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Central Acceptance Testing for Camera Technologies for CTA

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

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

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

The Instrument Response Function Format for the Cherenkov Telescope Array

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is a future ground-based observatory (with two locations, in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres) that will be used in the study of the very-high-energy gamma-ray sky. CTA observations will be proposed…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 John E. Ward , Javier Rico , Tarek Hassan

Standardisation of Data Formats in Gamma-ray Astronomy

The operation of the future Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA), the next generation of Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes (IACTs), as an Open Observatory requires data products and analysis tools to be accessible and usable by the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-18 Cosimo Nigro , Tarek Hassan

First results of the two square meters multilayer glass composite mirror design proposed for the Cherenkov Telescope Array developed at INFN

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

Dark Matter Line Searches with the Cherenkov Telescope Array

Monochromatic gamma-ray signals constitute a potential smoking gun signature for annihilating or decaying dark matter particles that could relatively easily be distinguished from astrophysical or instrumental backgrounds. We provide an…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-07-24 S. Abe , J. Abhir , A. Abhishek , F. Acero , A. Acharyya , R. Adam , A. Aguasca-Cabot , I. Agudo , A. Aguirre-Santaella , J. Alfaro , R. Alfaro , N. Alvarez-Crespo , R. Alves Batista , J. -P. Amans , E. Amato , G. Ambrosi , L. Angel , C. Aramo , C. Arcaro , T. T. H. Arnesen , L. Arrabito , K. Asano , Y. Ascasibar , J. Aschersleben , H. Ashkar , M. Backes , A. Baktash , C. Balazs , M. Balbo , A. Baquero Larriva , V. Barbosa Martins , U. Barres de Almeida , J. A. Barrio , I. Batković , R. Batzofin , J. Baxter , J. Becerra González , G. Beck , W. Benbow , D. Berge , E. Bernardini , J. Bernete , K. Bernlöhr , A. Berti , B. Bertucci , P. Bhattacharjee , S. Bhattacharyya , C. Bigongiari , A. Biland , E. Bissaldi , J. Biteau , O. Blanch , J. Blazek , F. Bocchino , C. Boisson , J. Bolmont , G. Bonnoli , A. Bonollo , P. Bordas , Z. Bosnjak , E. Bottacini , M. Böttcher , T. Bringmann , E. Bronzini , R. Brose , A. M. Brown , G. Brunelli , A. Bulgarelli , T. Bulik , I. Burelli , L. Burmistrov , M. Burton , M. Buscemi , T. Bylund , J. Cailleux , A. Campoy-Ordaz , B. K. Cantlay , G. Capasso , A. Caproni , R. Capuzzo-Dolcetta , P. Caraveo , S. Caroff , A. Carosi , R. Carosi , E. Carquin , M. -S. Carrasco , F. Cassol , L. Castaldini , N. Castrejon , A. J. Castro-Tirado , D. Cerasole , M. Cerruti , P. M. Chadwick , S. Chaty , A. W. Chen , M. Chernyakova , A. Chiavassa , J. Chudoba , L. Chytka , G. M. Cicciari , A. Cifuentes , C. H. Coimbra Araujo , M. Colapietro , V. Conforti , F. Conte , J. L. Contreras , A. Costa , H. Costantini , G. Cotter , P. Cristofari , O. Cuevas , Z. Curtis-Ginsberg , G. D'Amico , F. D'Ammando , S. Dai , M. Dalchenko , F. Dazzi , A. De Angelis , M. de Bony de Lavergne , V. De Caprio , E. M. de Gouveia Dal Pino , B. De Lotto , M. De Lucia , R. de Menezes , M. de Naurois , V. de Souza , L. del Peral , M. V. del Valle , A. G. Delgado Giler , J. Delgado Mengual , C. Delgado , M. 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Zhang , V. I. Zhdanov , K. Ziętara , M. Živec , J. Zuriaga-Puig

Extracting gamma-ray information from images with convolutional neural network methods on simulated Cherenkov Telescope Array data

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) will be the world's leading ground-based gamma-ray observatory allowing us to study very high energy phenomena in the Universe. CTA will produce huge data sets, of the order of petabytes, and the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-02 S. Mangano , C. Delgado , M. Bernardos , M. Lallena , J. J. Rodríguez Vázquez

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

Strategies for the Follow-up of Gravitational Wave Transients with the Cherenkov Telescope Array

