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Very high-energy gamma-ray measurements of distant blazars can be well explained by secondary gamma rays emitted by cascades induced by ultra-high-energy cosmic rays. The secondary gamma rays will enable one to detect a large number of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-17 Yoshiyuki Inoue , Oleg E. Kalashev , Alexander Kusenko

The next generation instrument for ground-based gamma-ray astronomy will be the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA), consisting of approximately 100 telescopes in three sizes, built on two sites with one each in the Northern and Southern Hemi-…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-09 Louise Oakes , Markus Garczarczyk , Stephan Kaphle , Michael Mayer , Stefan Schlenstedt

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

High energy gamma-ray astronomy has been established during the last decade through the launch of the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory (CGRO) and the success of its ground-based counterpart, the imaging atmospheric Cherenkov technique. In the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Frank Krennrich

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA), conceived as an array of tens of imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes (IACTs), is an international project for a next-generation ground-based gamma-ray observatory, aiming to improve on the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-14 Tjark Miener , Daniel Nieto , Aryeh Brill , Samuel Spencer , Jose Luis Contreras

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is an international next-generation ground-based gamma-ray observatory. CTA will be implemented as southern and northern hemisphere arrays of tens of small, medium and large-sized imaging Cherenkov…

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) Observatory must be capable of issuing fast alerts on variable and transient sources to maximize the scientific return. This will be accomplished by means of a Real-Time Analysis (RTA) pipeline, a key…

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

The binary systems that have been detected in gamma rays have proven very useful to study high-energy processes, in particular particle acceleration, emission and radiation reprocessing, and the dynamics of the underlying magnetized flows.…

Gamma rays at rest frame energies as high as 90 GeV have been reported from gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) by the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT). There is considerable hope that a confirmed GRB detection will be possible with the upcoming…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-03 Rudy C. Gilmore , Aurelien Bouvier , Valerie Connaughton , Adam Goldstein , Nepomuk Otte , Joel R. Primack , David A. Williams

The Gamma-ray Cherenkov Telescope (GCT) is one of the Small Size Telescopes (SSTs) proposed for the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) aimed at the 1 TeV to 300 TeV energy range. GCT will be equipped with a Compact High-Energy Camera (CHEC)…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 Richard White , Harm Schoorlemmer

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is the next generation 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…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-22 Iftach Sadeh , Igor Oya , Joseph Schwarz , Emmanuel Pietriga , Dejan Dezman

The Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO) will enable detailed studies of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) in the very-high-energy (VHE) regime, as the next-generation ground-based gamma-ray observatory, designed to enhance sensitivity…

Prospects of the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) for the study of very high energy gamma-ray emission from nearby star-forming galaxies are investigated. In the previous work, we constructed a model to calculate luminosity and energy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-08-04 Naoya Shimono , Tomonori Totani , Takahiro Sudoh

The current generation of very-high-energy $gamma-$ray (VHE; E above 30 GeV) detectors (MAGIC and H.E.S.S.) have recently demonstrated the ability to detect the afterglow emission of GRBs. However, the GRB prompt emission, typically…

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

The birth of gravitational-wave / electromagnetic astronomy was heralded by the joint observation of gravitational waves (GWs) from a binary neutron star (BNS) merger by Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo, GW170817, and of gamma-rays from the…

We discuss the discovery potential of extended very-high-energy (VHE) neutrino sources by the future KM3 Neutrino Telescope (KM3NeT) in the context of the constraining power of the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA), designed for deep surveys…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-04-04 Lucia Ambrogi , Silvia Celli , Felix Aharonian

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is the next-generation ground-based observatory for very-high energy gamma-ray astronomy. CTA will have unparalleled sensitivity and angular resolution and will detect gamma-ray sources nearly 100 times…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-07 Leslie Taylor