ASTRI Mini-Array Core Science at the Observatorio del Teide
Abstract
The ASTRI (Astrofisica con Specchi a Tecnologia Replicante Italiana) Project led by the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF) is developing and will deploy at the Observatorio del Teide a mini-array (ASTRI Mini-Array) composed of nine telescopes similar to the small-size dual-mirror Schwarzschild-Couder telescope (ASTRI-Horn) currently operating on the slopes of Mt. Etna in Sicily. The ASTRI Mini-Array will surpass the current Cherenkov telescope array differential sensitivity above a few tera-electronvolt (TeV), extending the energy band well above hundreds of TeV. This will allow us to explore a new window of the electromagnetic spectrum, by convolving the sensitivity performance with excellent angular and energy resolution figures. In this paper we describe the Core Science that we will address during the first four years of operation, providing examples of the breakthrough results that we will obtain when dealing with current open questions, such as the acceleration of cosmic rays, cosmology and fundamental physics and the new window, for the TeV energy band, of the time-domain astrophysics.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2208.03177,
title = {ASTRI Mini-Array Core Science at the Observatorio del Teide},
author = {S. Vercellone and C. Bigongiari and A. Burtovoi and M. Cardillo and O. Catalano and A. Franceschini and S. Lombardi and L. Nava and F. Pintore and A. Stamerra and F. Tavecchio and L. Zampieri and R. Alves Batista and E. Amato and L. A. Antonelli and C. Arcaro and J. Becerra Gonzalez and G. Bonnoli and M. Bottcher and G. Brunetti and A. A. Compagnino and S. Crestan and A. D Ai and M. Fiori and G. Galanti and A. Giuliani and E. M. de Gouveia Dal Pino and J. G. Green and A. Lamastra and M. Landoni and F. Lucarelli and G. Morlino and B. Olmi and E. Peretti and G. Piano and G. Ponti and E. Poretti and P. Romano and F. G. Saturni and S. Scuderi and A. Tutone and G. Umana and J. A. Acosta-Pulido and P. Barai and A. Bonanno and G. Bonanno and P. Bruno and A. Bulgarelli and V. Conforti and A. Costa and G. Cusumano and M. Del Santo and M. V. del Valle and R. Della Ceca and D. A. Falceta-Goncalves and V. Fioretti and S. Germani and R. J. Garcia-Lopez and A. Ghedina and V. Giordano and M. Kreter and F. Incardona and S. Iovenitti and A. La Barbera and N. La Palombara and V. La Parola and G. Leto and F. Longo and A. Lopez-Oramas and M. C. Maccarone and S. Mereghetti and R. Millul and G. Naletto and A. Pagliaro and N. Parmiggiani and C. Righi and J. C. Rodriguez-Ramirez and G. Romeo and P. Sangiorgi and R. Santos de Lima and G. Tagliaferri and V. Testa and G. Tosti and M. Vazquez Acosta and N. Zywucka and P. A. Caraveo and G. Pareschi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2208.03177},
year = {2022}
}
Comments
Published in Journal of High Energy Astrophysics. 46 Figures, 7 Tables