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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…

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The Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO) is a next-generation facility for ground-based very high energy gamma ray astronomy. CTAO will be operated as an open observatory. With two sites, in the northern and southern hemispheres,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-23 Werner Hofmann , Roberta Zanin

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 instrument in ground-based gamma-ray astronomy in the energy range from 20 GeV to 300 TeV. Its sensitivity will surpass that of current generation experiments by a factor $\sim$10,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-09 A. Schulz , M. Garczarczyk , L. Oakes , S. Schlenstedt , U. Schwanke , the CTA Consortium

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…

Once completed, the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) will be able to map the gamma-ray sky in a wide energy range from several tens of GeV to some hundreds of TeV and will be more sensitive than previous experiments by an order of magnitude.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-05 Kai Brügge , Alexey Egorov , Christian Bockermann , Katharina Morik , Wolfgang Rhode

We discuss the prospects for the detection of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) by the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA), the next generation, ground-based facility of imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes (IACTs) operating above a few tens of GeV.…

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The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is the next generation ground-based observatory for gamma-ray astronomy at very-high energies. It will be capable of detecting gamma rays in the energy range from 20 GeV to more than 300 TeV with…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-22 Daniel Mazin

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is the next generation of ground-based gamma-ray observatory. The observatory will consist of two arrays, one located in the southern hemisphere (Paranal,Chile) and the other in the northern hemisphere…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-17 Victor Barbosa Martins , Markus Garczarczyk

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) will be the major global observatory for VHE gamma-ray astronomy over the next decade and beyond. It will be an explorer of the extreme universe, with a broad scientific potential: from understanding the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-07-22 Ulisses Barres de Almeida

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is an initiative that is currently building the largest gamma-ray ground Observatory that ever existed. A Science Alert Generation (SAG) system, part of the Array Control and Data Acquisition (ACADA)…

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is a project for the construction of a next generation VHE gamma ray observatory with full sky coverage. Its aim is improving by about one order of magnitude the sensitivity of the existing installations,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2011-11-10 The CTA Consortium

The planned Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA), a future ground-based Very-High-Energy (VHE) gamma-ray observatory, will be the largest project of its kind. It aims to provide an order of magnitude increase in sensitivity compared to currently…

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is the next-generation stereoscopic system of Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes (IACTs). In IACTs, the atmosphere is used as a calorimeter to measure the energy of extensive air showers induced by…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-14 Mario Pecimotika , Dijana Dominis Prester , Dario Hrupec , Saša Mićanović , Lovro Pavletić , Julian Sitarek

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA), is an international project for the next generation ground- based observatory for gamma-ray astronomy in the energy range from 20 GeV to 300 TeV. The sensitivity in the core energy range will be…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-07 Markus Garczarczyk , Stefan Schlenstedt , Louise Oakes , Ullrich Schwanke , the MST Team

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is the next-generation atmospheric Cherenkov gamma-ray observatory. CTA will consist of two installations, one in the northern, and the other in the southern hemisphere, containing tens of telescopes of…

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 current generation of Cherenkov telescopes is mainly limited in their gamma-ray energy and flux reconstruction by uncertainties in the determination of atmospheric parameters. The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) aims to provide…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 M. Doro , M. Gaug , O. Blanch , LL. Font , D. Garrido , A. Lopez-Oramas , M. Martinez

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is a future gamma-ray observatory that is planned to significantly improve upon the sensitivity and precision of the current generation of Cherenkov telescopes. The observatory will consist of several…

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is the next generation observatory for very high energy gamma rays. The capability of the array to detect gamma-rays above 10 TeV is going to be achieved with a large number of Small Size Telescopes…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 Anna Barnacka , Leszek Bogacz , Mira Grudzińska , Adam Frankowski , Mateusz Janiak , Piotr Lubiński , Rafał Moderski