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The last 20 years have seen the development of new techniques in Astroparticle Physics providing access to the highest end of the electromagnetic spectrum. It has been shown that some sources emit photons up to energies close to 100 TeV.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-08-04 J. L. Contreras , J. Rosado , F. Arqueros , M. López , J. A. Barrio , M. Nievas

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) 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 Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is a planned gamma-ray observatory. CTA will incorporate about 100 imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes (IACTs) at a Southern site, and about 20 in the North. Previous IACT experiments have used up to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-15 Iftach Sadeh , Igor Oya , Joseph Schwarz , Emmanuel Pietriga

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is a planned observatory for very-high energy gamma-ray astronomy. It will consist of several tens of telescopes of different sizes, with a total mirror area of up to 10,000 square meters. Most mirrors of…

The discovery of gravitational waves, high-energy neutrinos or the very-high-energy counterpart of gamma-ray bursts has revolutionized the high-energy and transient astrophysics community. The development of new instruments and analysis…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-06-09 Ž. Bošnjak , A. M. Brown , A. Carosi , M. Chernyakova , P. Cristofari , F. Longo , A. López-Oramas , M. Santander , K. Satalecka , F. Schüssler , O. Sergijenko , A. Stamerra , I. Agudo , R. Alves Batista , E. Amato , E. O. Anguner , L. A. Antonelli , M. Backes , Csaba Balazs , L. Baroncelli , J. Becker Tjus , C. Bigongiari , E. Bissaldi , C. Boisson , J. Bolmont , M. Böttcher , P. Bordas , C. Braiding , J. Bregeon , N. Bucciantini , A. Bulgarelli , M. Burton , F. Cangemi , P. Caraveo , M. Cardillo , S. Caroff , S. Casanova , S. Chaty , J. G. Coelho , G. Cotter , A. D'Aì , F. D'Ammando , E. M. de Gouveia Dal Pino , D. della Volpe , D. de Martino , T. Di Girolamo , A. Di Piano , A. Djannati-Ataï , V. Dwarkadas , E. de Ona Wilhelmi , R. C. Dos Anjos , G. Emery , E. Fedorova , S. Fegan , A. Fiasson , V. Fioretti , M. D. Filipovic , D. Gaggero , G. Galanti , D. Gasparrini , G. Ghirlanda , P. Goldoni , J. Granot , J. G. Green , M. Heller , B. Hnatyk , R. Hnatyk , D. Horan , T. Hovatta , S. Inoue , M. Jamrozy , D. Kantzas , B. Khélifi , N. Komin , A. Lamastra , N. La Palombara , J. P. Lenain , E. Lindfors , I. Liodakis , S. Lombardi , F. Lucarelli , P. L. Luque-Escamilla , P. Majumdar , A. Marcowith , S. Markoff , J. Marti , M. Martinez , D. Mazin , S. McKeague , S. Mereghetti , E. Mestre , T. Montaruli , G. Morlino , A. Morselli , C. Mundell , T. Murach , L. Nava , A. Nayerhoda , L. Nicastro , J. Niemiec , M. Nikolajuk , B. Olmi , R. Ong , M. Orienti , J. P. Osborne , Josep M. Paredes , G. Pareschi , N. Parmiggiani , B. Patricelli , A. Pe'er , G. Piano , G. Pühlhofer , M. Punch , O. Reimer , M. Ribó , G. Rodriguez , J. Rodriguez , P. Romano , G. Romeo , M. Roncadelli , G. Rowell , B. Rudak , I. Sadeh , F. Salesa Greus , F. G. Saturni , U. Sawangwit , M. Seglar-Arroyo , R. C. Shellard , H. Sol , R. Starling , T. Stolarczyk , G. Tagliaferri , F. Tavecchio , L. Tibaldo , V. Testa , S. Vercellone , A. Viana , J. Vink , V. Vitale , S. D. Vergani , S. Vorobiov , A. Wierzcholska , L. Yang , D. Zavrtanik , V. Zhdanov

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is the next major ground-based observatory for gamma-ray astronomy. With CTA gamma-ray sources will be studied in the very-high energy gamma-ray range of a few tens of GeV to 100 TeV with up to ten times…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-08-05 Kevin J. Meagher

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 (CTA) is a large collaborative effort aimed at the design and operation of an observatory dedicated to the VHE gamma-ray astrophysics in the energy range 30 GeV-100 TeV, which will improve by about one order of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 Stefano Vercellone

Two of the Key Science Projects of the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) consist in performing a deep survey of the Galactic and Extragalactic sky, providing an unbiased view of the Universe at energies above tens of GeV. To optimize the time…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-19 A. Donini , T. Gasparetto , J. Bregeon , F. Di Pierro , F. Longo , G. Maier , A. Moralejo , T. Vuillaume

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

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

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 Cherenkov Telescopic Array (CTA), the next-generation ground-based gamma-ray observatory, will have unprecedented sensitivity, providing answers to open questions in gamma-ray cosmology and fundamental physics. Using simulations of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-18 Ievgen Vovk , Jonathan Biteau , Humberto Martinez-Huerta , Manuel Meyer , Santiago Pita

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is the next generation very high-energy gamma-ray observatory, with at least 10 times higher sensitivity than current instruments. CTA will comprise several tens of Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov…

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA), currently in its Preparatory Phase, will be the first open observatory for very high energy gamma-rays from galactic and extragalactic sources. The international consortium behind CTA is preparing the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 A. Zech

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) will be the next generation ground based observatory in very high energy gamma ray astronomy. The facility will achieve a wide energy coverage, starting from a threshold of a few tens of GeV up to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 M. K. Daniel , M. Gaug , P. Majumdar

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 Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) will be the next high-energy gamma-ray observatory. Selection of the sites, one in each hemisphere, is not obvious since several factors have to be taken into account. Among them, and probably the most…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 Stephane Vincent

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