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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.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-03 Jun Kakuwa , Kohta Murase , Kenji Toma , Susumu Inoue , Ryo Yamazaki , Kunihito Ioka

We outline the science prospects for gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) with the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA), the next-generation ground-based gamma-ray observatory operating at energies above few tens of GeV. With its low energy threshold, large…

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) project aims to build the largest ground-based gamma-ray observatory based on an array of Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes (IACTs). The CTA will implement a multi-level trigger system to…

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…

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 D. Nieto , S. Griffiths , B. Humensky , P. Kaaret , M. Limon , I. Mognet , A. Peck , A. Petrashyk , D. Ribeiro , J. Rousselle , B. Stevenson , V. Vassiliev , P. Yu

GAW proposes a new approach for the detection and measurement of the Cherenkov light produced by GeV/TeV gamma rays traversing the Earth atmosphere which imposes specific requirements on the electronics design. The focal surface of the GAW…

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 nature of scientific and technological data collection is evolving rapidly: data volumes and rates grow exponentially, with increasing complexity and information content, and there has been a transition from static data sets to data…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-17 S. G. Djorgovski , A. A. Mahabal , C. Donalek , M. J. Graham , A. J. Drake , M. Turmon , T. Fuchs

Context. The Large Array Survey Telescope (LAST) is a wide-field visual-band survey designed to explore the variable and transient sky with high cadence. Its raw data stream is automatically processed in near real time at the observatory…

Surveys open up unbiased discovery space and generate legacy datasets of long-lasting value. One of the goals of imaging arrays of Cherenkov telescopes like CTA is to survey areas of the sky for faint very high energy gamma-ray (VHE)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 G. Dubus , J. L. Contreras , S. Funk , Y. Gallant , T. Hassan , J. Hinton , Y. Inoue , J. Knödlseder , P. Martin , N. Mirabal , M. de Naurois , M. Renaud

The Cherenkov Telescope Array is the next generation of observatory using imaging air Cherenkov technique for very-high-energy gamma-ray astronomy. Its first prototype telescope is operational on-site at La Palma and its data acquisitions…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-22 Michaël Dell'aiera , Mikaël Jacquemont , Thomas Vuillaume , Alexandre Benoit

Dwarf irregular galaxies (dIrrs) are rotationally supported galaxies with a low star formation rate. Thus, their gamma-ray astrophysical emission is expected to be low, making them interesting targets for WIMP dark matter (DM) indirect…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-07 Jaume Zuriaga-Puig , Viviana Gammaldi , Miguel Á. Sánchez-Conde

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is the next generation ground based observatory for gamma ray astronomy at very high energies. Employing more than 100 Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes in the northern and southern hemispheres, it…

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is a ground-based $\gamma$-ray observatory that will observe the full sky in the energy range from 20 GeV to 100 TeV from facilities in both hemispheres. It is proposed to consist of more than 100…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-07 Ramin Marx , Raquel de los Reyes

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is the next-generation ground-based observatory for very-high energy gamma-ray astronomy. CTA will have unparalleled sensitivity and angular resolution and will detect gamma-ray sources nearly 100 times…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-07 Leslie Taylor

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

Current optimization of ground-based Cherenkov telescopes arrays, also called Imaging Air Cherenkov Telescope (IACT) arrays, relies on brute-force human-driven approaches based on large simulations requiring both high amount of storage and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-13 Cyril Alispach , Matthieu Heller , Teresa Montaruli

In this work, we study the potential of the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) for the detection of Galactic dark matter (DM) subhalos. We focus on low-mass subhalos that do not host any baryonic content and therefore lack any multiwavelength…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-06-08 Javier Coronado-Blázquez , Michele Doro , Miguel A. Sánchez-Conde , Alejandra Aguirre-Santaella
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