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Operating performance of the gamma-ray Cherenkov telescope: An end-to-end Schwarzschild-Couder telescope prototype for the Cherenkov Telescope Array
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posted on 2019-03-20, 10:20 authored by JL Dournaux, A De Franco, P Laporte, R White, T Greenshaw, H Sol, A Abchiche, D Allan, JP Amans, TP Armstrong, A Balzer, D Berge, C Boisson, JJ Bousquet, AM Brown, M Bryan, G Buchholtz, PM Chadwick, H Costantini, G Cotter, M Daniel, F De Frondat, D Dumas, JP Ernenwein, G Fasola, S Funk, J Gaudemard, JA Graham, J Gironnet, O Hervet, N Hidaka, JA Hinton, JM Huet, I Jegouzo, T Jogler, T Kawashima, M Kraus, JS Lapington, J Lefaucheur, S Markoff, T Melse, L Morhrmann, P Molnyeux, SJ Nolan, A Okumura, RD Parsons, D Ross, G Rowell, Y Sato, F Sayede, J Schmoll, H Schoorlemmer, M Servillat, V Stamatescu, M Stephan, R Stuik, J Sykes, H Tajima, J Thornhill, L Tibaldo, C Trichard, J Vinkh, J Watson, N Yamane, A Zech, A ZinkThe Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) consortium aims to build the next-generation ground-based very-high-energy gamma-ray observatory. The array will feature different sizes of telescopes allowing it to cover a wide gamma-ray energy band from about 20 GeV to above 100 TeV. The highest energies, above 5 TeV, will be covered by a large number of Small-Sized Telescopes (SSTs) with a field-of-view of around 9°. The Gamma-ray Cherenkov Telescope (GCT), based on Schwarzschild–Couder dual-mirror optics, is one of the three proposed SST designs. The GCT is described in this contribution and the first images of Cherenkov showers obtained using the telescope and its camera are presented. These were obtained in November 2015 in Meudon, France.
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The authors gratefully acknowledge support from the agencies and organisations listed under Funding Agencies at this website: http://www.cta-observatory.org/.
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Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, 2017, 845, pp. 355-358Author affiliation
/Organisation/COLLEGE OF SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING/Department of Physics and AstronomyVersion
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Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: AcceleratorsPublisher
Elsevier for North-Hollandissn
0168-9002eissn
1872-9576Acceptance date
2016-05-14Copyright date
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2019-03-20Publisher DOI
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