BARC/PUB/2022/0671

 
 

Commissioning of the MACE gamma-ray telescope at Hanle, Ladakh, India

 
     
 
Author(s)

Yadav, K. K.; Chouhan, N.; Thubstan, R.; Norlha, S.; Hariharan, J.; Borwankar, C.; Chandra, P.; Dhar, V. K.; Mankuzhyil, N.; Godambe, S.; Sharma, M.; Venugopal, K.; Singh, K. K.; Bhatt, N.; Bhattacharyya, S.; Chanchalani, K.; Das, M. P.; Ghosal, B.; Godiyal, S.; Khurana, M.; Kotwal, S. V.; Koul, M. K.; N. Kumar; Kushwaha, C. P.; Nand, K.; Pathania, A.; Sahayanathan, S.; Sarkar, D.; Tolamati, A.; Koul, R.; Rannot, R. C.; Behere, A.; Padmini, S.; Manna, A.; Joy, S.; Nair, P. M.; Jha, K. P.; Moitra, S.; Neema, S.; Srivastava, S.; Punna, M.; Mohanan, S.; Sikder, S. S.; Jain, A.; Banerjee, S.; Krati,; Deshpande, J.; Sanadhya, V.; Andrew, G.; Patil, M. B.; Goyal, V. K.; Gupta, N.; Balakrishna, H.; Agrawal, A.; Srivastava, S. P.; Karn, K. N.; Hadgali, P. I.; Bhatt, S.; Mishra, V. K.; Biswas, P. K.; Gupta, R. K.; A. Kumar; Thul, S. G.; Kalmady, R.; Sonvane, D. D.; V. Kumar; Gaur, U. K.; Chattopadhyay, J.; Gupta, S. K.; Kiran, A. R.; Parulekar, Y.; Agrawal, M. K.; Parmar, R. M.; Reddy, G. R.; Mayya, Y. S.; Pithawa, C. K.
(ApSD;ED;DM&AG;Comp. Div.;RSD;RCnD;CnID)

Source

Current Science, 2022. Vol. 123: pp. 1428-1435

ABSTRACT

The MACE telescope has recently been commissioned at Hanle, Ladakh, India. It had its first light in April 2021 with a successful detection of very high energy gamma-ray photons from the standard candle Crab Nebula. Equipped with a large light collector of 21 m diameter and situated at an altitude of ~4.3 km amsl, the MACE telescope is expected to explore the mysteries of the non-thermal Universe in the energy range above 20 GeV with very high sensitivity. It can also play an important role in carrying out multi-messenger astronomy in India.

 
 
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