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High-energy gamma rays are promising tools to constrain or reveal the nature of dark matter, in particular Weakly Interacting Massive Particles. Being well into its pre-construction phase, the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) will soon probe…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-08-23 Christopher Eckner

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…

The galactic and extragalactic surveys are two of the main proposed legacy projects of the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA), providing an unbiased view of the Universe at energies above tens of GeV. Considering Cherenkov telescopes' limited…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 Lucie Gérard

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) will be the largest cosmic gamma ray detector ever built in the world. It will be installed at two different sites in the North and South hemispheres and should be operational for about 30 years. In order…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 F. Hénault , P. O. Petrucci , L. jocou , B. Khélifi , P. Manigot , S. Hormigos , J. Knodlseder , J. F. Olive , P. Jean , M. Punch

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) will be the future observatory for TeV gamma-ray astronomy. In order to increase the sensitivity and to extend the energy coverage beyond the capabilities of current facilities, its design concept…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-09 S. Diebold , J. Dick , G. Pühlhofer , S. Renner , A. Santangelo , T. Schanz , C. Tenzer , the CTA Consortium

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is about to enter construction phase and one of its main key science projects is to perform an unbiased survey in search of extragalactic sources. We make use of both the latest blazar gamma--ray…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-07-04 Andrea De Franco , Yoshiyuki Inoue , Miguel A. Sánchez-Conde , Garret Cotter

The site selection group for the future Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) has deployed sensitive light sensors at 9 candidate sites, 5 of them in the Southern and 4 in the Northern hemisphere. The sensors are equipped with a PIN diode and a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 Markus Gaug

The atmospheric monitoring devices for the planned calibration system of the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) are undergoing intensive development, prototyping and testing. The All-Sky Cameras, the Sun/Moon Photometers and the FRAM…

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is an international next-generation ground-based gamma-ray observatory. CTA will be implemented as southern and northern hemisphere arrays of tens of small, medium and large-sized imaging Cherenkov…

The last 20 years have seen the development of new techniques in Astroparticle Physics providing access to the highest end of the electromagnetic spectrum. It has been shown that some sources emit photons up to energies close to 100 TeV.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-08-04 J. L. Contreras , J. Rosado , F. Arqueros , M. López , J. A. Barrio , M. Nievas

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 2013-02-06 K. Louedec , M. Will

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…

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is an atmospheric Cherenkov observatory that will image the cosmos in very-high-energy gamma rays. CTA will study the highest-energy particle accelerators in the Universe and potentially confirm the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 J. Vandenbroucke

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is expected to become the by far largest and most sensitive observatory for very-high-energy gamma rays in the energy range from 20 GeV to more than 300 TeV. CTA will be capable of detecting gamma rays…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-19 G. Maier , L. Arrabito , K. Bernlöhr , J. Bregeon , P. Cumani , T. Hassan , J. Hinton , A. Moralejo

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

Molecular clouds act as primary targets for cosmic-ray interactions and are expected to shine in gamma-rays as a by-product of these interactions. Indeed several detected gamma-ray sources both in HE and VHE gamma-rays (HE: 100 MeV < E <…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 G. Pedaletti , D. F. Torres , S. Gabici , E. de Oña Wilhelmi , D. Mazin , V. Stamatescu

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is the next generation very high energy gamma-ray observatory. It will consist of three classes of telescopes, of large, medium and small sizes. The small telescopes, of 4 m diameter, will be dedicated to…

The NectarCAM is a camera that will be mounted on the Medium-Sized Telescopes of the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) observatory. Along with the hardware integration of the camera, the scientific software, $\texttt{nectarchain}$, is being…

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) will be the world's largest and by far most sensitive observatory for high-energy gamma rays. It will be capable of detecting gamma rays from extremely faint sources with unprecedented precision on energy…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-22 G. Maier , L. Arrabito , K. Bernlöhr , J. Bregeon , P. Cumani , T. Hassan , A. Moralejo