descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article , Other literature type , Preprint , Journal 01 Sep 2019Embargo end date: 01 Jan 2019 Spain, France, United Kingdom, France, Germany, France, France, Croatia, France, France, Germany, France, United Kingdom, France, France, Germany, United Kingdom, Australia, Germany, Poland, Switzerland, Netherlands, Netherlands, Chile, Netherlands, Netherlands, Spain, France, France, Slovenia, Italy, France, France, Brazil, Australia, Croatia, Netherlands, France, United Kingdom Publisher:Elsevier BVJournal:Astroparticle Physics, volume 111, pages 35-53 (issn: 0927-6505,

Authors: M. Ostrowski; N. Renault-Tinacci; T. Suomijärvi; Takeshi Nakamori; T.R.N. Ekoume; Maria Chernyakova; Tomohiro Inada; +193 Authors

M. Ostrowski; N. Renault-Tinacci; T. Suomijärvi; Takeshi Nakamori; T.R.N. Ekoume; Maria Chernyakova; Tomohiro Inada; Maria Concetta Maccarone; Alison Mitchell; A. Nagai; Andrea Bulgarelli; Geoff Romeo; A. Berti; Antonio Stamerra; R. de Cássia dos Anjos; R. J. White; Carlo Vigorito; Helene Sol; G. Ferrand; V. Vitale; F. Di Pierro; Massimo Persic; Daniel Morcuende; Jonathan Blazek; Marita Krause; Vito Conforti; S. Rainò; Ruben Alfaro; Saverio Lombardi; D. Zavrtanik; German Martinez; Luisa Arrabito; Konstancja Satalecka; Gianluca Giavitto; Pierre Brun; Jacco Vink; M. de Naurois; M. V. Fonseca; E. Fiandrini; Pietro Bruno; Fuyuki Tokanai; M. Nöthe; H.-S. Zechlin; Jaime Rosado; C. J. Todero Peixoto; Eva Sciacca; M. Prouza; T. Greenshaw; V. I. Zhdanov; J. J. Rodríguez Vázquez; M. Mariotti; Konrad Bernlöhr; J. Knapp; G. Ambrosi; R. López-Coto; N. Otte; M. Polo; V. Vassiliev; Alessandro Costa; G. S. Varner; S. Fegan; P. Cumani; M. López; G. Chiaro; F. Cassol; Diego F. Torres; Diego F. Torres; Pol Bordas; Paweł Świerk; A. M. Lopez; Daniele Gaggero; Daniele Gaggero; L. Freixas Coromina; M. Will; I. Agudo; Maxim V. Barkov; S. Karkar; B. De Lotto; E. Mach; Luca Zampieri; Jürgen Knödlseder; G. Bonnoli; T. Di Girolamo; D. della Volpe; Tarek M. Hassan; A. M. Brown; Anatolii Zenin; Hidetoshi Sano; V. De Caprio; R. Millul; Sebastian Diebold; Julien Lefaucheur; R. J. García López; Marc Ribó; Rodrigo Nemmen; G. Fontaine; S. Flis; G. Emery; T. Tam; Konstantinos N. Gourgouliatos; L. Mohrmann; Nu. Komin; E. Fedorova; C. Alispach; Z. Ou; Juan Cortina; Takashi Saito; Elena Amato; Elisabetta Bissaldi; Shanta M. Zimmer; J. Gironnet; G. Pareschi; Sylvain Chaty; S. Vercellone; Maria Magdalena González; I. Oya; Heide Costantini; Daniel Nieto; Marek Nikolajuk; Farinaldo S. Queiroz; Jonathan S. Lapington; M. Perri; J. Becerra González; B. Khélifi; L. Di Venere; Juan Abel Barrio; A. Rugliancich; Łukasz Stawarz; E. O. Angüner; E. de Oña Wilhelmi; T. Nagayoshi; N. Parmiggiani; Miroslav Hrabovsky; D. de Martino; T. Montaruli; Thomas Murach; M. Iori; Vincenzo Testa; Bohdan Hnatyk; M. Fiori; Lenka Tomankova; Juan Carlos Rodríguez-Ramírez; Reiko Orito; Petr Janecek; Satoshi Fukami; David A. Williams; A. Burtovoi; Enrico Cascone; Reshmi Mukherjee; Etienne Lyard; Marcello Giroletti; Petar Temnikov; F. Salesa Greus; Q. Feng; R. Paoletti; Diego Falceta-Gonçalves; Stefan Kimeswenger; A. Kong; L. P. Taylor; Daniela Maria Ribeiro; Philip Kaaret; G. Morlino; R. D. Parsons; D. Nosek; Michael Zacharias; I. Sadeh; Fabio Iocco; Hidetoshi Kubo; M. Hayashida; N. Hiroshima; Rodrigo Guedes Lang; Martin Pohl; M. Vecchi; M. Vecchi; M. Nievas Rosillo; Fulvio Gianotti; A. Fiasson; M. Garczarczyk; F. Arqueros; N. Produit; A. Morselli; Thomas Lohse; Francesco Longo; D. Dominis Prester; Manuel Meyer; M. Zavrtanik; Matteo Cerruti; Enrico Congiu; J. Kushida; Jakub Juryšek; Jakub Juryšek; Paramita Barai; Agnieszka Slowikowska; Y. Kobayashi; Ermanno Pietropaolo; Q. Piel; L. Tosti; B. Bertucci; Michael G. Burton; J. M. Paredes;

