PROTOTYPE TESTS FOR THE CELESTE SOLAR-ARRAY GAMMA-RAY TELESCOPE

Authors
GIEBELS B BAZERBACHI R BERGERET H CORDIER A DEBIAIS G DENAUROIS M DEZALAY JP DUMORA D ESCHSTRUTH P ESPIGAT P FABRE B FLEURY P GHESQUIERE C HERAULT N MALET I MERKEL B MEYNADIER C PALATKA M PARE E PROCUREUR J PUNCH M QUEBERT J RAGAN K ROB L SCHOVANEK P SMITH DA VRANA J
Citation
B. Giebels et al., PROTOTYPE TESTS FOR THE CELESTE SOLAR-ARRAY GAMMA-RAY TELESCOPE, Nuclear instruments & methods in physics research. Section A, Accelerators, spectrometers, detectors and associated equipment, 412(2-3), 1998, pp. 329-341
Citations number
18
Categorie Soggetti
Nuclear Sciences & Tecnology","Physics, Particles & Fields","Instument & Instrumentation",Spectroscopy
Journal title
Nuclear instruments & methods in physics research. Section A, Accelerators, spectrometers, detectors and associated equipment → ACNP
ISSN journal
01689002
Volume
412
Issue
2-3
Year of publication
1998
Pages
329 - 341
Database
ISI
SICI code
0168-9002(1998)412:2-3<329:PTFTCS>2.0.ZU;2-9
Abstract
The CELESTE experiment will be an atmospheric Cherenkov detector desig ned to bridge the gap in energy sensitivity between current satellite and ground-based gamma-ray telescopes, 20-300GeV. We present test resu lts made at the former solar power plant, Themis, in the French Pyrene es. The tests confirm the viability of using a central tower heliostat array for Cherenkov wavefront sampling. (C) 1998 Elsevier Science B.V . All rights reserved.