HEASA 2024

Session

Instrumentation

4 Oct 2024, 08:30

Conveners

Instrumentation

• Geoff Beck

42. System Agnostic Data Reductions for Astronomy

Sphesihle Makhathini (University of the Witwatersrand)

04/10/2024, 08:30

Instrumentation

Invited Talk

Presenting the Containerized Automated Radio Astronomy Calibration (CARACal) pipeline, a system and telescope agnostic reduction pipeline for radio interferometer data. CARACal leverages the portability and flexibility enabled by the Stimela framework (Makhathini, 2016) to provide a simple yet powerful pipeline for both experienced and novice users.
Unlike other pipelines, which are...

9. The Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory

Markus Boettcher

04/10/2024, 09:00

Instrumentation

Contributed Talk

The Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO) is the next generation ground-based gamma-ray telescope facility, currently under construction. It is envisioned to ultimately consist of about 100 Cherenkov telescopes on two sites: a northern site on the Canary Island of La Palma, Spain, and a southern site near Mt. Paranal, Chile. The initial array (called "Alpha configuration") with over 60...

31. The reflecting panels for the Large Size Telescopes at the southern site of the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO)

Cornelia Hanna Esther Arcaro

04/10/2024, 09:15

Instrumentation

Contributed Talk

The Cherenkov Telescope Array gamma-ray Observatory (CTAO) is working on developing two large telescopes, each with a diameter of 23 meters, that will be installed in Paranal, Chile. They are referred to as Large Size Telescope South, LST-S. These telescopes will use a single mirror parabolic shape to capture images with moderate angular resolution. 198 hexagonal reflecting panels will be...