The Cherenkov Telescope Array: layout, design and performance

Orel Gueta; The Cherenkov Telescope Array Consortium; CTA Observatory; S. Dai; M. Filipovic; N. Maxted; R. Norris; N. Tothill

doi:10.22323/1.395.0885

The Cherenkov Telescope Array: layout, design and performance

Orel Gueta, The Cherenkov Telescope Array Consortium, CTA Observatory, S. Dai, M. Filipovic, N. Maxted, R. Norris, N. Tothill

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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.

Original language	English
Article number	885
Number of pages	15
Journal	Proceedings of Science
Volume	395
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.22323/1.395.0885
Publication status	Published - 18 Mar 2022
Event	International Cosmic Ray Conference - Virtual, Berlin, Germany Duration: 12 Jul 2021 → 23 Jul 2021 Conference number: 37th

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