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Technical and scientific performance of the prototype Schwarzschild-Couder Telescope for CTA
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- SPIE, 2021.
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Abstract
- The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is the next-generation ground-based observatory for very-high-energy gamma rays. One candidate design for CTA's medium-sized telescopes consists of the Schwarzschild-Couder Telescope (SCT), featuring innovative dual-mirror optics. The SCT project has built and is currently operating a 9.7-m prototype SCT (pSCT) at the Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory (FLWO); such optical design enables the use of a compact camera with state-of-the art silicon photomultiplier detectors. A partially-equipped camera has recently successfully detected the Crab Nebula with a statistical significance of 8.6 standard deviations. A funded upgrade of the pSCT focal plane sensors and electronics is currently ongoing, which will bring the total number of channels from 1600 to 11328 and the telescope field of view from about 2.7° to 8° . In this work, we will describe the technical and scientific performance of the pSCT.
- Subjects :
- Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors
Computer science
business.industry
Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Gamma rays
Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
Imaging Cherenkov telescopes
Silicon photomultipliers
Field of view
Cherenkov Telescope Array
law.invention
Telescope
Cardinal point
Upgrade
Optics
Silicon photomultiplier
Crab Nebula
Observatory
law
Schwarzschild-Couder telescope
Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
Aplanatic optical system
business
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....53cfd420fcac7c111bfcb85c3c6f168d