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arxiv: astro-ph/9911510 · v1 · submitted 1999-11-30 · 🌌 astro-ph

Initial Performance of CANGAROO-II 7m telescope

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CANGAROO group constructed an imaging air Cherenkov telescope (CANGAROO-II) in March 1999 atWoomera, South Australia to observe celestial gamma-rays in hundreds GeV region. It has a 7m parabolic mirror consisting of 60 small plastic spherical mirrors, and the prime focus is equipped with a multi-pixel camera of 512 PMTs covering the field of view of 3 degrees. We report initial performance of the telescope.

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