The Multi-Telescope Telescope Project: An Inexpensive Spectroscopic Facility

The MAGIC Telescope project

The 17 m diameter MAGIC telescope aims for gamma-ray astronomy above 15 GeV. The technical concept and status of the detector component developments for the first phase with a classical photomultiplier camera (threshold 30 GeV) will be given. The physics program will be reviewed in a separate contribution.

The MEGA Advanced Compton Telescope Project

The goal of the Medium Energy Gamma-ray Astronomy (MEGA) telescope is to improve sensitivity at medium gamma-ray energies (0.4–50 MeV) by at least an order of magnitude over that of COMPTEL. This will be achieved with a new compact design that allows for a very wide field of view, permitting a sensitive all-sky survey and the monitoring of transient and variable sources. The key science objecti...

Source Telescope Source Telescope

Inexpensive mount for a large millimeter-wavelength telescope.

A telescope mount with a single-point force support at the center of gravity of the primary mirror is proposed in order to eliminate much of the structure and cost of a large, millimeter-wavelength telescope. The single-point support gives repeatable thermal and gravitational deformation, so the surface of the primary can be controlled based on lookup tables for elevation and temperature. The n...

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