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The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) will be the leading ground-base observatory for Very High Energy (VHE) {\gamma}-ray astronomy for the next decades. Its southern site will host about 70 Small Sized Telescopes (SSTs) which will determine…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-24 Roberta Pillera , Gianluca Giavitto , Heike Prokoph

CTA will comprise a sub-array of up to 70 small size telescopes (SSTs) at the southern array. The SST-1M project, a 4 m-diameter Davies Cotton telescope with 9 degrees FoV and a 1296 pixels SiPM camera, is designed to meet the requirements…

We present simulations of a large array of imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes (IACTs), for which the size of the array footprint is much larger than the size of the Cherenkov lightpool. To evaluate limitations of the imaging…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-08-22 S. J. Fegan , V. V. Vassiliev

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is planned to be the next-generation very-high-energy (VHE; E > 100 GeV) gamma-ray observatory. It is anticipated that CTA will improve upon the sensitivity of the current generation of VHE experiments,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 W. Benbow , A. N. Otte

Over the last three decades, the ground-based technique of imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes has established itself as a powerful scientific discipline. About 250 very high gamma-ray sources of both galactic and extragalactic origin…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-18 Razmik Mirzoyan

We discuss the prospects for the detection of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) by the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA), the next generation, ground-based facility of imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes (IACTs) operating above a few tens of GeV.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-03 Jun Kakuwa , Kohta Murase , Kenji Toma , Susumu Inoue , Ryo Yamazaki , Kunihito Ioka

For the proposed Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA), a post-calibration point-source location accuracy of 3 seconds of arc is aimed for under favorable observing conditions and for gamma-ray energies exceeding 100 GeV. In this contribution,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-08 Stefan Eschbach , Alexander Ziegler , Christopher van Eldik , Johannes Veh , David Berge , Markus Gaug

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is a planned 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 used up to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-15 Iftach Sadeh , Igor Oya , Joseph Schwarz , Emmanuel Pietriga

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

Arrays of imaging air Cherenkov telescopes (IACTs) like VERITAS, HESS have been recently proposed as the instruments of the next generation for ground based very high energy gamma-ray astronomy invading into 50-100 GeV energy range. Here we…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Alexander K. Konopelko

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is the next generation ground-based $\gamma$-ray observatory. It will provide an order of magnitude better sensitivity and an extended energy coverage, 20 GeV - 300 TeV, relative to current Imaging…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-01-22 T. Hassan , A. Domínguez , J. Lefaucheur , D. Mazin , S. Pita , A. Zech

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is the next generation of Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes. It will reach a sensitivity and energy resolution never obtained until now by any other high energy gamma-ray experiment. Understanding…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-22 G. Vasileiadis , O. Blanch , J. Bregeon , P. Brun , O. Calpe , M. Colak , M. Doro , L. Font , M. Gaug , S. Griffiths , C. Maggio , M. Martinez , O. Martinez , P. Ristori , S. Rivoire

The Cherenkov Telescopes Array (CTA) is planned as the future instrument for very-high-energy (VHE) gamma-ray astronomy with a wide energy range of four orders of magnitude and an improvement in sensitivity compared to current instruments…

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is the next-generation gamma-ray observatory currently under construction. It will improve over the current generation of imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes (IACTs) by a factor of five to ten in…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-24 Maximilian Nöthe , Karl Kosack , Lukas Nickel , Michele Peresano

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 2017-08-09 D. Mazin , J. Cortina , M. Teshima , the CTA Consortium

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…

The Small Size Telescope with Single Mirror (SST-1M) is one of the proposed types of Small Size Telescopes (SST) for the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA). About 70 SST telescopes will be part the CTA southern array which will also include…

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

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