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most citedFirst detection of the Crab Nebula at TeV energies with a Cherenkov telescope in a dual-mirror Schwarzschild-Couder configuration: the ASTRI-Horn telescope

46 citations · 155 across the 12 of their papers we have counts for

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12 papers

astro-ph.IM2023

SARG: the high resolution spectrograph

Gratton R., Bonanno G., Bruno P. +8

SARG is the high resolution spectrograph of TNG. It has been in operation since late spring 2000. SARG is a cross dispersed echelle spectrograph; it offers both single object and l…

astro-ph.IM2023

SARG control system

R. Cosentino, G. Bonanno, P. Bruno +3

The control system and the entire architecture of the High Resolution Spectrograph (SARG) for the Italian National Telescope "Galileo" (TNG) are here described. The concept of SARG…

astro-ph.IM2019★ 3 cited

Characterization method to achieve simultaneous absolute PDE measurements of all pixels of an ASTRI Mini-Array camera tile

G. Bonanno, G. Romeo, G. Occhipinti +2

Recently, the Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF) has placed a contract with Hamamatsu Photonics to acquire hundreds of Silicon Photomultipliers (SiPM) tiles to build 10 camer…

astro-ph.IM2019★ 46 cited

First detection of the Crab Nebula at TeV energies with a Cherenkov telescope in a dual-mirror Schwarzschild-Couder configuration: the ASTRI-Horn telescope

S. Lombardi, O. Catalano, S. Scuderi +89

We report on the first detection of very high-energy (VHE) gamma-ray emission from the Crab Nebula by a Cherenkov telescope in dual-mirror Schwarzschild-Couder (SC) configuration.…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 10 cited

Novel Silicon Photomultipliers suitable for Dual-Mirror Small-Sized Telescopes of the Cherenkov Telescope Array

Giuseppe Romeo, Giovanni Bonanno, Giorgia Sironi +1

Many of the characteristics of Silicon Photomultipliers (SiPMs), such as high Photon Detection Efficiency (PDE), are well matched to the requirements of the cameras of the Small-Si…

astro-ph.HE2013★ 7 cited

The ASTRI Mini-Array Science Case

S. Vercellone, G. Agnetta, L. A. Antonelli +77

ASTRI is a Flagship Project financed by the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research, and led by INAF, the Italian National Institute of Astrophysics. Within this fra…

astro-ph.IM2013★ 2 cited

Expected performance of the ASTRI-SST-2M telescope prototype

C. Bigongiari, F. Di Pierro, C. Morello +81

ASTRI (Astrofisica con Specchi a Tecnologia Replicante Italiana) is an Italian flagship project pursued by INAF (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica) strictly linked to the developme…

astro-ph.IM2013★ 42 cited

The dual-mirror Small Size Telescope for the Cherenkov Telescope Array

G. Pareschi, G. Agnetta, L. A. Antonelli +111

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…

astro-ph.IM2013★ 2 cited

Towards the ASTRI mini-array

F. Di Pierro, C. Bigongiari, C. Morello +77

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) will consist of an array of three types of telescopes covering a wide energy range, from tens of GeV up to more than 100 TeV. The high energy se…

astro-ph.IM2013★ 2 cited

The ASTRI Project: a mini-array of dual-mirror small Cherenkov telescopes for CTA

N. La Palombara, G. Agnetta, L. A. Antonelli +76

ASTRI is a flagship project of the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research, which aims to develop an end-to-end prototype of the CTA small-size telescope. The propos…

astro-ph.IM2013★ 18 cited

UVSiPM: a light detector instrument based on a SiPM sensor working in single photon counting

G. Sottile, F. Russo, G. Agnetta +16

UVSiPM is a light detector designed to measure the intensity of electromagnetic radiation in the 320-900 nm wavelength range. It has been developed in the framework of the ASTRI pr…

astro-ph2001★ 23 cited

Discovery of a bipolar and highly variable mass outflow from the symbiotic binary StHa 190

U. Munari, T. Tomov, B. F. Yudin +15

A highly and rapidly variable bipolar mass outflow from StHa 190 has been discovered, the first time in a yellow symbiotic star. Permitted emission lines are flanked by symmetrical…