12–16 Sept 2022
Centro Congressi Federico II
Europe/Rome timezone

Status of the Large-Sized Telescope of the Cherenkov Telescope Array.

13 Sept 2022, 10:30
20m
Aula Magna (Centro Congressi Federico II)

Aula Magna

Centro Congressi Federico II

Via Partenope, 36, 80121 Napoli NA
Oral presentation Gamma Rays

Speaker

Federico Di Pierro (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

Description

The Large-Sized Telescopes (LSTs) of the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) are designed for gamma-ray studies focusing on low energy threshold, high flux sensitivity and rapid telescope repositioning. The LST has a tessellated parabolic mirror of 23 m diameter and a weight of about 100 tons, with the capability of pointing to any position in the sky in 20 seconds or less to catch transients. A 2 ton 3x3 m camera, placed in the focus of the mirror, is equipped with 1855 high QE PMTs corresponding to a FoV of about 4.5 degrees. LSTs will dominate the CTA performance between 20 GeV and approximately 200 GeV. The first LST (LST-1) was inaugurated in La Palma (Spain) in October 2018 and since then it is in the commissioning phase. In this contribution the current status and performance of the LST-1 will be shown together with a glance at some of the first physics results. In the conclusions, the outlook of the project will be presented.

Primary authors

Federico Di Pierro (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare) for the LST and CTA Collaborations

Presentation materials