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00925njm 22002777a 4500 dc Hoang, Kim Dinh author Hassan, Tarek author Angel Tejedor, Luis author Barrio Uña, Juan Abel author López Moya, Marcos author Fink, David author Will, Martin author Contreras González, José Luis author 2020-08-28 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. 2329-4124 10.1117/1.JATIS.6.3.036002 https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/7619 https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JATIS.6.3.036002 https://www.spiedigitallibrary.org/ MAGIC-II's central pixel system for simultaneous optical and gamma-ray observation