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The small size telescope projects for the Cherenkov Telescope Array

Proceedings of Science 30-July-2015 (2015)

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T Montaruli, W Bilnik, J BŁocki, L Bogacz, T Bulik, F Cadoux, A Christov, M CuryŁo, D Della Volpe, M Dyrda, Y Favre, A Frankowski, L Grudniki, M Grudzińska, M Heller, B Idźkowski, M Jamrozy, M Janiak, J Kasperek, K Lalik, E Lyard, E Mach, D Mandat, A MarszaŁek, J MichaŁowski, R Moderski, A Neronov, J Niemiec, M Ostrowski, P Pásko, M Pech, A Porcelli, E Prandini, P Rajda, M Rameez, E Schioppa, P Schovanek, K Seweryn, K Skowron, V Sliusar, M Sowiński, L Stawarz, M Stodulska, M Stodulski, S Toscano, I Troyano Pujadas, R Walter, M Wiȩcek, A Zagdanński, K Ziȩtara, P Zychowski, A Abchiche, JP Amans, T Armstrong, A Balzer, D Berge, JJ Bousquet, A Brown, M Bryan, G Buchholtz, P Chadwick, H Costantini, G Cotter, M Daniel, F De Frondat, JL Dournaux, D Dumas, JP Ernenwein, G Fasola, A De Franco, J Gaudemard, J Hinton, JM Huet, J Lapington, P Laporte, SJ Nolan, J Osborne, S Rosen, D Ross, H Sol, G Rowell, J Schmoll, R Stuik, P Sutcliffe, J Sykes, H Tajima, R White, A Zech

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The small size telescopes (SSTs), spread over an area of several square km, dominate the CTA sensitivity in the photon energy range from a few TeV to over 100 TeV, enabling for the detailed exploration of the very high energy gamma-ray sky. The proposed telescopes are innovative designs providing a wide field of view. Two of them, the ASTRI (Astrophysics con Specchi a Tecnologia Replicante Italiana) and the GCT (Gamma-ray Cherenkov Telescope) telescopes, are based on dual mirror Schwarzschild-Couder optics, with primary mirror diameters of 4 m. The third, SST-1M, is a Davies-Cotton design with a 4 m diameter mirror. Progress with the construction and testing of prototypes of these telescopes is presented. The SST cameras use silicon photomultipliers, with preamplifier and readout/trigger electronics designed to optimize the performance of these sensors for (atmospheric) Cherenkov light. The status of the camera developments is discussed. The SST sub-array will consist of about 70 telescopes at the CTA southern site. Current plans for the implementation of the array are presented.

The truncated and evolving inner accretion disc of the black hole GX 339−4

Astronomy & Astrophysics EDP Sciences 573 (2015) a120

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DS Plant, RP Fender, G Ponti, T Muñoz-Darias, M Coriat
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CRPropa: A public framework to propagate UHECRs in the universe

EPJ Web of Conferences EDP Sciences 99 (2015) 13004

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R Alves Batista, M Erdmann, C Evoli, K-H Kampert, D Kuempel, G Müller, G Sigl, A van Vliet, D Walz, T Winchen
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Depth of maximum of air-shower profiles at the Pierre Auger Observatory. I. Measurements at energies above 1017.8 eV

