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T: Fachverband Teilchenphysik
T 54: Gammaastronomie II
T 54.5: Gruppenbericht
Mittwoch, 21. März 2018, 17:35–17:55, Philo-HS7
M@TE - Extending the Coverage of TeV Monitoring — •Daniela Dorner1 and Thomas Bretz2 for the MATE collaboration — 1Universität Würzburg, Germany — 2RWTH Aachen, Germany
Monitoring at TeV Energies (M@TE) is a joint project of German and Mexican universities which aims at extending the blazar monitoring to so far unexplored time ranges.
Emitting radiation across the electromagnetic spectrum, blazars are highly variable objects. At TeV energies variability on time scales from minutes to years have been measured. To study typical variability time scales of few hours to one day, continuous observations are crucial.
Long-term monitoring at TeV energies is carried out by the FACT project sucessfully since more than six years. Being limited to one site, gaps due to the rotation of the Earth remain in the measured light curves. To allow for systematic studies using continuous observations covering up to 12 hours, a second telescope is being installed in Mexico.
A mount from a previous experiment is being refurbished and will be equipped with a new SiPM camera. Providing an excellent and stable performance, these silicon based photo sensors are ideal for long-term monitoring. The mount, a new drive system and new mirrors are already available and with the observatory of San Pedro Martir, an excellent site has been chosen.
In the presentation, the overview of the project will be given and its status discussed.