A. M. Bykov, F. A. Aharonyan, A. M. Krassilchtchikov, E. E. Kholupenko, P. N. Aruev, D. A. Baiko, A. A. Bogdanov, G. I. Vasiliev, V. V. Zabrodskii, S. V. Troitsky, Yu. V. Tuboltsev, A. A. Kozhberov, K. P. Levenfish, Yu. V. Chichagov, “Cherenkov gamma-ray telescopes: Past, present, future. The ALEGRO project”, Zhurnal Tekhnicheskoi Fiziki, 2017, Volume 87, Issue 6,Pages <nobr>803

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Cherenkov gamma-ray telescopes: Past, present, future. The ALEGRO project

A. M. Bykov^a, F. A. Aharonyan^bc, A. M. Krassilchtchikov^a, E. E. Kholupenko^a, P. N. Aruev^a, D. A. Baiko^a, A. A. Bogdanov^a, G. I. Vasiliev^a, V. V. Zabrodskii^a, S. V. Troitsky^d, Yu. V. Tuboltsev^a, A. A. Kozhberov^a, K. P. Levenfish^a, Yu. V. Chichagov^a

^a Ioffe Institute, St. Petersburg
^b Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, Dublin, Ireland
^c Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, Heidelberg, Germany
^d Institute for Nuclear Research, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow

Abstract: A brief overview of the history of atmospheric Cherenkov gamma-ray telescopes is given. Topical problems of modern astrophysics and fundamental physics to be solved with these instruments are listed. The ALEGRO project of a low-threshold gamma-ray observatory is characterized in detail. The aim of this project is to examine cosmic gamma-ray sources (especially the rapidly variable gamma-ray sources, gamma-ray transients) with high statistics of detected photons in the energy range of 5–50 GeV.

Received: 29.11.2016

DOI: 10.21883/JTF.2017.06.44501.2117