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@ARTICLE{Abe:622810,
author = {Abe, S. and Abhir, J. and Acciari, V. A. and Aguasca-Cabot,
A. and Agudo, I. and Aniello, T. and Ansoldi, S. and
Antonelli, L. A. and Engels, A. Arbet and Arcaro, C. and
Artero, M. and Asano, K. and Babić, A. and Baquero, A. and
de Almeida, U. Barres and Barrio, J. A. and Batković, I.
and Bautista, A. and Baxter, J. and González, J. Becerra
and Bernardini, E. and Bernardos, M. and Bernete, J. and
Berti, A. and Besenrieder, J. and Bigongiari, C. and Biland,
A. and Blanch, O. and Bonnoli, G. and Bošnjak, Ž. and
Burelli, I. and Busetto, G. and Campoy-Ordaz, A. and Carosi,
A. and Carosi, R. and Carretero-Castrillo, M. and Ceribella,
G. and Chai, Y. and Cifuentes, A. and Colombo, E. and
Contreras, J. L. and Cortina, J. and Covino, S. and D'Amico,
G. and D'Elia, V. and Da Vela, P. and Dazzi, F. and De
Angelis, A. and De Lotto, B. and de Menezes, R. and Del
Popolo, A. and Delfino, M. and Delgado, J. and Mendez, C.
Delgado and Di Pierro, F. and Di Venere, L. and Dominis
Prester, D. and Donini, A. and Dorner, D. and Doro, M. and
Elsaesser, D. and Emery, G. and Escudero, J. and na, L. Fari
and Fariña, L. and Fattorini, A. and Foffano, L. and Font,
L. and Fröse, S. and Fukami, S. and Fukazawa, Y. and
López, R. J. García and Garczarczyk, M. and Gasparyan, S.
and Gaug, M. and Paiva, J. G. Giesbrecht and Giglietto, N.
and Giordano, F. and Gliwny, P. and Gradetzke, T. and Grau,
R. and Green, D. and Green, Jeremy Russell and Günther, P.
and Hadasch, D. and Hahn, A. and Hassan, T. and Heckmann, L.
and Herrera, J. and Hrupec, D. and Hütten, M. and Imazawa,
R. and Ishio, K. and Martínez, I. Jiménez and Jormanainen,
J. and Kayanoki, T. and Kerszberg, D. and Kluge, G. W. and
Kobayashi, Y. and Kouch, P. M. and Kubo, H. and Kushida, J.
and Láinez, M. and Lamastra, A. and Leone, F. and Lindfors,
E. and Linhoff, L. and Lombardi, S. and Longo, F. and
López-Coto, R. and López-Moya, M. and López-Oramas, A.
and Loporchio, S. and Lorini, A. and Lyard, E. and Fraga, B.
Machado de Oliveira and Majumdar, P. and Makariev, M. and
Maneva, G. and Mang, N. and Manganaro, M. and Mangano, S.
and Mannheim, K. and Mariotti, M. and Martínez, M. and
Martínez-Chicharro, M. and Mas-Aguilar, A. and Mazin, D.
and Menchiari, S. and Mender, S. and Miceli, D. and Miener,
T. and Miranda, J. M. and Mirzoyan, R. and González, M.
Molero and Molina, E. and Mondal, H. A. and Moralejo, A. and
Morcuende, D. and Nakamori, T. and Nanci, C. and Neustroev,
V. and Nickel, L. and Nievas Rosillo, M. and Nigro, C. and
Nikolić, L. and Nilsson, K. and Nishijima, K. and Ekoume,
T. Njoh and Noda, K. and Nozaki, S. and Ohtani, Y. and
Okumura, A. and Otero-Santos, J. and Paiano, S. and
Palatiello, M. and Paneque, D. and Paoletti, R. and Paredes,
J. M. and Peresano, M. and Persic, M. and Pihet, M. and
Pirola, G. and Podobnik, F. and Prada Moroni, P. G. and
Prandini, E. and Principe, G. and Priyadarshi, C. and Rhode,
W. and Ribó, M. and Rico, J. and Righi, C. and Sahakyan, N.
and Saito, T. and Satalecka, K. and Saturni, F. G. and
Schleicher, B. and Schmidt, K. and Schmuckermaier, F. and
Schubert, J. L. and Schweizer, T. and Sciaccaluga, A. and
Silvestri, G. and Sitarek, J. and Sliusar, V. and
Sobczynska, D. and Spolon, A. and Stamerra, A. and
Strišković, J. and Strom, D. and Strzys, M. and Suda, Y.
and Surić, T. and Suutarinen, S. and Tajima, H. and
Takahashi, M. and Takeishi, R. and Temnikov, P. and
Terauchi, K. and Terzić, T. and Truzzi, M. Teshima S. and
Tutone, A. and Ubach, S. and van Scherpenberg, J. and
Vazquez Acosta, M. and Ventura, S. and Viale, I. and
Vigorito, C. F. and Vitale, V. and Walter, R. and Will, M.
and Wunderlich, C. and Yamamoto, T. and Díaz, G. Chon C.
and Fiori, M. and Lobo, M. and Naletto, G. and Polo, M. and
Rodríguez-Vázquez, J. J. and Saha, P. and Zampieri, L.},
collaboration = {{MAGIC Collaboration}},
title = {{P}erformance and first measurements of the {MAGIC} stellar
intensity interferometer},
reportid = {PUBDB-2025-00491, arXiv:2402.04755},
year = {2024},
note = {18 pages, 13 figures, submitted to MNRAS},
abstract = {In recent years, a new generation of optical intensity
interferometers has emerged, leveraging the existing
infrastructure of Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes
(IACTs). The MAGIC telescopes host the MAGIC-SII system
(Stellar Intensity Interferometer), implemented to
investigate the feasibility and potential of this technique
on IACTs. After the first successful measurements in 2019,
the system was upgraded and now features a real-time,
dead-time-free, 4-channel, GPU-based correlator. These
hardware modifications allow seamless transitions between
MAGIC’s standard very-high-energy gamma-ray observations
and optical interferometry measurements within seconds. We
establish the feasibility and potential of employing IACTs
as competitive optical Intensity Interferometers with
minimal hardware adjustments. The measurement of a total of
22 stellar diameters are reported, 9 corresponding to
reference stars with previous comparable measurements, and
13 with no prior measurements. A prospective implementation
involving telescopes from the forthcoming Cherenkov
Telescope Array Observatory’s Northern hemisphere array,
such as the first prototype of its Large-Sized Telescopes,
LST-1, is technically viable. This integration would
significantly enhance the sensitivity of the current system
and broaden the UV-plane coverage. This advancement would
enable the system to achieve competitive sensitivity with
the current generation of long-baseline optical
interferometers over blue wavelengths.},
keywords = {instrumentation: high angular resolution (autogen) /
instrumentation: interferometers (autogen) / stars:
fundamental parameters (autogen) / stars: imaging (autogen)},
cin = {$Z_GA$},
ddc = {520},
cid = {$I:(DE-H253)Z_GA-20210408$},
pnm = {613 - Matter and Radiation from the Universe (POF4-613) /
MicroStars - Extreme time and angular resolution in the
optical with Cherenkov telescopes (101076533)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF4-613 / G:(EU-Grant)101076533},
experiment = {EXP:(DE-H253)MAGIC-20170101},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)25},
eprint = {2402.04755},
howpublished = {arXiv:2402.04755},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
SLACcitation = {$\%\%CITATION$ = $arXiv:2402.04755;\%\%$},
url = {https://bib-pubdb1.desy.de/record/622810},
}