Construction of New 7m Imaging Air Čerenkov Telescope of CANGAROO

Tanimori, T.; Dazeley, S. A.; Edwards, P. G.; Gunji, S.; Hara, S.; Hara, T.; Jinbo, J.; Kawachi, A.; Kifune, T.; Kubo, H.; Kushida, J.; Matsubara, Y.; Mizumoto, Y.; Mori, M.; Moriya, M.; Muraishi, H.; Muraki, Y.; Naito, T.; Nishijima, K.; Patterson, J. R.; Roberts, M. D.; Rowell, G. P.; Sako, T.; Sakurazawa, K.; Sato, Y.; Susukita, R.; Tamura, T.; Yanagita, S.; Yoshida, T.; Yoshikoshi, T.; Yuki, A.

Construction of New 7m Imaging Air Čerenkov Telescope of CANGAROO

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CANGAROO group has constructed the new large imaging Air \v Cerenkov telescope to exploit hundred GeV region gamma-ray astronomy in March 1999 at Woomera, South Australia. It has a 7m parabolic mirror consisting of 60 small plastic spherical mirrors, and a fine imaging camera with 512 PMTs covering the field of view of 3 degree. Observation will start from July 1999.
4 pages, 4 figures, to appear in Proc. 26th ICRC (Salt Lake City), OG 4.3.04