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ASTRI Mini-Array Core Science at the Observatorio del Teide

The ASTRI (Astrofisica con Specchi a Tecnologia Replicante Italiana) Project led by the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF) is developing and will deploy at the Observatorio del Teide a mini-array (ASTRI Mini-Array) composed…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-08-08 S. Vercellone , C. Bigongiari , A. Burtovoi , M. Cardillo , O. Catalano , A. Franceschini , S. Lombardi , L. Nava , F. Pintore , A. Stamerra , F. Tavecchio , L. Zampieri , R. Alves Batista , E. Amato , L. A. Antonelli , C. Arcaro , J. Becerra Gonzalez , G. Bonnoli , M. Bottcher , G. Brunetti , A. A. Compagnino , S. Crestan , A. D Ai , M. Fiori , G. Galanti , A. Giuliani , E. M. de Gouveia Dal Pino , J. G. Green , A. Lamastra , M. Landoni , F. Lucarelli , G. Morlino , B. Olmi , E. Peretti , G. Piano , G. Ponti , E. Poretti , P. Romano , F. G. Saturni , S. Scuderi , A. Tutone , G. Umana , J. A. Acosta-Pulido , P. Barai , A. Bonanno , G. Bonanno , P. Bruno , A. Bulgarelli , V. Conforti , A. Costa , G. Cusumano , M. Del Santo , M. V. del Valle , R. Della Ceca , D. A. Falceta-Goncalves , V. Fioretti , S. Germani , R. J. Garcia-Lopez , A. Ghedina , V. Giordano , M. Kreter , F. Incardona , S. Iovenitti , A. La Barbera , N. La Palombara , V. La Parola , G. Leto , F. Longo , A. Lopez-Oramas , M. C. Maccarone , S. Mereghetti , R. Millul , G. Naletto , A. Pagliaro , N. Parmiggiani , C. Righi , J. C. Rodriguez-Ramirez , G. Romeo , P. Sangiorgi , R. Santos de Lima , G. Tagliaferri , V. Testa , G. Tosti , M. Vazquez Acosta , N. Zywucka , P. A. Caraveo , G. Pareschi

First optical validation of a Schwarzschild Couder telescope: the ASTRI SST-2M Cherenkov telescope

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) represents the most advanced facility designed for Cherenkov Astronomy. ASTRI SST-2M has been developed as a demonstrator for the Small Size Telescope in the context of the upcoming CTA. Its main…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-13 E. Giro , R. Canestrari , G. Sironi , E. Antolini , P. Conconi , C. E. Fermino , C. Gargano , G. Rodeghiero , F Russo , S. Scuderi , G. Tosti , V. Vassiliev , G. Pareschi

The ASTRI Cherenkov Camera: from the prototype to the industrial version for the Mini-Array

The observation of energetic astronomical sources emitting very high-energy gamma-rays in the TeV spectral range (as e.g. supernova remnants or blazars) is mainly based on detecting the Cherenkov light induced by relativistic particles in…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-25 G. Sottile , P. Sangiorgi , C. Gargano , F. Lo Gerfo , M. Corpora , O. Catalano , D. Impiombato , D. Mollica , M. Capalbi , T. Mineo , G. Contino , B. Biondo , F. Russo , M. C. Maccarone , G. La Rosa , S. Giarrusso , G. Leto , A. Grillo , G. Bonanno , G. Romeo , S. Garozzo , D. Marano , V. Conforti , F. Gianotti , S. Scuderi , G. Pareschi , G. Tosti , A. Abba , A. Cusimano , F. Caponio , C. Tintori , M. Lippi , F. Vivaldi , G. Marchiori , M. Spinola , A. Colovini , F. Perez , S. Ahmad , J. B. Cizel , J. Fluery

Mirror production for the Cherenkov telescopes of the ASTRI Mini-Array and of the MST project for the Cherenkov Telescope Array

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is the next ground-based $\gamma$-ray observatory in the TeV $\gamma$-ray spectral region operating with the Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Technique. It is based on almost 70 telescopes of different class…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-04 N. La Palombara , G. Sironi , E. Giro , S. Scuderi , R. Canestrari , S. Iovenitti , M. Garczarczyk , M. Krause , S. Diebold , R. Millul , F. Marioni , N. Missaglia , M. Redaelli , G. Valsecchi , F. Zocchi , A. Zanoni , G. Pareschi

All Sky Camera, LIDAR and Electric Field Meter: auxiliary instruments for the ASTRI SST-2M prototype

ASTRI SST-2M is the end-to-end prototype telescope of the Italian National Institute of Astro- physics, INAF, designed to investigate the 10-100 TeV band in the framework of the Cherenkov Telescope Array, CTA. The ASTRI SST-2M telescope has…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 Giuseppe Leto , Ricardo Zanmar Sanchez , Giancarlo Bellassai , Pietro Bruno , Maria Concetta Maccarone , Eugenio Martinetti

Prospects for PWNe and SNRs science with the ASTRI mini-array of pre-production small-sized telescopes of the Cherenkov Telescope Array

