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| ID:
543991.0,
MPI für Physik / MPI für Physik |
| A 15° wide field of view imaging air Cherenkov telescope |
| Authors: | Mirzoyan, R.; Andersen, M. I. | | Date of Publication (YYYY-MM-DD): | 2009 | | Title of Journal: | Astroparticle Physics | | Journal Abbrev.: | Astropart.Phys. | | Issue / Number: | 31 | | Start Page: | 1 | | End Page: | 5 | | Audience: | Not Specified | | Intended Educational Use: | No | | Abstract / Description: | Contemporary imaging air Cherenkov telescopes (IACT) for ground-based very high energy (VHE) gamma-ray astronomy have prime focus optical design. Typically, these telescopes have a (24)° wide field of view (FoV). They use F/0.7F/1.2 optics and provide (310)′ resolution in the FoV. Generally, a well designed telescope that includes more than one optical element will offer some advantages not available in prime focus designs, such as a wider FoV, a more compact size, a higher and more homogeneous resolution and a lower degree of isochronous distortion of light rays focused onto the focal plane. Also, they allow monitoring the gamma-ray activity in a sizeable portion of the sky in a single observation. This would allow one to perform a sensitive all-sky survey in a relative short time. We present an F/0.8 15° wide FoV telescope design, which provides a high and near uniform resolution and low isochronous distortion across the entire FoV. | | Classification / Thesaurus: | Astroparticle Physics | | External Publication Status: | published | | Document Type: | Article |
| Communicated by: | N.N. | | Affiliations: | MPI für Physik
| | Identifiers: | LOCALID:MPP-2009-267
URL:http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.astropartphys.2008.10....
URL:http://publications.mppmu.mpg.de/?action=search&mp... | |
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