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Rosse Telescope

Garret Cotter

Professor of Physics

Research theme

  • Astronomy and astrophysics
  • Particle astrophysics & cosmology

Sub department

  • Astrophysics

Research groups

  • Pulsars, transients and relativistic astrophysics
  • The Square Kilometre Array (SKA)
  • Gamma-ray astronomy
Garret.Cotter@physics.ox.ac.uk
Telephone: 01865 (2)73604
Denys Wilkinson Building, room 705
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The dual-mirror small size telescope for the Cherenkov Telescope Array

Proceedings of the 33rd International Cosmic Rays Conference, ICRC 2013 2013-October (2013)

Authors:

G Pareschi, G Agnetta, LA Antonelli, D Bastieri, G Bellassai, M Belluso, S Billotta, B Biondo, G Bonanno, G Bonnoli, P Bruno, A Bulgarelli, R Canestrari, P Caraveo, A Carosi, E Cascone, O Catalano, M Cereda, P Conconi, V Conforti, G Cusumano, V de Caprio, A de Luca, A Di Paola, F Di Pierro, D Fantinel, M Fiorini, D Fugazza, D Gardiol, M Ghigo, F Gianotti, S Giarrusso, E Giro, A Grillo, D Impiombato, S Incorvaia, A la Barbera, N la Palombara, V la Parola, G la Rosa, L Lessio, G Leto, S Lombardi, F Lucarelli, MC Maccarone, G Malaguti, G Malaspina, A Mangano, V Mangano, D Marano, E Martinetti, R Millul, T Mineo, A Mistó, C Morello, MR Panzera, C Perna, G Rodeghiero, P Romano, F Russo, B Sacco, N Sartore, J Schwarz, A Segreto, G Sironi, G Sottile, E Strazzeri, L Stringhetti, G Tagliaferri, V Testa, MC Timpanaro, G Toso, G Tosti, M Trifoglio, P Vallania, S Vercellone, V Zitelli, D Dumas, P Laporte, H Sol, F de Frondat, JM Huet, JL Dournaux, JP Amans, S Blanc, G Fasola, R Fleurisson, O Hervet, I Jegouzo-Giroux, D Massol, C Rulten, F Sayede, D Savoie, A Zech, C Boisson, P Delevoye, N Ollivier, R White, J Hinton, D Ross

Abstract:

In this paper, the development of the dual mirror Small Size Telescopes (SST) for the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is reviewed. Up to 70 SST, with a primary mirror diameter of ∼ 4 m, will be produced and installed at the CTA southern site. These will allow investigation of the gamma-ray sky at the highest energies accessible to CTA, in the range from about 1 TeV to 300 TeV. The telescope presented in this contribution is characterized by two major innovations: the use of a dual mirror Schwarzschild-Couder configuration and of an innovative camera using as sensors either multi-anode photomultipliers (MAPM) or silicon photomultipliers (SiPM). The reduced plate-scale of the telescope, achieved with the dual-mirror optics, allows the camera to be compact (∼ 40 cm in diameter), and low-cost. The camera, which has about 2000 pixels of size 6×6 mm2, covers a field of view of ∼ 10◦. The dual mirror telescopes and their cameras are being developed by three consortia, ASTRI (Astrofisica con Specchi a Tecnologia Replicante Italiana, Italy/INAF), GATE (Gamma-ray Telescope Elements, France/Paris Observ.) and CHEC (Compact High Energy Camera, universities in UK, US and Japan) which are merging their efforts in order to finalize an end-to-end design that will be constructed for CTA. A number of prototype structures and cameras are being developed in order to investigate various alternative designs. In this contribution, these designs are presented, along with the technological solutions under study.

