Future plans and world trend

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Future plans and world trend

• Masaki Mori
• Future plan meeting
• November 8, 2004

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Towards a Major Cherenkov Detectors workshops

• Paris (1992)
• Calgary (1993)
• Tokyo (1994)
• Padova (1995)
• Kruger Park (1997)
• Snowbird (1999)

"Towards a Network of Atmospheric Cherenkov
Detectors"
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The conference will cover the following topics

• Status of VHE astrophysics in 2005 new
  instruments and observations.
• From shower images to astrophysical imaging.
• Multi-wavelength observations and phenomenology
  of high-energy gamma-ray sources.
• New projects in ground-based high-energy
  astrophysics.
• Instrumentation and calibration for Cherenkov
  telescopes inter-calibration with space
  instruments.
• Data archiving and formatting and link with
  mainstream astrophysics.

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Next-generation projects

• 5_at_5
• Max Planck Inst. for Nuclear Physics
• 50m2 mirror area
• 5 telescopes (4 in 100m grid and 1 at center) at
  5000m a.s.l.
• 3.2? camera, 721 pixels
• 5 GeV threshold

• ECO-1000
• Max Planck Inst. for Physics
• 35m?, 1000m2 mirror area
• lt5? camera, gt2000 pixels
• 5 GeV threshold

Merck et al. ICRC2003
Aharonian et al. 2001 APh 15, 335
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ECO-1000

• European Cherenkov Observatory
• Mirror surface 1000m2
• Initiative MAGIC people
• Eth lt 8 GeV in 2009/2010

Astro-ph/0403180
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H.E.S.S. Phase 2

• 28m telescope at the center of H.E.S.S.
  telescopes
• Future 10m-class stereo system in Atacama?

A. Konopelko, Heidelberg colloquium, July 2004
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Small Telescope ARrays (STAR)

• Many (gt144) small telescopes
• Mirror 2.5m, camera 15cm (MCP?)
• U. Purdue / U. Washington (Buckley et al.)

Gamma2004
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SuperCANGAROO
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As of June 2003

• Strawman design parameters
• lt10 GeV energy threthold? 10 times more area x 2
  times QE
• 30m?, f30m (F/1.0), parabola
• Field-of-view 10? ? survey mode
• Short barrel preferred to keep long focal length
  ? new optical design necessary
• 0.1? -class pixel camera with advanced photon
  sensors
• Stereo observation is essential