The development and construction of the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) opens up new opportunities for the study of very high energy (VHE, E>100 GeV) sources. As a part of CTA, the ASTRI project, led by INAF, has one of the main goals to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-08-09 A. Burtovoi , L. Zampieri , A. Giuliani , C. Bigongiari , F. Di Pierro , A. Stamerra , the ASTRI Collaboration , the CTA Consortium

Scientific prospects for a mini-array of ASTRI telescopes: a gamma-ray TeV data challenge

ASTRI is a project aiming at the realization of a gamma-ray imaging Cherenkov telescope that observes the sky in the TeV band. Recently, the development of a mini-array (MA) of ASTRI telescopes has been funded by the Istituto Nazionale di…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-03-25 F. Pintore , A. Giuliani , A. Belfiore , A. Paizis , S. Mereghetti , N. La Palombara , S. Crestan , L. Sidoli , S. Lombardi , A. D'Aì , F. G. Saturni , P. Caraveo , A. Burtovoi , M. Fiori , C. Boccato , A. Caccianiga , A. Costa , G. Cusumano , S. Gallozzi , L. Zampieri , B. Balmaverde , L. Tibaldo

Status of the Medium-Sized Telescope for the Cherenkov Telescope Array

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA), is an international project for the next generation ground- based observatory for gamma-ray astronomy in the energy range from 20 GeV to 300 TeV. The sensitivity in the core energy range will be…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-07 Markus Garczarczyk , Stefan Schlenstedt , Louise Oakes , Ullrich Schwanke , the MST Team

The ASTRI Mini-Array of Cherenkov Telescopes at the Observatorio del Teide

The ASTRI Mini-Array (MA) is an INAF project to build and operate a facility to study astronomical sources emitting at very high-energy in the TeV spectral band. The ASTRI MA consists of a group of nine innovative Imaging Atmospheric…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-10 Scuderi S. , Giuliani A. , Pareschi G. , Tosti G. , Catalano O. , Amato E. , Antonelli L. A. , Becerra Gonzáles J. , Bellassai G. , Bigongiari , C. , Biondo B. , Böttcher M. , Bonanno G. , Bonnoli G. , Bruno P. , Bulgarelli A. , Canestrari R. , Capalbi M. , Caraveo P. , Cardillo M. , Conforti V. , Contino G. , Corpora M. , Costa A. , Cusumano G. , D'Aí A. , de Gouveia Dal Pino E. , Della Ceca R. , Escribano Rodriguez E. Falceta Gonçalves D. , Fermino C. , Fiori M. , Fioretti V. , Fiorini M. , Gallozzi S. , Gargano C. , Garozzo S. , Germani S. , Ghedina A. , Gianotti F. , Giarrusso S. , Gimenes R. , Giordano V. , Grillo A. , Grivel Gelly C. , Impiombato D. , Incardona F. , Incorvaia S. , Iovenitti S. , La Barbera A. , La Palombara N. , La Parola V. , Lamastra A. , Lessio L. , Leto G. , Lo Gerfo F. , Lodi M. , Lombardi S. , Longo F. , Lucarelli F. , Maccarone M. C. , Marano D. , Martinetti E. , Mereghetti S. , Micciché A. , Millul R. , Mineo T. , Mollica D. , Morlino G. , Morselli A. , Naletto G. , Nicotra G. , Pagliaro A. , Parmiggiani N. , Piano G. , Pintore F. , Poretti E. , Olmi B. , Rodeghiero G. , Rodriguez Fernandez G. , Romano P. , Romeo G. , Russo F. , Sangiorgi P. , Saturni F. G. , Schwarz J. H. , Sciacca , E. , Sironi G. , Sottile G. , Stamerra A. , Tagliaferri G. , Testa V. , Umana G. , Uslenghi M. , Vercellone S. , Zampieri L. , Zanmar Sanchez R

The Small-Sized Telescopes for the Southern Site of the Cherenkov Telescope Array

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) will use three telescope sizes to efficiently detect cosmic gamma rays in the energy range from several tens of GeV to hundreds of TeV. The Small-Sized Telescopes (SSTs) will form the largest section of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-28 R. White

Status of the SST Camera for the Cherenkov Telescope Array

The Cherenkov Telescope Array will be the next generation ground-based gamma ray observatory in the energy range from a few tens of GeV to hundreds of TeV. It will be built on two sites, one for each hemisphere, to cover the entire sky. The…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-03 Davide Depaoli

The next generation Cherenkov Telescope Array observatory: CTA

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is a large collaborative effort aimed at the design and operation of an observatory dedicated to the VHE gamma-ray astrophysics in the energy range 30 GeV-100 TeV, which will improve by about one order of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 Stefano Vercellone

