Design concepts for the Cherenkov Telescope Array CTA
- 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 physics and cosmology. CTA is an international initiative to build the next generation instrument, with a factor of 5-10 improvement in sensitivity in the 100 GeV-10 TeV range and the extension to energies well below 100 GeV and above 100 TeV. CTA will consist of two arrays (one in the north, one in the south) for full sky coverage and will be operated as open observatory. The design of CTA is based on currently available technology. This document reports on the status and presents the major design concepts of CTA.
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| Author details: | S. Federici, Martin PohlORCiDGND, J. Ruppel, Igor O. TelezhinskyORCiD, Werner Hofmann, M. Martinez, J. Knapp |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-430149 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.25932/publishup-43014 |
| ISSN: | 1866-8372 |
| Title of parent work (English): | Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Reihe |
| Subtitle (English): | an advanced facility for ground-based high-energy gamma-ray astronomy |
| Publication series (Volume number): | Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Reihe (1325) |
| Publication type: | Postprint |
| Language: | English |
| Date of first publication: | 2011/11/23 |
| Publication year: | 2011 |
| Publishing institution: | Universität Potsdam |
| Release date: | 2023/06/23 |
| Tag: | design concepts; ground based gamma ray astronomy; next generation Cherenkov telescopes |
| Volume: | 32 |
| Issue: | 1325 |
| Number of pages: | 124 |
| Source: | Experimental Astronomy 32 (2011), pp. 193–316, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10686-011-9247-0 |
| Organizational units: | Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Institut für Physik und Astronomie |
| DDC classification: | 5 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik / 53 Physik / 530 Physik |
| Peer review: | Referiert |
| Publishing method: | Open Access / Green Open-Access |
| License (German): |  CC-BY-NC - Namensnennung, nicht kommerziell 4.0 International |
| External remark: | Bibliographieeintrag der Originalveröffentlichung/Quelle |
