Authors
CTA Consortium J. Knapp@ leeds. ac. uk http://www. cta-observatory. org, M Actis, G Agnetta, F Aharonian, A Akhperjanian, J Aleksić, E Aliu, D Allan, I Allekotte, F Antico, LA Antonelli, P Antoranz, A Aravantinos, T Arlen, H Arnaldi, S Artmann, K Asano, H Asorey, J Bähr, A Bais, C Baixeras, S Bajtlik, D Balis, A Bamba, C Barbier, M Barceló, A Barnacka, J Barnstedt, U Barres de Almeida, JA Barrio, S Basso, D Bastieri, C Bauer, J Becerra, Y Becherini, K Bechtol, J Becker, V Beckmann, W Bednarek, B Behera, M Beilicke, M Belluso, M Benallou, W Benbow, J Berdugo, K Berger, T Bernardino, K Bernlöhr, A Biland, S Billotta, T Bird, E Birsin, E Bissaldi, S Blake, O Blanch, AA Bobkov, L Bogacz, M Bogdan, C Boisson, J Boix, J Bolmont, G Bonanno, A Bonardi, T Bonev, J Borkowski, O Botner, A Bottani, M Bourgeat, C Boutonnet, A Bouvier, S Brau-Nogué, I Braun, T Bretz, MS Briggs, P Brun, L Brunetti, JH Buckley, V Bugaev, R Bühler, T Bulik, G Busetto, S Buson, K Byrum, M Cailles, R Cameron, R Canestrari, S Cantu, E Carmona, A Carosi, J Carr, PH Carton, M Casiraghi, H Castarede, O Catalano, S Cavazzani, S Cazaux, B Cerruti, M Cerruti, PM Chadwick, J Chiang, M Chikawa, M Cieślar, M Ciesielska, A Cillis, C Clerc, P Colin, J Colomé, M Compin, P Conconi, V Connaughton, J Conrad, JL Contreras, P Coppi, M Corlier, P Corona, O Corpace, D Corti, J Cortina, H Costantini, G Cotter, B Courty, S Couturier, S Covino, J Croston, G Cusumano, MK Daniel, F Dazzi, A de Angelis, E de Cea del Pozo, EM de Gouveia Dal Pino, O de Jager, I de la Calle Pérez, G De La Vega, B De Lotto, M de Naurois, E de Oña Wilhelmi, V de Souza, B Decerprit, C Deil, E Delagnes, G Deleglise, C Delgado, T Dettlaff, A Di Paolo, F Di Pierro, C Díaz, J Dick, H Dickinson, SW Digel, D Dimitrov
Publication date
2011/12
Journal
Experimental Astronomy
Volume
32
Pages
193-316
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Description
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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