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ASTRI is a Flagship Project led by the Italian National Institute of Astrophysics, INAF. The main objective of the ASTRI project is to develop a prototype of the Small Size class Telescope for the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) in a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-15 G. Leto , M. C. Maccarone , G. Bellassai , P. Bruno , M. Fiorini , A. Grillo , E. Martinetti , G. La Rosa , A. Segreto , G. Sottile , L. Stringhetti

In the context of the ASTRI MiniArray project (9 dual-mirror air Cherenkov telescopes being installed at the Observatorio del Teide in the Canary Islands), the ASTRI- Horn prototype was previously implemented in Italy (Sicily). It was a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-24 Simone Iovenitti , Silvia Crestan , Teresa Mineo , Giuseppe Leto , Andrea Giuliani , Saverio Lombardi

The ASTRI Mini-Array is a project for the Cherenkov astronomy in the TeV energy range. ASTRI Mini-Array consists of nine Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes located at the Teide Observatory (Canarias Islands). Large volumes of…

ASTRI is a Flagship Project of the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research, led by the Italian National Institute of Astrophysics, INAF. One of the main aims of the ASTRI Project is the design, construction and verification…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-07-23 Giacomo Bonnoli , Rodolfo Canestrari , Osvaldo Catalano , Giovanni Pareschi , Luca Stringhetti , Luca Perri

The ASTRI Mini-Array project, led by the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics, aims to construct and operate nine Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes for high-energy gamma-ray source study and stellar intensity interferometry.…

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

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…

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is a worldwide project aimed at building the next-generation ground-based gamma-ray observatory. Within the CTA project, the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF) is developing an end-to-end…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-22 S. Lombardi , C. Bigongiari , S. Gallozzi , L. A. Antonelli , D. Bastieri , I. Donnarumma , F. Lucarelli , M. Mastropietro , P. Munar , M. Perri , A. Stamerra , F. Visconti , M. C. Maccarone

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

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

ASTRI is a Flagship Project financed by the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research, and led by INAF, the Italian National Institute of Astrophysics. The primary goal of the ASTRI project is the realization of an end-to-end…

ASTRI-Horn is the prototype of the nine telescopes that form the ASTRI Mini-Array, under construction at the Teide Observatory in Tenerife (Spain), devoted to observe the sky in the 1--200 TeV energy band. It adopts an innovative optical…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-11 D. Impiombato , A. A. Compagnino , T. Mineo , O. Catalano , S. Giarrusso , M. C. Maccarone

The next generation of IACT (Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescope) will explore the uppermost end of the VHE (Very High Energy) domain up to about few hundreds of TeV with unprecedented sensibility, angular resolution and imaging…

The ASTRI Mini-Array is an international collaboration led by the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics. The project aims to construct and operate an array of nine Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes to study gamma-ray sources at…

The ASTRI Mini-Array consists of nine Cherenkov telescopes under construction at the Observatorio del Teide, with one of them already performing observations since November 2024. Given the complexity of the analysis of gamma-ray data…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-30 E. Molina , L. Foffano , S. Crestan , S. Iovenitti , S. Lombardi , F. Lucarelli , T. Mineo

Astri-Horn is a Small-Sized Telescope (SST) for very-high energy gamma-ray astronomy installed in Italy at the INAF "M.C. Fracastoro" observing station (Mt. Etna, Sicily). The ASTRI-Horn telescope is characterized by a dual-mirror optical…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-23 T. Mineo , M. C. Maccarone , A. Compagnino , M. Capalbi , O. Catalano , G. Contino , D. Impiombato , P. Sangiorgi , S. Garozzo , D. Marano , V. Conforti

The ASTRI Mini-Array is an international collaboration led by the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF), aiming to construct and operate an array of nine Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes (IACTs) to study gamma-ray…

We report on the first detection of very high-energy (VHE) gamma-ray emission from the Crab Nebula by a Cherenkov telescope in dual-mirror Schwarzschild-Couder (SC) configuration. The result has been achieved by means of the 4 m size…

The ASTRI Mini-Array is an international collaboration led by the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics. This project aims to construct and operate an array of nine Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes to study gamma-ray sources…

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