Monte Carlo studies for the optimisation of the Cherenkov Telescope Array layout

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is the major next-generation observatory for ground-based very-high-energy gamma-ray astronomy. It will improve the sensitivity of current ground-based instruments by a factor of five to twenty, depending on the energy, greatly improving both their angular and ene...

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Autores: Acharyya, A., Agudo, Iván, Angüner, E. O., Alfaro, R., Alfaro, Emilio J., Alispach, C., Aloisio, R., Alves Batista, R., Amans, J. P., Amati, L., Amato, E., Ambrosi, G., Antonelli, L. A., Aramo, C., Armstrong, T., Arqueros, F., Arrabito, L., Asano, K., Ashkar, H., Balazs, C., Balbo, M., Balmaverde, Barbara, Barai, P., Barbano, A., Barkov, M., Barres de Almeida, Ulisses, Barrio, J. A., Bastieri, Denis, Becerra González, J., Becker Tjus, J., Bellizzi, L. K., Benbow, W., Bernardini, E., Bernardos, M. I., Bernlöhr, K., Berti, A., Berton, M., Bertucci, B., Beshley, V., Biasuzzi, B., Bigongiari, C., Bird, R., Bissaldi, E., Biteau, J., Blanch, Oscar, Blazek, Jonathan, Boisson, Catherine, Bonanno, G., Bonardi, A., Bordas, P., Cerruti, Matteo, Colak, S. M., Contreras, J. L., Cortina, J., Cumani, P., Delgado, Carlos, Díaz, C., Fonseca, M. V., Freixas Coromina, L., Gaggero, D., García López, R. J., Gascón, David, Gaug, Markus, Hassan, Tarek, Jouvin, L., Kerszberg, Daniel, Lallena Arquillo, M., Lopez, A., López, M., López-Oramas, A., Luque-Escamilla, Pedro L., Maggio, C., Mangano, S., Martí, Josep, Martínez, M., Martínez, G., Moralejo, A., Morcuende, Daniel, Nieto, D., Ninci, D., Paredes, Josep M., Peñil Del Campo, P., Pérez-Romero, J., Polo, M., Ribó, Marc, Rico, J., Rodríguez Vázquez, J. J., Rosado, J., Saha, L., Sanuy, A., Tejedor, L. A., Torres, Diego F., Vázquez Acosta, M.
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión enviada para evaluación y publicación
Fecha de publicación:2019
País:España
Institución:Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
Repositorio:DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC
OAI Identifier:oai:digital.csic.es:10261/189767
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10261/189767
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:IACT technique
Monte Carlo simulations
Gamma rays
Cosmic rays
Cherenkov telescopes
ddc:520
ddc:530
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Sumario:The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is the major next-generation observatory for ground-based very-high-energy gamma-ray astronomy. It will improve the sensitivity of current ground-based instruments by a factor of five to twenty, depending on the energy, greatly improving both their angular and energy resolutions over four decades in energy (from 20 GeV to 300 TeV). This achievement will be possible by using tens of imaging Cherenkov telescopes of three successive sizes. They will be arranged into two arrays, one per hemisphere, located on the La Palma island (Spain) and in Paranal (Chile). We present here the optimised and final telescope arrays for both CTA sites, as well as their foreseen performance, resulting from the analysis of three different large-scale Monte Carlo productions.© 2019

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