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Monte Carlo Studies of Combined MAGIC and LST1 Observations

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Performance of the joint LST-1 and MAGIC observations evaluated with Crab Nebula data

Aims. LST-1, the prototype of the Large-Sized Telescope for the upcoming Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory, is concluding its commissioning in Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos on the island of La Palma. The proximity of LST-1…

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Observations of the Crab Nebula and Pulsar with the Large-Sized Telescope Prototype of the Cherenkov Telescope Array

CTA (Cherenkov Telescope Array) is the next generation ground-based observatory for gamma-ray astronomy at very-high energies. The Large-Sized Telescope prototype (LST-1) is located at the Northern site of CTA, on the Canary Island of La…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-16 CTA-LST Project , : , H. Abe , K. Abe , S. Abe , A. Aguasca-Cabot , I. Agudo , N. Alvarez Crespo , L. A. Antonelli , C. Aramo , A. Arbet-Engels , C. Arcaro , M. Artero , K. Asano , P. Aubert , A. Baktash , A. Bamba , A. Baquero Larriva , L. Baroncelli , U. Barres de Almeida , J. A. Barrio , I. Batkovic , J. Baxter , J. Becerra González , E. Bernardini , M. I. Bernardos , J. Bernete Medrano , A. Berti , P. Bhattacharjee , N. Biederbeck , C. Bigongiari , E. Bissaldi , O. Blanch , G. Bonnoli , P. Bordas , A. Borghese , A. Bulgarelli , I. Burelli , M. Buscemi , M. Cardillo , S. Caroff , A. Carosi , F. Cassol , D. Cauz , G. Ceribella , Y. Chai , K. Cheng , A. Chiavassa , M. Chikawa , L. Chytka , A. Cifuentes , J. L. Contreras , J. Cortina , H. Costantini , G. D'Amico , M. Dalchenko , A. De Angelis , M. de Bony de Lavergne , B. De Lotto , R. de Menezes , G. Deleglise , C. Delgado , J. Delgado Mengual , D. della Volpe , M. Dellaiera , D. Depaoli , A. Di Piano , F. Di Pierro , R. Di Tria , L. Di Venere , C. Díaz , R. M. Dominik , D. Dominis Prester , A. Donini , D. Dorner , M. Doro , D. Elsässer , G. Emery , J. Escudero , V. Fallah Ramazani , G. Ferrara , F. Ferrarotto , A. Fiasson , L. Freixas Coromina , S. Fröse , S. Fukami , Y. Fukazawa , E. Garcia , R. Garcia López , C. Gasbarra , D. Gasparrini , F. Geyer , J. Giesbrecht Paiva , N. Giglietto , F. Giordano , E. Giro , P. Gliwny , N. Godinovic , R. Grau , D. Green , J. Green , S. Gunji , J. Hackfeld , D. Hadasch , A. Hahn , K. Hashiyama , 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. Hütten , M. Iarlori , R. Imazawa , T. Inada , Y. Inome , K. Ioka , M. Iori , K. Ishio , Y. Iwamura , M. Jacquemont , I. Jimenez Martinez , J. Jurysek , M. Kagaya , V. Karas , H. Katagiri , J. Kataoka , D. Kerszberg , Y. Kobayashi , A. Kong , H. Kubo , J. Kushida , M. Lainez , G. Lamanna , A. Lamastra , T. Le Flour , M. Linhoff , F. Longo , R. López-Coto , M. López-Moya , A. López-Oramas , S. Loporchio , A. Lorini , P. L. Luque-Escamilla , P. Majumdar , M. Makariev , D. Mandat , M. Manganaro , G. Manicò , K. Mannheim , M. Mariotti , P. Marquez , G. Marsella , J. Martí , O. Martinez , G. Martínez , M. Martínez , P. Marusevec , A. Mas-Aguilar , G. Maurin , D. Mazin , E. Mestre Guillen , S. Micanovic , D. Miceli , T. Miener , J. M. Miranda , R. Mirzoyan , T. Mizuno , M. Molero Gonzalez , E. Molina , T. Montaruli , I. Monteiro , A. Moralejo , D. Morcuende , A. Morselli , K. Mrakovcic , K. Murase , A. Nagai , S. Nagataki , T. Nakamori , L. Nickel , M. Nievas , K. Nishijima , K. Noda , D. Nosek , S. Nozaki , M. Ohishi , Y. Ohtani , T. Oka , N. Okazaki , A. Okumura , R. Orito , J. Otero-Santos , M. Palatiello , D. Paneque , F. R. Pantaleo , R. Paoletti , J. M. Paredes , M. Pech , M. Pecimotika , M. Peresano , A. Pérez , E. Pietropaolo , G. Pirola , C. Plard , F. Podobnik , V. Poireau , M. Polo , E. Pons , E. Prandini , J. Prast , G. Principe , C. Priyadarshi , M. Prouza , R. Rando , W. Rhode , M. Ribó , V. Rizi , G. Rodriguez Fernandez , J. E. Ruiz , T. Saito , S. Sakurai , D. A. Sanchez , T. Šarić , Y. Sato , F. G. Saturni , B. Schleicher , F. Schmuckermaier , J. L. Schubert , F. Schussler , T. Schweizer , M. Seglar Arroyo , R. Silvia , J. Sitarek , V. Sliusar , A. Spolon , J. Strišković , M. Strzys , Y. Suda , Y. Sunada , H. Tajima , H. Takahashi , M. Takahashi , J. Takata , R. Takeishi , P. H. T. Tam , S. J. Tanaka , D. Tateishi , L. A. Tejedor , P. Temnikov , Y. Terada , K. Terauchi , T. Terzic , M. Teshima , M. Tluczykont , F. Tokanai , D. F. Torres , P. Travnicek , S. Truzzi , A. Tutone , G. Uhlrich , M. Vacula , P. Vallania , J. van Scherpenberg , M. Vázquez Acosta , V. Verguilov , I. Viale , A. Vigliano , C. F. Vigorito , V. Vitale , G. Voutsinas , I. Vovk , T. Vuillaume , R. Walter , M. Will , T. Yamamoto , R. Yamazaki , T. Yoshida , T. Yoshikoshi , N. Zywucka , K. Bernloehr , O. Gueta , K. Kosack , G. Maier , J. Watson

