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The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is planned to be the next generation ground based observatory for very high energy (VHE) gamma-ray astronomy. Gamma-rays provide a powerful insight into the non-thermal universe and hopefully a unique…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-28 Ciro Bigongiari

A peculiar aspect of Cherenkov telescopes is that they are designed to detect atmospheric light flashes on the time scale of nanoseconds, being almost blind to stellar sources. As a consequence, the pointing calibration of these instruments…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-05 Simone Iovenitti , Giorgia Sironi , Enrico Giro , Alberto Segreto , Osvaldo Catalano , Milvia Capalbi

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is a future ground-based observatory (with two locations, in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres) that will be used in the study of the very-high-energy gamma-ray sky. CTA observations will be proposed…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 John E. Ward , Javier Rico , Tarek Hassan

The NectarCAM is a camera that will be mounted on the Medium-Sized Telescopes of the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) observatory. Along with the hardware integration of the camera, the scientific software, $\texttt{nectarchain}$, is being…

Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes (IACTs) need imaging optics with large apertures to map the faint Cherenkov light emitted in extensive air showers onto their image sensors. Segmented reflectors fulfill these needs using mass…

Determination of the energy and flux of the gamma photons by Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Technique is strongly dependent on optical properties of the atmosphere. Therefore, atmospheric monitoring during the future observations of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-01-22 Jakub Juryšek , Michael Prouza

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

NectarCAM is a Cherenkov camera which is going to equip the Medium-Sized Telescopes (MST) of the northern site of the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO). NectarCAM is equipped with 265 modules, each consisting of 7…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-29 F. Bradascio , H. Rueda , J. A. Barrio , J. Biteau , F. Brun , C. Champion , J-F. Glicenstein , D. Hoffmann , P. Jean , J. P. Lenain , F. Louis , A. Pérez , M. Punch , P. Sizun , K. -H. Sulanke , L. A. Tejedor , B. Vallage

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is the planned next-generation instrument for ground-based gamma-ray astronomy, currently under preparation by a world-wide consortium. The FlashCam group is preparing a photomultiplier-based camera for…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-09 F. Eisenkolb , S. Diebold , C. Kalkuhl , G. Pühlhofer , A. Santangelo , T. Schanz , C. Tenzer , the FlashCam team , the CTA consortium

Purpose: Cherenkov radiation carries the potential of direct in-water dose measurements, but its precision is currently limited by a strong anisotropy. Taking advantage of polarization imaging, this work proposes a new approach for high…

Medical Physics · Physics 2022-10-12 Emily Cloutier , Louis Archambault , Luc Beaulieu

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

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

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is a major ground-based observatory proposed for gamma-ray astronomy. CTA is envisioned to consist of two large arrays of atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes for the study of sources of high-energy gamma…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 R. A. Ong , T. Aune , J. Hall

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is a large collaborative effort aimed at the design and operation of an observatory dedicated to very high-energy gamma-ray astrophysics in the energy range from a few tens of GeV to above 100 TeV, which…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-17 Stefano Vercellone

The Large-Sized Telescope (LST) prototype of the future Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is located at the Northern site of CTA, on the Canary Island of La Palma. It is designed to provide optimal performance in the lowest part of the energy…

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is the next generation very high energy gamma-ray observatory. It will consist of three classes of telescopes, of large, medium and small sizes. The small telescopes, of 4 m diameter, will be dedicated to…

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 have developed a prototype of the photomultiplier tube (PMT) readout system for the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) Large Size Telescope (LST). Two thousand PMTs along with their readout systems are arranged on the focal plane of each…

As TeV gamma-ray astronomy progresses into the era of the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA), there is a desire for the capacity to instantaneously follow up on transient phenomena and continuously monitor gamma-ray flux at energies above…

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