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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

Progress in Monte Carlo design and optimization of the Cherenkov Telescope Array

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) will be an instrument covering a wide energy range in very-high-energy (VHE) gamma rays. CTA will include several types of telescopes, in order to optimize the performance over the whole energy range.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 K. Bernlöhr , A. Barnacka , Y. Becherini , O. Blanch Bigas , A. Bouvier , E. Carmona , P. Colin , G. Decerprit , F. Di Pierro , F. Dubois , C. Farnier , S. Funk , G. Hermann , J. A. Hinton , T. B. Humensky , T. Jogler , B. Khélifi , T. Kihm , N. Komin , J. -P. Lenain , R. López-Coto , G. Maier , D. Mazin , M. C. Medina , A. Moralejo , R. Moderski , S. J. Nolan , S. Ohm , E. de Oña Wilhelmi , R. D. Parsons , M. Paz Arribas , G. Pedaletti , S. Pita , H. Prokoph , C. B. Rulten , U. Schwanke , M. Shayduk , V. Stamatescu , P. Vallania , S. Vorobiov , R. Wischnewski , M. Wood , T. Yoshikoshi , 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

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

Layout design studies for medium-sized telescopes within the Cherenkov Telescope Array

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is an international project for a next-generation ground-based gamma-ray observatory. CTA, conceived as an array of tens of imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes, comprising small, medium and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 T. Hassan , B. Humensky , D. Nieto , M. Wood

