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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…

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The future ground-based gamma-ray observatory Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) will feature multiple types of imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes, each with thousands of pixels. To be affordable, camera concepts for these telescopes…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 S. Funk , D. Jankowsky , H. Katagiri , M. Kraus , A. Okumura , H. Schoorlemmer , A. Shigenaka , H. Tajima , L. Tibaldo , G. Varner , A. Zink , J. Zorn

The sensitivity of imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes (IACTs) in TeV gamma-ray observations reachs its maximum at small zenith angles (< 30 degree) which provide the minimum attainable energy threshold of an instrument. However, for a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 A. Konopelko , F. Aharonian , M. Hemberger , W. Hofmann , J. Kettler , G. Puehlhofer , H. J. Voelk

The High Energy Stereoscopic System (H.E.S.S.) very high energy gamma-ray telescope array has added a fifth telescope of 600 m$^{2}$ mirror area to the centre of the 4 existing telescopes, lowering its energy threshold to the sub-100 GeV…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 R. D. Parsons , M. Gajdus , T. Murach

The Next-Generation Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescope Array (NG-ACTA) is proposed as a prospective infrastructure for very high energy (VHE) gamma-ray astronomy, consisting of a mixed-aperture array of 88 telescopes with a maximum array…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-23 Jiancheng Wang , Jirong Mao

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

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) consortium aims to create the next generation Very High Energy gamma-ray observatory. It will be devoted to the observation of gamma rays over a wide band of energy, from 20 GeV to 300 TeV. Three…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-27 Jean-Laurent Dournaux , Jean-Michel Huet , Delphine Dumas , Jean-Philippe Amans , Gilles Fasola , Philippe Laporte , Jean-Jacques Bousquet , Hélène Sol

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is a future very high energy gamma-ray observatory. CTA will be comprised of small-, medium- and large-size telescopes covering an energy range from tens of GeV to hundreds of TeV and will surpass…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 T. Jogler , M. D. Wood , J. Dumm

Several types of binary systems have been detected up to now at high and very high gamma-ray energies, including microquasars, young pulsars around massive stars and colliding wind binaries. The study of the sources already known, and of…

The development of Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes (IACTs) unveiled the sky in the teraelectronvolt regime, initiating the so-called "TeV revolution", at the beginning of the new millennium. This revolution was also facilitated by…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-10 Giacomo D'Amico

TenTen is a proposed array of Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes (IACT) optimized for the gamma ray energy regime of 10 TeV to 100 TeV, but with a threshold of ~1 to a few TeV. It will offer a collecting area of 10 km2 above energies…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-10-17 V. Stamatescu , G. Rowell , R. Clay , B. Dawson , J. Denman , R. Dunbar , R. Protheroe , A. Smith , G. Thornton , N. Wild

GAW (Gamma Air Watch) is a pathfinder experiment in the TeV range to test the feasibility of a new generation of Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes (IACT). It combines high flux sensitivity with large field-of-view (FoV=24deg x 24deg)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-06-14 Luisa Arruda , GAW collaboration

Ground-based gamma-ray astronomy has experienced a major breakthrough in the last decade thanks to the advent of new generation instruments such as H.E.S.S., MAGIC, Milagro and VERITAS. A large variety of cosmic particle accelerators has…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-10-11 Jürgen Knödlseder

For the current generation of Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes (IACTs), with their large mirrors and their cameras with fine segmentation of photodetectors, the focusing capability is a relevant issue. The optical system of an IACT…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 C. Trichard , A. Fiasson , G. Maurin , G. Lamanna

The imaging Cherenkov telescopes TAIGA-IACT, located in the Tunka valley of the republic Buryatia, accumulate a lot of data in a short period of time which must be efficiently and quickly analyzed. One of the methods of such analysis is the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-21 Elizaveta Gres , and Alexander Kryukov

Imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes (IACTs) are the main technique for detecting gamma rays with energies between tens of GeV and hundreds of TeV. Amongst them, the High Energy Stereoscopic System (H.E.S.S.) has pioneered the use of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-01 Rodrigo Guedes Lang , Tim Unbehaun , Lars Mohrmann , Simon Steinmassl , Jim Hinton , Stefan Funk

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

While current atmospheric Cherenkov installations consist of only a few telescopes each, future installations will be far more complex. Monte Carlo simulations have become an essential tool for the design and optimisation of such…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Konrad Bernloehr

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is a major ground-based observatory proposed for gamma-ray astronomy. CTA is envisioned to consist of two large arrays of atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes for the study of sources of high-energy gamma…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 R. A. Ong , T. Aune , J. Hall

The Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO) is the next-generation observatory for high energy \gamma-ray astronomy with unprecedented sensitivity and accuracy. Accurate estimation and mitigation of systematic uncertainties are crucial…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-04 G. Voutsinas , M. Dalchenko , M. Gaug , O. Gueta , T. Montaruli , R. Zanin
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