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The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) will be the largest ground-based observatory operating in the very-high-energy gamma-ray (20 GeV - 300 TeV) range. It will be based on more than one hundred telescopes, located at two sites (northern and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-22 Maria Concetta Maccarone

We report on studies of the viability and sensitivity of the Askaryan Radio Array (ARA), a new initiative to develop a Teraton-scale ultra-high energy neutrino detector in deep, radio-transparent ice near Amundsen-Scott station at the South…

A new project is developed with the implementation of a relatively new method of studying the primary cosmic ray -- the registration of extensive air showers' optical Vavilov-Cherenkov radiation (Cherenkov light) reflected from the snow…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-30 D. Chernov , E. Bonvech , M. Finger , M. Finger , V. Galkin , V. Ivanov , D. Podgrudkov , T. Roganova , I. Vaiman

The Water Cherenkov Detector Array (WCDA) is a major component of the Large High Altitude Air Shower Array Observatory (LHAASO), a new generation cosmic-ray experiment with unprecedented sensitivity, currently under construction. The WCDA…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-02-24 Yingying Guo , Xiaochuan Chang , Hongbo Hu , Zhiguo Yao

The site selection group for the future Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) has deployed sensitive light sensors at 9 candidate sites, 5 of them in the Southern and 4 in the Northern hemisphere. The sensors are equipped with a PIN diode and a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 Markus Gaug

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is the next generation observatory for very high energy gamma rays. The capability of the array to detect gamma-rays above 10 TeV is going to be achieved with a large number of Small Size Telescopes…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 Anna Barnacka , Leszek Bogacz , Mira Grudzińska , Adam Frankowski , Mateusz Janiak , Piotr Lubiński , Rafał Moderski

The lateral distribution of Cherenkov light at ground level records important information on the development of the cosmic ray air shower which produces it. We have constructed an array of 144 non-imaging Cherenkov detectors at the CASA-MIA…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Cassidy , L. F. Fortson , J. W. Fowler , R. A. Ong , C. H. Jui , D. B. Kieda , E. C. Loh , P. Sommers

Aiming to observe cosmic gamma rays in the 10 - 1000 TeV energy region, we propose a 10000 m^2 underground water-Cherenkov muon-detector (MD) array that operates in conjunction with the Tibet air-shower (AS) array. Significant improvement…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 T. K. Sako , K. Kawata , M. Ohnishi , A. Shiomi , M. Takita , H. Tsuchiya

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is planned to serve as a ground-based observatory for (very-)high-energy gamma-ray astronomy, open to a wide astrophysics community, providing a deep insight into the non-thermal high-energy universe. It…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-15 M. Renaud

As TeV gamma-ray astronomy progresses into the era of the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA), there is a desire for the capacity to instantaneously follow up on transient phenomena and continuously monitor gamma-ray flux at energies above…

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is the next-generation atmospheric Cherenkov gamma-ray observatory. CTA will consist of two installations, one in the northern, and the other in the southern hemisphere, containing tens of telescopes of…

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is the next generation very high-energy gamma-ray observatory, with at least 10 times higher sensitivity than current instruments. CTA will comprise several tens of Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov…

We present a description of the new complex installation for the study of extensive air showers which was created at the Tien Shan mountain cosmic ray station, as well as the results of the test measurements made there in 2014-2016. At…

The paper describes the techniques and method of registration of air shower radio emission at the Yakutsk array of extensive air showers at a frequency of 32 MHz. At this stage, emission registration involves two set of antennas, the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-09-30 I. Petrov , S. Knurenko , Z. Petrov

The Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO) is a next-generation facility for ground-based very high energy gamma ray astronomy. CTAO will be operated as an open observatory. With two sites, in the northern and southern hemispheres,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-23 Werner Hofmann , Roberta Zanin

Arrays of imaging air Cherenkov telescopes (IACTs) like VERITAS, HESS have been recently proposed as the instruments of the next generation for ground based very high energy gamma-ray astronomy invading into 50-100 GeV energy range. Here we…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Alexander K. Konopelko

The exciting results from H.E.S.S. point to a new population of gamma-ray sources at energies E > 10 TeV, paving the way for future studies and new discoveries in the multi-TeV energy range. Connected with these energies is the search for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-10-11 G. Rowell , V. Stamatescu , R. Clay , B. Dawson , J. Denman , R. Protheroe , A. G. K. Smith , G. Thornton , N. Wild

LUNASKA (Lunar UHE Neutrino Astrophysics with the Square Kilometre Array) is an ongoing project conducting lunar Cherenkov observations in order to develop techniques for detecting neutrinos with the next generation of radio telescopes. Our…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-12-01 J. D. Bray , R. D. Ekers , P. Roberts , J. E. Reynolds , C. W. James , C. J. Phillips , R. A. McFadden , R. J. Protheroe , M. Aartsen , J. Alvarez-Muñiz

Muon component of extensive air showers (EAS) initiated by cosmic ray particles carries information on the primary particle identity. We show that the muon content of EAS could be measured in a broad energy range from 10-100 TeV up to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-05 A. Neronov , D. V. Semikoz , Ie. Vovk , R. Mirzoyan
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