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Simulating and analysing detailed observations of astrophysical sources for very high energy (VHE) experiments, like the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA), can be a demanding task especially in terms of CPU consumption and required storage.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-13 M. Landoni , P. Romano , S. Vercellone , J. Knodlseder , A. Bianco , F. Tavecchio , A. Corina

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) will present the next leap forward in gamma-ray astronomy, pushing beyond the present energy frontier to probe beyond 300 TeV. This capability is provided by the 70 Small Sized Telescopes (SSTs). The SSTs…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-23 Jason John Watson , Justus Zorn

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) will be the next-generation gamma-ray observatory, investigating gamma-ray and cosmic ray astrophysics at energies from 20 GeV to more than 300 TeV. The observatory, consisting of large arrays of imaging…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-01-22 The CTA Consortium

The Small Size Telescope with Single Mirror (SST-1M) is one of the proposed types of Small Size Telescopes (SST) for the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA). About 70 SST telescopes will be part the CTA southern array which will also include…

Celestial sources emitting at high-energy (HE, E > 100 MeV) and at very high-energy (VHE, E > 100 GeV) gamma-rays are of the order of a few thousands and a few hundreds, respectively. On the other hand, the number of sources emitting at…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-02-21 Stefano Vercellone

The VERITAS Imaging Air Cherenkov Telescope array (IACT) was augmented in 2019 with high-speed focal plane electronics to allow the use of VERITAS for Stellar Intensity Interferometry (SII) observations. Since that time, several…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-23 D. B Kieda , Jonathan Davis , Tugdual LeBohec , Mike Lisa , Nolan K. Matthews

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

Objective: ServiMon is designed to offer a scalable and intelligent pipeline for data collection and auditing to monitor distributed astronomical systems such as the ASTRI Mini-Array. The system enhances quality control, predictive…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-03 Emilio Mastriani , Alessandro Costa , Federico Incardona , Kevin Munari , Sebastiano Spinello

A long-held astronomical vision is to realize diffraction-limited optical aperture synthesis over kilometer baselines. This will enable imaging of stellar surfaces and their environments, show their evolution over time, and reveal…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Dainis Dravins , Tiphaine Lagadec

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…

We report on the development of the seven station ARIANNA Hexagonal Radio Array neutrino detector systems in Antarctica. The primary goal of the ARIANNA project is to observe ultra-high energy (>100 PeV) cosmogenic neutrino signatures using…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-08-14 Stuart A. Kleinfelder

Once completed, the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) will be able to map the gamma-ray sky in a wide energy range from several tens of GeV to some hundreds of TeV and will be more sensitive than previous experiments by an order of magnitude.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-05 Kai Brügge , Alexey Egorov , Christian Bockermann , Katharina Morik , Wolfgang Rhode

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

The operation of the future Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA), the next generation of Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes (IACTs), as an Open Observatory requires data products and analysis tools to be accessible and usable by the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-18 Cosimo Nigro , Tarek Hassan

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 first Large-Sized Telescope (LST-1) proposed for the forthcoming Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) has started to operate in 2019 in La Palma. The large structure of LST-1 - with a 23 m mirror dish diameter - imposes a strict control of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-03 L. Foffano , A. Carosi , M. Dalchenko , M. Heller , D. Della Volpe , T. Montaruli

We have developed an application-specific integrated circui (ASIC) for photomultipler tube (PMT) waveform digitization which is well-suited for the Schwarzschild-Couder optical system under development for the Cherenkov Telescope Array…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 Justin Vandenbroucke , Keith Bechtol , Stefan Funk , Akira Okumura , Hiro Tajima , Gary Varner

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