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Cherenkov Telescope Array: Unveiling the Gamma Ray Universe and its Cosmic Particle Accelerators

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 October 2016

Elisabete M. de Gouveia Dal Pino
Elisabete M. de Gouveia Dal Pino*
Affiliation:
IAG, Universidade de São Paulo, Rua do Matão 1226, São Paulo, SP, Brazil email: dalpino@iag.usp.br
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Abstract

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Gamma-ray astronomy has a huge potential in astrophysics, particle physics and cosmology. The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is an international initiative to build the next-generation ground-based gamma-ray observatory which will have a factor of 5-10 improvement in sensitivity in the 100 GeV - 10 TeV range and an extension to energies well below 100 GeV and above 100 TeV. CTA is planned to consist of two arrays (one in the North and another in the South Hemisphere) and will provide the deepest insight ever reached into the non-thermal high-energy Universe and its particle accelerators.

Keywords

instrumentation: miscellaneousgamma-raysacceleration of particles
Type
Contributed Papers
Information
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 11 , General Assembly A29A: Astronomy in Focus , August 2015 , pp. 337 - 339
Copyright
Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2016 

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