Current Status and Plans for the Solar Tower Atmospheric Cherenkov Effect Experiment (STACEE)

Details Current Status and Plans for the Solar Tower Atmospheric Cherenkov Effect Experiment (STACEE) Current Status and Plans for the Solar Tower Atmospheric Cherenkov Effect Experiment (STACEE)

Jan 1998

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1998baas...30q.762c&link_type=abstract

American Astronomical Society Meeting, 191, #126.07

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The Solar Tower Atmospheric Cherenkov Effect Experiment (STACEE) is a ground based gamma-ray detector designed to conduct observations in the as yet unexplored 25GeV to 250GeV energy range. Observations at these energies are expected to yield a wealth of information about the high energy emission of Active Galactic Nuclei and may also serve as a probe of the inter-galactic infrared background. STACEE uses the large light collecting capability of an existing solar power facility to achieve lower energy thresholds than other ground-based techniques. The full STACEE detector will use 48 heliostats, spread over a 300m x 150m area on the ground, to detect the Cherenkov radiation generated in the extensive air showers that result when energetic gamma rays enter the Earth's atmosphere. The STACEE collaboration has constructed one third of the full scale detector, using 16 heliostats, and observations are planned for the 1998 winter and spring observing season. This poster describes the current status of the STACEE detector, our short term observing objectives, and our plans to expand the detector to 32 heliostats by the fall of 1998.

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