Calibration of the Whipple atmospheric Cherenkov telescope

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Jun 1996

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1996aph.....5...27r&link_type=abstract

ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS, Volume 5, Issue 1, p. 27-34.

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Cherenkov ring images from single muons have been used to calibrate the Whipple Observatory 10 m imaging telescope. This approach tests the total throughput of the telescope and uses a known atmospheric Cherenkov light signal that closely matches the spectrum of the atmospheric Cherenkov signal from an air-shower. The absolute calibration is derived by matching the observed ring images with those predicted by a simple geometrical and physical model; a value of 1.25+/-0.13 photoelectrons equivalent to 1 digital count was found. Using this value simulations indicate that the telescope had an energy threshold of 300 GeV when this calibration was made.

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