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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 Telescope Array (CTA) project, led by an international collaboration of institutes, aims to create the world's largest next generation observatory for Very High Energy (VHE) gamma-ray astronomy. It will be devoted to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-26 A. Dmytriiev , L. Dangeon , G. Fasola , H. Sol , A. Zech , J. Gironnet , O. Le Blanc , J. P. Amans , G. Buchholtz , J. L. Dournaux , F. de Frondat , D. Horville , J. M. Huet , I. Jégouzo , P. Laporte

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) represents the next generation of ground based instruments for Very High Energy gamma-ray astronomy. It is expected to improve on the sensitivity of current instruments by an order of magnitude and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 T. Hassan , L. Arrabito , K. Bernlör , J. Bregeon , J. Hinton , T. Jogler , G. Maier , A. Moralejo , F. Di Pierro , M. Wood

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) observatory will probe the non-thermal universe above 20 GeV up to several hundreds of TeV with a significant improvement in sensitivity and angular resolution compared to current experiments. Its…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-10-25 Julien Lefaucheur , Catherine Boisson , Zeljka Bosnjak , Matteo Cerruti , Christoph Deil , Jean-Philippe Lenain , Santiago Pita , Andreas Zech

The Cherenkov Telescope Array is the main global project of ground-based gamma-ray astronomy for the coming decades. Performance will be significantly improved relative to present instruments, allowing a new insight into the high-energy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-09-27 Sol , H. , Greenshaw , T. , Le Blanc , O. , White , R

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is the major ground-based gamma-ray observatory planned for the next decade and beyond. Consisting of two large atmospheric Cherenkov telescope arrays (one in the southern hemisphere and one in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-06-12 The CTA Consortium , represented by Rene A. Ong

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…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 Jürgen Knödlseder , Volker Beckmann , Catherine Boisson , Sylvie Brau-Nogué , Christoph Deil , Bruno Khélifi , Michael Mayer , Roland Walter

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…

The Cherenkov Telescope Array is the future of ground-based gamma-ray astronomy. Its first prototype telescope built on-site, the Large Size Telescope 1, is currently under commissioning and taking its first scientific data. In this paper,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-10 Mikaël Jacquemont , Thomas Vuillaume , Alexandre Benoit , Gilles Maurin , Patrick Lambert , Giovanni Lamanna

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is the next generation facility of Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes. It will reach unprecedented sensitivity and energy resolution in very-high-energy gamma-ray astronomy. CTA will detect…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 M. Doro , M. Daniel , R. de los Reyes , M. Gaug , M. C. Maccarone

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is an international initiative to build the next generation ground based very-high energy gamma-ray observatory. It will consist of telescopes of three different sizes, employing several different…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 A. Bonardi , T. Buanes , P. Chadwick , F. Dazzi , A. Förster , J. R. Hörandel , M. Punch , R. M. Wagner

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

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is a next generation ground-based very-high-energy gamma-ray observatory that will allow for observations in the >10 GeV range with unprecedented photon statistics and sensitivity. This will enable the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-08-11 Alessandro Carosi , Alicia López-Oramas , Francesco Longo

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is designed to be the next major observatory operating in the Very High Energy (VHE, $\gtrsim 100$ GeV) gamma-ray band. It will build on the imaging atmospheric Cherenkov technique but will go much…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-02-07 M. G. Bernardini

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) represents the next generation of ground-based instruments for very-high-energy (VHE) gamma-ray astronomy, aimed at improving on the sensitivity of current-generation experiments by an order of magnitude…

Telescopes based on the imaging atmospheric Cherenkov technique (IACTs) detect images of the atmospheric showers generated by gamma rays and cosmic rays as they are absorbed by the atmosphere. The much more frequent cosmic-ray events form…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 D. Nieto , A. Brill , B. Kim , T. B. Humensky

Ground-based gamma-ray astronomy has had a major breakthrough with the impressive results obtained using systems of imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes. Ground-based gamma-ray astronomy has a huge potential in astrophysics, particle…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2012-04-13 The CTA Consortium

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is a planned observatory for very-high energy gamma-ray astronomy. It will consist of several tens of telescopes of different sizes, with a total mirror area of up to 10,000 square meters. Most mirrors of…

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is the next-generation gamma-ray observatory with sensitivity in the energy range from 20 GeV to beyond 300 TeV. CTA is proposed to consist of two arrays of 40-100 imaging atmospheric Cherenkov…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 G. Maier , L. Arrabito , K. Bernlöhr , J. Bregeon , F. Di Pierro , T. Hassan , T. Jogler , J. Hinton , A. Moralejo , M. Wood

Very High Energy gamma-ray astronomy with the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is evolving towards the model of a public observatory. Handling, processing and archiving the large amount of data generated by the CTA instruments and delivering…