Observation of the Perseus cluster of galaxies with the MAGIC telescopes

Abstract: The MAGIC telescopes performed a deep observation of the central region of the Perseus galaxy cluster in stereoscopic mode between October 2009 and February 2011. The nearly 85 hr of collected data (after quality selection) represent the deepest observation of a cluster of galaxies at very high energies (VHE, E > 100 GeV) ever. The survey resulted in the detection of VHE gamma-ray emissions from its central galaxy NGC 1275 and from the radio galaxy IC 310. In addition, the deep survey also permits for the first time to constrain emission models predicting VHE gamma-rays from cosmic-ray acceleration in the cluster. In this contribution we report the latest MAGIC results concerning these topics.