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Prospects of newly detecting nearby star-forming galaxies by the Cherenkov Telescope Array

Prospects of the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) for the study of very high energy gamma-ray emission from nearby star-forming galaxies are investigated. In the previous work, we constructed a model to calculate luminosity and energy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-08-04 Naoya Shimono , Tomonori Totani , Takahiro Sudoh

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

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…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-10 Thomas Vuillaume , Mikaël Jacquemont , Mathieu de Bony de Lavergne , David A. Sanchez , Vincent Poireau , Gilles Maurin , Alexandre Benoit , Patrick Lambert , Giovanni Lamanna , CTA-LST Project

SST-GATE: A dual mirror telescope for the Cherenkov Telescope Array

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) will be the world's first open observatory for very high energy gamma-rays. Around a hundred telescopes of different sizes will be used to detect the Cherenkov light that results from gamma-ray induced…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-17 A. Zech , J. -P. Amans , S. Blake , C. Boisson , C. Costille , F. De-Frondat , J. -L. Dournaux , D. Dumas , G. Fasola , T. Greenshaw , O. Hervet , J. -M. Huet , P. Laporte , C. Rulten , D. Savoie , F. Sayede , J. Schmoll , H. Sol

The Cherenkov Telescope Array Will Test Whether Pulsars Generate the Galactic Center Gamma-Ray Excess

The GeV-scale gamma-ray excess observed from the region surrounding the Galactic Center has been interpreted as either the products of annihilating dark matter particles, or as the emission from a large population of faint and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-05-10 Celeste Keith , Dan Hooper , Tim Linden

Prospects for the detection of high-energy (E>25 GeV) Fermi pulsars with the Cherenkov Telescope Array

Around 160 gamma-ray pulsars were discovered by the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) since 2008. The most energetic of them, 12 objects with emission above 25 GeV, are suitable candidates for the detection with the current and future…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-08-09 A. Burtovoi , T. Y. Saito , L. Zampieri , T. Hassan

Searching for PeVatrons in the CTA Galactic Plane Survey

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

ASTRI for the Cherenkov Telescope Array

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) will be the largest ground-based observatory operating in the very-high-energy gamma-ray (20 GeV - 300 TeV) range. It will be based on more than one hundred telescopes, located at two sites (northern and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-22 Maria Concetta Maccarone

Exploring the Nature of the Galactic Center Gamma-Ray Source with the Cherenkov Telescope Array

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

Studies towards an understanding of global array pointing for the Cherenkov Telescope Array

For the proposed Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA), a post-calibration point-source location accuracy of 3 seconds of arc is aimed for under favorable observing conditions and for gamma-ray energies exceeding 100 GeV. In this contribution,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-08 Stefan Eschbach , Alexander Ziegler , Christopher van Eldik , Johannes Veh , David Berge , Markus Gaug

An outdoor test facility for the Cherenkov Telescope Array mirrors

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

Monte Carlo comparison of mid-size telescope designs for the Cherenkov Telescope Array

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is a future very high energy gamma-ray observatory. CTA will be comprised of small-, medium- and large-size telescopes covering an energy range from tens of GeV to hundreds of TeV and will surpass…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 T. Jogler , M. D. Wood , J. Dumm

Developments for coating, testing, and aligning Cherenkov Telescope Array mirrors in T\"ubingen

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is the next generation very-high energy gamma-ray air-shower Cherenkov observatory. CTA will consist of many segmented-mirror telescopes of three different diameters, placed in two arrays, one in the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 A. Bonardi , J. Dick , E. Kendziorra , G. Pühlhofer , A. Santangelo

Dark matter and fundamental physics with the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory

The Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO) will be the next-generation major ground-based gamma-ray observatory. It will be made up of two large arrays of imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes (IACTs), with one site in the Northern…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-03 Francesco Schiavone

Atmospheric considerations for the CTA site search

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

Monte Carlo comparison of medium-size telescope designs for the Cherenkov Telescope Array

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is a future very high energy gamma-ray observatory. CTA will be comprised of small-,medium- and large-size telescopes covering an energy range from tens of GeV to hundreds of TeV and will surpass existing…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 T. Jogler , M. D. Wood , J. Dumm , A. Bouvier

Gravitational-wave follow-up with CTA after the detection of GRBs in the TeV energy domain

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