A Medium Sized Schwarzschild-Couder Cherenkov Telescope Design Proposed for the Cherenkov Telescope Array
2016
The
Cherenkov Telescope Array(CTA) is an international next-generation ground-based gamma-ray
observatory. CTA will be implemented as southern and
northern hemispherearrays of tens of small, medium and large-sized imaging Cherenkov
telescopeswith the goal of improving the sensitivity over the current-generation experiments by an order of magnitude. CTA will provide energy coverage from ~20 GeV to more than 300 TeV. The Schwarzschild-Couder (SC) medium size (9.5m)
telescopeswill feature a novel aplanatic two-mirror optical design capable of accommodating a wide field-of-view with significantly improved
angular resolutionas compared to the traditional Davies-Cotton optical design. A full-scale prototype SC medium size
telescopestructure has been designed and will be constructed at the Fred Lawrence Whipple
Observatoryin southern Arizona during the fall of 2015. concentrate on the novel features of the design.
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