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The Cherenkov Telescope Array: layout, design and performance

  • CTA Consortium
    ,
  • CTA Observatory
    ,
  • H. Abdalla(Author)
    ,
  • H. Abe(Author)
    ,
  • S. Abe(Author)
    ,
  • A. Abusleme(Author)
  • North West University
    ,
  • The University of Tokyo
    ,
  • Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
    ,
  • Commissariat à l’énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives
    ,
  • Durham University
    ,
  • Port d'Informació Científica
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Abstract

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) will be the next generation very-high-energy gamma-ray observatory. CTA is expected to provide substantial improvement in accuracy and sensitivity with respect to existing instruments thanks to a tenfold increase in the number of telescopes and their state-of-the-art design. Detailed Monte Carlo simulations are used to further optimise the number of telescopes and the array layout, and to estimate the observatory performance using updated models of the selected telescope designs. These studies are presented in this contribution for the two CTA stations located on the island of La Palma (Spain) and near Paranal (Chile) and for different operation and observation conditions.

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Research Output:
Contribution to journal
Conference article
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Original language

English

Article number

885

Journal (Volume, Issue Number)

Proceedings of Science (Volume 395)

Publication milestones

  • Published - 18/03/2022

Publication status

Published - 18/03/2022

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  • Scopus: 85145021836

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Related Event

Title

37th International Cosmic Ray Conference, ICRC 2021

Event type

Conference

Date

12/07/2021 - 23/07/2021

Location

Virtual, BerlinGermany

Funding Details

This work was conducted in the context of the CTA Consortium and CTA Observatory. We gratefully acknowledge financial support from the agencies and organizations listed here: http://www.cta-observatory.org/consortium_acknowledgments. We also would like to thank the computing centres that provided resources for the generation of the instrument response functions, see Ref. [18] for a full list of contributing institutions.