Introducing the CTA concept

ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS 43 (2013) 3-18

Authors:

BS Acharya, M Actis, T Aghajani, G Agnetta, J Aguilar, F Aharonian, M Ajello, A Akhperjanian, M Alcubierre, J Aleksic, R Alfaro, E Aliu, AJ Allafort, D Allan, I Allekotte, E Amato, J Anderson, EO Anguener, LA Antonelli, P Antoranz, A Aravantinos, T Arlen, T Armstrong, H Arnaldi, L Arrabito, K Asano, T Ashton, HG Asorey, Y Awane, H Baba, A Babic, N Baby, J Baehr, A Bais, C Baixeras, S Bajtlik, M Balbo, D Balis, C Balkowski, A Bamba, R Bandiera, A Barber, C Barbier, M Barcelo, A Barnacka, J Barnstedt, U Barres de Almeida, JA Barrio, A Basili, S Basso, D Bastieri, C Bauer, A Baushev, J Becerra, Y Becherini, KC Bechtol, J Becker Tjus, V Beckmann, W Bednarek, B Behera, M Belluso, W Benbow, J Berdugo, K Berger, F Bernard, T Bernardino, K Bernloehr, N Bhat, S Bhattacharyya, C Bigongiari, A Biland, S Billotta, T Bird, E Birsin, E Bissaldi, J Biteau, M Bitossi, S Blake, O Blanch Bigas, P Blasi, A Bobkov, V Boccone, M Boettcher, L Bogacz, J Bogart, M Bogdan, C Boisson, J Boix Gargallo, J Bolmont, G Bonanno, A Bonardi, T Bonev, P Bonifacio, G Bonnoli, P Bordas, A Borgland, J Borkowski, R Bose, O Botner, A Bottani, L Bouchet, M Bourgeat, C Boutonnet, A Bouvier, S Brau-Nogue, I Braun, T Bretz, M Briggs, T Bringmann, P Brook, P Brun, L Brunetti, T Buanes, J Buckley, R Buehler, V Bugaev, A Bulgarelli, T Bulik, G Busetto, S Buson, K Byrum, M Cailles, R Cameron, J Camprecios, R Canestrari, S Cantu, M Capalbi, P Caraveo, E Carmona, A Carosi, J Carr, P-H Carton, S Casanova, M Casiraghi, O Catalano, S Cavazzani, S Cazaux, M Cerruti, E Chabanne, P Chadwick, C Champion, A Chen, J Chiang, L Chiappetti, M Chikawa, VR Chitnis, F Chollet, J Chudoba, M Cieslar, A Cillis, J Cohen-Tanugi, S Colafrancesco, P Colin, J Calome, S Colonges, M Compin, P Conconi, V Conforti, V Connaughton, J Conrad, JL Contreras, P Coppi, P Corona, D Corti, J Cortina, L Cossio, H Costantini, G Cotter, B Courty, S Couturier, S Covino, G Crimi, SJ Criswell, J Croston, G Cusumano, M Dafonseca, O Dale, M Daniel, J Darling, I Davids, F Dazzi, A De Angelis, V De Caprio, F De Frondat, EM de Gouveia Dal Pino, I de la Calle, GA De La Vega, R de los Reyes Lopez, B De Lotto, A De Luca, JRT de Mello Neto, M de Naurois, Y de Oliveira, E de Ona Wilhelmi, V de Souza, G Decerprit, G Decock, C Deil, E Delagnes, G Deleglise, C Delgado, D Della Volpe, P Demange, G Depaola, A Dettlaff, A Di Paola, F Di Pierro, C Diaz, J Dick, R Dickherber, H Dickinson, V Diez-Blanco, S Digel, D Dimitrov, G Disset, A Djannati-Atai, M Doert, M Dohmke, W Domainko, D Dominis Prester, A Donat, D Dorner, M Doro, J-L Dournaux, G Drake, D Dravins, L Drury, F Dubois, R Dubois, G Dubus, C Dufour, D Dumas, J Dumm, D Durand, J Dyks, M Dyrda, J Ebr, E Edy, K Egberts, P Eger, S Einecke, C Eleftheriadis, S Elles, D Emmanoulopoulos, D Engelhaupt, R Enomoto, J-P Ernenwein, M Errando, A Etchegoyen, P Evans, A Falcone, D Fantinel, K Farakos, C Farnier, G Fasola, B