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Very high energy (VHE, i.e. $\gtrsim 10$ GeV) photons from Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs), as high as 90 GeV in rest frame energy, have been detected by the $Fermi$ Large Area Telescope (LAT). This provides hope for a high statistics GRB detection…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-09-27 Aurelien Bouvier , Rudy Gilmore , Valerie Connaughton , Nepomuk Otte , Joel R. Primack , David A. Williams

Molecular clouds act as primary targets for cosmic-ray interactions and are expected to shine in gamma-rays as a by-product of these interactions. Indeed several detected gamma-ray sources both in HE and VHE gamma-rays (HE: 100 MeV < E <…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 G. Pedaletti , D. F. Torres , S. Gabici , E. de Oña Wilhelmi , D. Mazin , V. Stamatescu

We discuss the prospects for the detection of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) by the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA), the next generation, ground-based facility of imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes (IACTs) operating above a few tens of GeV.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-03 Jun Kakuwa , Kohta Murase , Kenji Toma , Susumu Inoue , Ryo Yamazaki , Kunihito Ioka

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

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…

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

Very high energy gamma-ray observations of distant active galactic nuclei (AGN) generally result in higher fluxes and harder spectra than expected, resulting in some tension with the level of the extragalactic background light (EBL). If…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-19 Jonathan Harris , Paula M. Chadwick

The recently identified source class of pulsar halos may be populated and bright enough at TeV energies to constitute a large fraction of the sources that will be observed with the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA), especially in the context…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-10-03 Christopher Eckner

Several projects planned or proposed can significantly expand our knowledge of the high-energy Universe in gamma rays. Construction of the Cherenkov telescope array CTA is started, and other detectors are planned which will use the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-27 Alesandro De Angelis

High-energy gamma rays are promising tools to constrain or reveal the nature of dark matter, in particular Weakly Interacting Massive Particles. Being well into its pre-construction phase, the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) will soon probe…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-08-23 Christopher Eckner

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

Several types of binary systems have been detected up to now at high and very high gamma-ray energies, including microquasars, young pulsars around massive stars and colliding wind binaries. The study of the sources already known, and of…

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is designed to be the next major observatory operating in the Very High Energy (VHE, $\gtrsim 100$ GeV) gamma-ray band. It will build on the imaging atmospheric Cherenkov technique but will go much…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-02-07 M. G. Bernardini

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) will be the next generation instrument for the very high energy gamma-ray astrophysics domain. With its enhanced sensitivity in comparison with the current facilities, CTA is expected to shed light on a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-01-08 Enrique Mestre , Emma de Oña Wilhelmi , Roberta Zanin , Diego F. Torres , Luigi Tibaldo

Ground-based gamma-ray astronomy has experienced a major breakthrough in the last decade thanks to the advent of new generation instruments such as H.E.S.S., MAGIC, Milagro and VERITAS. A large variety of cosmic particle accelerators has…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-10-11 Jürgen Knödlseder

The next generation of Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov telescope, like CTA, is going to strongly improve the detection capability of high-energy cosmic rays. In our paper we discuss the possibility to use such apparatus to detect…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-07-28 Damiano F. G. Fiorillo , Gennaro Miele , Ofelia Pisanti

Several observations are revealing the widespread occurrence of mildly relativistic wide-angle AGN winds strongly interacting with the gas of their host galaxy. Such winds are potential cosmic-ray accelerators, as supported by gamma-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-04-18 Alessandra Lamastra , Fabrizio Tavecchio , Patrizia Romano , Marco Landoni , Stefano Vercellone

Disentangling the composition of the diffuse gamma-ray background (DGRB) is a major challenge in gamma-ray astronomy. It is presumed that at the highest energies, the DGRB is dominated by relatively few, still unresolved point sources. This…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-07-01 Moritz Hütten , Gernot Maier

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) will provide very-high-energy (VHE; >~30 GeV) gamma-ray spectra of unprecedented resolution over a large energy range. It is likely that, at least for bright sources, spectral features will be revealed…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 A. Zech , M. Cerruti

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