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The Cherenkov Telescope Array: Science Goals and Current Status

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is the major ground-based gamma-ray observatory planned for the next decade and beyond. Consisting of two large atmospheric Cherenkov telescope arrays (one in the southern hemisphere and one in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-06-12 The CTA Consortium , represented by Rene A. Ong

(Very)-High-Energy Gamma-Ray Astrophysics: the Future

Several projects planned or proposed can significantly expand our knowledge of the high-energy Universe in gamma rays. Construction of the Cherenkov telescope array CTA is started, and other detectors are planned which will use the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-27 Alesandro De Angelis

Dark Matter and Fundamental Physics with the Cherenkov Telescope Array

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is a project for a next-generation observatory for very high energy (GeV-TeV) ground-based gamma-ray astronomy, currently in its design phase, and foreseen to be operative a few years from now. Several…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-13 M. Doro , J. Conrad , D. Emmanoulopoulos , M. A. Sanchez-Conde , J. A. Barrio , E. Birsin , J. Bolmont , P. Brun , S. Colafrancesco , S. H. Connell , J. L. Contreras , M. K. Daniel , M. Fornasa , M. Gaug , J. F. Glicenstein , A. Gonzalez-Munoz , T. Hassan , D. Horns , A. Jacholkowska , C. Jahn , R. Mazini , N. Mirabal , A. Moralejo , E. Moulin , D. Nieto , J. Ripken , H. Sandaker , U. Schwanke , G. Spengler , A. Stamerra , A. Viana , H. S. Zechlin , S. Zimmer

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

Probing extreme environments with the Cherenkov Telescope Array

The physics of the non-thermal Universe provides information on the acceleration mechanisms in extreme environments, such as black holes and relativistic jets, neutron stars, supernovae or clusters of galaxies. In the presence of magnetic…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-11 C. Boisson , A. M. Brown , A. Burtovoi , M. Cerruti , M. Chernyakova , T. Hassan , J. -P. Lenain , M. Manganaro , P. Romano , H. Sol , F. Tavecchio , S. Vercellone , L. Zampieri , R. Zanin , A. Zech , I. Agudo , R. Alves Batista , E. O. Anguner , L. A. Antonelli , M. Backes , C. Balazs , J. Becerra González , C. Bigongiari , E. Bissaldi , J. Bolmont , P. Bordas , Ž. Bošnjak , M. Böttcher , M. Burton , F. Cangemi , P. Caraveo , M. Cardillo , S. Caroff , A. Carosi , S. Casanova , S. Chaty , J. L. Contreras , J. G. Coelho , G. Cotter , A. D'Aì , F. D'Ammando , E. M. de Gouveia Dal Pino , D. de Martino , C. Delgado , D. della Volpe , A. Djannati-Ataï , R. C. Dos Anjos , E. de Oña Wilhelmi , V. Dwarkadas , G. Emery , E. Fedorova , S. Fegan , M. D. Filipovic , G. Galanti , D. Gasparrini , G. Ghirlanda , P. Goldoni , J. Granot , J. G. Green , M. Heller , B. Hnatyk , R. Hnatyk , D. Horan , T. Hovatta , S. Inoue , M. Jamrozy , B. Khélifi , N. Komin , K. Kohri , A. Lamastra , N. La Palombara , E. Lindfors , I. Liodakis , S. Lombardi , F. Longo , F. Lucarelli , P. L. Luque-Escamilla , J. Marti , M. Martinez , D. Mazin , J. D. Mbarubucyeye , S. Menchiari , L. Mohrmann , T. Montaruli , A. Moralejo Olaizola , D. Morcuende , G. Morlino , A. Morselli , C. G. Mundell , T. Murach , A. Nagai , A. Nayerhoda , J. Niemiec , M. Nikolajuk , B. Olmi , M. Orienti , J. M. Paredes , G. Pareschi , A. Pe'er , G. Pühlhofer , M. Punch , O. Reimer , M. Ribó , F. Rieger , G. Rodriguez , J. Rodriguez , G. Romeo , M. Roncadelli , G. Rowell , B. Rudak , I. Sadeh , F. Salesa Greus , U. Sawangwit , F. Schüssler , O. Sergijenko , R. C. Shellard , F. G. Saturni , A. Stamerra , Th. Stolarczyk , G. Tagliaferri , V. Testa , L. Tibaldo , S. Ventura , A. Viana , J. Vink , V. Vitale , S. Vorobiov , A. Wierzcholska , M. Zacharias , D. Zavrtanik

