Review of the Solar Array Telescopes
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For several years the only experiments sensitive to astrophysical gamma rays with energies beyond the reach of EGRET but below that of the Cherenkov imaging telescopes have been the ”solar tower” detectors. They use > 2000 m mirror areas to sample the Cherenkov wavefront generated by < 100 GeV gamma rays, obtaining Crab sensitivities of more than 6σ in one ON-source hour. I will review the history of the solar tower Cherenkov experiments from 1992 to the present and their key design features. I will describe some successful analysis strategies, then summarize the principal results obtained. Contribution to the proceedings of ”Towards a Network of Atmospheric Cherenkov Detectors VII”, 27-29 April 2005 Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France. http://polywww.in2p3.fr/actualites/congres/cherenkov2005/
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