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The planned Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is a future observatory for very-high-energy (VHE) gamma-ray astronomy composed of one site per hemisphere. It aims at 10 times better sensitivity, a better angular resolution and wider energy…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 Y. Becherini , B. Khélifi , S. Pita , M. Punch

Disentangling the composition of the diffuse gamma-ray background (DGRB) is a major challenge in gamma-ray astronomy. It is presumed that at the highest energies, the DGRB is dominated by relatively few, still unresolved point sources. This…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-07-01 Moritz Hütten , Gernot Maier

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…

Following the great success of the current Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes, the next generation gamma-ray telescope arrays, Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA), is being prepared. CTA will have an order of magnitude higher sensitivity…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 Yoshiyuki Inoue

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is an initiative to build a next-generation observatory for very-high energy $\gamma$-rays. Its expected large effective area ($\mathcal{O}(10^{7} \mathrm{m}^2)$) and energy threshold as low as 25 GeV…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 Manuel Paz Arribas , Ullrich Schwanke , Ralf Wischnewski

We simulate the spectral behaviour of the non-transient gamma-ray binaries using archival observations as a reference. With this we test the CTA capability to measure the sources' spectral parameters and detect variability on various time…

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is the planned next-generation instrument for ground-based gamma-ray astronomy, covering a photon energy range of ~20 GeV to above 100 TeV. CTA will consist of the order of 100 telescopes of three sizes,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 G. Pühlhofer

The GeV-scale gamma-ray excess observed from the region surrounding the Galactic Center has been interpreted as either the products of annihilating dark matter particles, or as the emission from a large population of faint and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-05-10 Celeste Keith , Dan Hooper , Tim Linden

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is the next generation of ground-based very high energy gamma-ray instruments and is planned to be built on two sites (one in each hemisphere) in the coming years, with full array operation foreseen to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 Jan Ebr , Petr Janecek , Michael Prouza , Jiri Blazek

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is the next generation very-high energy gamma-ray air-shower Cherenkov observatory. CTA will consist of many segmented-mirror telescopes of three different diameters, placed in two arrays, one in the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 A. Bonardi , J. Dick , E. Kendziorra , G. Pühlhofer , A. Santangelo

Molecular clouds act as primary targets for cosmic-ray interactions and are expected to shine in gamma-rays as a by-product of these interactions. Indeed several detected gamma-ray sources both in HE and VHE gamma-rays (HE: 100 MeV < E <…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 G. Pedaletti , D. F. Torres , S. Gabici , E. de Oña Wilhelmi , D. Mazin , V. Stamatescu

Very high energy (VHE, E >100 GeV) gamma-rays are absorbed via interaction with low-energy photons from the extragalactic background light (EBL) if the involved photon energies are above the threshold for electron-positron pair creation.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 Daniel Mazin , Martin Raue , Bagmeet Behera , Susumu Inoue , Yoshiyuki Inoue , Takeshi Nakamori , Tomonori Totani

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

Radio galaxies host relativistic jets oriented away from our line of sight, making them challenging targets for Very High Energy (VHE, E$>$100 GeV) $\gamma$-ray detectors. Indeed, out of $\sim100$ extragalactic sources detected at $E>100$…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-12-04 Roberto Angioni

We provide an updated and improved study of the prospects of the H.E.S.S. and Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) experiments in testing neutralino dark matter in the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model with nine free parameters (p9MSSM). We…

Lorentz invariance is such an important principle of fundamental physics that it should constantly be subjected to experimental scrutiny as well as theoretical questioning. Distant astrophysical sources of energetic photons with rapid time…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-03 John Ellis , Nick E. Mavromatos

Detection of delayed sub-TeV photons from Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) by MAGIC and HESS has proven the promising future of GRB afterglow studies with the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA), the next-generation gamma-ray observatory. With the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-05-22 Tanima Mondal , Suman Pramanick , Lekshmi Resmi , Debanjan Bose

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…

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

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is a next-generation ground-based observatory for g -rays with energies between some ten GeV and a few hundred TeV. CTA is currently in the advanced design phase and will consist of arrays with different…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 M. Shayduk , S. Vorobiov , U. Schwanke , R. Wischnewski