SST-GATE: A dual mirror telescope for the Cherenkov Telescope Array

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) will be the world's first open observatory for very high energy gamma-rays. Around a hundred telescopes of different sizes will be used to detect the Cherenkov light that results from gamma-ray induced…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-17 A. Zech , J. -P. Amans , S. Blake , C. Boisson , C. Costille , F. De-Frondat , J. -L. Dournaux , D. Dumas , G. Fasola , T. Greenshaw , O. Hervet , J. -M. Huet , P. Laporte , C. Rulten , D. Savoie , F. Sayede , J. Schmoll , H. Sol

Status of the Cherenkov Telescope Array's Large Size Telescopes

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) observatory, will be deployed over two sites in the two hemispheres. Both sites will be equipped with four Large Size Telescopes (LSTs), which are crucial to achieve the science goals of CTA in the 20-200…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 J. Cortina , M. Teshima

Calibration and monitoring of the ASTRI-Horn telescope by using the night-sky background measured by the photon-statistics ("variance") method

ASTRI-Horn is the Cherenkov telescope developed by INAF and operating in Italy on the slopes of Etna volcano. Characterized by a dual-mirror optical system and a focal plane covered by silicon photomultiplier sensors, ASTRI-Horn is a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-20 A. Segreto , O. Catalano , M. C. Maccarone , T. Mineo , A. La Barbera

Camera design and performance of the prototype Schwarzschild-Couder Telescope for the Cherenkov Telescope Array

The Schwarzschild-Couder Telescope (SCT) is a candidate technology for a medium-sized telescope within the Cherenkov Telescope Array, the next generation ground based observatory for very high energy gamma ray astronomy. The SCT uses a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-02 C. Adams , G. Ambrosi , M. Ambrosio , C. Aramo , W. Benbow , B. Bertucci , E. Bissaldi , M. Bitossi , A. Boiano , C. Bonavolonta , R. Bose , A. Brill , J. H. Buckley , M. Caprai , L. Di Venere , Q. Feng , E. Fiandrini , N. Giglietto , F. Giordano , O. Hervet , G. Hughes , T. B. Humensky , M. Ionica , W. Jin , P. Kaaret , D. Kieda , B. Kim , F. Licciulli , S. Loporchio , V. Masone , T. Meures , B. A. W. Mode , R. Mukherjee , F. R. Pantaleo , A. Okumura , A. Petrashyk , J. Powell , R. Paoletti , D. Ribeiro , A. Rugliancich , M. Santander , R. Shang , B. Stevenson , L. Stiaccini , L. P. Taylor , L. Tosti , V. Vagelli , M. Valentino , J. Vandenbroucke , V. Vassiliev , P. Wilcox , D. A. Williams

Galactic Observatory Science with the ASTRI Mini-Array at the Observatorio del Teide

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…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-08-08 A. D'Aì , E. Amato , A. Burtovoi , A. A. Compagnino , M. Fiori , A. Giuliani , N. La Palombara , A. Paizis , G. Piano , F. G. Saturni , A. Tutone , A. Belfiore , M. Cardillo , S. Crestan , G. Cusumano , M. Della Valle , M. Del Santo , A. La Barbera , V. La Parola , S. Lombardi , S. Mereghetti , G. Morlino , F. Pintore , P. Romano , S. Vercellone , A. Antonelli , C. Arcaro , C. Bigongiari , M. Böettcher , P. Bruno , A. Bulgarelli , V. Conforti , A. Costa , E. de Gouveia Dal Pino , V. Fioretti , S. Germani , A. Ghedina , F. Gianotti , V. Giordano , F. Incardona , G. Leto , F. Longo , A. López Oramas , F. Lucarelli , B. Olmi , A. Pagliaro , N. Parmiggiani , G. Romeo , A. Stamerra , V. Testa , G. Tosti , G. Umana , L. Zampieri , P. Caraveo , G. Pareschi

Status of the Large Size Telescopes of the Cherenkov Telescope Array

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) will consist of two arrays of Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes (IACTs) at the northern and southern hemispheres. CTA will feature IACTs with mirrors of three different sizes optimized to cover…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-25 Juan Cortina

A Compact High Energy Camera for the Cherenkov Telescope Array

The Compact High Energy Camera (CHEC) is a camera-development project involving UK, US, Japanese and Dutch institutes for the dual-mirror Small-Sized Telescopes (SST-2M) of the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA). Two CHEC prototypes, based on…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 M. K. Daniel , R. J. White , D. Berge , J. Buckley , P. M. Chadwick , G. Cotter , S. Funk , T. Greenshaw , N. Hidaka , J. Hinton , J. Lapington , S. Markoff , P. Moore , S. Nolan , S. Ohm , A. Okumura , D. Ross , L. Sapozhnikov , J. Schmoll , P. Sutcliffe , J. Sykes , H. Tajima , G. S. Varner , J. Vandenbroucke , J. Vink , D. Williams

First results of the two square meters multilayer glass composite mirror design proposed for the Cherenkov Telescope Array developed at INFN

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is a future ground-based gamma-ray astronomy detector that will consist of more than 100 Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes of different sizes. The total reflective surface of roughly 10 000 m$^2$…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 C. Schultz , M. Doro , L. Lessio , M. Mariotti , R. Rando