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The Status of the H.E.S.S. Project
The High Energy Stereoscopic System (H.E.S.S.) - is a system of four, 107 m^2
mirror area, imaging Cherenkov telescopes under construction in the Khomas
Highland of Namibia (1800 m asl). The H.E.S.S. system is characterised by a low
threshold (~ 100 GeV) and a ~1 % Crab flux sensitivity resulting from the good
angular resolution and background rejection provided by the stereoscopic
technique.
The first two telescopes are operational and first results are reported here.
The remaining two telescopes (of H.E.S.S. Phase-I) will be commissioned early
in 2004.Comment: 8 pages, 16 figures, in 2nd VERITAS Symposium on TeV Astrophysics
(eds. L. Fortson and S. Swordy), New Astronomy Reviews (in press
Mating Frequency of European Corn Borer (Lepidoptera: Crambidae) in Minnesota, Kansas, and Texas
The frequency of mating and polyandry in natural populations are important parameters for understanding evolutionary dynamics. Mating frequency among natural populations of Ostrinia nubilalis (Hübner) [Lepidoptera: Crambidae] are quite variable. Showers et al. (1974) found 91.1, 73.8, and 71.3% of females had mated during the second flight over 1971-3 at one location in Iowa. During 1971, only 10% mated multiple times, with lower levels of polyandry in subsequent years. In an earlier study in Iowa, Pesho (1961) found that 65-100 % of females had mated and up to 43% had mated more than once. A population in southwestern Ontario averaged 73% mating and 37% polyandry for the 5-year period from 1971-5, a higher rate of polyandry than during the same period in Iowa (Elliot, 1977). In this note, we amplify these previously published results by reporting the mating status of female O. nubilalis captured in light traps in Minnesota, Kansas and Texas. We also provide evidence that some females in natural populations may be sperm-limited
A Monte Carlo Template based analysis for Air-Cherenkov Arrays
We present a high-performance event reconstruction algorithm: an Image
Pixel-wise fit for Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes (ImPACT). The
reconstruction algorithm is based around the likelihood fitting of camera pixel
amplitudes to an expected image template. A maximum likelihood fit is performed
to find the best-fit shower parameters. A related reconstruction algorithm has
already been shown to provide significant improvements over traditional
reconstruction for both the CAT and H.E.S.S. experiments. We demonstrate a
significant improvement to the template generation step of the procedure, by
the use of a full Monte Carlo air shower simulation in combination with a
ray-tracing optics simulation to more accurately model the expected camera
images. This reconstruction step is combined with an MVA-based background
rejection.
Examples are shown of the performance of the ImPACT analysis on both
simulated and measured (from a strong VHE source) gamma-ray data from the
H.E.S.S. array, demonstrating an improvement in sensitivity of more than a
factor two in observation time over traditional image moments-fitting methods,
with comparable performance to previous likelihood fitting analyses. ImPACT is
a particularly promising approach for future large arrays such as the Cherenkov
Telescope Array (CTA) due to its improved high-energy performance and
suitability for arrays of mixed telescope types.Comment: 13 pages, 10 figure
Adaptation of time line analysis program to single pilot instrument flight research
A data base was developed for SPIFR operation and the program was run. The outputs indicated that further work was necessary on the workload models. In particular, the workload model for the cognitive channel should be modified as the output workload appears to be too small. Included in the needed refinements are models to show the workload when in turbulence, when overshooting a radial or glideslope, and when copying air traffic control clearances
Gamma-ray emission associated with Cluster-scale AGN Outbursts
Recent observations have revealed the existence of enormously energetic
~10^61 erg AGN outbursts in three relatively distant galaxy clusters. These
outbursts have produced bubbles in the intra-cluster medium, apparently
supported by pressure from relativistic particles and/or magnetic fields. Here
we argue that if > GeV particles are responsible then these particles are very
likely protons and nuclei, rather than electrons, and that the gamma-ray
emission from these objects, arising from the interactions of these hadrons in
the intra-cluster medium, may be marginally detectable with instruments such as
GLAST and HESS.Comment: 8 pages, 4 figures, accepted by MNRA
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