Physics
Scientific paper
Mar 2010
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2010aph....33...97o&link_type=abstract
Astroparticle Physics, Volume 33, Issue 2, p. 97-107.
Physics
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Scientific paper
The absence of a well established point source of very high energy (≳10TeV) γ-rays in the sky, makes the measurement of the angular resolution and the absolute pointing accuracy of an extensive air shower (EAS) array a challenging task. In the past, several groups have utilized the reduction in the isotropic flux of cosmic rays due to the shadows of the Moon and the Sun, to measure the angular resolution and the absolute pointing accuracy of their arrays. The data collected from the GRAPES-3 EAS array, over the period of 4 years from 2000 to 2003, has been used to observe the shadow of the Moon at a level of ˜5σ and that of the Sun at a lower level of significance. The high density of the detectors in GRAPES-3 enabled an angular resolution of 0.7° to be obtained at energies as low as 30 TeV. The angular resolution studies were further extended by using two other techniques, namely, the even-odd and the left-right methods. All three techniques have yielded nearly identical results on the energy dependent angular resolution.
Dugad Shashikant R.
Goswami Umananda Dev
Grapes-3 Collaboration
Gupta Kumar S.
Hayashi Yasuaki
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