The key science projects of the Cherenkov telescope array
Journal
Date Issued
2017
Author(s)
Abstract
The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) will be the next generation gamma-ray observatory, open to the scientific community, to investigate the very high-energy emission from a large variety of celestial sources in the energy range 20 GeV - 300 TeV. The full array, distributed over two sites, one in the northern and one in the southern hemisphere, will provide whole-sky coverage and will improve by about one order of magnitude the sensitivity with respect to the current major arrays. CTA will investigate a much higher number of already known classes of sources, going to much larger distances in the Universe, performing population studies, accurate variability and spatially-resolved studies. Moreover, new light will be shed on possible new classes of high-energy sources, such as GRBs, cluster of Galaxies, Galactic binaries, and on fundamental physics. By pushing the high-energy limit to E > 100 TeV it will allow a thorough exploration of the cut-off regime of the cosmic accelerators. We review the main CTA Key Science Projects, which will focus on major scientific cases, a clear advance beyond the current state of the art, and we discuss the production of legacy data-sets of high value to a wider community.
Coverage
HIGH ENERGY GAMMA-RAY ASTRONOMY: 6th International Meeting on High Energy Gamma-Ray Astronomy
All editors
Aharonian, Felix A.; Hofmann, Werner; Rieger, Frank M.
Volume
1792
Issue
1
Start page
030001-01
Conferenece
HIGH ENERGY GAMMA-RAY ASTRONOMY: 6th International Meeting on High Energy Gamma-Ray Astronomy
Conferenece place
Heidelberg, Germany
Conferenece date
11–15 July, 2016
Issn Identifier
0094-243X
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2017AIPC.1792c0001V
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