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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

The design and realization of a prototype for the Small-Size class Telescopes of the Cherenkov Telescope Array is one of the cornerstones of the ASTRI project. The prototype will adopt a focal plane camera based on Silicon Photo-Multiplier…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-08-13 D. Impiombato , S. Giarrusso , M. Belluso , S. Bilotta , G. Bonanno , O. Catalano , A. Grillo , G. La Rosa , D. Marano , T. Mineo , F. Russo , G. Sottile

MARTINI is a modular Python package that takes smoothed-particle hydrodynamics (SPH) simulations of galaxies as input and creates synthetic spatially- and/or spectrally-resolved observations of the 21-cm radio emission line of atomic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-06-11 Kyle A. Oman

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is the next generation of ground-based very high energy gamma-ray instruments; the facility will be organized in two arrays, one for each hemisphere. The atmospheric calibration of the CTA telescopes is a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 Laura Valore , Carla Aramo , Michele Doro , Marco Iarlori , Vincenzo Rizi , Aurelio Siro Tonachini , Piero Vallania

In October 2013, the Italian Ministry approved the funding of a Research & Development (R&D) study, within the "Progetto Premiale TElescopi CHErenkov made in Italy (TECHE)", devoted to the development of a demonstrator for a camera for the…

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) will use three telescope sizes to efficiently detect cosmic gamma rays in the energy range from several tens of GeV to hundreds of TeV. The Small-Sized Telescopes (SSTs) will form the largest section of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-28 R. White

We present the current development of the Monitoring, Logging and Alarm subsystems in the framework of the Array Control and Data Acquisition System (ACADA) for the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA). The Monitoring System (MON) is the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-28 Alessandro Costa , Kevin Munari , Federico Incardona , Pietro Bruno , Stefano Germani , Alessandro Grillo , Igor Oya , Eva Sciacca , Ugo Becciani , Mario Raciti

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) will be the world's first open observatory for very high energy gamma-rays. Around a hundred telescopes of different sizes will be used to detect the Cherenkov light that results from gamma-ray induced…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-17 A. Zech , J. -P. Amans , S. Blake , C. Boisson , C. Costille , F. De-Frondat , J. -L. Dournaux , D. Dumas , G. Fasola , T. Greenshaw , O. Hervet , J. -M. Huet , P. Laporte , C. Rulten , D. Savoie , F. Sayede , J. Schmoll , H. Sol

Mini-EUSO is a space experiment selected to be installed inside the International Space Station. It has a compact telescope with a large field of view ($44 $\times$ 44$ sq. deg.) focusing light on an array of photo-multipliers tubes in…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-02 Sara Turriziani , Jonah Ekelund , Katsuhiko Tsuno , Marco Casolino , Toshikazu Ebisuzaki

MARST (Multi-channel Antarctic Solar Telescope) aims to observe the Sun in multiple wavebands in Antarctica and will be China's first solar telescope in Antarctica. The telescope has two tubes, corresponding to Photosphere observation which…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-05 Ya-qi Chen , Ming-hao Jia , Guang-yu Zhang , Zhi-yue Wang , Yi-ling Xu , Yi Feng , Jie Chen , Hong-fei Zhang , Peng Jiang , Tuo Ji , Jian Wang

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is an international initiative to build the next generation ground-based very-high-energy gamma-ray observatory. Full sky coverage will be assured by two arrays, one located on each of the northern and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 Maria Concetta Maccarone , Dan Parsons , Markus Gaug , Raquel de los Reyes

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 Telescopes Array (CTA) is planned to be an Observatory for very high energy gamma ray astronomy and will consist of several tens of telescopes which account for a reflective surface of more than 10000 m$^2$. The mirrors of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 M. C. Medina , B. Garcia , J. Maya , A. Mancilla , J. J. Larrarte , E. Rasztocky , M. Benitez , J. Dipold , M. Platino

CTA will comprise a sub-array of up to 70 small size telescopes (SSTs) at the southern array. The SST-1M project, a 4 m-diameter Davies Cotton telescope with 9 degrees FoV and a 1296 pixels SiPM camera, is designed to meet the requirements…

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

The prototype camera of the single-mirror Small Size Telescopes (SST-1M) proposed for the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) project has been designed to be very compact and to deliver high performance over thirty years of operation. The…

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) will be the future observatory for TeV gamma-ray astronomy. In order to increase the sensitivity and to extend the energy coverage beyond the capabilities of current facilities, its design concept…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-09 S. Diebold , J. Dick , G. Pühlhofer , S. Renner , A. Santangelo , T. Schanz , C. Tenzer , the CTA Consortium

A Central Laser Facility is a system often used in astroparticle experiments based on arrays of fluorescence or Cherenkov light detectors. The instrument is based on a laser source positioned at a certain distance from the array, emitting…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 Markus Gaug , Carla Aramo , Marco Cilmo , Federico Di Pierro , Aurelio Tonachini , Piero Vallania

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