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T: Fachverband Teilchenphysik

T 36: Gamma Astronomy II

T 36.1: Vortrag

Dienstag, 21. März 2023, 17:00–17:15, POT/0151

Status of the Medium-Sized Telescopes of the Cherenkov Telescope Array — •Florian Leitgeb for the CTA MST Project — Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Platanenallee 6, D-15738 Zeuthen, Germany

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is the next-generation ground-based observatory for gamma-ray astronomy at very high energies. In its initial Alpha Configuration, it will consist of 64 imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes of different sizes and designs, which will be deployed in the form of two large arrays in the northern hemisphere at the Roque de Los Muchachos Observatory on La Palma (Canary Islands, Spain) and in the southern hemisphere at the Paranal Observatory in the Atacama Desert (Chile), respectively.

The core energy range (100 GeV to 10 TeV) will be covered by the Medium-Sized Telescopes (MSTs), which are planned to be deployed at both sites. An international collaboration of institutes and universities from various countries is responsible for the design, construction and commissioning of the MSTs. The MST effort is grouped into three subprojects: one for the telescope structure, and two for the Cherenkov cameras which differ in their camera design.

In this contribution, an overview of the MST telescope and the status of the MST project will be presented, including the plans for building one pre-production telescope, a so-called pathfinder, per site ahead of the bulk production.