Searching for very-high-energy electromagnetic counterparts to gravitational-wave events with the Cherenkov Telescope Array

The detection of electromagnetic (EM) emission following the gravitational wave (GW) event GW170817 opened the era of multi-messenger astronomy with GWs and provided the first direct evidence that at least a fraction of binary neutron star…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-08-03 Barbara Patricelli , Alessandro Carosi , Lara Nava , Monica Seglar-Arroyo , Fabian Schüssler , Antonio Stamerra , Andrea Adelfio , Halim Ashkar , Andrea Bulgarelli , Tristano Di Girolamo , Ambra Di Piano , Thomas Gasparetto , Jarred Green , Francesco Longo , Ivan Agudo , Alessio Berti , Elisabetta Bissaldi , Giancarlo Cella , Antonio Circiello , Stefano Covino , Giancarlo Ghirlanda , Brian Humensky , Susumu Inoue , Julien Lefaucheur , Miroslav Filipovic , Massimiliano Razzano , Deivid Ribeiro , Olga Sergijenko , Giulia Stratta , Susanna Vergani

The Cherenkov Telescope Array

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 sensitivity to the transient sky

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) will be able to perform unprecedented observations of the transient very high-energy sky. An on-line science alert generation (SAG) pipeline, with a required 30 second latency, will allow the discovery or…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-19 Valentina Fioretti , Deivid Ribeiro , Thomas B. Humensky , Andrea Bulgarelli , Gernot Maier , Abelardo Moralejo , Cosimo Nigro

The Gamma-ray Cherenkov Telescope for the Cherenkov Telescope Array

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is a forthcoming ground-based observatory for very-high-energy gamma rays. CTA will consist of two arrays of imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes in the Northern and Southern hemispheres, and will…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-07-26 L. Tibaldo , A. Abchiche , D. Allan , J. -P. Amans , T. P. Armstrong , A. Balzer , D. Berge , C. Boisson , J. -J. Bousquet , A. M. Brown , M. Bryan , G. Buchholtz , P. M. Chadwick , H. Costantini , G. Cotter , M. K. Daniel , A. De Franco , F. De Frondat , J. -L. Dournaux , D. Dumas , J. -P. Ernenwein , G. Fasola , S. Funk , J. Gironnet , J. A. Graham , T. Greenshaw , O. Hervet , N. Hidaka , J. A. Hinton , J. -M. Huet , D. Jankowsky , I. Jegouzo , T. Jogler , M. Kraus , J. S. Lapington , P. Laporte , J. Lefaucheur , S. Markoff , T. Melse , L. Mohrmann , P. Molyneux , S. J. Nolan , A. Okumura , J. P. Osborne , R. D. Parsons , S. Rosen , D. Ross , G. Rowell , C. B. Rulten , Y. Sato , F. Sayede , J. Schmoll , H. Schoorlemmer , M. Servillat , H. Sol , V. Stamatescu , M. Stephan , R. Stuik , J. Sykes , H. Tajima , J. Thornhill , C. Trichard , J. Vink , J. J. Watson , R. White , N. Yamane , A. Zech , A. Zink , J. Zorn , the CTA Consortium

Sensitivity of the Cherenkov Telescope Array for probing cosmology and fundamental physics with gamma-ray propagation

