ASTRI (Astrofisica a Specchi con Tecnologia Replicante Italiana) is a "Flagship Project" financed by the Italian Ministry of Instruction, University and Research and led by the Italian National Institute of Astrophysics. It represents the Italian proposal for the development of the Small Size Telescope system of the Cherenkov Telescope Array, the next generation observatory for Very High Energy gamma-rays (20 GeV - 100 TeV). The ASTRI end-to-end prototype will be installed at Serra La Nave (Catania, Italy) and it will see the first light at the beginning of 2014. We describe the expected performance of the prototype on few selected test cases of the northern emisphere. The aim of the prototype is to probe the technological solutions and the nominal performance of the various telescope's subsystems.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1305.3209,
title = {Science with the ASTRI prototype},
author = {N. Sartore},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1305.3209},
year = {2019}
}
Comments
4 pages, 2 figures. To be published in Proceedings of the 9th Workshop on "Science with the New Generation of High-Energy Gamma-Ray Experiments" (SciNeGHE 2012) held in Lecce, Italy, on June 20-22, 2012