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The Water Cherenkov Detector Array (WCDA) is a major component of the Large High Altitude Air Shower Array Observatory (LHAASO), a new generation cosmic-ray experiment with unprecedented sensitivity, currently under construction. The WCDA…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-02-24 Yingying Guo , Xiaochuan Chang , Hongbo Hu , Zhiguo Yao

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) will present the next leap forward in gamma-ray astronomy, pushing beyond the present energy frontier to probe beyond 300 TeV. This capability is provided by the 70 Small Sized Telescopes (SSTs). The SSTs…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-23 Jason John Watson , Justus Zorn

The future of ground based gamma ray astronomy lies in large arrays of Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes (IACT) with better capabilities: lower energy threshold, higher sensitivity, better resolution and background rejection.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-01-31 S. Sajjad , A. Falvard , G. Vasileiadis

The Cherenkov Telescopes Array (CTA) is planned to be an Observatory for very high energy gamma ray astronomy and will consist of several tens of telescopes which account for a reflective surface of more than 10000 m$^2$. The mirrors of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 M. C. Medina , B. Garcia , J. Maya , A. Mancilla , J. J. Larrarte , E. Rasztocky , M. Benitez , J. Dipold , M. Platino

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

Detecting cosmic gamma rays at high rates is the key to time-resolve the acceleration of particles within some of the most powerful events in the universe. Time-resolving the emission of gamma rays from merging celestial bodies, apparently…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-12 Sebastian Achim Mueller , Spyridon Daglas , Axel Arbet Engels , Max Ludwig Ahnen , Dominik Neise , Adrian Egger , Eleni Chatzi , Adrian Biland , Werner Hofmann

The Cygnus region hosts one of the most remarkable star-forming regions in the Milky Way. Indeed, the total mass in molecular gas of the Cygnus X complex exceeds 10 times the total mass of all other nearby star-forming regions. Surveys at…

The future Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) will consist of several tens of telescopes of different mirror sizes. CTA will provide next generation sensitivity to very high energy photons from few tens of GeV to >100 TeV. Several focal plane…

The simultaneous observation of gamma rays and neutrinos from the same astrophysical source offers a unique opportunity to probe particle acceleration and interaction mechanisms in ultra-high-energy environments. The Cherenkov Telescope…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-17 Gloria Maria Cicciari , Manuela Mallamaci , Giovanni Marsella , Alberto Rosales de León , Olga Sergijenko , Giovanna Ferrara

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is a planned observatory for very-high energy gamma-ray astronomy. It will consist of several tens of telescopes of different sizes, with a total mirror area of up to 10,000 square meters. Most mirrors of…

The Gamma-ray Cherenkov Telescope (GCT) is one of the Small Size Telescopes (SSTs) proposed for the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) aimed at the 1 TeV to 300 TeV energy range. GCT will be equipped with a Compact High-Energy Camera (CHEC)…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 Richard White , Harm Schoorlemmer

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…

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A review of very high energy gamma-ray astronomy is presented. Particular attention is paid to the atmospheric Cherenkov imaging technique whose employment has resulted in detections of both galactic and extra-galactic objects at energies…

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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…

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Monochromatic gamma-ray signals constitute a potential smoking gun signature for annihilating or decaying dark matter particles that could relatively easily be distinguished from astrophysical or instrumental backgrounds. We provide an…

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Zhang , V. I. Zhdanov , K. Ziętara , M. Živec , J. Zuriaga-Puig

Detection of delayed sub-TeV photons from Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) by MAGIC and HESS has proven the promising future of GRB afterglow studies with the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA), the next-generation gamma-ray observatory. With the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-05-22 Tanima Mondal , Suman Pramanick , Lekshmi Resmi , Debanjan Bose

The Yakutsk array group is developing a wide field-of-view Cherenkov telescope to be operated in coincidence with the surface detectors of the extensive air shower array. Currently, the engineering prototype of the reflecting telescope with…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 A. A. Ivanov , S. P. Knurenko , A. D. Krasilnikov , Z. E. Petrov , M. I. Pravdin , I. Ye. Sleptsov , L. V. Timofeev

Imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes (IACTs) that are sensitive to potential $\gamma$-ray signals from dark matter (DM) annihilation above $\sim50$ GeV will soon be superseded by the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA). CTA will have a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-10-11 Csaba Balázs , Jan Conrad , Ben Farmer , Thomas Jacques , Tong Li , Manuel Meyer , Farinaldo S. Queiroz , Miguel A. Sánchez-Conde

In this work, we study the potential of the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) for the detection of Galactic dark matter (DM) subhalos. We focus on low-mass subhalos that do not host any baryonic content and therefore lack any multiwavelength…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-06-08 Javier Coronado-Blázquez , Michele Doro , Miguel A. Sánchez-Conde , Alejandra Aguirre-Santaella