English
Related papers

Related papers: Tools and Procedures for the CTA Array Calibration

200 papers

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

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. Cameron , M. Capasso , A. Caproni , R. Capuzzo-Dolcetta , P. Caraveo , R. Carosi , A. Carosi , S. Casanova , E. Cascone , F. Cassol , F. Catalani , D. Cauz , M. Cerruti , P. Chadwick , S. Chaty , A. Chen , M. Chernyakova , G. Chiaro , A. Chiavassa , M. Chikawa , J. Chudoba , M. Çolak , V. Conforti , R. Coniglione , F. Conte , J. L. Contreras , J. Coronado-Blazquez , A. Costa , H. Costantini , G. Cotter , P. Cristofari , A. D'Aì , F. D'Ammando , L. A. Damone , M. K. Daniel , F. Dazzi , A. De Angelis , V. De Caprio , R. de Cássia dos Anjos , E. M. de Gouveia Dal Pino , B. De Lotto , D. De Martino , E. de Oña Wilhelmi , F. De Palma , V. de Souza , C. Delgado , A. G. Delgado Giler , D. della Volpe , D. Depaoli , T. Di Girolamo , F. Di Pierro , L. Di Venere , S. Diebold , A. Dmytriiev , A. Domínguez , A. Donini , M. Doro , J. Ebr , C. Eckner , T. D. P. Edwards , T. R. N. Ekoume , D. Elsässer , C. Evoli , D. Falceta-Goncalves , E. Fedorova , S. Fegan , Q. Feng , G. Ferrand , G. Ferrara , E. Fiandrini , A. Fiasson , M. Filipovic , V. Fioretti , M. Fiori , L. Foffano , G. Fontaine , O. Fornieri , F. J. Franco , S. Fukami , Y. Fukui , D. Gaggero , G. Galaz , V. Gammaldi , E. Garcia , M. Garczarczyk , D. Gascon , A. Gent , A. Ghalumyan , F. Gianotti , M. Giarrusso , G. Giavitto , N. Giglietto , F. Giordano , A. Giuliani , J. Glicenstein , R. Gnatyk , P. Goldoni , M. M. González , K. Gourgouliatos , J. Granot , D. Grasso , J. Green , A. Grillo , O. Gueta , S. Gunji , A. Halim , T. Hassan , M. Heller , S. Hernández Cadena , N. Hiroshima , B. Hnatyk , W. Hofmann , J. Holder , D. Horan , J. Hörandel , P. Horvath , T. Hovatta , M. Hrabovsky , D. Hrupec , G. Hughes , T. B. Humensky , M. Hütten , M. Iarlori , T. Inada , S. Inoue , F. Iocco , M. Iori , M. Jamrozy , P. Janecek , W. Jin , L. Jouvin , J. Jurysek , E. Karukes , K. Katarzyński , D. Kazanas , D. Kerszberg , M. C. Kherlakian , R. Kissmann , J. Knödlseder , Y. Kobayashi , K. Kohri , N. Komin , H. Kubo , J. Kushida , G. Lamanna , J. Lapington , P. Laporte , M. A. Leigui de Oliveira , J. Lenain , F. Leone , G. Leto , E. Lindfors , T. Lohse , S. Lombardi , F. Longo , A. Lopez , M. López , R. López-Coto , S. Loporchio , P. L. Luque-Escamilla , E. Mach , C. Maggio , G. Maier , M. Mallamaci , R. Malta Nunes de Almeida , D. Mandat , M. Manganaro , S. Mangano , G. Manicò , M. Marculewicz , M. Mariotti , S. Markoff , P. Marquez , J. Martí , O. Martinez , M. Martínez , G. Martínez , H. Martínez-Huerta , G. Maurin , D. Mazin , J. D. Mbarubucyeye , D. Medina Miranda , M. Meyer , M. Miceli , T. Miener , M. Minev , J. M. Miranda , R. Mirzoyan , T. Mizuno , B. Mode , R. Moderski , L. Mohrmann , E. Molina , T. Montaruli , A. Moralejo , D. Morcuende-Parrilla , A. Morselli , R. Mukherjee , C. Mundell , A. Nagai , T. Nakamori , R. Nemmen , J. Niemiec , D. Nieto , M. Nikołajuk , D. Ninci , K. Noda , D. Nosek , S. Nozaki , Y. Ohira , M. Ohishi , Y. Ohtani , T. Oka , A. Okumura , R. A. Ong , M. Orienti , R. Orito , M. Orlandini , S. Orlando , E. Orlando , M. Ostrowski , I. Oya , I. Pagano , A. Pagliaro , M. Palatiello , F. R. Pantaleo , J. M. Paredes , G. Pareschi , N. Parmiggiani , B. Patricelli , L. Pavletić , A. Pe'er , M. Pecimotika , J. Pérez-Romero , M. Persic , O. Petruk , K. Pfrang , G. Piano , P. Piatteli , E. Pietropaolo , R. Pillera , B. Pilszyk , F. Pintore , M. Pohl , V. Poireau , R. R. Prado , E. Prandini , J. Prast , G. Principe , H. Prokoph , M. Prouza , H. Przybilski , G. Pühlhofer , M. L. Pumo , F. Queiroz , A. Quirrenbach , S. Rainò , R. Rando , S. Razzaque , S. Recchia , O. Reimer , A. Reisenegger , Y. Renier , W. Rhode , D. Ribeiro , M. Ribó , T. Richtler , J. Rico , F. Rieger , L. Rinchiuso , V. Rizi , J. Rodriguez , G. Rodriguez Fernandez , J. C. Rodriguez Ramirez , G. Rojas , P. Romano , G. Romeo , J. Rosado , G. Rowell , B. Rudak , F. Russo , I. Sadeh , E. Sæther Hatlen , S. Safi-Harb , F. Salesa Greus , G. Salina , D. Sanchez , M. Sánchez-Conde , P. Sangiorgi , H. Sano , M. Santander , E. M. Santos , R. Santos-Lima , A. Sanuy , S. Sarkar , F. G. Saturni , U. Sawangwit , F. Schussler , U. Schwanke , E. Sciacca , S. Scuderi , M. Seglar-Arroyo , O. Sergijenko , M. Servillat , K. Seweryn , A. Shalchi , P. Sharma , R. C. Shellard , H. Siejkowski , J. Silk , C. Siqueira , V. Sliusar , A. Słowikowska , A. Sokolenko , H. Sol , S. Spencer , A. Stamerra , S. Stanič , R. Starling , T. Stolarczyk , U. Straumann , J. Strišković , Y. Suda , T. Suomijarvi , P. Świerk , F. Tavecchio , L. Taylor , L. A. Tejedor , M. Teshima , V. Testa , L. Tibaldo , C. J. Todero Peixoto , F. Tokanai , D. Tonev , G. Tosti , L. Tosti , N. Tothill , S. Truzzi , P. Travnicek , V. Vagelli , B. Vallage , P. Vallania , C. van Eldik , J. Vandenbroucke , G. S. Varner , V. Vassiliev , M. Vázquez Acosta , M. Vecchi , S. Ventura , S. Vercellone , S. Vergani , G. Verna , A. Viana , C. F. Vigorito , J. Vink , V. Vitale , S. Vorobiov , I. Vovk , T. Vuillaume , S. J. Wagner , R. Walter , J. 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 the future large observatory in the very high energy (VHE) domain. Operating from 20 GeV to 300 TeV, it will be composed of tens of Imaging Air Cherenkov Telescopes (IACTs) displaced in a large area of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-18 Valentina Fioretti , Andrea Bulgarelli , Fabian Schussler

