TY - JOUR
T1 - Construction of a medium-sized schwarzschild-couder telescope as a candidate for the cherenkov telescope array
T2 - 34th International Cosmic Ray Conference, ICRC 2015
AU - Nieto, D.
AU - Griffiths, S.
AU - Humensky, B.
AU - Kaaret, P.
AU - Limon, M.
AU - Mognet, I.
AU - Peck, A.
AU - Petrashyk, A.
AU - Ribeiro, D.
AU - Rousselle, J.
AU - Stevenson, B.
AU - Vassiliev, V.
AU - Yu, P.
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is an international project for a next-generation groundbased gamma-ray observatory. CTA, conceived as an array of tens of imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes, comprising small, medium and large-size telescopes, is aiming to improve on the sensitivity of current-generation experiments by an order of magnitude and provide energy coverage from 20 GeV to more than 300 TeV. The Schwarzschild-Couder (SC) medium-size candidate telescope model features a novel aplanatic two-mirror optical design capable of a wide field-of-view with significantly improved imaging resolution as compared to the traditional Davis- Cotton optics design. Achieving this imaging resolution imposes strict alignment requirements to be accomplished by a dedicated alignment system. In this contribution we present the status of the development of the SC optical alignment system, soon to be materialized in a full-scale prototype SC medium-size telescope at the Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory in southern Arizona.
AB - The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is an international project for a next-generation groundbased gamma-ray observatory. CTA, conceived as an array of tens of imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes, comprising small, medium and large-size telescopes, is aiming to improve on the sensitivity of current-generation experiments by an order of magnitude and provide energy coverage from 20 GeV to more than 300 TeV. The Schwarzschild-Couder (SC) medium-size candidate telescope model features a novel aplanatic two-mirror optical design capable of a wide field-of-view with significantly improved imaging resolution as compared to the traditional Davis- Cotton optics design. Achieving this imaging resolution imposes strict alignment requirements to be accomplished by a dedicated alignment system. In this contribution we present the status of the development of the SC optical alignment system, soon to be materialized in a full-scale prototype SC medium-size telescope at the Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory in southern Arizona.
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M3 - Conference article
AN - SCOPUS:84988709889
SN - 1824-8039
VL - 30-July-2015
JO - Proceedings of Science
JF - Proceedings of Science
M1 - 990
Y2 - 30 July 2015 through 6 August 2015
ER -