Speaker
Teresa Montaruli
(Universite de Geneve (CH))
Description
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 first time detailed exploration of the very high energy gamma-ray sky. The proposed telescopes are innovative designs providing a wide field of view. Two of them, ASTRI and GCT, are based on dual mirror Schwarzchild-Couder optics, with primary mirror diameters of 4 m. The third, SST-1M, is a Davies-Cotton design with a 4 m diameter mirror. Progress with the construction and testing of prototypes of these telescopes is presented. The SST cameras use silicon photomultipliers, with preamplifier and readout/trigger
electronics designed to optimize the performance of these sensors for imaging atmospheric Cherenkov light. The status of the camera developments is discussed. The SST sub-array will consist of about 70 telescopes at the CTA southern site. Current plans for the implementation of the array are presented.
| Registration number following "ICRC2015-I/" | 129 |
|---|---|
| Collaboration | CTA |
Author
Teresa Montaruli
(Universite de Geneve (CH))
Co-authors
Giovanni Pareschi
(INAF)
Mr
H. Sol
(LUTH, Observatoire de Paris, CNRS, Meudon, France)
Tim Greenshaw
(Liverpool University)
