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The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is the future large observatory in the very high energy (VHE) domain. Operating from 20 GeV to 300 TeV, it will be composed of tens of Imaging Air Cherenkov Telescopes (IACTs) displaced in a large area of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-18 Valentina Fioretti , Andrea Bulgarelli , Fabian Schussler

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is a major ground-based observatory proposed for gamma-ray astronomy. CTA is envisioned to consist of two large arrays of atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes for the study of sources of high-energy gamma…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 R. A. Ong , T. Aune , J. Hall

The Cherenkov Telescope Array is an observatory dedicated to very high energy gamma rays with unprecedented sensitivity between 20 GeV and 300 TeV to be installed on two sites: Canary Island La Palma and Paranal Chile. Three telescope sizes…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-22 J-F. Glicenstein

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is about to enter construction phase and one of its main key science projects is to perform an unbiased survey in search of extragalactic sources. We make use of both the latest blazar gamma--ray…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-07-04 Andrea De Franco , Yoshiyuki Inoue , Miguel A. Sánchez-Conde , Garret Cotter

The first gravitational-wave (GW) observations will greatly benefit from the detection of coincident electromagnetic counterparts. Electromagnetic follow-ups will nevertheless be challenging for GWs with poorly reconstructed directions. GW…

Several projects planned or proposed can significantly expand our knowledge of the high-energy Universe in gamma rays. Construction of the Cherenkov telescope array CTA is started, and other detectors are planned which will use the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-27 Alesandro De Angelis

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

The Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST) is an observatory designed to perform gamma-ray astronomy in the energy range 20 MeV to 300 GeV, with supporting measurements for gamma-ray bursts from 10 keV to 25 MeV. GLAST will be…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 D. Paneque , A. Borgland , A. Bovier , E. Bloom , Y. Edmonds , S. Funk , G. Godfrey , R. Rando , L. Wai , P. Wang

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 Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is the future observatory for ground-based imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes. Each telescope will provide a snapshot of gamma-ray induced particle showers by capturing the induced Cherenkov…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-24 J. Aschersleben , M. Vecchi , M. H. F. Wilkinson , R. F. Peletier

PG 1553+113 is a high-frequency peaked BL Lac object (HBL), with redshift 0.433, detected with the current generation of IACTs (Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes) up to $\sim$ 1 TeV. Interestingly, the continuous $\gamma$-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-16 Arshia Ruina , Helena Luciani , Elisa Prandini

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

The First G-APD Cherenkov Telescope (FACT) was built on the Canary Island of La Palma in October 2011 as a proof of principle for silicon based photosensors in Cherenkov Astronomy. The scientific goal of the project is to study the…

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) will be the next generation ground based observatory in very high energy gamma ray astronomy. The facility will achieve a wide energy coverage, starting from a threshold of a few tens of GeV up to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 M. K. Daniel , M. Gaug , P. Majumdar

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is an initiative to build a next-generation observatory for very-high energy $\gamma$-rays. Its expected large effective area ($\mathcal{O}(10^{7} \mathrm{m}^2)$) and energy threshold as low as 25 GeV…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 Manuel Paz Arribas , Ullrich Schwanke , Ralf Wischnewski

The Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO) is the next generation of ground-based observatories employing the imaging air Cherenkov technique for the study of very high energy gamma rays. The software Gammalearn proposes to apply Deep…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-12 Tom François , Justine Talpaert , Thomas Vuillaume

The foreseen implementations of the Small Size Telescopes (SST) in CTA will provide unique insights into the highest energy gamma rays offering fundamental means to discover and under- stand the sources populating the Galaxy and our local…

In this paper, we review the prospects for studies of active galactic nuclei (AGN) using the envisioned future Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA). This review focuses on jetted AGN, which constitute the vast majority of AGN detected at…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-08-30 A. Reimer , M. Boettcher

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is the next generation ground-based $\gamma$-ray observatory. It will provide an order of magnitude better sensitivity and an extended energy coverage, 20 GeV - 300 TeV, relative to current Imaging…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-01-22 T. Hassan , A. Domínguez , J. Lefaucheur , D. Mazin , S. Pita , A. Zech
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