Design study of CANGAROO-III, stereoscopic imagining atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes for sub-TeV -ray detection

Enomoto, R; Hara, Shinji; Asahara, A; Bicknell, Geoffrey; Edwards, Philip G; Gunji, S; Hara, T; Jimbo, J.; Kajino, F; Katagiri, H; Kataoka, J; Kawachi, A; Kifune, Tadashi; Kubo, H; Kushida, J; Matsubara, Y; Mizumoto, Y; Mori, Masaki; Moriya, Mie; Muraishi, H; Muraki, Y; Naito, T; Nakase, T; Nishijima, K; Okumura, K; Patterson, Joseph R; Sakurazawa, K; Swaby, D L; Takano, K; Tanimori, T; Tamura, T; Tsuchiya, K; Uruma, K; Yanagita, S; Yoshida, T; Yoshikoshi, T; Yuki, A

Design study of CANGAROO-III, stereoscopic imagining atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes for sub-TeV -ray detection

Date

2002

Authors

Enomoto, R

Hara, Shinji

Asahara, A

Bicknell, Geoffrey

Edwards, Philip G

Gunji, S

Hara, T

Jimbo, J.

Kajino, F

Katagiri, H

Publisher

Elsevier

Abstract

CANGAROO-III is an imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescope array of four 10-m telescopes for very high energy (sub-TeV) γ-ray astronomy. A design study of the CANGAROO-III telescope system was carried out using the Monte Carlo technique in order to optim