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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 First G-APD Cherenkov Telescope (FACT) became operational at La Palma in October 2011. Since summer 2012, due to very smooth and stable operation, it is the first telescope of its kind that is routinely operated from remote, without the…

The Cherenkov Telescope Array is the next generation ground-based observatory for the study of very-high-energy gamma-rays. It will provide an order of magnitude more sensitivity and greater angular resolution than present systems as well…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 A. C. Rovero , P. Ringegni , G. Vallejo , A. D. Supanitsky , M. Actis , A. Botani , I. Ochoa , G. Hughes

As TeV gamma-ray astronomy progresses into the era of the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA), instantaneously following up on gamma-ray transients is becoming more important than ever. To this end, a worldwide network of Imaging Atmospheric…

The High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) gamma-ray observatory consists of 300 water Cherenkov detectors and has been fully operational since March 2015 in central Mexico. It detects cosmic- and gamma-ray showers in the TeV energy range.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-15 Vikas Joshi , Armelle Jardin-Blicq

The construction of the Cherenkov Telescope Array is expected to start soon. We will present the baseline methods and their extensions currently foreseen to calibrate the observatory. These are bound to achieve the strong requirements on…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 Markus Gaug , Michael Daniel , David Berge , Raquel de los Reyes , Michele Doro , Andreas Foerster , Maria Concetta Maccarone , Dan Parsons , Christopher van Eldik

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) will use three telescope sizes to efficiently detect cosmic gamma rays in the energy range from several tens of GeV to hundreds of TeV. The Small-Sized Telescopes (SSTs) will form the largest section of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-28 R. White

We will describe the current status of the ASTRI Mini-Array, under construction at the Teide Astronomical Observatory in Tenerife, Spain. The final layout of the array will include nine small Cherenkov telescopes covering an area of about…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-03-27 Andrea Giuliani

The prototype Robo-AO system at the Palomar Observatory 1.5-m telescope is the world's first fully automated laser adaptive optics instrument. Scientific operations commenced in June 2012 and more than 12,000 observations have since been…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Christoph Baranec , Reed Riddle , Nicholas M. Law , Mark R. Chun , Jessica R. Lu , Michael S. Connelley , Donald Hall , Dani Atkinson , Shane Jacobson

The High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) high-energy {\gamma}-ray observatory was completed in march 2015 in central Mexico. The detector, consisting of 300 water tanks, is currently being upgraded to improve its performance at Multi-TeV…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-13 Armelle Jardin-Blicq , Vikas Joshi

Because accretion and merger shocks in clusters of galaxies may accelerate particles to high energies, clusters are candidate sites for the origin of ultra-high-energy (UHE) cosmic-rays. A prediction was presented for gamma-ray emission…

VERITAS is an atmospheric Cherenkov telescope array designed to study astrophysi cal sources of very-high-energy gamma radiation. Located in southern Arizona, USA, the array consists of four 12m-diameter imaging Cherenkov telescopes. All…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-10-03 G. Maier

The Single-Mirror Small Size Cherenkov Telescope (SST-1M) was developed by a consortium of institutes in Switzerland, Poland, and the Czech Republic. The SST-1M design is based on the Davies-Cotton concept, featuring a 4-meter mirror and an…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-24 Jakub Juryšek , Thomas Tavernier , Vladimír Novotný

We observed the unidentified TeV gamma-ray source HESS J1804-216 with the CANGAROO-III atmospheric Cerenkov telescopes from May to July in 2006. We detected very high energy gamma rays above 600 GeV at the 10 sigma level in an effective…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 Y. Higashi , H. Kubo , T. Yoshida , R. Enomoto , T. Tanimori , P. G. Edwards , T. Naito

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is the next generation very high energy gamma-ray observatory covering the 20 GeV - 300 TeV energy range with unprecedented sensitivity, angular and energy resolution. With a site in each hemisphere, CTA…

For several years the only experiments sensitive to astrophysical gamma rays with energies beyond the reach of EGRET but below that of the Cherenkov imaging telescopes have been the "solar tower" detectors. They use >2000 m2 mirror areas to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 David A. Smith

The High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) gamma-ray observatory is a wide field of view (1.8 Sr) and high duty cycle (>95% up-time) detector of unique capabilities for the study of TeV gamma-ray sources. Installed at an altitude of 4100m in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 Alberto Carramiñana

With the advent of imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes in late 1980's, ground-based observation of TeV gamma-rays came into reality after struggling trials by pioneers for twenty years, and the number of gamma-ray sources detected at…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Masaki Mori

The Whipple 10 meter atmospheric Cherenkov telescope has made observations of the region known as the Cygnus arm. This region has been recently reported by the Milagro experiment to contain a diffuse TeV gamma-ray source centered at RA=308…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 R. Atkins

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) Project will consist of two arrays of atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes to study high-energy gamma radiation in the range of a few tens of GeV to beyond 100 TeV. To achieve full-sky coverage, the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 Ingo Allekotte , Gonzalo de la Vega , Alberto Etchegoyen , Beatriz García , Alexis Mancilla , Javier Maya , Diego Ravignani , Adrián Rovero