@inproceedings{82f2f7413f7a4130852e88f5bd64198f,
title = "Toward the construction of a medium size prototype Schwarzschild-Couder telescope for CTA",
abstract = "The construction of a prototype Schwarzschild-Couder telescope (pSCT) started in early June 2015 at the Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory in Southern Arizona, as a candidate medium-sized telescope for the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA). Compared to current Davies-Cotton telescopes, this novel instrument with an aplanatic two-mirror optical system will offer a wider field-of-view and improved angular resolution. In addition, the reduced plate scale of the camera allows the use of highly-integrated photon detectors such as silicon photo multipliers. As part of CTA, this design has the potential to greatly improve the performance of the next generation ground-based observatory for very high-energy (E>60 GeV) gamma-ray astronomy. In this contribution we present the design and performance of both optical and alignment systems of the pSCT.",
author = "{The CTA Consortium} and J. Rousselle and K. Byrum and R. Cameron and V. Connaughton and M. Errando and S. Griffiths and V. Guarino and Humensky, {T. B.} and P. Jenke and P. Kaaret and D. Kieda and M. Limon and I. Mognet and R. Mukherjee and D. Nieto and A. Okumura and A. Peck and A. Petrashyk and D. Ribeiro and B. Stevenson and V. Vassiliev and P. Yu",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2015 SPIE.; Optics for EUV, X-Ray, and Gamma-Ray Astronomy VII ; Conference date: 10-08-2015 Through 13-08-2015",
year = "2015",
doi = "10.1117/12.2188381",
language = "English (US)",
series = "Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering",
publisher = "SPIE",
editor = "O'Dell, {Stephen L.} and O'Dell, {Stephen L.} and Giovanni Pareschi and Giovanni Pareschi",
booktitle = "Optics for EUV, X-Ray, and Gamma-Ray Astronomy VII",
address = "United States",
}