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Raman LIDARs and atmospheric calibration for the Cherenkov Telescope Array

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

Inauguration and First Light of the GCT-M Prototype for the Cherenkov Telescope Array

The Gamma-ray Cherenkov Telescope (GCT) is a candidate for the Small Size Telescopes (SSTs) of the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA). Its purpose is to extend the sensitivity of CTA to gamma-ray energies reaching 300 TeV. Its dual-mirror…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-09 J. J. Watson , A. De Franco , 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 , 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 , 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. Sayéde , J. Schmoll , H. Schoorlemmer , M. Servillat , H. Sol , V. Stamatescu , M. Stephan , R. Stuik , J. Sykes , H. Tajima , J. Thornhill , L. Tibaldo , C. Trichard , J. Vink , R. White , N. Yamane , A. Zech , A. Zink , J. Zorn , the CTA Consortium

Cherenkov Telescope Arrays for High-Energy Neutrino Detection in Mountain Ranges

The present study investigates the feasibility of employing Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) technology for the detection of ultra-high-energy (UHE) neutrino-tau particles. By observing the Cherenkov light produced by charged particles…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-06-04 Tariq Bitam , Bouzid Boussaha , Mossaab Messamah

Schwarzschild-Couder telescope for the Cherenkov Telescope Array: Development of the Optical System

The CTA (Cherenkov Telescope Array) is the next generation ground-based experiment for very high-energy (VHE) gamma-ray observations. It will integrate several tens of imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes (IACTs) with different…

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Monte Carlo simulations of alternative sky observation modes with the Cherenkov Telescope Array

We investigate possible sky survey modes with the Middle Sized Telescopes (MST, aimed at covering the energy range from $\sim$100 GeV to 10 TeV) subsystem of the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA). We use the standard CTA tools, CORSIKA and…

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Dark Matter Line Searches with the Cherenkov Telescope Array

Monochromatic gamma-ray signals constitute a potential smoking gun signature for annihilating or decaying dark matter particles that could relatively easily be distinguished from astrophysical or instrumental backgrounds. We provide an…

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Brunelli , A. Bulgarelli , T. Bulik , I. Burelli , L. Burmistrov , M. Burton , M. Buscemi , T. Bylund , J. Cailleux , A. Campoy-Ordaz , B. K. Cantlay , G. Capasso , A. Caproni , R. Capuzzo-Dolcetta , P. Caraveo , S. Caroff , A. Carosi , R. Carosi , E. Carquin , M. -S. Carrasco , F. Cassol , L. Castaldini , N. Castrejon , A. J. Castro-Tirado , D. Cerasole , M. Cerruti , P. M. Chadwick , S. Chaty , A. W. Chen , M. Chernyakova , A. Chiavassa , J. Chudoba , L. Chytka , G. M. Cicciari , A. Cifuentes , C. H. Coimbra Araujo , M. Colapietro , V. Conforti , F. Conte , J. L. Contreras , A. Costa , H. Costantini , G. Cotter , P. Cristofari , O. Cuevas , Z. Curtis-Ginsberg , G. D'Amico , F. D'Ammando , S. Dai , M. Dalchenko , F. Dazzi , A. De Angelis , M. de Bony de Lavergne , V. De Caprio , E. M. de Gouveia Dal Pino , B. De Lotto , M. De Lucia , R. de Menezes , M. de Naurois , V. de Souza , L. del Peral , M. V. del Valle , A. G. Delgado Giler , J. Delgado Mengual , C. Delgado , M. 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The calibration of the first Large-Sized Telescope of the Cherenkov Telescope Array

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) represents the next generation of very high-energy gamma-ray observatory, which will provide broad coverage of gamma rays from 20 GeV to 300 TeV with unprecedented sensitivity. CTA will employ three…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-23 S. Sakurai , D. Depaoli , R. López-Coto

Present and future of the TeV astronomy with Cherenkov telescopes

Cherenkov telescopes play a major role in the growth of the TeV Astronomy which, in 20 years, has reached the status of an important branch of Astrophysics, because of the observations of the violent, non thermal processes in the extreme…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-10-19 B. Sacco , S. Vercellone

An Efficient Test Facility For The Cherenkov Telescope Array FlashCam Readout Electronics Production

