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The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA), the new generation very high-energy gamma-ray observatory, will improve the flux sensitivity of the current Cherenkov telescopes by an order of magnitude over a continuous range from about 10 GeV to…

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The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA), a ground-based facility for very-high-energy (VHE) gamma-ray astronomy, will operate as an open observatory, serving a wide scientific community to explore and to study the non-thermal universe. Open…

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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

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is an international project for a next-generation ground-based gamma-ray observatory. CTA, conceived as an array of tens of imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes, comprising small, medium and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 D. Nieto , S. Griffiths , B. Humensky , P. Kaaret , M. Limon , I. Mognet , A. Peck , A. Petrashyk , D. Ribeiro , J. Rousselle , B. Stevenson , V. Vassiliev , P. Yu

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is a large collaborative effort aimed at the design and operation of an observatory dedicated to very high-energy gamma-ray astrophysics in the energy range from a few tens of GeV to above 100 TeV, which…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-17 Stefano Vercellone

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is an international project for a next-generation ground-based gamma ray observatory, aiming to improve on the sensitivity of current-generation experiments by an order of magnitude and provide energy…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-20 D. Nieto , T. B. Humensky , P. Kaaret , D. Kieda , M. Limon , A. Petrashyk , D. Ribeiro , J. Rousselle , B. Stevenson , V. Vassiliev , P. Wilcox

The Cherenkov Telescope Array is a project that aims to exploring the highest energy region of electromagnetic spectrum. Two arrays, one for each hemisphere, will cover the full sky in a range from few tens of GeV to hundreds of TeV…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-28 M. Iori , P. Majumdar , F. De Persio , A. Chatterjee , F. Ferrarotto , B. K. Nagesh , L. Saha , B. B. Singh

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) will be the next-generation observatory in the field of very-high-energy (20 GeV to 300 TeV) gamma-ray astroparticle physics. Classically, data analysis in the field maximizes sensitivity by applying…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-24 T. Hassan , O. Gueta , G. Maier , M. Nöthe , M. Peresano , I. Vovk

COsmic Ray SImulations for KAscade) is a program for detailed simulation of extensive air showers initiated by high energy cosmic ray particles in the atmosphere, and is used today by almost all the major instruments that aim at measuring…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-29 Luisa Arrabito , Konrad Bernlöhr , Johan Bregeon , Matthieu Carrère , Adnane Khattabi , Philippe Langlois , David Parello , Guillaume Revy

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 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) Observatory, with dozens of telescopes located in both the Northern and Southern Hemispheres, will be the largest ground-based gamma-ray observatory and will provide broad energy coverage from 20 GeV to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-23 A. Bulgarelli , S. Caroff , A. Addis , P. Aubert , L. Baroncelli , G. De Cesare , A. DiPiano , V. Fioretti , E. Garcia , G. Maurin , N. Parmiggiani , T. Vuillaume , I. Oya , C. Hoischen

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is a future ground-based observatory (with two locations, in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres) that will be used in the study of the very-high-energy gamma-ray sky. CTA observations will be proposed…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 John E. Ward , Javier Rico , Tarek Hassan

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), 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 pointing capability of a telescope in the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is a crucial aspect in the calibration of the instrument. It describes how a position in the sky is transformed to the focal plane of the telescope and allows…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 Domenico Tiziani , Markus Garczarczyk , Louise Oakes , Ullrich Schwanke , Christopher van Eldik

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) is the next-generation stereoscopic system of Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes (IACTs). In IACTs, the atmosphere is used as a calorimeter to measure the energy of extensive air showers induced by…

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