TY - JOUR
T1 - Physics Performance of the Large-Sized Telescope prototype of the Cherenkov Telescope Array
AU - CTA LST Project
AU - Abe, H.
AU - Aguasca, A.
AU - Agudo, I.
AU - Antonelli, L. A.
AU - Aramo, C.
AU - Armstrong, T.
AU - Artero, M.
AU - Asano, K.
AU - Ashkar, H.
AU - Aubert, P.
AU - Baktash, A.
AU - Bamba, A.
AU - Baquero Larriva, A.
AU - Baroncelli, L.
AU - Barres de Almeida, U.
AU - Barrio, J. A.
AU - Batkovic, I.
AU - Becerra González, J.
AU - Bernardos, M. I.
AU - Berti, A.
AU - Biederbeck, N.
AU - Bigongiari, C.
AU - Blanch, O.
AU - Bonnoli, G.
AU - Bordas, P.
AU - Bose, D.
AU - Bulgarelli, A.
AU - Burelli, I.
AU - Buscemi, M.
AU - Cardillo, M.
AU - Caroff, S.
AU - Carosi, A.
AU - Cassol, F.
AU - Cerruti, M.
AU - Chai, Y.
AU - Cheng, K.
AU - Chikawa, M.
AU - Chytka, L.
AU - Contreras, J. L.
AU - Cortina, J.
AU - Costantini, H.
AU - Dalchenko, M.
AU - De Angelis, A.
AU - de Bony de Lavergne, M.
AU - Deleglise, G.
AU - Delgado, C.
AU - Delgado Mengual, J.
AU - della Volpe, D.
AU - Depaoli, D.
AU - Murase, K.
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PY - 2022/3/18
Y1 - 2022/3/18
N2 - The Large-Sized Telescope (LST) prototype of the future Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is located at the Northern site of CTA, on the Canary Island of La Palma. It is designed to provide optimal performance in the lowest part of the energy range covered by CTA, observing gamma rays down to energies of tens of GeV. The LST prototype started performing astronomical observations in November 2019 during the commissioning of the telescope and it has been taking data since then. In this contribution, we will present the tuning of the characteristics of the telescope in the Monte Carlo (MC) simulations to describe the data obtained, the estimation of its angular and energy resolution, and an evaluation of its sensitivity, both with simulations and with observations of the Crab Nebula.
AB - The Large-Sized Telescope (LST) prototype of the future Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is located at the Northern site of CTA, on the Canary Island of La Palma. It is designed to provide optimal performance in the lowest part of the energy range covered by CTA, observing gamma rays down to energies of tens of GeV. The LST prototype started performing astronomical observations in November 2019 during the commissioning of the telescope and it has been taking data since then. In this contribution, we will present the tuning of the characteristics of the telescope in the Monte Carlo (MC) simulations to describe the data obtained, the estimation of its angular and energy resolution, and an evaluation of its sensitivity, both with simulations and with observations of the Crab Nebula.
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M3 - Conference article
AN - SCOPUS:85145008544
SN - 1824-8039
VL - 395
JO - Proceedings of Science
JF - Proceedings of Science
M1 - 806
T2 - 37th International Cosmic Ray Conference, ICRC 2021
Y2 - 12 July 2021 through 23 July 2021
ER -