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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…
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Development of a SiPM Pixel Prototype for the Large-Sized Telescope of the Cherenkov Telescope Array
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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
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Twenty-six years ago a small committee report, building on earlier studies, expounded a compelling and poetic vision for the future of astronomy, calling for an infrared-optimized space telescope with an aperture of at least $4m$. With the…
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics
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Bremmer , David Brennan , Pamela A. Bresnahan , Stacey N. Bright , Brian J. Broiles , Asa Bromenschenkel , Brian H. Brooks , Keira J. Brooks , Bob Brown , Bruce Brown , Thomas M. Brown , Barry W. Bruce , Jonathan G. Bryson , Edwin D. Bujanda , Blake M. Bullock , A. J. Bunker , Rafael Bureo , Irving J. Burt , James Aaron Bush , Howard A. Bushouse , Marie C. Bussman , Olivier Cabaud , Steven Cale , Charles D. Calhoon , Humberto Calvani , Alicia M. Canipe , Francis M. Caputo , Mihai Cara , Larkin Carey , Michael Eli Case , Thaddeus Cesari , Lee D. Cetorelli , Don R. Chance , Lynn Chandler , Dave Chaney , George N. Chapman , S. Charlot , Pierre Chayer , Jeffrey I. Cheezum , Bin Chen , Christine H. Chen , Brian Cherinka , Sarah C. Chichester , Zachary S. Chilton , Dharini Chittiraibalan , Mark Clampin , Charles R. Clark , Kerry W. Clark , Stephanie M. Clark , Edward E. Claybrooks , Keith A. Cleveland , Andrew L. Cohen , Lester M. Cohen , Knicole D. Colón , Benee L. Coleman , Luis Colina , Brian J. Comber , Thomas M. Comeau , Thomas Comer , Alain Conde Reis , Dennis C. Connolly , Kyle E. Conroy , Adam R. Contos , James Contreras , Neil J. Cook , James L. Cooper , Rachel Aviva Cooper , Michael F. Correia , Matteo Correnti , Christophe Cossou , Brian F. Costanza , Alain Coulais , Colin R. Cox , Ray T. Coyle , Misty M. Cracraft , Alberto Noriega-Crespo , Keith A. Crew , Gary J. Curtis , Bianca Cusveller , Cleyciane Da Costa Maciel , Christopher T. Dailey , Frédéric Daugeron , Greg S. Davidson , James E. Davies , Katherine Anne Davis , Michael S. Davis , Ratna Day , Daniel de Chambure , Pauline de Jong , Guido De Marchi , Bruce H. Dean , John E. Decker , Amy S. Delisa , Lawrence C. Dell , Gail Dellagatta , Franciszka Dembinska , Sandor Demosthenes , Nadezhda M. Dencheva , Philippe Deneu , William W. DePriest , Jeremy Deschenes , Nathalie Dethienne , Örs Hunor Detre , Rosa Izela Diaz , Daniel Dicken , Audrey S. DiFelice , Matthew Dillman , Maureen O. 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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
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The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is the next generation high-energy gamma-ray observatory. It will improve the sensitivity of current instruments up to an order of magnitude, while providing energy coverage for photons from 20 GeV to at…
The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is the major next-generation observatory for ground-based very-high-energy gamma-ray astronomy. It will improve the sensitivity of current ground-based instruments by a factor of five to twenty, depending…
