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T: Fachverband Teilchenphysik

T 49: Gammaastronomie 3

T 49.3: Talk

Tuesday, March 25, 2014, 17:20–17:35, P2

The Tunka-HiSCORE 9-station array: station design and first data analysis — •Sergey Epimakhov¹, Martin Brückner², Dieter Horns¹, Maike Helena Kunnas¹, Nachtigall Rayk¹, Porelli Andrea³, Rüger Manuel², and Wischnewski Ralf³ for the Tunka-HiSCORE collaboration — ¹Institut für Experimentalphysik, Universität Hamburg — ²Institut für Informatik, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin — ³DESY

HiSCORE is a concept of a non-imaging wide-angle EAS Cherenkov array designed to search for gamma ray sources above 10 TeV and to investigate spectrum and composition of cosmic rays above 100TeV. An engineering array with nine stations was deployed in October 2013 on site of the Tunka experiment in Russia. We describe design and performance of the optical stations and the readout system. We estimate the energy threshold and present comparison to MC simulation.