Galactic Observatory Science with the ASTRI Mini-Array at the Observatorio del Teide
Abstract
The ASTRI (Astrofisica con Specchi a Tecnologia Replicante Italiana) Mini-Array will be composed of nine imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes at the Observatorio del Teide site. The array will be best suited for astrophysical observations in the 0.3-200 TeV range with an angular resolution of few arc-minutes and an energy resolution of 10-15\%. A core-science programme in the first four years will be devoted to a limited number of key targets, addressing the most important open scientific questions in the very-high energy domain. At the same time, thanks to a wide field of view of about 10 degrees, ASTRI Mini-Array will observe many additional field sources, which will constitute the basis for the long-term observatory programme that will eventually cover all the accessible sky. In this paper, we review different astrophysical Galactic environments, e.g. pulsar wind nebulae, supernova remnants, and gamma-ray binaries, and show the results from a set of ASTRI Mini-Array simulations of some of these field sources made to highlight the expected performance of the array (even at large offset angles) and the important additional observatory science that will complement the core-science program.
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@article{arxiv.2208.03181,
title = {Galactic Observatory Science with the ASTRI Mini-Array at the Observatorio del Teide},
author = {A. D'Aì and E. Amato and A. Burtovoi and A. A. Compagnino and M. Fiori and A. Giuliani and N. La Palombara and A. Paizis and G. Piano and F. G. Saturni and A. Tutone and A. Belfiore and M. Cardillo and S. Crestan and G. Cusumano and M. Della Valle and M. Del Santo and A. La Barbera and V. La Parola and S. Lombardi and S. Mereghetti and G. Morlino and F. Pintore and P. Romano and S. Vercellone and A. Antonelli and C. Arcaro and C. Bigongiari and M. Böettcher and P. Bruno and A. Bulgarelli and V. Conforti and A. Costa and E. de Gouveia Dal Pino and V. Fioretti and S. Germani and A. Ghedina and F. Gianotti and V. Giordano and F. Incardona and G. Leto and F. Longo and A. López Oramas and F. Lucarelli and B. Olmi and A. Pagliaro and N. Parmiggiani and G. Romeo and A. Stamerra and V. Testa and G. Tosti and G. Umana and L. Zampieri and P. Caraveo and G. Pareschi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2208.03181},
year = {2022}
}
Comments
Accepted for publication in Journal of High-Energy Astrophysics