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The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is the observatory for ground-based gamma-ray astronomy that will shape the domain of TeV astronomy for the next decades. CTA will comprise more than 100 imaging air Cherenkov telescopes deployed on two…

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The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) will be able to perform unprecedented observations of the transient very high-energy sky. An on-line science alert generation (SAG) pipeline, with a required 30 second latency, will allow the discovery or…

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The KM3NeT research infrastructure is currently under construction at two locations in the Mediterranean Sea. The KM3NeT/ORCA water-Cherenkov neutrino detector off the French coast will instrument several megatons of seawater with…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-13 Sebastiano Aiello , Arnauld Albert , Sergio Alves Garre , Zineb Aly , Fabrizio Ameli , Michel Andre , Giorgos Androulakis , Marco Anghinolfi , Mancia Anguita , Gisela Anton , Miquel Ardid , Julien Aublin , Christos Bagatelas , Giancarlo Barbarino , Bruny Baret , Suzan Basegmez du Pree , Meriem Bendahman , Edward Berbee , Vincent Bertin , Simone Biagi , Andrea Biagioni , Matthias Bissinger , Markus Boettcher , Jihad Boumaaza , Mohammed Bouta , Mieke Bouwhuis , Cristiano Bozza , Horea Branzas , Ronald Bruijn , Jürgen Brunner , Ernst-Jan Buis , Raffaele Buompane , Jose Busto , Barbara Caiffi , David Calvo , Antonio Capone , Víctor Carretero , Paolo Castaldi , Silvia Celli , Mohamed Chabab , Nhan Chau , Andrew Chen , Silvio Cherubini , Vitaliano Chiarella , Tommaso Chiarusi , Marco Circella , Rosanna Cocimano , Joao Coelho , Alexis Coleiro , Marta Colomer Molla , Rosa Coniglione , Paschal Coyle , Alexandre Creusot , Giacomo Cuttone , Antonio D'Onofrio , Richard Dallier , Maarten de Jong , Paul de Jong , Mauro De Palma , Gwenhaël de Wasseige , Els de Wolf , Irene Di Palma , Antonio Diaz , Dídac Diego-Tortosa , Carla Distefano , Alba Domi , Roberto Donà , Corinne Donzaud , Damien Dornic , Manuel Dörr , Doriane Drouhin , Thomas Eberl , Imad El Bojaddaini , Dominik Elsaesser , Alexander Enzenhöfer , Paolo Fermani , Giovanna Ferrara , Miroslav Filipovic , Francesco Filippini , Luigi Antonio Fusco , Omar Gabella , Tamas Gal , Alfonso Andres Garcia Soto , Fabio Garufi , Yoann Gatelet , Nicole Geißelbrecht , Lucio Gialanella , Emidio Giorgio , Sara Rebecca Gozzini , Rodrigo Gracia , Kay Graf , Dario Grasso , Giuseppe Grella , Carlo Guidi , Steffen Hallmann , Hassane Hamdaoui , Aart Heijboer , Amar Hekalo , Juan-Jose Hernandez-Rey , Jannik Hofestädt , Feifei Huang , Walid Idrissi Ibnsalih , Giulia Illuminati , Clancy James , Bouke Jisse Jung , Matthias Kadler , Piotr Kalaczyński , Oleg Kalekin , Uli Katz , Nafis Rezwan Khan Chowdhury , Giorgi Kistauri , Els Koffeman , Paul Kooijman , Antoine Kouchner , Michael Kreter , Vladimir Kulikovskiy , Robert Lahmann , Giuseppina Larosa , Remy Le Breton , Ornella Leonardi , Francesco Leone , Emanuele Leonora , Giuseppe Levi , Massimiliano Lincetto , Miles Lindsey Clark , Thomas Lipreau , Alessandro Lonardo , Fabio Longhitano , Daniel Lopez Coto , Lukas Maderer , Jerzy Mańczak , Karl Mannheim , Annarita Margiotta , Antonio Marinelli , Christos Markou , Lilian Martin , Juan Antonio Martínez-Mora , Agnese Martini , Fabio Marzaioli , Stefano Mastroianni , Safaa Mazzou , Karel Melis , Gennaro Miele , Pasquale Migliozzi , Emilio Migneco , Piotr Mijakowski , Luis Salvador Miranda Palacios , Carlos Maximiliano Mollo , Mauro Morganti , Michael Moser , Abdelilah Moussa , Rasa Muller , Mario Musumeci , Lodewijk Nauta , Sergio Navas , Carlo Alessandro Nicolau , Brían Ó Fearraigh , Mukharbek Organokov , Angelo Orlando , Gogita Papalashvili , Riccardo Papaleo , Cosimo Pastore , Alice Paun , Gabriela Emilia Pavalas , Carmelo Pellegrino , Mathieu Perrin-Terrin , Paolo Piattelli , Camiel Pieterse , Konstantinos Pikounis , Ofelia Pisanti , Chiara Poirè , Vlad Popa , Maarten Post , Thierry Pradier , Gerd Pühlhofer , Sara Pulvirenti , Omphile Rabyang , Fabrizio Raffaelli , Nunzio Randazzo , Antonio Rapicavoli , Soebur Razzaque , Diego Real , Stefan Reck , Giorgio Riccobene , Marc Richer , Stephane Rivoire , Alberto Rovelli , Francisco Salesa Greus , Dorothea Franziska Elisabeth Samtleben , Agustín Sánchez Losa , Matteo Sanguineti , Andrea Santangelo , Domenico Santonocito , Piera Sapienza , Jutta Schnabel , Jordan Seneca , Irene Sgura , Rezo Shanidze , Ankur Sharma , Francesco Simeone , Anna Sinopoulou , Bernardino Spisso , Maurizio Spurio , Dimitris Stavropoulos , Jos Steijger , Simona Maria Stellacci , Mauro Taiuti , Yahya Tayalati , Enrique Tenllado , Tarak Thakore , Steven Tingay , Ekaterini Tzamariudaki , Dimitrios Tzanetatos , Ad van den Berg , Frits van der Knaap , Daan van Eijk , Véronique Van Elewyck , Hans van Haren , Godefroy Vannoye , George Vasileiadis , Federico Versari , Salvatore Viola , Daniele Vivolo , Joern Wilms , Rafał Wojaczyński , Dmitry Zaborov , Sandra Zavatarelli , Angela Zegarelli , Daniele Zito , Juan-de-Dios Zornoza , Juan Zúñiga , Natalia Zywucka

