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CHEC: A Compact High Energy Camera for the Cherenkov Telescope Array

The Cherenkov Telescope Array will provide unprecedented sensitivity and angular resolution to gamma rays across orders of magnitude in energy. Above 1 TeV up to around 300 TeV an array of Small-Sized Telescopes (SSTs) will cover several…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-17 Richard White

Simulation Study of TenTen: A new Multi-TeV IACT array

TenTen is a proposed array of Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes (IACT) optimized for the gamma ray energy regime of 10 TeV to 100 TeV, but with a threshold of ~1 to a few TeV. It will offer a collecting area of 10 km2 above energies…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-10-17 V. Stamatescu , G. Rowell , R. Clay , B. Dawson , J. Denman , R. Dunbar , R. Protheroe , A. Smith , G. Thornton , N. Wild

Software design for the control system for Small-Size Telescopes with single-mirror of the Cherenkov Telescope Array

The Small-Size Telescope with single-mirror (SST-1M) is a 4 m Davies-Cotton telescope and is among the proposed telescope designs for the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA). It is conceived to provide the high-energy ($>$ few TeV) coverage.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-15 A. Porcelli , W. Bilnik , J. Błocki , L. Bogacz , J. Borkowski , T. Bulik , F. Cadoux , A. Christov , M. Curyło , D. della Volpe , M. Dyrda , Y. Favre , A. Frankowski , Ł. Grudnik , M. Grudzińska , M. Heller , B. Idźkowski , M. Jamrozy , M. Janiak , J. Kasperek , K. Lalik , E. Lyard , E. Mach , D. Mandat , A. Marszałek , J. Michałowski , R. Moderski , M. Rameez , T. Montaruli , A. Neronov , J. Niemiec , M. Ostrowski , P. Paśko , M. Pech , A. Porcelli , E. Prandini , P. Rajda , E. jr Schioppa , P. Schovanek , K. Seweryn , K. Skowron , V. Sliusar , M. Sowiński , Ł. Stawarz , M. Stodulska , M. Stodulski , I. Troyano Pujadas , S. Toscano , R. Walter , M. Wiȩcek , A. Zagdański , K. Ziȩtara , P. Zychowski

Actuator Development at IAAT for the Cherenkov Telescope Array Medium Size Telescopes

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) will be the future observatory for TeV gamma-ray astronomy. In order to increase the sensitivity and to extend the energy coverage beyond the capabilities of current facilities, its design concept…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-09 S. Diebold , J. Dick , G. Pühlhofer , S. Renner , A. Santangelo , T. Schanz , C. Tenzer , the CTA Consortium

Raman LIDARs and atmospheric calibration for the Cherenkov Telescope Array

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is the next generation of Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes. It will reach a sensitivity and energy resolution never obtained until now by any other high energy gamma-ray experiment. Understanding…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-22 G. Vasileiadis , O. Blanch , J. Bregeon , P. Brun , O. Calpe , M. Colak , M. Doro , L. Font , M. Gaug , S. Griffiths , C. Maggio , M. Martinez , O. Martinez , P. Ristori , S. Rivoire

FlashCam: a fully-digital camera for the medium-sized telescopes of the Cherenkov Telescope Array

The FlashCam group is currently preparing photomultiplier-tube based cameras proposed for the medium-sized telescopes (MST) of the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA). The cameras are designed around the FlashCam readout concept which is the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 G. Pühlhofer , C. Bauer , S. Bernhard , M. Capasso , S. Diebold , F. Eisenkolb , D. Florin , C. Föhr , S. Funk , A. Gadola , F. Garrecht , G. Hermann , I. Jung , O. Kalekin , C. Kalkuhl , J. Kasperek , T. Kihm , R. Lahmann , A. Manalaysay , A. Marszalek , M. Pfeifer , P. J. Rajda , O. Reimer , A. Santangelo , T. Schanz , T. Schwab , S. Steiner , U. Straumann , C. Tenzer , A. Vollhardt , Q. Weitzel , F. Werner , D. Wolf , K. Zietara

Development of the Photomultiplier-Tube Readout System for the CTA Large Size Telescope

