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MACE Gamma-Ray Telescope - A Status Update


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1 Astrophysical Sciences Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai 400 085, India
 

A 21 m diameter imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescope is being installed at the high-altitude astronomical site at Hanle in the Ladakh region of North India. When operational by 2018, it will have the distinction of being the largest gamma-ray telescope in the northern hemisphere and the second largest in the world. Operating at a trigger threshold energy of <20 GeV, it will play an important role in understanding very high energy processes in the Universe.

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Galactic and Extragalactic Sources, Gammaray Astronomy, High-Energy Processes, Imaging Atmospheric Telescope.
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Ramesh Koul
Astrophysical Sciences Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai 400 085, India

Abstract


A 21 m diameter imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescope is being installed at the high-altitude astronomical site at Hanle in the Ladakh region of North India. When operational by 2018, it will have the distinction of being the largest gamma-ray telescope in the northern hemisphere and the second largest in the world. Operating at a trigger threshold energy of <20 GeV, it will play an important role in understanding very high energy processes in the Universe.

Keywords


Galactic and Extragalactic Sources, Gammaray Astronomy, High-Energy Processes, Imaging Atmospheric Telescope.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.18520/cs%2Fv113%2Fi04%2F691-695