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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 Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is the next-generation gamma-ray observatory that is expected to reach one order of magnitude better sensitivity than that of current telescope arrays. The Large-Sized Telescopes (LSTs) have an essential…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-23 Yukiho Kobayashi , Akira Okumura , Franca Cassol , Hideaki Katagiri , Julian Sitarek , Paweł Gliwny , Seiya Nozaki , Yuto Nogami

We compute the sensitivity to dark matter annihilations for the forthcoming large Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) in several primary channels and over a range of dark matter masses from 30 GeV up to 80 TeV. For all channels, we include…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-29 Valentin Lefranc , Emmanuel Moulin , Paolo Panci , Joseph Silk

The Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Technique (IACT) is unusual in astronomy as the atmosphere actually forms an intrinsic part of the detector system, with telescopes indirectly detecting very high energy particles by the generation and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 M. K. Daniel

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 the next generation ground based observatory for gamma ray astronomy at very high energies. Employing more than 100 Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes in the northern and southern hemispheres, it…

The site selection group for the future Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) has deployed sensitive light sensors at 9 candidate sites, 5 of them in the Southern and 4 in the Northern hemisphere. The sensors are equipped with a PIN diode and a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 Markus Gaug

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) will perform a survey of the whole Galactic disk with unprecedented sensitivity at energies up to 300 TeV. One of the key science projects of the CTA consortium is the discovery of Galactic PeVatrons…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-09-19 C. Trichard

High energy gamma-ray astronomy is a newly emerging and very successful branch of astronomy and astrophysics. Exciting results have been obtained by the current generation Cherenkov telescope systems such as H.E.S.S., MAGIC, VERITAS and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 G. Hermann , W. Hofmann , T. Schweizer , M. Teshima

The small size telescopes (SSTs), spread over an area of several square km, dominate the CTA sensitivity in the photon energy range from a few TeV to over 100 TeV, enabling for the detailed exploration of the very high energy gamma-ray sky.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-27 Teresa Montaruli , Giovanni Pareschi , Tim Greenshaw

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is the next-generation ground-based observatory for very-high energy gamma-ray astronomy. CTA will have unparalleled sensitivity and angular resolution and will detect gamma-ray sources nearly 100 times…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-07 Leslie Taylor

The discovery of gravitational waves, high-energy neutrinos or the very-high-energy counterpart of gamma-ray bursts has revolutionized the high-energy and transient astrophysics community. The development of new instruments and analysis…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-06-09 Ž. Bošnjak , A. M. Brown , A. Carosi , M. Chernyakova , P. Cristofari , F. Longo , A. López-Oramas , M. Santander , K. Satalecka , F. Schüssler , O. Sergijenko , A. Stamerra , I. Agudo , R. Alves Batista , E. Amato , E. O. Anguner , L. A. Antonelli , M. Backes , Csaba Balazs , L. Baroncelli , J. Becker Tjus , C. Bigongiari , E. Bissaldi , C. Boisson , J. Bolmont , M. Böttcher , P. Bordas , C. Braiding , J. Bregeon , N. Bucciantini , A. Bulgarelli , M. Burton , F. Cangemi , P. Caraveo , M. Cardillo , S. Caroff , S. Casanova , S. Chaty , J. G. Coelho , G. Cotter , A. D'Aì , F. D'Ammando , E. M. de Gouveia Dal Pino , D. della Volpe , D. de Martino , T. Di Girolamo , A. Di Piano , A. Djannati-Ataï , V. Dwarkadas , E. de Ona Wilhelmi , R. C. Dos Anjos , G. Emery , E. Fedorova , S. Fegan , A. Fiasson , V. Fioretti , M. D. Filipovic , D. Gaggero , G. Galanti , D. Gasparrini , G. Ghirlanda , P. Goldoni , J. Granot , J. G. Green , M. Heller , B. Hnatyk , R. Hnatyk , D. Horan , T. Hovatta , S. Inoue , M. Jamrozy , D. Kantzas , B. Khélifi , N. Komin , A. Lamastra , N. La Palombara , J. P. Lenain , E. Lindfors , I. Liodakis , S. Lombardi , F. Lucarelli , P. L. Luque-Escamilla , P. Majumdar , A. Marcowith , S. Markoff , J. Marti , M. Martinez , D. Mazin , S. McKeague , S. Mereghetti , E. Mestre , T. Montaruli , G. Morlino , A. Morselli , C. Mundell , T. Murach , L. Nava , A. Nayerhoda , L. Nicastro , J. Niemiec , M. Nikolajuk , B. Olmi , R. Ong , M. Orienti , J. P. Osborne , Josep M. Paredes , G. Pareschi , N. Parmiggiani , B. Patricelli , A. Pe'er , G. Piano , G. Pühlhofer , M. Punch , O. Reimer , M. Ribó , G. Rodriguez , J. Rodriguez , P. Romano , G. Romeo , M. Roncadelli , G. Rowell , B. Rudak , I. Sadeh , F. Salesa Greus , F. G. Saturni , U. Sawangwit , M. Seglar-Arroyo , R. C. Shellard , H. Sol , R. Starling , T. Stolarczyk , G. Tagliaferri , F. Tavecchio , L. Tibaldo , V. Testa , S. Vercellone , A. Viana , J. Vink , V. Vitale , S. D. Vergani , S. Vorobiov , A. Wierzcholska , L. Yang , D. Zavrtanik , V. Zhdanov

The amount of scientific data to be transmitted from deep-space probes is very limited due to RF-communications constraints. Free-space optical communication can alleviate this bottleneck, increasing data rate while reducing weight, mass…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-02 Alberto Carrasco-Casado , Jose Manuel Sanchez-Pena , Ricardo Vergaz

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) observatory, will be deployed over two sites in the two hemispheres. Both sites will be equipped with four Large Size Telescopes (LSTs), which are crucial to achieve the science goals of CTA in the 20-200…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 J. Cortina , M. Teshima

The Gamma-ray Cherenkov Telescope (GCT) is one of the Small Size Telescopes (SSTs) proposed for the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) aimed at the 1 TeV to 300 TeV energy range. GCT will be equipped with a Compact High-Energy Camera (CHEC)…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 Richard White , Harm Schoorlemmer

The galactic and extragalactic surveys are two of the main proposed legacy projects of the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA), providing an unbiased view of the Universe at energies above tens of GeV. Considering Cherenkov telescopes' limited…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 Lucie Gérard

The atmospheric monitoring devices for the planned calibration system of the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) are undergoing intensive development, prototyping and testing. The All-Sky Cameras, the Sun/Moon Photometers and the FRAM…

Composite mirrors for gamma-ray astronomy have been developed to fulfill the specifications required for the next generation of Cherenkov telescopes represented by CTA (Cherenkov Telescope Array). In addition to the basic requirements on…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 P. Brun , P. -H. Carton , D. Durand , J-F. Glicenstein , C. Jeanney , M. C. Medina , P. Micolon , B. Peyaud

Once completed, the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) will be able to map the gamma-ray sky in a wide energy range from several tens of GeV to some hundreds of TeV and will be more sensitive than previous experiments by an order of magnitude.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-05 Kai Brügge , Alexey Egorov , Christian Bockermann , Katharina Morik , Wolfgang Rhode