night-by-night flux. The combined GeV and TeV observations of V339 Del limit the ratio of proton to electron luminosities to Lp ≲ 0.15 Le.
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MAGIC Collaboration, MARCOTE MARTIN, Benito, MUNAR I ADROVER, Pere, PAREDES I POY, Josep maria, PAREDES FORTUNY, Xavier, RIBÓ GOMIS, Marc, ZANIN, Roberta. Very high-energy γ-ray observations of novae and dwarf novae with the MAGIC telescopes. _Astronomy and Astrophysics_. 2015. Vol. 582, núm. A67-A74. [consulta: 1 de gener de 2026]. ISSN: 0004-6361. [Disponible a: https://hdl.handle.net/2445/69532]