出版社：SISSA, Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati
摘要：We intend to set up an imaging air Cherenkov telescope with low cost, but high performance
design for remote operation. The goal is to dedicate this g -ray telescope to long-term monitoring
observations of nearby, bright blazars at very high energies (VHE). We will (i) search for orbital
modulation of the blazar emission due to supermassive black hole binaries, (ii) study the statistics
of flares and their physical origin, and (iii) correlate the data with observations of flares with
higher sensitivity telescopes such as MAGIC, VERITAS, and H.E.S.S. Common observations
with theWhipple 10m-monitoring telescope will be the first step towards a future 24 h-monitoring
of selected sources. This idea was presented for the first time in [1]. The telescope design is based
on a full technological upgrade of one of the former telescopes of the HEGRA collaboration, still
located at the Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos on the Canarian Island of La Palma
(Spain). After this upgrade, the telescope will be operated robotic, its sensitivity will greatly be
improved and a much lower energy threshold below 350GeV will be achieved.
