October 30, 2024 to November 1, 2024
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
America/Toronto timezone

Intensity Interferometry with the H.E.S.S. telescopes

Oct 30, 2024, 10:45 a.m.
25m
PI/4-405 - Bob Room (Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics)

PI/4-405 - Bob Room

Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics

60
Workshop Talk

Speaker

Naomi Vogel (ECAP, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg)

Description

Intensity Interferometry (II) is a method that can achieve high angular resolution and was
first employed in the 1960s by Robert Brown and Richard Q. Twiss (HBT). Since then,
significant advancements have been made, particularly in the construction of telescopes
with large light collection areas, such as Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes
(IACTs), exemplified by instruments like H.E.S.S. , MAGIC and VERITAS. Our II setup
was designed to be mounted on the lid of the Phase I H.E.S.S. telescopes in Namibia. In
April 2022, our first observation campaign was conducted, during which two telescopes
operated in a single wavelength band. In April-May 2023, a third telescope was added,
and observations were performed in two colors simultaneously for the first time in II. In
this contribution I will introduce our setup and compare the different configurations, as
well as present the latest results of four southern hemisphere stars.

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