Abstract
AbstractThe MAGIC telescope collaboration has built the world’s largest single dish Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescope, which is operative in the ORM observatory at the Island of La Palma since 2004. It covers the energy range from around 50–60 GeV up to several TeV. A second MAGIC telescope is presently under construction at the same site, its completion is foreseen for September 2008. We show the present and expected performance of MAGIC and the status of the project. At the same time MAGIC, with most of the European Very High Energy (VHE) Astrophysics Community, is preparing the new Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) project. It will be the first global VHE open observatory, with vastly improved sensitivity over existing telescopes. We sketch its design and outline the physics goals pursued.
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