Physical Review D American Physical Society (APS) 90:12 (2014) 122005

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A Aab, P Abreu, M Aglietta, EJ Ahn, I Al Samarai, IFM Albuquerque, I Allekotte, J Allen, P Allison, A Almela, J Alvarez Castillo, J Alvarez-Muñiz, R Alves Batista, M Ambrosio, A Aminaei, L Anchordoqui, S Andringa, C Aramo, VM Aranda, F Arqueros, H Asorey, P Assis, J Aublin, M Ave, M Avenier, G Avila, N Awal, AM Badescu, KB Barber, J Bäuml, C Baus, JJ Beatty, KH Becker, JA Bellido, C Berat, ME Bertaina, X Bertou, PL Biermann, P Billoir, S Blaess, M Blanco, C Bleve, H Blümer, M Boháčová, D Boncioli, C Bonifazi, R Bonino, N Borodai, J Brack, I Brancus, A Bridgeman, P Brogueira, WC Brown, P Buchholz, A Bueno, S Buitink, M Buscemi, KS Caballero-Mora, B Caccianiga, L Caccianiga, M Candusso, L Caramete, R Caruso, A Castellina, G Cataldi, L Cazon, R Cester, AG Chavez, A Chiavassa, JA Chinellato, J Chudoba, M Cilmo, RW Clay, G Cocciolo, R Colalillo, A Coleman, L Collica, MR Coluccia, R Conceição, F Contreras, MJ Cooper, A Cordier, S Coutu, CE Covault, J Cronin, A Curutiu, R Dallier, B Daniel, S Dasso, K Daumiller, BR Dawson, RM de Almeida, M De Domenico, SJ de Jong, JRT de Mello Neto, I De Mitri, J de Oliveira, V de Souza, L del Peral, O Deligny, H Dembinski, N Dhital, C Di Giulio, A Di Matteo, JC Diaz, ML Díaz Castro, F Diogo, C Dobrigkeit, W Docters, JC D’Olivo, A Dorofeev, Q Dorosti Hasankiadeh, MT Dova, J Ebr, R Engel, M Erdmann, M Erfani, CO Escobar, J Espadanal, A Etchegoyen, P Facal San Luis, H Falcke, K Fang, G Farrar, AC Fauth, N Fazzini, AP Ferguson, M Fernandes, B Fick, JM Figueira, A Filevich, A Filipčič, BD Fox, O Fratu, U Fröhlich, B Fuchs, T Fujii, R Gaior, B García, ST Garcia Roca, D Garcia-Gamez, D Garcia-Pinto, G Garilli, A Gascon Bravo, F Gate, H Gemmeke, PL Ghia, U Giaccari, M Giammarchi, M Giller, C Glaser, H Glass, M Gómez Berisso, PF Gómez Vitale, P Gonçalves, JG Gonzalez, N González, B Gookin, J Gordon, A Gorgi, P Gorham, P Gouffon, S Grebe, N Griffith, AF Grillo, TD Grubb, F Guarino, GP Guedes, MR Hampel, P Hansen, D Harari, TA Harrison, S Hartmann, JL Harton, A Haungs, T Hebbeker, D Heck, P Heimann, AE Herve, GC Hill, C Hojvat, N Hollon, E Holt, P Homola, JR Hörandel, P Horvath, M Hrabovský, D Huber, T Huege, A Insolia, PG Isar, I Jandt, S Jansen, C Jarne, M Josebachuili, A Kääpä, O Kambeitz, KH Kampert, P Kasper, I Katkov, B Kégl, B Keilhauer, A Keivani, E Kemp, RM Kieckhafer, HO Klages, M Kleifges, J Kleinfeller, R Krause, N Krohm, O Krömer, D Kruppke-Hansen, D Kuempel, N Kunka, D LaHurd, L Latronico, R Lauer, M Lauscher, P Lautridou, S Le Coz, MSAB Leão, D Lebrun, P Lebrun, MA Leigui de Oliveira, A Letessier-Selvon, I Lhenry-Yvon, K Link, R López, A Lopez Agüera, K Louedec, J Lozano Bahilo, L Lu, A Lucero, M Ludwig, M Malacari, S Maldera, M Mallamaci, J Maller, D Mandat, P Mantsch, AG Mariazzi, V Marin, IC Mariş, G Marsella, D Martello, L