Monte Carlo studies for the optimisation of the Cherenkov Telescope Array layout

被引：54

作者：

Acharyya, A. ^{[1
,2
]}

Agudo, I ^{[3
]}

Anguner, E. O. ^{[67
,68
]}

Alfaro, R. ^{[4
]}

Alfaro, J. ^{[5
]}

Alispach, C. ^{[6
]}

Aloisio, R. ^{[7
,8
]}

Alves Batista, R. ^{[9
]}

Amans, J-P ^{[10
]}

Amati, L. ^{[11
]}

Amato, E. ^{[12
]}

Ambrosi, G. ^{[13
]}

Antonelli, L. A. ^{[15
]}

Aramo, C. ^{[16
]}

Armstrong, T. ^{[17
]}

Arqueros, F. ^{[18
,19
]}

Arrabito, L. ^{[20
]}

Asano, K. ^{[21
]}

Ashkar, H. ^{[63
]}

Balazs, C. ^{[22
]}

Balbo, M. ^{[23
]}

Balmaverde, B. ^{[24
]}

Barai, P. ^{[9
]}

Barbano, A. ^{[6
]}

Barkov, M. ^{[25
]}

Barres de Almeida, U. ^{[26
]}

Barrio, J. A. ^{[18
,19
]}

Bastieri, D. ^{[27
,28
]}

Becerra Gonzalez, J. ^{[29
,30
]}

Tjus, J. Becker ^{[31
]}

Bellizzi, L. ^{[44
,45
]}

Benbow, W. ^{[32
]}

Bernardini, E. ^{[27
,28
,88
]}

Bernardos, M., I ^{[66
]}

Bernloehr, K. ^{[33
]}

Berti, A. ^{[34
]}

Berton, M. ^{[24
]}

Bertucci, B. ^{[13
,14
]}

Beshley, V ^{[35
]}

Biasuzzi, B. ^{[36
]}

Bigongiari, C. ^{[15
]}

Bird, R. ^{[37
]}

Bissaldi, E. ^{[38
,39
]}

Biteau, J. ^{[36
]}

Blanch, O. ^{[40
]}

Blazek, J. ^{[41
]}

Boisson, C. ^{[10
]}

Bonanno, G. ^{[42
]}

Bonardi, A. ^{[43
]}

Bonavolonta, C. ^{[16
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Durham, Dept Phys, South Rd, Durham DH1 3LE, England

[2] Univ Durham, Ctr Adv Instrumentat, South Rd, Durham DH1 3LE, England

[3] CSIC, Inst Astrofis Andalucia, Glorieta Astronomia S-N, E-18008 Granada, Spain

[4] Univ Nacl Autonoma Mexico, Ciudad De Mexico 04510, Mexico

[5] Pontificia Univ Catolica Chile, Avda Libertador Bernardo O Higgins 340, Santiago, Chile

[6] Univ Geneva, Dept Phys Nucl & Corpusculaire, 24 Rue Gen Dufour, CH-41211 Geneva, Switzerland

[7] Univ Aquila, Dipartimento Sci Fis & Chim, Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Via Vetoio 1,Viale Crispi 7, I-67100 Laquila, Italy

[8] Gran Sasso Sci Inst, Via Vetoio 1,Viale Crispi 7, I-67100 Laquila, Italy

[9] Univ Sao Paulo, Inst Astron Geofis & Ciencias Atmosfer, Cidade Univ,R Matao 1226, BR-05508090 Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil

[10] PSL Res Univ, Observ Paris, CNRS, LUTH & GEPI, 5 Pl Jules Janssen, F-92190 Meudon, France

[11] INAF, Osservatorio Astrofis & Scienza Spazio Bologna, Via Piero Gobetti 101, I-40129 Bologna, Italy

[12] INAF, Osservatorio Astrofis Arcetri, I-550125 Florence 5, Italy

[13] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Perugia, Via A Pascoli, I-06123 Perugia, Italy

[14] Univ Perugia, Via A Pascoli, I-06123 Perugia, Italy

[15] INAF, Osservatorio Astronom Roma, Via Frascati 33, I-00040 Monte Porzio Catone, Italy

[16] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Napoli, Via Cintia Ed G, I-80126 Naples, Italy

[17] Univ Oxford, Dept Phys, Denys Wilkinson Bldg,Keble Rd, Oxford OX1 3RH, England

