Monte Carlo studies for the optimisation of the Cherenkov telescope array layout

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Acharyya, A. - Agudo, A. - Anguner, E.O. - Blažek, Jiří - Ebr, Jan - Janeček, Petr - Mandát, Dušan - Palatka, Miroslav - Pech, Miroslav - Prouza, Michael - Schovánek, Petr - Trávníček, Petr … celkem 470 autorů
Monte Carlo studies for the optimisation of the Cherenkov telescope array layout.
Astroparticle Physics. Roč. 111, Sep (2019), s. 35-53. ISSN 0927-6505. E-ISSN 1873-2852
Grant CEP: GA MŠMT EF16_013/0001403; GA MŠMT LTT17006; GA MŠMT LM2015046
Grant ostatní: OP VVV - CTAO-CZ(XE) CZ.02.1.01/0.0/0.0/16_013/0001403
Institucionální podpora: RVO:68378271
Klíčová slova: Monte Carlo simulations * Cherenkov telescopes * IACT technique * gamma rays * cosmic rays
Obor OECD: Particles and field physics
Impakt faktor: 2.610, rok: 2019
Způsob publikování: Omezený přístup
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.astropartphys.2019.04.001

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is the major next-generation observatory for ground-based veryhigh-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.
Trvalý link: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0301928