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The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is a future gamma-ray observatory that is planned to significantly improve upon the sensitivity and precision of the current generation of Cherenkov telescopes. The observatory will consist of several…

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

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is an international initiative to build the next generation ground-based very-high-energy gamma-ray observatory. Full sky coverage will be assured by two arrays, one located on each of the northern and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 Maria Concetta Maccarone , Dan Parsons , Markus Gaug , Raquel de los Reyes

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 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 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) is the planned next-generation instrument for ground-based gamma-ray astronomy, currently under preparation by a world-wide consortium. The FlashCam group is preparing a photomultiplier-based camera for…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-09 F. Eisenkolb , S. Diebold , C. Kalkuhl , G. Pühlhofer , A. Santangelo , T. Schanz , C. Tenzer , the FlashCam team , the CTA consortium

The Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO) will greatly improve upon sensitivities in the field of very-high-energy gamma-ray astrophysics. The CTAO northern site (CTAO-North, La Palma, Spain) currently hosts LST-1 with the remaining…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-17 Luca Riitano , Justin Vandenbroucke , Zach Curtis-Ginsberg

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) will be the world's first open observatory for very high energy gamma-rays. Around a hundred telescopes of different sizes will be used to detect the Cherenkov light that results from gamma-ray induced…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-17 A. Zech , J. -P. Amans , S. Blake , C. Boisson , C. Costille , F. De-Frondat , J. -L. Dournaux , D. Dumas , G. Fasola , T. Greenshaw , O. Hervet , J. -M. Huet , P. Laporte , C. Rulten , D. Savoie , F. Sayede , J. Schmoll , H. Sol

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is a worldwide project aimed at building the next-generation ground-based gamma-ray observatory. Within the CTA project, the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF) is developing an end-to-end…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-22 S. Lombardi , C. Bigongiari , S. Gallozzi , L. A. Antonelli , D. Bastieri , I. Donnarumma , F. Lucarelli , M. Mastropietro , P. Munar , M. Perri , A. Stamerra , F. Visconti , M. C. Maccarone

The planned Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA), a future ground-based Very-High-Energy (VHE) gamma-ray observatory, will be the largest project of its kind. It aims to provide an order of magnitude increase in sensitivity compared to currently…

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is an initiative to build a next-generation observatory for very-high energy $\gamma$-rays. Its expected large effective area ($\mathcal{O}(10^{7} \mathrm{m}^2)$) and energy threshold as low as 25 GeV…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 Manuel Paz Arribas , Ullrich Schwanke , Ralf Wischnewski

Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO) is the next-generation ground-based gamma-ray observatory operating in the energy range from 20 GeV up to 300 TeV, with two sites in La Palma (Spain) and Paranal (Chile). It will consist of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-18 The CTAO-LST Project , : , K. Abe , S. Abe , A. Abhishek , F. Acero , A. Aguasca-Cabot , I. Agudo , C. Alispach , D. Ambrosino , F. Ambrosino , L. A. Antonelli , C. Aramo , A. Arbet-Engels , C. Arcaro , T. T. H. Arnesen , K. Asano , P. Aubert , A. Baktash , M. Balbo , A. Bamba , A. Baquero Larriva , U. Barres de Almeida , J. A. Barrio , L. Barrios Jiménez , I. Batkovic , J. Baxter , J. Becerra González , E. Bernardini , J. Bernete , A. Berti , I. Bezshyiko , C. Bigongiari , E. Bissaldi , O. Blanch , G. Bonnoli , P. Bordas , G. Borkowski , G. Brunelli , A. Bulgarelli , M. Bunse , I. Burelli , L. Burmistrov , M. Cardillo , S. Caroff , A. Carosi , R. Carraro , M. S. Carrasco , F. Cassol , D. Cerasole , G. Ceribella , A. Cerviño Cortínez , Y. Chai , K. Cheng , A. Chiavassa , M. Chikawa , G. Chon , L. Chytk , G. M. Cicciari , A. Cifuentes , J. L. Contreras , J. Cortina , H. Costantini , M. Dalchenko , P. Da Vela , F. Dazzi , A. De Angelis , M. de Bony de Lavergne , R. Del Burgo , C. Delgado , J. Delgado Mengual , M. Dellaiera , D. della Volpe , B. De Lotto , L. Del Peral , R. de Menezes , G. De Palma , C. Díaz , G. Di Marco , A. Di Piano , F. Di Pierr , R. Di Tria , L. Di Venere , R. M. Dominik , D. Dominis Prester , A. Donini , D. Dorner , M. Doro , L. Eisenberger , D. Elsässer , G. Emery , J. Escudero , V. Fallah Ramazani , F. Ferrarotto , A. Fiasson , L. Foffano , F. Frías García-Lago , S. Fröse , Y. Fukazawa , S. Gallozzi , R. Garcia López , S. Garcia Soto , C. Gasbarra , D. Gasparrini , D. Geyer , J. Giesbrecht Paiva , N. Giglietto , F. Giordano , N. Godinovic , T. Gradetzke , R. Grau , D. Green , J. Green , S. Gunji , P. Günther , J. Hackfeld , D. Hadasch , A. Hahn , M. Hashizume , T. Hassan , K. Hayashi , L. Heckmann , M. Heller , J. Herrera Llorente , K. Hirotani , D. Hoffmann , D. Horns , J. Houles , M. Hrabovsky , D. Hrupec , D. Hui , M. Iarlori , R. Imazawa , T. Inada , Y. Inome , S. Inoue , K. Ioka , M. Iori , T. Itokawa , A. Iuliano , J. Jahanvi , I. Jimenez Martinez , J. Jimenez Quiles , I. Jorge Rodrigo , J. Jurysek , M. Kagaya , O. Kalashev , V. Karas , H. Katagiri , D. Kerszberg , T. Kiyomoto , Y. Kobayashi , K. Kohri , A. Kong , P. Kornecki , H. Kubo , J. Kushida , B. Lacave , M. Lainez , G. Lamanna , A. Lamastra , L. Lemoigne , M. Linhoff , S. Lombardi , F. Longo , R. López-Coto , M. López-Moya , A. López-Oramas , S. Loporchio , A. Lorini , J. Lozano Bahilo , F. Lucarelli , H. Luciani , P. L. Luque-Escamilla , P. Majumdar , M. Makariev , M. Mallamaci , D. Mandat , M. Manganaro , D. K. Maniadakis , G. Manicò , K. Mannheim , S. Marchesi , F. Marini , M. Mariotti , P. Marquez , G. Marsella , J. Martí , O. Martinez , G. Martínez , M. Martínez , A. Mas-Aguilar , M. Massa , G. Maurin , D. Mazin , J. Méndez-Gallego , S. Menon , E. Mestre Guillen , D. Miceli , T. Miener , J. M. Miranda , R. Mirzoyan , M. Mizote , T. Mizuno , M. Molero Gonzalez , E. Molina , T. Montaruli , A. Moralejo , D. Morcuende , A. Moreno Ramos , A. Morselli , V. Moya , H. Muraishi , S. Nagataki , T. Nakamori , A. Neronov , D. Nieto Castaño , M. Nievas Rosillo , L. Nikolic , K. Nishijima , K. Noda , D. Nosek , V. Novotny , S. Nozaki , M. Ohishi , Y. Ohtani , T. Oka , A. Okumura , R. Orito , L. Orsini , J. Otero-Santos , P. Ottanelli , M. Palatiello , G. Panebianco , D. Paneque , F. R. Pantaleo , R. Paoletti , J. M. Paredes , M. Pech , M. Pecimotika , M. Peresano , F. Pfeifle , E. Pietropaolo , M. Pihet , G. Pirola , C. Plard , F. Podobnik , M. Polo , E. Prandini , C. Priyadarshi , M. Prouza , S. Rainò , R. Rando , W. Rhode , M. Ribó , V. Rizi , G. Rodriguez Fernandez , M. D. Rodríguez Frías , P. Romano , A. Roy , A. Ruina , E. Ruiz-Velasco , T. Saito , S. Sakurai , D. A. Sanchez , H. Sano , T. Šarić , Y. Sato , F. G. Saturni , V. Savchenko , F. Schiavone , B. Schleicher , F. Schmuckermaier , J. L. Schubert , F. Schussler , T. Schweizer , M. Seglar Arroyo , T. Siegert , G. Silvestri , A. Simongini , J. Sitarek , V. Sliusar , A. Stamerra , J. Strišković , M. Strzys , Y. Suda , A. Sunny , H. Tajima , M. Takahashi , J. Takata , R. Takeishi , P. H. T. Tam , S. J. Tanaka , D. Tateishi , T. Tavernier , P. Temnikov , Y. Terada , K. Terauchi , T. Terzic , M. Teshima , M. Tluczykont , F. Tokanai , T. Tomura , D. F. Torres , F. Tramonti , P. Travnicek , G. Tripodo , A. Tutone , M. Vacula , J. van Scherpenberg , M. Vázquez Acosta , S. Ventura , S. Vercellone , G. Verna , I. Viale , A. Vigliano , C. F. Vigorito , E. Visentin , V. Vitale , V. Voitsekhovskyi , G. Voutsinas , I. Vovk , T. Vuillaume , R. Walter , L. Wan , M. Will , J. Wójtowicz , T. Yamamoto , R. Yamazaki , Y. Yao , P. K. H. Yeung , T. Yoshida , T. Yoshikoshi , W. Zhang

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is the next generation observatory for very high energy gamma rays. The capability of the array to detect gamma-rays above 10 TeV is going to be achieved with a large number of Small Size Telescopes…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 Anna Barnacka , Leszek Bogacz , Mira Grudzińska , Adam Frankowski , Mateusz Janiak , Piotr Lubiński , Rafał Moderski

The Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO) is a next-generation facility for ground-based very high energy gamma ray astronomy. CTAO will be operated as an open observatory. With two sites, in the northern and southern hemispheres,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-23 Werner Hofmann , Roberta Zanin

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) will be an instrument covering a wide energy range in very-high-energy (VHE) gamma rays. CTA will include several types of telescopes, in order to optimize the performance over the whole energy range.…

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

On October $10^{\rm th}$ 2018 started the commissioning of the first Large Size Telescope (LST) prototype at the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) northern site at the Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos, Canary Island of La Palma…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-19 Michele Palatiello , Maurizio Iori , Franca Cassol , Diego Cauz , Fabio Ferrarotto

The Large Size Telescope (LST) of the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is designed to achieve a threshold energy of 20 GeV. The LST optics is composed of one parabolic primary mirror 23 m in diameter and 28 m focal length. The reflector dish…

The first Large Size Telescope (LST-1) of the Cherenkov Telescope Array has been operational since October 2018 at La Palma, Spain. We report on the results obtained during the camera commissioning. The noise level of the readout is…