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The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is a future ground-based observatory (with two locations, in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres) that will be used in the study of the very-high-energy gamma-ray sky. CTA observations will be proposed…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 John E. Ward , Javier Rico , Tarek Hassan

Molecular clouds act as primary targets for cosmic-ray interactions and are expected to shine in gamma-rays as a by-product of these interactions. Indeed several detected gamma-ray sources both in HE and VHE gamma-rays (HE: 100 MeV < E <…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 G. Pedaletti , D. F. Torres , S. Gabici , E. de Oña Wilhelmi , D. Mazin , V. Stamatescu

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is an initiative that is currently building the largest gamma-ray ground Observatory that ever existed. A Science Alert Generation (SAG) system, part of the Array Control and Data Acquisition (ACADA)…

The binary systems that have been detected in gamma rays have proven very useful to study high-energy processes, in particular particle acceleration, emission and radiation reprocessing, and the dynamics of the underlying magnetized flows.…

Blazars are the most numerous type of observed high-energy gamma-ray emitters. However, their emission mechanisms and population properties are still not well-understood. Crucial to this understanding are their cosmological redshifts, which…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-03-24 Eli Kasai , Paolo Goldoni , Santiago Pita , Catherine Boisson , Michael Backes , Garret Cotter , Filippo D'Ammando , Brian van Soelen

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…

The TeV extragalactic sky is dominated by blazars, radio-loud active galactic nuclei with a relativistic jet pointing towards the Earth. Blazars show variability that can be quite exceptional both in terms of flux (orders of magnitude of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-09-19 M. Cerruti , J. Finke , G. Grolleron , J. P. Lenain , T. Hovatta , M. Joshi , E. Lindfors , P. Morris , M. Petropoulou , P. Romano , S. Vercellone , M. Zacharias

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

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) will be an instrument covering a wide energy range in very-high-energy (VHE) gamma rays. CTA will include several types of telescopes, in order to optimize the performance over the whole energy range.…

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) will perform a survey of the whole Galactic disk with unprecedented sensitivity at energies up to 300 TeV. One of the key science projects of the CTA consortium is the discovery of Galactic PeVatrons…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-09-19 C. Trichard

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is a major ground-based observatory proposed for gamma-ray astronomy. CTA is envisioned to consist of two large arrays of atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes for the study of sources of high-energy gamma…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 R. A. Ong , T. Aune , J. Hall

We simulate the spectral behaviour of the non-transient gamma-ray binaries using archival observations as a reference. With this we test the CTA capability to measure the sources' spectral parameters and detect variability on various time…

The upcoming Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) project is expected to provide unprecedented sensitivity in the low-energy (<~100 GeV) range for Cherenkov telescopes. Most of the remaining background in this energy range results from…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-29 Julian Sitarek , Dorota Sobczyńska , Michał Szanecki , Katarzyna Adamczyk , Paolo Cumani , Abelardo Moralejo

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 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 recent discovery of TeV emission from gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) by the MAGIC and H.E.S.S. Cherenkov telescopes confirmed that emission from these transients can extend to very high energies. The TeV energy domain reaches the most…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-10-16 Imre Bartos , K. Rainer Corley , Nihar Gupte , Neil Ash , Zsuzsa. Márka , Szabolcs Márka

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is the next generation 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…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-22 Iftach Sadeh , Igor Oya , Joseph Schwarz , Emmanuel Pietriga , Dejan Dezman

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA), is an international project for the next generation ground- based observatory for gamma-ray astronomy in the energy range from 20 GeV to 300 TeV. The sensitivity in the core energy range will be…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-07 Markus Garczarczyk , Stefan Schlenstedt , Louise Oakes , Ullrich Schwanke , the MST Team

In this paper, we review the prospects for studies of active galactic nuclei (AGN) using the envisioned future Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA). This review focuses on jetted AGN, which constitute the vast majority of AGN detected at…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-08-30 A. Reimer , M. Boettcher

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
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