Tarek Hassan
(UCM)
03/08/2015, 14:00
GA-IN
Oral contribution
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...
Teresa Montaruli
(Universite de Geneve (CH))
03/08/2015, 14:15
GA-IN
Oral contribution
The small size telescopes (SSTs), spread over an area of several square km, dominate the CTA sensitivity in the photon energy range from a few TeV to over 100 TeV, enabling for the first time detailed exploration of the very high energy gamma-ray sky. The proposed telescopes are innovative designs providing a wide field of view. Two of them, ASTRI and GCT, are based on dual mirror...
Dr
Markus Garczarczyk
(DESY)
03/08/2015, 14:35
GA-IN
Oral contribution
CTA, the Cherenkov Telescope Array, is an international project for the next generation ground-based observatory for gamma-ray astronomy in the energy range from 20 GeV to 300 TeV. The sensitivity in the core energy range will be dominated by up to 40 Medium-Sized Telescopes (MSTs). The MSTs, of Davies-Cotton type with a 12m diameter reflector are currently in the prototype phase. A full-size...
Masahiro Teshima
(Max-Planck-Institute)
03/08/2015, 14:55
GA-IN
Oral contribution
The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) observatory, will be deployed over two sites in the northern and southern hemispheres. Both sites will be equipped with four Large Size Telescopes (LSTs), which are crucial to achieve the science goals of CTA in the 20-200 GeV energy range. Each LST is equipped with a primary tessellated mirror dish of 23 m diameter, supported by a structure made mainly of...
Prof.
Huihai He
(Institute of High Energy Physics, CAS)
03/08/2015, 15:15
GA-IN
Oral contribution
The Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory (LHAA-SO) project plans to build a hybrid extensive air shower (EAS) array with an area of 1 km^2 at an altitude of 4410 m asl in Sichuan province, China, aiming for very high energy gamma ray astronomy and cosmic ray physics around the spectrum knees. With a sensitivity of 1% Crab unit, the LHAA- SO will survey the entire northern sky for gamma...
Juan Cortina
(IFAE)
03/08/2015, 15:30
GA-IN
Oral contribution
Current Cherenkov Telescopes for VHE gamma ray astrophysics are pointing instruments with a field of view up to a few tens of sq.deg. We propose to build an array of two non-steerable telescopes with a FOV of 5 x 60 sq.deg oriented along the meridian. Roughly half of the sky drifts through this FOV in a year. We have performed a MC simulation to estimate the performance of this instrument,...
Dr
Akira Okumura
(Solar-Terrestrial Environment Laboratory, Nagoya University)
03/08/2015, 15:45
GA-IN
Oral contribution
We have developed a non-sequential ray-tracing simulation library, ROot-BAsed Simulator for ray Tracing (ROBAST), which is aimed to be widely used in optical simulations of cosmic-ray and gamma-ray telescopes. The library is written in C++, and fully utilizes the geometry library of the ROOT analysis framework. In spite of the importance of optics simulations in cosmic-ray experiments, there...
