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T: Fachverband Teilchenphysik
T 45: Gamma Astronomy 2
T 45.7: Talk
Tuesday, March 22, 2022, 17:45–18:00, T-H30
Status and first results from TAIGA — •Michael Blank and Martin Tluczykont — Institut für Experimentalphysik, Universität Hamburg
TAIGA has implemented a new, unique observation technique, based on a combination of the imaging air Cherenkov telescope (IACT) technique, and the HiSCORE timing array concept. TAIGA aims to further explore the celestial gamma-ray sources at energies of a few 10s of TeV to several 100 TeV. This energy range is particularly important to spectrally resolve the cutoff regime of the galactic Pevatrons, the cosmic-ray accelerators to PeV energies. TAIGA currently consists of an array of 121 wide angle (0.6 sr) air Cherenkov timing stations distributed over an area of about 1 km2 and two IACTs with a diameter of 4.75 m and a field of view of 9.7∘. A third IACT will be completed during this year.
In this presentation, the current status of the experiment and the analysis is discussed and the detection of the Crab Nebula with data of previous seasons, with a smaller size array and only with the first IACT in operation, is shown.