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Design, Manufacturing, And Commissioning Of Bircam (Bootes Infrared Camera), Alberto Riva, Paolo Conconi, Alberto Javier Castro-Tirado, Filippo Zerbi, Ronan Cunniffe, Martin Jelinek, Stanislav Vitek
Design, Manufacturing, And Commissioning Of Bircam (Bootes Infrared Camera), Alberto Riva, Paolo Conconi, Alberto Javier Castro-Tirado, Filippo Zerbi, Ronan Cunniffe, Martin Jelinek, Stanislav Vitek
Blackrock Castle Observatory Publications
This paper covers the various aspect of design, manufacturing and commissioning of the infrared camera BIRCAM, installed at BOOTES-IR, the 60 cm robotic infrared telescope at Sierra Nevada Observatory (OSN, Granada, Spain). We describe how we achieved a quality astronomical image, moving from the scientific requirements.
Veritas 2008-2009 Monitoring Of The Variable Gamma-Ray Source M 87, P. T. Reynolds, Et. Al.
Veritas 2008-2009 Monitoring Of The Variable Gamma-Ray Source M 87, P. T. Reynolds, Et. Al.
Physical Sciences Publications
M 87 is a nearby radio galaxy that is detected at energies ranging from radio to very high energy (VHE) gamma rays. Its proximity and its jet, misaligned from our line of sight, enable detailed morphological studies and extensive modeling at radio, optical, and X-ray energies. Flaring activity was observed at all energies, and multi-wavelength correlations would help clarify the origin of the VHE emission. In this paper, we describe a detailed temporal and spectral analysis of the VERITAS VHE gamma-ray observations of M 87 in 2008 and 2009. In the 2008 observing season, VERITAS detected an excess with a …