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Detection methods for the Cherenkov Telescope Array at very-short exposure times

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) will be the next generation ground-based observatory for very-high-energy (VHE) gamma-ray astronomy, with the deployment of tens of highly sensitive and fast-reacting Cherenkov telescopes. It will cover a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-21 Ambra Di Piano , Andrea Bulgarelli , Valentina Fioretti , Leonardo Baroncelli , Nicolò Parmiggiani , Francesco Longo , Antonio Stamerra , Alicia López-Oramas , Giulia Stratta , and Giovanni De Cesare

Towards an optimized design for the Cherenkov Telescope Array

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is a future instrument for very-high-energy (VHE) gamma-ray astronomy that is expected to deliver an order of magnitude improvement in sensitivity over existing instruments. In order to meet the physics…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 V. Stamatescu , Y. Becherini , K. Bernllöhr , E. Carmona , P. Colin , C. Farnier , L. Gerard , J. A. Hinton , B. Khélifi , N. Komin , G. Lamanna , J. -P. Lenain , G. Maier , A. Moralejo , C. L. Naumann , R. D. Parsons , F. Di Pierro , H. Prokoph , S. Vorobiov

Sensitivity of the Cherenkov Telescope Array to dark subhalos

In this work, we study the potential of the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) for the detection of Galactic dark matter (DM) subhalos. We focus on low-mass subhalos that do not host any baryonic content and therefore lack any multiwavelength…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-06-08 Javier Coronado-Blázquez , Michele Doro , Miguel A. Sánchez-Conde , Alejandra Aguirre-Santaella

Sensitivity of the Cherenkov Telescope Array to the detection of a dark matter signal in comparison to direct detection and collider experiments

Imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes (IACTs) that are sensitive to potential $\gamma$-ray signals from dark matter (DM) annihilation above $\sim50$ GeV will soon be superseded by the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA). CTA will have a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-10-11 Csaba Balázs , Jan Conrad , Ben Farmer , Thomas Jacques , Tong Li , Manuel Meyer , Farinaldo S. Queiroz , Miguel A. Sánchez-Conde

On the sensitivity of CTA to gamma-ray boxes from multi-TeV dark matter

Collider, direct and indirect searches for dark matter have typically little or no sensitivity to weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) with masses above a few TeV. This rather unexplored regime can however be probed through the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-07-07 Alejandro Ibarra , Anna S. Lamperstorfer , Sergio López Gehler , Miguel Pato , Gianfranco Bertone

Monte Carlo Performance Studies of Candidate Sites for the Cherenkov Telescope Array

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is the next-generation gamma-ray observatory with sensitivity in the energy range from 20 GeV to beyond 300 TeV. CTA is proposed to consist of two arrays of 40-100 imaging atmospheric Cherenkov…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 G. Maier , L. Arrabito , K. Bernlöhr , J. Bregeon , F. Di Pierro , T. Hassan , T. Jogler , J. Hinton , A. Moralejo , M. Wood

The Cherenkov Telescope Array

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is the next generation ground-based observatory for gamma-ray astronomy at very-high energies. It will be capable of detecting gamma rays in the energy range from 20 GeV to more than 300 TeV with…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-22 Daniel Mazin

The Camera Calibration Strategy of the Cherenkov Telescope Array

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) will be the next generation ground based observatory in very high energy gamma ray astronomy. The facility will achieve a wide energy coverage, starting from a threshold of a few tens of GeV up to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 M. K. Daniel , M. Gaug , P. Majumdar

Second large-scale Monte Carlo study for the Cherenkov Telescope Array

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) represents the next generation of ground based instruments for Very High Energy gamma-ray astronomy. It is expected to improve on the sensitivity of current instruments by an order of magnitude and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 T. Hassan , L. Arrabito , K. Bernlör , J. Bregeon , J. Hinton , T. Jogler , G. Maier , A. Moralejo , F. Di Pierro , M. Wood