Favill, E Fede, S Federici, S Fegan, F Feinstein, D Ferenc, P Ferrando, M Fesquet, A Fiasson, E Fillin-Martino, D Fink, C Finley, JP Finley, M Fiorini, R Firpo Curcoll, H Flores, D Florin, W Focke, C Foehr, E Fokitis, L Font, G Fontaine, M Fornasa, A Foerster, L Fortson, N Fouque, A Franckowiak, C Fransson, G Fraser, R Frei, IFM Albuquerque, L Fresnillo, C Fruck, Y Fujita, Y Fukazawa, Y Fukui, S Funk, W Gaebele, S Gabici, R Gabriele, A Gadola, N Galante, D Gall, Y Gallant, J Gamez-Garcia, B Garcia, R Garcia Lopez, D Gardiol, D Garrido, L Garrido, D Gascon, M Gaug, J Gaweda, L Gebremedhin, N Geffroy, L Gerard, A Ghedina, M Ghigo, E Giannakaki, F Gianotti, S Giarrusso, G Giavitto, B Giebels, V Gika, P Giommi, N Girard, E Giro, A Giuliani, T Glanzman, J-F Glicenstein, N Godinovic, V Golev, M Gomez Berisso, J Gomez-Ortega, MM Gonzalez, A Gonzalez, F Gonzalez, A Gonzalez Munoz, KS Gothe, M Gougerot, R Graciani, P Grandi, F Granena, J Granot, G Grasseau, R Gredig, A Green, T Greenshaw, T Gregoire, O Grimm, J Grube, M Grudzinska, V Gruev, S Gruenewald, J Grygorczuk, V Guarino, S Gunji, G Gyuk, D Hadasch, R Hagiwara, J Hahn, N Hakansson, A Hallgren, N Hamer Heras, S Hara, MJ Hardcastle, J Harris, T Hassan, K Hatanaka, T Haubold, A Haupt, T Hayakawa, M Hayashida, R Heller, F Henault, G Henri, G Hermann, R Hermel, A Herrero, N Hidaka, J Hinton, D Hoffmann, W Hofmann, P Hofverberg, J Holder, D Horns, D Horville, J Houles, M Hrabovsky, D Hrupec, H Huan, B Huber, J-M Huet, G Hughes, TB Humensky, J Huovelin, A Ibarra, JM Illa, D Impiombato, S Incorvaia, S Inoue, Y Inoue, K Ioka, E Ismailova, C Jablonski, A Jacholkowska, M Jamrozy, M Janiak, P Jean, C Jeanney, JJ Jimenez, T Jogler, T Johnson, L Journet, C Juffroy, I Jung, P Kaaret, S Kabuki, M Kagaya, J Kakuwa, C Kalkuhl, R Kankanyan, A Karastergiou, K Kaercher, M Karczewski, S Karkar, Aci Kasperek, D Kastana, H Katagiri, J Kataoka, K Katarzynski, U Katz, N Kawanaka, B Kellner-Leidel, H Kelly, E Kendziorra, B Khelifi, DB Kieda, T Kifune, T Kihm, T Kishimoto, K Kitamoto, W Kluzniak, C Knapic, JW Knapp, J Knoedlseder, F Koeck, J Kocot, K Kodani, J-H Koehne, K Kohri, K Kokkotas, D Kolitzus, N Komin, I Kominis, Y Konno, H Koeppel, P Korohoda, K Kosack, G Koss, R Kossakowski, P Kostka, R Koul, G Kowal, S Koyama, J Koziol, T Kraehenbuehl, J Krause, H Krawzcynski, F Krennrich, A Krepps, A Kretzschmann, R Krobot, P Krueger, H Kubo, VA Kudryavtsev, J Kushida, A Kuznetsov, A La Barbera, N La Palombara, V La Parola, G La Rosa, K Lacombe, G Lamanna, J Lande, D Languignon, J Lapington, P Laporte, C Lavalley, T Le Flour, A Le Padellec, S-H Lee, WH Lee, MA Leigui de Oliveira, D Lelas, J-P Lenain, DJ Leopold, T Lerch, L Lessio, B Lieunard, E Lindfors, A Liolios, A Lipniacka, H Lockart, T Lohse, S Lombardi, A Lopatin, M Lopez, R Lopez-Coto, A Lopez-Oramas, A Lorca, E Lorenz, P Lubinski, F Lucarelli, H Luedecke, J Ludwin, PL Luque-Escamilla, W Lustermann, O Luz, E Lyard, MC Maccarone, TJ Maccarone, GM Madejski, A Madhavan, M Mahabir, G Maier, P