Published 2020
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TACTIC overview and recent results
Creators
- 1. Astrophyscial Sciences Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai 400085 (India)
Description
The TeV Atmospheric Cherenkov Imaging Telescope (TACTIC) is a gamma-ray telescope, equipped with a tracking light collector of ∼ 9.5m2 area and a 349-pixel imaging camera has been in operation at Mount Abu in Western India since 2001. TACTIC is Asia's first imaging telescope and has a sensitivity of detecting the Crab Nebula above ∼ 1.2 TeV at 5.0σ significance level in 25h of observations, this telescope has detected gamma-ray emissions from Mrk501 and Mrk421 and is presently being deployed for monitoring of AGNs. Some of the salient features of the TACTIC telescope along with the results of its recent observations will be presented in this talk. (author)
Additional details
Publishing Information
- Publisher
- Bhabha Atomic Research Centre
- Imprint Place
- Mumbai (India)
- Imprint Title
- Proceedings of the third national symposium on VHE gamma-ray astronomy
- Imprint Pagination
- 27 p.
- Journal Page Range
- p. 14
Conference
- Title
- 3. national symposium on VHE gamma-ray astronomy
- Dates
- 16-18 Jan 2020
- Place
- Mumbai (India)
INIS
- Country of Publication
- India
- Country of Input or Organization
- India
- INIS RN
- 52118499
- Subject category
- S79: ASTROPHYSICS, COSMOLOGY AND ASTRONOMY;
- Resource subtype / Literary indicator
- Conference
- Descriptors DEI
- CHERENKOV COUNTERS; COSMIC GAMMA SOURCES; COSMOLOGICAL INFLATION; CRAB NEBULA; GAMMA CAMERAS; INFLATIONARY UNIVERSE; PULSARS; RADIO TELESCOPES
- Descriptors DEC
- ANTENNAS; CAMERAS; COSMIC RADIO SOURCES; COSMIC RAY SOURCES; COSMOLOGICAL MODELS; ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT; ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MEASURING INSTRUMENTS; NEBULAE; RADIATION DETECTORS; RADIO EQUIPMENT; SUPERNOVA REMNANTS; TELESCOPES