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A single-mirror small-size (1M-SST) Davies-Cotton telescope has been proposed for the southern observatory of the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) by a consortium of scientific institutions from Poland, Switzerland, and Germany. The…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 Jacek Niemiec , Jerzy Michałowski , Michał Dyrda , Wojciech Kochański , Jaromir Ludwin , Marek Stodulski , Paweł Ziółkowski , Paweł Żychowski

The upcoming Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) project is expected to provide unprecedented sensitivity in the low-energy ( <~100 GeV) range for Cherenkov telescopes. In order to exploit fully the potential of the telescopes the standard…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 Julian Sitarek , Dorota Sobczyńska , Michał Szanecki , Katarzyna Adamczyk

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is the next ground-based $\gamma$-ray observatory in the TeV $\gamma$-ray spectral region operating with the Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Technique. It is based on almost 70 telescopes of different class…

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 Gamma-ray Cherenkov Telescope (GCT) is proposed for the Small-Sized Telescope component of the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA). GCT's dual-mirror Schwarzschild-Couder (SC) optical system allows the use of a compact camera with small…

We present here the status of the medium size prototype for the Cherenkov Telescope Array. The main reasons to build the prototype are the test of the steel structure, the training of various mounting operations, the test of the drive…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Juergen Baehr

CTA will comprise a sub-array of up to 70 small size telescopes (SSTs) at the southern array. The SST-1M project, a 4 m-diameter Davies Cotton telescope with 9 degrees FoV and a 1296 pixels SiPM camera, is designed to meet the requirements…

The Large-Sized Telescopes (LSTs) of Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) are designed for gamma-ray studies focusing on low energy threshold, high flux sensitivity, rapid telescope repositioning speed and a large field of view. Once the CTA…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-23 Daniel Mazin

Pointing calibration is an offline correction applied in order to obtain the true pointing direction of a telescope. The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) aims to have the precision to determine the position of point-like as well as slightly…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 Louise Oakes , Bagmeet Behera , Juergen Baehr , Sandra Gruenewald , Tobias Raeck , Stefan Schlenstedt , Anja Schubert , Ullrich Schwanke

NectarCAM is a Cherenkov camera designed to detect gamma rays with energies between 80 GeV and 50 TeV. It will equip nine medium-sized telescopes (MSTs) of the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory. NectarCAM consists of 1855 pixels…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-19 Pablo Correa , CTAO NectarCAM Collaboration

The Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Technique (IACT) is unusual in astronomy as the atmosphere actually forms an intrinsic part of the detector system, with telescopes indirectly detecting very high energy particles by the generation and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 M. K. Daniel

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 Next-Generation Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescope Array (NG-ACTA) is proposed as a prospective infrastructure for very high energy (VHE) gamma-ray astronomy, consisting of a mixed-aperture array of 88 telescopes with a maximum array…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-23 Jiancheng Wang , Jirong Mao

Observations with the current generation of very-high-energy gamma-ray telescopes have revealed an astonishing variety of particle accelerators in the Milky Way, such as supernova remnants, pulsar wind nebulae, and binary systems. The…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-09 Q. Remy , L. Tibaldo , F. Acero , M. Fiori , J. Knödlseder , B. Olmi , P. Sharma

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is a ground-based $\gamma$-ray observatory that will observe the full sky in the energy range from 20 GeV to 100 TeV from facilities in both hemispheres. It is proposed to consist of more than 100…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-07 Ramin Marx , Raquel de los Reyes

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is a forthcoming international ground-based observatory for very high-energy gamma rays. Its goal is to reach sensitivity five to ten times better than existing Cherenkov telescopes such as VERITAS,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-05 K. Tayabaly , D. Spiga , R. Canestrari , G. Bonnoli , M. Lavagna , G. Pareschi

NectarCAM is a camera proposed for the medium-sized telescopes of the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) which covers the core energy range of ~100 GeV to ~30 TeV. It has a modular design and is based on the NECTAr chip, at the heart of which…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 J-F. Glicenstein , M. Shayduk

The next-generation ground-based gamma-ray Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO) will consist of imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes (IACTs) of three different sizes distributed in two sites. The Large-Sized Telescopes will…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-09-21 Daniel Morcuende , Rubén López-Coto , Abelardo Moralejo , Seiya Nozaki , Thomas Vuillaume