On-site mirror facet condensation measurements for the Cherenkov Telescope Array

0547639 - FZÚ 2022 RIV NL eng J - Journal Article
Dipold, J. … Total 8 authors
On-site mirror facet condensation measurements for the Cherenkov Telescope Array.
Nuclear Instruments & Methods in Physics Research Section A. Roč. 830, September (2016), s. 407-416. ISSN 0168-9002. E-ISSN 1872-9576
Research Infrastructure: CTA-CZ - 90046
Keywords : Cherenkov telescopes * mirrors characterization * CTA
OECD category: Particles and field physics
Impact factor: 1.362, year: 2016
Method of publishing: Limited access
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2016.05.106

The Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Technique (IACT) has provided very important discoveries in Very High Energy (VHE) gamma-ray astronomy for the last two decades, being exploited mainly by experiments such as H.E.S.S., MAGIC and VERITAS. The same technique will be used by the next generation of gamma-ray telescopes, Cherenkov Telescope Array - CTA, which is conceived to be an Observatory composed by two arrays strategically placed in both hemispheres, one in the Northern and one in the Southern. Each site will consist of several tens of Cherenkov telescopes of different sizes and will be equipped with about 10000 m(2) of reflective surface. Because of its large size, the reflector of a Cherenkov telescope is composed of many individual mirror facets. Cherenkov telescopes operate without any protective system from weather conditions therefore it is important to understand how the reflective surfaces behave under different environmental conditions.
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