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The SST-1M camera for the Cherenkov Telescope Array

The prototype camera of the single-mirror Small Size Telescopes (SST-1M) proposed for the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) project has been designed to be very compact and to deliver high performance over thirty years of operation. The…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-27 E. J. Schioppa , F. Cadoux , A. Christov , D. della Volpe , Y. Favre , M. Heller , T. Montaruli , A. Porcelli , M. Rameez , I. Troyano Pujadas , W. Bilnik , J. Blocki , L. Bogacz , T. Bulik , M. Curylo , M. Dyrda , A. Frankowski , L. Grudniki , M. Grudzinska , B. Idzkowski , M. Jamrozy , M. Janiak , J. Kasperek , K. Lalik , E. Lyard , E. Mach , D. Mandat , A. Marszalek , J. Michaowski , R. Moderski , A. Neronov , J. Niemiec , M. Ostrowski , P. Pasko , M. Pech , E. Prandini , P. Rajda , P. Schovanek , K. Seweryn , K. Skowron , V. Sliusar , M. Sowinski , L. Stawarz , M. Stodulska , M. Stodulski , S. Toscano , R. Walter , M. Wiecek , A. Zagdanski , K. Zietara , P. Zychowski

Design and performance of the prototype Schwarzschild-Couder Telescope camera

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is the next-generation ground-based observatory for very-high-energy gamma-ray astronomy. An innovative 9.7 m aperture, dual-mirror Schwarzschild-Couder Telescope (SCT) design is a candidate design for…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-14 C. B. Adams , G. Ambrosi , M. Ambrosio , C. Aramo , P. I. Batista , W. Benbow , B. Bertucci , E. Bissaldi , M. Bitossi , A. Boiano , C. Bonavolonta , R. Bose , A. Brill , A. M. Brown , J. H. Buckley , R. A. Cameron , M. Capasso , M. Caprai , C. E. Covault , D. Depaoli , L. Di Venere , M. Errando , S. Fegan , Q. Feng , E. Fiandrini , A. Furniss , A. Gent , N. Giglietto , F. Giordano , R. Halliday , O. Hervet , T. B. Humensky , S. Incardona , M. Ionica , W. Jin , D. Kieda , F. Licciulli , S. Loporchio , G. Marsella , V. Masone , K. Meagher , T. Meures , B. A. W. Mode , S. A. I. Mognet , R. Mukherjee , A. Okumura , N. Otte , F. R. Pantaleo , R. Paoletti , G. Pareschi , F. Di Pierro , E. Pueschel , D. Ribeiro , L. Riitano , E. Roache , D. Ross , J. Rousselle , A. Rugliancich , M. Santander , R. Shang , L. Stiaccini , H. Tajima , L. P. Taylor , L. Tosti , G. Tovmassian , G. Tripodo , V. Vagelli , M. Valentino , J. Vandenbroucke , V. V. Vassiliev , J. J. Watson , R. White , D. A. Williams , A. Zink

Development of an ASIC for Dual Mirror Telescopes of the Cherenkov Telescope Array

We have developed an application-specific integrated circui (ASIC) for photomultipler tube (PMT) waveform digitization which is well-suited for the Schwarzschild-Couder optical system under development for the Cherenkov Telescope Array…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 Justin Vandenbroucke , Keith Bechtol , Stefan Funk , Akira Okumura , Hiro Tajima , Gary Varner

Quality assurance of actuators for the Medium-Sized Telescopes of the Cherenkov Telescope Array

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is a future ground-based observatory for gamma-ray astronomy providing unparalleled sensitivity in the energy range from 20 GeV up to 300 TeV. CTA will consist of telescopes with three different sizes.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-25 Heiko Salzmann , Jürgen Dick , Sebastian Diebold , Gerd Pühlhofer , Siegbert Renner , Andrea Santangelo , CTA MST Project

Raman LIDARs for the atmospheric calibration along the line-of-sight of CTA

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is the next generation ground based observatory for gamma ray astronomy at very high energies. Employing more than 100 Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes in the northern and southern hemispheres, it…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-23 Otger Ballester , Oscar Blanch , Joan Boix , Johan Bregeon , Patrick Brun , Merve Colak , Michele Doro , Vania Da Deppo , Lluis Font , Omar Gabella , Rafael Garcia , Markus Gaug , Camilla Maggio , Manel Martinez , Oscar Martinez , Pere Munar Adrover , Raul Ramos , Stephane Rivoire , Samo Stanic , David Villar , George Vasileiadis , Longlong Wang , Marko Zavrtanik

Gammapy: high level data analysis for extragalactic science cases with the Cherenkov Telescope Array

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) observatory will probe the non-thermal universe above 20 GeV up to several hundreds of TeV with a significant improvement in sensitivity and angular resolution compared to current experiments. Its…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-10-25 Julien Lefaucheur , Catherine Boisson , Zeljka Bosnjak , Matteo Cerruti , Christoph Deil , Jean-Philippe Lenain , Santiago Pita , Andreas Zech

A Monte Carlo simulation study for cosmic-ray chemical composition measurement with Cherenkov Telescope Array

Our Galaxy is filled with cosmic-ray particles and more than 98% of them are atomic nuclei. In order to clarify their origin and acceleration mechanism, chemical composition measurements of these cosmic rays with wide energy coverage play…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-01-22 Michiko Ohishi , Takanori Yoshikoshi , Tatsuo Yoshida

Survey of the Galactic Plane with the CherenkovTelescope Array

Observations with the current generation of very-high-energy gamma-ray telescopes have revealed an astonishing variety of particle accelerators in the Milky Way, such as supernova remnants, pulsar wind nebulae, and binary systems. The…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-09 Q. Remy , L. Tibaldo , F. Acero , M. Fiori , J. Knödlseder , B. Olmi , P. Sharma

