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The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) will use three telescope sizes to efficiently detect cosmic gamma rays in the energy range from several tens of GeV to hundreds of TeV. The Small-Sized Telescopes (SSTs) will form the largest section of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-28 R. White

Gamma-ray emitting narrow-line Seyfert 1 ($\gamma$-NLSy1) galaxies are thought to harbour relatively low-mass black holes (10$^6$-10$^8$ M$_{\odot}$) accreting close to the Eddington limit. They show characteristics similar to those of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-09-11 P. Romano , S. Vercellone , L. Foschini , F. Tavecchio , M. Landoni , J. Knödlseder

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,…

The Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO) will be the next-generation major ground-based gamma-ray observatory. It will be made up of two large arrays of imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes (IACTs), with one site in the Northern…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-03 Francesco Schiavone

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is the next generation very high energy gamma-ray observatory covering the 20 GeV - 300 TeV energy range with unprecedented sensitivity, angular and energy resolution. With a site in each hemisphere, CTA…

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 2015-09-08 Ramin Marx , Raquel de los Reyes

The Cherenkov Telescopes Array (CTA) is planned to be an Observatory for very high energy gamma ray astronomy and will consist of several tens of telescopes which account for a reflective surface of more than 10000 m$^2$. The mirrors of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 M. C. Medina , B. Garcia , J. Maya , A. Mancilla , J. J. Larrarte , E. Rasztocky , M. Benitez , J. Dipold , M. Platino

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA), is an international project for the next generation ground- based observatory for gamma-ray astronomy in the energy range from 20 GeV to 300 TeV. The sensitivity in the core energy range will be…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-07 Markus Garczarczyk , Stefan Schlenstedt , Louise Oakes , Ullrich Schwanke , the MST Team

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 existing…

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

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

One of the major scientific objectives of the future Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) Observatory is the search for PeVatrons. PeVatrons are cosmic-ray factories able to accelerate nuclei at least up to the knee feature seen in the spectrum…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-11-15 E. O. Angüner , F. Cassol , H. Costantini , C. Trichard , G. Verna

We estimate the sensitivity of the upcoming CTA gamma-ray telescope to DM annihilation at the Galactic centre, improving on previous analyses in a number of significant ways. First, we perform a detailed analyses of all backgrounds,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-09-23 Hamish Silverwood , Christoph Weniger , Pat Scott , Gianfranco Bertone

The observation of the electromagnetic counterpart of gravitational-wave (GW) transient GW170817 demonstrated the potential in extracting astrophysical information from multimessenger discoveries. The forthcoming deployment of the first…

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is the next generation of Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes. It will reach a sensitivity and an energy resolution with no precendent in very high energy gamma-ray astronomy. In order to achieve…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 A. López-Oramas , O. Abril , O. Blanch Bigas , J. Boix , V. Da Deppo , M. Doro , L. Font , D. Garrido , M. Gaug , M. Martínez , G. Vasileiadis

The planned Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA), a future ground-based Very-High-Energy (VHE) gamma-ray observatory, will be the largest project of its kind. It aims to provide an order of magnitude increase in sensitivity compared to currently…

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

During the last decade ground-based very high-energy gamma-ray astronomy achieved a remarkable advancement in the development of the observational technique for the registration and study of gamma-ray emission above 100 GeV. It is widely…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 A. Konopelko , A. Chilingarian , A. Reimers

We investigate the prospect of detecting the Dark Matter (DM) candidate in the three-loop radiative neutrino mass generation model extended with large electroweak multiplets of the Standard Model (SM) gauge group, at the future imaging…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-02-24 Talal Ahmed Chowdhury , Saquib Hassan , Jahid Hossain , Salah Nasri , Mahmud Ashraf Shamim

The Universe opacity to gamma rays is still an open question, in particular anomalies may have been observed. Assuming that such anomalies find their origin in conventional physics like intrinsic source spectra or the density of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-02-19 D. Wouters , P. Brun

The TeV extragalactic sky is dominated by blazars, radio-loud active galactic nuclei with a relativistic jet pointing towards the Earth. Blazars show variability that can be quite exceptional both in terms of flux (orders of magnitude of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-09-19 M. Cerruti , J. Finke , G. Grolleron , J. P. Lenain , T. Hovatta , M. Joshi , E. Lindfors , P. Morris , M. Petropoulou , P. Romano , S. Vercellone , M. Zacharias
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