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imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescope

(IACT)
(gamma-ray imager based on atmospheric Cherenkov radiation)

An imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescope (IACT) is a Cherenkov detector that images gamma rays by detecting Cherenkov radiation in the atmosphere generated by relativistic particles produced by the interaction of incoming high-energy gamma-ray photons interacting with atmospheric molecules, then processing the collected data to produce images. Example such telescopes:

(telescope type,gamma rays,Cherenkov)
Further reading:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imaging_atmospheric_Cherenkov_telescope
https://dictionary.obspm.fr/terms/imaging-atmospheric-cherenkov-technique-iact/
https://seramarkoff.com/imaging-atmospheric-cherenkov-technique/
https://www.hep.ucl.ac.uk/~rjn/teaching/4442/slides/cherenkovDetectors.pdf
https://web.physics.utah.edu/~lebohec/SIIWGWS/Slides/IACTMDaniel.pdf
https://user-web.icecube.wisc.edu/~tmontaruli/801/gammaastronomy_karle.pdf
https://indico.hep.caltech.edu/event/102/contributions/17/attachments/17/28/Petrashyk_IACT.pdf
https://veritas.astro.columbia.edu/sites/veritas.astro.columbia.edu/files/content/Summer2021/VERITAS_Capasso_1July2021_REU.pdf
https://www.ctao.org/emission-to-discovery/science/how-ctao-works/
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1997ICRC....5..109A/abstract
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2008ICRC....3.1535S/abstract
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2011ExA....32..193A/abstract
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2015JPhCS.595a2009D/abstract
https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.11431
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25×10-21m12×1027Hz50TeVbeginimaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescope
25×10-18m12YHz50GeVendimaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescope

Referenced by pages:
Cherenkov detector
Davies-Cotton telescope
FACT
HEGRA
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