RT Journal Article
T1 Introducing the CTA concept
A1 Antoranz Canales, Pedro
A1 Barrio Uña, Juan Abel
A1 Bernardino Santos, Teodoro
A1 Contreras González, José Luis
A1 Fonseca González, María Victoria
A1 Hassan, Tarek
A1 López Moya, Marcos
A1 Mirabal Barrios, Néstor
A1 Miranda Pantoja, José Miguel
A1 Satalecka, Konstanzja
A1 Scapin, Valeria
A1 Tejedor Álvarez, Luis Ángel
A1 Yebras Rivera, José Manuel
AB 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. (C) 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
PB Elsevier Science BV
SN 0927-6505
YR 2013
FD 2013-03
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/33495
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/33495
LA eng
NO © 2013 Elsevier BV.
DS Docta Complutense
RD 8 abr 2025