{"id":4260,"date":"2025-05-29T14:02:01","date_gmt":"2025-05-29T14:02:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/astri.me.oa-brera.inaf.it\/index.php\/new-general-information\/"},"modified":"2025-09-16T08:04:54","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T08:04:54","slug":"new-general-information","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.astri.inaf.it\/index.php\/new-general-information\/?lang=en","title":{"rendered":"General Information"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-mbi03u63-f5d27fb0a187e3f474d934e22c367cad\">\n#top .av-special-heading.av-mbi03u63-f5d27fb0a187e3f474d934e22c367cad{\npadding-bottom:10px;\n}\nbody .av-special-heading.av-mbi03u63-f5d27fb0a187e3f474d934e22c367cad .av-special-heading-tag .heading-char{\nfont-size:25px;\n}\n.av-special-heading.av-mbi03u63-f5d27fb0a187e3f474d934e22c367cad .av-subheading{\nfont-size:15px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='av-special-heading av-mbi03u63-f5d27fb0a187e3f474d934e22c367cad av-special-heading-h1 blockquote modern-quote modern-centered  avia-builder-el-0  el_before_av_image  avia-builder-el-first '><h1 class='av-special-heading-tag '  itemprop=\"headline\"  >About ASTRI<\/h1><div class=\"special-heading-border\"><div class=\"special-heading-inner-border\"><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-mbi0uqzx-f8dc834aaf7c4628ada37f4bf04a1f96\">\n.avia-image-container.av-mbi0uqzx-f8dc834aaf7c4628ada37f4bf04a1f96 img.avia_image{\nbox-shadow:none;\n}\n.avia-image-container.av-mbi0uqzx-f8dc834aaf7c4628ada37f4bf04a1f96 .av-image-caption-overlay-center{\ncolor:#ffffff;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='avia-image-container av-mbi0uqzx-f8dc834aaf7c4628ada37f4bf04a1f96 av-styling- avia-align-center  avia-builder-el-1  el_after_av_heading  el_before_av_textblock '   itemprop=\"image\" itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\" ><div class=\"avia-image-container-inner\"><div class=\"avia-image-overlay-wrap\"><img decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" class='wp-image-4479 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-4479 avia_image ' src=\"https:\/\/www.astri.inaf.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/ASTRI_notte1-1.jpg\" alt='' title='ASTRI_notte1'  height=\"687\" width=\"1030\"  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  \/><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<section  class='av_textblock_section av-2jwk0f-cf135e673ad9fa17a91a9f204c888a8b '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p>The\u00a0<b>ASTRI Program<\/b>\u00a0was born as a\u00a0<b>flagship project\u00a0<\/b>funded by the Italian Ministry of University and Scientific Research, led by the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF), and finalized to the technological development of the next generation of Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes (IACT) for ground-based gamma-ray astronomy in the framework of the development of the Cherenkov telescope array Observatory (CTAO).<\/p>\n<p>The acronym\u00a0<b>ASTRI<\/b>\u00a0stands for\u00a0<b>Astronomia a Specchi a Tecnologia Replicante Italiana<\/b>\u00a0which means Astronomy with mirrors built through Italian replica technology.<\/p>\n<p>The ASTRI Mini-Array is composed of\u00a0<b>9 dual-mirror Schwarzschild-Coud\u00e9 Cherenkov telescopes<\/b>\u00a0being installed at the Observatorio del Teide (Island of Tenerife, Spain) thanks to an agreement between the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF) and the Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias (IAC).<\/p>\n<p>The ASTRI Mini-Array will be able to study in great detail relatively bright (<strong>~10<\/strong><strong><sup>\u221212\u00a0<\/sup><\/strong><strong>erg cm<\/strong><strong><sup>\u22122<\/sup><\/strong><strong>\u00a0s<\/strong><strong><sup>\u22121<\/sup><\/strong>\u00a0at 10 TeV) sources with an angular resolution of\u00a0<b>~3\u2032<\/b>\u00a0and an energy resolution of\u00a0<b>~10%<\/b>\u00a0at an energy of about 10 TeV.<\/p>\n<p>The ASTRI Mini-Array is expected to improve the current imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes sensitivity in the North for E &gt; few TeV and, at the same time, to operate for a few years before the full completion of planned Cherenkov telescope array observatory (CTAO) North. Therefore, the ASTRI Mini-Array will have a vast discovery space in the field of extreme gamma-rays, up to 100 TeV and beyond very soon.<\/p>\n<p>The most recent refereed papers describing the ASTRI Mini-Array Project are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The ASTRI Mini-Array: A New Pathfinder for Imaging Cherenkov Telescope Arrays \u2013\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mdpi.com\/2218-1997\/10\/3\/146\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Scuderi S., for the ASTRI Project, 2024, Universe, 10, 146<\/a><\/li>\n<li>The ASTRI Mini-Array of Cherenkov telescopes at the Observatorio del\u00a0Teide \u2013\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S2214404822000180?via%3Dihub\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Scuderi S., et al., 2022, JHEAP, 35, 52<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4260","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astri.inaf.it\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astri.inaf.it\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astri.inaf.it\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astri.inaf.it\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astri.inaf.it\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4260"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.astri.inaf.it\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5128,"href":"https:\/\/www.astri.inaf.it\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4260\/revisions\/5128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astri.inaf.it\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}