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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

A general purpose instrument for imaging of Cherenkov light or fluorescence light emitted by extensive air showers is presented. Its refractive optics allows for a compact and light-weight design with a wide field-of-view of 12{\deg}. The…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-15 T. Bretz , T. Hebbeker , J. Kemp , L. Middendorf , T. Niggemann , C. Peters , M. Schaufel , J. Schumacher , J. Auffenberg , C. Wiebusch

The H.E.S.S. Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescope Array is currently the most sensitive instrument for Very High Energy (VHE) gamma-ray observations in the energy range of about 0.1-10 TeV. During more than two years of operation with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Christopher van Eldik

GAW (Gamma Air Watch) is a new imaging Cherenkov telescope designed for observation of very high-energy gamma-ray sources. GAW will be equipped with a 3 meter diameter Fresnel lens as light collector and with an array of 300 multi-anode…

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

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) will be the next generation ground-based observatory for very-high-energy (VHE) gamma-ray astronomy, with the deployment of tens of highly sensitive and fast-reacting Cherenkov telescopes. It will cover a…

Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is an upcoming instrument that will start a new generation of atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes. CTA is expected not only to provide an unprecedented sensitivity in the tens of GeV to hundreds of TeV range,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-11 Julian Sitarek , Dorota Sobczyńska , Katarzyna Adamczyk , Michał Szanecki

The Yakutsk array group is developing a wide field-of-view Cherenkov telescope to be operated in coincidence with the surface detectors of the extensive air shower array. Currently, the engineering prototype of the reflecting telescope with…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 A. A. Ivanov , S. P. Knurenko , A. D. Krasilnikov , Z. E. Petrov , M. I. Pravdin , I. Ye. Sleptsov , L. V. Timofeev

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) will be the next generation very-high-energy gamma-ray observatory. CTA is expected to provide substantial improvement in accuracy and sensitivity with respect to existing instruments thanks to a tenfold…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-23 Orel Gueta

We suggest a new approach to study the cosmis ray (CR) mass composition in the energy region from 30 TeV/nucleus up to the "knee" region, i.e. up to a few PeV/nucleus, using an array of imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes (IACTs) of a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 F. A. Aharonian , V. V. Bugayov , J. Kettler , A. V. Plyasheshnikov , H. J. Voelk

The accurate determination of the elemental composition of cosmic rays at high energies is expected to provide crucial clues on the origin of these particles. Previous direct measurements of composition have been limited by experiment…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-23 D. B. Kieda , S. P. Swordy , S. P. Wakely

The study of ring images generated from high-energy muons is a very useful tool for the performance monitoring and calibration of any Imaging Atmosphere Cherenkov Telescope. Isolated muons travelling towards the telescope light collector…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-13 Elisabetta Strazzeri , Giacomo Bonnoli , Saverio Lombardi , Maria Concetta Maccarone , Teresa Mineo

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

Recent proposals have been advanced to apply imaging air Cherenkov telescope arrays to stellar intensity interferometry (SII). Of particular interest is the possibility of model-independent image recovery afforded by the good (u, v)-plane…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Paul D. Nunez , Richard Holmes , David Kieda , Janvida Rou , Stephan LeBohec

The CTA is the next generation of ground based very high energy gamma ray Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes. Since observations with this technique are affected by atmospheric conditions, an accurate knowledge of the atmospheric…

High energy gamma-ray astronomy is a newly emerging and very successful branch of astronomy and astrophysics. Exciting results have been obtained by the current generation Cherenkov telescope systems such as H.E.S.S., MAGIC, VERITAS and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 G. Hermann , W. Hofmann , T. Schweizer , M. Teshima

We present studies for optimizing the next generation of ground-based imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes (IACTs). Results focus on mid-sized telescopes (MSTs) for CTA, detecting very high energy gamma rays in the energy range from a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-07-15 M. Wood , T. Jogler , J. Dumm , S. Funk

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 Milagro Gamma Ray Observatory, located at an altitude of 8,600 feet in the Jemez Mountains of New Mexico, is the world's first large-area water Cherenkov detector capable of continuously monitoring the entire sky for sources of TeV…

Astrophysics · Physics 2012-08-27 The Milagro Collaboration

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…