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics
2019-04-17
A. Acharyya , I. Agudo , E. O. Angüner , R. Alfaro , J. Alfaro , C. Alispach , R. Aloisio , R. Alves Batista , J. -P. Amans , L. Amati , E. Amato , G. Ambrosi , L. A. Antonelli , C. Aramo , T. Armstrong , F. Arqueros , L. Arrabito , K. Asano , H. Ashkar , C. Balazs , M. Balbo , B. Balmaverde , P. Barai , A. Barbano , M. Barkov , U. Barres de Almeida , J. A. Barrio , D. Bastieri , J. Becerra González , J. Becker Tjus , L. Bellizzi , W. Benbow , E. Bernardini , M. I. Bernardos , K. Bernlöhr , A. Berti , M. Berton , B. Bertucci , V. Beshley , B. Biasuzzi , C. Bigongiari , R. Bird , E. Bissaldi , J. Biteau , O. Blanch , J. Blazek , C. Boisson , G. Bonanno , A. Bonardi , C. Bonavolontà , G. Bonnoli , P. Bordas , M. Böttcher , J. Bregeon , A. Brill , A. M. Brown , K. Brügge , P. Brun , P. Bruno , A. Bulgarelli , T. Bulik , M. Burton , A. Burtovoi , G. Busetto , R. Cameron , R. Canestrari , M. Capalbi , A. Caproni , R. Capuzzo-Dolcetta , P. Caraveo , S. Caroff , R. Carosi , S. Casanova , E. Cascone , F. Cassol , F. Catalani , O. Catalano , D. Cauz , M. Cerruti , S. Chaty , A. Chen , M. Chernyakova , G. Chiaro , M. Cieślar , S. M. Colak , V. Conforti , E. Congiu , J. L. Contreras , J. Cortina , A. Costa , H. Costantini , G. Cotter , P. Cristofari , P. Cumani , G. Cusumano , A. D'Aì , F. D'Ammando , L. Dangeon , P. Da Vela , F. Dazzi , A. De Angelis , V. De Caprio , R. de Cássia dos Anjos , F. De Frondat , E. M. de Gouveia Dal Pino , B. De Lotto , D. De Martino , M. de Naurois , E. de Oña Wilhelmi , F. de Palma , V. de Souza , M. Del Santo , C. Delgado , D. della Volpe , T. Di Girolamo , F. Di Pierro , L. Di Venere , C. Díaz , S. Diebold , A. Djannati-Ataï , A. Dmytriiev , D. Dominis Prester , A. Donini , D. Dorner , M. Doro , J. -L. Dournaux , J. Ebr , T. R. N. Ekoume , D. Elsässer , G. Emery , D. Falceta-Goncalves , E. Fedorova , S. Fegan , Q. Feng , G. Ferrand , E. Fiandrini , A. Fiasson , M. Filipovic , V. Fioretti , M. Fiori , S. Flis , M. V. Fonseca , G. Fontaine , L. Freixas Coromina , S. Fukami , Y. Fukui , S. Funk , M. Füßling , D. Gaggero , G. Galanti , R. J. Garcia López , M. Garczarczyk , D. Gascon , T. Gasparetto , M. Gaug , A. Ghalumyan , F. Gianotti , G. Giavitto , N. Giglietto , F. Giordano , M. Giroletti , J. Gironnet , J. -F. Glicenstein , R. Gnatyk , P. Goldoni , J. M. González , M. M. González , K. N. Gourgouliatos , T. Grabarczyk , J. Granot , D. Green , T. Greenshaw , M. -H. Grondin , O. Gueta , D. Hadasch , T. Hassan , M. Hayashida , M. Heller , O. Hervet , J. Hinton , N. Hiroshima , B. Hnatyk , W. Hofmann , P. Horvath , M. Hrabovsky , D. Hrupec , T. B. Humensky , M. Hütten , T. Inada , F. Iocco , M. Ionica , M. Iori , Y. Iwamura , M. Jamrozy , P. Janecek , D. Jankowsky , P. Jean , L. Jouvin , J. Jurysek , P. Kaaret , L. H. S. Kadowaki , S. Karkar , D. Kerszberg , B. Khélifi , D. Kieda , S. Kimeswenger , W. Kluźniak , J. Knapp , J. Knödlseder , Y. Kobayashi , B. Koch , J. Kocot , N. Komin , A. Kong , G. Kowal , M. Krause , H. Kubo , J. Kushida , P. Kushwaha , V. La Parola , G. La Rosa , M. Lallena Arquillo , R. G. Lang , J. Lapington , O. Le Blanc , J. Lefaucheur , M. A. Leigui de Oliveira , M. Lemoine-Goumard , J. -P. Lenain , G. Leto , R. Lico , E. Lindfors , T. Lohse , S. Lombardi , F. Longo , A. Lopez , M. López , A. Lopez-Oramas , R. López-Coto , S. Loporchio , P. L. Luque-Escamilla , E. Lyard , M. C. Maccarone , E. Mach , C. Maggio , P. Majumdar , G. Malaguti , M. Mallamaci , D. Mandat , G. Maneva , M. Manganaro , S. Mangano , M. Marculewicz , M. Mariotti , J. Martí , M. Martínez , G. Martínez , H. Martínez-Huerta , S. Masuda , N. Maxted , D. Mazin , J. -L. Meunier , M. Meyer , S. Micanovic , R. Millul , I. A. Minaya , A. Mitchell , T. Mizuno , R. Moderski , L. Mohrmann , T. Montaruli , A. Moralejo , D. Morcuende , G. Morlino , A. Morselli , E. Moulin , R. Mukherjee , P. Munar , C. Mundell , T. Murach , A. Nagai , T. Nagayoshi , T. Naito , T. Nakamori , R. Nemmen , J. Niemiec , D. Nieto , M. Nievas Rosillo , M. Nikołajuk , D. Ninci , K. Nishijima , K. Noda , D. Nosek , M. Nöthe , S. Nozaki , M. Ohishi , Y. Ohtani , A. Okumura , R. A. Ong , M. Orienti , R. Orito , M. Ostrowski , N. Otte , Z. Ou , I. Oya , A. Pagliaro , M. Palatiello , M. Palatka , R. Paoletti , J. M. Paredes , G. Pareschi , N. Parmiggiani , R. D. Parsons , B. Patricelli , A. Pe'er , M. Pech , P. Peñil Del Campo , J. Pérez-Romero , M. Perri , M. Persic , P. -O. Petrucci , O. Petruk , K. Pfrang , Q. Piel , E. Pietropaolo , M. Pohl , M. Polo , J. Poutanen , E. Prandini , N. Produit , H. Prokoph , M. Prouza , H. Przybilski , G. Pühlhofer , M. Punch , F. Queiroz , A. Quirrenbach , S. Rainò , R. Rando , S. Razzaque , O. Reimer , N. Renault-Tinacci , Y. Renier , D. Ribeiro , M. Ribó , J. Rico , F. Rieger , V. Rizi , G. Rodriguez Fernandez , J. C. Rodriguez-Ramirez , J. J. Rodríguez Vázquez , P. Romano , G. Romeo , M. Roncadelli , J. Rosado , G. Rowell , B. Rudak , A. Rugliancich , C. Rulten , I. Sadeh , L. Saha , T. Saito , S. Sakurai , F. Salesa Greus , P. Sangiorgi , H. Sano , M. Santander , A. Santangelo , R. Santos-Lima , A. Sanuy , K. Satalecka , F. G. Saturni , U. Sawangwit , S. Schlenstedt , P. Schovanek , F. Schussler , U. Schwanke , E. Sciacca , S. Scuderi , K. Sedlaczek , M. Seglar-Arroyo , O. Sergijenko , K. Seweryn , A. Shalchi , R. C. Shellard , H. Siejkowski , A. Sillanpää , A. Sinha , G. Sironi , V. Sliusar , A. Slowikowska , H. Sol , A. Specovius , S. Spencer , G. Spengler , A. Stamerra , S. Stanič , Ł. Stawarz , S. Stefanik , T. Stolarczyk , U. Straumann , T. Suomijarvi , P. Świerk , T. Szepieniec , G. Tagliaferri , H. Tajima , T. Tam , F. Tavecchio , L. Taylor , L. A. Tejedor , P. Temnikov , T. Terzic , V. Testa , L. Tibaldo , C. J. Todero Peixoto , F. Tokanai , L. Tomankova , D. Tonev , D. F. Torres , G. Tosti , L. Tosti , N. Tothill , F. Toussenel , G. Tovmassian , P. Travnicek , C. Trichard , G. Umana , V. Vagelli , M. Valentino , B. Vallage , P. Vallania , L. Valore , J. Vandenbroucke , G. S. Varner , G. Vasileiadis , V. Vassiliev , M. Vázquez Acosta , M. Vecchi , S. Vercellone , S. Vergani , G. P. Vettolani , A. Viana , C. F. Vigorito , J. Vink , V. Vitale , H. Voelk , A. Vollhardt , S. Vorobiov , S. J. Wagner , R. Walter , F. Werner , R. White , A. Wierzcholska , M. Will , D. A. Williams , R. Wischnewski , L. Yang , T. Yoshida , T. Yoshikoshi , M. Zacharias , L. Zampieri , M. Zavrtanik , D. Zavrtanik , A. A. Zdziarski , A. Zech , H. Zechlin , A. Zenin , V. I. Zhdanov , S. Zimmer , J. Zorn
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