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In the last decades a vaste amount of evidence for the existence of dark matter has been accumulated. At the same time, many efforts have been undertaken to try to identify what dark matter is. Indirect searches look at places in the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-22 A. Morselli

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) project, led by an international collaboration of institutes, aims to create the world's largest next generation observatory for Very High Energy (VHE) gamma-ray astronomy. It will be devoted to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-26 A. Dmytriiev , L. Dangeon , G. Fasola , H. Sol , A. Zech , J. Gironnet , O. Le Blanc , J. P. Amans , G. Buchholtz , J. L. Dournaux , F. de Frondat , D. Horville , J. M. Huet , I. Jégouzo , P. Laporte

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) will be the largest ground-based observatory operating in the very-high-energy gamma-ray (20 GeV - 300 TeV) range. It will be based on more than one hundred telescopes, located at two sites (northern and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-22 Maria Concetta Maccarone

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

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

The signals that will be received on Earth from deep-space probes in future implementations of free-space optical communication will be extremely weak, and new ground stations will have to be developed in order to support these links. This…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-05-22 Alberto Carrasco-Casado , Mariafernanda Vilera , Ricardo Vergaz , Juan Francisco Cabrero

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

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 2015-09-08 Ramin Marx , Raquel de los Reyes

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) observatory, will be deployed over two sites in the two hemispheres. Both sites will be equipped with four Large Size Telescopes (LSTs), which are crucial to achieve the science goals of CTA in the 20-200…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 J. Cortina , M. Teshima

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 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 (CTA) will be the next generation ground-based observatory for very-high-energy (VHE) gamma-ray astronomy, with the deployment of tens of highly sensitive and fast-reacting Cherenkov telescopes. It will cover a…

The Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO) is a next-generation ground-based gamma-ray observatory that will study the universe at very high energy using atmospheric Cherenkov light. CTAO will comprise over 67 telescopes of three…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-04 Federica Bradascio

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 2019-08-14 Stephane Vincent

We outline the science prospects for gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) with the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA), the next-generation ground-based gamma-ray observatory operating at energies above few tens of GeV. With its low energy threshold, large…

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is the next generation of ground-based very high energy gamma-ray instruments and is planned to be built on two sites (one in each hemisphere) in the coming years, with full array operation foreseen to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 Jan Ebr , Petr Janecek , Michael Prouza , Jiri Blazek

The galactic and extragalactic surveys are two of the main proposed legacy projects of the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA), providing an unbiased view of the Universe at energies above tens of GeV. Considering Cherenkov telescopes' limited…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 Lucie Gérard

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…

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