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The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is the next generation very-high energy gamma-ray air-shower Cherenkov observatory. CTA will consist of many segmented-mirror telescopes of three different diameters, placed in two arrays, one in the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 A. Bonardi , J. Dick , E. Kendziorra , G. Pühlhofer , A. Santangelo

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is a large collaborative effort aimed at the design and operation of an observatory dedicated to very high-energy gamma-ray astrophysics in the energy range from a few tens of GeV to above 100 TeV, which…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-17 Stefano Vercellone

The last few years have seen a revolution in very-high gamma-ray astronomy (VHE; E>100 GeV) driven largely by a new generation of Cherenkov telescopes (namely the H.E.S.S. telescope array, the MAGIC and MAGIC-II large telescopes and the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-13 E. de Ona Wilhelmi , B. Rudak , J. A. Barrio , J. L. Contreras , Y. Gallant , D. Hadasch , T. Hassan , M. Lopez , D. Mazin , N. Mirabal , G. Pedaletti , M. Renaud , R. de los Reyes , D. F. Torres

In these proceedings we summarize the current status of the study of the sensitivity of the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) to detect diffuse gamma-ray emission from the Perseus galaxy cluster. Gamma-ray emission is expected in galaxy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-08-23 Judit Pérez-Romero

The next generation of ground-based gamma-ray observatories, such as e.g. CTA, will consist of about 50-100 telescopes, and cameras with in total ~100000 to ~200000 channels. The telescopes of the core array will cover and effective area of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 G. Hermann , C. Bauer , C. Foehr , W. Hofmann , T. Kihm , F. Koeck

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

We discuss the prospects for indirect detection of dark matter (DM) with the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA), a future ground-based gamma-ray observatory that will be sensitive to gamma rays in the energy range from a few tens of GeV to 100…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-09-24 Matthew Wood , Jim Buckley , Seth Digel , Stefan Funk , Daniel Nieto , Miguel A. Sanchez-Conde

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is the future ground-based gamma-ray observatory and will be composed of two arrays of imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes (IACTs) located in the Northern and Southern hemispheres respectively. The…

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is a future very high energy gamma-ray observatory. CTA will be comprised of small-, medium- and large-size telescopes covering an energy range from tens of GeV to hundreds of TeV and will surpass…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 T. Jogler , M. D. Wood , J. Dumm

We show that the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) can realistically challenge the Inert Doublet Model, excluding its heavy regime up to dark matter masses of 800 GeV and probing a large fraction of the remaining viable parameter space at…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-04-13 Farinaldo S. Queiroz , Carlos E. Yaguna

Cherenkov telescopes play a major role in the growth of the TeV Astronomy which, in 20 years, has reached the status of an important branch of Astrophysics, because of the observations of the violent, non thermal processes in the extreme…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-10-19 B. Sacco , S. Vercellone

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

Blazars, including BL Lacs and FSRQs, are the most luminous extragalactic {\gamma}-ray sources. They account for about 56% of the sources listed in the recent Fermi-LAT catalog (4FGL-DR4). The optical and UV spectra of BL Lacs are nearly…

Gamma-ray emitting narrow-line Seyfert 1 ($\gamma$-NLS1) galaxies possibly harbour relatively low-mass black holes (10$^6$-10$^8$ M$_{\odot}$) accreting close to the Eddington limit, and share many characteristics with their sibling…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-03-11 P. Romano , M. Böttcher , L. Foschini , C. Boisson , S. Vercellone , M. Landoni

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is an atmospheric Cherenkov observatory that will image the cosmos in very-high-energy gamma rays. CTA will study the highest-energy particle accelerators in the Universe and potentially confirm the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 J. Vandenbroucke

The third catalog of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) detected by the Fermi-LAT (3LAC) is presented. It is based on the third Fermi-LAT catalog (3FGL) of sources detected between 100 MeV and 300 GeV with a Test Statistic (TS) greater than 25,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-09-16 M. Ackermann , M. Ajello , W. Atwood , L. Baldini , J. Ballet , G. Barbiellini , D. Bastieri , J. Gonzalez , R. Bellazzini , E. Bissaldi , R. Blandford , E. Bloom , R. Bonino , E. Bottacini , T. Brandt , J. Bregeon , R. Britto , P. Bruel , R. Buehler , S. Buson , G. Caliandro , R. Cameron , M. Caragiulo , P. Caraveo , J. Casandjian , E. Cavazzuti , C. Cecchi , E. Charles , A. Chekhtman , C. Cheung , J. Chiang , G. Chiaro , S. Ciprini , R. Claus , J. Cohen-Tanugi , L. Cominsky , J. Conrad , S. Cutini , R. D'Abrusco , F. D'Ammando , A. Angelis , R. Desiante , S. Digel , L. Venere , P. Drell , C. Favuzzi , S. Fegan , E. Ferrara , J. Finke , W. Focke , A. Franckowiak , L. Fuhrmann , A. Furniss , P. Fusco , F. Gargano , D. Gasparrini , N. Giglietto , P. Giommi , F. Giordano , M. Giroletti , T. Glanzman , G. Godfrey , I. Grenier , J. Grove , S. Guiriec , J. W. Hewitt , A. Hill , D. Horan , G. J'ohannesson , A. Johnson , W. Johnson , J. Kataoka , M. Kuss , G. Mura , S. Larsson , L. Latronico , C. Leto , J. Li , L. Li , F. Longo , F. Loparco , B. Lott , M. Lovellette , P. Lubrano , G. Madejski , M. Mayer , M. Mazziotta , J. McEnery , P. Michelson , T. Mizuno , A. Moiseev , M. Monzani , A. Morselli , I. Moskalenko , S. Murgia , E. Nuss , M. Ohno , T. Ohsugi , R. Ojha , N. Omodei , M. Orienti , E. Orlando , A. Paggi , D. Paneque , J. Perkins , M. Pesce-Rollins , F. Piron , G. Pivato , T. Porter , S. Rain`o , R. Rando , M. Razzano , S. Razzaque , A. Reimer , O. Reimer , R. Romani , D. Salvetti , M. Schaal , F. Schinzel , A. Schulz , C. Sgr`o , E. Siskind , K. Sokolovsky , F. Spada , G. Spandre , P. Spinelli , L. Stawarz , D. Suson , H. Takahashi , T. Takahashi , Y. Tanaka , J. Thayer , J. Thayer , L. Tibaldo , D. Torres , E. Torresi , G. Tosti , E. Troja , Y. Uchiyama , G. Vianello , B. Winer , K. Wood , S. Zimmer

The future Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) will consist of several tens of telescopes of different mirror sizes. CTA will provide next generation sensitivity to very high energy photons from few tens of GeV to >100 TeV. Several focal plane…

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) will consist of two arrays of Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes (IACTs) at the northern and southern hemispheres. CTA will feature IACTs with mirrors of three different sizes optimized to cover…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-25 Juan Cortina

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is a planned observatory for very-high energy gamma-ray astronomy. It will consist of several tens of telescopes of different sizes, with a total mirror area of up to 10,000 square meters. Most mirrors of…