4 m Davies-Cotton telescope for the Cherenkov Telescope Array
Abstract
The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is the next generation very high energy gamma-ray observatory. It will consist of three classes of telescopes, of large, medium and small sizes. The small telescopes, of 4 m diameter, will be dedicated to the observations of the highest energy gamma-rays, above several TeV. We present the technical characteristics of a single mirror, 4 m diameter, Davies-Cotton telescope for the CTA and the performance of the sub-array consisting of the telescopes of this type. The telescope will be equipped with a fully digital camera based on custom made, hexagonal Geiger-mode avalanche photodiodes. The development of cameras based on such devices is an RnD since traditionally photomultipliers are used. The photodiodes are now being characterized at various institutions of the CTA Consortium. Glass mirrors will be used, although an alternative is being considered: composite mirrors that could be adopted if they meet the project requirements. We present a design of the telescope structure, its components and results of the numerical simulations of the telescope performance.
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@article{arxiv.1307.3137,
title = {4 m Davies-Cotton telescope for the Cherenkov Telescope Array},
author = {R. Moderski and J. A. Aguilar and A. Barnacka and A. Basili and V. Boccone and L. Bogacz and F. Cadoux and A. Christov and M. Della Volpe and M. Dyrda and A. Frankowski and M. Grudzińska and M. Janiak and M. Karczewski and J. Kasperek and W. Kochański and P. Korohoda and J. Kozioł and P. Lubiński and J. Ludwin and E. Lyard and A. Marszałek and J. Michałowski and T. Montaruli and J. Nicolau-Kukliński and J. Niemiec and M. Ostrowski and Ł. Płatos and P. J. Rajda and M. Rameez and W. Romaszkan and M. Rupiński and K. Seweryn and M. Stodulska and M. Stodulski and R. Walter and K. Winiarski and Ł. Wiśniewski and A. Zagdański and K. Zietara and P. Ziółkowski and P. Żychowski},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1307.3137},
year = {2019}
}
Comments
In Proceedings of the 33rd International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC2013), Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). All CTA contributions at arXiv:1307.2232