We have developed a prototype of the photomultiplier tube (PMT) readout system for the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) Large Size Telescope (LST). Two thousand PMTs along with their readout systems are arranged on the focal plane of each…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 H. Kubo , R. Paoletti , Y. Awane , A. Bamba , M. Barcelo , J. A. Barrio , O. Blanch , J. Boix , C. Delgado , D. Fink , D. Gascon , S. Gunji , R. Hagiwara , Y. Hanabata , K. Hatanaka , M. Hayashida , M. Ikeno , S. Kabuki , H. Katagiri , J. Kataoka , Y. Konno , S. Koyama , T. Kishimoto , J. Kushida , G. Martinez , S. Masuda , J. M. Miranda , R. Mirzoyan , T. Mizuno , T. Nagayoshi , D. Nakajima , T. Nakamori , H. Ohoka , A. Okumura , R. Orito , T. Saito , A. Sanuy , H. Sasaki , M. Sawada , T. Schweizer , R. Sugawara , K. -H. Sulanke , H. Tajima , M. Tanaka , S. Tanaka , L. A. Tejedor , Y. Terada , M. Teshima , F. Tokanai , Y. Tsuchiya , T. Uchida , H. Ueno , K. Umehara , T. Yamamoto

The dual-mirror Small Size Telescope for the Cherenkov Telescope Array

In this paper, the development of the dual mirror Small Size Telescopes (SST) for the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is reviewed. Up to 70 SST, with a primary mirror diameter of 4 m, will be produced and installed at the CTA southern site.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-17 G. Pareschi , G. Agnetta , L. A. Antonelli , D. Bastieri , G. Bellassai , M. Belluso , C. Bigongiari , S. Billotta , B. Biondo , G. Bonanno , G. Bonnoli , P. Bruno , A. Bulgarelli , R. Canestrari , M. Capalbi , P. Caraveo , A. Carosi , E. Cascone , O. Catalano , M. Cereda , P. Conconi , V. Conforti , G. Cusumano , V. De Caprio , A. De Luca , A. Di Paola , F. Di Pierro , D. Fantinel , M. Fiorini , D. Fugazza , D. Gardiol , M. Ghigo , F. Gianotti , S. Giarrusso , E. Giro , A. Grillo , D. Impiombato , S. Incorvaia , A. La Barbera , N. La Palombara , V. La Parola , G. La Rosa , L. Lessio , G. Leto , S. Lombardi , F. Lucarelli , M. C. Maccarone , G. Malaguti , G. Malaspina , V. Mangano , D. Marano , E. Martinetti , R. Millul , T. Mineo , A. MistÒ , C. Morello , G. Morlino , M. R. Panzera , G. Rodeghiero , P. Romano , F. Russo , B. Sacco , N. Sartore , J. Schwarz , A. Segreto , G. Sironi , G. Sottile , A. Stamerra , E. Strazzeri , L. Stringhetti , G. Tagliaferri , V. Testa , M. C. Timpanaro , G. Toso , G. Tosti , M. Trifoglio , P. Vallania , S. Vercellone , V. Zitelli , J. P. Amans , C. Boisson , C. Costille , J. L. Dournaux , D. Dumas , G. Fasola , O. Hervet , J. M. Huet , P. Laporte , C. Rulten , H. Sol , A. Zech , R. White , J. Hinton , D. Ross , J. Sykes , S. Ohm , J. Schmoll , P. Chadwick , T. Greenshaw , M. Daniel , G. Cotter , G. S. Varner , S. Funk , J. Vandenbroucke , L. Sapozhnikov , J. Buckley , P. Moore , D. Williams , S. Markoff , J. Vink , D. Berge , N. Hidaka , A. Okumura , H. Tajima

The Atmospheric Monitoring Strategy for the Cherenkov Telescope Array

The Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Technique (IACT) is unusual in astronomy as the atmosphere actually forms an intrinsic part of the detector system, with telescopes indirectly detecting very high energy particles by the generation and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 M. K. Daniel

The Instrument Response Function Format for the Cherenkov Telescope Array

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is a future ground-based observatory (with two locations, in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres) that will be used in the study of the very-high-energy gamma-ray sky. CTA observations will be proposed…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 John E. Ward , Javier Rico , Tarek Hassan

Event reconstruction using pattern spectra and convolutional neural networks for the Cherenkov Telescope Array

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is the future observatory for ground-based imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes. Each telescope will provide a snapshot of gamma-ray induced particle showers by capturing the induced Cherenkov…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-24 J. Aschersleben , M. Vecchi , M. H. F. Wilkinson , R. F. Peletier

Sensitivity of the Cherenkov Telescope Array for probing cosmology and fundamental physics with gamma-ray propagation

