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The H.E.S.S. Imaging Air Cherenkov Telescope system is very well suited to perform follow-up observations of detections at other wavelengths or messengers due to its fast reaction and its comparably low energy threshold. These advantages…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 F. Schüssler

The Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO), a next-generation ground-based gamma-ray observatory, will be composed of two arrays of multiple imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes (IACTs) located in both the Northern and Southern…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-19 T. Miener , I. Viale , B. Lacave , A. Cerviño

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is the next-generation gamma-ray observatory currently under construction. It will improve over the current generation of imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes (IACTs) by a factor of five to ten in…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-24 Maximilian Nöthe , Karl Kosack , Lukas Nickel , Michele Peresano

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

In this short paper we outline the case for a small radio telescope array in the southern hemisphere with operations dedicated to rapid follow-up and monitoring of astrophysical transients. We argue that the science harvest from such a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-08 Rob Fender , Assaf Horesh , Phil Charles , Patrick Woudt , James Miller-Jones , Joe Bright

Determination of the energy and flux of the gamma photons by Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Technique is strongly dependent on optical properties of the atmosphere. Therefore, atmospheric monitoring during the future observations of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-01-22 Jakub Juryšek , Michael Prouza

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

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) will operate several types of telescopes and cameras. The individual camera trigger rates will vary much - from 0.6 to 15 kHz - while the content of the raw data will be heterogeneous. Raw data streams of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 E. Lyard , R. Walter

The Allen Telescope Array (ATA) is a Large-Number-Small-Diameter radio telescope array currently with 42 individual antennas and 5 independent back-end science systems (2 imaging FX correlators and 3 time domain beam formers) located at the…

A FRAM (F/(Ph)otometric Robotic Atmospheric Monitor) telescope is a system of a robotic mount, a large-format CCD camera and a fast telephoto lens that can be used for atmospheric monitoring at any site when information about the…

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is the next generation of Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes. It will reach a sensitivity and energy resolution never obtained until now by any other high energy gamma-ray experiment. Understanding…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-22 G. Vasileiadis , O. Blanch , J. Bregeon , P. Brun , O. Calpe , M. Colak , M. Doro , L. Font , M. Gaug , S. Griffiths , C. Maggio , M. Martinez , O. Martinez , P. Ristori , S. Rivoire

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

Imaging Atmosphere Cherenkov Telescopes (IACT) are arrays of very large optical telescopes that are well-suited for rapid photometry of bright sources. I investigate their potential in observing stellar occultations by small objects in the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Brian C. Lacki

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is planned to serve as a ground-based observatory for (very-)high-energy gamma-ray astronomy, open to a wide astrophysics community, providing a deep insight into the non-thermal high-energy universe. It…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-15 M. Renaud

The time domain has been identified as one of the most important areas of astronomical research for the next decade. The Virtual Observatory is in the vanguard with dedicated tools and services that enable and facilitate the discovery,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Matthew J. Graham , S. G. Djorgovski , Ciro Donalek , Andrew J. Drake , Ashish A. Mahabal , Raymond L. Plante , Jeffrey Kantor , John C. Good

As TeV gamma-ray astronomy progresses into the era of the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA), instantaneously following up on gamma-ray transients is becoming more important than ever. To this end, a worldwide network of Imaging Atmospheric…

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

CCAT is a sub-millimeter telescope to be built on Cerro Chajnantor in Chile near the ALMA site. The remote location means that all observing will be done by remote observers with the future goal of fully autonomous observing using a dynamic…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-02-07 Tim Jenness

Robotic wide-field time-domain surveys, such as the Zwicky Transient Facility and the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System, capture dozens of transients each night. The workflows for discovering and classifying transients in survey…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-16 Nabeel Rehemtulla , Michael W. Coughlin , Adam A. Miller , Theophile Jegou du Laz