The potential of the ground based arrays of imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes. II. Gamma ray flux sensitivities

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Mar 1997

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1997aph.....6..369a&link_type=abstract

ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS, Volume 6, Issue 3-4, p. 369-377.

Physics

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We discuss the capability of `100 GeV' class imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescope (IACT) arrays as future powerful instruments of ground-based gamma-ray astronomy. It is assumed that the array is gathered from individually triggered quadrangular 4-IACT `cells' with a linear size of about 100 m. The multi-cell concept allows coverage of large detection areas economically, and at the same time the effective exploitation of the stereoscopic approach of determination of the shower parameters using information obtained by several IACTs simultaneously. Determination of arrival directions of gamma-ray primaries on an event-by-event basis with accuracy deltatheta<=0.1^∘ combined with high suppression efficiency (at both the hardware and software levels) of the background hadronic showers by a factor of ~10^3, and large, up to 1 km^2 collection areas, can provide minimum detectable energy fluxes of >=100 GeV gamma-rays from point sources down to 10^-13 erg/cm^2 s which is about 3 orders of magnitude lower than the current sensitivities achieved by the satellite-borne detectors at MeV and GeV energies. High sensitivities of multi-IACT arrays would partially compensate the limited efficiency of the technique for all-sky surveys, as well as allow study of moderately extended (<=1 ^∘) gamma-ray sources. IACT arrays with minimum detectable fluence of >=100 GeV gamma-rays S_gamma< 10^-8 erg/cm^2 are well suited for effective exploration of highly sporadic nonthermal phenomena from different classes of astrophysical objects on time-scales from <=1 s to several minutes.

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