Martin, H Martinez, O Martínez Bravo, D Martraire, JJ Masías Meza, HJ Mathes, S Mathys, J Matthews, JAJ Matthews, G Matthiae, D Maurel, D Maurizio, E Mayotte, PO Mazur, C Medina, G Medina-Tanco, R Meissner, M Melissas, D Melo, A Menshikov, S Messina, R Meyhandan, S Mićanović, MI Micheletti, L Middendorf, IA Minaya, L Miramonti, B Mitrica, L Molina-Bueno, S Mollerach, M Monasor, D Monnier Ragaigne, F Montanet, C Morello, M Mostafá, CA Moura, MA Muller, G Müller, S Müller, M Münchmeyer, R Mussa, G Navarra, S Navas, P Necesal, L Nellen, A Nelles, J Neuser, P Nguyen, M Niechciol, L Niemietz, T Niggemann, D Nitz, D Nosek, V Novotny, L Nožka, L Ochilo, A Olinto, M Oliveira, N Pacheco, D Pakk Selmi-Dei, M Palatka, J Pallotta, N Palmieri, P Papenbreer, G Parente, A Parra, T Paul, M Pech, J Pȩkala, R Pelayo, IM Pepe, L Perrone, E Petermann, C Peters, S Petrera, Y Petrov, J Phuntsok, R Piegaia, T Pierog, P Pieroni, M Pimenta, V Pirronello, M Platino, M Plum, A Porcelli, C Porowski, RR Prado, P Privitera, M Prouza, V Purrello, EJ Quel, S Querchfeld, S Quinn, J Rautenberg, O Ravel, D Ravignani, B Revenu, J Ridky, S Riggi, M Risse, P Ristori, V Rizi, W Rodrigues de Carvalho, I Rodriguez Cabo, G Rodriguez Fernandez, J Rodriguez Rojo, MD Rodríguez-Frías, D Rogozin, G Ros, J Rosado, T Rossler, M Roth, E Roulet, AC Rovero, SJ Saffi, A Saftoiu, F Salamida, H Salazar, A Saleh, F Salesa Greus, G Salina, F Sánchez, P Sanchez-Lucas, CE Santo, E Santos, EM Santos, F Sarazin, B Sarkar, R Sarmento, R Sato, N Scharf, V Scherini, H Schieler, P Schiffer, D Schmidt, O Scholten, H Schoorlemmer, P Schovánek, A Schulz, J Schulz, J Schumacher, SJ Sciutto, A Segreto, M Settimo, A Shadkam, RC Shellard, I Sidelnik, G Sigl, O Sima, A Śmiałkowski, R Šmída, GR Snow, P Sommers, J Sorokin, R Squartini, YN Srivastava, S Stanič, J Stapleton, J Stasielak, M Stephan, A Stutz, F Suarez, T Suomijärvi, AD Supanitsky, MS Sutherland, J Swain, Z Szadkowski, M Szuba, OA Taborda, A Tapia, M Tartare, A Tepe, VM Theodoro, C Timmermans, CJ Todero Peixoto, G Toma, L Tomankova, B Tomé, A Tonachini, G Torralba Elipe, D Torres Machado, P Travnicek, E Trovato, M Tueros, R Ulrich, M Unger, M Urban, JF Valdés Galicia, I Valiño, L Valore, G van Aar, P van Bodegom, AM van den Berg, S van Velzen, A van Vliet, E Varela, B Vargas Cárdenas, G Varner, JR Vázquez, RA Vázquez, D Veberič, V Verzi, J Vicha, M Videla, L Villaseñor, B Vlcek, S Vorobiov, H Wahlberg, O Wainberg, D Walz, AA Watson, M Weber, K Weidenhaupt, A Weindl, F Werner, A Widom, L Wiencke, B Wilczyńska, H Wilczyński, M Will, C Williams, T Winchen, D Wittkowski, B Wundheiler, S Wykes, T Yamamoto, T Yapici, G Yuan, A Yushkov, B Zamorano, E Zas, D Zavrtanik, M Zavrtanik, I Zaw, A Zepeda, J Zhou, Y Zhu, M Zimbres Silva, M Ziolkowski, F Zuccarello
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Depth of maximum of air-shower profiles at the Pierre Auger Observatory. II. Composition implications