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA), the new-generation ground-based observatory for $\gamma$-ray astronomy, provides unique capabilities to address significant open questions in astrophysics, cosmology, and fundamental physics. We study…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-03-01 The Cherenkov Telescope Array Consortium , : , H. Abdalla , H. Abe , F. Acero , A. Acharyya , R. Adam , I. Agudo , A. Aguirre-Santaella , R. Alfaro , J. Alfaro , C. Alispach , R. Aloisio , R. Alves B , L. Amati , E. Amato , G. Ambrosi , E. O. Angüner , A. Araudo , T. Armstrong , F. Arqueros , L. Arrabito , K. Asano , Y. Ascasíbar , M. Ashley , M. Backes , C. Balazs , M. Balbo , B. Balmaverde , A. Baquero Larriva , V. Barbosa Martins , M. Barkov , L. Baroncelli , U. Barres de Almeida , J. A. Barrio , P. Batista , J. Becerra , Y. Becherini , G. Beck , J. Becker Tjus , R. Belmont , W. Benbow , E. Bernardini , A. Berti , M. Berton , B. Bertucci , V. Beshley , B. Bi , B. Biasuzzi , A. Biland , E. Bissaldi , J. Biteau , O. Blanch , F. Bocchino , C. Boisson , J. Bolmont , G. Bonanno , L. Bonneau Arbeletche , G. Bonnoli , P. Bordas , E. Bottacini , M. Böttcher , V. Bozhilov , J. Bregeon , A. Brill , A. M. Brown , P. Bruno , A. Bruno , A. Bulgarelli , M. Burton , M. Buscemi , A. Caccianiga , R. Cameron , M. Capasso , M. Caprai , A. Caproni , R. Capuzzo-Dolcetta , P. Caraveo , R. Carosi , A. Carosi , S. Casanova , E. Cascone , D. Cauz , K. Cerny , M. Cerruti , P. Chadwick , S. Chaty , A. Chen , M. Chernyakova , G. Chiaro , A. Chiavassa , L. Chytka , V. Conforti , F. Conte , J. L. Contreras , J. Coronado-Blazquez , J. Cortina , A. Costa , H. Costantini , S. Covino , P. Cristofari , O. Cuevas , F. D'Ammando , M. K. Daniel , J. Davies , F. Dazzi , A. De Angelis , M. de Bony de Lavergne , V. De Caprio , R. de Cássia dos Anjos , 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 , C. Delgado , R. Della Ceca , D. della Volpe , D. Depaoli , T. Di Girolamo , F. Di Pierro , C. Díaz , C. Díaz-Bahamondes , S. Diebold , A. Djannati-Ataï , A. Dmytriiev , A. Domínguez , A. Donini , D. Dorner , M. Doro , J. Dournaux , V. V. Dwarkadas , J. Ebr , C. Eckner , S. Einecke , T. R. N. Ekoume , D. Elsässer , G. Emery , C. Evoli , M. Fairbairn , D. Falceta-Goncalves , S. Fegan , Q. Feng , G. Ferrand , E. Fiandrini , A. Fiasson , V. Fioretti , L. Foffano , M. V. Fonseca , L. Font , G. Fontaine , F. J. Franco , L. Freixas Coromina , S. Fukami , Y. Fukazawa , Y. Fukui , D. Gaggero , G. Galanti , V. Gammaldi , E. Garcia , M. Garczarczyk , D. Gascon , M. Gaug , A. Gent , A. Ghalumyan , G. Ghirlanda , F. Gianotti , M. Giarrusso , G. Giavitto , N. Giglietto , F. Giordano , J. Glicenstein , P. Goldoni , J. M. González , K. Gourgouliatos , T. Grabarczyk , P. Grandi , J. Granot , D. Grasso , J. Green , J. Grube , O. Gueta , S. Gunji , A. Halim , M. Harvey , T. Hassan Collado , K. Hayashi , M. Heller , S. Hernández Cadena , O. Hervet , J. Hinton , N. Hiroshima , B. Hnatyk , R. Hnatyk , D. Hoffmann , W. Hofmann , J. Holder , D. Horan , J. Hörandel , P. Horvath , T. Hovatta , M. Hrabovsky , D. Hrupec , G. Hughes , M. Hütten , M. Iarlori , T. Inada , S. Inoue , A. Insolia , M. Ionica , M. Iori , M. Jacquemont , M. Jamrozy , P. Janecek , I. Jiménez Martínez , W. Jin , I. Jung-Richardt , J. Jurysek , P. Kaaret , V. Karas , S. Karkar , N. Kawanaka , D. Kerszberg , B. Khélifi , R. Kissmann , J. Knödlseder , Y. Kobayashi , K. Kohri , N. Komin , A. Kong , K. Kosack , H. Kubo , N. La Palombara , G. Lamanna , R. G. Lang , J. Lapington , P. Laporte , M. Lemoine-Goumard , J. Lenain , F. Leone , G. Leto , F. Leuschner , E. Lindfors , S. Lloyd , T. Lohse , S. Lombardi , F. Longo , A. Lopez , M. López , R. López-Coto , S. Loporchio , F. Lucarelli , P. L. Luque-Escamilla , E. Lyard , C. Maggio , A. Majczyna , M. Makariev , M. Mallamaci , D. Mandat , G. Maneva , M. Manganaro , G. Manicò , A. Marcowith , M. Marculewicz , S. Markoff , P. Marquez , J. Martí , O. Martinez , M. Martínez , G. Martínez , H. Martínez-Huerta , G. Maurin , D. Mazin , J. D. Mbarubucyeye , D. Medina Miranda , M. Meyer , S. Micanovic , T. Miener , M. Minev , J. M. 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Stolarczyk , U. Straumann , J. Strišković , Y. Suda , P. Świerk , G. Tagliaferri , H. Takahashi , M. Takahashi , F. Tavecchio , L. Taylor , L. A. Tejedor , P. Temnikov , R. Terrier , T. Terzic , V. Testa , W. Tian , L. Tibaldo , D. Tonev , D. F. Torres , E. Torresi , L. Tosti , N. Tothill , G. Tovmassian , P. Travnicek , S. Truzzi , F. Tuossenel , G. Umana , M. Vacula , V. Vagelli , M. Valentino , B. Vallage , P. Vallania , C. van Eldik , G. S. Varner , V. Vassiliev , M. Vázquez Acosta , M. Vecchi , J. Veh , S. Vercellone , S. Vergani , V. Verguilov , G. P. Vettolani , A. Viana , C. F. Vigorito , V. Vitale , S. Vorobiov , I. Vovk , T. Vuillaume , S. J. Wagner , R. Walter , J. Watson , M. White , R. White , R. Wiemann , A. Wierzcholska , M. Will , D. A. Williams , R. Wischnewski , A. Wolter , R. Yamazaki , S. Yanagita , L. Yang , T. Yoshikoshi , M. Zacharias , G. Zaharijas , D. Zaric , M. Zavrtanik , D. Zavrtanik , A. Zech , H. Zechlin , V. I. Zhdanov , M. Živec

