The MAGIC telescopes, precursors to CTAO and located at the Roque de Los Muchachos (La Palma) in the current CTAO-N site, continue to observe the distant cosmos. With a 17-meter primary mirror, they are well-suited for detecting low-energy gamma events in the 25 GeV to 30 TeV range.
Since 2006, the OAR VHE group has been involved in MAGIC’s scientific operations, contributing particularly to the search for gamma signals from dark matter annihilation in dwarf galaxies and globular clusters, multi-frequency analyses of blazar emission, studies of intergalactic magnetic fields (IGMF) via gamma photon propagation, and observations of Seyfert and starburst galaxies, including recently identified neutrino sources.
In the domain of transient phenomena, the VHE group played a key role in the first detection of a TeV gamma-ray GRB with MAGIC in 2019 and continues to lead follow-up observation programs for such events with the Vera Rubin Observatory.