Geomagnetic effects on atmospheric Cerenkov images

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1999-04-07

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9904082v1

J.Phys.G25:1223-1233,1999

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

14 pages, 10 figure, accepted for publication in J. Phys. G: Nucl. Part. Phys

Scientific paper

10.1088/0954-3899/25/6/312

Atmospheric Cerenkov telescopes are used to detect electromagnetic showers from primary gamma rays of energy ~300 GeV - ~10 TeV and to discriminate these from cascades due to hadrons using the Cerenkov images. The geomagnetic field affects the development of showers and is shown to diffuse and distort the images. When the component of the field normal to the shower axis is sufficiently large (> 0.4 G) the performance of gamma ray telescopes may be affected, although corrections should be possible.

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