The ASTRI mini-array within the future Cherenkov Telescope Array
Stefano Vercellone (for The ASTRI Collaboration, and for the CTA, Consortium)

TL;DR
The ASTRI mini-array, part of the CTA project, employs innovative dual-mirror technology and silicon photomultipliers to enhance high-energy gamma-ray observations from 1 to over 100 TeV, enabling detailed studies of bright astrophysical sources.
Contribution
This paper presents the design, technological innovations, and scientific potential of the ASTRI mini-array within the CTA, including its dual-mirror Schwarzschild-Couder optics and silicon photomultiplier detectors.
Findings
ASTRI mini-array will operate in 1-100 TeV energy range.
It will achieve angular resolution of a few arcminutes.
Energy resolution is about 10-15%.
Abstract
The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is a large collaborative effort aimed at the design and operation of an observatory dedicated to very high-energy gamma-ray astrophysics in the energy range from a few tens of GeV to above 100 TeV, which will yield about an order of magnitude improvement in sensitivity with respect to the current major arrays (H.E.S.S., MAGIC, and VERITAS). Within this framework, the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics is leading the ASTRI project, whose main goals are the design and installation on Mt. Etna (Sicily) of an end-to-end dual-mirror prototype of the CTA small size telescope (SST) and the installation at the CTA Southern site of a dual-mirror SST mini-array composed of nine units with a relative distance of about 300 m. The innovative dual-mirror Schwarzschild-Couder optical solution adopted for the ASTRI Project allows us to substantially reduce…
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