The ASTRI Mini-Array of Cherenkov telescopes at the Observatorio del Teide
Salvatore Scuderi, A. Giuliani, Giovanni Pareschi, G. Tosti, O. Catalano, Elena Amato, L. A. Antonelli, J. Becerra González, G. Bellassai, C. Bigongiari, B. Biondo, M. Böttcher, G. Bonanno, G. Bonnoli, P. Bruno, A. Bulgarelli, R. Canestrari, M. Capalbi, P. A. Caraveo, M. Cardillo, Vito Conforti, G. Contino, Mattia Corpora, Alessandro Costa, G. Cusumano, A. D’Aí, E. M. de Gouveia Dal Pino, R. Della Ceca, E. Escribano Rodriguez, D. Falceta-Gonçalves, Carlos Eduardo Fermino, Michele Fiori, V. Fioretti, M. Fiorini, S. Gallozzi, Carmelo Gargano, S. Garozzo, S. Germani, A. Ghedina, F. Gianotti, S. Giarrusso, R. Gimenes, V. Giordano, A. A. Grillo, C. Grivel Gelly, D. Impiombato, Federico Incardona, S. Incorvaia, Simone Iovenitti, A. La Barbera, N. La Palombara, V. La Parola, A. Lamastra, Luigi Lessio, G. Leto, Fabio Paolo Lo Gerfo, Marcello Lodi, S. Lombardi, F. Longo, F. Lucarelli, M. C. Maccarone, D. Marano, E. Martinetti, S. Mereghetti, A. Micciché, Rachele Millul, T. Mineo, D. Mollica, Giovanni Morlino, A. Morselli, G. Naletto, Gaetano Nicotra, A. Pagliaro, N. Parmiggiani, G. Piano, Fabio Pintore, E. Poretti, B. Olmi, Gabriele Rodeghiero, Gonzalo Rodriguez Fernandez, P. Romano, G. Romeo, F. Russo, Pierluca Sangiorgi, Francesco Gabriele Saturni, Joseph Schwarz, Eva Sciacca, G. Sironi, G. Sottile, A. Stamerra, G. Tagliaferri, V. Testa, G. Umana, M. Uslenghi, S. Vercellone, L. Zampieri, R. Zanmar Sánchez
Abstract
The ASTRI Mini-Array (MA) is an INAF project to build and operate a facility to study astronomical sources emitting at very high-energy in the TeV spectral band. The ASTRI MA consists of a group of nine innovative Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes. The telescopes will be installed at the Teide Astronomical Observatory of the Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias (IAC) in Tenerife (Canary Islands, Spain) on the basis of a host agreement with INAF. Thanks to its expected overall performance, better than those of current Cherenkov telescopes' arrays for energies above ∼5 TeV and up to 100 TeV and beyond, the ASTRI MA will represent an important instrument to perform deep observations of the galactic and extragalactic sky at these energies.