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Many atmospheric and climatic criteria have to be taken into account for the selection of a suitable site for the next generation of imaging air-shower Cherenkov telescopes, the "Cherenkov Telescope Array" CTA. Such data are not available…

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

It is anticipated that the forthcoming Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) will include a number of medium-sized telescopes that are constructed using a dual-mirror Schwarzschild-Couder configuration. These telescopes will sample a wide…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-07 Hugh Dickinson , Frank Krennrich , Amanda Weinstein

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

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is the next generation Cherenkov telescope facility. It will consist of a large number of segmented-mirror telescopes of three different diameters, placed in two locations, one in the northern and one in…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-26 J. Dick , A. Bonardi , S. Bressel , M. Capasso , S. Diebold , F. Eisenkolb , D. Gottschall , E. Kendziorra , G. Pühlhofer , S. Renner , A. Santangelo , T. Schanz , C. Tenzer

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

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 (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

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) is the next generation observatory for the study of very high-energy gamma rays from about 20 GeV up to 300 TeV. Thanks to the large effective area and field of view, the CTA observatory will be…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 Andrea Zoli , Andrea Bulgarelli , Adriano De Rosa , Alessio Aboudan , Valentina Fioretti , Giovanni De Cesare , Ramin Marx

The next generation instrument for ground-based gamma-ray astronomy will be the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA), consisting of approximately 100 telescopes in three sizes, built on two sites with one each in the Northern and Southern Hemi-…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-09 Louise Oakes , Markus Garczarczyk , Stephan Kaphle , Michael Mayer , Stefan Schlenstedt

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

We present simulations of a large array of imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes (IACTs), for which the size of the array footprint is much larger than the size of the Cherenkov lightpool. To evaluate limitations of the imaging…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-08-22 S. J. Fegan , V. V. Vassiliev

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 be the next generation ground-based very-high-energy gamma-ray observatory, constituted by tens of Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes at two sites once its construction and commissioning are…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-29 Rune Michael Dominik , Maximilian Linhoff , Julian Sitarek

As TeV gamma-ray astronomy progresses into the era of the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA), there is a desire for the capacity to instantaneously follow up on transient phenomena and continuously monitor gamma-ray flux at energies above…

The Gamma-ray Cherenkov Telescope (GCT) is an innovative dual-mirror solution proposed for the Small Size Telescopes of the future Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA), capable of imaging the showers induced by cosmic gamma-rays with energies…

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) will be able to perform unprecedented observations of the transient very high-energy sky. An on-line science alert generation (SAG) pipeline, with a required 30 second latency, will allow the discovery or…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-19 Valentina Fioretti , Deivid Ribeiro , Thomas B. Humensky , Andrea Bulgarelli , Gernot Maier , Abelardo Moralejo , Cosimo Nigro

While current atmospheric Cherenkov installations consist of only a few telescopes each, future installations will be far more complex. Monte Carlo simulations have become an essential tool for the design and optimisation of such…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Konrad Bernloehr

The next generation of ground-based gamma-ray observatories, such as e.g. CTA, will consist of about 50-100 telescopes, and cameras with in total ~100000 to ~200000 channels. The telescopes of the core array will cover and effective area of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 G. Hermann , C. Bauer , C. Foehr , W. Hofmann , T. Kihm , F. Koeck
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