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ASTRI (Astrofisica con Specchi a Tecnologia Replicante Italiana), is a flagship project of the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research whose main goal is the design and construction of an end-to-end prototype of the Small…

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…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-13 N. Sartore

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) consortium aims to create the next generation Very High Energy gamma-ray observatory. It will be devoted to the observation of gamma rays over a wide band of energy, from 20 GeV to 300 TeV. Three…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-27 Jean-Laurent Dournaux , Jean-Michel Huet , Delphine Dumas , Jean-Philippe Amans , Gilles Fasola , Philippe Laporte , Jean-Jacques Bousquet , Hélène Sol

In this paper, the development of the dual mirror Small Size Telescopes (SST) for the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is reviewed. Up to 70 SST, with a primary mirror diameter of 4 m, will be produced and installed at the CTA southern site.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-17 G. Pareschi , G. Agnetta , L. A. Antonelli , D. Bastieri , G. Bellassai , M. Belluso , C. Bigongiari , S. Billotta , B. Biondo , G. Bonanno , G. Bonnoli , P. Bruno , A. Bulgarelli , R. Canestrari , M. Capalbi , P. Caraveo , A. Carosi , E. Cascone , O. Catalano , M. Cereda , P. Conconi , V. Conforti , G. Cusumano , V. De Caprio , A. De Luca , A. Di Paola , F. Di Pierro , D. Fantinel , M. Fiorini , D. Fugazza , D. Gardiol , M. Ghigo , F. Gianotti , S. Giarrusso , E. Giro , A. Grillo , D. Impiombato , S. Incorvaia , A. La Barbera , N. La Palombara , V. La Parola , G. La Rosa , L. Lessio , G. Leto , S. Lombardi , F. Lucarelli , M. C. Maccarone , G. Malaguti , G. Malaspina , V. Mangano , D. Marano , E. Martinetti , R. Millul , T. Mineo , A. MistÒ , C. Morello , G. Morlino , M. R. Panzera , G. Rodeghiero , P. Romano , F. Russo , B. Sacco , N. Sartore , J. Schwarz , A. Segreto , G. Sironi , G. Sottile , A. Stamerra , E. Strazzeri , L. Stringhetti , G. Tagliaferri , V. Testa , M. C. Timpanaro , G. Toso , G. Tosti , M. Trifoglio , P. Vallania , S. Vercellone , V. Zitelli , J. P. Amans , C. Boisson , C. Costille , J. L. Dournaux , D. Dumas , G. Fasola , O. Hervet , J. M. Huet , P. Laporte , C. Rulten , H. Sol , A. Zech , R. White , J. Hinton , D. Ross , J. Sykes , S. Ohm , J. Schmoll , P. Chadwick , T. Greenshaw , M. Daniel , G. Cotter , G. S. Varner , S. Funk , J. Vandenbroucke , L. Sapozhnikov , J. Buckley , P. Moore , D. Williams , S. Markoff , J. Vink , D. Berge , N. Hidaka , A. Okumura , H. Tajima

The Small-Size Telescope with single-mirror (SST-1M) is a 4 m Davies-Cotton telescope and is among the proposed telescope designs for the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA). It is conceived to provide the high-energy ($>$ few TeV) coverage.…

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…

The SST-1M is a 4-m Davies--Cotton atmospheric Cherenkov telescope optimized to provide gamma-ray sensitivity above a few TeV. The SST-1M is proposed as part of the Small-Size Telescope array for the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA), the…

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…

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

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is the next-generation atmospheric Cherenkov gamma-ray observatory. CTA will consist of two installations, one in the northern, and the other in the southern hemisphere, containing tens of telescopes of…

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is a future instrument for very-high-energy (VHE) gamma-ray astronomy that is expected to deliver an order of magnitude improvement in sensitivity over existing instruments. In order to meet the physics…

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

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

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is an international project for a next-generation ground-based gamma-ray observatory. CTA, conceived as an array of tens of imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes, comprising small, medium and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 T. Hassan , B. Humensky , D. Nieto , M. Wood

The prototype camera of the single-mirror Small Size Telescopes (SST-1M) proposed for the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) project has been designed to be very compact and to deliver high performance over thirty years of operation. The…

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

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) project, led by an international collaboration of institutes, aims to create the world's largest next generation observatory for Very High Energy (VHE) gamma-ray astronomy. It will be devoted to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-26 A. Dmytriiev , L. Dangeon , G. Fasola , H. Sol , A. Zech , J. Gironnet , O. Le Blanc , J. P. Amans , G. Buchholtz , J. L. Dournaux , F. de Frondat , D. Horville , J. M. Huet , I. Jégouzo , P. Laporte

The next generation instrument for ground-based gamma-ray astronomy will be the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA), consisting of approximately 100 telescopes in three sizes, built on two sites with one each in the Northern and Southern Hemi-…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-09 Louise Oakes , Markus Garczarczyk , Stephan Kaphle , Michael Mayer , Stefan Schlenstedt

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is a future ground-based gamma-ray observatory that will provide unprecedented sensitivity and angular resolution for the detection of gamma rays with energies above a few tens of GeV. In comparison to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-07 Victor Barbosa Martins , Markus Garczarczyk , Gerrit Spengler , Ullrich Schwanke

The Cherenkov Telescopes Array (CTA) is planned as the future instrument for very-high-energy (VHE) gamma-ray astronomy with a wide energy range of four orders of magnitude and an improvement in sensitivity compared to current instruments…