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is the next generation very high-energy gamma-ray observatory, with at least 10 times higher sensitivity than current instruments. CTA will comprise several tens of Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov…

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA), the new generation very high-energy gamma-ray observatory, will improve the flux sensitivity of the current Cherenkov telescopes by an order of magnitude over a continuous range from about 10 GeV to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-08 Valentina Fioretti , Andrea Bulgarelli , Andrea Zoli , Sera Markoff , Marc Ribo , Susumu Inoue , Paola Grandi , Giovanni De Cesare

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) will be the next generation of ground based gamma-ray telescopes allowing us to study very high energy phenomena in the Universe. CTA aims to gain about a factor of ten in sensitivity compared to current…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-05-23 S. Mangano

Arrays of imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes (IACT) are superb instruments to probe the very-high-energy gamma-ray sky. This type of telescope focuses the Cherenkov light emitted from air showers, initiated by very-high-energy gamma…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-20 D. Nieto , T. Miener , A. Brill , J. L. Contreras , T. B. Humensky , R. Mukherjee

The identification of $\gamma$-rays from the predominant hadronic-background is a key aspect in their ground-based detection using Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes (IACTs). While current methods are limited in their ability to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-08 Abhay Mehta , Dan Parsons , Tim Lukas Holch , David Berge , Matthias Weidlich

Reconstruction of energies of very-high-energy gamma-rays observed by imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes is affected by changes in the atmospheric conditions and the performance of telescope components. Reliable calibration schemes…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-24 Stanislav Stefanik , Dalibor Nosek

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) will be the next-generation gamma-ray observatory, investigating gamma-ray and cosmic ray astrophysics at energies from 20 GeV to more than 300 TeV. The observatory, consisting of large arrays of imaging…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-01-22 The CTA Consortium

Observations with the current generation of very-high-energy gamma-ray telescopes have revealed an astonishing variety of particle accelerators in the Milky Way, such as supernova remnants, pulsar wind nebulae, and binary systems. The…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-09 Q. Remy , L. Tibaldo , F. Acero , M. Fiori , J. Knödlseder , B. Olmi , P. Sharma

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) is a future ground-based observatory (with two locations, in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres) that will be used in the study of the very-high-energy gamma-ray sky. CTA observations will be proposed…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 John E. Ward , Javier Rico , Tarek Hassan

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is a future ground-based gamma-ray observatory that will provide unprecedented sensitivity and angular resolution for the detection of gamma rays with energies above a few tens of GeV. In comparison to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-07 Victor Barbosa Martins , Markus Garczarczyk , Gerrit Spengler , Ullrich Schwanke

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is an international project for a next-generation ground-based gamma-ray observatory. CTA, conceived as an array of tens of imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes, comprising small, medium and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 T. Hassan , B. Humensky , D. Nieto , M. Wood

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is a project for a next-generation observatory for very high energy (GeV-TeV) ground-based gamma-ray astronomy, currently in its design phase, and foreseen to be operative a few years from now. Several…

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

We present a high-performance event reconstruction algorithm: an Image Pixel-wise fit for Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes (ImPACT). The reconstruction algorithm is based around the likelihood fitting of camera pixel amplitudes to an…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-05-20 R. D. Parsons , J. A. Hinton

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

With its unprecedented light-collecting area for night-sky observations, the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) holds great potential for also optical stellar astronomy, in particular as a multi-element intensity interferometer for realizing…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 Dainis Dravins , Stephan LeBohec , Hannes Jensen , Paul D. Nuñez