2014•Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIEOpen access
The Cherenkov Telescope Array single-mirror small size telescope project: status and prospects
J. A. Aguilar, W. Bilnik, L. Bogacz, T. Bulik, A. Christov, D. della Volpe, M. Dyrda, A. Frankowski, M. Grudzińska, J. Grygorczuk, Matthieu Heller, B. Idźkowski, M. Janiak, M. Jamrozy, Mirosław Karczewski, J. Kasperek, E. Lyard, Adam Marszałek, J. Michałowski, M. Rameez, R. Moderski, T. Montaruli, A. Neronov, J. Nicolau-Kukliński, J. Niemiec, M. Ostrowski, P. Paśko, Ł. Płatos, E. Prandini, J. Rafalski, P. Rajda, M. Rataj, M. Rupiński, K. Rutkowskai, Karol Seweryn, M. Sidz, Ł. Stawarz, M. Stodulska, M. Stodulski, M. Tokarz, S. Toscano, I. Troyano Pujadas, R. Walter, P. Wawer, R. Wawrzaszek, Ł. Wiśniewski, K. Winiarski, Krzysztof Ziȩtara, Paweł Ziółkowski, P. Żychowski
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Abstract
The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA), the next generation very high energy gamma-ray observatory, will consist of three types of telescopes: large (LST), medium (MST) and small (SST) size telescopes. The small size telescopes are dedicated to the observation of gamma-rays with energy between a few TeV and few hundreds of TeV. The single-mirror small size telescope (SST-1M) is one of several SST designs. It will be equipped with a 4 m-diameter segmented mirror dish and a fully digital camera based on Geiger-mode avalanche photodiodes. Currently, the first prototype of the mechanical structure is under assembly in Poland. In 2014 it will be equipped with 18 mirror facets and a prototype of the camera.