A single-mirror small-size (SST-1M) Davies-Cotton telescope with a dish diameter of 4 m has been built by a consortium of Polish and Swiss institutions as a prototype for one of the proposed small-size telescopes for the southern observatory of the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA). The design represents a very simple, reliable, and cheap solution. The mechanical structure prototype with its drive system is now being tested at the Institute of Nuclear Physics PAS in Krakow. Here we present the design of the prototype and results of the performance tests of the structure and the drive and control system.
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@article{arxiv.1509.01824,
title = {Prototype of the SST-1M Telescope Structure for the Cherenkov Telescope Array},
author = {J. Niemiec and W. Bilnik and J. Błocki and L. Bogacz and J. Borkowski and T . Bulik and F. Cadoux and A. Christov and M. Curyło and D. della Volpe and M. Dyrda and Y. Favre and A. Frankowski and Ł. Grudnik and M. Grudzińska and M. Heller and B. Idźkowski and M. Jamrozy and M. Janiak and J. Kasperek and K. Lalik and E. Lyard and E. Mach and D. Mandat and A. Marszałek and J. Michałowski and R. Moderski and T. Montaruli and A. Neronov and M. Ostrowski and P. Paśko and M. Pech and A. Porcelli and E. Prandini and P. Rajda and M. Rameez and E. jr. Schioppa and P. Schovanek and K. Seweryn and K. Skowron and V. Sliusar and M. Sowiński and Ł. Stawarz and M. Stodulska and M. Stodulski and I. Troyano Pujadas and S. Toscano and R. Walter and M. Wiȩcek and A. Zagdański and K. Ziȩtara and P. Żychowski},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1509.01824},
year = {2019}
}
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In Proceedings of the 34th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC2015), The Hague, The Netherlands. All CTA contributions at arXiv:1508.05894