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Monte Carlo design studies for the Cherenkov Telescope Array

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…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 K. Bernlöhr , A. Barnacka , Y. Becherini , O. Blanch Bigas , E. Carmona , P. Colin , G. Decerprit , F. Di Pierro , F. Dubois , C. Farnier , S. Funk , G. Hermann , J. A. Hinton , T. B. Humensky , B. Khélifi , T. Kihm , N. Komin , J. -P. Lenain , G. Maier , D. Mazin , M. C. Medina , A. Moralejo , 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 , T. Yoshikoshi , A. Zech

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

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

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

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 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

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: 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

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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Trichard , G. Umana , V. Vagelli , M. Valentino , B. Vallage , P. Vallania , L. Valore , J. Vandenbroucke , G. S. Varner , G. Vasileiadis , V. Vassiliev , M. Vázquez Acosta , M. Vecchi , S. Vercellone , S. Vergani , G. P. Vettolani , A. Viana , C. F. Vigorito , J. Vink , V. Vitale , H. Voelk , A. Vollhardt , S. Vorobiov , S. J. Wagner , R. Walter , F. Werner , R. White , A. Wierzcholska , M. Will , D. A. Williams , R. Wischnewski , L. Yang , T. Yoshida , T. Yoshikoshi , M. Zacharias , L. Zampieri , M. Zavrtanik , D. Zavrtanik , A. A. Zdziarski , A. Zech , H. Zechlin , A. Zenin , V. I. Zhdanov , S. Zimmer , J. Zorn

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

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

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

Towards a Flexible Array Control and Operation Framework for CTA

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) \cite{CTA:2010} will be the successor to current Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes (IACT) like H.E.S.S., MAGIC and VERITAS. CTA will improve in sensitivity by about an order of magnitude compared…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 E. Birsin , J. Colomé , D. Hoffmann , H. Koeppel , G. Lamanna , T. Le Flour , A. Lopatin , E. Lyard , D. Melkumyan , I. Oya , J-L. Panazol , S. Schlenstedt , T. Schmidt , U. Schwanke , R. Walter , P. Wegner

Building Medium Size Telescope Structures for the Cherenkov Telescope Array

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is the future instrument in ground-based gamma-ray astronomy in the energy range from 20 GeV to 300 TeV. Its sensitivity will surpass that of current generation experiments by a factor $\sim$10,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-09 A. Schulz , M. Garczarczyk , L. Oakes , S. Schlenstedt , U. Schwanke , the CTA Consortium

Cherenkov Telescope Array Science: Multi-wavelength and multi-messenger perspectives

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) will be the major global observatory for VHE gamma-ray astronomy over the next decade and beyond. It will be an explorer of the extreme universe, with a broad scientific potential: from understanding the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-07-22 Ulisses Barres de Almeida

Cherenkov Telescope Array Status Report

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) will be the next generation of ground based gamma-ray telescopes allowing us to study very high energy phenomena in the Universe. CTA aims to gain about a factor of ten in sensitivity compared to current…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-05-23 S. Mangano

Mirror Development for the Cherenkov Telescope Array

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is a planned observatory for very-high energy gamma-ray astronomy. It will consist of several tens of telescopes of different sizes, with a total mirror area of up to 10,000 square meters. Most mirrors of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-16 A. Förster , T. Armstrong , H. Baba , J. Bähr , A. Bonardi , G. Bonnoli , P. Brun , R. Canestrari , P. Chadwick , M. Chikawa , P. -H. Carton , V. De Souza , J. Dipold , M. Doro , D. Durand , M. Dyrda , E. Giro , J. -F. Glicenstein , Y. Hanabata , M. Hayashida , M. Hrabovski , C. Jeanney , M. Kagaya , H. Katagiri , L. Lessio , D. MANDAT , M. Mariotti , C. Medina , J. Michałowski , P. Micolon , D. Nakajima , J. Niemiec , A. Nozato , M. Palatka , G. Pareschi , M. Pech , B. Peyaud , G. Pühlhofer , M. Rataj , G. Rodeghiero , G. Rojas , J. Rousselle , R. Sakonaka , P. Schovanek , K. Seweryn , C. Schultz , S. Shu , F. Stinzing , M. Stodulski , M. Teshima , P. Travniczek , C. Van Eldik , V. Vassiliev , Ł. Wiśniewski , A. Wörnlein , T. Yoshida

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

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