doi: 10.1016/j.astropartphys.2019.04.001 , 10.3204/pubdb-2019-02176 , 10.48550/arxiv.1904.01426 , 10.5167/uzh-185554

arXiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/1904.01426 , 1904.01426

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

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Abstract

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.

Astroparticle physics 111, 35 - 53 (2019). doi:10.1016/j.astropartphys.2019.04.001

Published by Elsevier Science, Amsterdam [u.a.]

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Keywords

Monte Carlo simulations; Cherenkov telescopes; IACT technique; Gamma rays; Cosmic rays, Cherenkov Telescope Array, Astronomy, Performance, VHE [gamma ray], energy resolution, Monte Carlo simulations; Cherenkov telescopes; IACT technique; gamma rays; cosmic rays, FFR, site, Monte Carlo, Astronomía - Observaciones, Monte carlo simulations, Monte Carlo methods, ACT technique, imaging [Cherenkov counter], Monte Carlo studies, 520, Era, observatory, array layout optimisation, Cherenkov telescopes; Cosmic rays; Gamma rays; IACT technique; Monte Carlo simulations; Astronomy and Astrophysics, Cherenkov telescopes; Cosmic rays; Gamma rays; IACT technique; Monte Carlo simulations, Monte Carlo simulations;Cherenkov telescopes;IACT technique;Gamma rays;Cosmic rays, Física nuclear, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, performance, Design, 530 Physics, 539.1, Gamma ray, FOS: Physical sciences, Physics Institute, Cherenkov telescopes, 530, energy dependence, Monte Carlo simulations, very-high energy gamma-ray astronomy, cosmic rays, CTA - Abteilung Hofmann, XXXXXX - Unknown, Telescopios espaciales, [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det], Cherenkov counter: imaging, Cosmic rays, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), Monte Carlo simulation, ta115, CTA, Método de Montecarlo, Gamma rays, IACT technique, Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2207 Física Atómica y Nuclear, Cherenkov telescopesI, sensitivity, 540, 541, Cosmic ray, gamma rays, Astronomía, gamma ray: VHE, Cherenkov telescope, [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET] Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det], Monte Carlo simulations ; Cherenkov telescopes ; IACT technique ; Gamma rays ; Cosmic rays, astro-ph.IM, ddc: ddc:540