Feasibility of VHE gamma ray detection by an array of imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes using the fluorescence technique

The last 20 years have seen the development of new techniques in Astroparticle Physics providing access to the highest end of the electromagnetic spectrum. It has been shown that some sources emit photons up to energies close to 100 TeV.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-08-04 J. L. Contreras , J. Rosado , F. Arqueros , M. López , J. A. Barrio , M. Nievas

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

Dark Matter Search with Cherenkov Telescope Array

Many models of dark matter (DM) are now widely considered and probed intensively with accelerators, underground detectors, and astrophysical experiments. Among the various approaches, high-energy astrophysical observations are extremely…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-10-04 Nagisa Hiroshima

Observer Access to the Cherenkov Telescope Array

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA), a ground-based facility for very-high-energy (VHE) gamma-ray astronomy, will operate as an open observatory, serving a wide scientific community to explore and to study the non-thermal universe. Open…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 Jürgen Knödlseder , Volker Beckmann , Catherine Boisson , Sylvie Brau-Nogué , Christoph Deil , Bruno Khélifi , Michael Mayer , Roland Walter

First follow-up of transient events with the CTA Large Size Telescope prototype

The recent detection of a very high energy (VHE) emission from Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) above 100 GeV performed by the MAGIC and H.E.S.S. collaborations, has represented a significant, long-awaited result for the VHE astrophysics community.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-08-11 Alessandro Carosi , Halim Ashkar , Alessio Berti , Pol Bordas , Mathieu de Bony Lavergne , Alice Donini , Mykhailo Dalchenko , Armand Fiasson , Luca Foffano , Satoshi Fukami , Yukiho Kobayshi , Francesco Longo , Koji Noda , David Sanchez , Monica Seglar-Arroyo , Fabian Schüssler , Thomas Vuillaume

Sensitivity of the Cherenkov Telescope Array to a dark matter signal from the Galactic centre

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

Early attempts at atmospheric simulations for the Cherenkov Telescope Array

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) will be the world's first observatory for detecting gamma-rays from astrophysical phenomena and is now in its prototyping phase with construction expected to begin in 2015/16. In this work we present the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 Cameron B. Rulten , Sam J. Nolan

Supernova Remnants and Pulsar Wind Nebulae in the Cherenkov Telescope Array era

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is planned to serve as a ground-based observatory for (very-)high-energy gamma-ray astronomy, open to a wide astrophysics community, providing a deep insight into the non-thermal high-energy universe. It…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-15 M. Renaud

Tau Neutrinos with Cherenkov Telescope Array

The next generation of Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov telescope, like CTA, is going to strongly improve the detection capability of high-energy cosmic rays. In our paper we discuss the possibility to use such apparatus to detect…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-07-28 Damiano F. G. Fiorillo , Gennaro Miele , Ofelia Pisanti

Galactic transient sources with the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory

A wide variety of Galactic sources show transient emission at soft and hard X-ray energies: low- and high-mass X-ray binaries containing compact objects, isolated neutron stars exhibiting extreme variability as magnetars as well as…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-05-29 Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory Consortium