Majumdar, G Malaguti, S Maltezos, A Manalaysay, A Mancilla, D Mandat, G Maneva, A Mangano, P Manigot, K Mannheim, I Manthos, N Maragos, A Marcowith, M Mariotti, M Marisaldi, S Markoff, A Marszalek, C Martens, J Marti, J-M Martin, P Martin, G Martinez, F Martinez, M Martinez, A Masserot, A Mastichiadis, A Mathieu, H Matsumoto, F Mattana, S Mattiazzo, G Maurin, S Maxfield, J Maya, D Mazin, L Mc Comb, N McCubbin, I McHardy, R McKay, C Medina, C Melioli, D Melkumyan, S Mereghetti, P Mertsch, M Meucci, J Michalowski, P Micolon, A Mihailidis, T Mineo, M Minuti, N Mirabal, F Mirabel, JM Miranda, R Mirzoyan, T Mizuno, B Moal, R Moderski, I Mognet, E Molinari, M Molinaro, T Montaruli, I Monteiro, P Moore, A Moralejo Olaizola, M Mordalska, C Morello, K Mori, F Mottez, Y Moudden, E Moulin, I Mrusek, R Mukherjee, P Munar-Adrover, H Muraishi, K Murase, A Murphy, S Nagataki, T Naito, D Nakajima, T Nakamori, K Nakayama, C Naumann, D Naumann, M Naumann-Godo, P Nayman, D Nedbal, D Neise, L Nellen, V Neustroev, N Neyroud, L Nicastro, J Nicolau-Kuklinski, A Niedzwiecki, J Niemiec, D Nieto, A Nikolaidis, K Nishijima, S Nolan, R Northrop, D Nosek, N Nowak, A Nozato, P O'Brien, Y Ohira, M Ohishi, S Ohm, H Ohoka, T Okuda, A Okumura, J-F Olive, RA Ong, R Orito, M Orr, J Osborne, M Ostrowski, LA Otero, N Otte, E Ovcharov, I Oya, A Ozieblo, L Padilla, S Paiano, D Paillot, A Paizis, S Palanque, M Palatka, J Pallota, K Panagiotidis, J-L Panazol, D Paneque, M Panter, R Paoletti, A Papayannis, G Papyan, JM Paredes, G Pareschi, G Parks, J-M Parraud, D Parsons, M Paz Arribas, M Pech, G Pedaletti, V Pelassa, D Pelat, MDC Perez, M Persic, P-O Petrucci, B Peyaud, A Pichel, S Pita, F Pizzolato, L Platos, R Platzer, L Pogosyan, M Pohl, G Pojmanski, JD Ponz, W Potter, J Poutanen, E Prandini, J Prast, R Preece, F Profeti, H Prokoph, M Prouza, M Proyetti, I Puerto-Gimenez, G Puehlhofer, I Puljak, M Punch, R Pyziol, EJ Quel, J Quinn, A Quirrenbach, E Racero, PJ Rajda, P Ramon, R Rando, RC Rannot, M Rataj, M Raue, P Reardon, O Reimann, A Reimer, O Reimer, K Reitberger, M Renaud, S Renner, B Reville, W Rhode, M Ribo, M Ribordy, MG Richer, J Rico, J Ridky, F Rieger, P Ringegni, J Ripken, PR Ristori, A Riviere, S Rivoire, L Rob, U Roeser, R Rohlfs, G Rojas, P Romano, W Romaszkan, GE Romero, S Rosen, S Rosier Lees, D Ross, G Rouaix, J Rousselle, S Rousselle, AC Rovero, F Roy, S Royer, B Rudak, C Rulten, M Rupinski, F Russo, F Ryde, B Sacco, EO Saemann, A Saggion, V Safiakian, K Saito, T Saito, Y Saito, N Sakaki, R Sakonaka, A Salini, F Sanchez, M Sanchez-Conde, A Sandoval, H Sandaker, E Sant'Ambrogio, A Santangelo, EM Santos, A Sanuy, L Sapozhnikov, S Sarkar, N Sartore, H Sasaki, K Satalecka, M Sawada, V Scalzotto, V Scapin, M Scarcioffolo, J Schafer, T Schanz, S Schlenstedt, R Schlickeiser, T Schmidt, J Schmoll, P Schovanek, M Schroedter, C Schultz, J Schultze, A Schulz, K Schure, T Schwab, U Schwanke, J Schwarz, S Schwarzburg, T Schweizer, S Schwemmer, A Segreto, J-H Seiradakis, GH Sembroski, K Seweryn, M Sharma, M