1. Initial performance of CANGAROO-II 7m telescope.
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Kubo, Hidetoshi, Dazeley, S. A., Edwards, P. G., Gunji, S., Hara, S., Hara, T., Jinbo, J., Kawachi, A., Kifune, T., Kushida, J., Matsubara, Y., Mizumoto, Y., Mori, M., Moriya, M., Muraishi, H., Muraki, Y., Naito, T., Nishijima, K., Patterson, J. R., and Roberts, M.D.
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TELESCOPES ,GAMMA rays - Abstract
CANGAROO group constructed an imaging air Cherenkov telescope (CANGAROO-II) in March 1999 at Woomera, South Australia to observe celestial gamma-rays in hundreds GeV region. It has a 7m parabolic mirror consisting of 60 small plastic spherical mirrors, and the prime focus is equipped with a multi-pixel camera of 512 PMTs covering the field of view of 3 degrees. We report initial performance of the telescope. © 2000 American Institute of Physics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2000