https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201919701001
Impact of H.E.S.S. Lidar profiles on Crab Nebula data
Laboratoire Univers et Particules de Montpellier, Université de Montpellier, CNRS/IN2P3,
34095
Montpellier,
France
* Corresponding author: jdevin.phys@gmail.com
Published online: 15 January 2019
The H.E.S.S. experiment in Namibia is a high-energy gamma-ray telescope sensitive in the energy range from 30 GeV to a several tens of TeV, that uses the atmospheric Cherenkov technique to detect showers developed within the atmosphere. The elastic lidar, installed on the H.E.S.S. site, allows to reduce the systematic errors related to the atmospheric composition uncertainties thanks to the estimation of the extinction profile for the Cherenkov light (300-650 nm). The latter has a direct impact on the reconstructed parameters, such as the photon energy and the source flux. In this paper we report on physics results obtained on the Crab Nebula spectrum using the lidar profiles obtained at the H.E.S.S. site.
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