MAGIC observation of Globular Cluster M13 and its millisecond pulsars
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Based on MAGIC observations from June and July 2007, we present upper limits to the E > 140 GeV emission from the globular cluster M13. Those limits allow us to constrain the population of millisecond pulsars within M13 and to test models for acceleration of leptons inside their magnetospheres and/or surrounding. We conclude that in M13 either millisecond pulsars are fewer than expected or they accelerate leptons less efficiently than predicted.
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