The observation of the electromagnetic counterpart of gravitational-wave (GW) transient GW170817 demonstrated the potential in extracting astrophysical information from multimessenger discoveries. The forthcoming deployment of the first…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-03-21 Imre Bartos , Tristano Di Girolamo , Jonathan R. Gair , Martin Hendry , Ik Siong Heng , T. Brian Humensky , Szabolcs Marka , Zsuzsa Marka , Chris Messenger , Reshmi Mukherjee , Daniel Nieto , Paul O'Brien , Marcos Santander

The Science Alert Generation system of the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) Observatory, with dozens of telescopes located in both the Northern and Southern Hemispheres, will be the largest ground-based gamma-ray observatory and will provide broad energy coverage from 20 GeV to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-23 A. Bulgarelli , S. Caroff , A. Addis , P. Aubert , L. Baroncelli , G. De Cesare , A. DiPiano , V. Fioretti , E. Garcia , G. Maurin , N. Parmiggiani , T. Vuillaume , I. Oya , C. Hoischen

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

A Prototype Data Format for the Cherenkov Telescope Array: Regions Of Interest (ROI)

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

Prototype Open Event Reconstruction Pipeline for the Cherenkov Telescope Array

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is the next-generation gamma-ray observatory currently under construction. It will improve over the current generation of imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes (IACTs) by a factor of five to ten in…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-24 Maximilian Nöthe , Karl Kosack , Lukas Nickel , Michele Peresano

Exploring high-energy processes in binary systems with the Cherenkov Telescope Array

Several types of binary systems have been detected up to now at high and very high gamma-ray energies, including microquasars, young pulsars around massive stars and colliding wind binaries. The study of the sources already known, and of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 J. M. Paredes , W. Bednarek , P. Bordas , V. Bosch-Ramon , E. De Cea del Pozo , G. Dubus , S. Funk , D. Hadasch , D. Khangulyan , S. Markoff , J. Moldon , P. Munar-Adrover , S. Nagataki , T. Naito , M. de Naurois , G. Pedaletti , O. Reimer , M. Ribo , A. Szostek , Y. Terada , D. F. Torres , V. Zabalza , A. A. Zdziarski

Status and performance results from NectarCAM -- a camera for CTA medium sized telescopes

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) will be the first ground-based observatory for gamma-ray astronomy. With more than a hundred of 4th generation of Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes (IACTs) distributed in two large arrays, CTA will…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-05 Thomas Tavernier , Jean-François Glicenstein , François Brun

Prospects for Detecting Gamma-Ray Bursts at Very High Energies with the Cherenkov Telescope Array

We discuss the prospects for the detection of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) by the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA), the next generation, ground-based facility of imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes (IACTs) operating above a few tens of GeV.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-03 Jun Kakuwa , Kohta Murase , Kenji Toma , Susumu Inoue , Ryo Yamazaki , Kunihito Ioka

POSyTIVE -- a GRB population study for the Cherenkov Telescope Array (ICRC-2019)

One of the central scientific goals of the next-generation Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is the detection and characterization of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). CTA will be sensitive to gamma rays with energies from about 20 GeV, up to a few…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-06 Maria Grazia Bernardini , Elisabetta Bissaldi , Zeljka Bosnjak , Alessandro Carosi , Paolo D'Avanzo , Tristano Di Girolamo , Susumu Inoue , Thomas Gasparetto , Giancarlo Ghirlanda , Francesco Longo , Andrea Melandri , Lara Nava , Paul O'Brien , Iftach Sadeh , Fabian Schüssler , Thierry Stolarczyk , Susanna Vergani , Carlo Francesco Vigorito

Signatures of relativistic protons in CTA blazar spectra

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) will provide very-high-energy (VHE; >~30 GeV) gamma-ray spectra of unprecedented resolution over a large energy range. It is likely that, at least for bright sources, spectral features will be revealed…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 A. Zech , M. Cerruti

On the sensitivity of CTA to gamma-ray boxes from multi-TeV dark matter

Collider, direct and indirect searches for dark matter have typically little or no sensitivity to weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) with masses above a few TeV. This rather unexplored regime can however be probed through the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-07-07 Alejandro Ibarra , Anna S. Lamperstorfer , Sergio López Gehler , Miguel Pato , Gianfranco Bertone