Shayduk, RC Shellard, J Shi, T Shibata, A Shibuya, E Shum, L Sidoli, M Sidz, J Sieiro, M Sikora, J Silk, A Sillanpaa, BB Singh, J Sitarek, C Skole, R Smareglia, A Smith, D Smith, J Smith, N Smith, D Sobczynska, H Sol, G Sottile, M Sowinski, F Spanier, D Spiga, S Spyrou, V Stamatescu, A Stamerra, R Starling, L Stawarz, R Steenkamp, C Stegmann, S Steiner, N Stergioulas, R Sternberger, M Sterzel, F Stinzing, M Stodulski, U Straumann, E Strazzeri, L Stringhetti, A Suarez, M Suchenek, R Sugawara, K-H Sulanke, S Sun, AD Supanitsky, T Suric, P Sutcliffe, J Sykes, M Szanecki, T Szepieniec, A Szostek, G Tagliaferri, H Tajima, H Takahashi, K Takahashi, L Takalo, H Takami, C Talbot, J Tammi, M Tanaka, S Tanaka, J Tasan, M Tavani, J-P Tavernet, LA Tejedor, I Telezhinsky, P Temnikov, C Tenzer, Y Terada, R Terrier, M Teshima, V Testa, D Tezier, D Thuermann, L Tibaldo, O Tibolla, A Tiengo, M Tluczykont, CJ Todero Peixoto, F Tokanai, M Tokarz, K Toma, K Torii, M Tornikoski, DF Torres, M Torres, G Tosti, T Totani, C Toussenel, G Tovmassian, P Travnicek, M Trifoglio, I Troyano, K Tsinganos, H Ueno, K Umehara, SS Upadhya, T Usher, M Uslenghi, JF Valdes-Galicia, P Vallania, G Vallejo, W van Driel, C van Eldik, J Vandenbrouke, J Vanderwalt, H Vankov, G Vasileiadis, V Vassiliev, D Veberic, I Vegas, S Vercellone, S Vergani, C Veyssiere, JP Vialle, A Viana, M Videla, P Vincent, S Vincent, J Vink, N Vlahakis, L Vlahos, P Vogler, A Vollhardt, H-P von Gunten, S Vorobiov, C Vuerli, V Waegebaert, R Wagner, RG Wagner, S Wagner, SP Wakely, R Walter, T Walther, K Warda, R Warwick, P Wawer, R Wawrzaszek, N Webb, P Wegner, A Weinstein, Q Weitzel, R Welsing, M Werner, H Wetteskind, R White, A Wierzcholska, S Wiesand, M Wilkinson, DA Williams, R Willingale, K Winiarski, R Wischnewski, L Wisniewski, M Wood, A Woernlein, Q Xiong, KK Yadav, H Yamamoto, T Yamamoto, R Yamazaki, S Yanagita, JM Yebras, D Yelos, A Yoshida, T Yoshida, T Yoshikoshi, V Zabalza, M Zacharias, A Zajczyk, R Zanin, A Zdziarski, A Zech, A Zhao, X Zhou, K Zietara, J Ziolkowski, P Ziolkowski, V Zitelli, C Zurbach, P Zychowski
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Synchrotron and inverse-Compton emission from blazar jets - III. Compton-dominant blazars

MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY 431:2 (2013) 1840-1852

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William J Potter, Garret Cotter
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Uncovering the physics behind the blazar sequence using a realistic model for jet emission

EPJ Web of Conferences EDP Sciences 61 (2013) 05008

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William J Potter, Garret Cotter
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Synchrotron and inverse-Compton emission from blazar jets - II. An accelerating jet model with a geometry set by observations of M87

(2012)

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William J Potter, Garret Cotter
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