Schwarzschild-Couder Telescope for The Cherenkov Telescope Array

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article , Preprint , Other literature type 22 Jul 2014Embargo end date: 01 Jan 2014Publisher:SPIEJournal:SPIE Proceedings, volume 9,145, page 914,533 (issn: 0277-786X,

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Authors: Meagher, Kevin J.;

doi: 10.1117/12.2054979 , 10.48550/arxiv.1407.3271

arXiv: 1407.3271

Schwarzschild-Couder Telescope for The Cherenkov Telescope Array

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The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is the next major ground-based observatory for gamma-ray astronomy. With CTA gamma-ray sources will be studied in the very-high energy gamma-ray range of a few tens of GeV to 100 TeV with up to ten times better sensitivity than available with current generation instruments. We discuss the proposed US contribution to CTA that comprises imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescope with Schwarzschild-Couder (SC) optics. Key features of the SC telescope are a wide field of view of eight degrees, a finely pixelated camera with silicon photomultipliers as photon detectors, and a compact and power efficient 1 GS/s readout. The progress in both the optical system and camera development are discussed in this paper.

10 pages, 5 figures, to be published in Ground-based and Airborne Telescopes V in Proceedings of SPIE volume 9145 (2014)

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Georgia Institute of Technology
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High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)

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