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arXiv:1510.05675astro-ph.IM

Atmospheric Cherenkov Gamma-ray Telescopes

Jamie Holder

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Abstract

The stereoscopic imaging atmospheric Cherenkov technique, developed in the 1980s and 1990s, is now used by a number of existing and planned gamma-ray observatories around the world. It provides the most sensitive view of the very high energy gamma-ray sky (above 30 GeV), coupled with relatively good angular and spectral resolution over a wide field-of-view. This Chapter summarizes the details of the technique, including descriptions of the telescope optical systems and cameras, as well as the most common approaches to data analysis and gamma-ray reconstruction.

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Preprint of a Chapter to appear in The WSPC Handbook of Astronomical Instrumentation, David Burrows (ed.), copyright World Scientific Publishing Company. 21 pages
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astro-ph.IMInstrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics

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