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The Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Technique (IACT) is unusual in astronomy as the atmosphere actually forms an intrinsic part of the detector system, with telescopes indirectly detecting very high energy particles by the generation and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 M. K. Daniel

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is a future instrument for very-high-energy (VHE) gamma-ray astronomy that is expected to deliver an order of magnitude improvement in sensitivity over existing instruments. In order to meet the physics…

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) will be able to perform unprecedented observations of the transient very high-energy sky. An on-line science alert generation (SAG) pipeline, with a required 30 second latency, will allow the discovery or…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-19 Valentina Fioretti , Deivid Ribeiro , Thomas B. Humensky , Andrea Bulgarelli , Gernot Maier , Abelardo Moralejo , Cosimo Nigro

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) will be the world's first observatory for detecting gamma-rays from astrophysical phenomena and is now in its prototyping phase with construction expected to begin in 2015/16. In this work we present the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 Cameron B. Rulten , Sam J. Nolan

Ground-based gamma-ray astronomy has had a major breakthrough with the impressive results obtained using systems of imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes. Ground-based gamma-ray astronomy has a huge potential in astrophysics, particle…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2012-04-13 The CTA Consortium

Gamma-ray astronomy holds a great potential for Astrophysics, Particle Physics and Cosmology. The CTA is an inter- national initiative to build the next generation of ground-based gamma-ray observatories, which will represent a factor of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 Ulisses Barres de Almeida

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) 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…

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is the next generation observatory for the study of very high-energy gamma rays from about 20 GeV up to 300 TeV. Thanks to the large effective area and field of view, the CTA observatory will be…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 Andrea Zoli , Andrea Bulgarelli , Adriano De Rosa , Alessio Aboudan , Valentina Fioretti , Giovanni De Cesare , Ramin Marx

The Cherenkov Telescope Array is the main global project of ground-based gamma-ray astronomy for the coming decades. Performance will be significantly improved relative to present instruments, allowing a new insight into the high-energy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-09-27 Sol , H. , Greenshaw , T. , Le Blanc , O. , White , R

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) will be the world's largest and by far most sensitive observatory for high-energy gamma rays. It will be capable of detecting gamma rays from extremely faint sources with unprecedented precision on energy…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-22 G. Maier , L. Arrabito , K. Bernlöhr , J. Bregeon , P. Cumani , T. Hassan , A. Moralejo

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

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is a project for the construction of a next generation VHE gamma ray observatory with full sky coverage. Its aim is improving by about one order of magnitude the sensitivity of the existing installations,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2011-11-10 The CTA Consortium

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) will be the next generation ground based observatory in very high energy gamma ray astronomy. The facility will achieve a wide energy coverage, starting from a threshold of a few tens of GeV up to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 M. K. Daniel , M. Gaug , P. Majumdar

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is expected to become the by far largest and most sensitive observatory for very-high-energy gamma rays in the energy range from 20 GeV to more than 300 TeV. CTA will be capable of detecting gamma rays…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-19 G. Maier , L. Arrabito , K. Bernlöhr , J. Bregeon , P. Cumani , T. Hassan , J. Hinton , A. Moralejo

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 a large collaborative effort aimed at the design and operation of an observatory dedicated to the VHE gamma-ray astrophysics in the energy range 30 GeV-100 TeV, which will improve by about one order of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 Stefano Vercellone

The discovery of gravitational waves, high-energy neutrinos or the very-high-energy counterpart of gamma-ray bursts has revolutionized the high-energy and transient astrophysics community. The development of new instruments and analysis…

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The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is an international initiative to build the next generation ground-based very-high-energy gamma-ray observatory. Full sky coverage will be assured by two arrays, one located on each of the northern and…

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