Sites in Argentina for the Cherenkov Telescope Array Project
Abstract
The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) Project will consist of two arrays of atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes to study high-energy gamma radiation in the range of a few tens of GeV to beyond 100 TeV. To achieve full-sky coverage, the construction of one array in each terrestrial hemisphere is considered. Suitable candidate sites are being explored and characterized. The candidate sites in the Southern Hemisphere include two locations in Argentina, one in San Antonio de los Cobres (Salta Province, Lat. 24:02:42 S, Long. 66:14:06 W, at 3600 m.a.s.l) and another one in El Leoncito (San Juan Province, Lat. 31:41:49 S, Long. 69:16:21 W, at 2600 m.a.s.l). Here we describe the two sites and the instrumentation that has been deployed to characterize them. We summarize the geographic, atmospheric and climatic data that have been collected for both of them.
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@article{arxiv.1307.5014,
title = {Sites in Argentina for the Cherenkov Telescope Array Project},
author = {Ingo Allekotte and Gonzalo de la Vega and Alberto Etchegoyen and Beatriz García and Alexis Mancilla and Javier Maya and Diego Ravignani and Adrián Rovero},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1307.5014},
year = {2019}
}
Comments
In Proceedings of the 33rd International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC2013), Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). All CTA contributions at arXiv:1307.2232