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The construction of the H.E.S.S. (High Energy Stereoscopic System), a superior system of four 12 m imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes, has been completed recently in the Namib desert close to Windhoek, at 1800 m above sea level. This…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. Konopelko

The recently commissioned 3.6-m Devasthal optical telescope has been used for various tests and science observations using three main instruments, namely, a charge-coupled device camera, a near-infrared camera, and an optical…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-08 Amitesh Omar , Bheemireddy Krishna Reddy , Tripurari Kumar , Jayshreekar Pant

The CMS detector at the CERN LHC features a silicon pixel detector as its innermost subdetector. The original CMS pixel detector has been replaced with an upgraded pixel system (CMS Phase-1 pixel detector) in the extended year-end technical…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-12-29 The Tracker Group of the CMS Collaboration

The Smart Pixel Camera is a new camera for imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes, suited for a next generation of large multi-telescope ground based gamma-ray observatories. The design of the camera foresees all electronics needed to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 German Hermann , Svenja Carrigan , Bernhard Glück , Dominik Hauser

The High Energy Stereoscopic System (H.E.S.S.) is an array of five Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes (IACTs) designed to detect cosmogenic gamma-rays with very high energies. Originally consisting of just four identical IACTs (CT1-4)…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 M. Holler , A. Balzer , R. Chalmé-Calvet , M. de Naurois , D. Zaborov

After the first successful LHC run in 2010-2012, plans are actively advancing for a series of upgrades leading eventually to about above times the design-luminosity in about ten years. The larger luminosity will allow to perform precise…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2014-09-18 C. Gemme

HiPERCAM is a portable, quintuple-beam optical imager that saw first light on the 10.4-m Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC) in 2018. The instrument uses re-imaging optics and 4 dichroic beamsplitters to record $u_s g_s r_s i_s z_s$ ($320-1060$…

H.E.S.S. -- The High Energy Stereoscopic System-- is a new system of large atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes for GeV/TeV Gamma-ray astronomy. This paper describes the trigger system of H.E.S.S. with emphasis on the multi-telescope array…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 S. Funk , G. Hermann , J. Hinton , D. Berge , K. Bernloehr , W. Hofmann , P. Nayman , F. Toussenel , P. Vincent

The H.E.S.S. (High Energy Stereoscopic System) phase I is comprised of four Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes, for observation of galactic and cosmic sources of very high energy gamma rays. Its installation in the Khomas highlands,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 M. Punch , the HESS Collaboration

We have constructed an optical photometer with microsecond time resolution, which is currently being operated on one of the H.E.S.S. telescopes. H.E.S.S. is an array of four Cherenkov telescopes, each with a 107 m^2 mirror, located in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-11 C. Deil , W. Domainko , G. Hermann

VERITAS is an array of four 12-m imaging Cherenkov telescopes, sensitive to gamma rays in the energy range from 85 GeV to 30 TeV. VERITAS dedicates roughly 40% of its total observing time to blazars. We present recent highlights from the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 Jon Dumm

Event cameras offering high dynamic range and low latency have emerged as disruptive technologies in imaging. Despite growing research on leveraging these benefits for different imaging tasks, a comprehensive study of recently advances and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Yunfan Lu , Xiaogang Xu , Pengteng Li , Yusheng Wang , Yi Cui , Huizai Yao , Hui Xiong

The High Energy Stereoscopic System (H.E.S.S.) is an array of five imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes. Since 2003 it has been operating in the configuration of four 12 m telescopes complemented in 2012 by a much bigger 28 m telescope…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 I. Sushch

H.E.S.S is an array of atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes dedicated to GeV-TeV gamma-ray astronomy. The original array has been in operation since the beginning of 2004. It is composed of four 12-meter diameter telescopes. The installation of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-17 Y. Moudden , A. Barnacka , J-F. Glicenstein , P. Venault , D. Calvet , M. Vivier , G. Fontaine

The DESY II Test Beam Facility is a key infrastructure for modern high energy physics detector development, providing particles with a small momentum spread in a range from 1 to 6 GeV to user groups e.g. from the LHC experiments and Belle…

The High Energy Stereoscopic System (H.E.S.S.) experiment is one of the largest observatories for gamma-ray astronomy. It consists of four telescopes with a reflecting dish diameter of 12m (CT1 to CT4) and a newer large telescope (CT5) with…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 Daniel Gottschall , Andreas Förster , Antonio Bonardi , Andrea Santangelo , Gerd Pühlhofer

In 2012, the High Energy Stereoscopic System (H.E.S.S.) was expanded by a fifth telescope (CT5). With an effective mirror diameter of 28m, CT5 is able to detect the Cherenkov light of very faint gamma-ray air showers, thereby significantly…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 Raphaël Chalmé-Calvet , Markus Holler , Mathieu de Naurois , Jean-Paul Tavernet

The present H.E.S.S. II era of the H.E.S.S. collaboration follows from the successful upgrade of the H.E.S.S. array, and the first published results obtained with this new instrument. Thanks to these achievements, a lower energy threshold…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 Andrew M. Taylor , David Sanchez , Matteo Cerruti

The High Energy Stereoscopic System (H.E.S.S.) is an array of five Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes located in the Khomas Highland of Namibia. H.E.S.S. observes gamma rays above tens of GeV by detecting the Cherenkov light that is…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-06 Sylvia J. Zhu , Tim Lukas Holch , Thomas Murach , Stefan Ohm , Matthias Fuessling , Mathieu de Naurois , Fabian Krack , Klemens Mosshammer , Rico Lindemann