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Left: a sky map of the central 2 deg × 2 deg field of view around the Galactic center position, showing the relative signal to background count rate for E1 TeV. Right: the same, with the Sgr A* and G0.9+0.1 point sources subtracted from the map (see the details in the text). Both sky maps have been smeared with a Gaussian kernel (σker = 0.055°) and are given in units of relative counts (number of excess events over the number of estimated background events using the Blind Map method). The blue contours show 3σ (thin) and 5σ (thick) local significance levels. Coordinates of the known radio structures are indicated with light green markers. The best-fit coordinates of the Galactic center source and of the unidentified source (here referred to as MAGIC J1746.4-2853) are indicated with stars. The coordinates of Sgr A* (radio) and the Fermi source 3FGL J1746.3-2851c are indicated by pentagons. The MAGIC PSF is given as a 1σ contour of a 2D Gaussian smeared with the same kernel that was used for the sky map. For comparison, the H.E.S.S. contours at the event count levels of 320 and 360 are shown as dashed lines (Aharonian et al. 2006b). Please note that the H.E.S.S contours correspond to the energy threshold of 380 GeV – significantly different from that of MAGIC (~1 TeV) for these skymaps. The inset in the lower right shows a zoom-in onto the Arc region with best fit coordinates of MAGIC J1746.4-2853, VER J1746-289, and HESS J1746-285 shown as error crosses (Archer et al. 2016; Lemiere et al. 2015), describing statistical errors from the fit only2.

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