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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

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is the next generation ground-based observatory for gamma-ray astronomy at very-high energies. It will be capable of detecting gamma rays in the energy range from 20 GeV to more than 300 TeV with…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-22 Daniel Mazin

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.…

A Silicon Photomultiplier (SiPM)-based photodetector is being built to demonstrate its feasibility for an alternative silicon-based camera design for the Large Size Telescope (LST) of the Cherenkov Telescope Array. It has been designed to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-29 M. Mallamaci , B. Baibussinov , G. Busetto , D. Corti , A. De Angelis , F. Di Pierro , M. Doro , L. Lessio , M. Mariotti , E. Prandini , R. Rando , P. Vallania , C. F. Vigorito

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 GCT is an innovative dual-mirror solution proposed for the small-size telescopes for CTA, capable of imaging primary cosmic gamma-rays from below a TeV to hundreds of TeV. The reduced plate scale resulting from the secondary optics…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 Thomas Armstrong , Heide Costantini , Cameron Rulten , Victor Stamatescu , Andreas Zech

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

A Large Size air Cherenkov Telescope (LST) prototype, proposed for the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA), is under construction at the Canary Island of La Palma (Spain) this year. The LST camera, which comprises an array of about 500…

We investigate the prospects for detection of neutralino dark matter in the 19-parameter phenomenological MSSM (pMSSM). We explore very wide ranges of the pMSSM parameters but pay particular attention to the higgsino-like neutralino at the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-02-10 Leszek Roszkowski , Enrico Maria Sessolo , Andrew J. Williams

It is anticipated that the forthcoming Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) will include a number of medium-sized telescopes that are constructed using a dual-mirror Schwarzschild-Couder configuration. These telescopes will sample a wide…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-07 Hugh Dickinson , Frank Krennrich , Amanda Weinstein

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 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 Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) will have a unique chance of discovery for a large range of masses in Weakly Interacting Massive Particles models of dark matter. The principal target for dark matter searches with CTA is the centre of…

The Cherenkov Telescope Array is the main global project of ground-based gamma-ray astronomy for the coming decades. Performance will be significantly improved relative to present instruments, allowing a new insight into the high-energy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-09-27 Sol , H. , Greenshaw , T. , Le Blanc , O. , White , R

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…

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is the next generation of Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes. It would reach unprecedented sensitivity and energy resolution in very-high-energy gamma-ray astronomy. In order to reach these goals,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-15 M. Doro , M. Gaug , J. Pallotta , G. Vasileiadis , O. Blanch , F. Chouza , R. D'Elia , A. Etchegoyen , Ll. Font , D. Garrido , F. Gonzales , A. López-Oramas , M. Martínez , L. Otero , E. Quel , P. Ristori

The pointing system of the prototype of the Large Size Telescope (LST-1) for the Cherenkov Telescope Array observatory, should ensure mapping of the gamma-ray image of a point-like source in the Cherenkov camera to the sky coordinates with…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-06 Darko Zarić , Stefan Cikota , Armand Fiasson , Nikola Godinović , Koji Noda , Robert Wagner , Martin Will , Quentin Piel

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

The FlashCam group is currently preparing photomultiplier-tube based cameras proposed for the medium-sized telescopes (MST) of the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA). The cameras are designed around the FlashCam readout concept which is the…