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Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12386/28422
Title: The key science projects of the Cherenkov telescope array
Authors: VERCELLONE, STEFANO 
Issue Date: 2017
Journal: AIP CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS 
Volume: HIGH ENERGY GAMMA-RAY ASTRONOMY: 6th International Meeting on High Energy Gamma-Ray Astronomy
Editors: Aharonian, Felix A.; Hofmann, Werner; Rieger, Frank M.
Number: 1792
Issue: 1
First Page: 030001-01
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.
Conference Name: HIGH ENERGY GAMMA-RAY ASTRONOMY: 6th International Meeting on High Energy Gamma-Ray Astronomy
Conference Place: Heidelberg, Germany
Conference Date: 11–15 July, 2016
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12386/28422
URL: https://aip.scitation.org/doi/abs/10.1063/1.4968902
ISSN: 0094-243X
ISBN: 978-0-7354-1456-3
DOI: 10.1063/1.4968902
Bibcode ADS: 2017AIPC.1792c0001V
Fulltext: open
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