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The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is the major next-generation observatory for ground-based very-high-energy gamma-ray astronomy. It will improve the sensitivity of current ground-based instruments by a factor of five to twenty, depending…

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The structure monitoring of the MST prototype of CTA

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is the next generation of ground-based gamma-ray observatory. The observatory will consist of two arrays, one located in the southern hemisphere (Paranal,Chile) and the other in the northern hemisphere…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-17 Victor Barbosa Martins , Markus Garczarczyk

Comparison of Different Trigger and Readout Approaches for Cameras in the Cherenkov Telescope Array Project

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is a next-generation ground-based observatory for g -rays with energies between some ten GeV and a few hundred TeV. CTA is currently in the advanced design phase and will consist of arrays with different…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 M. Shayduk , S. Vorobiov , U. Schwanke , R. Wischnewski

Observing the Galactic Plane with the Cherenkov Telescope Array

The Cherenkov Telescope Array is a next generation ground-based gamma-ray observatory de- signed to detect photons in the 20 GeV to 300 TeV energy range. With a sensitivity improvement of up to one order of magnitude on the entire energy…

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Towards a full Atmospheric Calibration system for the Cherenkov Telescope Array

The current generation of Cherenkov telescopes is mainly limited in their gamma-ray energy and flux reconstruction by uncertainties in the determination of atmospheric parameters. The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) aims to provide…

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Performance of the Mechanical Structure of the SST-2M GCT Proposed for the Cherenkov Telescope Array

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) consortium aims to create the next generation Very High Energy gamma-ray observatory. It will be devoted to the observation of gamma rays over a wide band of energy, from 20 GeV to 300 TeV. Three…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-27 Jean-Laurent Dournaux , Jean-Michel Huet , Delphine Dumas , Jean-Philippe Amans , Gilles Fasola , Philippe Laporte , Jean-Jacques Bousquet , Hélène Sol

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…

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Performance of the Cherenkov Telescope Array

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) will be the world's largest and by far most sensitive observatory for high-energy gamma rays. It will be capable of detecting gamma rays from extremely faint sources with unprecedented precision on energy…

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Analysis of the Cherenkov Telescope Array first Large-Sized Telescope real data using convolutional neural networks

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is the future ground-based gamma-ray observatory and will be composed of two arrays of imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes (IACTs) located in the Northern and Southern hemispheres respectively. The…

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Advanced analysis and event reconstruction for the CTA Observatory

The planned Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is a future observatory for very-high-energy (VHE) gamma-ray astronomy composed of one site per hemisphere. It aims at 10 times better sensitivity, a better angular resolution and wider energy…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 Y. Becherini , B. Khélifi , S. Pita , M. Punch

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

Feasibility of utilizing Cherenkov Telescope Array gamma-ray telescopes as free-space optical communication ground stations

The signals that will be received on Earth from deep-space probes in future implementations of free-space optical communication will be extremely weak, and new ground stations will have to be developed in order to support these links. This…

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Construction of a medium-sized Schwarzschild-Couder telescope as a candidate for the Cherenkov Telescope Array: development of the optical alignment system

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…

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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

Supernova Remnants and Pulsar Wind Nebulae in the Cherenkov Telescope Array era

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is planned to serve as a ground-based observatory for (very-)high-energy gamma-ray astronomy, open to a wide astrophysics community, providing a deep insight into the non-thermal high-energy universe. It…

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Prototyping the graphical user interface for the operator of the Cherenkov Telescope Array

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…

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CTA: the future of ground-based gamma-ray astrophysics

Very high energy (VHE; E > 100 GeV) gamma-rays provide a unique probe into the non-thermal processes in the universe. The ground-based Imaging Air Cherenkov telescopes (IACTs) for detecting VHE gamma-rays have been perfected, so a…

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Performance of the Cherenkov Telescope Array at energies above 10 TeV

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is the next generation observatory for very high energy gamma rays. The capability of the array to detect gamma-rays above 10 TeV is going to be achieved with a large number of Small Size Telescopes…

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Prototype Schwarzschild-Couder Telescope for the Cherenkov Telescope Array: Commissioning Status of the Optical System

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA), with more than 100 telescopes, will be the largest ever ground-based gamma-ray observatory and is expected to greatly improve on both gamma-ray detection sensitivity and energy coverage compared to…

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(Very)-High-Energy Gamma-Ray Astrophysics: the Future

Several projects planned or proposed can significantly expand our knowledge of the high-energy Universe in gamma rays. Construction of the Cherenkov telescope array CTA is started, and other detectors are planned which will use the…

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