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Atmospheric monitoring is an integral part of the design of the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA), as atmospheric conditions affect the observations by Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes (IACT) in multiple ways. The variable optical…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-22 Jan Ebr , Tomasz Bulik , Lluis Font , Markus Gaug , Petr Janecek , Jakub Jurysek , Dusan Mandat , Stanislav Stefanik , Laura Valore , George Vasileiadis

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA), the new generation very high-energy gamma-ray observatory, will improve the flux sensitivity of the current Cherenkov telescopes by an order of magnitude over a continuous range from about 10 GeV to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-08 Valentina Fioretti , Andrea Bulgarelli , Andrea Zoli , Sera Markoff , Marc Ribo , Susumu Inoue , Paola Grandi , Giovanni De Cesare

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) will have a unique chance of discovery for a large range of masses in Weakly Interacting Massive Particles models of dark matter. The principal target for dark matter searches with CTA is the centre of…

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 Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is the next-generation stereoscopic system of Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes (IACTs). In IACTs, the atmosphere is used as a calorimeter to measure the energy of extensive air showers induced by…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-14 Mario Pecimotika , Dijana Dominis Prester , Dario Hrupec , Saša Mićanović , Lovro Pavletić , Julian Sitarek

Composite mirrors for gamma-ray astronomy have been developed to fulfill the specifications required for the next generation of Cherenkov telescopes represented by CTA (Cherenkov Telescope Array). In addition to the basic requirements on…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 P. Brun , P. -H. Carton , D. Durand , J-F. Glicenstein , C. Jeanney , M. C. Medina , P. Micolon , B. Peyaud

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

Gamma rays at rest frame energies as high as 90 GeV have been reported from gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) by the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT). There is considerable hope that a confirmed GRB detection will be possible with the upcoming…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-03 Rudy C. Gilmore , Aurelien Bouvier , Valerie Connaughton , Adam Goldstein , Nepomuk Otte , Joel R. Primack , David A. Williams

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) observatory for very high-energy gamma rays will consist of about a hundred of imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes (IACTs) of different size with a total reflective area of about 10,000 m$^2$. Here…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-07 Jerzy Michałowski , Michal Dyrda , Jacek Niemiec , Maciej Sowiński , Marek Stodulski

The foreseen implementations of the Small Size Telescopes (SST) in CTA will provide unique insights into the highest energy gamma rays offering fundamental means to discover and under- stand the sources populating the Galaxy and our local…

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) will be the leading ground-base observatory for Very High Energy (VHE) {\gamma}-ray astronomy for the next decades. Its southern site will host about 70 Small Sized Telescopes (SSTs) which will determine…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-24 Roberta Pillera , Gianluca Giavitto , Heike Prokoph

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is the next generation ground-based $\gamma$-ray observatory. It will provide an order of magnitude better sensitivity and an extended energy coverage, 20 GeV - 300 TeV, relative to current Imaging…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-01-22 T. Hassan , A. Domínguez , J. Lefaucheur , D. Mazin , S. Pita , A. Zech

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.…

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is the future observatory for ground-based imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes. Each telescope will provide a snapshot of gamma-ray induced particle showers by capturing the induced Cherenkov…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-24 J. Aschersleben , M. Vecchi , M. H. F. Wilkinson , R. F. Peletier

A medium-sized Schwarzchild-Couder Telescope (SCT) is being developed as a possible extension for the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA). The Cherenkov camera of the telescope is designed to have 11328 silicon photomultiplier pixels capable of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 M. Santander , J. Buckley , B. Humensky , R. Mukherjee

GAW (Gamma Air Watch) is a pathfinder experiment in the TeV range to test the feasibility of a new generation of Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes (IACT). It combines high flux sensitivity with large field-of-view (FoV=24deg x 24deg)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-06-14 Luisa Arruda , GAW collaboration

The next generation of Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov telescope, like CTA, is going to strongly improve the detection capability of high-energy cosmic rays. In our paper we discuss the possibility to use such apparatus to detect…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-07-28 Damiano F. G. Fiorillo , Gennaro Miele , Ofelia Pisanti

Disentangling the composition of the diffuse gamma-ray background (DGRB) is a major challenge in gamma-ray astronomy. It is presumed that at the highest energies, the DGRB is dominated by relatively few, still unresolved point sources. This…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-07-01 Moritz Hütten , Gernot Maier

The observational progress in the $\gamma$-ray astronomy in the last few years has led to the discovery of more than a thousand sources at GeV energies and more than a hundred sources at TeV energies. A few different classes of compact…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-06-21 W. Bednarek

Reconstruction of energies of very-high-energy gamma-rays observed by imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes is affected by changes in the atmospheric conditions and the performance of telescope components. Reliable calibration schemes…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-24 Stanislav Stefanik , Dalibor Nosek
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