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Studies of active galactic nuclei with CTA

In this paper, we review the prospects for studies of active galactic nuclei (AGN) using the envisioned future Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA). This review focuses on jetted AGN, which constitute the vast majority of AGN detected at…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-08-30 A. Reimer , M. Boettcher

Extragalactic source population studies at very high energies in the Cherenkov Telescope Array era

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is the next generation ground-based $\gamma$-ray observatory. It will provide an order of magnitude better sensitivity and an extended energy coverage, 20 GeV - 300 TeV, relative to current Imaging…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-01-22 T. Hassan , A. Domínguez , J. Lefaucheur , D. Mazin , S. Pita , A. Zech

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

Status and Plans for the Array Control and Data Acquisition System of the Cherenkov Telescope Array

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…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 I. Oya , M. Fuessling , U. Schwanke , P. Wegner , A. Balzer , D. Berge , J. Borkowski , J. Camprecios , S. Colonges , J. Colome , C. Champion , V. Conforti , F. Gianotti , T. Le Flour , R. Lindemann , E. Lyard , M. Mayer , D. Melkumyan , M. Punch , C. Tanci , T. Schmidt , J. Schwarz , G. Tosti , K. Verma , A. Weinstein , S. Wiesand , R. Wischnewski

Strategies for the Follow-up of Gravitational Wave Transients with the Cherenkov Telescope Array

The observation of the electromagnetic counterpart of gravitational-wave (GW) transient GW170817 demonstrated the potential in extracting astrophysical information from multimessenger discoveries. The forthcoming deployment of the first…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-03-21 Imre Bartos , Tristano Di Girolamo , Jonathan R. Gair , Martin Hendry , Ik Siong Heng , T. Brian Humensky , Szabolcs Marka , Zsuzsa Marka , Chris Messenger , Reshmi Mukherjee , Daniel Nieto , Paul O'Brien , Marcos Santander

Advanced analysis and event reconstruction for the CTA Observatory

The planned Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is a future observatory for very-high-energy (VHE) gamma-ray astronomy composed of one site per hemisphere. It aims at 10 times better sensitivity, a better angular resolution and wider energy…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 Y. Becherini , B. Khélifi , S. Pita , M. Punch

Status of the Medium-Sized Telescope for the Cherenkov Telescope Array

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA), is an international project for the next generation ground- based observatory for gamma-ray astronomy in the energy range from 20 GeV to 300 TeV. The sensitivity in the core energy range will be…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-07 Markus Garczarczyk , Stefan Schlenstedt , Louise Oakes , Ullrich Schwanke , the MST Team

V-shaped Cherenkov images of magnetically-separated gamma-rays

Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is an upcoming instrument that will start a new generation of atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes. CTA is expected not only to provide an unprecedented sensitivity in the tens of GeV to hundreds of TeV range,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-11 Julian Sitarek , Dorota Sobczyńska , Katarzyna Adamczyk , Michał Szanecki

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

Sensitivity of the Cherenkov Telescope Array to a dark matter signal from the Galactic centre

We provide an updated assessment of the power of the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) to search for thermally produced dark matter at the TeV scale, via the associated gamma-ray signal from pair-annihilating dark matter particles in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-02-02 The Cherenkov Telescope Array Consortium , : , A. Acharyya , R. Adam , C. Adams , I. Agudo , A. Aguirre-Santaella , R. Alfaro , J. Alfaro , C. Alispach , R. Aloisio , R. Alves Batista , L. Amati , G. Ambrosi , E. O. Angüner , L. A. Antonelli , C. Aramo , A. Araudo , T. Armstrong , F. Arqueros , K. Asano , Y. Ascasíbar , M. Ashley , C. Balazs , O. Ballester , A. Baquero Larriva , V. Barbosa Martins , M. Barkov , U. Barres de Almeida , J. A. Barrio , D. Bastieri , J. Becerra , G. Beck , J. Becker Tjus , W. Benbow , M. Benito , D. Berge , E. Bernardini , K. Bernlöhr , A. Berti , B. Bertucci , V. Beshley , B. Biasuzzi , A. Biland , E. Bissaldi , J. Biteau , O. Blanch , J. Blazek , F. Bocchino , C. Boisson , L. Bonneau Arbeletche , P. Bordas , Z. Bosnjak , E. Bottacini , V. Bozhilov , J. Bregeon , A. Brill , T. Bringmann , A. M. Brown , P. Brun , F. Brun , P. Bruno , A. Bulgarelli , M. Burton , A. Burtovoi , M. Buscemi , R. Cameron , M. Capasso , A. Caproni , R. Capuzzo-Dolcetta , P. Caraveo , R. Carosi , A. Carosi , S. Casanova , E. Cascone , F. Cassol , F. Catalani , D. Cauz , M. Cerruti , P. Chadwick , S. Chaty , A. Chen , M. Chernyakova , G. Chiaro , A. Chiavassa , M. Chikawa , J. Chudoba , M. Çolak , V. Conforti , R. Coniglione , F. Conte , J. L. Contreras , J. Coronado-Blazquez , A. Costa , H. Costantini , G. Cotter , P. Cristofari , A. D'Aì , F. D'Ammando , L. A. Damone , M. K. Daniel , F. Dazzi , A. De Angelis , V. De Caprio , R. de Cássia dos Anjos , E. M. de Gouveia Dal Pino , B. De Lotto , D. De Martino , E. de Oña Wilhelmi , F. De Palma , V. de Souza , C. Delgado , A. G. Delgado Giler , D. della Volpe , D. Depaoli , T. Di Girolamo , F. Di Pierro , L. Di Venere , S. Diebold , A. Dmytriiev , A. Domínguez , A. Donini , M. Doro , J. Ebr , C. Eckner , T. D. P. Edwards , T. R. N. Ekoume , D. Elsässer , C. Evoli , D. Falceta-Goncalves , E. Fedorova , S. Fegan , Q. Feng , G. Ferrand , G. Ferrara , E. 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Watson , C. Weniger , R. White , M. White , R. Wiemann , A. Wierzcholska , M. Will , D. A. Williams , R. Wischnewski , S. Yanagita , L. Yang , T. Yoshikoshi , M. Zacharias , G. Zaharijas , A. A. Zakaria , L. Zampieri , R. Zanin , D. Zaric , M. Zavrtanik , D. Zavrtanik , A. A. Zdziarski , A. Zech , H. Zechlin , V. I. Zhdanov , M. Živec

