Speaker
Tarek Hassan
(UCM)
Description
The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) represents the next generation of ground based instruments for Very High Energy gamma-ray astronomy. It is expected to improve on the sensitivity of current instruments by an order of magnitude and provide energy coverage from 20 GeV to more than 200 TeV. In order to achieve these ambitious goals Monte Carlo (MC) simulations play a crucial role, guiding the design of CTA. An overview of CTA second large-scale MC production will be given and the main conclusions concerning the influence of telescope layouts, altitude, night sky background levels and geomagnetic field will be discussed.
| Registration number following "ICRC2015-I/" | 416 |
|---|---|
| Collaboration | CTA |
Author
Tarek Hassan
(UCM)
Co-authors
Abelardo Moralejo
(IFAE)
Federico Di Pierro
(INAF)
Gernot Maier
(DESY)
Jim Hinton
(Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, P.O. Box 103980, D 69029 Heidelberg, Germany)
Johan Bregeon
(Laboratoire Univers et Particules de Montpellier, Université Mont- pellier)
Konrad Bernlöhr
(Max-Planck-Institut f ̈ur Kernphysik)
Luisa Arrabito
(CC-IN2P3 - Centre de Calcul (FR))
Matthew Wood
(SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford University, Stanford)
Tobias Jogler
(Department of Phy sics and SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford Universit)
