{"paper":{"title":"Verification of the Optical System of the 9.7-m Prototype Schwarzschild-Couder Telescope","license":"http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/","headline":"","cross_cats":["hep-ex"],"primary_cat":"astro-ph.IM","authors_text":"A. Boiano, A. Brill, A. Furniss, A. Gent, A. Iriarte, A. Okumura, A. Petrashyk, A. Rugliancich, B. A. W. Mode, B. Bertucci, B. Kim, B. Stevenson, C. Adams, C. Aramo, C. Bonavolont\\`a, C. E. Covault, D. A. Williams, D. Kieda, D. Nieto, D. Ribeiro, E. Bissaldi, E. Fiandrini, E. Roache, F. Garfias, F. Giordano, F. Licciulli, F. R. Pantaleo, G. Ambrosi, G. Hughes, G. Pareschi, G. Sironi, G. Tovmassian, J. H. Buckley, J. Powell, J. Rousselle, J. Ru\\'iz-D\\'iaz-Soto, J. Vandenbroucke, K. Byrum, K. Powell, L. Di Venere, L. P. Taylor, L. Stiaccini, L. Tosti, M. Ambrosio, M. Bitossi, M. Capasso, M. Caprai, M. Garczarczyk, M. Ionica, M. Limon, M. M. Gonz\\'alez, M. Santander, M. Valentino, N. Giglietto, N. La Palombara, N. Otte, O. Hervet, P. Kaarat, P. Wilcox, P. Yu, Q. Feng, R. A. Cameron, R. Alfaro, R. Bose, R. Halliday, R. Mukherjee, R. Paoletti, R. Shang, S. Fegan, S. Loporchio, S. P. Wakely, S. Schlenstedt, S. Scuderi, T. B. Humensky, T. Meures, V. Masone, V. Vagelli, V. V. Vassiliev, W. Benbow, W. Jin","submitted_at":"2020-10-25T04:06:31Z","abstract_excerpt":"For the first time in the history of ground-based $\\gamma$-ray astronomy, the on-axis performance of the dual mirror, aspheric, aplanatic Schwarzschild-Couder optical system has been demonstrated in a $9.7$-m aperture imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescope. The novel design of the prototype Schwarzschild-Couder Telescope (pSCT) is motivated by the need of the next-generation Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) observatory to have the ability to perform wide ($\\geq 8^{\\circ}$) field-of-view observations simultaneously with superior imaging of atmospheric cascades (resolution of $0.067^{\\circ}$ per"},"claims":{"count":0,"items":[],"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"source":{"id":"2010.13027","kind":"arxiv","version":1},"verdict":{"id":null,"model_set":{},"created_at":null,"strongest_claim":"","one_line_summary":"","pipeline_version":null,"weakest_assumption":"","pith_extraction_headline":""},"integrity":{"clean":true,"summary":{"advisory":0,"critical":0,"by_detector":{},"informational":0},"endpoint":"/pith/2010.13027/integrity.json","findings":[],"available":true,"detectors_run":[],"snapshot_sha256":"c28c3603d3b5d939e8dc4c7e95fa8dfce3d595e45f758748cecf8e644a296938"},"references":{"count":0,"sample":[],"resolved_work":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57","internal_anchors":0},"formal_canon":{"evidence_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"author_claims":{"count":0,"strong_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"builder_version":"pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1"}