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Toward the construction of a medium size prototype Schwarzschild-Couder telescope for CTA
- Source :
- SPIE Proceedings.
- Publication Year :
- 2015
- Publisher :
- SPIE, 2015.
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Abstract
- The construction of a prototype Schwarzschild-Couder telescope (pSCT) started in early June 2015 at the Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory in Southern Arizona, as a candidate medium-sized telescope for the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA). Compared to current Davies-Cotton telescopes, this novel instrument with an aplanatic two-mirror optical system will offer a wider field-of-view and improved angular resolution. In addition, the reduced plate scale of the camera allows the use of highly-integrated photon detectors such as silicon photo multipliers. As part of CTA, this design has the potential to greatly improve the performance of the next generation ground-based observatory for very high-energy (E>60 GeV) gamma-ray astronomy. In this contribution we present the design and performance of both optical and alignment systems of the pSCT.
- Subjects :
- Physics
business.industry
Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
Astronomy
IACT
Gamma-ray astronomy
Cherenkov Telescope Array
law.invention
Telescope
Primary mirror
Optics
Observatory
law
Angular resolution
business
Cherenkov radiation
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Details
- ISSN :
- 0277786X
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- SPIE Proceedings
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........60cca546aecfed5ce4645b5729261c43