Geomagnetic Effects on the Performance of Atmospheric Cerenkov Telescopes

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1999-06-08

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9906139v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

4 pages, 5 figures, to appear in the Proceedings of 26th International Cosmic Ray Conference (Salt Lake City, 1999)

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Atmospheric Cerenkov telescopes are used to detect electromagnetic showers from primary gamma rays of energy > 300 GeV and to discriminate these from cascades due to hadrons using the shape and orientation of the Cerenkov images. The geomagnetic field affects the development of showers and diffuses and distorts 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.

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