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA), the new-generation ground-based observatory for $\gamma$-ray astronomy, provides unique capabilities to address significant open questions in astrophysics, cosmology, and fundamental physics. We study…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-03-01 The Cherenkov Telescope Array Consortium , : , H. Abdalla , H. Abe , F. Acero , A. Acharyya , R. Adam , I. Agudo , A. Aguirre-Santaella , R. Alfaro , J. Alfaro , C. Alispach , R. Aloisio , R. Alves B , L. Amati , E. Amato , G. Ambrosi , E. O. Angüner , A. Araudo , T. Armstrong , F. Arqueros , L. Arrabito , K. Asano , Y. Ascasíbar , M. Ashley , M. Backes , C. Balazs , M. Balbo , B. Balmaverde , A. Baquero Larriva , V. Barbosa Martins , M. Barkov , L. Baroncelli , U. Barres de Almeida , J. A. Barrio , P. Batista , J. Becerra , Y. Becherini , G. Beck , J. Becker Tjus , R. Belmont , W. Benbow , E. Bernardini , A. Berti , M. Berton , B. Bertucci , V. Beshley , B. Bi , B. Biasuzzi , A. Biland , E. Bissaldi , J. Biteau , O. Blanch , F. Bocchino , C. Boisson , J. Bolmont , G. Bonanno , L. Bonneau Arbeletche , G. Bonnoli , P. Bordas , E. Bottacini , M. Böttcher , V. Bozhilov , J. Bregeon , A. Brill , A. M. Brown , P. Bruno , A. Bruno , A. Bulgarelli , M. Burton , M. Buscemi , A. Caccianiga , R. Cameron , M. Capasso , M. Caprai , A. Caproni , R. Capuzzo-Dolcetta , P. Caraveo , R. Carosi , A. Carosi , S. Casanova , E. Cascone , D. Cauz , K. Cerny , M. Cerruti , P. Chadwick , S. Chaty , A. Chen , M. Chernyakova , G. Chiaro , A. Chiavassa , L. Chytka , V. Conforti , F. Conte , J. L. Contreras , J. Coronado-Blazquez , J. Cortina , A. Costa , H. Costantini , S. Covino , P. Cristofari , O. Cuevas , F. D'Ammando , M. K. Daniel , J. Davies , F. Dazzi , A. De Angelis , M. de Bony de Lavergne , V. De Caprio , R. de Cássia dos Anjos , E. M. de Gouveia Dal Pino , B. De Lotto , D. De Martino , M. de Naurois , E. de Oña Wilhelmi , F. De Palma , V. de Souza , C. Delgado , R. Della Ceca , D. della Volpe , D. Depaoli , T. Di Girolamo , F. Di Pierro , C. Díaz , C. Díaz-Bahamondes , S. Diebold , A. Djannati-Ataï , A. Dmytriiev , A. Domínguez , A. Donini , D. Dorner , M. Doro , J. Dournaux , V. V. Dwarkadas , J. Ebr , C. Eckner , S. Einecke , T. R. N. Ekoume , D. Elsässer , G. Emery , C. Evoli , M. Fairbairn , D. Falceta-Goncalves , S. Fegan , Q. Feng , G. Ferrand , E. Fiandrini , A. Fiasson , V. Fioretti , L. Foffano , M. V. Fonseca , L. Font , G. Fontaine , F. J. Franco , L. Freixas Coromina , S. Fukami , Y. Fukazawa , Y. Fukui , D. Gaggero , G. Galanti , V. Gammaldi , E. Garcia , M. Garczarczyk , D. Gascon , M. Gaug , A. Gent , A. Ghalumyan , G. Ghirlanda , F. Gianotti , M. Giarrusso , G. Giavitto , N. Giglietto , F. Giordano , J. Glicenstein , P. Goldoni , J. M. González , K. Gourgouliatos , T. Grabarczyk , P. Grandi , J. Granot , D. Grasso , J. Green , J. Grube , O. Gueta , S. Gunji , A. Halim , M. Harvey , T. Hassan Collado , K. Hayashi , M. Heller , S. Hernández Cadena , O. Hervet , J. Hinton , N. Hiroshima , B. Hnatyk , R. Hnatyk , D. Hoffmann , W. Hofmann , J. Holder , D. Horan , J. Hörandel , P. Horvath , T. Hovatta , M. Hrabovsky , D. Hrupec , G. Hughes , M. Hütten , M. Iarlori , T. Inada , S. Inoue , A. Insolia , M. Ionica , M. Iori , M. Jacquemont , M. Jamrozy , P. Janecek , I. Jiménez Martínez , W. Jin , I. Jung-Richardt , J. Jurysek , P. Kaaret , V. Karas , S. Karkar , N. Kawanaka , D. Kerszberg , B. Khélifi , R. Kissmann , J. Knödlseder , Y. Kobayashi , K. Kohri , N. Komin , A. Kong , K. Kosack , H. Kubo , N. La Palombara , G. Lamanna , R. G. Lang , J. Lapington , P. Laporte , M. Lemoine-Goumard , J. Lenain , F. Leone , G. Leto , F. Leuschner , E. Lindfors , S. Lloyd , T. Lohse , S. Lombardi , F. Longo , A. Lopez , M. López , R. López-Coto , S. Loporchio , F. Lucarelli , P. L. Luque-Escamilla , E. Lyard , C. Maggio , A. Majczyna , M. Makariev , M. Mallamaci , D. Mandat , G. Maneva , M. Manganaro , G. Manicò , A. Marcowith , M. Marculewicz , S. Markoff , P. Marquez , J. Martí , O. Martinez , M. Martínez , G. Martínez , H. Martínez-Huerta , G. Maurin , D. Mazin , J. D. Mbarubucyeye , D. Medina Miranda , M. Meyer , S. Micanovic , T. Miener , M. Minev , J. M. 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Schwarzschild-Couder telescope for the Cherenkov Telescope Array: Development of the Optical System