Dark Matter Line Searches with the Cherenkov Telescope Array

Monochromatic gamma-ray signals constitute a potential smoking gun signature for annihilating or decaying dark matter particles that could relatively easily be distinguished from astrophysical or instrumental backgrounds. We provide an…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-07-24 S. Abe , J. Abhir , A. Abhishek , F. Acero , A. Acharyya , R. Adam , A. Aguasca-Cabot , I. Agudo , A. Aguirre-Santaella , J. Alfaro , R. Alfaro , N. Alvarez-Crespo , R. Alves Batista , J. -P. Amans , E. Amato , G. Ambrosi , L. Angel , C. Aramo , C. Arcaro , T. T. H. Arnesen , L. Arrabito , K. Asano , Y. Ascasibar , J. Aschersleben , H. Ashkar , M. Backes , A. Baktash , C. Balazs , M. Balbo , A. Baquero Larriva , V. Barbosa Martins , U. Barres de Almeida , J. A. Barrio , I. Batković , R. Batzofin , J. Baxter , J. Becerra González , G. Beck , W. Benbow , D. Berge , E. Bernardini , J. Bernete , K. Bernlöhr , A. Berti , B. Bertucci , P. Bhattacharjee , S. Bhattacharyya , C. Bigongiari , A. Biland , E. Bissaldi , J. Biteau , O. Blanch , J. Blazek , F. Bocchino , C. Boisson , J. Bolmont , G. Bonnoli , A. Bonollo , P. Bordas , Z. Bosnjak , E. Bottacini , M. Böttcher , T. Bringmann , E. Bronzini , R. Brose , A. M. Brown , G. Brunelli , A. Bulgarelli , T. Bulik , I. Burelli , L. Burmistrov , M. Burton , M. Buscemi , T. Bylund , J. Cailleux , A. Campoy-Ordaz , B. K. Cantlay , G. Capasso , A. Caproni , R. Capuzzo-Dolcetta , P. Caraveo , S. Caroff , A. Carosi , R. Carosi , E. Carquin , M. -S. Carrasco , F. Cassol , L. Castaldini , N. Castrejon , A. J. Castro-Tirado , D. Cerasole , M. Cerruti , P. M. Chadwick , S. Chaty , A. W. Chen , M. Chernyakova , A. Chiavassa , J. Chudoba , L. Chytka , G. M. Cicciari , A. Cifuentes , C. H. Coimbra Araujo , M. Colapietro , V. Conforti , F. Conte , J. L. Contreras , A. Costa , H. Costantini , G. Cotter , P. Cristofari , O. Cuevas , Z. Curtis-Ginsberg , G. D'Amico , F. D'Ammando , S. Dai , M. Dalchenko , F. Dazzi , A. De Angelis , M. de Bony de Lavergne , V. De Caprio , E. M. de Gouveia Dal Pino , B. De Lotto , M. De Lucia , R. de Menezes , M. de Naurois , V. de Souza , L. del Peral , M. V. del Valle , A. G. Delgado Giler , J. Delgado Mengual , C. Delgado , M. Dell'aiera , D. della Volpe , D. Depaoli , T. Di Girolamo , A. Di Piano , F. Di Pierro , R. Di Tria , L. Di Venere , C. Díaz , S. Diebold , A. Dinesh , J. Djuvsland , R. M. Dominik , D. Dominis Prester , A. Donini , D. Dorner , J. Dörner , M. Doro , J. -L. Dournaux , C. Duangchan , C. Dubos , L. Ducci , V. V. Dwarkadas , J. Ebr , C. Eckner , K. Egberts , S. Einecke , D. Elsässer , G. Emery , M. Errando , C. Escanuela , P. Escarate , M. Escobar Godoy , J. Escudero , P. Esposito , S. Ettori , D. Falceta-Goncalves , E. Fedorova , S. Fegan , Q. Feng , G. Ferrand , F. Ferrarotto , E. Fiandrini , A. Fiasson , M. Filipovic , V. Fioretti , M. Fiori , L. Foffano , L. Font Guiteras , G. Fontaine , S. Fröse , Y. Fukazawa , Y. Fukui , A. Furniss , G. Galanti , G. Galaz , C. Galelli , S. Gallozzi , V. Gammaldi , M. Garczarczyk , C. Gasbarra , D. Gasparrini , A. Ghalumyan , F. Gianotti , M. Giarrusso , J. G. Giesbrecht Formiga Paiva , N. Giglietto , F. Giordano , R. Giuffrida , J. -F. Glicenstein , J. Glombitza , P. Goldoni , J. M. González , M. M. González , J. Goulart Coelho , T. Gradetzke , J. Granot , D. Grasso , R. Grau , L. Gréaux , D. Green , J. G. Green , G. Grolleron , L. M. V. Guedes , O. Gueta , J. Hackfeld , D. Hadasch , P. Hamal , W. Hanlon , S. Hara , V. M. Harvey , T. Hassan , K. Hayashi , B. Heß , L. Heckmann , M. Heller , S. Hernández Cadena , O. Hervet , J. Hinton , N. Hiroshima , B. Hnatyk , R. Hnatyk , W. Hofmann , J. Holder , D. Horan , P. Horvath , T. Hovatta , M. Hrabovsky , D. Hrupec , M. Iarlori , T. Inada , F. Incardona , S. Inoue , Y. Inoue , F. Iocco , M. Iori , K. Ishio , M. Jamrozy , P. Janecek , F. Jankowsky , P. Jean , J. Jimenez Quiles , W. Jin , C. Juramy-Gilles , J. Jurysek , M. Kagaya , O. Kalekin , V. Karas , H. Katagiri , J. Kataoka , S. Kaufmann , D. Kazanas , D. Kerszberg , D. B. Kieda , T. Kleiner , G. Kluge , Y. Kobayashi , K. Kohri , N. Komin , P. Kornecki , K. Kosack , G. Kowal , H. Kubo , J. Kushida , A. La Barbera , N. La Palombara , M. Láinez , A. Lamastra , J. Lapington , P. Laporte , S. Lazarević , J. Lazendic-Galloway , M. Lemoine-Goumard , J. -P. Lenain , F. Leone , E. Leonora , G. Leto , E. Lindfors , M. Linhoff , I. Liodakis , A. Lipniacka , S. Lombardi , F. Longo , R. López-Coto , M. López-Moya , A. López-Oramas , S. Loporchio , J. Lozano Bahilo , P. L. Luque-Escamilla , O. Macias , P. Majumdar , M. Mallamaci , D. Malyshev , D. Mandat , G. Manicò , M. Mariotti , I. Márquez , P. Marquez , G. Marsella , J. Martí , G. A. Martínez , M. Martínez , O. Martinez , C. Marty , A. Mas-Aguilar , M. Mastropietro , D. Mazin , S. Menchiari , E. Mestre , J. -L. Meunier , D. M. -A. Meyer , M. Meyer , D. Miceli , M. Miceli , M. Michailidis , J. Michałowski , T. Miener , J. M. Miranda , A. Mitchell , M. Mizote , T. Mizuno , R. Moderski , M. Molero , C. Molfese , E. Molina , T. Montaruli , A. Moralejo , D. Morcuende , A. Morselli , E. Moulin , V. Moya Zamanillo , K. Munari , T. Murach , A. Muraczewski , H. Muraishi , T. Nakamori , A. Nayak , R. Nemmen , J. P. Neto , L. Nickel , J. Niemiec , D. Nieto , M. Nievas Rosillo , M. Nikołajuk , L. Nikolić , K. Nishijima , K. Noda , D. Nosek , V. Novotny , S. Nozaki , M. Ohishi , Y. Ohtani , A. Okumura , J. -F. Olive , R. A. Ong , M. Orienti , R. Orito , M. Orlandini , E. Orlando , S. Orlando , M. Ostrowski , J. Otero-Santos , I. Oya , I. Pagano , A. Pagliaro , M. Palatiello , G. Panebianco , D. Paneque , F. R. Pantaleo , J. M. Paredes , N. Parmiggiani , B. Patricelli , A. Pe'er , M. Pech , M. Pecimotika , U. Pensec , M. Peresano , J. Pérez-Romero , M. Persic , K. P. Peters , O. Petruk , G. Piano , E. Pierre , E. Pietropaolo , M. Pihet , L. Pinchbeck , G. Pirola , C. Pittori , C. Plard , F. Podobnik , M. Pohl , V. Pollet , G. Ponti , E. Prandini , G. Principe , C. Priyadarshi , N. Produit , M. Prouza , E. Pueschel , G. Pühlhofer , M. L. Pumo , F. Queiroz , A. Quirrenbach , S. Rainò , R. Rando , S. Razzaque , M. Regeard , A. Reimer , O. 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Zhang , V. I. Zhdanov , K. Ziętara , M. Živec , J. Zuriaga-Puig

