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The Cherenkov Telescope Array: layout, design and performance

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) will be the next generation very-high-energy gamma-ray observatory. CTA is expected to provide substantial improvement in accuracy and sensitivity with respect to existing instruments thanks to a tenfold…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-23 Orel Gueta

Monte Carlo design studies for the Cherenkov Telescope Array

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…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 K. Bernlöhr , A. Barnacka , Y. Becherini , O. Blanch Bigas , E. Carmona , P. Colin , G. Decerprit , F. Di Pierro , F. Dubois , C. Farnier , S. Funk , G. Hermann , J. A. Hinton , T. B. Humensky , B. Khélifi , T. Kihm , N. Komin , J. -P. Lenain , G. Maier , D. Mazin , M. C. Medina , A. Moralejo , S. J. Nolan , S. Ohm , E. de Oña Wilhelmi , R. D. Parsons , M. Paz Arribas , G. Pedaletti , S. Pita , H. Prokoph , C. B. Rulten , U. Schwanke , M. Shayduk , V. Stamatescu , P. Vallania , S. Vorobiov , R. Wischnewski , T. Yoshikoshi , A. Zech

A pointing solution for the medium size telescopes for the Cherenkov Telescope Array

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

Status and performance results from NectarCAM -- a camera for CTA medium sized telescopes

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

Status of the Cherenkov Telescope Array Project

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

The Medium Size Telescopes of the Cherenkov Telescope Array

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is the planned next-generation instrument for ground-based gamma-ray astronomy, covering a photon energy range of ~20 GeV to above 100 TeV. CTA will consist of the order of 100 telescopes of three sizes,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 G. Pühlhofer

Baseline telescope layouts of the Cherenkov Telescope Array

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) will be the next generation of ground-based instrument for Very High Energy gamma-ray astronomy. It will improve the sensitivity of current telescopes by up to an order of magnitude and provide energy…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-04 P. Cumani , T. Hassan , L. Arrabito , K. Bernlöhr , J. Bregeon , G. Maier , A. Moralejo

The Cherenkov Telescope Array

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is planned to be the next generation ground based observatory for very high energy (VHE) gamma-ray astronomy. Gamma-rays provide a powerful insight into the non-thermal universe and hopefully a unique…

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Monte Carlo Performance Studies for the Site Selection of the Cherenkov Telescope Array

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) represents the next generation of ground-based instruments for very-high-energy (VHE) gamma-ray astronomy, aimed at improving on the sensitivity of current-generation experiments by an order of magnitude…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-05 T. Hassan , L. Arrabito , K. Bernlöhr , J. Bregeon , J. Cortina , P. Cumani , F. Di Pierro , D. Falceta-Goncalves , R. G. Lang , J. Hinton , T. Jogler , G. Maier , A. Moralejo , A. Morselli , C. J. Todero Peixoto , M. Wood

Monte Carlo Performance Studies of Candidate Sites for the Cherenkov Telescope Array

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is the next-generation gamma-ray observatory with sensitivity in the energy range from 20 GeV to beyond 300 TeV. CTA is proposed to consist of two arrays of 40-100 imaging atmospheric Cherenkov…

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Recent developments for the testing of Cherenkov Telescope Array mirrors and actuators in T\"ubingen

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is the next generation Cherenkov telescope facility. It will consist of a large number of segmented-mirror telescopes of three different diameters, placed in two locations, one in the northern and one in…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-26 J. Dick , A. Bonardi , S. Bressel , M. Capasso , S. Diebold , F. Eisenkolb , D. Gottschall , E. Kendziorra , G. Pühlhofer , S. Renner , A. Santangelo , T. Schanz , C. Tenzer

Design Concepts for the Cherenkov Telescope Array

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

Cherenkov Telescope Array Data Management

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…

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Mirror Development for the Cherenkov Telescope Array

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…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-16 A. Förster , T. Armstrong , H. Baba , J. Bähr , A. Bonardi , G. Bonnoli , P. Brun , R. Canestrari , P. Chadwick , M. Chikawa , P. -H. Carton , V. De Souza , J. Dipold , M. Doro , D. Durand , M. Dyrda , E. Giro , J. -F. Glicenstein , Y. Hanabata , M. Hayashida , M. Hrabovski , C. Jeanney , M. Kagaya , H. Katagiri , L. Lessio , D. MANDAT , M. Mariotti , C. Medina , J. Michałowski , P. Micolon , D. Nakajima , J. Niemiec , A. Nozato , M. Palatka , G. Pareschi , M. Pech , B. Peyaud , G. Pühlhofer , M. Rataj , G. Rodeghiero , G. Rojas , J. Rousselle , R. Sakonaka , P. Schovanek , K. Seweryn , C. Schultz , S. Shu , F. Stinzing , M. Stodulski , M. Teshima , P. Travniczek , C. Van Eldik , V. Vassiliev , Ł. Wiśniewski , A. Wörnlein , T. Yoshida

