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The Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory Comes of Age

No. 180 (June 2020), 3–8

Authors
  • Ferrini, Federico [CTAO, Heidelberg (DE) and Bologna (IT)]
  • Wild, Wolfgang [ESO; CTAO, Heidelberg (DE) and Bologna (IT)]
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Abstract

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is the next-generation ground-based observatory for gamma-ray astronomy at very high energies. With up to 120 telescopes on two sites, CTA will be the world’s largest and most sensitive high-energy gamma-ray observatory covering the entire sky. It will consist of a northern array located at the Roque de los Muchachos astronomical observatory on the island of La Palma (Spain) and a southern array near the European Southern Observatory site at Paranal (Chile). Three classes of telescope spread over a large area are required to cover all of CTA’s very-high-energy range from 20 GeV to 300 TeV.

DOI
Bibcode
2020Msngr.180....3F
Dates
Created: 2020-06-01/2020-06-30
Length
6 pages
Rights
Copyright European Southern Observatory

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Ferrini, F., Wild, W.; The Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory Comes of Age. The Messenger 180 (June 2020): 3–8. https://doi.org/10.18727/0722-6691/5194