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Imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes (IACTs) detect gamma rays by measuring the Cherenkov light emitted by secondary particles in the air shower when the gamma rays hit the atmosphere. At low energies, the limited amount of Cherenkov…

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 (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

As TeV gamma-ray astronomy progresses into the era of the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA), there is a desire for the capacity to instantaneously follow up on transient phenomena and continuously monitor gamma-ray flux at energies above…

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) will be the next generation ground-based observatory for very-high-energy (VHE) gamma-ray astronomy, with the deployment of tens of highly sensitive and fast-reacting Cherenkov telescopes. It will cover a…

Based on data and Monte-Carlo simulations of the HEGRA IACT system, improved analysis techniques were developed for the determination of the shower geometry and shower energy from the multiple Cherenkov images. These techniques allow, e.g.,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 W. Hofmann

The Schwarzschild-Couder Telescope (SCT) is a telescope concept proposed for the Cherenkov Telescope Array. It employs a dual-mirror optical design to remove comatic aberrations over an $8^{\circ}$ field of view, and a high-density silicon…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-17 C. B. Adams , R. Alfaro , G. Ambrosi , M. Ambrosio , C. Aramo , T. Arlen , P. I. Batista , W. Benbow , B. Bertucci , E. Bissaldi , J. Biteau , M. Bitossi , A. Boiano , C. Bonavolontà , R. Bose , A. Bouvier , A. Brill , A. M. Brown , J. H. Buckley , K. Byrum , R. A. Cameron , R. Canestrari , M. Capasso , M. Caprai , C. E. Covault , D. Depaoli , M. Errando , S. Fegan , Q. Feng , E. Fiandrini , G. Foote , P. Fortin , S. Funk , A. Furniss , F. Garfias , A. Gent , N. Giglietto , F. Giordano , E. Giro , M. M. González , V. Guarino , R. Halliday , O. Hervet , J. Holder , G. Hughes , T. B. Humensky , M. Ionica , A. Iriarte , W. Jin , C. A. Johnson , P. Kaaret , D. Kieda , B. Kim , A. Kuznetsov , J. S. Lapington , F. Licciulli , S. Loporchio , V. Mason , K. Meagher , T. Meures , B. A. W. Mode , S. A. I. Mognet , R. Mukherjee , T. Nguyen , D. Nieto , A. Okumura , N. Otte , N. La Palombara , F. R. Pantaleo , R. Paoletti , G. Pareschi , A. Petrashyk , F. Di Pierro , E. Pueschel , P. T. Reynolds , D. Ribeiro , G. Richards , E. Roache , D. Ross , J. Rousselle , A. Rugliancich , J. Ruíz-Díaz-Soto , M. Santander , S. Schlenstedt , M. Schneider , S. Scuderi , R. Shang , G. Sironi , B. Stevenson , L. Stiaccini , H. Tajima , L. P. Taylor , J. Thornhill , L. Tosti , G. Tovmassian , V. Vagelli , M. Valentino , J. Vandenbroucke , V. V. Vassiliev , L. Di Venere , S. P. Wakely , J. J. Watson , R. White , P. Wilcox , D. A. Williams , M. Wood , P. Yu , A. Zink

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

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

GAW is a "path-finder" experiment to test the feasibility of a new generation of Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes that join high flux sensitivity with large field of view capability using Fresnel lens, stereoscopic observational…

The next generation of IACT (Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescope) will explore the uppermost end of the VHE (Very High Energy) domain up to about few hundreds of TeV with unprecedented sensibility, angular resolution and imaging…

The monitoring of the atmosphere is very relevant for Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes. Adverse weather conditions (strong wind, high humidity, etc.) may damage the telescopes and must therefore be monitored continuously to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-03-21 M. Gaug , O. Blanch , D. Dorner , M. Doro , Ll. Font , C. Fruck , M. Garczarczyk , D. Garrido , D. Hrupec , J. Hose , A. López-Oramas , G. Maneva , M. Martinez , R. Mirzoyan , P. Temnikov , R. Zanin

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is the next generation observatory for the study of very high-energy gamma rays from about 20 GeV up to 300 TeV. Thanks to the large effective area and field of view, the CTA observatory will be…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 Andrea Zoli , Andrea Bulgarelli , Adriano De Rosa , Alessio Aboudan , Valentina Fioretti , Giovanni De Cesare , Ramin Marx

The small size telescopes (SSTs), spread over an area of several square km, dominate the CTA sensitivity in the photon energy range from a few TeV to over 100 TeV, enabling for the detailed exploration of the very high energy gamma-ray sky.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-27 Teresa Montaruli , Giovanni Pareschi , Tim Greenshaw

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is the next-generation gamma-ray observatory with sensitivity in the energy range from 20 GeV to beyond 300 TeV. CTA is proposed to consist of two arrays of 40-100 imaging atmospheric Cherenkov…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 G. Maier , L. Arrabito , K. Bernlöhr , J. Bregeon , F. Di Pierro , T. Hassan , T. Jogler , J. Hinton , A. Moralejo , M. Wood

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is designed to be the next major observatory operating in the Very High Energy (VHE, $\gtrsim 100$ GeV) gamma-ray band. It will build on the imaging atmospheric Cherenkov technique but will go much…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-02-07 M. G. Bernardini

We present here results from large zenith-angle observations with the CAT atmospheric Cherenkov imaging telescope, based on data taken on the Crab Nebula and on the blazar Mk501 from 1996 onwards. From Monte Carlo simulations, the threshold…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 G. Mohanty

Gamma-rays provide a powerful insight into the non-thermal universe and perhaps a unique probe for new physics beyond the standard model. Current experiments are already giving results in the physics of acceleration of cosmic rays in…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 Michele Doro

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is the next generation of ground-based gamma-ray astronomy observatory that will improve the sensitivity of current generation instruments by one order of magnitude. The LST-1 is the first telescope…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-02 Enrique Garcia , Thomas Vuillaume , Lukas Nickel