The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is the next generation Cherenkov telescope facility. It will consist of a large number of segmented-mirror telescopes of three different diameters, placed in two locations, one in the northern and one in the southern hemisphere, thus covering the whole sky. The total number of mirror tiles will be on the order of 10,000, corresponding to a reflective area of ~10^4 m^2. The Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics in T\"ubingen (IAAT) is currently developing mirror control alignment mechanics, electronics, and software optimized for the medium sized telescopes. In addition, IAAT is participating in the CTA mirror prototype testing. In this paper we present the status of the current developments, the main results of recent tests, and plans for the production phase of the mirror control system. We also briefly present the T\"ubingen facility for mirror testing.
@article{arxiv.1508.06177,
title = {Recent developments for the testing of Cherenkov Telescope Array mirrors and actuators in T\"ubingen},
author = {J. Dick and A. Bonardi and S. Bressel and M. Capasso and S. Diebold and F. Eisenkolb and D. Gottschall and E. Kendziorra and G. Pühlhofer and S. Renner and A. Santangelo and T. Schanz and C. Tenzer},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1508.06177},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
In Proceedings of the 34th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC2015), The Hague, The Netherlands. All CTA contributions at arXiv:1508.05894