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Wide field Ritchey-Chretien telescope for ground-based gamma-ray astronomy

Dec, 2006

27 pages

Published in:

Astropart.Phys. 28 (2007) 10-27

e-Print:

astro-ph/0612718 [astro-ph]

DOI:

10.1016/j.astropartphys.2007.04.002

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Abstract: (arXiv)

Paper describes novel wide field Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes based on a modified Ritchey-Chretien design. The performance characteristics of aplanatic telescopes are compared with traditional Davies-Cotton reflectors.

Gamma-ray astronomy
Cherenkov telescope
Wide-angle optics

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