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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 the next generation of Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes. It will reach a sensitivity and energy resolution never obtained until now by any other high energy gamma-ray experiment. Understanding…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-22 G. Vasileiadis , O. Blanch , J. Bregeon , P. Brun , O. Calpe , M. Colak , M. Doro , L. Font , M. Gaug , S. Griffiths , C. Maggio , M. Martinez , O. Martinez , P. Ristori , S. Rivoire

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is a future ground-based gamma-ray astronomy detector that will consist of more than 100 Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes of different sizes. The total reflective surface of roughly 10 000 m$^2$…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 C. Schultz , M. Doro , L. Lessio , M. Mariotti , R. Rando

Observations from multiple gamma-ray telescopes have uncovered a high energy gamma-ray source spatially coincident with the Galactic center. Recently, a compelling model for the broad-band gamma-ray emission has been formulated which posits…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-05 Tim Linden , Stefano Profumo

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

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 Gamma-ray Cherenkov Telescope (GCT) is one of the Small Size Telescopes (SSTs) proposed for the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) aimed at the 1 TeV to 300 TeV energy range. GCT will be equipped with a Compact High-Energy Camera (CHEC)…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 Richard White , Harm Schoorlemmer

Very-high-energy (>100 GeV) gamma-ray astronomy is emerging as an important discipline in both high energy astrophysics and astro-particle physics. This field is currently dominated by Imaging Atmospheric-Cherenkov Telescopes (IACTs) and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-01-15 Jim Hinton

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

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)…

NEMESISPY is a Python package developed to perform parametric atmospheric modelling and radiative transfer calculation for the retrievals of exoplanetary spectra. It is a recent development of the well-established Fortran NEMESIS library…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-10 Jingxuan Yang , Juan Alday , Patrick Irwin

lenstronomy is an Astropy-affiliated Python package for gravitational lensing simulations and analyses. lenstronomy was introduced by Birrer and Amara (2018) and is based on the linear basis set approach by Birrer et a. (2015). The user and…

With its unprecedented light-collecting area for night-sky observations, the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) holds great potential for also optical stellar astronomy, in particular as a multi-element intensity interferometer for realizing…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 Dainis Dravins , Stephan LeBohec , Hannes Jensen , Paul D. Nuñez

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 CTA (Cherenkov Telescope Array) is the next generation ground-based experiment for very high-energy (VHE) gamma-ray observations. It will integrate several tens of imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes (IACTs) with different…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 Julien Rousselle , Valerie Connaughton , Manel Errando , Brian Humensky , Reshmi Mukherjee , Daniel Nieto , Akira Okumura , Vladimir Vassiliev

For over a decade, the SpacePy project has contributed open-source solutions for the production and analysis of heliophysics data and simulation results. Here we introduce SpacePy's functionality for the scientific user and present relevant…

Space Physics · Physics 2022-10-11 Jonathan T. Niehof , Steven K. Morley , Daniel T. Welling , Brian A. Larsen

The Atmospheric Cherenkov Imaging Technique has opened up the gamma-ray spectrumfrom 100 GeV to 50 TeV to astrophysical exploration. The development of the technique is described as are the basic principles underlying its use. The current…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Trevor C. Weekes

Gamma-rays, the most energetic photons, carry information from the far reaches of extragalactic space with minimal interaction or loss of information. They bring messages about particle acceleration in environments so extreme they cannot be…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-03-15 Kristi Engel , Jordan Goodman , Petra Huentemeyer , Carolyn Kierans , Tiffany R. Lewis , Michela Negro , Marcos Santander , David A. Williams , Alice Allen , Tsuguo Aramaki , Rafael Alves Batista , Mathieu Benoit , Peter Bloser , Jennifer Bohon , Aleksey E. Bolotnikov , Isabella Brewer , Michael S. Briggs , Chad Brisbois , J. Michael Burgess , Eric Burns , Regina Caputo , Gabriella A. Carini , S. Bradley Cenko , Eric Charles , Stefano Ciprini , Valerio D'Elia , Tansu Daylan , James Distel , Axel Donath , Wade Duvall , Henrike Fleischhack , Corinne Fletcher , Wen Fe Fong , Dario Gasparrini , Marco Giardino , Adam Goldstein , Sean Griffin , J. Eric Grove , Rachel Hamburg , J. Patrick Harding , Jeremy Hare , Boyan Hristov , C. Michelle Hui , Tess Jaffe , Pete Jenke , Oleg Kargaltsev , Christopher M. Karwin , Matthew Kerr , Dongsung Kim , Daniel Kocevski , John Krizmanic , Ranjan Laha , Niccolo Di Lalla , Jason Legere , Cristina Leto , Richard Leys , Fabrizio Lucarelli , Israel Martinez-Castellanos , Alessandro Maselli , M. Nicola Mazziotta , Mark McConnell , Julie McEnery , Jessica Metcalfe , Manuel Meyer , Alexander A. Moiseev , Reshmi Mukherjee , Michela Negro , Keiichi Ogasawara , Nicola Omodei , Ivan Peric , Jeremy S. Perkins , Matteo Perri , Carlotta Pittori , Gianluca Polenta , Daniel Poulson , Robert Preece , Giacomo Principe , Judith L. Racusin , Oliver Roberts , Nicholas L. Rodd , Peter Shawhan , Thomas Shutt , Clio Sleator , Alan Smale , John Smedley , Jacob R. Smith , Jay Tasson , Peter Teuben , John Tomsick , Peter Veres , Francesco Verrecchia , Zorawar Wadiasingh , Colleen A. Wilson-Hodge , Joshua Wood , Richard S. Woolf , Hui Yang , Bing Zhang , Haocheng Zhang , Andreas Zoglauer

The SunPy Project is a community of scientists and software developers creating an ecosystem of Python packages for solar physics. The project includes the sunpy core package as well as a set of affiliated packages. The sunpy core package…

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…