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As TeV gamma-ray astronomy progresses into the era of the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA), there is a desire for the capacity to instantaneously follow up on transient phenomena and continuously monitor gamma-ray flux at energies above…

The Compact High Energy Camera (CHEC) is a camera-development project involving UK, US, Japanese and Dutch institutes for the dual-mirror Small-Sized Telescopes (SST-2M) of the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA). Two CHEC prototypes, based on…

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) will be the next generation gamma-ray observatory and will be the major global instrument for very-high-energy astronomy over the next decade, offering 5 - 10 x better flux sensitivity than current…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-03 J. Aschersleben , R. F. Peletier , M. Vecchi , M. H. F. Wilkinson

The GCT is a dual-mirror Small-Sized-Telescope prototype proposed for the Cherenkov Telescope Array. Calibration of the GCT's camera is primarily achieved with LED-based flasher units capable of producing $\sim4$ ns FWHM pulses of 400 nm…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 Anthony M. Brown , Thomas Armstrong , Paula M. Chadwick , Michael Daniel , Richard White

Mechanics of the camera for the large size telescopes of CTA must protect and provide a stable environment for its instrumentation. This is achieved by a stiff support structure enclosed in an air and water tight volume. The structure is…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 Carlos Delgado , Oscar Blanch , Carlos Diaz , Noemi Hamer , Ohoka Hideyuki , Razmik Mirzoyan , Masahiro Teshima , Holger Wetteskind , Tokonatsu Yamamoto

The effective mirror area of an imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescope is a crucial key parameter for trigger threshold determination and energy calibration. It is usually calculated by 3D ray-tracing simulation using a simplified…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-19 Akira Okumura , Duncan Ross , Francesco G. Saturni , Giorgia Sironi , Richard White

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) will be the next generation ground-based observatory for very-high-energy (VHE) gamma-ray astronomy, with the deployment of tens of highly sensitive and fast-reacting Cherenkov telescopes. It will cover a…

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

We provide an updated assessment of the power of the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) to search for thermally produced dark matter at the TeV scale, via the associated gamma-ray signal from pair-annihilating dark matter particles in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-02-02 The Cherenkov Telescope Array Consortium , : , A. Acharyya , R. Adam , C. Adams , I. Agudo , A. Aguirre-Santaella , R. Alfaro , J. Alfaro , C. Alispach , R. Aloisio , R. Alves Batista , L. Amati , G. Ambrosi , E. O. Angüner , L. A. Antonelli , C. Aramo , A. Araudo , T. Armstrong , F. Arqueros , K. Asano , Y. Ascasíbar , M. Ashley , C. Balazs , O. Ballester , A. Baquero Larriva , V. Barbosa Martins , M. Barkov , U. Barres de Almeida , J. A. Barrio , D. Bastieri , J. Becerra , G. Beck , J. Becker Tjus , W. Benbow , M. Benito , D. Berge , E. Bernardini , K. Bernlöhr , A. Berti , B. Bertucci , V. Beshley , B. Biasuzzi , A. Biland , E. Bissaldi , J. Biteau , O. Blanch , J. Blazek , F. Bocchino , C. Boisson , L. Bonneau Arbeletche , P. Bordas , Z. Bosnjak , E. Bottacini , V. Bozhilov , J. Bregeon , A. Brill , T. Bringmann , A. M. Brown , P. Brun , F. Brun , P. Bruno , A. Bulgarelli , M. Burton , A. Burtovoi , M. Buscemi , R. 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Watson , C. Weniger , R. White , M. White , R. Wiemann , A. Wierzcholska , M. Will , D. A. Williams , R. Wischnewski , S. Yanagita , L. Yang , T. Yoshikoshi , M. Zacharias , G. Zaharijas , A. A. Zakaria , L. Zampieri , R. Zanin , D. Zaric , M. Zavrtanik , D. Zavrtanik , A. A. Zdziarski , A. Zech , H. Zechlin , V. I. Zhdanov , M. Živec

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is planned to be the next-generation very-high-energy (VHE; E > 100 GeV) gamma-ray observatory. It is anticipated that CTA will improve upon the sensitivity of the current generation of VHE experiments,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 W. Benbow , A. N. Otte

Very High Energy gamma-ray astronomy with the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is evolving towards the model of a public observatory. Handling, processing and archiving the large amount of data generated by the CTA instruments and delivering…

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) project aims to build the largest ground-based gamma-ray observatory based on an array of Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes (IACTs). The CTA will implement a multi-level trigger system to…

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is the next generation of ground-based gamma-ray astronomy observatory that will improve the sensitivity of current generation instruments by one order of magnitude. The LST-1 is the first telescope…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-02 Enrique Garcia , Thomas Vuillaume , Lukas Nickel

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is the next generation of Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes. It would reach unprecedented sensitivity and energy resolution in very-high-energy gamma-ray astronomy. In order to reach these goals,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-15 M. Doro , M. Gaug , J. Pallotta , G. Vasileiadis , O. Blanch , F. Chouza , R. D'Elia , A. Etchegoyen , Ll. Font , D. Garrido , F. Gonzales , A. López-Oramas , M. Martínez , L. Otero , E. Quel , P. Ristori

While current atmospheric Cherenkov installations consist of only a few telescopes each, future installations will be far more complex. Monte Carlo simulations have become an essential tool for the design and optimisation of such…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Konrad Bernloehr

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

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is the next generation of ground-based very high energy gamma-ray instruments and is planned to be built on two sites (one in each hemisphere) in the coming years, with full array operation foreseen to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 Jan Ebr , Petr Janecek , Michael Prouza , Jiri Blazek

The Cherenkov Telescope Array will provide unprecedented sensitivity and angular resolution to gamma rays across orders of magnitude in energy. Above 1 TeV up to around 300 TeV an array of Small-Sized Telescopes (SSTs) will cover several…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-17 Richard White

NectarCAM is a camera developed to detect Cherenkov light between 80 GeV and 30 TeV. It will equip the medium-sized telescopes (MST) of the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO). The camera comprises 265 modules, covering a field of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-28 F. Bradascio