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

Physics Performance of the Large-Sized Telescope prototype of the Cherenkov Telescope Array

The Large-Sized Telescope (LST) prototype of the future Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is located at the Northern site of CTA, on the Canary Island of La Palma. It is designed to provide optimal performance in the lowest part of the energy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-09-09 R. López-Coto , A. Moralejo , M. Artero , A. Baquero , M. Bernardos , J. L. Contreras , F. Di Pierro , E. García , D. Kerszberg , M. López-Moya , A. MasAguilar , D. Morcuende , M. Noethe , S. Nozaki , Y. Ohtani , C. Priyadarshi , Y. Suda , T. Vuillaume

Analysis of the Cherenkov Telescope Array first Large-Sized Telescope real data using convolutional neural networks

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is the future ground-based gamma-ray observatory and will be composed of two arrays of imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes (IACTs) located in the Northern and Southern hemispheres respectively. The…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-10 Thomas Vuillaume , Mikaël Jacquemont , Mathieu de Bony de Lavergne , David A. Sanchez , Vincent Poireau , Gilles Maurin , Alexandre Benoit , Patrick Lambert , Giovanni Lamanna , CTA-LST Project

The next generation Cherenkov Telescope Array observatory: CTA

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is a large collaborative effort aimed at the design and operation of an observatory dedicated to the VHE gamma-ray astrophysics in the energy range 30 GeV-100 TeV, which will improve by about one order of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 Stefano Vercellone

Camera Calibration of the CTA-LST prototype

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is the next-generation gamma-ray observatory that is expected to reach one order of magnitude better sensitivity than that of current telescope arrays. The Large-Sized Telescopes (LSTs) have an essential…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-23 Yukiho Kobayashi , Akira Okumura , Franca Cassol , Hideaki Katagiri , Julian Sitarek , Paweł Gliwny , Seiya Nozaki , Yuto Nogami

Status and results of the prototype LST of CTA

The Large-Sized Telescopes (LSTs) of Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) are designed for gamma-ray studies focusing on low energy threshold, high flux sensitivity, rapid telescope repositioning speed and a large field of view. Once the CTA…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-23 Daniel Mazin

SST-GATE: A dual mirror telescope for the Cherenkov Telescope Array

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

Performance of the Large-Sized Telescope prototype of the Cherenkov Telescope Array

The next-generation ground-based gamma-ray Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO) will consist of imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes (IACTs) of three different sizes distributed in two sites. The Large-Sized Telescopes will…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-09-21 Daniel Morcuende , Rubén López-Coto , Abelardo Moralejo , Seiya Nozaki , Thomas Vuillaume

The lstMCpipe library

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is the next generation of ground-based gamma-ray astronomy observatory that will improve the sensitivity of current generation instruments by one order of magnitude. The LST-1 is the first telescope…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-02 Enrique Garcia , Thomas Vuillaume , Lukas Nickel

Status of the Cherenkov Telescope Array's Large Size Telescopes

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) observatory, will be deployed over two sites in the two hemispheres. Both sites will be equipped with four Large Size Telescopes (LSTs), which are crucial to achieve the science goals of CTA in the 20-200…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 J. Cortina , M. Teshima

Cherenkov Telescope Array: The Next Generation Gamma-ray Observatory

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) will be the next-generation gamma-ray observatory, investigating gamma-ray and cosmic ray astrophysics at energies from 20 GeV to more than 300 TeV. The observatory, consisting of large arrays of imaging…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-01-22 The CTA Consortium

Full LST-1 data reconstruction with the use of convolutional neural networks

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) will be the world's largest and most sensitive ground-based gamma-ray observatory in the energy range from a few tens of GeV to tens of TeV. The LST-1 prototype, currently in its commissioning phase, is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-11-30 Jakub Juryšek , Etienne Lyard , Roland Walter

The structure monitoring of the MST prototype of CTA

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is the next generation of ground-based gamma-ray observatory. The observatory will consist of two arrays, one located in the southern hemisphere (Paranal,Chile) and the other in the northern hemisphere…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-17 Victor Barbosa Martins , Markus Garczarczyk

Large Size Telescope Report

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) observatory will be deployed over two sites in the two hemispheres. Both sites will be equipped with four Large Size Telescopes (LSTs), which are crucial to achieve the science goals of CTA in the 20-200…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-09 D. Mazin , J. Cortina , M. Teshima , the CTA Consortium

Status of the Large Size Telescopes of the Cherenkov Telescope Array

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) will consist of two arrays of Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes (IACTs) at the northern and southern hemispheres. CTA will feature IACTs with mirrors of three different sizes optimized to cover…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-25 Juan Cortina

The Cherenkov Telescope Array

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is the next generation ground-based observatory for gamma-ray astronomy at very-high energies. It will be capable of detecting gamma rays in the energy range from 20 GeV to more than 300 TeV with…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-22 Daniel Mazin

Techniques And Results For The Calibration Of The MST Prototype For The Cherenkov Telescope Array

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