Hamburg 2016 – wissenschaftliches Programm
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T: Fachverband Teilchenphysik
T 80: Gammaastronomie IV
T 80.1: Gruppenbericht
Mittwoch, 2. März 2016, 16:45–17:05, VMP9 SR 27
M@TE - Monitoring at TeV Energies — •Daniela Dorner1, Thomas Bretz2, Magdalena González3, Ruben Alfaro3, and Gagik Tovmassian4 — 1Universität Würzburg, Deutschland — 2RWTH Aachen, Deutschland — 3Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexiko — 4Instituto de Astronomia Sede Ensenada, Mexiko
A dedicated long-term monitoring programm at TeV energies has been started by the FACT project about four years ago. Being limited to one site, gaps due to the rotation of the Earth remain in the measured light curves. This makes it difficult to study typical variability time scales of few hours to one day. To allow for systematic studies of continuous observations over up to 12 hours, a second telescope is being installed at a site in about six hours distance in longitude. For the M@TE (Monitoring at TeV energies) telescope, a mount from a previous experiment is being refurbished and will be equipped with a new camera. Using silicon based photo sensors like in FACT, an excellent and stable performance will be achieved. M@TE is a joint project of German and Mexican universities which aims at extending the blazar monitoring to so far unexplored time ranges. In the presentation, the status of this emerging project will be reported.