Physical Review D American Physical Society (APS) 90:12 (2014) 122006

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A Aab, P Abreu, M Aglietta, EJ Ahn, I Al Samarai, IFM Albuquerque, I Allekotte, J Allen, P Allison, A Almela, J Alvarez Castillo, J Alvarez-Muñiz, R Alves Batista, M Ambrosio, A Aminaei, L Anchordoqui, S Andringa, C Aramo, VM Aranda, F Arqueros, H Asorey, P Assis, J Aublin, M Ave, M Avenier, G Avila, N Awal, AM Badescu, KB Barber, J Bäuml, C Baus, JJ Beatty, KH Becker, JA Bellido, C Berat, ME Bertania, X Bertou, PL Biermann, P Billoir, S Blaess, M Blanco, C Bleve, H Blümer, M Boháčová, D Boncioli, C Bonifazi, R Bonino, N Borodai, J Brack, I Brancus, A Bridgeman, P Brogueira, WC Brown, P Buchholz, A Bueno, S Buitink, M Buscemi, KS Caballero-Mora, B Caccianiga, L Caccianiga, M Candusso, L Caramete, R Caruso, A Castellina, G Cataldi, L Cazon, R Cester, AG Chavez, A Chiavassa, JA Chinellato, J Chudoba, M Cilmo, RW Clay, G Cocciolo, R Colalillo, A Coleman, L Collica, MR Coluccia, R Conceição, F Contreras, MJ Cooper, A Cordier, S Coutu, CE Covault, J Cronin, A Curutiu, R Dallier, B Daniel, S Dasso, K Daumiller, BR Dawson, RM de Almeida, M De Domenico, SJ de Jong, JRT de Mello Neto, I De Mitri, J de Oliveira, V de Souza, L del Peral, O Deligny, H Dembinski, N Dhital, C Di Giulio, A Di Matteo, JC Diaz, ML Díaz Castro, F Diogo, C Dobrigkeit, W Docters, JC D’Olivo, A Dorofeev, Q Dorosti Hasankiadeh, MT Dova, J Ebr, R Engel, M Erdmann, M Erfani, CO Escobar, J Espadanal, A Etchegoyen, P Facal San Luis, H Falcke, K Fang, G Farrar, AC Fauth, N Fazzini, AP Ferguson, M Fernandes, B Fick, JM Figueira, A Filevich, A Filipčič, BD Fox, O Fratu, U Fröhlich, B Fuchs, T Fuji, R Gaior, B García, ST Garcia Roca, D Garcia-Gamez, D Garcia-Pinto, G Garilli, A Gascon Bravo, F Gate, H Gemmeke, PL Ghia, U Giaccari, M Giammarchi, M Giller, C Glaser, H Glass, M Gómez Berisso, PF Gómez Vitale, P Gonçalves, JG Gonzalez, N González, B Gookin, J Gordon, A Gorgi, P Gorham, P Gouffon, S Grebe, N Griffith, AF Grillo, TD Grubb, F Guarino, GP Guedes, MR Hampel, P Hansen, D Harari, TA Harrison, S Hartmann, JL Harton, A Haungs, T Hebbeker, D Heck, P Heimann, AE Herve, GC Hill, C Hojvat, N Hollon, E Holt, P Homola, JR Hörandel, P Horvath, M Hrabovský, D Huber, T Huege, A Insolia, PG Isar, I Jandt, S Jansen, C Jarne, M Josebachuili, A Kääpä, O Kambeitz, KH Kampert, P Kasper, I Katkov, B Kégl, B Keilhauer, A Keivani, E Kemp, RM Kieckhafer, HO Klages, M Kleifges, J Kleinfeller, R Krause, N Krohm, O Krömer, D Kruppke-Hansen, D Kuempel, N Kunka, D LaHurd, L Latronico, R Lauer, M Lauscher, P Lautridou, S Le Coz, MSAB Leão, D Lebrun, P Lebrun, MA Leigui de Oliveira, A Letessier-Selvon, I Lhenry-Yvon, K Link, R López, A Lopez Agüera, K Louedec, J Lozano Bahilo, L Lu, A Lucero, M Ludwig, M Malacari, S Maldera, M Mallamaci, J Maller, D Mandat, P Mantsch, AG Mariazzi, V