Detection methods for the Cherenkov Telescope Array at very-short exposure times

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…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-21 Ambra Di Piano , Andrea Bulgarelli , Valentina Fioretti , Leonardo Baroncelli , Nicolò Parmiggiani , Francesco Longo , Antonio Stamerra , Alicia López-Oramas , Giulia Stratta , and Giovanni De Cesare

Calibration and performance of the readout system based on switched capacitor arrays for the Large-Sized Telescope of the Cherenkov Telescope Array

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is the next-generation ground-based very-high-energy gamma-ray observatory. The Large-Sized Telescope (LST) of CTA is designed to detect gamma rays between 20 GeV and a few TeV with a 23-meter diameter…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-15 Seiya Nozaki , Kyosuke Awai , Aya Bamba , Juan Abel Barrio , Maria Isabel Bernardos , Oscar Blanch , Joan Boix , Franca Cassol , Yuki Choushi , Carlos Delgado , Carlos Diaz , Nadia Fouque , Lluis Freixas , Pawel Gliwny , Shunichi Gunji , Daniela Hadasch , Dirk Hoffmann , Julien Houles , Yusuke Inome , Yuki Iwamura , Léa Jouvin , Hideaki Katagiri , Kiomei Kawamura , Daniel Kerszberg , Yusuke Konno , Hidetoshi Kubo , Junko Kushida , Yukiho Kobayashi , Rubén López-Coto , Gustavo Martinez , Shu Masuda , Daniel Mazin , Abelardo Moralejo , Elena Moretti , Tsutomu Nagayoshi , Takeshi Nakamori , Kyoshi Nishijima , Yuto Nogami , Leyre Nogués , Hideyuki Ohoka , Tomohiko Oka , Nao Okazaki , Akira Okumura , Reiko Orito , Jean-Luc Panazol , Riccardo Paoletti , Cristobal Pio , Miguel Polo , Julie Prast , Takayuki Saito , Shunsuke Sakurai , Julian Sitarek , Yuji Sunada , Megumi Suzuki , Mitsunari Takahashi , Kenji Tamura , Manobu Tanaka , Luis Angel Tejedor , Yukikatsu Terada , Masahiro Teshima , Yusuke Tsukamoto , Tokonatsu Yamamoto

Science with the Cherenkov Telescope Array

The Cherenkov Telescope Array, CTA, will be the major global observatory for very high energy gamma-ray astronomy over the next decade and beyond. The scientific potential of CTA is extremely broad: from understanding the role of…

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The CTA Observatory

In recent years, ground-based very-high-energy (VHE; E>100 GeV) gamma-ray astronomy has experienced a major breakthrough with the impressive astrophysical results obtained mainly by the current generation experiments like H.E.S.S., MAGIC,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 R. M. Wagner , E. J. Lindfors , A. Sillanpää , S. Wagner

Test results of a prototype device to calibrate the Large Size Telescope camera proposed for the Cherenkov Telescope Array

A Large Size air Cherenkov Telescope (LST) prototype, proposed for the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA), is under construction at the Canary Island of La Palma (Spain) this year. The LST camera, which comprises an array of about 500…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-21 Michele Palatiello , Diego Cauz , Fulvio De Persio , Fabrizio Ferrarotto , Giovanni Paoletta , Maurizio Iori , P. Majumdar , A. Chatterjee , V. Chitnis , B. B. Singh , K. Gothe , M. Manoranjan

Second large-scale Monte Carlo study for the Cherenkov Telescope Array

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) represents the next generation of ground based instruments for Very High Energy gamma-ray astronomy. It is expected to improve on the sensitivity of current instruments by an order of magnitude and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 T. Hassan , L. Arrabito , K. Bernlör , J. Bregeon , J. Hinton , T. Jogler , G. Maier , A. Moralejo , F. Di Pierro , M. Wood