Sensitivity of the Cherenkov Telescope Array to a dark matter signal from the Galactic centre

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

Atmospheric calibration of the Cherenkov Telescope Array

Atmospheric monitoring is an integral part of the design of the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA), as atmospheric conditions affect the observations by Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes (IACT) in multiple ways. The variable optical…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-22 Jan Ebr , Tomasz Bulik , Lluis Font , Markus Gaug , Petr Janecek , Jakub Jurysek , Dusan Mandat , Stanislav Stefanik , Laura Valore , George Vasileiadis

NectarCAM : a camera for the medium size telescopes of the Cherenkov Telescope Array

NectarCAM is a camera proposed for the medium-sized telescopes of the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) covering the central energy range of ~100 GeV to ~30 TeV. It has a modular design and is based on the NECTAr chip, at the heart of which…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-27 J-F. Glicenstein , O. Abril , J-A. Barrio , O. Blanch~Bigas , J. Bolmont , F. Bouyjou , P. Brun , E. Chabanne , C. Champion , S. Colonges , P. Corona , E. Delagnes , C. Delgado , C. Diaz Ginzov , D. Durand , J-P. Ernenwein , S. Fegan , O. Ferreira , M. Fesquet , A. Fiasson , G. Fontaine , N. Fouque , D. Gascon , B. Giebels , F. Henault , R. Hermel , D. Hoffmann , D. Horan , J. Houles , P. Jean , L. Jocou , S. Karkar , J. Knoedlseder , R. Kossakowski , G. Lamanna , T. LeFlour , J-P. Lenain , A. Leveque , F. Louis , G. Martinez , Y. Moudden , E. Moulin , P. Nayman , F. Nunio , J-F. Olive , J-L. Panazol , S. Pavy , P-O. Petrucci , E. Pierre , J. Prast , M. Punch , P. Ramon , S. Rateau , T. Ravel , S. Rosier-Lees , A. Sanuy , M. Shayduk , P-Y. Sizun , K-H. Sulanke , J-P. Tavernet , L-A. Tejedor~Alvarez , F. Toussenel , G. Vasileiadis , V. Voisin , V. Waegebert , R. Wischnewski

CTA telescopes as deep-space lasercom ground receivers

The amount of scientific data to be transmitted from deep-space probes is very limited due to RF-communications constraints. Free-space optical communication can alleviate this bottleneck, increasing data rate while reducing weight, mass…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-02 Alberto Carrasco-Casado , Jose Manuel Sanchez-Pena , Ricardo Vergaz

Analysis of the Cherenkov Telescope Array first Large-Sized Telescope real data using convolutional neural networks

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is the future ground-based gamma-ray observatory and will be composed of two arrays of imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes (IACTs) located in the Northern and Southern hemispheres respectively. The…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-10 Thomas Vuillaume , Mikaël Jacquemont , Mathieu de Bony de Lavergne , David A. Sanchez , Vincent Poireau , Gilles Maurin , Alexandre Benoit , Patrick Lambert , Giovanni Lamanna , CTA-LST Project

The structure monitoring of the MST prototype of CTA

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is the next generation of ground-based gamma-ray observatory. The observatory will consist of two arrays, one located in the southern hemisphere (Paranal,Chile) and the other in the northern hemisphere…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-17 Victor Barbosa Martins , Markus Garczarczyk

Detecting and characterizing pulsar halos with the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory

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

FlashCam: a fully-digital camera for the medium-sized telescopes of the Cherenkov Telescope Array

The FlashCam group is currently preparing photomultiplier-tube based cameras proposed for the medium-sized telescopes (MST) of the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA). The cameras are designed around the FlashCam readout concept which is the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 G. Pühlhofer , C. Bauer , S. Bernhard , M. Capasso , S. Diebold , F. Eisenkolb , D. Florin , C. Föhr , S. Funk , A. Gadola , F. Garrecht , G. Hermann , I. Jung , O. Kalekin , C. Kalkuhl , J. Kasperek , T. Kihm , R. Lahmann , A. Manalaysay , A. Marszalek , M. Pfeifer , P. J. Rajda , O. Reimer , A. Santangelo , T. Schanz , T. Schwab , S. Steiner , U. Straumann , C. Tenzer , A. Vollhardt , Q. Weitzel , F. Werner , D. Wolf , K. Zietara

A Trigger Interface Board to manage trigger and timing signals in CTA Large-Sized Telescope and Medium-Sized Telescope cameras

One of the main goals of the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) observatory is to improve the $\gamma$-ray detection sensitivity by an order of magnitude, compared to the current ground-based observatories. Widening the energy coverage down to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-22 Pablo Peñil , Luis Ángel Tejedor , Juan Abel Barrio , Marcos López

TARGET: A multi-channel digitizer chip for very-high-energy gamma-ray telescopes

The next-generation very-high-energy (VHE) gamma-ray observatory, the Cherenkov Telescope Array, will feature dozens of imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes (IACTs), each with thousands of pixels of photo-sensors. To be affordable and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-19 K. Bechtol , S. Funk , A. Okumura , L. Ruckman , A. Simons , H. Tajima , J. Vandenbroucke , G. Varner

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

Characterization of Potential U.S. Sites for the Cherenkov Telescope Array

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is a major ground-based observatory proposed for gamma-ray astronomy. CTA is envisioned to consist of two large arrays of atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes for the study of sources of high-energy gamma…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 R. A. Ong , T. Aune , J. Hall