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Wide field aplanatic two-mirror telescopes for ground-based gamma-ray astronomy

Astrophysics 2008-11-26 v2

Abstract

Paper describes novel wide field Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes based on a modified Ritchey-Chretien design. The performance characteristics of aplanatic telescopes are compared with traditional Davies-Cotton reflectors.

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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0612718,
  title  = {Wide field aplanatic two-mirror telescopes for ground-based gamma-ray astronomy},
  author = {V. V. Vassiliev and S. J. Fegan and P. F. Brousseau},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0612718},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

34 pages, 17 figures, accepted for publication in Astropart.Phys