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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…

A medium-sized Schwarzchild-Couder Telescope (SCT) is being developed as a possible extension for the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA). The Cherenkov camera of the telescope is designed to have 11328 silicon photomultiplier pixels capable of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 M. Santander , J. Buckley , B. Humensky , R. Mukherjee

The prototype Schwarzschild-Couder Telescope (pSCT) is a candidate for a medium-sized telescope in the Cherenkov Telescope Array. The pSCT is based on a novel dual mirror optics design which reduces the plate scale and allows for the use of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-17 Colin B. Adams , Giovanni Ambrosi , Michelangelo Ambrosio , Carla Aramo , Timothy Arlen , Wystan Benbow , Bruna Bertucci , Elisabetta Bissaldi , Jonathan Biteau , Massimiliano Bitossi , Alfonso Boiano , Carmela Bonavolontà , Richard Bose , Aurelien Bouvier , Mario Buscemi , Aryeh Brill , Anthony M. Brown , James H. Buckley , Rodolfo Canestrari , Massimo Capasso , Mirco Caprai , Paolo Coppi , Corbin E. Covault , Davide Depaoli , Leonardo Di Venere , Manel Errando , Stephen Fegan , Qi Feng , Emanuele Fiandrini , Amy Furniss , Markus Garczarczyk , Alasdair Gent , Nicola Giglietto , Francesco Giordano , Enrico Giro , Robert Halliday , Olivier Hervet , Gareth Hughes , Simone Incardona , Thomas B. Humensky , Maria Ionica , Weidong Jin , Caitlin A. Johnson , David Kieda , Frank Krennrich , Andrey Kuznetsov , Jon Lapington , Francesco Licciulli , Serena Loporchio , Giovanni Marsella , Vincenzo Masone , Kevin Meagher , Thomas Meures , Brent A. W. Mode , Samuel A. I. Mognet , Reshmi Mukherjee , Akira Okumura , Francesca R. Pantaleo , Riccardo Paoletti , Federico Di Pierro , Deivid Ribeiro , Luca Riitano , Emmet Roache , Duncan Ross , Julien Rousselle , Andrea Rugliancich , Marcos Santander , Michael Schneider , Harm Schoorlemmer , Ruo-Yu Shang , Brandon Stevenson , Leonardo Stiaccini , Hiroyasu Tajima , Leslie P. Taylor , Julian Thornhill , Luca Tosti , Giovanni Tripodo , Valerio Vagelli , Massimo Valentino , Justin Vandenbroucke , Vladimir V. Vassiliev , Scott P. Wakely , Jason J. Watson , Richard White , Patrick Wilcox , David A. Williams , Matthew Wood , Peter Yu , Adrian Zink

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is the next-generation ground-based observatory for very-high energy gamma-ray astronomy. CTA will have unparalleled sensitivity and angular resolution and will detect gamma-ray sources nearly 100 times…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-07 Leslie Taylor

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) Consortium is developing the new generation of ground observatories for the detection of ultra-high energy gamma-rays. The Italian Institute of Nuclear Physics (INFN) is participating to the R&D of a…

We present the design and the status of procurement of the optical system of the prototype Schwarzschild-Couder telescope (pSCT), for which construction is scheduled to begin in fall at the Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory in southern…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 J. Rousselle , K. Byrum , R. Cameron , V. Connaughton , M. Errando , V. Guarino , T. B. Humensky , P. Jenke , D. Kieda , R. Mukherjee , D. Nieto , A. Okumura , A Petrashyk , V. Vassiliev

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 Schwarzschild-Couder Telescope (SCT) is a telescope concept proposed for the Cherenkov Telescope Array. It employs a dual-mirror optical design to remove comatic aberrations over an $8^{\circ}$ field of view, and a high-density silicon…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-17 C. B. Adams , R. Alfaro , G. Ambrosi , M. Ambrosio , C. Aramo , T. Arlen , P. I. Batista , W. Benbow , B. Bertucci , E. Bissaldi , J. Biteau , M. Bitossi , A. Boiano , C. Bonavolontà , R. Bose , A. Bouvier , A. Brill , A. M. Brown , J. H. Buckley , K. Byrum , R. A. Cameron , R. Canestrari , M. Capasso , M. Caprai , C. E. Covault , D. Depaoli , M. Errando , S. Fegan , Q. Feng , E. Fiandrini , G. Foote , P. Fortin , S. Funk , A. Furniss , F. Garfias , A. Gent , N. Giglietto , F. Giordano , E. Giro , M. M. González , V. Guarino , R. Halliday , O. Hervet , J. Holder , G. Hughes , T. B. Humensky , M. Ionica , A. Iriarte , W. Jin , C. A. Johnson , P. Kaaret , D. Kieda , B. Kim , A. Kuznetsov , J. S. Lapington , F. Licciulli , S. Loporchio , V. Mason , K. Meagher , T. Meures , B. A. W. Mode , S. A. I. Mognet , R. Mukherjee , T. Nguyen , D. Nieto , A. Okumura , N. Otte , N. La Palombara , F. R. Pantaleo , R. Paoletti , G. Pareschi , A. Petrashyk , F. Di Pierro , E. Pueschel , P. T. Reynolds , D. Ribeiro , G. Richards , E. Roache , D. Ross , J. Rousselle , A. Rugliancich , J. Ruíz-Díaz-Soto , M. Santander , S. Schlenstedt , M. Schneider , S. Scuderi , R. Shang , G. Sironi , B. Stevenson , L. Stiaccini , H. Tajima , L. P. Taylor , J. Thornhill , L. Tosti , G. Tovmassian , V. Vagelli , M. Valentino , J. Vandenbroucke , V. V. Vassiliev , L. Di Venere , S. P. Wakely , J. J. Watson , R. White , P. Wilcox , D. A. Williams , M. Wood , P. Yu , A. Zink

The CTA (Cherenkov Telescope Array) is the next generation ground-based experiment for very high-energy (VHE) gamma-ray observations. It will integrate several tens of imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes (IACTs) with different…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 Julien Rousselle , Valerie Connaughton , Manel Errando , Brian Humensky , Reshmi Mukherjee , Daniel Nieto , Akira Okumura , Vladimir Vassiliev

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 D. Nieto , S. Griffiths , B. Humensky , P. Kaaret , M. Limon , I. Mognet , A. Peck , A. Petrashyk , D. Ribeiro , J. Rousselle , B. Stevenson , V. Vassiliev , P. Yu

The Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO) will greatly improve upon sensitivities in the field of very-high-energy gamma-ray astrophysics. The CTAO northern site (CTAO-North, La Palma, Spain) currently hosts LST-1 with the remaining…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-17 Luca Riitano , Justin Vandenbroucke , Zach Curtis-Ginsberg

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is an atmospheric Cherenkov observatory that will image the cosmos in very-high-energy gamma rays. CTA will study the highest-energy particle accelerators in the Universe and potentially confirm the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 J. Vandenbroucke

The small size telescopes (SSTs), spread over an area of several square km, dominate the CTA sensitivity in the photon energy range from a few TeV to over 100 TeV, enabling for the detailed exploration of the very high energy gamma-ray sky.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-27 Teresa Montaruli , Giovanni Pareschi , Tim Greenshaw

The Cherenkov Telescope Array is a world-wide project for a new generation of ground-based Cherenkov telescopes of the Imaging class with the aim of exploring the highest energy region of the electromagnetic spectrum. With two planned…

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is the the next generation facility of imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes; two sites will cover both hemispheres. CTA will reach unprecedented sensitivity, energy and angular resolution in…

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