Detailed Studies of Atmospheric Calibration in Imaging Cherenkov Astronomy

Autor:	Nolan, Sam, Puehlhofer, Gerd, Rulten, Cameron
Rok vydání:	2010
Předmět:	Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
Druh dokumentu:	Working Paper
DOI:	10.1016/j.astropartphys.2010.08.009
Popis:	The current generation of Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes are allowing the sky to be probed with greater sensitivity than ever before in the energy range around and above 100 GeV. To minimise the systematic errors on derived fluxes a full calibration of the atmospheric properties is important given the calorimetric nature of the technique. In this paper we discuss an approach to address this problem by using a ceilometer co-pointed with the H.E.S.S. telescopes and present the results of the application of this method to a set of observational data taken on the active galactic nucleus (AGN) PKS 2155-304 in 2004. Comment: 13 Pages, 12 figures. Accepted by Astroparticle Physics
Databáze:	arXiv
Externí odkaz:	http://arxiv.org/abs/1009.0517 Zobrazit plný text záznamu View this record from Arxiv