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

Atmospheric calibration of the Cherenkov Telescope Array

Atmospheric monitoring is an integral part of the design of the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA), as atmospheric conditions affect the observations by Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes (IACT) in multiple ways. The variable optical…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-22 Jan Ebr , Tomasz Bulik , Lluis Font , Markus Gaug , Petr Janecek , Jakub Jurysek , Dusan Mandat , Stanislav Stefanik , Laura Valore , George Vasileiadis

Raman LIDARs for the atmospheric calibration along the line-of-sight of CTA

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…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-23 Otger Ballester , Oscar Blanch , Joan Boix , Johan Bregeon , Patrick Brun , Merve Colak , Michele Doro , Vania Da Deppo , Lluis Font , Omar Gabella , Rafael Garcia , Markus Gaug , Camilla Maggio , Manel Martinez , Oscar Martinez , Pere Munar Adrover , Raul Ramos , Stephane Rivoire , Samo Stanic , David Villar , George Vasileiadis , Longlong Wang , Marko Zavrtanik

Detection prospects for short time-scale transient events at VHE with current and next generation Cherenkov observatories

In the current view of Gamma-Ray Burst (GRB) phenomena, an emission component extending up to the very-high energy (VHE, E > 30 GeV) domain is though to be a relatively common feature at least in the brightest events. This leads to an…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-07-15 Saverio Lombardi , Alessandro Carosi , Lucio Angelo Antonelli

Studying cosmological $\gamma$-ray propagation with the Cherenkov Telescope Array

The measurement of $\gamma$-rays originating from active galactic nuclei offers the unique opportunity to study the propagation of very-high-energy photons over cosmological distances. Most prominently, $\gamma$-rays interact with the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-01-22 Florian Gaté , Rafael Alves Batista , Jonathan Biteau , Julien Lefaucheur , Salvatore Mangano , Manuel Meyer , Quentin Piel , Santiago Pita , David Sanchez , Ievgen Vovk

Silicon Photomultiplier Camera for Schwarzschild-Couder Cherenkov Telescopes

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is an atmospheric Cherenkov observatory that will image the cosmos in very-high-energy gamma rays. CTA will study the highest-energy particle accelerators in the Universe and potentially confirm the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 J. Vandenbroucke

A Prototype Data Format for the Cherenkov Telescope Array: Regions Of Interest (ROI)

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is a ground-based $\gamma$-ray observatory that will observe the full sky in the energy range from 20 GeV to 100 TeV from facilities in both hemispheres. It is proposed to consist of more than 100…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-07 Ramin Marx , Raquel de los Reyes

Redshift determination of blazars for the Cherenkov Telescope Array

Blazars are the most numerous type of observed high-energy gamma-ray emitters. However, their emission mechanisms and population properties are still not well-understood. Crucial to this understanding are their cosmological redshifts, which…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-03-24 Eli Kasai , Paolo Goldoni , Santiago Pita , Catherine Boisson , Michael Backes , Garret Cotter , Filippo D'Ammando , Brian van Soelen

Status and motivation of Raman LIDARs development for the CTA Observatory

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is the next generation of Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes. It would reach unprecedented sensitivity and energy resolution in very-high-energy gamma-ray astronomy. In order to reach these goals,…

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The Cherenkov Telescope Array view of the Galactic Center region

Among all the high-energy environments of our Galaxy, the Galactic Center (GC) region is definitely the richest. It harbors a large amount of non-thermal emitters, including the closest supermassive black hole, dense molecular clouds,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-20 Aion Viana , Sofia Ventura , Daniele Gaggero , Dario Grasso , Dmitry Malyshev , Karl Kosack , Stefan Funk , Antonino D'Ai , Rafael Alves Batista , Rebecca Blackwell , Aleksandr Burtovoi , Patrizia A. Caraveo , Masha Chernyakova , Paolo Da Vela , Giovanni De Cesare , Elisabete M. de Gouveia Dal Pino , Emma de Oña Wilhelmi , Miroslav Filipovic , Michele Fiori , Ignacio A. Minaya , Juan Carlos Rodríguez-Ramírez , Gavin Rowell , Andrea Rugliancich , Olga Sergijenko , Luca Zampieri

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

Commissioning and Performance of CHEC-S -- a compact high-energy camera for the Cherenkov Telescope Array

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) will present the next leap forward in gamma-ray astronomy, pushing beyond the present energy frontier to probe beyond 300 TeV. This capability is provided by the 70 Small Sized Telescopes (SSTs). The SSTs…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-23 Jason John Watson , Justus Zorn