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Approximately one hundred sources of very-high-energy (VHE) gamma rays are known in the Milky Way. A survey of the entire Galactic Plane in the energy range from a few tens of GeV to a few hundred TeV has been proposed as a Key Science…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-10-28 CTA Consortium

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is the next generation observatory for the study of very high-energy gamma rays from about 20 GeV up to 300 TeV. Thanks to the large effective area and field of view, the CTA observatory will be…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 Andrea Zoli , Andrea Bulgarelli , Adriano De Rosa , Alessio Aboudan , Valentina Fioretti , Giovanni De Cesare , Ramin Marx

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 Telescopes Array (CTA) is planned as the future instrument for very-high-energy (VHE) gamma-ray astronomy with a wide energy range of four orders of magnitude and an improvement in sensitivity compared to current instruments…

The recent addition of the 28 m Cherenkov telescope (CT5) to the H.E.S.S. array extended the experiment's sensitivity towards low energies. The lowest energy threshold is obtained using monoscopic observations with CT5, providing access to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 Dmitry Zaborov , Carlo Romoli , Andrew M. Taylor , Jean-Philippe Lenain , David Sanchez , Robert D. Parsons

X-ray selected BL Lac objects dominate the population of extragalactic sources detected in the very high energy (VHE; photon energies >100GeV) gamma-ray regime with ground-based Cherenkov Telescopes. These are not the only extragalactic VHE…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 L. Stawarz

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 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

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) will be the world's first observatory for detecting gamma-rays from astrophysical phenomena and is now in its prototyping phase with construction expected to begin in 2015/16. In this work we present the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 Cameron B. Rulten , Sam J. Nolan

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is the next generation facility of Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes. It will reach unprecedented sensitivity and energy resolution in very-high-energy gamma-ray astronomy. CTA will detect…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 M. Doro , M. Daniel , R. de los Reyes , M. Gaug , M. C. Maccarone

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

Over the last three decades, the ground-based technique of imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes has established itself as a powerful scientific discipline. About 250 very high gamma-ray sources of both galactic and extragalactic origin…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-18 Razmik Mirzoyan

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…

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is the future large observatory in the very high energy (VHE) domain. Operating from 20 GeV to 300 TeV, it will be composed of tens of Imaging Air Cherenkov Telescopes (IACTs) displaced in a large area of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-18 Valentina Fioretti , Andrea Bulgarelli , Fabian Schussler

We perform simulations for future Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) observations of RX~J1713.7$-$3946, a young supernova remnant (SNR) and one of the brightest sources ever discovered in very-high-energy (VHE) gamma rays. Special attention is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-01-30 The CTA Consortium , : , F. Acero , R. Aloisio , J. Amans , E. Amato , L. A. Antonelli , C. Aramo , T. Armstrong , F. Arqueros , K. Asano , M. Ashley , M. Backes , C. Balazs , A. Balzer , A. Bamba , M. Barkov , J. A. Barrio , W. Benbow , K. Bernlöhr , V. Beshley , C. Bigongiari , A. Biland , A. Bilinsky , E. Bissaldi , J. Biteau , O. Blanch , P. Blasi , J. Blazek , C. Boisson , G. Bonanno , A. Bonardi , C. Bonavolontà , G. Bonnoli , C. Braiding , S. Brau-Nogué , J. Bregeon , A. M. Brown , V. Bugaev , A. Bulgarelli , T. Bulik , M. Burton , A. Burtovoi , G. Busetto , M. Böttcher , R. Cameron , M. Capalbi , A. Caproni , P. Caraveo , R. Carosi , E. Cascone , M. Cerruti , S. Chaty , A. Chen , X. Chen , M. Chernyakova , M. Chikawa , J. Chudoba , J. Cohen-Tanugi , S. Colafrancesco , V. Conforti , J. L. Contreras , A. Costa , G. Cotter , S. Covino , G. Covone , P. Cumani , G. Cusumano , F. D'Ammando , D. D'Urso , M. Daniel , F. 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Wojcik , T. Yamamoto , H. Yamamoto , R. Yamazaki , S. Yanagita , L. Yang , T. Yoshida , M. Yoshida , S. Yoshiike , T. Yoshikoshi , M. Zacharias , L. Zampieri , R. Zanin , M. Zavrtanik , D. Zavrtanik , A. Zdziarski , A. Zech , H. Zechlin , V. Zhdanov , A. Ziegler , J. Zorn

Several types of Galactic sources, like magnetars, microquasars, novae or pulsar wind nebulae flares, display transient emission in the X-ray band. Some of these sources have also shown emission at MeV--GeV energies. However, none of these…

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

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

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is a large collaborative effort aimed at the design and operation of an observatory dedicated to the VHE gamma-ray astrophysics in the energy range 30 GeV-100 TeV, which will improve by about one order of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 Stefano Vercellone