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A Central Laser Facility for the Cherenkov Telescope Array

A Central Laser Facility is a system often used in astroparticle experiments based on arrays of fluorescence or Cherenkov light detectors. The instrument is based on a laser source positioned at a certain distance from the array, emitting…

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Development of the photomultiplier tube readout system for the first Large-Sized Telescope of the Cherenkov Telescope Array

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is the next generation ground-based very high energy gamma-ray observatory. The Large-Sized Telescope (LST) of CTA targets 20 GeV -- 1 TeV gamma rays and has 1855 photomultiplier tubes (PMTs) installed in…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 Shu Masuda , Yusuke Konno , Juan Abel Barrio , Oscar Blanch Bigas , Carlos Delgado , Lluís Freixas Coromina , Shuichi Gunji , Daniela Hadasch , Kenichiro Hatanaka , Masahiro Ikeno , Jose Maria Illa Laguna , Yusuke Inome , Kazuma Ishio , Hideaki Katagiri , Hidetoshi Kubo , Gustavo Martínez , Daniel Mazin , Daisuke Nakajima , Takeshi Nakamori , Hideyuki Ohoka , Riccardo Paoletti , Stefan Ritt , Andrea Rugliancich , Takayuki Saito , Karl-Heinz Sulanke , Junki Takeda , Manobu Tanaka , Shunsuke Tanigawa , Luis Ángel Tejedor , Masahiro Teshima , Yugo Tsuchiya , Tomohisa Uchida , Tokonatsu Yamamoto , the LST team

The Transient program of the Cherenkov Telescope Array

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is the next generation high-energy gamma-ray observatory. It will improve the sensitivity of current instruments up to an order of magnitude, while providing energy coverage for photons from 20 GeV to at…

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Muon tagging on the Backend-Electronics of CHEC-S -- a compact high-energy camera for the Cherenkov Telescope Array

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…

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CTA and cosmic-ray diffusion in molecular clouds

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 <…

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Calibration of the Air Shower Energy Scale of the Water and Air Cherenkov Techniques in the LHAASO experiment

The Wide Field-of-View Cherenkov Telescope Array (WFCTA) and the Water Cherenkov Detector Arrays (WCDA) of LHAASO are designed to work in combination for measuring the energy spectra of various cosmic ray species over a very wide energy…

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Status of the technologies for the production of the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) mirrors

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is the next generation very high-energy gamma-ray observatory, with at least 10 times higher sensitivity than current instruments. CTA will comprise several tens of Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov…

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Schwarzschild-Couder telescope for the Cherenkov Telescope Array: Development of the Optical System

The CTA (Cherenkov Telescope Array) is the next generation ground-based experiment for very high-energy (VHE) gamma-ray observations. It will integrate several tens of imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes (IACTs) with different…

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Design study of an air-Cherenkov telescope for harsh environments with efficient air-shower detection at 100 TeV

Telescopes, designed with semi-conductor based photo sensors, have the potential to detect Cherenkov or fluorescence light emitted by cosmic-rays in the atmosphere. Such telescopes promise a high duty cycle and efficiency in remote harsh…

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Cooling Tests of the NectarCAM camera for the Cherenkov Telescope Array

The NectarCAM is a camera proposed for the medium-sized telescopes in the framework of the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA), the next-generation observatory for very-high-energy gamma-ray astronomy. The cameras are designed to operate in an…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 E. Moulin , C. Diaz , D. Durand , O. Feirreira , M. Fesquet , B. Giebels , J. -F. Glicenstein , D. Loiseau , F. Louis , F. Nunio , S. Rateau

Cross Calibration of Telescope Optical Throughput Efficiencies using Reconstructed Shower Energies for the Cherenkov Telescope Array

For reliable event reconstruction of Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes (IACTs), calibration of the optical throughput efficiency is required. Within current facilities, this is achieved through the use of ring shaped images generated…

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Monitoring of the terrestrial atmospheric characteristics with using of stellar and solar photometry

On the basis of experience acquired at creation of the Pulkovo Spectrophotometric Catalog the method of investigation of a terrestrial atmospheric components (aerosols and water vapor) in night time are designed. For these purposes the…

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Modeling the Optical Cherenkov Signals by Cosmic Ray Extensive Air Showers Directly Observed from Sub-Orbital and Orbital Altitudes

Future experiments based on the observation of Earth's atmosphere from sub-orbital and orbital altitudes plan to include optical Cherenkov cameras to observe extensive air showers produced by high-energy cosmic radiation via its interaction…

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Status of the Medium-Sized Telescopes for the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory

The Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO) is a next-generation ground-based gamma-ray observatory that will study the universe at very high energy using atmospheric Cherenkov light. CTAO will comprise over 67 telescopes of three…

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The throughput calibration of the VERITAS telescopes

Imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes are continuously exposed to varying weather conditions that have short and long-term effects on their response to Cherenkov light from extensive air showers. This work presents the implementation of…

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Distributed Real-Time Data Stream Analysis for CTA

Once completed, the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) will be able to map the gamma-ray sky in a wide energy range from several tens of GeV to some hundreds of TeV and will be more sensitive than previous experiments by an order of magnitude.…

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Using Muon Rings for the Optical Throughput Calibration of the Cherenkov Telescope Array

Muon ring images observed with Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes (IACTs) provide a powerful means to calibrate the optical throughput of IACTs and monitor their optical point spread function. We investigate whether muons ring images…

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Calibration and performance of the readout system based on switched capacitor arrays for the Large-Sized Telescope of the Cherenkov Telescope Array

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is the next-generation ground-based very-high-energy gamma-ray observatory. The Large-Sized Telescope (LST) of CTA is designed to detect gamma rays between 20 GeV and a few TeV with a 23-meter diameter…

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Gamma-ray Observations Under Bright Moonlight with VERITAS

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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…

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