Introducing the CTA concept
| dc.contributor.author | Mirabal, Nestor | |
| dc.contributor.author | et al. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2020-09-02T17:01:26Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2020-09-02T17:01:26Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2013-02-13 | |
| dc.description.abstract | The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is a new observatory for very high-energy (VHE) gamma rays. CTA has ambitions science goals, for which it is necessary to achieve full-sky coverage, to improve the sensitivity by about an order of magnitude, to span about four decades of energy, from a few tens of GeV to above 100 TeV with enhanced angular and energy resolutions over existing VHE gamma-ray observatories. An international collaboration has formed with more than 1000 members from 27 countries in Europe, Asia, Africa and North and South America. In 2010 the CTA Consortium completed a Design Study and started a three-year Preparatory Phase which leads to production readiness of CTA in 2014. In this paper we introduce the science goals and the concept of CTA, and provide an overview of the project. | en_US |
| dc.description.sponsorship | Funding agencies of the main countries participating in CTA have signed a “Declaration of Interest” in July 2012 to express their willingness to participate in the construction and operation of CTA. With their support it could be possible to start the scientific exploitation of the CTA observatories already by 2016, with a partial array, while the construction is still in progress. In just a few years, an exciting new view on the Universe at energies of up to 300 TeV will emerge, and this new window will be pushed wide open | en_US |
| dc.description.uri | https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0927650513000169 | en_US |
| dc.format.extent | 32 pages | en_US |
| dc.genre | journal articles preprints | en_US |
| dc.identifier | doi:10.13016/m25cri-iwql | |
| dc.identifier.citation | B.S. Acharya et al., Introducing the CTA concept, Astroparticle Physics, Volume 43, Pages 3-18 (2013), doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.astropartphys.2013.01.007 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.astropartphys.2013.01.007 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11603/19569 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Elsevier | en_US |
| dc.relation.isAvailableAt | The University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) | |
| dc.relation.ispartof | UMBC Physics Department Collection | |
| dc.relation.ispartof | UMBC Joint Center for Earth Systems Technology (JCET) | |
| dc.relation.ispartof | UMBC Center for Space Sciences and Technology (CSST) / Center for Research and Exploration in Space Sciences & Technology II (CRSST II) | |
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| dc.rights | © 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. | |
| dc.title | Introducing the CTA concept | en_US |
| dc.type | Text | en_US |