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Real-time atmospheric monitoring for the Cherenkov Telescope Array using a wide-field optical telescope

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is the next generation of ground-based very high energy gamma-ray instruments and is planned to be built on two sites (one in each hemisphere) in the coming years, with full array operation foreseen to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 Jan Ebr , Petr Janecek , Michael Prouza , Jiri Blazek

Data model issues in the Cherenkov Telescope Array project

The planned Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA), a future ground-based Very-High-Energy (VHE) gamma-ray observatory, will be the largest project of its kind. It aims to provide an order of magnitude increase in sensitivity compared to currently…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 J. L. Contreras , K. Satalecka , K. Bernlöhr , C. Boisson , J. Bregeon , A. Bulgarelli , G. de Cesare , R. de los Reyes , V. Fioretti , K. Kosack , C. Lavalley , E. Lyard , R. Marx , J. Rico , M. Sanguillot , M. Servillat , R. Walter , J. E. Ward , A. Zoli

Science with the Cherenkov Telescope Array

The Cherenkov Telescope Array, CTA, will be the major global observatory for very high energy gamma-ray astronomy over the next decade and beyond. The scientific potential of CTA is extremely broad: from understanding the role of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-27 The Cherenkov Telescope Array Consortium , : , B. S. Acharya , I. Agudo , I. Al Samarai , R. Alfaro , J. Alfaro , C. Alispach , R. Alves Batista , J. -P. Amans , E. Amato , G. Ambrosi , E. Antolini , L. A. Antonelli , C. Aramo , M. Araya , T. Armstrong , F. Arqueros , L. Arrabito , K. Asano , M. Ashley , M. Backes , C. Balazs , M. Balbo , O. Ballester , J. Ballet , A. Bamba , M. Barkov , U. Barres de Almeida , J. A. Barrio , D. Bastieri , Y. Becherini , A. Belfiore , W. Benbow , D. Berge , E. Bernardini , M. G. Bernardini , M. Bernardos , K. Bernlöhr , B. Bertucci , B. Biasuzzi , C. Bigongiari , A. Biland , E. Bissaldi , J. Biteau , O. Blanch , J. Blazek , C. Boisson , J. Bolmont , G. Bonanno , A. Bonardi , C. Bonavolontà , G. Bonnoli , Z. Bosnjak , M. Böttcher , C. Braiding , J. Bregeon , A. Brill , A. M. Brown , P. Brun , G. Brunetti , T. Buanes , J. Buckley , V. Bugaev , R. Bühler , A. Bulgarelli , T. Bulik , M. 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Standardisation of Data Formats in Gamma-ray Astronomy

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 Atmospheric Monitoring Strategy for the Cherenkov Telescope Array

The Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Technique (IACT) is unusual in astronomy as the atmosphere actually forms an intrinsic part of the detector system, with telescopes indirectly detecting very high energy particles by the generation and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 M. K. Daniel

Performance of the Cherenkov Telescope Array in the presence of clouds

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is the future ground-based observatory for gamma-ray astronomy at very high energies. The atmosphere is an integral part of every Cherenkov telescope. Different atmospheric conditions, such as clouds, can…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-02 Mario Pecimotika , Katarzyna Adamczyk , Dijana Dominis Prester , Orel Gueta , Dario Hrupec , Gernot Maier , Saša Mićanović , Lovro Pavletić , Julian Sitarek , Dorota Sobczyńska , Michał Szanecki

The Cherenkov Telescope Array

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

Layout design studies for medium-sized telescopes within the Cherenkov Telescope Array

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

Early attempts at atmospheric simulations for the Cherenkov Telescope Array

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) will be the world's first observatory for detecting gamma-rays from astrophysical phenomena and is now in its prototyping phase with construction expected to begin in 2015/16. In this work we present the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 Cameron B. Rulten , Sam J. Nolan

Central Acceptance Testing for Camera Technologies for CTA

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is an international initiative to build the next generation ground based very-high energy gamma-ray observatory. It will consist of telescopes of three different sizes, employing several different…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 A. Bonardi , T. Buanes , P. Chadwick , F. Dazzi , A. Förster , J. R. Hörandel , M. Punch , R. M. Wagner

Building Medium Size Telescope Structures for the Cherenkov Telescope Array

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is the future instrument in ground-based gamma-ray astronomy in the energy range from 20 GeV to 300 TeV. Its sensitivity will surpass that of current generation experiments by a factor $\sim$10,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-09 A. Schulz , M. Garczarczyk , L. Oakes , S. Schlenstedt , U. Schwanke , the CTA Consortium