[18] Univ Complutense Madrid, EMFTEL Dept, E-28040 Madrid, Spain

[19] Univ Complutense Madrid, IPARCOS, E-28040 Madrid, Spain

[20] Univ Montpellier, Lab Univers & Particules Montpellier, IN2P3, CNRS, CC 72,Pl Eugene Bataillon, F-34095 Montpellier 5, France

[21] Univ Tokyo, Inst Cosm Ray Res, 5-1-5 Kashiwa No Ha, Kashiwa, Chiba 2778582, Japan

[22] Monash Univ, Sch Phys & Astron, Melbourne, Vic 3800, Australia

[23] Univ Geneva, ISDC Data Ctr Astrophys, Observ Geneva, Chemin Ecogia 16, CH-1290 Versoix, Switzerland

[24] INAF, Osservatorio Astron Brera, Via Brera 28, I-20121 Milan, Italy

[25] Inst Phys & Chem Res, RIKEN, 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako, Saitama 3510198, Japan

[26] Ctr Brasileiro Pesquisas Fis, Rua Xavier Sigaud 150, BR-22290180 Rio De Janeiro, RJ, Brazil

[27] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Padova, Via Marzolo 8, I-35131 Padua, Italy

[28] Univ Padua, Via Marzolo 8, I-35131 Padua, Italy

[29] Univ La Laguna, Inst Astrofis Canarias, Tenerife, Spain

[30] Univ La Laguna, Dept Astrofis, Tenerife, Spain

[31] Ruhr Univ Bochum, Inst Theoret Phys, Lehrstuhl Weltraum & Astrophys 4, Univ Str 150, D-44801 Bochum, Germany

[32] Harvard Smithsonian Ctr Astrophys, 60 Garden St, Cambridge, MA 02180 USA

[33] Max Planck Inst Kernphys, Saupfercheckweg 1, D-69117 Heidelberg, Germany

[34] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Torino, Via P Giuria 1, I-10125 Turin, Italy

[35] NASU, Pidstryhach Inst Appl Problems Mech & Math, 3B Naukova St, UA-79060 Lvov, Ukraine

[36] Univ Paris Sud, Univ Paris Saclay, Inst Phys Nucleaire, IN2P3,CNRS, 15 Rue Georges Clemenceau, F-91406 Orsay, France

[37] Univ Calif Los Angeles, Dept Phys & Astron, Los Angeles, CA 90095 USA

[38] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Bari, Via Orabona 4, I-70124 Bari, Italy

[39] Politecn Bari, Via Orabona 4, I-70124 Bari, Italy

[40] Barcelona Inst Sci & Technol, Inst Fis Altes Energies, Campus UAB, Bellaterra 08193, Barcelona, Spain

[41] Czech Acad Sci, Inst Phys, Na Slovance 1999-2, Prague 18221 8, Czech Republic

[42] INAF, Osservatorio Astrofis Catania, Via S Sofia 78, I-95123 Catania, Italy

[43] Radboud Univ Nijmegen, POB 9010, NL-6500 GL Nijmegen, Netherlands

[44] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Via Roma 56, I-53100 Siena, Italy

[45] Univ Siena, DSFTA, Sez Fis, Via Roma 56, I-53100 Siena, Italy

[46] Univ Barcelona, Inst Ciencies Cosmos, Dept Fis Quant & Astrofis, IEEC UB, Marti & Franques 1, E-08028 Barcelona, Spain

[47] North West Univ, Ctr Space Res, Potchefstroom Campus, ZA-2531 Potchefstroom, South Africa

[48] Columbia Univ, Dept Phys, 538 West 120th St, New York, NY 10027 USA

[49] TU Dortmund Univ, Dept Phys, Otto Hahn Str 4, D-44221 Dortmund, Germany

[50] Univ Warsaw, Dept Phys, Astron Observ, Aleje Ujazdowskie 4, PL-00478 Warsaw, Poland

来源：

ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS | 2019年 / 111卷

基金：

英国科学技术设施理事会; 新加坡国家研究基金会; 巴西圣保罗研究基金会; 加拿大自然科学与工程研究理事会; 美国国家科学基金会; 瑞典研究理事会; 澳大利亚研究理事会; 瑞士国家科学基金会;

关键词：

Monte Carlo simulations; Cherenkov telescopes; IACT technique; Gamma rays; Cosmic rays; PERFORMANCE; DESIGN; ERA;

D O I：

10.1016/j.astropartphys.2019.04.001

中图分类号：

P1 [天文学];

学科分类号：

0704 ;

摘要：

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. (C) 2019 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

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页码：35 / 53

页数：19

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