Open AccessThe large size telescope of the Cherenkov Telescope Array
Author(s) -
G. Ambrosi,
Yusuke Awane,
Hajime Baba,
Aya Bamba,
M. Barceló,
U. Barres de Almeida,
J. A. Barrio,
O. Blanch,
J. Boix,
L. Brunetti,
E. Carmona,
E. Chabanne,
M. Chikawa,
R. Colin,
J. Cortina,
J. L. Contreras,
F. Dazzi,
A. De Angelis,
Guillaume Deleglise,
C. Delgado Mendez,
C. Díaz,
A. Fiaßon,
David J. Fink,
N. Fouque,
Lluís Freixas Coromina,
C. Fruck,
A. Gadola,
R. Luna García,
D. Gascón,
N. Geffroy,
N. Giglietto,
F. Giordano,
F. Grañena,
S. Gunji,
Rika Hagiwara,
N. Hamer,
Y. Hanabata,
T. Hassan,
K. Hatanaka,
Kouichi Hirotani,
Susumu Inoue,
Yoshiyuki Inoue,
Kunihito Ioka,
C. Jablonski,
M. Kagaya,
H. Katagiri,
T. Kishimoto,
K. Kodani,
Kazunori Kohri,
Y. Konno,
Shu Koyama,
H. Kubo,
J. Kushida,
G. Lamanna,
T. Le Flour,
E. Lorenz,
R. López,
Marcos López,
P. Majumdar,
A. Manalaysay,
M. Mariotti,
G. Martı́nez,
M. Martı́nez,
D. Mazin,
J. M. Miranda,
R. Mirzoyan,
I. Monteiro,
A. Moralejo,
Kohta Murase,
S. Nagataki,
D. Nakajima,
Takeshi Nakamori,
K. Nishijima,
K. Noda,
A. Nozato,
Y. Ohira,
M. Ohishi,
H. Ohoka,
A. Okumura,
R. Orito,
J-L. Panazol,
D. Paneque,
R. Paoletti,
J. M. Paredes,
G. Pauletta,
S. Podkladkin,
Julie Prast,
R. Rando,
O. Reimann,
M. Ribó,
S. Rosier-Lees,
Koji Saito,
T. Saito,
Yoshiaki Saito,
Н. Сакаки,
R. Sakonaka,
A. Sanuy,
Hiroshi Sasaki,
Makoto Sawada,
V. Scalzotto,
S. Schultz,
T. Schweizer,
T. Shibata,
S. Shu,
J. Sieiro,
V. Stamatescu,
S. Steiner,
U. Straumann,
Ryutaro Sugawara,
H. Tajima,
H. Takami,
S. Tanaka,
M. Tanaka,
Luis Tejedor,
Y. Terada,
M. Teshima,
Tomonori Totani,
H. Ueno,
K. Umehara,
A. Vollhardt,
Robert Wagner,
H. Wetteskind,
T. Yamamoto,
Ryo Yamazaki,
A. Yoshida,
T. Yoshida,
T. Yoshikoshi
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
proceedings of spie, the international society for optical engineering/proceedings of spie
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Conference proceedings
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.192
H-Index - 176
eISSN - 1996-756X
pISSN - 0277-786X
DOI - 10.1117/12.2054605
Subject(s) - cherenkov telescope array , cherenkov radiation , telescope , physics , sky , gamma ray burst , astronomy , gamma ray astronomy , energy (signal processing) , range (aeronautics) , optics , gamma ray , astrophysics , detector , aerospace engineering , engineering , quantum mechanics
The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) project aims to implement the world’s largest next generation of Very High Energy gamma-ray Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes devoted to the observation from a few tens of GeV to more than 100 TeV. To view the whole sky, two CTA sites are foreseen, one for each hemisphere. The sensitivity at the lowest energy range will be dominated by four Large Size Telescopes, LSTs, located at the center of each array and designed to achieve observations of high red-shift objects with the threshold energy of 20 GeV. The LST is optimized also for transient low energy sources, such as Gamma Ray Bursts (GRB), which require fast repositioning of the telescope. The overall design and the development status of the first LST telescope will be discussed
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