Granite, a new very high energy gamma-ray telescope

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Mar 1990

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1990nuphs..14..237a&link_type=abstract

Nuclear Physics B Proceedings Supplements, Volume 14, Issue 1, p. 237-243.

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A international collaboration of astrophysicists plan to construct a new 10-meter diameter gamma-ray Cerenkov telescope at the Whipple Observatory on Mt. Hopkins in Arizona. By operatin in coincidence with the original 10-meter reflector, the sensitivity for gamma-ray detection will improve by more than an order of magnitude. The new telescope, named GRANITE (for Gamma-Ray Astrophysics New Imaging Telescope), will include a 109-element imaging photon detector wit a 0.2° pixel size. The entire system consists of a steerable alt-azimuth mount, a faceted mirror assembly, a highly segmented photon detector, and ancillary data acquisition and control electronics. This telescope is considered an engineering prototype for a large array of Cherenkov detectors which will further enhance our ability to detect astrophysical sources of very high energy gamma rays.

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