Adams CB, Alfaro R, Ambrosi G, Ambrosio M, Aramo C, Arlen T, Batista PI, Benbow W, Bertucci B, Bissaldi E, Biteau J, Bitossi M, Boiano A, Bonavolontà C, Bose R, Bouvier A, Brill A, Brown AM, Buckley JH, Byrum K, Cameron RA, Canestrari R, Capasso M, Caprai M, Covault CE, Depaoli D, Errando M, Fegan S, Feng Q, Fiandrini E, Foote G, Fortin P, Funk S, Furniss A, Garfias F, Gent A, Giglietto N, Giordano F, Giro E, González MM, Guarino V, Halliday R, Hervet O, Holder J, Hughes G, Humensky TB, Ionica M, Iriarte A, Jin W, Johnson CA, Kaaret P, Kieda D, Kim B, Kuznetsov A, Lapington JS, Licciulli F, Loporchio S, Masone V, Meagher K, Meures T, Mode BA, Mognet SA, Mukherjee R, Nguyen T, Nieto D, Okumura A, Otte N, La Palombara N, Pantaleo FR, Paoletti R, Pareschi G, Petrashyk A, Di Pierro F, Pueschel E, Reynolds PT, Ribeiro D, Richards G, Roache E, Ross D, Rousselle J, Rugliancich A, Ruíz-Díaz-Soto J, Santander M, Schlenstedt S, Schneider M, Scuderi S, Shang R, Sironi G, Stevenson B, Stiaccini L, Tajima H, Taylor LP, Thornhill J, Tosti L, Tovmassian G, Vagelli V, Valentino M, Vandenbroucke J, Vassiliev VV, Di Venere L, Wakely SP, Watson JJ, White R, Wilcox P, Williams DA, Wood M, Yu P, Zink A (2021)
Publication Type: Journal article
Publication year: 2021
Book Volume: 128
Article Number: 102562
DOI: 10.1016/j.astropartphys.2021.102562
The Schwarzschild-Couder Telescope (SCT) is a telescope concept proposed for the Cherenkov Telescope Array. It employs a dual-mirror optical design to remove comatic aberrations over an 8∘ field of view, and a high-density silicon photomultiplier camera (with a pixel resolution of 4 arcmin) to record Cherenkov emission from cosmic ray and gamma-ray initiated particle cascades in the atmosphere. The prototype SCT (pSCT), comprising a 9.7 m diameter primary mirror and a partially instrumented camera with 1536 pixels, has been constructed at the Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory. The telescope was inaugurated in January 2019, with commissioning continuing throughout 2019. We describe the first campaign of observations with the pSCT, conducted in January and February of 2020, and demonstrate the detection of gamma-ray emission from the Crab Nebula with a statistical significance of 8.6σ.
APA:
Adams, C.B., Alfaro, R., Ambrosi, G., Ambrosio, M., Aramo, C., Arlen, T.,... Zink, A. (2021). Detection of the Crab Nebula with the 9.7 m prototype Schwarzschild-Couder telescope. Astroparticle Physics, 128. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.astropartphys.2021.102562
MLA:
Adams, C. B., et al. "Detection of the Crab Nebula with the 9.7 m prototype Schwarzschild-Couder telescope." Astroparticle Physics 128 (2021).
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