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Title: | Design concepts for the Cherenkov Telescope Array CTA: an advanced facility for ground-based high-energy gamma-ray astronomy |
Author: | Garrido Beltrán, Lluís Gascón Fora, David Graciani Díaz, Ricardo Munar i Adrover, Pere Paredes i Poy, Josep Maria Ribó Gomis, Marc Sanuy Charles, Andreu Zabalza de Torres, Víctor CTA Consortium |
Keywords: | Astronomia de raigs gamma Telescopis Instruments astronòmics Partícules (Física nuclear) Gamma ray astronomy Telescopes Astronomical instruments Particles (Nuclear physics) |
Issue Date: | 2011 |
Publisher: | Springer Verlag |
Abstract: | 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. |
Note: | Versió postprint del document publicat a: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10686-011-9247-0 |
It is part of: | Experimental Astronomy, 2011, vol. 32, num. 3, p. 193-316 |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2445/56541 |
Related resource: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10686-011-9247-0 |
ISSN: | 0922-6435 |
Appears in Collections: | Articles publicats en revistes (Institut de Ciències del Cosmos (ICCUB)) Articles publicats en revistes (Física Quàntica i Astrofísica) |
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