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is the next major ground-based observatory for gamma-ray astronomy. With CTA gamma-ray sources will be studied in the very-high energy gamma-ray range of a few tens of GeV to 100 TeV with up to ten times…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-08-05 Kevin J. Meagher

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 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 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

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) will use three telescope sizes to efficiently detect cosmic gamma rays in the energy range from several tens of GeV to hundreds of TeV. The Small-Sized Telescopes (SSTs) will form the largest section of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-28 R. White

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA), currently in its Preparatory Phase, will be the first open observatory for very high energy gamma-rays from galactic and extragalactic sources. The international consortium behind CTA is preparing the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 A. Zech

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) will be the world's first open observatory for very high energy gamma-rays. Around a hundred telescopes of different sizes will be used to detect the Cherenkov light that results from gamma-ray induced…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-17 A. Zech , J. -P. Amans , S. Blake , C. Boisson , C. Costille , F. De-Frondat , J. -L. Dournaux , D. Dumas , G. Fasola , T. Greenshaw , O. Hervet , J. -M. Huet , P. Laporte , C. Rulten , D. Savoie , F. Sayede , J. Schmoll , H. Sol

The recently identified source class of pulsar halos may be populated and bright enough at TeV energies to constitute a large fraction of the sources that will be observed with the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA), especially in the context…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-10-03 Christopher Eckner

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is the next generation gamma-ray observatory. CTA will incorporate about 100 imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes (IACTs) at a southern site, and about 20 in the north. Previous IACT experiments have…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-22 Iftach Sadeh , Igor Oya , Joseph Schwarz , Emmanuel Pietriga , Dejan Dezman

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is the next generation very high energy gamma-ray observatory covering the 20 GeV - 300 TeV energy range with unprecedented sensitivity, angular and energy resolution. With a site in each hemisphere, CTA…

Two of the Key Science Projects of the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) consist in performing a deep survey of the Galactic and Extragalactic sky, providing an unbiased view of the Universe at energies above tens of GeV. To optimize the time…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-19 A. Donini , T. Gasparetto , J. Bregeon , F. Di Pierro , F. Longo , G. Maier , A. Moralejo , T. Vuillaume

Cosmic ray electrons represent a background for gamma-ray observations with Cherenkov telescopes, initiating air-showers which are difficult to distinguish from photon-initiated showers. This similarity, however, and the presence of cosmic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-08-16 R. D. Parsons , J. A. Hinton , H. Schoorlemmer

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 Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) will be the next generation instrument for the very high energy gamma-ray astrophysics domain. With its enhanced sensitivity in comparison with the current facilities, CTA is expected to shed light on a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-01-08 Enrique Mestre , Emma de Oña Wilhelmi , Roberta Zanin , Diego F. Torres , Luigi Tibaldo

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