MACHETE: A transit Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescope to survey half of the Very High Energy $\gamma$-ray sky

Understand

Current Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes for Very High Energy $\gamma$-ray astrophysics are pointing instruments with a Field of View up to a few tens of sq deg.

• We propose to build an array of two non-steerable (drift) telescopes.
• Each of the telescopes would have a camera with a FOV of 5$\times$60 sq deg oriented along the meridian.
• About half of the sky drifts through this FOV in a year.