Status of the Schwarzchild-Couder Medium-Sized Telescope for the Cherenkov Telescope Array

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is planned to be the next-generation very-high-energy (VHE; E > 100 GeV) gamma-ray observatory. It is anticipated that CTA will improve upon the sensitivity of the current generation of VHE experiments,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 W. Benbow , A. N. Otte

Cherenkov Telescope Array Data Management

Very High Energy gamma-ray astronomy with the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is evolving towards the model of a public observatory. Handling, processing and archiving the large amount of data generated by the CTA instruments and delivering…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 G. Lamanna , L. A. Antonelli , J. L. Contreras , J. Knödlseder , K. Kosack , N. Neyroud , A. Aboudan , L. Arrabito , C. Barbier , D. Bastieri , C. Boisson , S. Brau-Nogué , J. Bregeon , A. Bulgarelli , A. Carosi , A. Costa , G. De Cesare , R. de los Reyes , V. Fioretti , S. Gallozzi , J. Jacquemier , B. Khelifi , J. Kocot , S. Lombardi , F. Lucarelli , E. Lyard , G. Maier , P. Massimino , J. P. Osborne , M. Perri , J. Rico , D. A. Sanchez , K. Satalecka , H. Siejkowski , T. Stolarczyk , T. Szepieniec , V. Testa , R. Walter , J. E. Ward , A. Zoli

Building Medium Size Telescope Structures for the Cherenkov Telescope Array

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is the future instrument in ground-based gamma-ray astronomy in the energy range from 20 GeV to 300 TeV. Its sensitivity will surpass that of current generation experiments by a factor $\sim$10,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-09 A. Schulz , M. Garczarczyk , L. Oakes , S. Schlenstedt , U. Schwanke , the CTA Consortium

Performance Verification of the FlashCam Prototype Camera for the Cherenkov Telescope Array

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is a future gamma-ray observatory that is planned to significantly improve upon the sensitivity and precision of the current generation of Cherenkov telescopes. The observatory will consist of several…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-02 F. Werner , C. Bauer , S. Bernhard , M. Capasso , S. Diebold , F. Eisenkolb , S. Eschbach , 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. Marszalek , M. Pfeifer , G. Principe , G. Pühlhofer , S. Pürckhauer , P. J. Rajda , O. Reimer , A. Santangelo , T. Schanz , T. Schwab , S. Steiner , U. Straumann , C. Tenzer , A. Vollhardt , D. Wolf , K. Zietara

Gamma-rays and their future

The focus of this presentation is to go through some of the remarkable observations concerning gamma-ray cosmic accelerators and diffuse emissions. Additionally, I will cover the status of the new generation of gamma-ray groundbased…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-02-28 Teresa Montaruli

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

SST-GATE: A dual mirror telescope for the Cherenkov Telescope Array

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) will be the world's first open observatory for very high energy gamma-rays. Around a hundred telescopes of different sizes will be used to detect the Cherenkov light that results from gamma-ray induced…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-17 A. Zech , J. -P. Amans , S. Blake , C. Boisson , C. Costille , F. De-Frondat , J. -L. Dournaux , D. Dumas , G. Fasola , T. Greenshaw , O. Hervet , J. -M. Huet , P. Laporte , C. Rulten , D. Savoie , F. Sayede , J. Schmoll , H. Sol

Performance of the Cherenkov Telescope Array in the presence of clouds

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is the future ground-based observatory for gamma-ray astronomy at very high energies. The atmosphere is an integral part of every Cherenkov telescope. Different atmospheric conditions, such as clouds, can…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-02 Mario Pecimotika , Katarzyna Adamczyk , Dijana Dominis Prester , Orel Gueta , Dario Hrupec , Gernot Maier , Saša Mićanović , Lovro Pavletić , Julian Sitarek , Dorota Sobczyńska , Michał Szanecki

Status and performance results from NectarCAM -- a camera for CTA medium sized telescopes

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) will be the first ground-based observatory for gamma-ray astronomy. With more than a hundred of 4th generation of Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes (IACTs) distributed in two large arrays, CTA will…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-05 Thomas Tavernier , Jean-François Glicenstein , François Brun

Data model issues in the Cherenkov Telescope Array project

The planned Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA), a future ground-based Very-High-Energy (VHE) gamma-ray observatory, will be the largest project of its kind. It aims to provide an order of magnitude increase in sensitivity compared to currently…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 J. L. Contreras , K. Satalecka , K. Bernlöhr , C. Boisson , J. Bregeon , A. Bulgarelli , G. de Cesare , R. de los Reyes , V. Fioretti , K. Kosack , C. Lavalley , E. Lyard , R. Marx , J. Rico , M. Sanguillot , M. Servillat , R. Walter , J. E. Ward , A. Zoli