GRANITE - A new very high energy gamma-ray telescope

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Nov 1989

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1989spie.1159..270a&link_type=abstract

IN: EUV, X-ray, and gamma-ray instrumentation for astronomy and atomic physics; Proceedings of the Meeting, San Diego, CA, Aug.

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Cerenkov Counters, Cerenkov Radiation, Radiation Detectors, X Ray Telescopes, Charged Particles, Crab Nebula, Imaging Techniques, Stellar Luminosity

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The concept of a 10-m-diam gamma-ray Cerenkov telescope system called Gamma-Ray Astrophysics New Imaging Telescope (GRANITE) that is being developed for Mt. Hopkins, Arizona, is described, together with the telescope's subsystems. The GRANITE instrument consists of a steerable alti-azimuth mount, a faceted mirror assembly, a 109-element imaging photon detector, and ancillary data acquisition and control electronics. The GRANITE will have a high sensitivity for gamma-ray detection that will make it possible to observe compact objects with the intrinsic luminosity of the Crab nebula which lie within a range of 7 kpc. GRANITE will be completed in 1990.

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