Marin, IC Mariş, G Marsella, D Martello, L Martin, H Martinez, O Martínez Bravo, D Martraire, JJ Masías Meza, HJ Mathes, S Mathys, J Matthews, JAJ Matthews, G Matthiae, D Maurel, D Maurizio, E Mayotte, PO Mazur, C Medina, G Medina-Tanco, R Meissner, M Melissas, D Melo, A Menshikov, S Messina, R Meyhandan, S Mićanović, MI Micheletti, L Middendorf, IA Minaya, L Miramonti, B Mitrica, L Molina-Bueno, S Mollerach, M Monasor, D Monnier Ragaigne, F Montanet, C Morello, M Mostafá, CA Moura, MA Muller, G Müller, S Müller, M Münchmeyer, R Mussa, G Navarra, S Navas, P Necesal, L Nellen, A Nelles, J Neuser, P Nguyen, M Niechciol, L Niemietz, T Niggemann, D Nitz, D Nosek, V Novotny, L Nožka, L Ochilo, A Olinto, M Oliveira, N Pacheco, D Pakk Selmi-Dei, M Palatka, J Pallotta, N Palmieri, P Papenbreer, G Parente, A Parra, T Paul, M Pech, J Pȩkala, R Pelayo, IM Pepe, L Perrone, E Petermann, C Peters, S Petrera, Y Petrov, J Phuntsok, R Piegaia, T Pierog, P Pieroni, M Pimenta, V Pirronello, M Platino, M Plum, A Porcelli, C Porowski, RR Prado, P Privitera, M Prouza, V Purrello, EJ Quel, S Querchfeld, S Quinn, J Rautenberg, O Ravel, D Ravignani, B Revenu, J Ridky, S Riggi, M Risse, P Ristori, V Rizi, W Rodrigues de Carvalho, I Rodriguez Cabo, G Rodriguez Fernandez, J Rodriguez Rojo, MD Rodríguez-Frías, D Rogozin, G Ros, J Rosado, T Rossler, M Roth, E Roulet, AC Rovero, SJ Saffi, A Saftoiu, F Salamida, H Salazar, A Saleh, F Salesa Greus, G Salina, F Sánchez, P Sanchez-Lucas, CE Santo, E Santos, EM Santos, F Sarazin, B Sarkar, R Sarmento, R Sato, N Scharf, V Scherini, H Schieler, P Schiffer, D Schmidt, O Scholten, H Schoorlemmer, P Schovánek, A Schulz, J Schulz, J Schumacher, SJ Sciutto, A Segreto, M Settimo, A Shadkam, RC Shellard, I Sidelnik, G Sigl, O Sima, A Śmiałkowski, R Šmída, GR Snow, P Sommers, J Sorokin, R Squartini, YN Srivastava, S Stanič, J Stapleton, J Stasielak, M Stephan, A Stutz, F Suarez, T Suomijärvi, AD Supanitsky, MS Sutherland, J Swain, Z Szadkowski, M Szuba, OA Taborda, A Tapia, M Tartare, A Tepe, VM Theodoro, C Timmermans, CJ Todero Peixoto, G Toma, L Tomankova, B Tomé, A Tonachini, G Torralba Elipe, D Torres Machado, P Travnicek, E Trovato, M Tueros, R Ulrich, M Unger, M Urban, JF Valdés Galicia, I Valiño, L Valore, G van Aar, P van Bodegom, AM van den Berg, S van Velzen, A van Vliet, E Varela, B Vargas Cárdenas, G Varner, JR Vázquez, RA Vázquez, D Veberič, V Verzi, J Vicha, M Videla, L Villaseñor, B Vlcek, S Vorobiov, H Wahlberg, O Wainberg, D Walz, AA Watson, M Weber, K Weidenhaupt, A Weindl, F Werner, A Widom, L Wiencke, B Wilczyńska, H Wilczyński, M Will, C Williams, T Winchen, D Wittkowski, B Wundheiler, S Wykes, T Yamamoto, T Yapici, G Yuan, A Yushkov, B Zamorano, E Zas, D Zavrtanik, M Zavrtanik, I Zaw, A Zepeda, J Zhou, Y Zhu, M Zimbres Silva, M Ziolkowski, F Zuccarello
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