Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2005-06-20
Astropart.Phys.24:191-207,2005
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
29 pages, 9 figures, accepted for publication in Astroparticle Physics Journal
Scientific paper
10.1016/j.astropartphys.2005.06.
The construction of the H.E.S.S. (High Energy Stereoscopic System), a superior system of four 12 m imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes, has been completed recently in the Namib desert close to Windhoek, at 1800 m above sea level. This new generation of ground-based gamma-ray detectors has an energy threshold of about 100 GeV in observations at zenith and a sensitivity of about 1% Crab flux for a point-like gamma-ray source. Such high sensitivity was achieved due to 0.1 degree angular resolution, as well as, severe cosmic ray background rejection acquired from multi-fold imaging of individual atmospheric showers. In addition H.E.S.S. has a rather good energy resolution of 15%. H.E.S.S. has been taking routine observations of the gamma-ray sources since December 2003. The outstanding physics results achieved with H.E.S.S. already in a first year of its exploitation strongly encourage further development of imaging atmospheric Cherenkov technique for high-quality gamma-ray observations, which is basically driven by father reduction of the energy threshold of a forthcoming major future gamma-ray detector. Here we are dealing with such a detector. Basic results on performance and sensitivity for a single stand-alone 30 m imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescope, as well as for a system of two and five telescopes, are discussed here.
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