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The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) will be the next generation gamma-ray observatory and will be the major global instrument for very-high-energy astronomy over the next decade, offering 5 - 10 x better flux sensitivity than current…

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Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes (IACTs) detect very-high-energy gamma rays from ground level by capturing the Cherenkov light of the induced particle showers. Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) can be trained on IACT camera…

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The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) will be the world's leading ground-based gamma-ray observatory allowing us to study very high energy phenomena in the Universe. CTA will produce huge data sets, of the order of petabytes, and the…

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When very-high-energy gamma rays interact high in the Earth's atmosphere, they produce cascades of particles that induce flashes of Cherenkov light. Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes (IACTs) detect these flashes and convert them into…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-30 Pietro Grespan , Mikael Jacquemont , Rubèn López-Coto , Tjark Miener , Daniel Nieto-Castaño , Thomas Vuillaume

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is the future ground-based gamma-ray observatory and will be composed of two arrays of imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes (IACTs) located in the Northern and Southern hemispheres respectively. The…

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA), conceived as an array of tens of imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes (IACTs), is an international project for a next-generation ground-based gamma-ray observatory, aiming to improve on the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-14 Tjark Miener , Daniel Nieto , Aryeh Brill , Samuel Spencer , Jose Luis Contreras

Imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescope (IACT) arrays record images from air showers initiated by gamma rays entering the atmosphere, allowing astrophysical sources to be observed at very high energies. To maximize IACT sensitivity,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-13 Aryeh Brill , Qi Feng , T. Brian Humensky , Bryan Kim , Daniel Nieto , Tjark Miener

The upcoming Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) project is expected to provide unprecedented sensitivity in the low-energy (<~100 GeV) range for Cherenkov telescopes. Most of the remaining background in this energy range results from…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-29 Julian Sitarek , Dorota Sobczyńska , Michał Szanecki , Katarzyna Adamczyk , Paolo Cumani , Abelardo Moralejo

A dramatic progress in the field of computer vision has been made in recent years by applying deep learning techniques. State-of-the-art performance in image recognition is thereby reached with Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs). CNNs are…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-07 Tim Lukas Holch , Idan Shilon , Matthias Büchele , Tobias Fischer , Stefan Funk , Nils Groeger , David Jankowsky , Thomas Lohse , Ullrich Schwanke , Philipp Wagner

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 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 future ground-based observatory for gamma-ray astronomy at very high energies. The atmosphere is an integral part of every Cherenkov telescope. Different atmospheric conditions, such as clouds, can…

The CTAO (Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory) is an international observatory currently under construction. With more than sixty telescopes, it will eventually be the largest and most sensitive ground-based gamma-ray observatory. CTAO…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-12 Hana Ali Messaoud , Thomas Vuillaume , Tom François

The upcoming Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) project is expected to provide unprecedented sensitivity in the low-energy ( <~100 GeV) range for Cherenkov telescopes. In order to exploit fully the potential of the telescopes the standard…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 Julian Sitarek , Dorota Sobczyńska , Michał Szanecki , Katarzyna Adamczyk

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) will be the world's largest and most sensitive ground-based gamma-ray observatory in the energy range from a few tens of GeV to tens of TeV. The LST-1 prototype, currently in its commissioning phase, is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-11-30 Jakub Juryšek , Etienne Lyard , Roland Walter

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

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

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) will be the next-generation observatory in the field of very-high-energy (20 GeV to 300 TeV) gamma-ray astroparticle physics. Classically, data analysis in the field maximizes sensitivity by applying…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-24 T. Hassan , O. Gueta , G. Maier , M. Nöthe , M. Peresano , I. Vovk

The landscape of ground-based gamma-ray astronomy is drastically changing with the perspective of the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) composed of more than 100 Cherenkov telescopes. For the first time in this energy domain, CTA will be…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-22 Mathieu Servillat , Catherine Boisson , Julien Lefaucheur , Johan Brégeon , Michèle Sanguillon , Jose-Luis Contreras

Extensive air showers created by high-energy particles interacting with the Earth atmosphere can be detected using imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes (IACTs). The IACT images can be analyzed to distinguish between the events caused by…

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