Testing cosmology and fundamental physics with the Cherenkov Telescope Array

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is the next generation ground-based observatory for $\gamma$-ray astronomy at energies above 30 GeV. Thanks to its unique capabilities, CTA observations will address a plethora of open questions in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-07-19 H. Martínez-Huerta , J. Biteau , J. Lefaucheur , M. Meyer , S. Pita , I. Vovk

Tools and Procedures for the CTA Array Calibration

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is an international initiative to build the next generation ground-based very-high-energy gamma-ray observatory. Full sky coverage will be assured by two arrays, one located on each of the northern and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 Maria Concetta Maccarone , Dan Parsons , Markus Gaug , Raquel de los Reyes

Studies of the nature of the low-energy, gamma-like background for Cherenkov Telescope Array

The upcoming Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) project is expected to provide unprecedented sensitivity in the low-energy ( <~100 GeV) range for Cherenkov telescopes. In order to exploit fully the potential of the telescopes the standard…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 Julian Sitarek , Dorota Sobczyńska , Michał Szanecki , Katarzyna Adamczyk

Design Concepts for the Cherenkov Telescope Array

Ground-based gamma-ray astronomy has had a major breakthrough with the impressive results obtained using systems of imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes. Ground-based gamma-ray astronomy has a huge potential in astrophysics, particle…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2012-04-13 The CTA Consortium

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

Monte Carlo Performance Studies for the Site Selection of the Cherenkov Telescope Array

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) represents the next generation of ground-based instruments for very-high-energy (VHE) gamma-ray astronomy, aimed at improving on the sensitivity of current-generation experiments by an order of magnitude…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-05 T. Hassan , L. Arrabito , K. Bernlöhr , J. Bregeon , J. Cortina , P. Cumani , F. Di Pierro , D. Falceta-Goncalves , R. G. Lang , J. Hinton , T. Jogler , G. Maier , A. Moralejo , A. Morselli , C. J. Todero Peixoto , M. Wood

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

The Cherenkov Telescope Array: Science Goals and Current Status

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is the major ground-based gamma-ray observatory planned for the next decade and beyond. Consisting of two large atmospheric Cherenkov telescope arrays (one in the southern hemisphere and one in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-06-12 The CTA Consortium , represented by Rene A. Ong

The Gamma-ray Cherenkov Telescope for the Cherenkov Telescope Array

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is a forthcoming ground-based observatory for very-high-energy gamma rays. CTA will consist of two arrays of imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes in the Northern and Southern hemispheres, and will…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-07-26 L. Tibaldo , A. Abchiche , D. Allan , J. -P. Amans , T. P. Armstrong , A. Balzer , D. Berge , C. Boisson , J. -J. Bousquet , A. M. Brown , M. Bryan , G. Buchholtz , P. M. Chadwick , H. Costantini , G. Cotter , M. K. Daniel , A. De Franco , F. De Frondat , J. -L. Dournaux , D. Dumas , J. -P. Ernenwein , G. Fasola , S. Funk , J. Gironnet , J. A. Graham , T. Greenshaw , O. Hervet , N. Hidaka , J. A. Hinton , J. -M. Huet , D. Jankowsky , I. Jegouzo , T. Jogler , M. Kraus , J. S. Lapington , P. Laporte , J. Lefaucheur , S. Markoff , T. Melse , L. Mohrmann , P. Molyneux , S. J. Nolan , A. Okumura , J. P. Osborne , R. D. Parsons , S. Rosen , D. Ross , G. Rowell , C. B. Rulten , Y. Sato , F. Sayede , J. Schmoll , H. Schoorlemmer , M. Servillat , H. Sol , V. Stamatescu , M. Stephan , R. Stuik , J. Sykes , H. Tajima , J. Thornhill , C. Trichard , J. Vink , J. J. Watson , R. White , N. Yamane , A. Zech , A. Zink , J. Zorn , the CTA Consortium

Sensitivity of CTA to dark matter signals from the Galactic Center

(abridged) The Galactic Center is one of the most promising targets for indirect detection of dark matter with gamma rays. We investigate the sensitivity of the upcoming Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) to dark matter annihilation and decay…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-18 Mathias Pierre , Jennifer M. Siegal-Gaskins , Pat Scott