VERITAS Distant Laser Calibration and Atmospheric Monitoring
Astrophysics
2019-08-13 v1
Abstract
As a calibrated laser pulse propagates through the atmosphere, the intensity of the Rayleigh scattered light arriving at the VERITAS telescopes can be calculated precisely. This allows for absolute calibration of imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes (IACT) to be simple and straightforward. In these proceedings, we present the comparison between laser data and simulation to estimate the light collection efficiencies of the VERITAS telescopes, and the analysis of multiple laser data sets taken in different months for atmospheric monitoring purpose.
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@article{arxiv.0810.1835,
title = {VERITAS Distant Laser Calibration and Atmospheric Monitoring},
author = {C. M. Hui},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0810.1835},
year = {2019}
}
Comments
Submitted to Proceedings of "4th Heidelberg International Symposium on High Energy Gamma-Ray Astronomy 2008"