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TACTIC Imaging Telescope
Nuclear Research Laboratory is setting up an international-class astronomical research facility at Mt. Abu, Rajasthan to study high energy gamma sources in the cosmos. As part of this programme, an array of 4 gamma-ray telescope systems called the TACTIC, was already been set up at Mt. Abu. The central element of this system, a state-of art imaging telescope, was used for several observational campaigns and it has successfully detected a very high energy gamma-ray outburst from an extragalactic source called Markarian 501. Development work for setting up a bigger telescope system, called MACE, was also commenced.
A novel strategy was devised for enhancing S/N ratio of the data recorded by the TACTIC array. From the arrival time information registred by a spaced-array of wide-angle Cerenkov detectors a feasibility study was also successfully conducted, to assess the potential of an artificial neural network for determining the direction of incidence of an atmospheric Cerenkov event.
In theoretical astrophysics, the detectability of various types of galactic and extragalactic sources with the TACTIC array and other telescope systems at Mt. Abu, was studied in detail and a catalogue of most promising sources was prepared.
Comment:
will the mods re-size the picture to a smaller one? It is too big with poor resolution.
[This message has been edited by kumarakn (edited July 28, 2001).]