Monte Carlo studies for the optimisation of the Cherenkov Telescope Array layout

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is the major next-generation observatory for ground-based very-high-energy gamma-ray astronomy. It will improve the sensitivity of current ground-based instruments by a factor of five to twenty, depending…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-17 A. Acharyya , I. Agudo , E. O. Angüner , R. Alfaro , J. Alfaro , C. Alispach , R. Aloisio , R. Alves Batista , J. -P. Amans , L. Amati , E. Amato , G. Ambrosi , L. A. Antonelli , C. Aramo , T. Armstrong , F. Arqueros , L. Arrabito , K. Asano , H. Ashkar , C. Balazs , M. Balbo , B. Balmaverde , P. Barai , A. Barbano , M. Barkov , U. Barres de Almeida , J. A. Barrio , D. Bastieri , J. Becerra González , J. Becker Tjus , L. Bellizzi , W. Benbow , E. Bernardini , M. I. Bernardos , K. Bernlöhr , A. Berti , M. Berton , B. Bertucci , V. Beshley , B. Biasuzzi , C. Bigongiari , R. Bird , E. Bissaldi , J. Biteau , O. Blanch , J. Blazek , C. Boisson , G. Bonanno , A. Bonardi , C. Bonavolontà , G. Bonnoli , P. Bordas , M. Böttcher , J. Bregeon , A. Brill , A. M. Brown , K. Brügge , P. Brun , P. Bruno , A. Bulgarelli , T. Bulik , M. Burton , A. Burtovoi , G. Busetto , R. Cameron , R. Canestrari , M. Capalbi , A. Caproni , R. Capuzzo-Dolcetta , P. Caraveo , S. Caroff , R. Carosi , S. Casanova , E. Cascone , F. Cassol , F. Catalani , O. Catalano , D. Cauz , M. Cerruti , S. Chaty , A. Chen , M. Chernyakova , G. Chiaro , M. Cieślar , S. M. Colak , V. Conforti , E. Congiu , J. L. Contreras , J. Cortina , A. Costa , H. Costantini , G. Cotter , P. Cristofari , P. Cumani , G. Cusumano , A. D'Aì , F. D'Ammando , L. Dangeon , P. Da Vela , F. Dazzi , A. De Angelis , V. De Caprio , R. de Cássia dos Anjos , F. De Frondat , E. M. de Gouveia Dal Pino , B. De Lotto , D. De Martino , M. de Naurois , E. de Oña Wilhelmi , F. de Palma , V. de Souza , M. Del Santo , C. Delgado , D. della Volpe , T. Di Girolamo , F. Di Pierro , L. Di Venere , C. Díaz , S. Diebold , A. Djannati-Ataï , A. Dmytriiev , D. Dominis Prester , A. Donini , D. Dorner , M. Doro , J. -L. Dournaux , J. Ebr , T. R. N. Ekoume , D. Elsässer , G. Emery , D. Falceta-Goncalves , E. Fedorova , S. Fegan , Q. Feng , G. Ferrand , E. Fiandrini , A. Fiasson , M. Filipovic , V. Fioretti , M. Fiori , S. Flis , M. V. Fonseca , G. Fontaine , L. Freixas Coromina , S. Fukami , Y. Fukui , S. Funk , M. Füßling , D. Gaggero , G. Galanti , R. J. Garcia López , M. Garczarczyk , D. Gascon , T. Gasparetto , M. Gaug , A. Ghalumyan , F. Gianotti , G. Giavitto , N. Giglietto , F. Giordano , M. Giroletti , J. Gironnet , J. -F. Glicenstein , R. Gnatyk , P. Goldoni , J. M. González , M. M. González , K. N. Gourgouliatos , T. Grabarczyk , J. Granot , D. Green , T. Greenshaw , M. -H. Grondin , O. Gueta , D. Hadasch , T. Hassan , M. Hayashida , M. Heller , O. Hervet , J. Hinton , N. Hiroshima , B. Hnatyk , W. Hofmann , P. Horvath , M. Hrabovsky , D. Hrupec , T. B. Humensky , M. Hütten , T. Inada , F. Iocco , M. Ionica , M. Iori , Y. Iwamura , M. Jamrozy , P. Janecek , D. Jankowsky , P. Jean , L. Jouvin , J. Jurysek , P. Kaaret , L. H. S. Kadowaki , S. Karkar , D. Kerszberg , B. Khélifi , D. Kieda , S. Kimeswenger , W. Kluźniak , J. Knapp , J. Knödlseder , Y. Kobayashi , B. Koch , J. Kocot , N. Komin , A. Kong , G. Kowal , M. Krause , H. Kubo , J. Kushida , P. Kushwaha , V. La Parola , G. La Rosa , M. Lallena Arquillo , R. G. Lang , J. Lapington , O. Le Blanc , J. Lefaucheur , M. A. Leigui de Oliveira , M. Lemoine-Goumard , J. -P. Lenain , G. Leto , R. Lico , E. Lindfors , T. Lohse , S. Lombardi , F. Longo , A. Lopez , M. López , A. Lopez-Oramas , R. López-Coto , S. Loporchio , P. L. Luque-Escamilla , E. Lyard , M. C. Maccarone , E. Mach , C. Maggio , P. Majumdar , G. Malaguti , M. Mallamaci , D. Mandat , G. Maneva , M. Manganaro , S. Mangano , M. Marculewicz , M. Mariotti , J. Martí , M. Martínez , G. Martínez , H. Martínez-Huerta , S. Masuda , N. Maxted , D. Mazin , J. -L. Meunier , M. Meyer , S. Micanovic , R. Millul , I. A. Minaya , A. Mitchell , T. Mizuno , R. Moderski , L. Mohrmann , T. Montaruli , A. Moralejo , D. Morcuende , G. Morlino , A. Morselli , E. Moulin , R. Mukherjee , P. Munar , C. Mundell , T. Murach , A. Nagai , T. Nagayoshi , T. Naito , T. Nakamori , R. Nemmen , J. Niemiec , D. Nieto , M. Nievas Rosillo , M. Nikołajuk , D. Ninci , K. Nishijima , K. Noda , D. Nosek , M. Nöthe , S. Nozaki , M. Ohishi , Y. Ohtani , A. Okumura , R. A. Ong , M. Orienti , R. Orito , M. Ostrowski , N. Otte , Z. Ou , I. Oya , A. Pagliaro , M. Palatiello , M. Palatka , R. Paoletti , J. M. Paredes , G. Pareschi , N. Parmiggiani , R. D. Parsons , B. Patricelli , A. Pe'er , M. Pech , P. Peñil Del Campo , J. Pérez-Romero , M. Perri , M. Persic , P. -O. Petrucci , O. Petruk , K. Pfrang , Q. Piel , E. Pietropaolo , M. Pohl , M. Polo , J. Poutanen , E. Prandini , N. Produit , H. Prokoph , M. Prouza , H. Przybilski , G. Pühlhofer , M. Punch , F. Queiroz , A. Quirrenbach , S. Rainò , R. Rando , S. Razzaque , O. Reimer , N. Renault-Tinacci , Y. Renier , D. Ribeiro , M. Ribó , J. Rico , F. Rieger , V. Rizi , G. Rodriguez Fernandez , J. C. Rodriguez-Ramirez , J. J. Rodríguez Vázquez , P. Romano , G. Romeo , M. Roncadelli , J. 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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

