The ASTRI Mini-Array

Autor(es)

Scuderi, S

• Tipo de documento: Artigo Científico
• Fonte: NUCLEAR INSTRUMENTS & METHODS IN PHYSICS RESEARCH SECTION A-ACCELERATORS SP; v. 1055, p. 4-pg., 2023-10-01.

Resumo

The ASTRI Mini-Array is an INAF project to build and operate a facility to study astronomical sources emitting very high energy in the TeV spectral band. It consists of a group of nine innovative aplanatic dual mirror Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes (IACT) of 4 m diameter. The telescopes are being installed at the Teide Astronomical Observatory of the Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias in Tenerife (Canary Islands, Spain) based on a host agreement with INAF. Thanks to its expected overall performance, better than those of current IACT arrays, for energies above about 5 TeV and up to 100 TeV and beyond, the ASTRI Mini-Array will represent an important instrument to perform deep observations of the Galactic and extra-Galactic sky at these energies with high angular resolution (a few arcmins). It will be complementary to the wide-field particle shower arrays (based on water Cherenkov and scintillator detectors) like HAWC and LHAASO already operated in the northern hemisphere. The ASTRI Mini-Array is currently under construction and in this paper, we will present its status, discussing its design and expected performance. (AU)

• Processo FAPESP: 13/10559-5 - Investigação de fenômenos de altas energias e plasmas astrofísicos: teoria, simulações numéricas, observações e desenvolvimento de instrumentação para o Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA)
• Beneficiário: Elisabete Maria de Gouveia Dal Pino
• Modalidade de apoio: Auxílio à Pesquisa - Projetos Especiais