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The CTA (Cherenkov Telescope Array) is the next generation ground-based experiment for very high-energy (VHE) gamma-ray observations. It will integrate several tens of imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes (IACTs) with different…

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The standardisation of gamma-ray astronomical data emerged in recent years as a necessity for the future generation of gamma-ray observatories. Nevertheless, adopting a common format for gamma-ray instruments can already benefit the current…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-28 Cosimo Nigro

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is the next generation very-high energy gamma-ray air-shower Cherenkov observatory. CTA will consist of many segmented-mirror telescopes of three different diameters, placed in two arrays, one in the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 A. Bonardi , J. Dick , E. Kendziorra , G. Pühlhofer , A. Santangelo

At CEILAP (CITEDEF-CONICET), a multiangle LIDAR is under development to monitor aerosol extinction coefficients in the frame of the CTA (Cherenkov Telescope Array) Project. This is an initiative to build the next generation of ground-based…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-08-17 Juan Pallotta , Pablo Ristori , Lidia Otero , Fernando Chouza , Delia Raul , Francisco Gonzalez , Alberto Etchegoyen , Eduardo Quel

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 (CTA), the new generation very high-energy gamma-ray observatory, will improve the flux sensitivity of the current Cherenkov telescopes by an order of magnitude over a continuous range from about 10 GeV to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-08 Valentina Fioretti , Andrea Bulgarelli , Andrea Zoli , Sera Markoff , Marc Ribo , Susumu Inoue , Paola Grandi , Giovanni De Cesare

Since its start in 2014, the lightweight open source Python library Gammapy has come a long way to become a popular data analysis package for high-energy astrophysics. Selected as the official CTAO Science Analysis tool, it is also an…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-28 B. Khélifi , R. Terrier , A. Donath , A. Sinha , Q. Remy , F. Pintore

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

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) will be the next generation observatory employing different types of Cherenkov telescopes for the detection of particle showers initiated by very-high-energy gamma rays. A good knowledge of the Earth's…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-22 Stanislav Stefanik , Raquel de los Reyes , Dalibor Nosek

Modern detectors of cosmic gamma-rays are a special type of imaging telescopes (air Cherenkov telescopes) supplied with cameras with a relatively large number of photomultiplier-based pixels. For example, the camera of the TAIGA-IACT…

Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is an upcoming instrument that will start a new generation of atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes. CTA is expected not only to provide an unprecedented sensitivity in the tens of GeV to hundreds of TeV range,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-11 Julian Sitarek , Dorota Sobczyńska , Katarzyna Adamczyk , Michał Szanecki

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is the next generation of ground-based gamma-ray astronomy observatory that will improve the sensitivity of current generation instruments by one order of magnitude. The LST-1 is the first telescope…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-02 Enrique Garcia , Thomas Vuillaume , Lukas Nickel

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

The Cherenkov Telescope Array is the future of ground-based gamma-ray astronomy. Its first prototype telescope built on-site, the Large Size Telescope 1, is currently under commissioning and taking its first scientific data. In this paper,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-10 Mikaël Jacquemont , Thomas Vuillaume , Alexandre Benoit , Gilles Maurin , Patrick Lambert , Giovanni Lamanna

Molecular clouds act as primary targets for cosmic-ray interactions and are expected to shine in gamma-rays as a by-product of these interactions. Indeed several detected gamma-ray sources both in HE and VHE gamma-rays (HE: 100 MeV < E <…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 G. Pedaletti , D. F. Torres , S. Gabici , E. de Oña Wilhelmi , D. Mazin , V. Stamatescu

Recent advances in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) technology have made UAVs an attractive possibility as an airborne calibration platform for astronomical facilities. This is especially true for arrays of telescopes spread over a large area…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-06 Anthony M. Brown

With the unequalled INTEGRAL observatory, ESA has provided a unique tool to the astronomical community that has made Europe the world leader in the field of gamma-ray astronomy. INTEGRAL provides an unprecedented survey of the soft…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Jürgen Knödlseder

Detection of delayed sub-TeV photons from Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) by MAGIC and HESS has proven the promising future of GRB afterglow studies with the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA), the next-generation gamma-ray observatory. With the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-05-22 Tanima Mondal , Suman Pramanick , Lekshmi Resmi , Debanjan Bose