33RD INTERNATIONAL COSMIC RAY CONFERENCE, RIO DE JANEIRO 2013 THE ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS CONFERENCE Search for VHE γ-ray emission from Geminga with the MAGIC telescopes

Abstract: The recent detection of pulsed emission from the Crab pulsar up to 400 GeV by the MAGIC and VERITAS collaborations showed that pulsar spectra can extend beyond what was previously expected. The origin of this high energy component in the Crab pulsar is not yet clear, but it seems to favour models in which gamma-ray emission takes place further away from the neutron star surface. The detection of such a high energy pulsation in other pulsars will definitely help us to understand the physics involved in the process. With such a goal, the MAGIC collaboration have carried out observations of the Geminga pulsar in winter 2012/13, after the recent upgrade of the telescopes. Here we report about the first results obtained during this observation campaign