The On-Site Analysis of the Cherenkov Telescope Array

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) observatory will be one of the largest ground-based very high-energy gamma-ray observatories. The On-Site Analysis will be the first CTA scientific analysis of data acquired from the array of telescopes,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 Andrea Bulgarelli , Valentina Fioretti , Andrea Zoli , Alessio Aboudan , Juan José Rodríguez-Vázquez , Giovanni De Cesare , Adriano De Rosa , Gernot Maier , Etienne Lyard , Denis Bastieri , Saverio Lombardi , Gino Tosti , Sonia Bergamaschi , Domenico Beneventano , Giovanni Lamanna , Jean Jacquemier , Karl Kosack , Lucio Angelo Antonelli , Catherine Boisson , Jerzy Borkowski , Sara Buson , Alessandro Carosi , Vito Conforti , Pep Colomé , Raquel de los Reyes , Jon Dumm , Phil Evans , Lucy Fortson , Matthias Fuessling , Diego Gotz , Ricardo Graciani , Fulvio Gianotti , Paola Grandi , Jim Hinton , Brian Humensky , Susumu Inoue , Jürgen Knödlseder , Thierry Le Flour , Rico Lindemann , Giuseppe Malaguti , Sera Markoff , Martino Marisaldi , Nadine Neyroud , Luciano Nicastro , Stefan Ohm , Julian Osborne , Igor Oya , Jerome Rodriguez , Simon Rosen , Marc Ribo , Alessandro Tacchini , Fabian Schüssler , Thierry Stolarczyk , Eleonora Torresi , Vincenzo Testa , Peter Wegner , Amanda Weinstein

Cherenkov Telescope Array Data Management

Very High Energy gamma-ray astronomy with the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is evolving towards the model of a public observatory. Handling, processing and archiving the large amount of data generated by the CTA instruments and delivering…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 G. Lamanna , L. A. Antonelli , J. L. Contreras , J. Knödlseder , K. Kosack , N. Neyroud , A. Aboudan , L. Arrabito , C. Barbier , D. Bastieri , C. Boisson , S. Brau-Nogué , J. Bregeon , A. Bulgarelli , A. Carosi , A. Costa , G. De Cesare , R. de los Reyes , V. Fioretti , S. Gallozzi , J. Jacquemier , B. Khelifi , J. Kocot , S. Lombardi , F. Lucarelli , E. Lyard , G. Maier , P. Massimino , J. P. Osborne , M. Perri , J. Rico , D. A. Sanchez , K. Satalecka , H. Siejkowski , T. Stolarczyk , T. Szepieniec , V. Testa , R. Walter , J. E. Ward , A. Zoli

Status of the Cherenkov Telescope Array Project

Gamma-ray astronomy holds a great potential for Astrophysics, Particle Physics and Cosmology. The CTA is an inter- national initiative to build the next generation of ground-based gamma-ray observatories, which will represent a factor of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 Ulisses Barres de Almeida

Cherenkov Telescope Array Science: Multi-wavelength and multi-messenger perspectives

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) will be the major global observatory for VHE gamma-ray astronomy over the next decade and beyond. It will be an explorer of the extreme universe, with a broad scientific potential: from understanding the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-07-22 Ulisses Barres de Almeida

Status and Plans for the Array Control and Data Acquisition System of the Cherenkov Telescope Array

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is the next-generation atmospheric Cherenkov gamma-ray observatory. CTA will consist of two installations, one in the northern, and the other in the southern hemisphere, containing tens of telescopes of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 I. Oya , M. Fuessling , U. Schwanke , P. Wegner , A. Balzer , D. Berge , J. Borkowski , J. Camprecios , S. Colonges , J. Colome , C. Champion , V. Conforti , F. Gianotti , T. Le Flour , R. Lindemann , E. Lyard , M. Mayer , D. Melkumyan , M. Punch , C. Tanci , T. Schmidt , J. Schwarz , G. Tosti , K. Verma , A. Weinstein , S. Wiesand , R. Wischnewski

Dark Matter and Fundamental Physics with the Cherenkov Telescope Array

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is a project for a next-generation observatory for very high energy (GeV-TeV) ground-based gamma-ray astronomy, currently in its design phase, and foreseen to be operative a few years from now. Several…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-13 M. Doro , J. Conrad , D. Emmanoulopoulos , M. A. Sanchez-Conde , J. A. Barrio , E. Birsin , J. Bolmont , P. Brun , S. Colafrancesco , S. H. Connell , J. L. Contreras , M. K. Daniel , M. Fornasa , M. Gaug , J. F. Glicenstein , A. Gonzalez-Munoz , T. Hassan , D. Horns , A. Jacholkowska , C. Jahn , R. Mazini , N. Mirabal , A. Moralejo , E. Moulin , D. Nieto , J. Ripken , H. Sandaker , U. Schwanke , G. Spengler , A. Stamerra , A. Viana , H. S. Zechlin , S. Zimmer

The Cherenkov Telescope Array transient and multi-messenger program

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is a next generation ground-based very-high-energy gamma-ray observatory that will allow for observations in the >10 GeV range with unprecedented photon statistics and sensitivity. This will enable the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-08-11 Alessandro Carosi , Alicia López-Oramas , Francesco Longo

The Cherenkov Telescope Array

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

Second large-scale Monte Carlo study for the Cherenkov Telescope Array

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