%0 Journal Article
%A Hoang, Kim Dinh
%A Hassan, Tarek
%A Angel Tejedor, Luis
%A Barrio Uña, Juan Abel
%A López Moya, Marcos
%A Fink, David
%A Will, Martin
%A Contreras González, José Luis
%T MAGIC-II's central pixel system for simultaneous optical and gamma-ray observation
%D 2020
%@ 2329-4124
%U https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/7619
%X The MAGIC telescopes are a system of two imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes designed to observe very-high-energy y rays. MAGIC utilizes a large reflective surface and photodetectors with ultrafast time response to capture Cherenkov photons. These features, together with the dedicated system installed in the central photomultiplier tube of their camera, so-called central pixel system (CPS), turn MAGIC into a suitable telescope to study high-speed optical astronomy in the millisecond (ms) regime. We report on the status of the CPS currently mounted in the MAGIC-II camera, its performance and calibration to demonstrate the sensitivity of MAGIC-II to ms optical pulses, for both transient and periodic signals, and discuss its potential over several science cases. (C) The Authors. Published by SPIE under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Unported License.
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