Monte Carlo comparison of medium-size telescope designs for the Cherenkov Telescope Array

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 existing…

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

Monte Carlo comparison of mid-size telescope designs for the Cherenkov Telescope Array

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

The Cherenkov Telescope Array: layout, design and performance

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) will be the next generation very-high-energy gamma-ray observatory. CTA is expected to provide substantial improvement in accuracy and sensitivity with respect to existing instruments thanks to a tenfold…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-23 Orel Gueta

CTA simulations with CORSIKA/sim_telarray

While current atmospheric Cherenkov installations consist of only a few telescopes each, future installations will be far more complex. Monte Carlo simulations have become an essential tool for the design and optimisation of such…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Konrad Bernloehr

Monte Carlo Studies of medium-size telescope designs for the Cherenkov Telescope Array

We present studies for optimizing the next generation of ground-based imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes (IACTs). Results focus on mid-sized telescopes (MSTs) for CTA, detecting very high energy gamma rays in the energy range from a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-07-15 M. Wood , T. Jogler , J. Dumm , S. Funk

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

Studies towards an understanding of global array pointing for the Cherenkov Telescope Array

For the proposed Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA), a post-calibration point-source location accuracy of 3 seconds of arc is aimed for under favorable observing conditions and for gamma-ray energies exceeding 100 GeV. In this contribution,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-08 Stefan Eschbach , Alexander Ziegler , Christopher van Eldik , Johannes Veh , David Berge , Markus Gaug

The CTA Observatory

In recent years, ground-based very-high-energy (VHE; E>100 GeV) gamma-ray astronomy has experienced a major breakthrough with the impressive astrophysical results obtained mainly by the current generation experiments like H.E.S.S., MAGIC,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 R. M. Wagner , E. J. Lindfors , A. Sillanpää , S. Wagner

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

Contributions from the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) Consortium to the ICRC 2011

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is a project for the construction of a next generation VHE gamma ray observatory with full sky coverage. Its aim is improving by about one order of magnitude the sensitivity of the existing installations,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2011-11-10 The CTA Consortium

Baseline telescope layouts of the Cherenkov Telescope Array

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) will be the next generation of ground-based instrument for Very High Energy gamma-ray astronomy. It will improve the sensitivity of current telescopes by up to an order of magnitude and provide energy…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-04 P. Cumani , T. Hassan , L. Arrabito , K. Bernlöhr , J. Bregeon , G. Maier , A. Moralejo

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

A Condition Monitoring Concept Studied at the MST Prototype for the Cherenkov Telescope Array

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is a future ground-based gamma-ray observatory that will provide unprecedented sensitivity and angular resolution for the detection of gamma rays with energies above a few tens of GeV. In comparison to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-07 Victor Barbosa Martins , Markus Garczarczyk , Gerrit Spengler , Ullrich Schwanke