Calibration of the Whipple atmospheric Čerenkov telescope
Čerenkov ring images from single muons have been used to calibrate the Whipple Observatory 10 m imaging telescope. This approach tests the total throughput of the telescope and uses a known atmospheric Cerenkov light signal that closely matches the spectrum of the atmospheric Čerenkov signal from an...
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todo:paper_09276505_v5_n1_p27_Rovero2023-10-03T15:47:02Z Calibration of the Whipple atmospheric Čerenkov telescope Rovero, A.C. Buckley, J.H. Fleury, P. Jiang, Y. Pare, E. Sarazin, X. Urban, M. Weekes, T.C. Čerenkov ring images from single muons have been used to calibrate the Whipple Observatory 10 m imaging telescope. This approach tests the total throughput of the telescope and uses a known atmospheric Cerenkov light signal that closely matches the spectrum of the atmospheric Čerenkov signal from an air-shower. The absolute calibration is derived by matching the observed ring images with those predicted by a simple geometrical and physical model; a value of 1.25 ± 0.13 photoelectrons equivalent to 1 digital count was found. Using this value simulations indicate that the telescope had an energy threshold of 300 GeV when this calibration was made. JOUR info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/ar http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12110/paper_09276505_v5_n1_p27_Rovero |
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Čerenkov ring images from single muons have been used to calibrate the Whipple Observatory 10 m imaging telescope. This approach tests the total throughput of the telescope and uses a known atmospheric Cerenkov light signal that closely matches the spectrum of the atmospheric Čerenkov signal from an air-shower. The absolute calibration is derived by matching the observed ring images with those predicted by a simple geometrical and physical model; a value of 1.25 ± 0.13 photoelectrons equivalent to 1 digital count was found. Using this value simulations indicate that the telescope had an energy threshold of 300 GeV when this calibration was made. |
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Rovero, A.C. Buckley, J.H. Fleury, P. Jiang, Y. Pare, E. Sarazin, X. Urban, M. Weekes, T.C. |
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Rovero, A.C. Buckley, J.H. Fleury, P. Jiang, Y. Pare, E. Sarazin, X. Urban, M. Weekes, T.C. Calibration of the Whipple atmospheric Čerenkov telescope |
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Rovero, A.C. Buckley, J.H. Fleury, P. Jiang, Y. Pare, E. Sarazin, X. Urban, M. Weekes, T.C. |
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Calibration of the Whipple atmospheric Čerenkov telescope |
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