The CTA (Cherenkov Telescope Array) is the next generation ground-based experiment for very high-energy (VHE) gamma-ray observations. It will integrate several tens of imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes (IACTs) with different…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 Julien Rousselle , Valerie Connaughton , Manel Errando , Brian Humensky , Reshmi Mukherjee , Daniel Nieto , Akira Okumura , Vladimir Vassiliev

First Full-Event Reconstruction from Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescope Real Data with Deep Learning

The Cherenkov Telescope Array is the future of ground-based gamma-ray astronomy. Its first prototype telescope built on-site, the Large Size Telescope 1, is currently under commissioning and taking its first scientific data. In this paper,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-10 Mikaël Jacquemont , Thomas Vuillaume , Alexandre Benoit , Gilles Maurin , Patrick Lambert , Giovanni Lamanna

AGN Physics with the Cherenkov Telescope Array

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA), currently in its Preparatory Phase, will be the first open observatory for very high energy gamma-rays from galactic and extragalactic sources. The international consortium behind CTA is preparing the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 A. Zech

The Cherenkov Telescope Array Performance in Divergent Mode

Two of the Key Science Projects of the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) consist in performing a deep survey of the Galactic and Extragalactic sky, providing an unbiased view of the Universe at energies above tens of GeV. To optimize the time…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-19 A. Donini , T. Gasparetto , J. Bregeon , F. Di Pierro , F. Longo , G. Maier , A. Moralejo , T. Vuillaume

Prototype Schwarzschild-Couder Telescope for the Cherenkov Telescope Array: Commissioning Status of the Optical System

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA), with more than 100 telescopes, will be the largest ever ground-based gamma-ray observatory and is expected to greatly improve on both gamma-ray detection sensitivity and energy coverage compared to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-26 C. Adams , G. Ambrosi , M. Ambrosio , C. Aramo , W. Benbow , B. Bertucci , E. Bissaldi , M. Bitossi , A. Boiano , C. Bonavolontà , R. Bose , A. Brill , J. H. Buckley , M. Caprai , C. E. Covault , L. Di Venere , S. Fegan , Q. Feng , E. Fiandrini , A. Gent , N. Giglietto , F. Giordano , R. Halliday , O. Hervet , G. Hughes , T. B. Humensky , M. Ionica , W. Jin , P. Kaaret , D. Kieda , B. Kim , F. Licciulli , S. Loporchio , V. Masone , T. Meures , B. A. W. Mode , R. Mukherjee , A. Okumura , N. Otte , F. R. Pantaleo , R. Paoletti , A. Petrashyk , J. Powell , K. Powell , D. Ribeiro , J. Rousselle , A. Rugliancich , M. Santander , R. Shang , B. Stevenson , L. Stiaccini , L. P. Taylor , L. Tosti , V. Vagelli , M. Valentino , J. Vandenbroucke , V. Vassiliev , P. Wilcox , D. A. Williams

Monte Carlo Simulations and Validation of NectarCAM, a Medium Sized Telescope Camera for CTA

The upcoming Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) ground-based gamma-ray observatory will open up our view of the very high energy Universe, offering an improvement in sensitivity of 5-10 times that of previous experiments. NectarCAM is one of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-03 Thomas Armstrong , Heide Costantini , Jean-François Glicenstein , Jean-Philippe Lenain , Ullrich Schwanke , Thomas Tavernier

Status of the Cherenkov Telescope Array's Large Size Telescopes

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) observatory, will be deployed over two sites in the two hemispheres. Both sites will be equipped with four Large Size Telescopes (LSTs), which are crucial to achieve the science goals of CTA in the 20-200…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 J. Cortina , M. Teshima

The Cherenkov Telescope Array On-Site integral sensitivity: observing the Crab

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is the future large observatory in the very high energy (VHE) domain. Operating from 20 GeV to 300 TeV, it will be composed of tens of Imaging Air Cherenkov Telescopes (IACTs) displaced in a large area of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-18 Valentina Fioretti , Andrea Bulgarelli , Fabian Schussler