Mirror Development for the Cherenkov Telescope Array
Abstract
The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is a planned observatory for very-high energy gamma-ray astronomy. It will consist of several tens of telescopes of different sizes, with a total mirror area of up to 10,000 square meters. Most mirrors of current installations are either polished glass mirrors or diamond-turned aluminium mirrors, both labour intensive technologies. For CTA, several new technologies for a fast and cost-efficient production of light-weight and reliable mirror substrates have been developed and industrial pre-production has started for most of them. In addition, new or improved aluminium-based and dielectric surface coatings have been developed to increase the reflectance over the lifetime of the mirrors compared to those of current Cherenkov telescope instruments.
Keywords
Cite
@article{arxiv.1307.4563,
title = {Mirror Development for the Cherenkov Telescope Array},
author = {A. Förster and T. Armstrong and H. Baba and J. Bähr and A. Bonardi and G. Bonnoli and P. Brun and R. Canestrari and P. Chadwick and M. Chikawa and P. -H. Carton and V. De Souza and J. Dipold and M. Doro and D. Durand and M. Dyrda and E. Giro and J. -F. Glicenstein and Y. Hanabata and M. Hayashida and M. Hrabovski and C. Jeanney and M. Kagaya and H. Katagiri and L. Lessio and D. MANDAT and M. Mariotti and C. Medina and J. Michałowski and P. Micolon and D. Nakajima and J. Niemiec and A. Nozato and M. Palatka and G. Pareschi and M. Pech and B. Peyaud and G. Pühlhofer and M. Rataj and G. Rodeghiero and G. Rojas and J. Rousselle and R. Sakonaka and P. Schovanek and K. Seweryn and C. Schultz and S. Shu and F. Stinzing and M. Stodulski and M. Teshima and P. Travniczek and C. Van Eldik and V. Vassiliev and Ł. Wiśniewski and A. Wörnlein and T. Yoshida},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1307.4563},
year = {2019}
}
Comments
In Proceedings of the 33rd International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC2013), Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). All CTA contributions at arXiv:1307.2232