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TeV emitters are typically multi-wavelength sources, generally highly variable and occasionally highly polarized. This makes it critical to line up ground-based dedicated facilities for identification, follow-up and monitoring of CTA targets in polarized and total radio-to-optical light. Furthermore, the CTA itself provides suitable infrastructure for the implementation of specific observing techniques, such as the still pioneering Stellar Intensity Interferometry.
As part of the "CTA Plus" program funded by the Italian Research Ministry under the EU PNRR aegis, 4 initiatives will be implemented: a wide-field optical polarimetric imaging camera for the VST (VSTPol), a fast optical/IR photometer and optical polarimeter (eSiFAP) for the TNG, radio receiver upgrades for the INAF radio antennas, and a prototype for stellar intensity interferometry with the SSTs, to be tested on the ASTRI MiniArray. This talk will describe the instruments design and the observing strategies, and highlight the synergies with CTA.
| Collaboration | PNRR program CTA+ (WP1400 radio, infrared, optical support for CTA) |
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