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T: Teilchenphysik

T 200: Kosmische Strahlung III

T 200.3: Talk

Tuesday, March 30, 2004, 14:30–14:45, RW 2

Simulation study on future gamma-ray observation using multiple MAGIC telescopes — •Kenji Shinozaki — Max-Planck-Institut für Physik, Föhringer Ring 6, 80333 München, Germany

The MAGIC (Major Atmospheric Gamma-Imaging Cherenkov) Telescope is the world’s largest imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescope (IACT). Due to its novel innovation, the MAGIC Telescope is feasible to explore energy range between 30 and 300 GeV where no sensitive observation was ever done by any gamma-ray detection apparatus. As a future plan after the present MAGIC, a setup of multiple IACTs is a strong candidate. This will enable to reconstruct air shower images with better energy and angular resolutions as well as to reject background noise. Also in coming years, we may inflate the size of gamma-ray source catalogue so explosively that multiple IACTs will provide more effective observation conditions. In the present presentation, we discuss the possible design of multiple MAGIC telescopes and its capability of promoting near-future gamma-ray astronomy.